At least 10 dead, 1,500 structures lost in Northern California firestorm
by By Paige St. John, Javier Panzar, Phil Willon and Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
Oct 10, 2017
4 minutes
NAPA, Calif. - Scott Lambert and his wife were sleeping in their home north of Napa on Sunday night when they awoke to the sound of a honking horn and shouts of "Get out!"
At the door he was greeted by wind and an eerie night sky washed in orange.
Lambert, 76, and his wife, Laura, grabbed a few things and fled, first to a friend's winery and then to a Napa community church that was doubling as a Red Cross shelter.
Heavy smoke choked the air and bits of white ash from the Atlas fire drifted earthward Monday morning as he fretted over the fate of the house his parents bought three decades ago.
"I think the outlook is
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