Screw jail inmates, just follow these steps to remove pesky brush alongside the 5 freeway.
1) Arrive to find a brush fire, as this Orange County Fire Authority crew did just before noon Tuesday at the median where the 5 and 57 freeways connect in Santa Ana.
2) Fight said fire.
3) Pack up and head back to the station.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.