Two brothers are being called heroes by their neighbors after saving nine homes on their street in the Santa Monica Canyon in Los Angeles.Tim and Sean Hayn grew up in Los Angeles County, but their mother, Kathy Huetter Camacho, lives in Sacramento, where most of their family lives.”He said, ‘Mom if it gets close, I’m not leaving.’ I just had this deep feeling that they were going to be OK,” Huetter Camacho told Sacramento sister station KCRA of her sons telling her they would not leave their father’s LA home. The Hayn brothers and their father weathered the strong winds and smoke that crept closer and closer.”My brother’s decision was I’m not leaving, I’m staying, and I’m fighting. My decision is I’m not leaving my brother’s side,” said Tim Hayn.Last Tuesday, neighbors started evacuating and by Wednesday the fire reached as close as five doors down according to the family.Their father lives in the home that was passed down from his mother. Tim Hayn said their plan was to stay and use water hoses to keep their yard and home saturated. But they quickly expanded the makeshift operation to include the other neighbors on the street.With neighbors’ permission they went and turned on the sprinkler system in every yard and connected water hoses at the different homes so they could attack any flare-ups.”Nine homes in our direct vicinity got water from us from our hoses and all the hoses from the backyards. If it wasn’t for the few of us that stayed and kept everything wet and attacked the small spot fires, we would have lost this entire neighborhood the way the Pacific Palisades did,” said Tim Hayn.The Palisades Fire has already destroyed thousands of structures,”You know people are telling us like, ‘You guys are heroes, you’re saving the neighborhood.’ It’s like we’re just doing what we think is right,” said Tim Hayn.Hayn said first responders urged the family to evacuate out of fear for their safety, but they can’t force them to leave.With more strong winds expected this week, the two plan to stick it out while also juggling a new problem: looters.”We’re just making sure we don’t have flare-ups, but we’ve already booted a number of looters. We’re not going anywhere. This is our neighborhood, this is a community effort,” said Tim Hayn.
Two brothers are being called heroes by their neighbors after saving nine homes on their street in the Santa Monica Canyon in Los Angeles.
Tim and Sean Hayn grew up in Los Angeles County, but their mother, Kathy Huetter Camacho, lives in Sacramento, where most of their family lives.
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“He said, ‘Mom if it gets close, I’m not leaving.’ I just had this deep feeling that they were going to be OK,” Huetter Camacho told Sacramento sister station KCRA of her sons telling her they would not leave their father’s LA home.
The Hayn brothers and their father weathered the strong winds and smoke that crept closer and closer.
“My brother’s decision was I’m not leaving, I’m staying, and I’m fighting. My decision is I’m not leaving my brother’s side,” said Tim Hayn.
Last Tuesday, neighbors started evacuating and by Wednesday the fire reached as close as five doors down according to the family.
Their father lives in the home that was passed down from his mother. Tim Hayn said their plan was to stay and use water hoses to keep their yard and home saturated. But they quickly expanded the makeshift operation to include the other neighbors on the street.
With neighbors’ permission they went and turned on the sprinkler system in every yard and connected water hoses at the different homes so they could attack any flare-ups.
“Nine homes in our direct vicinity got water from us from our hoses and all the hoses from the backyards. If it wasn’t for the few of us that stayed and kept everything wet and attacked the small spot fires, we would have lost this entire neighborhood the way the Pacific Palisades did,” said Tim Hayn.
The Palisades Fire has already destroyed thousands of structures,
“You know people are telling us like, ‘You guys are heroes, you’re saving the neighborhood.’ It’s like we’re just doing what we think is right,” said Tim Hayn.
Hayn said first responders urged the family to evacuate out of fear for their safety, but they can’t force them to leave.
With more strong winds expected this week, the two plan to stick it out while also juggling a new problem: looters.
“We’re just making sure we don’t have flare-ups, but we’ve already booted a number of looters. We’re not going anywhere. This is our neighborhood, this is a community effort,” said Tim Hayn.
