When a brush fire's quick-moving flames torched land and threatened wildlife near Bush Highway on Monday, two teenagers took matters into their own hands. And they tried to douse the fire in way you might not expect... with beer.
When 19-year-old Gabriel Carrillo and 18-year-old Evelyn Williams saw the fire, they say they tried calling the fire department, and even drove to the sheriff's station looking for help. But no one was there. And that's they jumped into action.
The pair was on the way to work, headed down to Saguaro Lake Ranch around 4:30 a.m. on Memorial Day. "We happened to notice a thing of smoke off to the right-hand side,” said Carrillo. He said it was about 100 yards off the roadway.
“When we had stopped, we saw the fire was not a controlled fire; it was an out-of-control fire, a wildfire,” he said.
“We drove down to the sheriff’s station, which was a quarter mile down the road, and there was nobody there... We turned around and took it into our own hands," said Carillo.