It is way too dry in Florida right now. I know there have been numerous brush fires all around us but, up until today, I hadn't seen any sign of them. This morning for the first time we started smelling smoke. Then, this afternoon, there was some smoke that was visible. Both the smell and the smoke in the air was gone by suppertime though so that was good.

The sunset looked like it might be good so I took a trip down to the lake to see what would happen.



Then I looked down the beach to my left and saw this.



My first thought was what kind of idiot would be burning trash in these conditions?? But, no, that can't be right. This fire was right on the shoreline and in between two boat houses. No one could be that dumb.

I got back in my car and parked as close as I dared. By now things were really heating up.



The police were there but no firemen. Some nice folks let me use their property to take pictures.







Finally the fire dept. showed up and they got it under control in short order.



I was amazed at how fast this fire moved. Thank goodness it was next to the lake. And what a miracle it didn't burn either of the boat houses it was between.

Oh, and the sun didn't care at all about what was going on. It set with it's own blaze of glory.

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Great pics! May I ask what camera you use?

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What started a fire that close to shore?

ps.. your pics are always great!

My camera is a Sony Mavica with a 20x zoom. It is OLD! How old? It uses floppies. It's just starting to show signs that it won't last forever.

I really don't know what started this fire. At first I thought it might be a cigarette thrown from a car but the fire appeared to have started at the shore line. Someone would have to have a heck of an arm to pitch a butt that far.

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I love your photos ! My friend , who smokes, was telling me that cigs nowadays cannot burn to cause fires after being thrown because they do not contain aucelerents ( I KNOW I spelled that wrong !!) sorry, just woke up and no coffee yet.

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I have to disagree. The grasses down here are like straw right now. Our winter killed off lots of plants and everything is tinder dry. Just the heat from a cigarette would be enough to start this stuff burning.

That being said, this fire was way too far from the road to have a cigarette start it. The people who's land I was on and I blamed the ducks.

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beautiful pictures.

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Awesome pictures!