I love the commentator. He does a lot of the KTLA 5 fire coverage. It's more fun than a scripted newscast with grimly serious announcers. This guy makes some hilarious "hot mike" comments. I've never heard him say anything inappropriate, but he's like the office comedian in the next cubicle over. Affable but when he needs to do some comment bursts, he's all business. He actually knows a lot about fires, the air and ground resources, etc.

I agree that it’s very annoying.

Yeah, those drops are precision. A little to the left and the force of that much water could blast the line of firefighters right off the hill.

No, you can not make a fire break that stays for many hours with some foam, and that's what they do, most importantly. Scraping a small band without fuel in the ground. That's not needed here because the fire stayed small. You need the fire break to put it somewhere where you expect fire hours later, when you know you can not handle so much fire front of grass fire at the same time. Also, they often need to get brush and wood out of the way. They have some chainsaws usually.

I have to say, that school evacuation looked rather haphazard. I'm sure they had a plan, but in practice, I wouldn't want a school's worth of kids running down sidewalks with live traffic in the lanes next to them--not to mention the parents swooping in, blocking the roads to emergency personnel. I worked in a Brentwood Learn-Charter Elementary school and we had every kind of drill you can think of. (I don't know whether, in reality, our evac plans were any better than this one, though.)

thebluetarp not really

thebluetarp this is not Santa Clarita this is agua dulce. Santa Clarita is where magic mountain is

Magic Mountain is about 10-15 miles away from here.

@@joseph5275 no dumbo it is Santa Clarita it’s my school

@@joseph5275 the place that is in the video is deputy Jake dr or something like that

Clydene Clinger it was a natural fire.. I was at that school

Clydene Clinger the goddamn Californian heat