The State - News from June 21, 1988

A house was destroyed and an airplane, a garage and car were damaged by a fast-moving brush fire in Hesperia, fire officials said. The 125-acre blaze was the third brush fire to break out within a short time of each other in the area and was fanned by gusty winds, said LoVae Pray Martinez of the California Division of Forestry. “It’s a real tragedy,” Martinez said of the loss of the $75,000 home of Melanie Lovett, a widow with two young children. “She had no insurance and was left with nothing.” Some 200 firefighters were on the lines to fight the blazes. The other fires burned a total of 150 acres.