Heroes rescue women from blazing Airport Fire

Cal Fire Battalion Chief Martinez rescues a woman who walked out of the Airport Fire with embers and flames all around her.
The raging Airport Fire in the Cleveland National Forest brought national attention last week, but none more newsworthy than a video of the rescue of a woman coming out of the fiery flames and sparks by a firefighter on the Ortega Highway.The video was taken by OC Hawk news video photographers Josh Boothroyd and Xavier Martinez who were on the scene filming the fire’s progress on Sept. 11 when the fire jumped the Ortega Highway near El Cariso Village not far from the mountain fire station.The videographers watched and filmed as Cal Fire Battalion Chief Mark Martinez in his SUV drove up to see that his firefighters had moved from the jumped highway flames. Sparks were moving across the highway and fiery shards falling from the smokey sky, but just as Chief Martinez was about to le
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