FIRE! fire. fire?

So everyone has heard about fires all over Virginia in the past few days…well if you hadn’t you have now. So I knew there was a watch going on and no one should be lighting any brush fires. But last night I read that Skyline Drive was on fire, over 1000 acres. So I live like twenty minutes away from one of the entrances so I thought that was scary. But then this morning I got up early checked my facebook when my ex-boyfriend asks if everyone was ok and I had no clue what he was talking about. But he said he had read in the paper that my parent’s farm had been on fire. So I said, “ I don’t think so or else I think they would have told me.” I called my mom and she didn’t answer and my brother texted me back jokingly so I didn’t really believe him. So I finally get a hold of my mom and she tells me the story how part of our property by the highway had caught fire. We don’t really know how since we weren’t burning any brush but since the winds were blowing so strong a spark could have blown from anywhere. We lost all the firewood my parents had been selling and 3 fire departments had to send trucks to put out the fire. It was intense! We were lucky because the fire was controlled before it could catch a hold of our field and then head to the sub-division of houses. I’m kind of sad I missed such an intense fire and I had to hear from someone I barely talked to, to get the full story.