Santa Ana winds are expected to return to Southern California next week, bringing another round of red flag warnings and increased fire danger.

Ventura County Fire Capt. Trevor Johnson said everyone is preparing for it.

“Our goal is not only to take care of the entire community here, but to stabilize this incident so we can free up resources and be ready for the next fire,” he said.

Johnson said Mountain Fire is not fully staffed, which allows crews to be ready to fight another fire if one were to break out.

“Should another incident arise, we are fully prepared to handle that incident as well,” he said.

Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner addressed reports that crews were out of water Wednesday evening. Gardner explained that crews at a lower elevation had water and were able to send water up to the crews.

“It’s a normal operation, without water,” he explained at a news conference on Thursday. “I don’t want to say it’s abnormal, but it’s normal enough that we plan for it. So it has an impact, but it will be mitigated.”

Garnder said hundreds of fire trucks were on the front lines Wednesday night pumping water through the night.

“We’ve been fighting the fire for 26 hours and we’ve had all those fire trucks connected to all these hydrants and we’ve drained the water systems,” he said.

Gardner said county and Cal OES crews are working to make sure all water resources are ready to go.

The family of CHP Officer Gregory Bowcock lost their home in Mountain fire. The family of six grabbed what they could and ran as the flames rose towards their home.

Officer Bowcock’s duty SUV was completely charred and his home was burned to the ground. Four generations of his family had lived in that house.

The family’s church community helped them find an Airbnb to stay in temporarily.

Bowcock’s son Mac helped make sure his siblings were safe.

“I was running around getting things that we need and I’m trying to get the kids to safety because I don’t want to lose them because they’re my brothers and sisters so I don’t want to lose them… .I’m we miss our home, but it’s better that we still have our lives,” Mac said.

Thursday is Officer Bowcock’s birthday.

Erika Bauer walked through what was left of her childhood home Thursday morning. Her parents have lived in the Las Posas Estates community in Camarillo since 1978. The home has held so many memories for her family.

“I can’t believe it’s gone. I don’t even know what to say right now. It’s surreal. I know we live in a fire danger zone, but it just came out of nowhere it was so fast,” Bauer described.

The Mountain fire they turned their beloved home into ashes.

Bauer says her parents were home when the flames moved toward their property. Her mother was able to help her father, who is blind, safely evacuate before their home was engulfed in flames.