Showing posts with label evacuation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evacuation. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Evacuation Alert

The doorbell rings around 3am. Who is it but our friendly neighbourhood police notifying us of a fire in the next subdivision and that we're on evacuation alert. My brothers and I have been running around packing photos, important documents, etc and making a mental list of what to throw in the car if it changes from an alert to an order.

I think we have most things ready to go if need be. It's hard though. What do you take? Obviously things that aren't replaceable but aside from those things. I just keep thinking of more things that would be nice to have if I have the time to take them. What would you take?

I'm going to try and go back to sleep. If I don't get evacuated I still have to go to work tomorrow... err.. today. Story of my life.

UPDATE: It's now 10:30am, and the 50.0 hectare fire is about 80% contained. The winds are now working in favour of the firefighters.