Disc Golfers Credited With Putting Out Fire At Modesto Park

MODESTO (CBS13) – A radical of disc golfers are being credited with putting retired a occurrence astatine a Modesto park.

At astir 8 p.m. Sunday, a radical of 7 disc golfers were finishing a circular of disc play astatine East La Loma Park erstwhile they spotted a occurrence successful the brushwood connected a hillside.

The group, besides known arsenic Modesto Area Disc Golfers, instantly jumped into enactment by calling 9-1-1 and past rushed down the hillside into the creek to retrieve h2o to enactment retired the flames, according to City of Modesto Parks, Recreation, & Neighborhoods’ Facebook page.

The occurrence grew rapidly but acknowledgment to the timely and courageous efforts of these disc golfers, overmuch an country of the park, and astir importantly, neighboring homes were not damaged. Modesto Fire Department crews arrived astatine the country to find the occurrence afloat extinguished.

CBS13 Staff