Maybe just testing the sirens? :bunny:
They ordered a take-out pizza???
or maybe test marketing for a new Dominoes...and had to deliver in under 30 minutes...?
I was eating really spicy burritos when I heard the sirens. But a couple of Presidentes came first!
yes, this this big red glow we watched as well, smelt the smoke. The guys in the house went out direction natural area "woody" near casino, near policia cabarete, for to check while any danger exists for us, living directly beside this area. And as well the bomberos from Sosua came to check, for this we are grateful. This time it was not so near to us like the last fire in this area, so that we could sleep well later. The ashes we registered all over house and garden up to noontime.There was a big red glow in the sky last night as I was driving home in Cabarete last night and if I hadn't been here I would have thought I was driving through snowflakes. This was actually ashes in the air, which covered everything this morning. It is the same every year as local people set fire to areas by the lagoon to drive out tortoises, which are considered a delicacy!
Saw two firetrucks flying to Cabarete late this morning from Sosua. Anyone know what happened?
I hear for the cane fires they sometimes tie a rag soaked with gasoline to a rat's tail. The rat then run's through the field trying to get away.
This happens every few years, some idiot sets the grass by the lagoon on fire, and with winds it gets pretty intense.....a couple of years ago the flames got to about 20 feet high and were quite close to some houses in the Callejon de la Loma,......it usually burns itself out without many casualties,