{"id":386,"date":"2008-10-14T08:13:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T16:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2008-10-15T10:34:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T18:34:44","slug":"long-beach-firefighters-deployed-to-assist-with-local-brush-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Firefighters Deployed to Assist with Local Brush Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH &#8211; The Long Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/news\/ci_10710653#\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Department<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/mag-glass_10x10.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>has sent six fire engines, 24 firefighters and a battalion chief to help battle the Sesnon fire near Porter Ranch, just north of Chatsworth.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach fire department spokesman Josh Johnson said a strike team of five engines and one additional engine were sent at about noon today.<\/p>\n<p>The brush fire tore through about 2,000 acres near oil fields today ( October 13th) on Oat Mountain north of the Porter Ranch area, prompting evacuations as flames marched toward residential neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Three water-dropping helicopters were helping to battle the flames, and ground crews were positioning themselves between the flames and homes.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the fire was originally reported in the oil fields on the mountain, which is home to radio and broadcast towers.<\/p>\n<p>kelly.puente@presstelegram.com, (562) 499-1305. City News Services contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Updates from the Strike team as of Tuesday, October 14th, at 7:00 A.M. is that they are protecting structures on the ridge above Wolsey Canyon. The fire is currently two ridges away, but the wind is &#8220;screaming&#8221; with the potential of spreading very quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH &#8211; The Long Beach Fire Departmenthas sent six fire engines, 24 firefighters and a battalion chief to help battle the Sesnon fire near Porter Ranch, just north of Chatsworth. Long Beach fire department spokesman Josh Johnson said a strike team of five engines and one additional engine were sent at about noon today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5],"tags":[99,102,103,100,98,101],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents","category-news","category-publicsafety","tag-arson","tag-cal-fire","tag-cdf","tag-la-county-fire","tag-press-telegram","tag-ventura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}