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Friday, 17 May 2024

Surviving the fires

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Surviving the fires
Surviving the fires

Action News Now spoke to a woman whose husband stayed behind to guard their home.

Lives in the lives in the middle of the night.

Action news nows vanessa romo spoke to a woman who's husband stayed behind to guard their home.

Sobs, the flames were coming up, sobs, yeah it was pretty bad, what can i say.

Mary kissee drove her father and autistic son down to the church of nazarene in oroville late last night& my dad is 86.

And hes on oxygen or supposed to be but he's not right now& and my son is autistic and this is really hard on him and this is his service dog and she wants in with him& so this is really hard& kissee overwhelmed and tired got evacuated from the church of nazarene just before 2 a-m& she drove to the new evacuation site at the gridley fairgroundsã hoping for the help her family needed& he has copd, stage 4 kidney disease,,, he needs a bed.

And oxygen & someone's supposed to call me& but they haven't yet& and as kissee waited for that call& she waited to see if her husband made it out of the fire& my husband wouldn't leave& he stayed there and i don't know what's going to happen& i don't know what's going on with him& standup--- kissee said she lived on hurleton swedes flat road--- and by 6 his morning kissee was gone & at 5 a.m.

She was still unable to get in contact with her husband.

Cal fire urges people to leave their home or property during a mandatory evacuation.

They ask that you do your part so they can do theirs

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