Now, a week after Little’s fire battle, the extent of the LNU Lightning Complex fires is clear: more than 900 homes were destroyed along with 351,817 acres of Sacramento land. At least five people were killed.
To make matters worse at the time, the abundance of water Little thought he would have to extinguish the approaching fires — sourced from the Solano Irrigation District water with firehoses and fire hydrants around the property — was unexpectedly gone. The water had been shut off.
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Then, he spotted the only other source of liquid he could find on his property: beer. Fortunately, Little had a full 30-pack of Bud Light beer. He decided to use the canned brew to put out the fire that was threatening his property. He found a nail and punctured a hole in the cans to allow a controlled spray of beer out toward the flames.
“When I first grabbed the cans of beer and ran down there, I was shaking them up and opening them up but it was just dispersing too quick,” Little recalled of the DIY fire extinguisher. “When I saw that nail, I would just puncture a hole and shake as I was going, and I could aim it and concentrate on the bad parts (of the fire).”
The cans of beer worked to stall the flames long enough until a fire truck passed through his neighborhood and Little was able to get help from the professionals. His carport — and several of the family’s vehicles parked there — were consumed by the fire. But his house stayed safe.
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