[DuncanWaring]

Looking at the map, Victorville looks to be about 20 miles further than Mojave from the Tahoe neighborhood.

Unless they were in imminent danger of falling out of the sky, they probably figured landing at their home base would simplify things a lot.

[ElkGroveDan]

Looking at the map, Victorville looks to be about 20 miles further than Mojave from the Tahoe neighborhood.

Tahoe? They were fighting the Tehachapi fire.