After her home north of Hutchinson escaped destruction by only a few narrow feet in Monday’s wildfire, Danielle Tajchman joked that her pet cows had saved it.
After all, Scott and Danielle Tajchman had been heavily watering their lawn before the fire because their two pet cows had developed a taste for lawn grass.
In helicopter photos taken the day after the fire, the Tajchman home stands unburned in a tiny island of green grass, surrounded by acres of blackened land. But after the Tajchmans returned home, they learned more about what happened after they ran with their five children from the flames on Monday. Two firefighters raced up to her home only minutes after the Tajchmans evacuated, Danielle Tajchman said.