(9 Sep 2024)
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Highland, California – 08 September 2024
1. Various of Line Fire over the mountains
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Michael King, Running Springs resident:
"Right now, we’re in the Highland shelter. It’s a temporary shelter. We thought we might go to Victorville or the fairgrounds. I don’t know what the deals with Victorville, but they’re having trouble finding a specific location. Big enough Fairgrounds, it’s ongoing. It’s dynamic. We understand as soon as I find a place, people in cars will caravan. People are not in cars like me. We get on the bus, we load our stuff, we go to where it is. Since I have experience with horse evacuations and fires, too. I’m I’m hopeful. Okay. If I can help horses and people. Great. Whoever needs the most assistance. But right now, it’s make it easy. So we still have towns on the mountain."
3. Smoke rises from the Line Fire over the mountains
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Lee, Arrowbear Lake resident:
"I live in one of the evacuation areas and Arrowbear Lake, which is just east of Running Springs. I came down to the evacuation center because I had no place else really to go. No family that’s in Southern California. And I’m not driving seven hours to go see my kids or my ex-wife."
5. Med interior car of the Line Fire
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Lee, Arrowbear Lake resident:
"This is the first time I’ve ever evacuated. So it’s been all new experience for me. Which is a good and bad thing. I mean, first, Red Cross scrambles to put these things together real fast, where to, help, some food. I’d already had dinner before I got here, so it was just a matter of showing up. And I have a dog that’s with me."
7. Med of fire crews on duty
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Lee, Arrowbear Lake resident:
"So I showed up here with my dog. I couldn’t get a hold of the Devoir animal shelter. And so my dog is here in the evacuation center. He’s going through stress to dogs. You know, he wants to be right next to me and they keep him in crates.that’s okay, you know."
9. King entering Highland shelter
10.SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Lee, Arrowbear Lake resident:
"So, but bottom line is I want to get back home, you know? The triple digit, whether up, up here or down here is, nasty. You know, I live up on the mountain at 6,000ft in fairly cool weather."
11. Lee sitting in his vehicle
STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of homes and buildings were threatened Sunday by an out-of-control wildfire burning in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles, amid a days-long heat wave that pushed temperatures into the triple digits across the region.
State firefighters said three firefighters had been injured and more than 35,000 structures were threatened, including single and multi-family homes and commercial buildings, while authorities issued evacuation orders for several areas.
Thunderstorms expected later in the day could make conditions even more challenging.
County officials, who declared an emergency Saturday evening, issued evacuation orders for Running Springs, Arrowbear Lake, areas east of Highway 330 and other regions.
The so-called Line Fire was burning along the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of LA.
As of Sunday morning, the blaze had charred about 27 square miles (70 square kilometers) of grass and chaparral, leaving a thick cloud of dark smoke blanketing the area.
“I wanna get back to home,” Lee said sitting in his car outside the evacuation center. “The triple-digit weather down here is nasty.”
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