SMALL BRUSH FIRE PUTS HILLSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ON THE DEFENSIVE.Byline: CAROL ROCK Staff Writer SAUGUS -- A three-acre brush fire that threatened power lines near a Saugus neighborhood Tuesday afternoon had neighbors in the ridgeline ridge·line n. See ridge. Noun 1. ridgeline - a long narrow range of hills ridge arete - a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains community behind Deer Springs Drive out with their garden hoses. ``I was upstairs working on my computer when I smelled something like a wood barbecue,'' said Chris Crouse, 38. ``I looked out the back window and about four houses down, I could see the ridge on fire and called 911. I ran out of the house and got the neighbors out. ``About the fourth house down, there was a baby sitter who didn't speak English. She was trying to tell me something, but I told her she needed to get out of the house and across the street.'' Kevin Podratz, 14, was home with his sister when he saw the smoke out a window and called his father. Cindy Wise, 34, made her son, Jacob, 7, and daughter, Avery, 3, stand near the family truck as she grabbed a safe and her computer that contained family photos. ``Thank God my husband cleared the brush near the fence,'' she said. Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La Inspector Ed Lozano said the fire was reported at 1:34 p.m. By the time it was out at 2:04 p.m., the hillside blaze 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. almost three acres, but no structures were damaged. Battalion Chief Michael Singer said wetting down the green hillsides as the fire crept uphill was a good idea, but protecting wooden accessories in yards and on houses is better. ``All those wooden fences or decorations on the houses could catch an ember if we had a good wind,'' he said. Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los Battalion Chief Karen Bauman, whose Forest Service crew worked alongside county firefighters, was patrolling the perimeter making notes for investigators. The fire came within a mile of the Angeles Forest boundary in Bouquet bouquet a structure resembling a cluster of flowers. Canyon. ``The fire is inside the county, but close enough for us to be concerned, especially since the wind is blowing that way,'' she said. The cause of the fire was under investigation. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour SAC Sac: see Sac and Fox. SAC - 1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. edition only) A firefighter battles a small brush fire Tuesday in Saugus. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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