Fire behind our House

Fire behind our house. That was the title of the e-mail I got from my son while I was away on vacation. Talk about an e-mail title that freaked me out. There was a fire up above our house that came to our backyard fence. Our neighbors were evacuated, and we had great friends who hosed down our fence for us so our backyard didn't burn. We were fortunate that the winds were blowing the direction that kept the fire away from the houses. The firefighters said that if it had been blowing towards the homes, the whole street would have burned. It is very ugly now up on the hill, but we were blessed that nothing worse happened.