Personal Fire Story and Fear

basically we ended up having 50 mile an hour gust and a wind direction change which blew it straight across the road so you know I'm a little bit ashamed you know when when the fire department gets called out I've I'm a little bit ashamed I don't know I just I feel like as a responsible person I shouldn't let this happen now the wind is as calm as it can be right now if you look up I'll show you the plume of smoke so the plume of smoke is up there it's just it was just crazy was just unfortunate and I was even talking with some of the guys from the firehouse and and they said you know we were burning brush the other day at our place and the wind shifted and you know we were clearing some land and this happened so this kind of thing can't happen I'm standing and it's hot it's hot it's like baking my back so the place is going to be so beautiful guys when we get done with clearing all this land if you look back in we'll turn the camera around back in behind me [Music] that's something huge huge huge and you can see see the wind it shifted and wind shifted and now it's blowing across the pond it's wild it's very very wild fire scares me and I want to tell you don't worry about fire when I was a child so I'm really afraid of fire okay let's just say that when I was 10 years old it was common practice for us to go get a truckload of feed for our hogs and that was 10 years old it was September 9 September was the 17th of April was this month what is today is today the 17th of April 15th it was the 17th of April I had set a fire well I was set with the task a ten-year-old kid was set with the task of burning the old feed bags in the trash barrel in the burning barrel and they were paper feed bags so what you did was she went and stuffed those paper feed bags into the fire barrel and it was really windy just like this and I stuffed those bags down in there and I took them a little lighter I actually had matches so strike-anywhere matches and I struck it and it wouldn't light struck it again and it wouldn't like just because the wind was whipping just like it's whipping now so I went and I had seen my father put kerosene or diesel fuel on a fire like you know like we have behind us I'd seen my dad put kerosene or diesel fuel on the fire to burn the I I lit it in with the match and before I even lit it before I even got the match to it it exploded in my face so I was leaned over the barrel like this and when I lit it drop the match in it blew up in my face and I…