Firestorm Aug 2015 Pine Creek Tonasket Washington

This is for my family who still live on the original Sasse ranch and all of their Pine Creek friends and neighbors.  Together they beat the beast of flames.  Neighbors helping neighbors.  My brother along with Diane my sister Kathy and numerous other family members sat in the green meadow that surrounded them.  Bert and his family evacuated to the meadow and moved farm equipment to the green haven.  After making fire lines around the entire immediate property, they sat and waited through the night and watched the inferno engulf them.  The photos that I have taken does not do justice to the real images seen with the eye.  I left on a morning to photograph when the wind was howling and along with it was dust and ash not allowing clear images of what I really saw.  I started in North Pine Creek and travel Henry Road, Hagood Road and then up the loop of South Pine Creek Road toward Ayer's ranch, the old Omar Smith ranch, Gerald and Bobbi Scholz, Gireaths, Bunk Barb Jason Jill Ayers, Roberta Scholz, Mary Corey, my mama's old home, upward to the Call's and back down to North Pine Creek.