When Wildfire Comes
Episode 1 - 1997 Los Gatos Wildfire
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In the later afternoon of Aug 8, 1997, I rushed home to Los Gatos, a small town in the Santa Cruz Mountains to the south of San Jose. A fire had broken out in the hills above town and that we were being asked to evacuate. I raced home to see helicopters overhead with water tankers attacking flames in the shrublands less than a mile from our home. The story continues in this inaugural episode of…