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California fire: Resident says neighborhood looks like 'war zone'
On Media Outlook News: Jeannette Frescas was not concerned about the Thomas Fire until the massive blaze inched toward her neighborhood in Southern California. "At midnight, I woke up with flashlight in my face," Frescas told CNN affiliate KEYT. "I looked out my window and there were flames that were about a 100 feet all around us." Like many residents, Frescas was caught off guard by the fire that has roared through Southern California for 13 days. She's one of tens of thousands of residents who piled into cars and fled as ferocious winds drove the third-largest blaze in the state toward Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. "Once a paradise, was like war zone," Frescas said of her Ventura apartment complex that was destroyed by the blaze. Ventura resident Patricia Rye woke up to her son-in-law pounding on her door. She didn't get a chance to pack any valuables, and fled her home of 17 years in the dead of the night. "...
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