CHP officers not excluded from evacs
Anxious residents forced down the mountain have at least one way to
keep tabs on their homes and ease their worried minds. California
Highway Patrol officer Wally Wood kept a close eye on his home and on
his neighbors homes. The off-duty officer said he had been getting
calls from worried friends and neighbors most of the day asking if
their home was safe.
"It's been upredictable most of the day," Wood said as he watched the
flames and flickering embers in the canyon a few feet away from his
home. The officer has been hosing down some of the vegetation near
his and neighbors homes when he could. Tuesday night was the fifth
time he had been evacuated from his Running Springs home. The last
time he was evacuated was during the Old Fire.