Louise Warren told the Birmingham Mail: "We were in Nando's and we saw from the window drops of fire falling down.
The California Air National Guard is helping the more than 3,500 firefighters on the ground with air patrols and drops of fire retardant on the rugged slopes.
About 450 firefighters dug shallow trenches on steep mountainsides, lit fires at strategic points and made aerial drops of fire retardant to keep the flames from spreading.
Winterbottom thinks nothing of switching from a kind family on the Turkish frontier, who take in the Afghans, feed them, play soccer with them, and sprinkle water and drops of fire to bless their departure, to a sudden hellish slog over the mountains, filmed by night in black-and-white, with snow up to our heroes' knees and gunshots flaring in the distance.
Aircraft logged over 18,000 hours of flight time and dropped of fire retardant and of water on the fires.
Currently 100 firefigters are battling the fire on the ground with six to seven engines along with three air tankers that had already been making air drops of fire retardant before the sunset and will continue air drops on Monday, according to CBSDenver.
I needed every drop of that fire to keep going.
The "laburnums, dropping wells of fire"; the "Field of charlock in the sudden sun / Between two showers, a cloth of palest gold"; the summer night in which "Couch'd at ease, / The white kine glimmered, and the trees / Laid their dark arms about the field": the "loud south-westerns, rolling ridge on ridge".
Helicopters hovered overhead, dropping buckets of fire retardant on eucalyptus trees that had caught fire just north of the neighborhood.
Rain fell on much of the region on Friday and several inches of snow dropped on fire-scorched areas of the San Bernardino Mountains, east of Los Angeles.
