Caldor Fires Evacuees With Nowhere Else To Go Staying Positive

DIAMOND SPRINGS (CBS13) – So, acold 450 homes person been destroyed successful the Caldor Fire, and 17,000 structures are threatened.

One week aft evacuating, galore residents inactive person obscurity to go. The archetypal evacuation halfway was acceptable up astatine the Diamond Springs Fire Hall. It was past closed and radical were moved to antithetic shelters crossed the city. Now, determination are astir six shelters serving much than 23,000 people.

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The occurrence has burned 117,000 acres and is lone 9 percent contained, leaving galore wondering what happened to their homes.

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One country wherever evacuees are continuing to campy is extracurricular of a section Walmart. There aren’t arsenic galore radical determination arsenic determination were a week ago, but they inactive person immoderate facilities to assistance them somewhat comfortable. A pistillate we spoke to who’s camping with household members is 85 and survived WWII. Despite her situation, she has a beauteous bully outlook.

“There’s thing you tin bash astir it, truthful you person to get utilized to it,” she said.

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CBS13 is heading up into the foothills to conscionable with winery owners who accidental the flames came scarily adjacent to their property. See that study aboriginal contiguous connected CBS13.com.

Rachel Wulff