Sonoma County fire creates 200,000 evacuees; 'Who's going to take them in?'
by Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
Oct 29, 2019
4 minutes
SAN FRANCISCO - Roxane Stafford was talking really, really fast, as if she could outrun the raging Kincade fire with words alone. She worried that she sounded maybe a little bit crazy - her term - but that's what disaster will do to you.
She and her roommate DaNelle Ruth, their three dogs and one cat piled into their Honda CRV in Santa Rosa on Saturday morning, seeking safety from the latest blaze to lay waste to the California wine country. Two long days in transit, two nights in the car and 60 or so miles later, they found it.
On Cathedral Hill at an emergency shelter in the most crowded city on the West Coast, a place that sometimes feels as
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