Firefighters killed in Esperanza fire remembered
Firefighters across Southern California paused to remember the five firefighters who lost their lives in the Esperanza fire eight years ago.
Sunday morning at 7:57 Riverside County CAL FIRE honored the US Forest Service firefighters killed with a moment of silence over their radios. The US Forest Service did the same at noon and invited the public to listen in online.
The blaze that started just west of the Coachella Valley in Cabazon, burned 43,000 acres moving so fast it over ran the brave men of Engine 57.
Caption Mark Loutzenhiser, 44.
Jess McLean, 27.
Jason McKay, 27.
Daniel Hoover Najera, 20.
Pablo Cerda, 23.
All men were involved in their mountain community, which was devastated by their deaths.
Raymond Lee Oyler, the man who started the wildfire, now sits on death row after becoming the first arsonist tried and convicted for first degree murder.
