A neighborhood of Southern California firefighters had their hands paunchy with triple-digit temperatures, unpredictable flames and wild brush that blocked their direction.
Then a bull got here for them.
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As a couple of half-dozen firefighters worked Friday to obvious a faraway aspect motorway for engines working on the Lake Hearth, about 63 miles north of Los Angeles, a bull chased them away. No person used to be injured.
“The bull used to be within the bushes and got here out to insist the firefighters,” acknowledged Ventura County Hearth Department spokesman Andy VanSciver. “Bask in, ‘Here’s my grime.'”
Video showed the firefighters working down a aspect motorway with the bull and its horns rapidly following. Crews had considered the bull earlier within the morning, VanSciver acknowledged. They think his name is Maxwell or Ferdinand, Ventura County Hearth Department officers acknowledged.
As many as 30 firefighters had been within the living, however video reveals only about five or six being chased down the aspect motorway, VanSciver acknowledged.
The Ventura County crews had been serving to Los Angeles County Hearth Department firefighters working on the blaze within the Angeles National Forest.
By Saturday the fired had burned 14,714 acres and used to be 12 p.c contained, primarily based on the U.S. Forest Carrier. Investigators had been looking out to settle what resulted in the fire to open Wednesday.
