REDDING (CBS13) — The flames and fume of the Fawn Fire were impacting thousands successful Shasta County, but arsenic the evacuation orders went out, world acceptable in.
“Talking astir it makes it much real, I think,” said evacuee Shellene Croxton.
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Croxton fto retired an uncomfortable and anxious laugh, which is each immoderate tin get retired erstwhile they spot flames heading toward their home.
And according to Cal Fire, this whitethorn not beryllium an accident. Employees moving adjacent the J-F Shea and Mountain Gate Quarries reported seeing a pistillate trespassing astatine the spot and acting irrationally. They accidental they saw 30-year-old Alexandra Souverneva locomotion retired of the brushwood adjacent the occurrence line—at 1 constituent approaching firefighters saying she was dehydrated and needed aesculapian treatment.
But aft being interviewed, officials judge she started the fire. We checked societal media—her LinkedIn illustration displays her existent rubric arsenic “Shaman” and lists a postgraduate grade successful biology subject and forestry.
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“I’m anxious and I’m not blessed astir that. We’ve suffered capable present successful the northbound state,” said evacuee Susan Eversole.
Meantime, residents forced to permission their homes had to determination from 1 evacuation tract to another—not knowing what they’d instrumentality to—as the occurrence advanced. It’s not wide however galore radical whitethorn beryllium impacted arsenic radical surviving successful different areas were warned to beryllium acceptable to permission if much evacuations are ordered.
A occurrence that whitethorn person been started connected intent is present threatening lives, arsenic not everyone is consenting to permission the beingness they built.
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“I’m much disquieted astir my hubby not leaving, you know, I tin regenerate everything else,” Croxton said.