Property Owners Association Meeting

Our local area property owners association held our annual meeting at the local fire station last night.  One of the speakers was the local Fire Fighter Captain Tom Chilton who started off by reading a list of all the fires that had occurred since March of this year in the state of New Mexico.  The list was surprisingly long for this time of year and he seemed to think that this is about normal for the first half of the year.

We had a very wet winter this year that has caused an abundance of wild flowers and grasses. So far this spring it's been dry and windy, potentially providing more fuel once they've dried out, but they sure are pretty!
At one point during our meeting, we were drowned out by the sound of an internal alarm and the voice of the dispatcher alerting our network of firehouses to a grass fire that was burning out of control not too far from where we were. Just another reminder that fire is the force of nature that we are at most effect of in our area just as with the rest of the Southwest.  We don't get tornadoes (occasionally one pops up out on the plains) and we don't get hurricanes and flooding like what occurs in other parts of the country.  Fire is the force we reckon with it, just a fact of life that we need to prepare ourselves for.
After the firechief had finished, I announced that I had launched this business to provide foam and foam products to homeowners so that they could have access to the same protection that the fire departments use on their trucks to put out fires - only now they have access to the premier fire fighting foam on the market!