As Jeanette Empey watched her ranch burn, she took a photo of what she called "The Fireman's Guardian," hovering above her property in the smoke.
“My husband and son went up to the ranch Monday night after learning the fire had jumped the Bone Road and was heading toward our place,” Empey tells EastIdahoNews.com. “Firemen showed up and told my husband the cabins were going to be a loss and for safety reasons, he should leave.”
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The following morning, they returned to find their cabins still standing.
“The cabins hadn’t burned! They were saved!” Empey says. “But soon the wind returned and the fire flared up again. Then I got a text that said, ‘The fire is 15 yards from the cabin.'”
“There is an oasis in the middle of all this burned land,” Empey says. “To me – that is a miracle.”
Empey posted the photos to her Facebook page, with the caption saying: "Check out this photo. If you look closely you can see the "fireman's guardian". A ghostly figure floating above the tree. I love it. Bruce took this photo up at our ranch."