The SanRafaelFire continues to burn in Santa Cruz County. DenelleConfair has more at 6 on the work fire crews are doing to save historic buildings
"If you've ever been on the front lines of wildfire, it's hot, it's loud. It's bright, because of the flames. It's smoky," Marc Meredith, Chief at Sonoita-Elgin Fire District said."And they jumped out, they grabbed their hand tools, they got their real line off the back of the engine and they went to work."
"In this particular case, I involved our crew making sure that fuels can be removed in that included doing burner operations using hand tools, using the water for suppression," Meredith said."But really anything you can do to reduce the fire intensity, or cool the structure or both." "Wind propels fire very rapidly and with the hot dry conditions, the abundant dry fuels," Meredith said."Its intensity is remarkable and it's much harder to do that if you didn't have any around or if the field wasn't as dry, or the conditions weren't as hot and lack of humidity and we have all of these things simultaneously."
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