On Thur Aug 3, my boss and I were going to a field we had just finished haying when we noticed a fire had just started. It is so dry here the grass crumbles under your foot when you walk on it and dirt turns up right away. We were immediatly concerned but hoped the fire department would be able to take care of it. Fast forward to Friday morning... That same fire got out of control overnight between the relentless wind and the high temp of 98 & was begining to threaten homes. I called a friend whos home was in the path to let her know and to reassure her there were mutiple trucks on it. Her home was saved in the coming days as many homes were lost. I went to my bosses home to do matenice on the tractors, mower, & balers. As we began to work ash started falling on his place. Whole leafs that had burned were now falling at his place because the wind changed! We became very concerned because that meant the fire had fresh fuel! As we continued to work while watching the smoke plum we started talking about how to go about evacuating his animals. 50 goats, 20+ cows, 1 donkey, 7 large dogs, 10 small dogs & chickens. We went in the house for lunch and when we came out the wind had shifted again. It was no longer bringing the ash to his home and we both had errands in a near by town. So off we went as quickly as possible. Dollar store to buy Gatoraid for the firemen, a stop to pay an employee, one to pick up a check, and last to get feed for both his and my animals. As we were driving back the smoke plum had more than tripled in size and we realized in the 30 minutes we were gone the wind had changed! As we sped towards his home we knew it had jumped the highway and was going to his home. We made a quick stop at a local gas station to throw he gatoraid in for the firemen and knew already many homes were gone! People were crying everwhere! We raced to his place, threw 800lbs of feed in my truck, I loaded all 7 big dogs in my truck and then helped grab the 10 little dogs. My bosses Dad showed up then, who lived on the back of the 40 acres and while I ran to open as many gates as I could to let he cows and donkey run from thefire, He and his Dad hooked up to the trailer to start loading the goats. As we began chasing 3-4 goats in thw trailer at a time
