After starting to drive away, the family turned around to recover forgotten personal documents — but it was too late. Her older sister wanted to drive in to save her husband’s car, but Olvera told her: “Don’t do it. But the flames followed them, and the family had to pack up again when evacuation orders came for Fallbrook High School. Herds of horses galloped past flaming palm trees in their chaotic escape of a normally idyllic place. “We drove through a wall of flames,” Wendy Frank said, describing her ordeal after evacuating her horses from Ojai on Wednesday night.

Source: National Post December 08, 2017 08:15 UTC