Source: kron4.com --- Sunday, October 15, 2017
NAPA VALLEY (KRON) — As soon two locals saw flames from the Windows of their Napa Valley homes last Sunday morning, they headed for the hills armed with only bulldozers. For six days, Eli Ponce and Dan Wynn bulldozed a four-mile firebreak, directing the fast-moving Nuns fire away from the Browns Valley neighborhood. The pair accomplished this despite the of challenge of navigating steep, hilly terrain during the middle of the night, all while encircled by flames and smoke, making it difficult for them to see. Some Napa evacuations lifted in North Bay amid firestorm Ponce and Wynn worked like this for six days. “This fire came straight down on us, it was extremely hot. We bulldozed all this to put the flames out. And in this particular part we were actually in the flames to put that out,” Wynn said. But he couldn’t do it without his bulldozing buddy. “A lot of credit to my boss Eli Ponce,” Wynn said. “He actually took his dozer and went inside there and I kind of covered a six, and was watching him, telling him where to move around and we were consumed by fire a couple of times out here,” he said. VIDEO: With raging Nuns Fire as a backdrop, spectators take pictures with iconic sign They refueled six times. Wynn says each fill-up costs about $900, but the reward of possibly saving thousands of homes was worth the sacrifice and the danger. “It’s all donated. We don’t expect anything from anybody,” Wynn said. “We were just happy tha ...
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