ChuckO
TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
I haven't been back to this part of the mountain since I was a volunteer firefighter, just out of high school. It was the fire of 1977, I was to be a 5th generation firefighter and this was my first & last wild land fire. I'm not sure what my father, and his fathers before him saw in being a a firefighter, but the legacy stopped at 4, the 5th gen said, thanks but no thanks
http://claycord.com/2017/10/12/clay...-at-the-6000-acre-blaze-on-mt-diablo-in-1977/
Anyway, it's been 40+ years, time to let bygones be bygones. Took the wife and wen't for a hike. It was weird to see the place some 40 years later, almost no evidence of the fire that nearly killed me (inhaled poison oak smoke, doctors had to trake my throat so I could breathe, it was close there.....
Anyway thought I share some photos of the area that I once considered burning hell
The bride of 36 years
to be continued
http://claycord.com/2017/10/12/clay...-at-the-6000-acre-blaze-on-mt-diablo-in-1977/
Anyway, it's been 40+ years, time to let bygones be bygones. Took the wife and wen't for a hike. It was weird to see the place some 40 years later, almost no evidence of the fire that nearly killed me (inhaled poison oak smoke, doctors had to trake my throat so I could breathe, it was close there.....
Anyway thought I share some photos of the area that I once considered burning hell
The bride of 36 years
to be continued
