Deliverance
Shown is an area of grassland scorched by wildfires around the Mannford and Lake Keystone areas. We are again out here on Baker’s Branch confronted with the horror of potential wildfires. The story that follows is true and happened in August 2012. "Conrad, we gotta' get out. The TV just said they're evacuating Mannford and all of Round Mountain down Coyote Trail down to Tower Road." My son-in-law, Tyner Jordan, said that while I was sweeping family photographs off the walls and grabbing them out of the corners of the house, and that's when the lights went out. Tyner's friend, Jeremy Craddock of Prue, rushed by me into a darkened hallway with a load of guns from the safe headed for my truck. That had been the plan Pam and I had worked out the previous evening when the alarm first went up about the building wildfire between Drumwright and the intersection of State Highways 33 and 48. Throw the family photos and jewelry into trash bags, scoop up the heirloom ...