VIDEO: It’s a scene Rebecca Cummins calls “other worldly.” Her animals running from their pastures as walls of flames close in around their Ferry County property. The Modrite Fire has burned nearly 9,000 acres since it was sparked by lightning on Friday, July 17. So far, the fire is believed to have destroyed five structures.
Several of those structures were on an animal sanctuary ranch in Ferry County, owned by Rebecca and her husband Justin Cummins. The sanctuary was left nearly unrecognizable after the Modrite Fire tore through the county. The Rizn Ranch sanctuary is home to horses, cows, goats, chickens, sheep and livestock guardian dogs. Rebecca and her husband, along with neighbors, tried to protect the property as the flames grew.
“It’s other worldly. I look out my window and I’m like, I don’t even recognize this place,” Rebecca Cummins told KING 5. “As it started to crest the top of the mountains west of us, we realized it was going to come in all the way.” She said they had spent four years completely renovating the property from top to bottom, from the fences to the barns. It was their beloved home, and home to their dozens of animals.
KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle
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