Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.
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"Our values and our principles come first, that's what our parents taught us," Garcia said."They always used to say, help others without concern for who they are or why they need help."She was standing next to the rubble of a destroyed house, dousing the still-flaming pile of debris with a watering hose. Garcia and about 20 other Latino immigrants were rushing to extinguish the flames so they wouldn't spread to the house next door, which had not burned.
Hilda Lopez filled buckets on the lawn of the house next door, which the volunteers were trying to guard against the flames.Phil McConville owns the house next door to the one whose flaming ruins the group was focused on extinguishing. Earlier Wednesday, he'd spent four hours trying to keep the fire away from his house. It exhausted him."I couldn't see anymore, and I went to wash my eyes out," he said.
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