Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Seventeen Lake County firefighters do battle with Southern California blazes

LAKE COUNTY - The 23 fires in Southern California that raged last week are under control, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't taking any chances.

In the wake of a weather forecast predicting a return of strong winds this weekend that could fan the remaining flames, he's instructed Cal Fire and Southern California firefighters to stay on-call. The request wasn't extended to north coast firefighters who traveled south and returned home this week after fires were contained.

As one Lake County firefighter said, the 17 district firefighters sent south are recuperating from "an awful week," where at times they could see no farther than 20 feet due to the heavy smoke that whipped around them in 40 mph gusts.

But overall the experience was a satisfactory one for the Lake County crew, who saved about 50 homes with only one structure loss in the 12,759-acre San Bernardino Slide Fire.



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