
YOUTH RADIO: Can you paint a picture of what it was like to watch the fire as it got close to your neighborhood and home? Isabel Edwards: The first night it was just really windy. We saw the entire ridge of warehouses on fire. The whole sky was orange and then we could see the flames and we could see that it was coming towards us. We figured that we probably had to pack up in case we were evacuated, so we were packing up the things that we needed and thinking about what was really important to us. It was pretty scary and we didn't really know what was going on. YR: Were there no news alerts or text messages or anything telling you guys to evacuate? Did you have to figure it out for yourselves? IE: We called 9-1-1 and the Sheriff's Department and the Fire Department and they didn't have anything to tell us. We were the ones informing them what was going on. Then, like two hours later around 2 a.m., we heard the sirens and we heard people coming out yelling with megaphones, telling people that they need to evacuate. YR: So what did you manage to get out of the house? IE: I didn't really have that much there since I usually stay in San Francisco, but I grabbed my school stuff and some clothes. We got our cats and then a few chickens. We had 30 chickens and we couldn't really do anything with them. [caption id="attachment_28676" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]

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