Here you can see the extent of the burned area. Most of the mountainside was affected.
Here you can see where the firefighters managed to hold the fire back at Stone Ridge Road. How they did it is beyond me. Check the picture on the previous page that was taken as we drove out on that same road.
This picture looks down on the lot where we are building our home. The fire stopped at the road, our "driveway", and various other bare spots on the lot. About a half acre of our lot was blackened, but we didn't lose any trees.
One of the bare spots that helped stop the fire was the foot path that my wife and the dogs use to walk up to the lot. I say "helped", because I was told that several firefighters also were there all Saturday night protecting our partially completed house.
Here is how close the fire got to the walls of our house.
And here is how close it got to the building we are staying in while we build our house.
We feel extremely lucky to have escaped damage from the fire. I can't say enough about the work the firefighters put in, many of whom were putting in 16 hour shifts. We've been told that 225 men and women helped put it out, together with a small army of trucks, helicopters, airplanes, and assorted support vehicles. Firefighters included National Forest personnel and about a dozen different volunteer fire departments from all over southern Arizona. The Sheriff's Department was all over the place, and the local animal control units were out there providing temporary quarters for pets whose owners had to evacuate their homes. It was a pretty impressive showing.