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Instal the new for apple City of Brass12/28/2023 Tuesday afternoon, as the Bear fire closed in on that town, more than two dozen relatives and friends fled their homes there and headed for Martinez’s 1.5-acre spread as a refuge. Martinez said that by that time, flames were already threatening a bridge on the evacuation route, backing up about 100 cars, and the caravan became separated, with some stuck on the road as Cal Fire worked to clear it. Just hours after some of his friends reached his house, news came that Martinez might have to leave as well as the fire grew. Around 10 p.m., “it was like all the sudden someone turned on a switch” and the wind became “crazy bad,” he said.īy 1 a.m., the evacuation warning for Martinez’s neighborhood turned into an order, forcing him, his eight rescue dogs and caravan of refugees to head into more urban areas of Oroville. He has been told his house has been destroyed gone, he said Wednesday, “but I can’t believe it until I see it.” He knows of at least about 25 friends who lost homes in Berry Creek, and said the school, church and local bar also burned. In 2017, Martinez was informed that he had lost his home in the Wall fire, but that turned out not to be true, though flames came just two feet from his propane tank before firefighters beat them back, he said. In 2018, when the Camp fire destroyed the nearby town of Paradise, his Berry Creek friends again took shelter on his property. Though 88 people died in the Camp fire, making it California’s most deadly blaze, Berry Creek was spared.
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