They understood they were buying into an area prone to fire.“We bought with our eyes wide open,” Lynda Brown said. “It looked like Godzilla over my house.”But then firefighting jets began to arrive, dumping retardant and tamping down the flames near her. The planes haven’t stopped coming.“Here I am in the middle of nowhere outside Yosemite,” she said. “But I feel like I’ve been under LAX the last couple of days.”In the 25 years she’s lived in Midpines, she’s had to evacuate three times due to wildfires. But that means it’s blowing it to someone else, which doesn’t make you feel good.”

Source: Los Angeles Times July 25, 2022 22:00 UTC