I rode by the site of last weekend's fire in Riverside State Park yesterday. Crews managed to stop it before it spread too far, and it looks like many of the Ponderosa pines may survive as well.

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The local paper's article on the fire:
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/06/evacuation-orders-given-for-50-acre-wildfire-in-ri/
Fire danger will continue to be high for the next few days.

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I've got a few post-evacuation actions to follow up on: to improve my offsite computer backup, to stand up a VPN endpoint and Home Assistant that doesn't depend on the NAS (which I had packed up and taken with us), and make a sprinkler setting to just run all of the irrigation on repeat. But all in all, the evacuation went smoothly, and most importantly, ended well.

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In the end, it was some disruption and time spent, but no immediate danger or loss of property. It actually turned out to be a good exercise in what we would need to grab and go in a future evacuation. We could have been out in 10 minutes if needed, but took longer to make sure we had what we wanted if we would be gone for a few days, not just what was essential. Many of our neighbors never left (the level 3 order was downgraded shortly after we had left).

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I had actually stopped to get a picture of the fire on the way home, right before the first evacuation order!

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