Well as usual, I am running behind once again…after my trip to Arkansas in July, I got busy with some rockhunting and work issues. Now we have our first cold weekend in October, so I will try and catch up…on the 9th of July, I heard Sullivan Fire Department dispatched to a trailer on fire at Sycamore Trailer Park, so Onxy and I headed that way in the truck, and I observed light smoke as we approached on Springfield Road. I parked in the old Maid Rite parking lot and walked down to

the scene, finding firefighters getting ready to extinguish a shef fire, not a trailer fire, and electrical lines arcing as well as the meter box throwing off sparks…

…where I discovered that Nolan Crawford was now a Captain and pulling hose for his crew….

The shed, needless to say, was a total loss on arrival. A few days later, this neat looking storm approached from the north and dropped some much needed rain in the area….

…and an hour later, I photographed Sullivan`s Rescue truck heading down my street going to a call to the north…the lights reflecting off the wet pavement….

…and just a few weeks later, we were dry as a bone and cigarettes tossed out the windows of motorists going east on I-44, near the old Trade Winds Hotel, were igniting the grass and brush on the south side of the interstate…

…luckily with assistance from St Clair, the fires were quickly brought under control, stretching about a mile down the eastbound lanes of I-44…