When a fire broke out at Lake Nacimiento on Tuesday morning, residents were prepared.
Loretta Borges, who lives in the Running Deer Ranch community on the south side of the lake, called 911 just before noon.
In case of a fire, she has her own truck with a 500 gallon water tank.
"It's got its lights and everything," Borges explained, adding that it's full and "ready to go!"
"I would have started it up today, had they hadn't come. I would have ran it down, which was good I didn't because the power lines were down over there where I probably would have ran it."
The flames came within 300 yards of her home on Cow Camp Road.
"My power went out and I walked around the corner of the house, out the back door and around the corner and saw the flames and called 911 and started opening gates," she said.
The fire started on the hillside within view of her home near some power lines.
Nearly two years ago, Borges was faced with a similar scenario as the Chimney Fire burned about 50 yards away. That time she used her truck.