The Ham lake fire went right through here on Sunday May 6th and again on Tuesday May 8th. Sunday night was definitely exciting. We arrived home from Duluth just in time to get our wildfire sprinkler system going along with one of our neighbors. Our other neighbor's shoreline was already burning when we arrived (right up to our property line and had already melted the pipes to his sprinkler system). Not more than 30 minutes later the shore across the bay went up in flames taking several cabins with it. Propane tanks were exploding one after the other. We managed to save our neighbor who had lost his sprinkler system with buckets and a fire hose I hooked up to our system. I'd say we were within 30 minutes of losing our place when we arrived here. It was that close. Anyway, we survived and I still have my wood fired oven to play with.


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