Blackouts complicate evacuation efforts across California
by Marisa Gerber and James Rainey, Los Angeles Times
Oct 26, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Mary and Charles Lindsey went to sleep to the glow of the Tick fire, but they had seen wildfires before and their two-story home in the Santa Clarita foothills seemed safe enough. All Thursday, they hadn't gotten a reverse-911 alert, or an emergency email, or a phone call. All had seemed quiet since 11 a.m., when Southern California Edison shut off their power.
It wasn't until 2:30 a.m. Friday that something - maybe the whir of helicopters or perhaps the providence of God - woke Mary up. She saw the unusual light creeping through the bedroom curtains. "That's not right,"
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