Firefighters battling fast-moving brush fire in Antelope Valley

Firefighters battling fast-moving brush fire in Antelope Valley

[Lori-]

Thank you for your great reporting. 🙏ing for our local firefighters.

[kitziewitty]

Pray 🙏🏻 that our firefighters 🚒 stay safe🙏🏻🇺🇸

[alexanderleach]

Great work by the bravery of the firefighters, the water bombers and of CAL Fire.

[cardboardcrawlersrc]

Engine 136 did a bang up job around the 6 minute mark.

[NormanSilver]

The value of the Fire Copters is becoming more apparent daily. You saw this on this clip.

[mahcaebnivek]

Well done LA County Fire 👏. Great aggressive firefighting. Especially the engine out at the head of the fire

[gtbproductions]

One thing I have noticed is how poor the accuracy of LA county/City helicopters are vs contract helicopters. Look at the opening drop. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT??? There needs to be some kind of rating system for accuracy, not close enough with an 80% miss to keep the fire going.

[bentheguru]

Whilst not there, the air footage shows a simple case of a drip torch and use of a back-burn would have stopped it on the top side and ring in the rest from road edge, water only needed for blackening top side and mopping up. Not a criticism comment, just a suggestion of the old saying, fight fire with fire.

[lisalee]

Great work 👍 I still think it's a good idea to bring out Prisoners to do brush clearance...they could be a big help and be out of a cell for a while.

[paulsims]

Please understand this is the middle of nowhere. There are other huge fires.
After all the rains from the winter, there is more brush than I've ever seen here.
And you cam see it's windy. Fires can start from a trailer chain dragging to a down powerline. It's natural and brutal. I live an hour from this fire.
Good luck to all involved!

[christophersmith]

They stopped it and that is what counts. Grass fires like this are tailor made for water tankers with bumper nozzles. Wish we could have watched one of those work on this, but they knocked it down with what they had!

[Robert-isdu]

In Monterey county our CAL FIRE rigs were setup for mobile pumping operations where we had the plumbing setup with discharge nozzles on the full peripheray and allowed us to extinquish wheat field fires that move too fast to keep up with a flanking pincer movement so our engine's performed flanking by driving the engine and application of water at the dam moment to cool the Base the ignition point
The US Marine Corps has a similar setup on the large outback gunner ranges set in the dry sage brush areas of Camp Pendleton on the Cleveland National Forest in Orange and San Diego county and use 1200 gallon deuce and a half Mobil pumping operations with huge nozzles setup to apply high volume hydrologic atmospheric steam conversion manual transmission fluid electrodynamically linked filing cabinet systems to cool the echo maps Fire records

[MAIDU]

Stay Safe Fire Fighters and residents. Praying it’s put out quickly. 🤍🙏🏽

[number--Saxman]

That water drop was right on target. The idea of a water drop is to put on the flames

[ronwade]

113° not easy to fly in those gusty winds

[codyhall]

reading some of the comments in the chat makes me laugh and at the same time pisses me off why must everything be made political... its a freaking wildfire that could easy start from a piece of glass on the ground to a spark from a power line nothing is political about it people need to grow the heck up

[skytechbits]

People who spam the chat with political junk are reported and blocked.

[jimwattenburger]

Well that was a cleat miss with copter drop !

[ChrisPrime-gr]

I could have sworn I seen a body right on the edge of the fire line

[littlepilch]

Hi this mait be a stupid question but can helicopters drop woter on big wherhaws faiers