Death, devastation in Santa Rosa after historic wildfire ravages residential communities
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - No place was more familiar to Brady Harvell than Mocha Lane.
He grew up in one of the houses lining the quiet street in Santa Rosa. As a kid, he spent countless hours cruising it on his bike, often ending up at nearby Coffey Park, where he first kissed a girl under the swing set.
He left to join the Army, and when he returned, his parents hung his dog tags from a photo of him in uniform on top of the television set in the living room.
But Tuesday, a day after wildfires laid waste to parts of Santa Rosa, Napa and other communities in wine country, everything Harvell knew - the house, Mocha Lane, the whole neighborhood - was gone, replaced by
