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Wildfire Oral History Project
Mike Fisher
My first concern was life safety, not only for our responders, but for our citizens. Knowing that the fire was in an area we call as a wild and urban interface where we have a lot of population living in those pine trees that were going to burn severely....
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Pastor Liz Hanley
"When they let us in and you just had this kind of sick nauseous feeling in the pit of your stomach. It was about 103 outside, so it was miserable hot and we pulled up, well as we drove in, it just looked like ... the moon."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Laura Kelly
"I didn’t sleep one wink and a lot of these people didn’t either. All night hearing explosions, and we just stayed awake just watching it. That's all we could do."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Joan Hughes and Lee Klancher
"We started cycling down the street. Some part of a tree cracked, and I put my hands over my head and was like, 'Oh! Where is it going to fall?'"...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Jared Mikeska
"You could hear the crackling of the wood. You could just hear it moving through the grass and the wind. It’s really a sound that you really can’t describe."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Jeremy Petersma
"The homeowner came over and gave me a hug and she said, 'Thank you.' I said it’s kind of hard to accept a thank you when, you know, with this in your background. And she was like: it doesn’t matter. She says, "You guys did the best you could; no one died, houses can be rebuilt.'"...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Nichelle Bielinski
"We looked over and my husband said,'If that fire jumps, we have 30 minutes to get out of this neighborhood.' And while we were standing there, it jumped."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
John Campbell
"It was just these two pillars of smoke that were reaching up, I don't even know, probably several thousand feet into the air. I thought a bomb had gone off or something. It was just so dramatic looking."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Christine Files
"If it gets dry at all, the emotions start to peak again. If there is another fire in the area, the emotions go up. It's been very interesting to me that there has been very little waning of the emotional side of this fire."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Debbie and Kelly Cazalas
"I tried to go outside, wet the yard down, watering the house down with a water hose, trying to get everything as wet as I could. And the the sheriff's come out and told us we had to leave. By then, hot ashes were falling."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Pastor Tommy Wilborn
"I could see and hear our large American flag snapping back and forth outside. The winds were just really blowing one direction, shifting toward the south. As I turned to get into my vehicle, I looked over and I saw what looked like a hand of many fingers right over the community. Black smoke." ...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Cynthia Acosta
"So I’m freaking out. You know, of course my wedding venue is going to burn down. I knew something was going to go wrong!"...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Leah Bystrom and Austin Stitzer
"I still remember this smoke that was coming down Jenkins Road. It was literally to me like, this gray claw because that’s the way it was shaped. It was like this claw that was just stretching out, just coming towards me."...
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Wildfire Oral History Project
Rock McNulty
"There was this apocalyptic glow that took place across the hills, and it was pretty amazing. I think then that you realize the seriousness of the fire ... "...
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