Reply #18: We had 2500+ Firefighters here in the mountains of So. Cal. for a fire that started 9/14.

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It burned over 14,000 acres and if not for the Firefighters, the town of Fawnskin might have been a total loss. Those people ROCK!

We even had a DC-10 tanker dropping 12,000 gallons of fire retardant at a time. The guy was flying it like it was a CESSNA!

It was really great to see how much support the Firefighters got from the community up here. We had people with Thank You messages written on their car windows with shoe polish, hand-lettered Thank You signs up and down the boulevard, and a center where peeps could donate everything from fruit and energy bars to cold weather clothing for the Firefighters.

Once again they saved our our homes and our asses.

Firefighter ROCK!