Calif. Fire Chief Saves Homes Using Milk, ‘Couple of Beers’

A quick-thinking fire chief in California used milk and “a couple of beers” to save two homes from the devastating wildfires that have ravaged the Los Angeles area in recent days.

When the Eaton fire sparked in Altadena on Tuesday, Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy told his brother and friends in his hometown that there was “nothing to worry about,” ABC7 reported.

But once the blaze reached the neighborhood he grew up in hours later, Fennessy told the outlet his brother’s “phone stopped working” and he feared “the worst.”

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