Monday, August 25

Fire Pictures

Just wanted to share some amazing pictures from the Corner Canyon fire in Draper today. I didn't notice the fire until around noon when I was heading home from some errands. Not sure if they know how it started, but it was kinda scary how close the fire came to the homes on the mountain. They did have an evacuation, but luckily the fire creeped up the mountain and over. So as far as I know, no homes were lost in that fire. Now I know that was a huge fire, but did you know that their was another fire in West Valley?! 6 homes were damaged or destroyed by that fire. It was just a field fire surrounded by homes, and this could have been much worse. Then tonight when I was out on a walk with my neighbor we noticed smoke from the other side of Rose Canyon in Tooele County. It made for a beautiful sunset...darn where was my camera today!! So I found some other photos online to share: I thought this was a great photo of the Draper temple with the smoke in the back, but it shows how close the fire was to homes on the mountain. Another picture of the Corner Canyon Fire. This last photo of the Corner Canyon Fire is what it looked like to me on the other side of the valley. *I know the photos are a little small, if you click on them they will be a little bigger ;] Here are a couple I found of the West Valley fire--well the after pictures.

2 comments:

Leslie said...

Wow, cool pictures.

The Youngs said...

It was kind of crazy how big the Corner Canyon fire was. Not that I want fires to rage out of control, but I was kind of hoping it would still be burning at night so I could watch it from home (it was still burning a little, but nothing that I could see). Fire is amazing! Thanks for sharing the pictures.