Illegal Burn

With the severe fire danger this summer the state of California has banned all fires. As a result we get quite a few illegal burns. We have had two major brush fires here in the Morongo Valley in the last three years so the citizens are a little nervous. This night we got a call stating that the RP (reporting party) could see flames from their house. When we got on scene we found that this home owner didn't just have one illegal fire going on, he had two. Plus evidence of a third. He tried to say that he was being safe and that had hoses just in case. I tried to use his hoses. One wouldn't reach either fire and the other one only dribbled. We put both out and gave the man a written warning.