Escaping the new Yucaipa fire

YUCAIPA - William Stovall said his wife was going to take their son to guitar lessons when she saw the landscape near their house was ablaze.

"She ran back inside and said 'Oh my gosh, the hills are on fire,'" Stovall said.

His family was preparing to escape from their neighborhood while being interviewed.

"It's not worth our lives," Stovall said.

The new fire, separate from the Oak Glen III Fire near Oak Glen, ignited near the crossing of Date Street and Pendleton Road, in eastern Yucaipa. The Stovall family's home, on Cornell Drive, is a short distance from that point.

**Update at 4:17 p.m. The fire is now called the Pendleton Fire.

-stacia.glenn@inlandnewspapers.com
-andrew.edwards@inlandnewspapers.com