Smoking mountain

So today has been an exciting, nerve wracking adventure in our own neighborhood. Green Mountain caught on fire this afternoon apparently struck by lightning. We live down the street from Green Mountain and the kids and I happened to be out shopping when this all started. On our way home ( we were only gone for 1 1/2 hrs.), snowboarder called to ask where we were and told me that there was a fire in our neighborhood. He heard from a co-worker/neighbor that Green Mountain was burning! Before snowboarder called, I did notice smoke from a distance but didn't think anything of it. When we got home we could see the flames on the hillside from our driveway. I pointed it out to little nael and she said that the mountain was smoking. It sure was. Silly me, I thought nothing of it and figured that it'll be doused soon enough so we went about our day like everything was fine. Well, fast forward 3 hours later and the flames, fanned by the wind, continued to burn eastward then northwest, towards our direction. About 10 homes were evacuated already as the fire was in their backyard! We got a warning call from the fire dept. and so I finally told snowboarder to come home just in case. I started to pack a few things and tried to make a mental note of all the important documents that I needed to take with us. In the meantime, little nael was looking out the bedroom window watching the smoking mountain, as she called it. I told her to pray that it would rain and she asked me why. After I explained to her that the rain can help ease the fire, she said she would. So, snowboarder finally made it home and wanted to walk down the block to take pics. We took the kids and started down the street when it started to rain. Yup, it started to drizzle then the drops started falling and falling...it was raining! I ran back home with baby jeffrey in the stroller while snowboarder and little nael continued down the block. Thankfully, the fire headed south and with the help of the rain, was finally contained by the brave firefighters. We didn't have to evacuate. We're home safe...Thank GOD!