Excitement at camp this evening. I was listening to an audio book just a short while after sunset and while looking out the window I suddenly saw a large fire with tall flames light up about a half mile to the east. I knew the only thing over that way was a large RV on private land. The first response was a helicopter which arrived fairly soon and flew over and circled the scene with flood lights.
One of my neighbors jumped into his UHV and headed over that way. While he was gone another person I had not yet met who had recently moved by the wash behind me came over. He said he had been camped over towards there a few days earlier and it was a large, newer 5th wheel but he had never seen anyone parked near it. The guy in the UHV eventually came back and had talked to the sheriff who had showed up who confirmed no one was around who might have been inside.
A third neighbor who has camped here for several years said he thinks an active duty marine had bought that piece of land and put the trailer on it. It was a newer model, good sized 5th wheel.
It was obviously a total loss within a very short time. I could tell that by the width and height of the fire even from a half mile or so away. Eventually I could see the lines of the framing of thevwalls within the light of the flames. It took the fire trucks a while to find the right dirt roads to get over to it as there are not any regular types of streets and street signs over that way and some of the dirt tracks dead end at closed gates. But it made no difference as the trailer was already fully consumed in flames before the fire truck ever got off highway 8 onto the exit to the paved road leading to the dirt road. Eventually several other fire dept vehicles showed up but not of course any need for sirens or flashing lights by then. Just mopping up duties at that point. There are of course no fire hydrants out in this area.
I know my curious UHV owning neighbors will be driving their little vehicles over there tomorrow to check it out.
One of my neighbors jumped into his UHV and headed over that way. While he was gone another person I had not yet met who had recently moved by the wash behind me came over. He said he had been camped over towards there a few days earlier and it was a large, newer 5th wheel but he had never seen anyone parked near it. The guy in the UHV eventually came back and had talked to the sheriff who had showed up who confirmed no one was around who might have been inside.
A third neighbor who has camped here for several years said he thinks an active duty marine had bought that piece of land and put the trailer on it. It was a newer model, good sized 5th wheel.
It was obviously a total loss within a very short time. I could tell that by the width and height of the fire even from a half mile or so away. Eventually I could see the lines of the framing of thevwalls within the light of the flames. It took the fire trucks a while to find the right dirt roads to get over to it as there are not any regular types of streets and street signs over that way and some of the dirt tracks dead end at closed gates. But it made no difference as the trailer was already fully consumed in flames before the fire truck ever got off highway 8 onto the exit to the paved road leading to the dirt road. Eventually several other fire dept vehicles showed up but not of course any need for sirens or flashing lights by then. Just mopping up duties at that point. There are of course no fire hydrants out in this area.
I know my curious UHV owning neighbors will be driving their little vehicles over there tomorrow to check it out.
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