SUMMER HEATS UP— During a recent Ventura County Fire Department “Ready for the Fires” news conference, a sheriff’s department helicopter, far right, demonstrates its fire- fighting abilities. Above,firefighters from the Wildland Division Hand Crew Department show how to create afireline. The event took place May 7 at Rancho Sierra Vista, Newbury Park.
CLEARING THE WAY— Firefighter Kenton Burris cuts brush to give 100 feet of defensible space around a house as others clear the structure of debris that might catchfire.
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE—Ventura County Fire Department Captain Jeremy Bower lights a fire on two sides of a building to demonstrate the firer etardant capability of Thermagel, which is sprayed on one of the structure’s outside surfaces.
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