Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to info@mendovoice.com.
In 2008 the Lightning Complex fires had so many incidents that there were few resources available to respond here on Bell Springs. It was a scary time, with the large fire on Red Mountain unchecked for days. Community members hiked into a smaller fire on the Adanac ranch, and with the help of bucketloads of water from a Cal Fire helicopter, we got a line cut around it and stopped the spread.
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