I found it
Oct. 30th, 2003 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dampscribblerIt's buried at the bottom of this piece:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20031027-9999_7n27main.html
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In Poway, Eric Brue, a firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, took on the flames by himself.
He got off work yesterday morning and headed home with every intention of spending the day watching football. But then he heard about the fire.
"This is what I do," Brue said. "I couldn't sit around."
His plan was to help the Miramar Fire Department, his former employer. But on his way he got caught in fire traffic. As he traveled side roads, he came upon some fires on Caminito Magnifica in Scripps Ranch, where several houses were at risk and no firefighters were in sight.
"The residents were happy to see me," he said.
Brue spent the day "bouncing between 18 houses with no water," he said. But with 14 years' experience fighting fires, he can be resourceful. He used a garden hose, a chain saw he found in someone's yard and some garden tools to try to keep fire from reaching the homes, putting out roof fires and hot spots.
He lost just two.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20031027-9999_7n27main.html
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In Poway, Eric Brue, a firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, took on the flames by himself.
He got off work yesterday morning and headed home with every intention of spending the day watching football. But then he heard about the fire.
"This is what I do," Brue said. "I couldn't sit around."
His plan was to help the Miramar Fire Department, his former employer. But on his way he got caught in fire traffic. As he traveled side roads, he came upon some fires on Caminito Magnifica in Scripps Ranch, where several houses were at risk and no firefighters were in sight.
"The residents were happy to see me," he said.
Brue spent the day "bouncing between 18 houses with no water," he said. But with 14 years' experience fighting fires, he can be resourceful. He used a garden hose, a chain saw he found in someone's yard and some garden tools to try to keep fire from reaching the homes, putting out roof fires and hot spots.
He lost just two.
