{"id":1295697,"date":"2022-02-14T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1295697"},"modified":"2022-02-14T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:23:14","slug":"awesome-neighbors-keep-brush-fire-from-reaching-west-virginia-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/awesome-neighbors-keep-brush-fire-from-reaching-west-virginia-home\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Awesome&#039; Neighbors Keep Brush Fire from Reaching West Virginia Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fawesome-neighbors-keep-brush-fire-from-reaching-west-virginia-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1295697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firefighter-fire-truck-putting-out-brush-fire-stock-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A West Virginia woman became highly concerned when a brush fire broke out near her home, but some neighbors quickly came to the rescue and helped keep her home safe.<\/p>\n<p>Kasturi Bose was taking a stroll through her neighborhood on Martha Road in Barboursville on Friday when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsaz.com\/2022\/02\/12\/neighbors-help-prevent-brush-fire-spreading-home\/\">smelled<\/a> smoke, according to WSAZ. What she thought was a barbeque was actually a brush fire spreading along a hillside below her home, which started when intense winds dropped a tree onto powerlines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span> \u201cI heard a boom noise,\u201d Kasturi told WSAZ.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The flames began to spread closer to her home.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cI saw big junks of actual fire from the tree bark flying to our front lawn,\u201d Kasturi told WSAZ. \u201cI was very, very afraid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The <\/span><span>Barboursville Fire Department received a 911 call shortly after 3:00 p.m, the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsaz.com\/2022\/02\/11\/high-winds-spark-brush-fire\/\">stated<\/a> in another report.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/13news\/posts\/10157751803214364\" data-width=\"640\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/39741899363\/posts\/10157751803214364\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>*** UPDATE*** Martha Road is expected to reopen soon. Fire officials believe the fire started when a tree fell on a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/39741899363\">WOWK 13 NEWS<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/39741899363\/posts\/10157751803214364\/\">Friday, February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Olivia Turnan, a high school senior, lives with her parents next door to Kasturi and her husband, Sujoy. Turnan and her parents quickly sprung into action, using shovels and rakes to keep the blaze at bay.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cUnfortunately the water was out because the power was out,\u201d Turnan recounted to WSAZ. \u201cThere was a patch that spread because of the wind and was pretty close to their cars and house. We were able to kind of pat the flames out with our shovels.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sujoy, who was working when the fire ignited, said he had been worrying about such a scenario happening.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cThis was just a ticking time bomb,\u201d he told WSAZ. \u201cPower lines are running through these trees, and it\u2019s pure physics and basic science that even a little variation in the weather lets the trees touch the power lines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Barboursville, Ona, and Ohio River Road firefighters worked to contain the fire, according to WSAZ.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re just glad everybody is OK,\u201d Turnan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kasturi praised her neighbors for their help in a terrifying situation.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey\u2019re awesome,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A forester on the scene said the West Virginia Division of Forestry dealt with four fires in Cabell County Friday, WSAZ reports.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a Facebook post, the West Virginia Forestry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wvforestry\/posts\/289435676626447\">stated<\/a>&nbsp;that brush fires were also present in&nbsp;<\/span><span>Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, and Putnam counties and advised residents not to burn until wind and weather conditions improved.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A West Virginia woman became highly concerned when a brush fire broke out near her home, but some neighbors quickly came to the rescue and helped keep her home safe. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}