There was a forest fire yesterday climbing up the mountainside above us, but the fire department managed to get it under control within a couple hours. It seemed to be coming from Manshu-in Temple, which would be a great tragedy, but a gentleman coming down the hill later in the evening told me it started at a maintenance building for a nearby graveyard and spread to the forest. It got bigger and looked as though it was going to burn out of control, but somehow the fire department managed to get up there and attack it. In my hometown in Southern California, where it rains so seldom and the hillsides are so dry and brown, we are accustomed to such fires lasting for days and devastating thousands of acres of brushland.
2 comments
Jeffrey Friedl says:
Mar 5, 2008
Ah, I was wondering what all that smoke was. Hope no one was hurt…
Matt says:
Mar 31, 2008
Hi. We’ve just added your blog to Japan in Motion Blogs. We’re trying to build a list of the best blogs on Japan from a foreign perspective. It’s been done before, I know, but we’re trying to be a little more discerning and keep things up to date. If you’re at all interested, we’d value any suggestions you might have about Japan-oriented blogs you’ve found especially interesting or useful. And would it be possible to place one of the photographs from your blog on its entry post at jimblogs.wordpress.com? If so, let us know. Thanks, and keep up the good work!