Oh no! Fire! (thankfully not anything of ours)

On Sunday afternoon, we saw black smoke coming from a spot in the desert about a mile away...

I climbed up on the roof to try to see better -- we figured the black smoke meant that it was an RV fire.

 I searched for information on Facebook...

From someone closer to the vehicle involved... 

Aftermath

Evidently there was an RV fire at New Years too, also close to the area where we are parked -- these pictures were shared on Facebook...

At the time of the fire

Aftermath of the New Years fire

Another view of the aftermath

For the fire that we saw on Sunday, there was no one in the rig and no one was injured (no people, no pets -- the owner was in town at the time of the fire and came home to his rig destroyed). For the New Years fire, we have heard that a man and his puppy were killed.

Fires in RVs are very fast and there isn't much that can be done to fight them. Depending on where it starts, you may not have enough time to escape. It is scary, but we try to be as prepared as possible (fire extinguishers, escape plans).