Anything that creates a spark is going to start, potentially, a big brush fire. |
Flames shooting out of the roof on the right side of the house and flames were later shooting out of the roof on the left side of the house. |
It's a great time of year for people to just be using common sense with everything from tossing cigarettes out of vehicles to just not doing any burns outside their house if they can avoid it. |
It's pretty much gutted unfortunately, but hopefully we'll be able to uncover some more property for the homeowners. |
It's worse now than it has been because we really hadn't had busy brush fire seasons the last three years, so it's a combination of lack of fires quite frankly, and dry conditions. |
One of the biggest fires we had in 1985 was actually started by a beer bottle that had been reflecting sunlight and then it bounced off and started a fire. |
The deal still needs approval from the authorities and Cisneros will lead it. |
We're just waiting to see what happens around the entire area. |
We're taking the extra effort everyday, looking for columns and being very aware of who's burning, whether it's controlled or whatever, what kind of permits are out there and everything. |