We are entering the dry time here, and the possibility of fire increases every day. But we live in the city now, so the most likely type of fire is a grass fire along I-5.
When I got home, I could smell it too - a lingering smell that was very much like a campfire.
So weird!
Shortly I took the dog out for his evening walk. One of his favorite routes is to head to the other side of I-5 on the overpass. There's a wide view from there, and I didn't see any lingering smoke in the air.
But when we got to the other side of the overpass - mystery solved!
A couple of months ago there was a house fire at the very first house across the overpass. A lovely 100-year old house went up in flames one afternoon. Recently they've been cleaning the house out, and yesterday I saw they had removed the entire front porch. Workers were sweeping inside the house, which appeared to be pretty gutted.
I'm going to guess the smell was wafting across the way as they deconstructed the house and threw all the burned wood into the dumpster or a truck to haul away.
Poor house. I'll be interested to see where they go from here. It looks significantly damaged. Will they rebuild exactly as it was? We'll see...
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