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MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A small miss and her household were displaced aft a 13-acre wildfire burned done a Mariposa County vicinity and destroyed their home.
Jennifer Macy says this is the 2nd clip she has mislaid a location to a wildfire.
"The archetypal clip we had 10 minutes to get out, this time, the backmost of the location and the extortion was connected occurrence earlier we adjacent knew determination was a fire. We had capable clip to get kids and animals and that was it," Macy said.
The 13-acre Utah Fire was archetypal reported astatine 5:17 p.m. Monday, burning successful the Bear Valley country adjacent Highway 49 and Bear Valley Road; soon after, Macy and her household mislaid their home.
Macy says they did not person an evacuation announcement until the occurrence had already taken implicit the house.
"As you tin imagine, it’s taken a beingness to physique up what my sister and her household have, and it is each gone successful a substance of minutes," Macy's sister, Katrina Louis, wrote successful a GoFundMe.
Jennifer says she besides mislaid a location to the 2017 Detwiler Fire, a wildfire that burned 81,826 acres and destroyed 134 structures.
From near to right: Jennifer Macy, Bernadette Lindgren, Jacob Bissell, Jessie BissellWhile Jennifer's household had occurrence security successful 2017, she says they person nary occurrence security present due to the fact that it became excessively expensive. Anyone who would similar to assistance rebuild their lives tin donate to the Silver Lining Fundraiser.
