As flames tear through wine country, residents flash back to 2017
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - In the hills above Highway 12, Emmilia Carrington hoisted a trash can full of water into her neighbor's backyard and tipped it over, turning smoldering ash into a rush of steam that curled up over her black rain boots.
Nearby, the 15-year-old's brother Brody, three years younger, picked up a shovel and dumped dust over live embers, as he'd learned to do in Boy Scouts. Their mother, Eliza, smothered flames with garden stones.
The family evacuated late Sunday, as flames from the fast-spreading Glass fire licked over a ridge, but had returned Monday morning, after Eliza sweet-talked her way past law enforcement.
"Oh my God!" she said Monday afternoon, surveying the hot spots surrounding her home.
It felt like terrible deja vu.
While ash snowed down across the Sonoma County town of Santa Rosa, the fire
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