House Burning

The fire department was going to burn the house across the Spirit Lake Hwy from us today so I took one last picture of it.  It was there when Dad built our house in about 1949.  I learned from Kay today that it was a bunk house in Ryderwood originally.  Mr. Finkas bought it as a home for a daughter whose husband had died and had it pulled to Vader by horses.  She wasn't sure how the move to here was made.

Four of the six kids who grew up there came to watch the burn.  This is Kay on the left, Cindy's husband and Pat on the right.  I didn't get a picture of Bob and Cindy.

David, Laury and Dianne were watching from Parker's place.

The fire department had lots of equipment there to practice with. 

This is as it was starting to burn the first time.  They had put hay bales around inside to add to the fire, there is one sitting next to the front porch.

The firemen would go inside and practice finding things and fighting the fire.

They were also outside knocking the fire down.

5-5-2019 Update, I had a picture taken about noon by Laury of the house burning that she said I could use here.

We had left so I didn't get any pictures as it burned but I took this one when we got home.  There was nothing left but the foundation.