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Fire was 10 miles away. at the time, the winds were not bad. they didn t think it was really gonna spread. and so for us just to go back to bed and things would be fine. thomas was always trying to get me to relax during fires because i would just hit the panic button every time, and i grew up in a city. had no experience with fires when i moved to ramona in 1990. i had evacuated numerous times growing up you know, you just, you know, there s a fire, you evacuate. i said to myself, well, it s still light enough. i m sure the planes will come. but i m gonna go call 911 anyway because i m paranoid about fires. the evening the fire started, i had just gotten home when the pager went off. and so i immediately, you know, said good-bye to everybody and loaded back up. ....
i work as a helicopter pilot for the sheriff s office. proceed northbound wind we received a call of a missing hunter in the cleveland national forest, east of ramona. dispatch called us as we were en route to the missing hunter. the winds were probably blowing 30 miles an hour at that time. and said now there was a column of smoke coming from the same vicinity of our missing hunter. and we realized as we got closer, yeah, there s a fire on top of this hill. i went down to feed at around 5:20 in the evening, which is before dusk, because that s when animals want their dinner. and that s when i saw the smoke. ....
A security scare at honolulu s airport. false reports of an active shooter causing widespread panic and confusion. witnesses say the chaos started when laptops over heated inside luggage at a checkpoint. there was some smoke coming out of one of the scanners and the tsa agent started yelling fire and told everyone to start running, to get out. six more came from the other side and started yelling, run, get out. run. there s a fire. everyone started stampeding each other. women were being knocked down, kids. people s belongings were being trashed. the main terminal was evacuated. thousands of passengers waited outside until the facility was re-opened four hours later. tsa officers making what they called a shocking find inside a man s carry on bag at newark liberty international airport. an x-ray spotted six smoke grenades sunday all neatly wrapped in bubble wrap. ....
When i moved to ramona in 1990. i had evacuated numerous times growing up you know, you just, you know, there s a fire, you evacuate. i said to myself, well, it s still light enough. i m sure the planes will come. but i m gonna go call 911 anyway because i m paranoid about fires. the evening the fire started, i had just gotten home when the pager went off. and so i immediately, you know, said good-bye to everybody and loaded back up. i got about ten minutes from the house when i looked up the first time from 67 and was able to see fire, very briefly, but i was able to see that we did have an active burning fire. i went and got the scanner that we had. we had a fire police scanner because of incidents like this, so we could keep track of what was going on. just for your information, ....
On fire. i just saw flames that i would have sworn were 50 foot to 100 foot tall. at that point, i yelled to lonnie, melanie and lindi. i said, get up. we re outta here. there s a fire. there was something in her voice that i knew that i needed to do exactly that. she comes in, wakes us all up. get up, get up. get your stuff. get your books. go out to the truck. we have to go. i said, you know, take your pillows out of your pillowcases. fill your pillowcase up with whatever it is that you want to take with, that you want to save, in case the worst happens. i got a backpack and i had kept all our home movies together in one spot for a moment like this. i remember when we were going out to the car, our neighbor being hysterical. she was screaming and crying, and that scared me more, because ....