We returned home from Athens on Tuesday night, to find our side yard charred and black. At first, we thought that the neighbors had burnt their yard, on purpose and it had just crept down into ours. (Some people do a controlled burn their yards in the spring to kill weeds.) Anyway, we went in to sleep, not being able to tell much about it at night anyway. On Wednesday, we were able to get a better look and after talking with our neighbor we learned that it wasn't a controlled blaze, but an accident. I could see on the neighbors house that their siding had been melted as we'll as few other un-identifiable things in their yard. The flames had missed our house by about a foot and a half!. Don, our neighbor, had said the fire sparked up quick and luckily the fire department had gotten over quickly too!