Three days before I left Athens to come to Ottawa, a massive fire broke out. The fire started in Marathon, which is a 45 minute drive from my house, so you can imagine how far away the fire started. Within 30 hours the fire had reached my neighbourhood, putting my house, and family in danger.
In past years we have had a car of ours burnt and it was parked just outside my house, we also had a tree in our front yard burned down. This year we were lucky no one was hurt and our property was not damaged. Some people were not so fortunate and had their properties and fortunes burned to the ground. The two cars above were literally parked within 100 feet from my house. We even had to lend our neighbour our hose because the back of his house was on fire.
When i was packing my bags, it was pitch black because the power lines were burned so we had no electricity and we did not have a telephone line either, i had to pack in candle light.
23 kilometers of land were torched to the ground, sad thing is, happens every year.
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