The monsoon season has hit the Rockies. If you’ve never
lived here, that word might conjure up the image of weeks of unending rain.
While it occasionally does rain here (sometimes we get a week’s worth of rain
in ten minutes) we more often get bursts of wind, hail and dry thunderstorms. One
of these storms rolled through Weld County, Colorado a few weeks ago, where the
lightning set fire to an 80-acre field. Rather than watch everything go up in
smoke, Eric Howard jumped into his tractor and began to plow a firebreak ahead
of the wind-driven flames. This goes way beyond brave, especially when you
consider a tractor’s top speed is still pretty slow, and wild fires can travel,
well, like wildfire. Eric managed to single-handedly contain the blaze before
it consumed more than thirty acres (and who knows what else) without getting
burned himself. Don’t try this trick at home!
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