
Ira Hanson milled around an evacuation center near tiny Swall Meadows on Sunday afternoon, not quite sure what to do after learning that the dream home he and his late wife had built 30 years earlier was damaged in a wildfire that consumed 40 homes and buildings. Sheriffs deputies had banged on the door and urged him to get out less than 48 hours earlier, and hed fled the house with little more than his medications and a pillow. Officials later told him that fire crews had to knock down one of the homes walls in an effort to save another house next door, but he had yet to see the damage.
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