LAKESIDE, Calif. (KGTV) – Small smokestacks continued to billow from torched hillsides and tan rocks are now a pale pink are being painted fire retardant in a remote area of Lakeside where the Monte Fire broke out.
The location of the fire did cause some cell connection issues for first responders in the current area of where the incident command post is in El Monte Park.
“Fire crews are still able to make an aggressive fire attack on any fire even without cell phone connectivity,” Captain Robert Johnson of Cal Fire San Diego said…