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    Ventura under siege: 'It was like watching Rome burn'

    by Ruben Vives, Sarah Parvini and Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times Dec 06, 2017 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_The reports started coming in a little after 9 p.m. A fire had erupted amid the oaks and scrub in the hills north of Santa Paula.

    Located on the southern edge of the Sespe Wilderness, the blaze was named the Thomas fire for its proximity to Thomas Aquinas College. Within hours - its embers driven westward on the gusts of the Santa Ana winds - it had reached Ventura, a dozen miles away.

    Mark Patterson, 58, and his wife, Linda, 59, woke to the sound of pounding on their front door. It was 1:15 a.m. No one was there, and at first they thought it was a prank. But then they could see flames leaping

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