Workers directed to continue trash pickup near wildfire, San Diego CA
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WildfireAs discussed during the dispatch call, a worker describes being told to continue trash and recycling pickup near large brush fires in the San Diego area. The worker recounts the intense heat, flying embers, and dangerous conditions as fires threatened homes near Camino Del Sur, Carmel Valley, Del Mar, and Black Mountain Road.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Public Works Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
I want you to keep working doing the middle with damn fire.
00:04
Yeah man, help me out here, man.
00:06
That fire was so hot.
00:09
I touched the damn glass over here on the door, man.
00:11
It was hot.
00:14
Dude came around that pickup truck.
00:16
That fire, he came around that red pickup truck.
00:18
He said, what are you doing over there? I said, they told me keep working.
00:21
They said, I don't care what they told you, you got to get out of here or you're going to be stuck.
00:26
Oh, just passed.
00:28
Hey,
00:29
foreman said I got to go back to wait in the area.
00:34
Came back on radio.
00:35
Supervisor says continue to keep working till further notice.
00:40
That's great.
00:41
Ain't caring more about triage getting picked up than your life.
00:45
Now you see the news when they be showing the road.
00:49
The fire be on both sides of the road and the wind be blowing, and it's all dark red.
00:54
That's what it look like out here.
00:57
Oh, this was on fire.
01:00
I'm out there picking up recycling.
01:02
Got embers flying all over the place.
01:05
The wind's blowing.
01:07
The sky was dark with smoke.
01:10
Flames on the left, flames on the right.
01:14
During that time, nobody got no load fires.
01:19
Not that I know of.
01:21
I was waiting for it to happen.
01:23
That I was out there picking up number recycling and all them little embers and stuff, they was flying everywhere, man.
01:31
It was like being out of a balloon.
01:37
At that time, you know, it wasn't really too many ways to come in and out.
01:43
You had go in and out on—Okay, what's that? Carmel Valley.
01:49
Yeah, Carmel Valley.
01:53
And I was pretty much hit because they hadn't even Black Mountain Road.
01:58
It's dead end down there at the end down there.
02:01
So you had to cut across this dirt road.
02:05
We had used to go across from Del Mar side to this side, but all that was on fire.
02:12
(name withheld) sitting up there.
02:14
You gonna hear him in a minute if he gonna tell me.
02:18
Drive down Carmel Valley and go get the stop down there by the nursery.
02:22
I said, man, I can't drive down there.
02:23
They just told me to get out of here.
02:25
Go get the stop on it by the nursery.
02:27
Like a dumbass here I am driving all the way down this country road.
02:32
Everything on fire.
02:34
Go try to get them stopped by the nursery.
02:36
Get all the way down there and stop Amy.
02:40
Ah, not okay.
02:41
You a fool for that and putting your life on the line for that?
02:44
Well, you know, that's what I was young and ignorant of.
02:47
Then I had to turn around,
02:49
drive all the way back because you couldn't go out that way.
02:54
But nothing but cattle ranches and stuff down there going back towards Black Mountain.
02:59
The cattle ranch blocked everything.
03:02
All I had to do is come all the way back.
03:05
Here comes the rain.
03:07
All that stuff on Camino del Sur and all that stuff at the edge of Black Mountain Road, all the way to where Scripps Poway is.
03:16
Them houses right there, they butted up right against the people's property.
03:20
It wasn't nothing out there but cows and steers, man,
03:24
bulls and stuff.
03:26
And that other fire down there,
03:29
and uh,
03:31
that's all rolling down there.
03:32
All them houses catching on fire.
03:34
All the roofs made out of wood, shake shingle roof.
03:39
Man,
03:41
them embers was landing on them roofs, man.
03:43
Old dry roof, and they was going up like nothing, man.
03:48
Like they had gasoline on them.
03:50
That's three fires, man.
03:51
Three big fires here we worked in.
03:57
Got one little piece of paper.
03:58
Thank you for working during the fires or whatever, and I don't even know what happened to that paper.
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Location mentioned:
Camino Del Sur, San Diego, CA
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