During a recent firestorm, Detectives Shawn Wray and Scott Hildebrand.During a recent firestorm fire·storm n. 1. A fire of great size and intensity that generates and is fed by strong inrushing winds from all sides: the firestorm that leveled Hiroshima after the atomic blast. 2. , Detectives Shawn Wray and Scott Hildebrand of the La Mesa, California La Mesa is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. The population was 54,749 at the 2000 census. It was founded in 1869 and officially incorporated as a city on February 16 1912. It is the hometown of NBA legend Bill Walton. , Police Department responded to a call for help from a citizen who, after ignoring evacuation requests, was stranded in his rural home. The dense smoke and flying debris from the approaching fire injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. the man's eyes, and he was unable to flee. The detectives located the dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n leading to the person's house and drove through intense heat, smoke, and flames. After locating him, they wrapped the man in an emergency fire shelter  This article or section contains no SI units of measurement.Please help [ improve this article] , placed him in the back seat of the car, and turned around to drive out. The intensified flames resulted in zero visibility and extreme heat that penetrated the interior of the vehicle. Detectives Wray and Hildebrand feared that the smoke and heat would cause the car to stall as they used the edge of the dirt road, barely visible, to guide them out. Fortunately, the detectives transported the citizen to safety and turned him over to medical personnel before electrical damage caused the car to stop running. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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