Month: September 2021

The Fire of Wauconda, WA.  August 2021

We are in the mountain range in front  of the Div F towards the fire

In the 10 years we have lived here their has been 3 fires within a mile or two from our home. Two of them where neighbors houses catching the area on fire. One which burned our back 10 acres 4 yrs ago. This year a lighting strike in the back hills between Bonaparte Lake and us, had us move out for 4 days. Not bad considering it could have been weeks and months.

 I vowed to stay and fight the the fire as I started watering 12 hrs. a day during the morning and evening hours. Then the wind picked up to 30 an d 40 miles an hour at times. Soon the ash was like a blizzard at 3 am on Sunday morning 8/15/ 21. I woke up the wife and said we are  probably going to have to leave soon. Even with my conviction of holding my ground, running wild fires is not worth the risk, Two fires near each other merged as it moved around Bonaparte Lake during a week of high winds on around the 8th of August. Now it was knocking on Our doorstep. The pic below was 3 miles below our hill. Sending ash like a snow storm across our home. 

12 hrs later we left the mountain with 5 dogs left cats and chickens home. As I was winding down my watering and everything was soaking wet for 20 yards around the house and refueled and oil the water pump hooked to our small creek, Arch Angel Michael joined me as I was doing a wind elements energy expression to protect my home. I pushed the North and South West wind direction to hold as a wall against the fire and to push back on it as it approached. I finished my energy work with showing my Grace and Love to the four winds and my love onto the Land. AA Michael told me to go and take care of my Wife and provide her with security and comfort. That he would look over our land, for this land was also AA Michaels land too. He told me to go, even though I knew I could stay, for AA Michael had been telling me from the start that all would be safe.  

As the first and second nights behind a truck stop / repair company the winds blew up to 40 miles an hour. The dogs and the wife in a 4 man tent and I in a half person tent. 

The winds blew away from our property the first night, than the next 2 nights blowing straight at it, throwing dirt across our shelter. We where about 20 miles straight from our house and 10 miles from the fire to the South. As the winds blew S.E. the second night a house just miles away from our home on Cougar Creek,  the first house of 3 burned, with our friends house just a block away stood firm.

The 3rd night the fire runs south and north to our house a mile from Toroda Mountain. where I live. The winds coming straight at us from the West. The fire burned past our friends home and across the gravel pit with Tor  Then the winds died down as the 4th morning came and I went up to our  Home to water some more feed the animals and grab some supplies. I was up there very early in the morning just after 2am took care of my list of things to do and get and by 6 am the sun was rising and I noticed all was well and returned to get my wife and dogs, with out and supplies. In fact I emptied out the truck at  home and went and talked to the Fire Rangers. 

After a straight talk with a Fire Ranger I decided that we we out of immediate danger. When we returned home we where the first ones back. The Air was clean and we felt safe. 24 hrs. later they allowed people to come back home to the area east of Toroda Creek Rd. We were already home.

Information was slow for a day or two as the fire roared pasted us and the men with large equipment followed it defending homes clearing paths and laying boundaries that haven’t held. The Walker fire was not the biggest fire but had the potential to become the most costly in damage over time so, Washington declared it the #1 fire in the state and threw all the big boy equipment in front of the fire and encircled it and is holding it from growing past 25,000 acres where it has been for days now.

The main point of this post comes on Saturday, 2 days after we came home. Angel was watching the newest Walker Fire update online and the Fire Rangers giving the update noted that how astonished they were that the fire perimeter below us at Highway 20 held. They had no support at that time to hold it, the fire was blowing hot in the wind at night with no air support and to dangerous for ground crew. The fire did not move or grow larger it contained itself thru the swirling winds and did not move East. Even though the wind was blowing 30 miles an hour to 40 miles an hour South East. If it jumped twenty more feet across the Highway it would race up our hill and all across the fire perimeter. 

But it Held. 

Thank You Arch Angel Michael for the constant Love you show us. Promises made and promises keep as we Love and Honor you. 

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