Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007 - Wildfires

As wildfires tore across Southern California, I was dispatched out to the Ranch Fire that was burning in northern Los Angeles County and into eastern Ventura County where it was threatening the communities of Piru and Fillmore. Even though it was burning toward these communities, the fire was still in unaccessible areas.

In town, I found a strike team of firefighters from Santa Clara County that were providing structure protection for a outlying neighborhood in Fillmore. All the firefighters were congregated on the grass of Jim and Linda Nunes' home where the husband and wife had been cooking a barbecue dinner for the firefighters.