Well this afternoon turned out to have a bit more excitement than we had planned for. The girl friend and I were at home trying to have a lazy day as the last 5 or 6 weekends we have been constantly on the go.
We were sitting in the living room playing Halo Reach having a good time when I catch something out of the corner of my eye out the front window. I lean over to get a better view and see a fire in my neighbor across the streets side yard. I jump up tell my girl friend to call 911 and run across the street. I pound on their door, the wife is home alone with the kids (both are under 2), I tell her there is a fire on the side of the house and by then another neighbor has arrived and is helping her get the kids out of the house.
I get around to the side of the house and open the fence to the side yard. By this time the flames are a good 7 or 8 feet tall climbing their newly installed fence. I grab the garden hose and start spraying things down trying to keep the fire from spreading, the other side of the fence is an empty lot full of nothing but dry grass, on the other side of the lot is more homes. I get the flames tamed down a bit when the home owner comes out with an extinguisher and hands that to me to take care of the rest of it.
I then spent another 15 minutes or so checking over the burned areas to make sure there were no live embers left. The fire department arrived after everything was under control and I gave them the run down of what happened. The neighbor had apparently caught some fish and was smoking it. The fire was started by some spent wood chips that were dumped in a pan near the fence.
About 2 hours later the wife came across the street with a plate full of cookies for me. 
