Steam Donkey Steam-Up & Powerhouse Demonstration Dedication to Patrick Emmert Please join us on Sunday, May 28th at 9:00 am for our first Powerhouse Demonstration and Steam Donkey Steam-up dedicated to past board member and friend, Patrick Emmert. John Mount…
Urgency, with compassion…
When the Creek Fire began, in early September of two thousand twenty, nobody grasped the scope of what was to come. Four months later and 380,000 acres burned by the end of December, all the stories of the heroics can never be told. Heroics may be the wrong phrase......humanity, may be more appropriate.
Leading up to the Creek Fire, the County of Fresno was concerned with the density and significant number of dead trees in Eastern Fresno county. In 2015, the Rim Fire burned over 150,000 acres near Hume Lake and the sense of urgency to thin the Forest was ever present. By 2019 there were over 25 million dead trees in Fresno County alone.
September 8th at 12:22am. My almost 5 year old is asleep in my bed because of a bad dream. My phone rings and I quickly grab it before it wakes her up. It’s my dad, responding to the text I had sent him only minutes before. “It’s gone, it’s all gone” is what he tells me when I pick up.
The Creek Fire came through our property and destroyed our horse barn, shed, and 40' foot storage unit. Search and Rescue helped us evacuate our horses, as my husband's horse would not trailer load.