CASTAWAYS FIRE DEEMED 'SUSPICIOUS'.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick and Jason Kandel Staff Writers BURBANK - Fire officials labeled ``suspicious'' a day-old wildfire as it charred hundreds of acres in the Verdugo Mountains The Verdugo Mountains are a small mountain range located just south of the western San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California, The United States of America (USA). The range is commonly known simply as the Verdugos. and prompted a call for people to evacuate a canyon neighborhood. SuperScooper firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. aircraft were deployed against the Castaways Fire after temperatures and wind both picked up Friday, spreading a blaze that that morning had been half-contained. ``We don't want it going northeast or south because there's homes in those directions,'' Burbank Fire Department spokesman Capt. Ron Bell said Friday evening. ``Right now we've got a brush fire. We want to keep it a brush fire. We don't want to be doing structure protection.'' As flames burned among the chaparral-covered hills between Burbank and Sunland, Burbank fire officials urged residents to evacuate along Country Club Drive, to the southeast of Wildwood Canyon Wildwood Canyon is a protected area in California. It is still under development. External links
Firefighters were stationed in the Country Club Drive area in case a wind shift sent flames toward it. Canadair CL415 SuperScooper aircraft - which can dip water from a reservoir without having to fly back to their base to reload (1) To load a program from disk into memory once again in order to run it. Reload is entirely different than reinstall. Reinstall means that you have to run the install program from a CD-ROM or floppy disk and perform the installation procedure over again. - arrived overnight from Canada under contract to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County. They made their first Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, appearance this fire season at the Burbank fire. The tankers helped Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. helicopters and firefighters on the ground. Bulldozers and inmate fire crews cut fire lines through the brush covering the steep and rocky hillsides. Many of the 350 firefighters fighting the Burbank blaze had come there from the Topanga Fire in the west San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Because Burbank's firefighters were battling the brush fire, Arcadia firefighters moved in to handle other emergency calls. The blaze broke out about 4:25 p.m. Thursday on a hillside near the De Bell Municipal Golf Course, within sight of the landmark Castaways restaurant for which it was named. Investigators were unsure of the cause, but said they were interviewing golfers and others who might have seen someone in the area at that time. ``We're interviewing people as we speak,'' Bell said Friday afternoon. The flames had blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. about 25 acres between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, but the acreage jumped to more than 50 before noon, then to more than 500 by midafternoon, officials said. The fire was reported by Castaways employees. A restaurant manager said he saw a small spot of fire on a hillside, but saw no one near it. The fire spread suddenly, he said. ``I've been doing this for 30 years and have seen these hills burn from stem to stern at least three times,'' Bell said. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5741 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) A SuperScooper soars over the Castaways Fire. The specialized firefighting aircraft arrived overnight Thursday from Canada. (2) Firefighters take a break from battling the day-old blaze in Burbank on Friday. The fire had been half-contained in the morning, but high temperatures and wind whipped up the flames again. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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