. >> chuck coppola joins us live. a lot of people are cooking today and firefighters say they need everyone's help and cooperation. because all it could take is an errant match. >> reporter: absolutely. good morning. i have a couple of items for your to do list. clear brush within 100 feet of your home and dry leaves from your roof. anything that could ignite if emberss fly through the area. if threatened whispering -- it threatened whispering winds mobile home park, but it was put out without injuries or damage. that's an example of hitting this fire with a lot of personnel, hard and early, because that rainy season we were supposed to have, that didn't happen. >> we have had such a dry season that that's stuff that's always dry. so any little ember, anything that lands on in. cigaret cigarette butte, it could be anything will get it going. >> reporter: fire investigators believe this fire may have been accidentally started by a homeless person cooking on perhaps a portable stove outside. and this forced the closure