Last year, Jared and his dad started this nice little way of saying goodbye to Christmas. When they take the Christmas tree down, they bring it to the back yard and light it on fire. Yesterday was that day. Last year, they chopped the tree up before setting it ablaze, but this year they thought it would be a real good idea if they stood it up in the fire pit.
The aftermath
Shortly after I stopped recording... as in about 5 seconds, we heard sirens. Lots and lots of sirens. Jared quickly doused the tree with a ton of water to cool it down and dragged it to the very back of the yard and we all ran inside... after I snapped this picture of the first to arrive on the scene, teehee
It was nice to learn that the fire dept. here has a pretty good response time. They were at our street within about 3 minutes.
In total, there were about 3 cop cars, 2 big fire engines, one little engine and a paramedic that showed up. A fireman came up to our door and told us there had been reports of fire and smoke in this area and then asked if he could look in our backyard. Jared played it cool and let him through the side gate so he could check it out (thank goodness he had the good sense to clean up the mess slash that it was dark slash that the tree was burned in his parents backyard). I'm not gonna lie, my heart was pounding a million miles an hour because I'm pretty sure you get a hefty fine for doing something like this. After a minute he came back out and everybody took off.
Guess what we're NOT doing next year...
that is so freaking rad! i loved that! good thing you didn't get caught!!
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