VENTURA, Calif. – They ran for their lives by the bags aback adverse wildfires raced beyond a huge swath of brush-covered Southern California hillsides, and they survived — alike if in abounding cases their homes didn't.
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Some absent everything. Others alternate to acquisition homes still continuing but in crisis a additional time aback bonfire that had seemed to additional them returned. Others told of active through a bank of bonfire to safety.
Here are some of their stories:
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Brian Bromberg and Wendy Frank had aloof adored their admired horses from a angry bonfire for the additional time aback they accomplished their own besom with afterlife — for the third time.
The couple, who animate in the aerial artisan antecedents of Ojai, had already able bonfire that had austere bottomward neighbors' homes and had gone aback to accomplishment their horses from a boarding ability aback they were headed to a auberge in Santa Barbara.
Suddenly, they were confronted by a bank of bonfire lining both abandon of a artery Wednesday night.
"I anticipation we were in a Schwarzenegger movie," Bromberg, 57, recalled at an aborticide apartment in Ventura on Thursday as he comforted his horses.
"Literally we collection through a 20-foot bank of blaze and charcoal and blew through it. We charge accept been activity 100 afar per hour," Bromberg said. "That was hot, and we were in the car and could feel it."
Earlier Wednesday, the brace of bristles years was sitting bottomward for banquet aback Frank absitively to analysis on their four horses. The brace had aloof larboard them at a boarding ability 10 afar (16 kilometers) from their home, breadth they anticipation they would be safe.
"I aloof had a feeling, and I accomplished out to a man we apperceive who lives abutting to breadth they were actuality housed, and he said, 'You charge to get actuality appropriate away, you charge to get them out. The accomplished breadth is activity to be engulfed by fire,'" she said.
The day before, Frank was on a business cruise while Bromberg was home, application buckets of baptize to douse bonfire abutting their ranch.
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"The abode on the added ancillary of us absent a barn and an outbuilding, the abode on the added ancillary of us — the accomplished acreage austere down, and the abode abaft us was a bank of flames, and I'm continuing in the average of this by myself with a brazier of baptize activity to hotspots, cloudburst it out all day connected and befitting the barn bashed with water," he said
Bromberg, a Grammy-nominated applesauce musician, and Frank, a technology aegis able at PricewaterhouseCoopers, say they don't plan to acknowledgment to their abode afresh until they are assertive the breadth is out of danger.
"I feel adored to be alive. Somebody is demography affliction of us," Bromberg said.
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Tom and Pam Prinz had aloof accomplished a accord to advertise their Ventura home and were planning to duke the keys over to the new owners aftermost Monday.
The sale's closing was delayed at the aftermost minute, however, and on Monday night the home breadth the brace aloft their three accouchement austere to the ground.
They had been planning for several years to move to the San Francisco Bay Area, breadth their accouchement now live, and had aloof gotten their accouterments out of the home.
"It's aloof crazy timing," their addled babe Chrissy Prinz said Thursday by buzz from the Oakland home breadth she'll animate in the granny collapsed abaft her parents' new residence. "My dad aloof retired. We were declared to about-face over the keys the day of the fire."
Escrow was delayed aback paperwork was filed late.
Now the brace is attractive to aggregate on the allowance policy, which auspiciously they kept in force through the day afterwards the fire.
Their babe said the allowance money acceptable won't be what they would accept gotten from the sale, however, and she doesn't apperceive aback anyone will appetite to buy and clean on a lot amid in a adjacency abounding with burned-down homes.
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Growing up in the hills overlooking Ventura, she said, it wasn't aberrant to see water-dropping aircraft in the area, which is hit by wildfires every few years. But no bonfire had anytime gotten abutting to her family's home before.
"Our abode is in the average of the tract. We never would accept accepted it to burn," she said.
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Steve Andruszkewicz and his acquaintance Joseph Ruffner alternate to their Faria Beach Antecedents homes aloof arctic of Ventura on Thursday to ascertain the bonfire that appeared to accept absolved the houses were aggressive them already again.
"I anticipation we were done yesterday," Ruffner said, abacus he and his ancestors alternate to their home in the morning to see a bank of blaze that seemed to be a safe ambit away. But again it confused in, spraying hot charcoal assimilate the neighborhood.
"It's advancing aback to bake what it didn't bake yesterday," he said.
Firefighters apprenticed bodies to leave the beachfront community, breadth electricity was out.
"We're leaving," Andruszkewicz said as he and his wife sprayed approach copse with baptize from garden hoses first.
Ruffner said he was blockage put.
"I bought a architect bygone so at atomic I can see on TV what's activity on," he said.
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Marolyn Romero-Sim wept as she sat on a cot at an aborticide centermost account how the bashful RV her ancestors alleged home was destroyed by the better and best annihilative Southern California wildfire.
"Everything is ashes. Everything. We don't accept a abode to live. We absent being we can't get back," she said.
She said her husband, Hugo Romero-Rodriguez, was busted with answerability that he couldn't get central to accomplishment annihilation — including their admired little dog, Coqueta. She was trapped in a crate central aback the agent erupted in flames. Romero-Rodriguez suffered cuts on his leg and duke and a bake on his arm aggravating to get central to save Coqueta.
"He was sitting there in the driver's bench and he couldn't move," Romero-Sim said Wednesday, abandoning how she, her bedmate and their 9-year-old daughter, Milagros, sat in their truck, watching the RV bake afore assuredly acumen they had to abscond their Ventura County neighborhood.
"He aloof kept watching and he feels so accusable that he couldn't save it," she continued. "I told him he did aggregate he could and he did what he had to save our lives."
Romero-Rodriguez makes a bashful active as a adornment salesman and he absent the pearls, earrings, bracelets and watches that fabricated up his inventory.
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Rogers appear from Los Angeles. Brian Skoloff in Ventura and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this story.
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