FIRE!!! Right? Hmm.

I was driving home after working at the sub, and as is often the case, I was driving right during rush hour.  I also have a small car.  I am not picking on anyone, much... However, I have noticed that large vehicles seem to think my car is fun to be right against.  I guess I also create road rage- by driving the speed limit... Meh.

Anywho, while turning the corner to get on the road to my house, I cross train tracks.  While worrying about a dingbat passing me on a double yellow line, I happen to look down the tracks.  It's a reflex, you know, avoiding even BIGGER vehicles... And I see smoke.  White smoke, which is usually lawn type grass, (this is Oregon, I specify), or wood.  The glimpse I got was the grass was on fire.  But it's not impossible that someone was burning slash wood.

But it bugged me.  I don't really have a logical process when I see things, but the mental gears kicked in.  It wasn't near a house... It WAS by train tracks...  That, in and of itself was odd, unless there are Railroad workers near, they don't just set a fire and leave.  In fact, there wasn't a person around.  Sadly, that can be not so unusual, but it was near the center of a field.  Most farmers would at least have someone watching it...  It just bugged me, the whole way home. 

So, I called it in.  The info was taken, and I figured it was probably a fluff on my part, probably getting the emergency guys out for no reason...

The next day I receive a Flash Alert.*  It said that a fire had been called in.  Yeah...

And it turned out it was not one, but 2 fires were burning, and they had to have 2 engines called out, as it was in a bad area to fight fire in.  (The railroad goes over and by a swampy area.  Oddly, the grass can be tinder on top, with the soil the consistency of a wet sponge below.)  They were able to put out both fires, and I gather since I'd called it in fairly early, the damage was minimal.  They didn't know how it started, though.  That bothers me a bit, but I guess, they will hopefully figure it out later.


*Flash Alert is a notice that fire, police, schools, etc., use to tell people about 'news' and events.  I am signed up for several of them.  It was originally for a job I had, now it's just because it's interesting, and I am nosy... :)