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DEADLY WILDFIRE: TRAGEDY IN THE SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS
'Devil winds' stoke fatal fire
A Forest Service crew can't outrun a wall of flames, leaving four dead and one badly burned. The arson blaze has charred 24,000 acres.
By David Kelly, Jonathan Abrams and Maeve Reston, Times Staff Writers
October 27, 2006
Four firefighters were killed and another critically burned Thursday as they battled to protect homes from a wind-whipped arson fire that charred almost 24,000 acres and forced hundreds to flee mountain communities west of Palm Springs.
The U.S. Forest Service crew members were manning hoses on a mountain road about 8 a.m. when a burst of wind sent flames shooting over them so quickly they had no time to deploy portable fire shelters.
http://www.latimes.com/
This is a neat graphic, I thought.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...181225.graphic
'Devil winds' stoke fatal fire
A Forest Service crew can't outrun a wall of flames, leaving four dead and one badly burned. The arson blaze has charred 24,000 acres.
By David Kelly, Jonathan Abrams and Maeve Reston, Times Staff Writers
October 27, 2006
Four firefighters were killed and another critically burned Thursday as they battled to protect homes from a wind-whipped arson fire that charred almost 24,000 acres and forced hundreds to flee mountain communities west of Palm Springs.
The U.S. Forest Service crew members were manning hoses on a mountain road about 8 a.m. when a burst of wind sent flames shooting over them so quickly they had no time to deploy portable fire shelters.
http://www.latimes.com/
This is a neat graphic, I thought.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...181225.graphic
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