"FIRE!" The call rang out through the state of California that fateful day in October 2003. My personal experience felt harrowing; I was trapped on the I-15 freeway with my 5 month old in the car. Police and Firefighters rerouted traffic and turned us around. I vividly remember driving North in the Southbound lanes and seeing flames in my rear-view mirror. The nightmare did not end so quickly for the scores of other people whose homes burned down that day, or in the next 45 days that the Cedar and Paradise fires raged out of control in Southern California. …
