Bridge Fire continues to burn San Gabriel Mountains

Published: Sep 12, 2024 Duration: 00:04:00 Category: News & Politics

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CALIFORNIA LARGEST WILDFIRE CONTINUES TO SPREAD WITH NO CONTAINMENT. BRING FIRE SPREAD -- BRIDGE FIRE HAS TORCHED 52 THOUSAND ACRES, THAT IS NOT STOPPING% SOME PEOPLE FROM RETURNING HOME, GIO INSIGNARES IS LIVE IN WRIGHTWOOD WITH THE LATEST. REPORTER: JUAN, GOOD EVENING, WE WANT TO UPDATE IN TERMS OF EVACUATION ORDER. IN LAST COUPLE OURS BALDY VILLAGE ICHIRO EVACUATION ORDER IT HAS BEEN EXPANDED. THIS IS STILL AN ON GOING FIREFIGHT, SMOKE VERY MUCH A LINGERING PRESENCE IN WRIGHTWOOD, I WANT TO SHOW YOU A PIECE OF THE DEVASTATION THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, CHARRED REMAINS OF THIS VEHICLE. AND THERE IS MANY MORE SURROUNDING US AS WELL. NOT TO MENTION JUST BEYOND THIS TREE, THE CAR THERE ARE PILES OF BRICKS AND WHAT WAS IN SOMEONE'S HOME EARLIER. IN TALKING WITH FOLKS WHO ARE STILL HERE IN FACT, IT SOMETHING THEIR HOPE HAS NOT HAPPENED TO THEIR HOME, UNFORTUNATELY IT HAS AND LISTENING TO ONE PERSON DOING BEST HE CAN TO HELP OTHERS. >> AT WRIGHTWOOD FIND FOODS STORED OWNER HAS REOPENED HIS DOORS. >> I OPENED T STORE FOR LOCALS THAT NEED HELP AND FIREFIGHTERS, WE STILL HERE. >> DESPITE EVACUATION ORDERS, MIKE SAID MANY PEOPLE ARE WAITING IT OUT. >> FIRST TIME HE HAS BEEN BACK IN TOWN SINCE FIREFIGHTERS TOLD HIM TO LEAVE, HIS STORE IS A LIFELINE THROUGH THE FIRST FIGHT FOR CREWS AND NEIGHBOR. >> THEIR HOUSES, I WOULDN'T LEAVE, IF I DON'T HAVE ANOTHER CHOICE, BUT, NOW I'M BACK. >> OTHERS HAVE NOT BEEN SO LUCKY. >> OTHERS AREA BURNED TO ASHES, JUST ONE PIECE OF GREATER DEVASTATION CAUSED BY LARGEST ACTIVE WILDFIRE IN STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EMOTIONAL TOLL OF LOSING SO MUCH SOMETHING THAT CARTER AND HER FAMILY ARE DEALING WITH. >> WE LOOK AT MOUNTAIN AND THE FIRE WAS COMING DOWN. REPORTER: THEY GOT OUT IN TIME. TAKING THEIR LOADED UP RV, WHICH HAD A LOT OF IMPORTANT POSSESSIONS PUT IN THIS OVER THE LAST YEAR. >> HOW ARE YOU FEELING. >> MIXED FILINGS. VERY OVERWHELMED. >> ONLY THING LEFT, IS MASSAGE AND FACIAL COTTAGE, WE HAD SPOT FIRES, THEY TOOK OVER. >> OUR HOUSE IS SUCH A STRONG INFERNO IT IS A LOG HOUSE. >> HOME WILL BE THE RV FOR NOW, REBUILDING IS LIKELY NOT HAPPENING, THEY ARE THANKFUL THAT EVERYONE IS OKAY, AND WHATEVER THE NEXT STEP IS, THEY WILL DO IT TOGETHER. >> WE'LL BE NOMADS FOR A WHILE. >> ONE DAY AT A TIME. >> A PATIENT PROCESS, TESTING FAMILIES, LOOKING FOR A HELPING HAND, GETTING IT FROM THOSE AROUND THEM. >> I'M VERY POSITIVE AND HAPPY, THAT EVERYONE WILL BE ALL RIGHT. AND IT WILL BE WE'RE STRONG ENOUGH TO DO THAT. REPORTER: DURING THAT CONVERSATION WITH MIKE HE SAID SINCE BEING BACK HE HAD NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHECK HIS HOME AND SEE WHETHER IT WAS STILL OKAY. WE GOT UPDATE, HE TOLD US HE GOT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, HOUSE IS DOING FINE, REST OF NEIGHBORHOOD ALSO FINE. WE KNOW UNFORTUNATELY NOT OTHERS HAD THE SAME POSITIVE NEWS, BUT WITH MIKE AND HELPING OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY, IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, HE SAID, THAT STORE, WILL BE RIGHT BACK TOMORROW, KEEPING IT OPEN FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS HELP. GIO KCAL NEWS.

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