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‘I’m still buried’: 21 days later, some Southern California mountain residents still trapped by snow

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters Mike Age and Aaron Thomas pulled up to the listed address for a top-priority prescription delivery Friday but couldn’t initially spot the Lake Arrowhead house. A 15-foot berm created from multiple plow trips blocked any view — or access — to the home’s driveway, requiring some exploring a perpendicular road to find the house down a long driveway. From that vantage ...
Aaron Thomas, center, and Mike Age deliver medicine to Lexi Searles at her snowed-in home on Friday in Lake Arrowhead, California.

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters Mike Age and Aaron Thomas pulled up to the listed address for a top-priority prescription delivery Friday but couldn’t initially spot the Lake Arrowhead house.

A 15-foot berm created from multiple plow trips blocked any view — or access — to the home’s driveway, requiring some exploring a perpendicular road to find the house down a long driveway. From that vantage point, the firefighters found a more manageable path: over a 5-foot berm, under some trees and across a side-yard of snow drifts.

As Thomas sank almost waist-deep into the snow while trying to balance the insulin delivery, Age called the house “one of the harder ones” they’ve attempted to reach in the last week delivering vital medications across San Bernardino County’s mountain communities. Many of the residents requesting

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