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That night, the LAFD, with help from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, used water drops from aircraft and hose lines, as well as hand lines dug by L.A.

On Jan. 2, federal authorities said, “LAFD personnel returned to the scene to collect the fire hoses. It appeared to them that the fire was fully extinguished,” the affidavit read.

Jan. 2: “LAFD personnel returned to the scene to collect the fire hoses. It appeared to them that the fire was fully extinguished.”

Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house.

Incarcerated firefighters don’t wield hoses, but clear brush and dig containment lines while working on front-line hand crews and do work such as cooking and laundry to keep fire camps running.