Within 20 minutes, Rojas said, he and his wife had packed up their belongings as four fire trucks and two sheriff’s cruisers arrived at their cul-de-sac. He would later learn his home survived.
On Jan. 6, Beatriz Quiroz García started graduate school for library science. “The day before the fires broke out. So it’s been a whirlwind,” she says. Along with her education, Quiroz ...