Some Of The First Caldor Fire Evacuees Begin Journey Back Home

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POLLOCK PINES (CBS13) — The past 2 weeks person been a blur for Caldor Fire evacuees who person been waiting for connection to instrumentality home, though immoderate mandatory evacuation orders were lifted crossed the area.

Home was successful Kathy Clark’s bosom arsenic she watched her Pollock Pines location from afar.

“I would conscionable similar to spell backmost and h2o my flowers. That’s each we wanted to do,” she said.

She and her husband, immoderate of the archetypal evacuees, packed up and left, staying astatine 2 evacuation shelters earlier moving to an RV parkland successful Plymouth.

“We had 4 dogs, 4 cats successful the trailer, horses transported by an exigency rescue squad to the Plymouth fairgrounds,” she said. “Pretty analyzable trying to support the cats successful and fto the dogs out.”Cheryl romaine 2137 we’re gladsome to beryllium backmost home.. We missed our small retreat present 40

Their neighbors stayed astatine their daughter’s location successful Elk Grove.

“We’ve ne'er had this hap before. During the King Fire, we lone evacuated for 1 day—and that wasn’t adjacent mandatory. But this 1 I conjecture conscionable went crazy.”

Most of Pollock Pines was inactive a shade town, with National Guard troops manning areas inactive closed disconnected to residents.

Despite each the hassle, that’s however Clark and her hubby feel—grateful to get backmost to their garden.

“We’ve been working. We worked til 10 past night. Got up 4:30 this morning, inactive working. But it’s here. It’s here,” she said of her home.

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