Dangerous fire near LA by kristina leskova

Fire is a disaster which comes quite often into United States of America, especially state of California is often stricken. People are scared and many people have to be evacuated due to the fire. Their homes are often damaged, even though fire fighters are working twenty four hours per day. It is a horrible situation which can be imagined only by people who survived it. Sometimes the fire begins due to warm weather and dry soil, but very often there are people who start the fire. These people do not know how dangerous the fire is and how much pain they could cause. One of these fires started on 26th August in California. This massive fire is located north of Los Angeles. Ha! nd crews were during this weekend working to keep the fire eastern from a mountain highway. This fire has already had two victims – Tedmund Hall and Arnaldo Quinones who died when their car fell from a steep mountain road. This happened on 30th August. Both these fire fighters had wives and families who miss them. But work of a fire fighter is dangerous. They work with fire and they never know what can happen. Also very dangerous is the wind which can spread the fire really quickly. And what are the impacts of the fire? Nearly 246 square miles have been blackened in the Angeles National Forest and at least 76 homes were destroyed. Officials try to find out who set this fire. The investigators were trying to analyze the clues which they found near Angeles Crest Highway where the fire started. But officials are careful and they do not want to say that this fire was caused by an arsonist.

related story (sgx15306): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090906/ap_on_re_us/us_wildfires...

by kristina leskova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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