ARSON BLAMED FOR 25-ACRE BRUSH FIRE : OFFICIALS SEEK PUBLIC'S HELP IN FINDING SUSPECTS.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Fire investigators asked the public Wednesday to help find the person or people who set a fire Tuesday evening that charred about 25 acres of brush at Wildwood Wildwood, city (1990 pop. 4,484), Cape May co., SE N.J., on an island off Cape May; settled 1882, inc. as a city 1911. It has large commercial fisheries and is a popular summer seaside resort with many vintage motels and other buildings from the 1940s–60s. Park and briefly threatened nearby homes. The cause of the fire was still under investigation Wednesday, but investigators say that lack of evidence of an ignition source at the scene suggests the fire was deliberately set. ``If there's nothing there that means that whoever started the fire left with the fire - that's a pretty good indication there. 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About 100 firefighters, 11 engines, three Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. helicopters and a bulldozer responded to the fire that started about 4:39 p.m. near San Miguel San Miguel (sän mēgĕl`), city (1993 pop. 118,214), E El Salvador, at the foot of San Miguel volcano (6,996 ft/2,132 m). It has textile, rope, and dairy-products industries. The region produces cotton, henequen, and vegetable oil. Circle and Velarde Drive, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. officials. The fire was about 30 percent contained by about 7 p.m. and extinguished about 10:11 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Fire Department. Cronk said that he determined through a ``hands and knees'' search that the fire started about 50 feet east of the Indian tepee tepee or tipi (both: tē`pē), typical dwelling of Native North Americans living on the Great Plains. It was usually made by arranging tent poles into a conical frame and spreading skins, usually buffalo hide, tightly over at the park. Homes nearest the fire on San Miguel and Velarde were initially threatened by the fire and homeowners were put on evacuation alert, according to officials. That danger quickly subsided when the fire blazed its way up a south-facing slope away from the homes. According to fire officials, recent controlled burns and cooperation from area homeowners helped keep concerns about the fire spreading out of control to a minimum. Late in April, the Fire Department burned about 30 acres of stacked and dry brush that had been cut away from the hillsides as part of a three-year program to lessen the danger of a natural wildfire erupting e·rupt v. e·rupt·ed, e·rupt·ing, e·rupts v.intr. 1. To emerge violently from restraint or limits; explode: My neighbor erupted in anger over the noise. 2. and consuming surrounding homes and parkland. Also, surrounding homes do not have the shake shingle roofs that can easily ignite. Homeowners have cooperated with authorities to cut away brush from around homes that could also have caught fire. ``The community's been wonderful,'' public information officer Sandi Wells said. The Fire Department has already received calls from several people who have provided some useful information, said Keith Mashburn, a captain in the department's investigation unit. Cronk said he has some license plate numbers and other information to work with. Anyone with information should call the Ventura County Fire Department's investigation unit at (805) 378-7003. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Crews of firefighters in the air and on the g round battle a blaze Tuesday that charred about 25 acres of brush at Wildwood Park. (2) About 100 firefighters were called in to help contain the fire. Nearby homes were not damaged. Tina Gerson/Daily News |
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