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LA firefighters die tackling wildfire

IN VERY HOT WATER: Two people who tried to ride out the firestorm in a backyard hot tub were burned before being airlifted to safety by rescue helicopter

AP , LOS ANGELES

Whitmore described their condition as “critical” but fire officials said one of the two was treated and released and the other remained hospitalized in stable condition. A third person was burned on Saturday in an evacuation area along Highway 2 near Mount Wilson, officials said. Details of that injury were not immediately known.

“There were people that did not listen, and there were three people that got burned and got critically injured because they did not listen,” Schwarzenegger said at a news conference at the fire command post.

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