Finish This Song

[Sara S]

These lines came to me as I woke from an exhausted nap during the 10 days or so of fighting the Creighton Ridge fire here in 1978. I hear them as a country-western song.

It's been 29 years (!) and I've never gotten another line.

Anyone? Here's what I got:

Wednesday was hot, and so we thought we'd go to Goat Rock;
Me and Laurie and the kids were in the van;
We looked back along the ridge and it was burnin',
Grabbed our backpumps and our boots and then we ran
Up Creighton Ridge to fight the fire acomin' toward us;
Comin' faster, spreadin' farther than we could;
The day we thought we'd never see was all around us.....

[mykil]

Wow; I remember that well, I was around Thirteen or fourteen and just moved out of Caz. I was floating down the river in an inner tube and saw the smoke; thought the world was coming to an end! And that was in Forestville! The next three weeks were very dark, was a sad summer! I was thinking of all my friends I had just left in Caz. up on the hill hoping everyone was all right. Can you say HUGE?

These lines came to me as I woke from an exhausted nap during the 10 days or so of fighting the Creighton Ridge fire here in 1978. I hear them as a country-western song.

It's been 29 years (!) and I've never gotten another line.

Anyone? Here's what I got:

Wednesday was hot, and so we thought we'd go to Goat Rock;
Me and Laurie and the kids were in the van;
We looked back along the ridge and it was burnin',
Grabbed our backpumps and our boots and then we ran
Up Creighton Ridge to fight the fire acomin' toward us;
Comin' faster, spreadin' farther than we could;
The day we thought we'd never see was all around us.....