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So here I am, officing away under the tarp, when one of the campers comes running up and says a stump is smouldering. They’d just returned to their site, sat around the fire pit, and she looked over and saw smoke. I grabbed the pup and ran over there with her, and sure enough, back behind site 5, smoke was pouring out of a tree stump.

As I was calling our Ranger, leaves surrounding the stump burst into flames. Ranger was on the way, and the whole loop, all of whom had dogs, grabbed our gallon jugs of dog water and went to it. The bucket brigade saved the day. After it was out, we kept watering it. One of the park folks arrived, but no water tank, so we kept going to the spigot. Then the ranger called the Lake City Fire Dept for their grass fire rig, but the big ol’ one arrived and pumped gallons of water on the stump area, and also in the sort of nearby fire pit.

And just a short while later, they packed up and left, tragedy narrowly averted.