I woke to an alarm clock this morning. I then smelled the unmistakable odor of wood smoke invading my nostrils. Two days ago, there was a brush fire east of my house. Last night I saw smoke billowing from a separate fire that started five miles southwest of here. This afternoon after getting off from work, I noticed heavy smoke billowing well south of here down by Sunset Hill.
I am certain there’s a fire fly darting about from place to place and he or she is either bored or just plain dumb that wants to do something destructive. This fire fly wants to see the flashing red and blue lights and the wails of sirens echoing off the trees and hills. This fire fly wants to see aircraft and helicopters fly overhead depositing water and red retardant on the flames. He or she wants to see the first responders respond, fearlessly putting down the flames that lick at them, heedless of the dangers that they must ignore and save the innocents from the one fire fly that skitters about from place to place to start these blazes with such disregard to human life and property.
It saddens me that people are so disrespectful that they feel this need to create havoc and chaos, start fires because they have nothing better to do than be a fire fly in the room. Maybe one day karma will come to their door and they will wonder as many others have why me?
Jerry Schellhammer 