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November 17th, 2008, 02:20 AM
Not just any car, but it was a Yenko Nova... :cheers:
http://bnews.freedomblogging.com/2008/11/16/car-owner-walks-through-fire-to-save-his-baby/1634/
Cascades resident walks through fire to save his ‘baby’ (http://bnews.freedomblogging.com/2008/11/16/car-owner-walks-through-fire-to-save-his-baby/1634/)
November 16th, 2008, 3:16 pm ·
O.C. Register reporters Jaimee Fletcher, Kimberly Edds and Jeff Collins report from Anaheim Hills:
Mark Boile, 48, snuck into the Cascades Apartments Saturday night to salvage his 1969 Yenko Nova — a special edition Chevy Nova valued at $127,000.
Boile parked more than a mile away from the fire-ravaged complex at Santa Ana Canyon Road and Woodcreek Drive, then set out on foot, taking back roads and horse trails to enter the complex.
He could feel the heat on his face and under his feet as nearby brush ignited. Sometimes his foot prints would burst into flames as he lifted his feet. He made it to his apartment on Timberline Lane, although smoke and ash made it difficult to navigate to his garage.
“I couldn’t see anything,” he said. “There was smoke and flames everywhere. It was crazy.”
He opened his garage, and there she sat — a blue classic with white stripes, unharmed by the fire. Boile drove her out over fire hoses and through the dense air. Then he was stopped.
“What are you doing? You can’t be in here,” a firefighter yelled.
“But then,” Boile said, “he took one look at the car and said, ‘Go, go, hurry.’ ”
Flames licked at the Yenko Nova and rolled across the windshield. Firefighters turned their hoses on the car to help get Boile and his baby to safety.
“I made it out,” he said.
Residents began trickling back into the Cascade Apartment complex, where scores of units burned down. Fire officials upped the toll at the complex, saying that 120 of the 260 units were damaged or destroyed. But 16 of the 26 buildings are fine and residents can return home, officials said.
Water still ran down the hillside this afternoon and flecks of ash floated in the air like snowflakes. The clubhouse roof had collapsed.
Members of a nearby church, The Journey, brought 40 to 50 pizzas and bottles of water to residents.
Claudia Ybarra, 34, returned to her upstairs unit to find that it had completely burned down. She left her apartment Saturday afternoon, watching the news as the fire jumped the highway. A neighbor ran up and down the complex yelling “Fire!”
“If it wasn’t for him they would have stayed inside. It’s a good thing his lungs are good,” she said.
Alysha Aguilar, 17, said her mom and two sisters had just five minutes to escape the complex Saturnday afternoon. Trees surrounding the pool area were engulfed in flames when she and her family stepped out their front door, and six-foot-tall flames burned on the hill about 20 feet from her car.
“It was hard to breathe and the ash was in your eyes,” Aguilar, a 12th-grader at Canyon High School. Traffic backed up on the escape route on Santa Ana Canyon Road, she said. “There wre flames all around us and because of the smoke, you couldn’t see out.”
Aguilar said it took her 30 minutes to drive to safety in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
This afternoon, Ybarra knelt by the ground going through sooty files, a vacuum cleaner and bags of wet clothes nearby.
“That’s our building there 217,” she said looking up. “It’s gone. This is all we have left.”
http://bnews.freedomblogging.com/2008/11/16/car-owner-walks-through-fire-to-save-his-baby/1634/
Cascades resident walks through fire to save his ‘baby’ (http://bnews.freedomblogging.com/2008/11/16/car-owner-walks-through-fire-to-save-his-baby/1634/)
November 16th, 2008, 3:16 pm ·
O.C. Register reporters Jaimee Fletcher, Kimberly Edds and Jeff Collins report from Anaheim Hills:
Mark Boile, 48, snuck into the Cascades Apartments Saturday night to salvage his 1969 Yenko Nova — a special edition Chevy Nova valued at $127,000.
Boile parked more than a mile away from the fire-ravaged complex at Santa Ana Canyon Road and Woodcreek Drive, then set out on foot, taking back roads and horse trails to enter the complex.
He could feel the heat on his face and under his feet as nearby brush ignited. Sometimes his foot prints would burst into flames as he lifted his feet. He made it to his apartment on Timberline Lane, although smoke and ash made it difficult to navigate to his garage.
“I couldn’t see anything,” he said. “There was smoke and flames everywhere. It was crazy.”
He opened his garage, and there she sat — a blue classic with white stripes, unharmed by the fire. Boile drove her out over fire hoses and through the dense air. Then he was stopped.
“What are you doing? You can’t be in here,” a firefighter yelled.
“But then,” Boile said, “he took one look at the car and said, ‘Go, go, hurry.’ ”
Flames licked at the Yenko Nova and rolled across the windshield. Firefighters turned their hoses on the car to help get Boile and his baby to safety.
“I made it out,” he said.
Residents began trickling back into the Cascade Apartment complex, where scores of units burned down. Fire officials upped the toll at the complex, saying that 120 of the 260 units were damaged or destroyed. But 16 of the 26 buildings are fine and residents can return home, officials said.
Water still ran down the hillside this afternoon and flecks of ash floated in the air like snowflakes. The clubhouse roof had collapsed.
Members of a nearby church, The Journey, brought 40 to 50 pizzas and bottles of water to residents.
Claudia Ybarra, 34, returned to her upstairs unit to find that it had completely burned down. She left her apartment Saturday afternoon, watching the news as the fire jumped the highway. A neighbor ran up and down the complex yelling “Fire!”
“If it wasn’t for him they would have stayed inside. It’s a good thing his lungs are good,” she said.
Alysha Aguilar, 17, said her mom and two sisters had just five minutes to escape the complex Saturnday afternoon. Trees surrounding the pool area were engulfed in flames when she and her family stepped out their front door, and six-foot-tall flames burned on the hill about 20 feet from her car.
“It was hard to breathe and the ash was in your eyes,” Aguilar, a 12th-grader at Canyon High School. Traffic backed up on the escape route on Santa Ana Canyon Road, she said. “There wre flames all around us and because of the smoke, you couldn’t see out.”
Aguilar said it took her 30 minutes to drive to safety in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
This afternoon, Ybarra knelt by the ground going through sooty files, a vacuum cleaner and bags of wet clothes nearby.
“That’s our building there 217,” she said looking up. “It’s gone. This is all we have left.”