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At approximately the same time that the fire was jumping across the
freeway interchange, it was also sweeping through the 340 unit Hiller
Highlands development. There were no fire suppression forces there to
make a stand, because all of the companies that had been committed to
the left flank of the fire had been overrun or were retreating from the
overwhelming fire front. The fire arrived well ahead of the mutual aid
strike teams that had been ordered to protect the area. The fire swept
over the crest of the hill from Charing Cross Road into the tightly packed
two-story townhomes, as residents rushed to escape the flames by driving
down Hiller Road to Tunnel Road. Several residents of this development
were unable to escape ahead of the flames and died in their homes or on
the roadways.
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