The eye witness said that it looked and sounded like the Fourth of July when a tree caught fire. The ground and trees are so dry that everything exploded in a loud popping hiss of flames the second the fire got close.
Later we learned someone was cooking lunch over an open fire in one of the fire pits despite signs all over the place saying, "Burn Ban in Effect. No Fires, Even in Fire Pits". I guess that ban didn't apply to them.
The people across from us started a fire in their fire pit later that same day, despite burn ban signs up all around us. Jerry was over there in 2.3 seconds telling them to put it out. It was quite windy that day and we didn't particularly want to burn to the ground, thank you very much.
Told ya it was windy!