Volunteer Firefighters Help Keep Remote Town Safe
The Big Creek Volunteer Fire Department is made up of SCE employees and family members.
Sep 26, 2015 12:00 AM ET
Smoke billows out of a house surrounded by dense forest. Flames rage into the night sky.
Cal Yarborough, former chief of the Big Creek Volunteer Fire Department, runs down the road, finds a hose and starts spraying a smoldering propane tank. Neighbors awake and race to the volunteer fire station to sound the alarm.
For over an hour, the Big Creek volunteer firefighters battle an inferno. Quick thinking and immediate action saves an entire community.
“One structure fire can decimate this whole area,” said Tony Hernandez, Southern California Edison (SCE) test technician and volunteer firefighter. “If we didn’t have anyone here locally to take care of that, there may not be a Big Creek.”
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