Autobiographical Event
By: Delaney Chase
The noises and terror started. Fire trucks driving to places in terror, and my mom packing up boxes of valuable items, and I could see the fires from my house, and every night one of my parents stayed up and watched the news for updates. Pet carriers were being brought out. Fire truck alarms, and the news on constantly on TV. It smelled like smoke and ash. Cardboard boxes lined our hallway and not very clean air filled the air. People tasted unclean air, many people were breathing in. One of the most memorable days in my life was when the 2006 fires were in Alpine, getting closer and closer by the hour. This changed my family and people who had been hit by the fire. This also changed the community because people should be more aware and more careful in what they do. One regular day in the month in October, in the small town of alpine, breaking news alert came onto the news. There is a fire is in blossom valley, and it getting closer towards Alpine. Pretty much all of Alpine was worried and concerned about the fires getting closer and more dangerous. It mad me feel nervous and worried because I didn’t really know what to do if they came because this has never happened to me before. I thank the firefighter who saved many peoples lives. One of the most memorable days in my life was when the 2006 fires were in Alpine, getting closer by the hour. This changed my family, so that we could be more prepared.
The Alpine and blossom valley fires were devastating to many people, thankfully not me, but some people lost everything they had. I could see the fire from my house. It was a long way away but it could eventually reach my house. We weren’t really nervous because they were REALLY close but they could eventually reach my house. I could see the fire from my house and whenever I walked by my big glass door I would look and see it getting bigger. I smoke was in the air and the red orange and yellow fire blistering. This event made me feel sad because what if I lost everything we had and my family lost a lot too. This made me sad also thinking about this cause the little kids who had lost a lot and their families who had also lost a lot.
Just thinking that the fire was getting closer and closer every minute and the firefighters who were trying to keep it away from lots and lots of houses. I was getting sick of the TV reports and updates of the fire, if in any case we needed to leave. One of my best friends houses was close to the fire and if she had to evacuate her and her family would come to my house to be safer, but we were still worried. My thought of the fire was what happened if we could prevent this from happening? Or what could we do to stop it from destroying all the houses? Also what had caused the fire? The fire was a cedar fire. But it was human caused. Winds can also affect how fast or slow the fire moves from place to place. Thankfully the fire didnt reach my house, but we were still worried. We havent had a fire since 2006.
When the fires were finally out and we were very happy. From our glass door, were we could see the fires before, we could see the black, burned plants and trees that were burned in the fire. In the end my friend didn’t have to evacuate so she didn’t come over, which is good cause that means her house is ok. I feel grateful for the firefighters who saved lots of houses from the fire, also I am thankful that the fire didn’t reach my, or any of my family’s houses. People were very happy that the fire didn’t go any farther. From my house you can lots of hills, and mountains, and a lot of those hills were covered with the fires. You couldn’t see the pretty green grass, only the brown, burned plants on the hills. I remember when the announcement that the fire had been put out, came out. My family was very happy and relieved.
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