CREWS DOUSE REMNANTS OF PIRU BLAZE.Byline: Daily News staff and wire service Crews mopped up the weekend's deadly Piru wildfire on Monday, dousing hotspots from a blaze that consumed 2,500 acres west of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . The fire, sparked Saturday by a ricocheting bullet from a nearby shooting range, claimed the life of a state prison inmate working on the fire lines, Ventura County fire officials reported. Martin Stiles Stiles can refer to: People
The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency response services for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, and for six other cities within the county. . He had been working overnight on a 14-man crew in steep terrain when he lost his footing. Stiles was assigned to Camp 19 in Azusa, a minimum-security state prison that works jointly with fire officials to train crews who volunteer as firefighters. 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. will investigate the death. No structures were damaged and there were no other injuries in the blaze, which sent huge black plumes of smoke over Santa Clarita on Saturday. Stiles was one of about 50 to 60 prisoners working to clear brush, said fire spokesman John Foy. He was dead by the time his body was found. The blaze was sparked by a bullet that ricocheted Saturday from a firing range in a rural area near Lake Piru Lake Piru is a lake located in Los Padres National Forest in Ventura County and was created by the construction in 1955 of the Santa Felicia Dam on Piru Creek which is a tributary of the Santa Clara River. , just west of the Los Angeles-Ventura county line. In northern Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. County, about 2,000 acres were burning in a wildfire in the remote hills. Six aircraft dumped water and fire retardant fire retardant Public health A chemical used to resist combustion, which may contain polybrominated biphenyls and antimony oxide to halt wind-driven flames while 323 firefighters battled on the ground in an effort to surround the blaze, which was more than 20 percent contained, said fire Capt. Charlie Johnson. Full containment was expected by 6 p.m. today. No homes were threatened, and no structures were burned, the Santa Barbara County fire spokesman said. A Bureau of Land Management firefighter was slightly hurt by a falling branch shortly after the fire was reported Sunday. The cause of the blaze was under investigation. Erratic winds, afternoon temperatures in the 90s and the remote location in decades-old stands of brush 20 miles west of New Cuyama hampered the firefighting effort. CAPTION(S): Map Map: Piru fire, Holser Canyon Road, just west of the county line. |
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