After a devastating wildfire, a year living in a campground

LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. _ Most nights in those first months after the fire, Raymond Taylor sat in a chair outside the travel trailer that had become his home, willing himself tired so he could fall asleep before the specter of flames overtook his thoughts.

But when he finally closed his eyes, Taylor could not escape the flashbacks: the screams of his neighbors, the scorched rubble where his house once stood. So he stumbled back outside and agonized in the darkness.

If I'd known the fire would move that fast, I would have grabbed my stepfather's Italian guns, the wedding rings, the photos of Raymond Jr. as a kid. The stuff you can never have again.

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With California entering peak wildfire season, it is a blaze from more than a year ago that still torments many who live in the rugged, picturesque enclaves of the Southern Sierra Nevada.

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