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Ventura County residents describe chaotic escape from Mountain FireABC7 Los Angeles/ AP
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00:00First, it skipped us and it started burning our neighbor's house past us.
00:20We thought we were okay, evacuated anyway, and today it came back and the house was gone.
00:28The fire was there.
00:29There was black, heavy smoke with debris just flowing at us.
00:35And I didn't know if our neighbors got out and my phone didn't work, so I couldn't, I
00:39didn't know if anybody was stuck.
00:43Parked the patrol car and saw the frenzy of them trying to grab stuff and I unhooked our
00:49RV and as we were pulling the RV down the driveway, you know, there's such thick smoke
00:56We could barely even see the house at that point and the patrol car didn't make it, but
01:01hey, that's okay.
01:05They're replaceable.
01:06People aren't.

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