Holy Smokes....

Yesterday when I came out of Church I turned to Shawn and said "Somethings on fire, can you smell it?"  Now a fire smell is nothing to worry about usually because we live close to the mountains and at least once a year you can smell a fire burning but it is usually put out within a couple of hours.  No big deal.   We came home and got potatoes ready to take to my mom's for dinner for Camille's Birthday.  I decided to leave the windows open though because the kids had cooked eggs for breakfast and the house kinda smelled rotten.  We were watching a football game at my mom's house right before we headed home and a Breaking News Report came on and said that the Mountains above Herriman were on fire.  We happen to live on the South Jordan, Riverton, Herriman border and I said to Shawn "see I told you I smelled something after Church."  Again no big deal.  As we were headed home coming down off the hill by my Mom's  I realized that I was wrong, very wrong.  It was a VERY BIG DEAL.  The Mountains were on fire, and it was moving fast.  We watched as the fire kept moving down the Mountains as we headed home.  As we were going west, a lot of cars were headed east.  At one time we hit a big wall of smoke.  We drove past our brand new Herriman High School right by our house and noticed all the police cars and people going into it.  We found out later that they were using it as the evacuation center.  We got home and boy was I so mad at myself for leaving those dang windows open.  The whole house smelled of smoke.  At least I was smart enough to close the bedroom doors so they weren't too bad.  We were at least able to breathe while we slept.  As of today the mountains are still on fire but they are getting it contained.  Four homes were destroyed.  I feel so bad for those families.  Many, many more homes are still evacuated and they are not able to return.  As I have been cleaning ash off of every surface in my family room, I can't help but be grateful that we don't live any closer to the mountains than we do.  I can't imagine what those homes up on the mountain look like.  I'm sure I will get a bunch of new info from the kids when they get home from school since many of their friends live up on the mountain so I will keep you all posted.    Here are some pictures that I stole from the News websites.