BOTTLE ROCKET STARTS FIRE ON GRASSY KNOLL : TEENS' PROJECT GOES AWRY; SMALL AREA BURNED.Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer Four teen-agers using bottle rockets A bottle rocket is a very small skyrocket. A typical bottle rocket consists of a rocket engine attached to a stabilizing stick. The user can place the stick in an empty bottle (hence the name), and ignite the rocket engine; the mouth of the bottle guides the stick, stabilizing the to simulate a war for a high school history project wound up leaving a fire for Ventura County firefighters to battle on a hot and windy afternoon. The boys, ages 16 and 17, were filming exploding bottle rockets Sunday in the back yard of a home on Avenida Loma Portal. One of the bottle rockets went over a fence and onto a grassy knoll, sparking the fire, said Sgt. Larry Meyers of the 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. . A neighbor reported the fire about 3:05 p.m. The fire burned less than an acre before county Fire Department crews extinguished ex·tin·guish tr.v. ex·tin·guished, ex·tin·guish·ing, ex·tin·guish·es 1. To put out (a fire, for example); quench. 2. To put an end to (hopes, for example); destroy. See Synonyms at abolish. 3. the flames. The crew then was dispatched to the massive brush fire burning north of Fillmore, Meyers said. ``It was on one part of the hill that protected it from the way the wind was blowing,'' Meyers said of the small Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. blaze. ``If the wind was going the other way, it could have been real ugly.'' Meyers said the fire crew arrived as the youths used buckets of water and shoveled dirt in an attempt to fight the fire. The youths were not identified because each is a juvenile. Sheriff's officials issued citations to each youth for negligently starting the fire and for possessing illegal fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to . ``When you're lighting a hillside on fire in this kind of weather, it is real serious,'' Meyers said. ``They were just lucky in this case. It could have gone the other way real quick.'' Meyers said the youths were released to the custody of their parents and will face a hearing in Ventura Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial . |
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