Battalion chief rescues a woman surrounded by flames during the Airport Fire

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>> WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE. JUST BEGINNING TO PICK UP THE PIECES FROM THE AIRPORT FIRE, JOY. >> NOT EVEN BEGINNING TO YET AND HOPING TO BEGIN PICKING UP THE PIECES FROM THE AIRPORT FIRE BUT WE DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF GOOD NEWS AND THAT'S MANDATORY EVACUATIONS IN ROBINSON RANCH WHERE THE FIRE STARTED HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY LIFTED AND THE ONLY PEOPLE THERE ARE THOSE WHO LIVE THERE AS FOR THE REST OF EVACUATIONS IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY WHERE I AM THEY DO REMAIN IN PLACE AND THE REASON IS A LOT OF THIS, THERE'S A LOT OF DRY BRUSH, THERE'S A LOT OF DOWN POWER LINES AND AREAS STILL SMOLDERING IN THE HILLSIDE THAT MAKE IT NOT QUITE SAFE FOR FOLKS TO RETURN HOME BUT YET FOR THOSE IN THE SHELTER THEY ARE JUST SIMPLY HOPING THAT THEY CAN COME HOME FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A HOME TO RETURN TO. >> THE WATER DROPS SEEM ENDLESS IN LAKE ELSENO RE, THE FLAMES LEVELING SEVERAL HOMES. THIS FLAG IS THE ONLY THING LEFT. >> IT'S GONE. IT'S ASH. ALL THREE HOUSES ARE ASHES. ASHES. THERE'S NOTHING LEFT. NOTHING. >> HE AND HIS DOG ZUEZ ARE SLEEPING WITH A FRIEND. MY ROOMMATE GOT PANICKED AND JUMPED UP AND YELLED HELP, HELP. >> SHE DISAPPEARED INTO THE SMOKE WHICH HAS HIM FEARING THE MOST. >> HOUSE CAN HE BE REPLACED BUT HUMANS CAN'T. >> THIS VIDEO OF A WOMAN WALKING IN THE SAME AREA MATCHING HER DESCRIPTION WAS CAPTURED THE SAME AFTERNOON, SHE WAS RESCUED. >> I JUST SAW A PERSON WALKING DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY WITH FIRE ON BOTH SIDES OF HER. >> MARTINEZ SAYS HE COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT. >> WE ARE USED TO SEEING EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR, FIRE TRUCKS AND STUFF DRIVING THROUGH THAT BUT TO SEE A CIVILIAN WALKING DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET IS FOR REAL. >> ALTHOUGH HE CLAIMS HE'S NOT A HERO, CHIEF MARTINEZ KNEW THE ODDS. >> IT WAS PRETTY UNSURVIVABLE, PROBABLY FIVE AND TEN MINUTES LEFT THAT ENVIRONMENT. >> THE WOMAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, JAMES WAS ALSO PICKED UP. >> I HAVE NO PLACE TO GO AND SOMEHOW CAME UP THE ROAD SEEING ME WITH THE WATER HOSE AND THE DOG. HE SAID GET YOUR -- THE FIRE WAS COMING AT US, STRAIGHT AT US AND HE TURNED AROUND AND WENT RIGHT THROUGH IT. >> THANKFUL TO BE ALIVE AND NOW HELPFUL HIS MISSING FRIEND IS, IN FACT, THIS MYSTERIOUS WOMEN ALSO SAVED AS SO MANY ESCAPED THE FLAMES ONLY TO NOW FIGHT FOR A PLACE TO CALL HOME. >> GONE. >> SO HEARTBREAKING FOR SO MANY WHO KNOW THAT THEY LOST EVERYTHING AND THEN FOR OTHERS WHO DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THEIR PROPERTIES BECAUSE, AGAIN, MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING KEPT OUT ESPECIALLY OF THIS PARTICULAR AREA. NOW AS FOR INJURIES, AS WE HAVE MENTIONED SINCE YESTERDAY, THERE WERE TWO CIVILIAN INJURIES, THE WOMAN OBVIOUSLY THAT WE SEE IN THE VIDEO THAT WE ARE TOLD SUFFERED SOME BURNS AND ANOTHER PERSON WHO HAD SMOKE INHALATION, TEN FIREFIGHTERS ALSO SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE OKAY AND WE SHOWED VIDEO TO MR. JAMES AND THEY BOTH BELIEVE THAT IS, IN FACT, THEIR MISSING FRIEND WHICH IS, OF

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