…for those unaware or visiting Missouri these days, we are experiencing a severe dry period and approaching drought conditions of extremes due to a lack of rainfall and higher than normal heat temps during the day, so please dont be burning anything and be careful with open flames and cigarette butt and ash disposals. Fire departments across the state are responding to and fighting alot of brush fires and a few departments in this area are dealing with arsonists running around setting fires no less. We assisted Bourbon Fire Department yesterday with a brush fire that got up to about thirty acres and our guys were telling me today, that tall and bushy cedar trees were crowning fully involved like firecrackers all around them. I have been in a few of those types of brush fires and it can be a little unnerving. They were up at that Bourbon fire from 10 am to 4 pm.

We also assisted Bourbon with a farm field fire a few days ago where about ten acres burned along with twenty five large round bales of hay, and one of the barns nearby was threatened for a short time as well. The photos below show our personnel and Bourbon`s crews mopping up the fires….

 …and then came home to find an overheated or tired squirrel in my walnut tree behind my carport….