been affected by a wildfire once. I'll never forget sitting in my bedroom one evening and realizing that glow I was seeing was the wildfire raging away in the foothills(I grew up in north WI and had never seen anything like it before), got lucky and didn't have to evacuate. Offered to help one of my coworkers move horses and cattle but thankfully she was able to get them moved. Her parents were less lucky. That blaze decided to randomly change directions during the night and they lost a bunch of horses and cattle. Scary!
The only good thing about these terrible fires is, if the area is properly maintained(i.e. deadfall logging, small prescribed burns during wetter seasons to remove dead brush etc.) when things start to grow back they shouldn't have to worry about such horrifying destructive fires like this in the area for a very long time. If they don't maintain things it will be a matter of when(not if) it will happen again. Everything has been forcefully re-set they need to take advantage of it for their own sake.
