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| Amanda took this at her driveway looking toward the intersection |
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| Thank God for the Retardant!! Better to be cleaning up red stuff then ash. |
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| Paul & Evy at the intersection, Paul is pointing at their house. |
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The fire was started by two kids that set a fire behind a Travelodge and it traveled up a ditch (in NM they are arroyos). They are currently in custody!! The fire took only 1 hour to destroy 9 houses and the lives tied to them. Since Amanda's area is fighting fires, a slurry bomber was en route to one when the Ruidoso Fire Department asked for it to be diverted to aid the efforts already underway.
Amanda had just put the kids down for a nap and was going to do yard work when she saw one of the houses at the intersection aflame. She ran in got the kids and took off to her mother-in-law's house, all the while calling husband, sister's, brother's, and anyone else that had to be contacted.
As Paul was using a pressure washer to clean the roof of their house yesterday & today, he found where cinders had burned a little spots of the roofing. This could have easily been Amanda's Family's fate.
