THROUGHOUT TONIGHT. WALTER: AN INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY THIS EVENING FOLLOWING A FIRE AT A TIRE SHOP IN DEL PASO HEIGHTS. FIREFIGHTERS RUSHING TO PUT THE FLAMES OUT AS THICK BLACK SMOKE AND THE SMELL OF RUBBER AND ASPLTIC CHEMICALS FILLEDHE T AIR.>> IT WENT BOOM, BOOM, A YOUND COULD HEAR A WHOLE PACK OF FIREWORKS JUST GOING OF F.WALTER: THE THR AEELARM FEIR HAPPENING ON DEL PASO BOULEVARD. IT STARTED AT UNIQUE TIRES AND WHEELS ON DEL PASO BOULEVARD AND LAMPASS AVENUE, AND SPREAD INTO THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD. ALL OF THIS HAENPPING EARLIER THIS EVENING, PEOPLE RUNNING FROM NEARBHOY MES TO HELP. BRANDI: KCRA 3’S BRITTANY HEOP SHOWS US HOW STRANGERS TEADME UP TO SAVE A BUILDING BELOVED BY THE COMMUNITY. >> OH MY GOD. IT W PASRETTY BAD. YOU CANNOT EVEN SEE THE STREET. YOU COULD NOT SEE THAT STORE. YOU COULD NOT SEE THE FIELD. IT SPARKED A FIRE IN OUR BACKYARD AS WELL AND IT RUINED OUR WILL. -- POOL. BRITTANY: SACRAMENTO FIRE SSAY ONE FIRE FIGHTER WAS TAKEN TO -- ONTO THIS CHURCH. >> I TOLD MY SON, LET’S GO. SMOKE JUST CAME OUT OF THE CHURCH LIKE THE CHURCH WAS ON FIRE. STJU REALLY CRAZY TO WALK INTO. BRITTANY: PAUL CHAMBERLIN AND HIS 11-YEAR-OLD SON AND NOT JUST WALK. >> WE GOT ON THE ROOF AND STARTED SPRAYING IT DOWN WITH A HOSEMAKI, NG SURE EVERYTNGHIAS W SECURE, SO IT WOULD NOT CATCH ON REFI AND WE WOULD NOT LOSE OUR CHURCH. BRIT:TA PROTECTING FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FROM ABOVE AND BELOW. >> I CLIMBED OVER THE TOP AND I DID IT ALL IN MY SANDALS. BRITNYTA: DESTINY LIVES A FEW DOORS DOWN AND RAN TO HELP. >> LITTLE CUTS HERE AND I GOT SOME CUTS ON MY HANDS AND STUFF BUT I WANTED TO BE A FIREFIGHTER AT ONE POINT IN MY LIFEO S I THINKHA TT IT IS REALLY COOL THAT I WAS ABLE TO JUMP OUT AND HELP. BRITTA:NY STRANGERS COMING TOGETHER WITHOUT S AECOND THOUGHT TO PUT REITH LIVES ON THE LINE TO SAVE A SPECIAL PLACE. >> SEAM PEOPLE COME HERE TO ENJOY THE SAME THING EVERY WEEK SO I WANT THEM TO BE ELBOW TO DO IT. -- TO BE ABLE TO DO IT. BRITTA:NY NO ONE WAS HURT. >> I KNOW THAT IF I JUST SIT AROUND AND LET MY CHURCH BURNED DOWN, THEN I WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER DAY TOTAY S HERE AND LOVE EVERYTHING BASICALLY. >> IT MEANS A LOT TO YOU. BRITTANY: IN DEL PASO HEIGHTS, BRITTANY HOPE, KCRA THREE NEWS .BRANDI: SACRAMENTO FIRE SAYS ON FIRE FIGHTER WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, FOR A HEAT RELATED INJURY, WHILE FIGHTING
Good Samaritans don't hesitate to save church from fire using hoses and sprinkler system
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Updated: 1:53 PM PDT Jun 21, 2021
Fire crews and good Samaritans battled a blaze Sunday that spread to a church.The fire went to a third alarm, which means a substantial amount of fire personnel and resources were called to respond.Due to the heat and wind, the flames spread to a church and a few homes in the neighborhood. "I was pretty worried when I got word that the church I have loved since I was born was really close to it," 11-year-old Drake Jordan Chamberlain told Sacramento sister station KCRA. His father, Paul Chamberlain, does maintenance at the First Baptist Church of North Sacramento and sprinted out of his Father's Day dinner with his son to help fight the flames. "I think possibly a few spots I hit with water would have been not so good if I didn't come," he said. The father-son firefighting pair got help from another woman in the neighborhood who jumped the church's fence to turn on the sprinkler system when she saw the flames from her window."I did what I thought was right," Destiny Bohling said. "What nobody else was going to do."On Sunday evening, the tire shop, church and local homes were still standing; the tire shop and church did sustain damage, according to the Sacramento Fire Department. No injuries were reported. A fire department spokesman said one firefighter was treated for a heat-related injury on-scene and did not need to go to the hospital.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fire crews and good Samaritans battled a blaze Sunday that spread to a church.
The fire went to a third alarm, which means a substantial amount of fire personnel and resources were called to respond.
Due to the heat and wind, the flames spread to a church and a few homes in the neighborhood.
"I was pretty worried when I got word that the church I have loved since I was born was really close to it," 11-year-old Drake Jordan Chamberlain told Sacramento sister station KCRA.
His father, Paul Chamberlain, does maintenance at the First Baptist Church of North Sacramento and sprinted out of his Father's Day dinner with his son to help fight the flames.
"I think possibly a few spots I hit with water would have been not so good if I didn't come," he said.
The father-son firefighting pair got help from another woman in the neighborhood who jumped the church's fence to turn on the sprinkler system when she saw the flames from her window.
"I did what I thought was right," Destiny Bohling said. "What nobody else was going to do."
On Sunday evening, the tire shop, church and local homes were still standing; the tire shop and church did sustain damage, according to the Sacramento Fire Department. No injuries were reported.
A fire department spokesman said one firefighter was treated for a heat-related injury on-scene and did not need to go to the hospital.
