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(NBC)Illegal Fireworks Set Off During Drought Have Some Bay Area Residents on Edge
干旱期间非法燃放烟花使海湾地区居民焦虑不安
Firefighters said the dry conditions the Bay Area and the rest of the state are facing are unprecedented. But not everyone seems to be getting the message that their actions could have devastating consequences.
消防队员表示，海湾地区和该州其他地区面临的干旱状况是前所未有的。但并不是每个人都明白，他们的行为可能会带来灾难性的后果。
"The trees over here are so tall and it was over the house," said Cheryl Best, describing a fire that broke out behind her house Saturday night in Contra Costa County. "The fire was just coming at us."
“这里的树非常高，都超过了房子，”Cheryl Best描述了周六晚上她在康特拉科斯塔县的房子后面发生的火灾。“大火正朝我们袭来。”
The blaze forced Best and her family to run outside in their bare feet and pajamas.
大火迫使贝斯特和她的家人光着脚、穿着睡衣跑到外面。
"It looked like it was going to come and engulf the house," Best said.
“它看起来好像要吞没整个房子，”贝斯特说。
Best said shortly before the fire ignited she heard and smelled fireworks going off in the neighborhood.
贝斯特说，火灾发生前不久，她听到并闻到附近有烟花燃放。
"We heard the fireworks going," she said. "It was a lot of loud booms and then we hard the 'shhhh' - you know the kind we knew were going up in the air. And then I started smelling the sulfur."
“我们听到烟花要响了，”她说。“有很多巨响，然后我们就听见的‘shhhh’——你知道我们知道的那种是在空中。然后我开始闻到硫磺味。
While the exact cause of the fire has not been determined, Contra Costa County fire officials said the fireworks have likely been igniting some of the county's recent fires.
虽然火灾的确切原因还没有确定，但康特拉科斯塔县消防官员说，烟花可能是导致该县最近发生的一些火灾的原因。
"We've certainly had a lot of reports of fireworks," Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Hill said.
康特拉科斯塔县消防区发言人史蒂夫·希尔说:“我们确实收到了很多烟花的报告。”
Hill said teenagers throwing a mortar out their car window caused a grass fire near Diablo Vally College last week. The fire official also said even the smallest spark can take off quickly.
希尔说，上周，青少年将一枚迫击炮扔出车窗，导致代阿布洛谷大学附近发生了一场草地火灾。消防官员还说，即使是最小的火花也能迅速燃烧起来。
"Fireworks in particular are very dangerous," Hill said, adding a sparkler for example in dry grass would in 30 to 60 seconds result in a blaze that could no longer be controlled by a garden hose.
“烟花尤其危险，”希尔说，比如在干燥的草地上添加烟花，30到60秒内就会导致一场无法控制的火灾。
"It is just too dry out here to do that," Best said. " eople can lose their whole life, their whole home because they want to party. It's unfair."
“这里太干燥了，不能这样做，”贝斯特说。“人们将失去他们的整个生活，他们的整个家，只是因为有一些人想要聚会，放个烟花。这是不公平的。”
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