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Thats how long it takes for a room to become engulfed in flames after a fire starts and how much time you have to escape, according to State Fire Marshal Paul Parisi.

Years ago, we had more time to escape a house fire, he said. Legacy furnishings and natural materials took much longer to ignite and engulf a room with fire and smoke.

But the synthetic materials in most modern home furnishings burn faster and hotter and produce much more toxic smoke, Parisi said. Two decades ago, that escape time was about 17 minutes.

Its been a deadly year for residential fires in New Hampshire. Eight people have died in seven homes; none had working smoke alarms, Parisi said.

Just last Sunday, 53-year-old Douglas Holmes was overcome by smoke and died in an apartment house fire in Colebrook.

When Colebrook firefighters arrived at the two-story wood-frame building on Main Street shortly before 7:30 a.m., they found residents on the roof and heavy smoke and fire pouring from the house. One man fell and was hurt. Firefighters rescued four others, according to Colebrook Fire Chief Brett Brooks.

Firefighters then rushed to the back of the building, where they used a ladder to rescue two more residents from an outside porch. Some time later, they learned of another apartment on the second floor.

Thats where they found Holmes, Brooks said. They didnt even realize that there was another apartment door because the smoke was that bad, he said.

There were seven apartments in the building, which was originally a church, and one unit was unoccupied. Nineteen people were displaced in the fire, including seven children.

No warning sounded

The fires cause is under investigation, but it appears the building had no working smoke alarms, Parisi said.

If they had earlier warning of the fire occurring somewhere in the building, they may have had additional time to escape, but instead their escape path was cut off because the fire took possession so quickly, Parisi said.

They didnt have that early warning, and therefore their only escape was the roof and fortunately, they were very lucky that the fire department was able to rescue them off the roof, Parisi said.

John Holmes learned of his brothers death in a call from another family member last Sunday. Doug loved the outdoors, Holmes said in a brief phone interview. Growing up, he loved to fish and he loved to hunt, he said.

The most common causes of accidental residential fires, Parisi said, include improper disposal of smoking materials or woodstove ashes, overloaded electrical circuits, chimneys that have not been cleaned or are too close to combustibles, and food or other items left on a stove.

Those are all preventable fires, he said.

While the spike in fire deaths last spring coincided with the arrival of the pandemic in New Hampshire, Parisi said investigators did not find any connection to the crisis. The individuals involved were not out of work or otherwise home because of the virus, he said.

Most unintentional fatal fires in New Hampshire occur between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., Parisi said.

Indeed, last Sundays fire could have been even more devastating had it occurred overnight, Chief Brooks said. If itd been earlier, with the smoke detectors not working, it would have been questionable whether people would have woken up, he said.

When the fire started, he said, I think most of them were up. They were getting ready to cook breakfast.

Those who lived in the basement apartment and on the first floor got out on their own, but just barely in time, the chief said. A lot of them were barefoot and in bathrobes and whatever they could grab on the way out.

Brooks said the weekend timing of the fire also brought dozens of firefighters to the scene quickly. Its a good thing it was a Sunday and not during the week, he said. Some people travel out of town for jobs.

Consider sprinklers, too

Most people think a fire will never happen to them, Parisi said. Fire does not discriminate, and when there is a fire, smoke alarms are the biggest factor when it comes to giving people time to get out alive.

Closing your bedroom door at night can also buy you critical time. The fire service has an easy-to-remember slogan to drive the message home: Close before you doze.

Most people mistakenly think its safer to leave your bedroom door open, to alert you in case of a fire, Parisi said. A 2018 survey by the UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute found that only 29% of people close their bedroom doors at night.

But closing that door could save your life, buying you time to call the fire department for help, Parisi said.

You have three minutes until that room comes to flashover, and the smoke is so much more toxic than it used to be that one breath of that smoke could be enough to render you unconscious, he said.

The majority of people who die in house fires die from smoke inhalation, not burns, the fire marshal said. But if you have your door closed, youre preventing all that heat and smoke from entering your room, he said. Closing your door can buy time for help to arrive if you become trapped.

The best smoke alarms are interconnected, Parisi said, so that if one goes off, the rest will too. If a smoke alarm does go off, check the doorknob first, he advised. If its warm, dont open the door, he said, but if its cool, you can open the door and make your escape.

Parisi also encourages people to install residential sprinkler systems in their homes, especially in new construction. What that does is it suppresses the fire so it does not extend beyond the area of origin, he said.

These systems save lives, the fire marshal said. There has never been a multi-fatal fire in a residential sprinklered building in the United States, he said.

Sprinkler heads will only go off if the heat in the room reaches a certain temperature. Theyre not triggered by smoke, Parisi said. Consider it just like you consider putting a lawn sprinkler system in, he said. It could save your life and it could save your familys lives.

Colebrook Fire Chief Brooks has something else he wants people to remember. When in doubt, get out, he said. Everybody wants to save their house, but you can rebuild your house.

Its tough on firefighters to lose someone in a fire, Brooks said.

You feel bad for the family and you always wonder if there was more that you could do, he said. But sometimes just the circumstances the smoke, the fire, the heat you still do your best to knock it down so you can get in there, but time is always a factor.

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Almost three decades after the plans were first mooted, over nine years behind schedule and more than 4bn (3.6bn) over budget, Berlins new international airport is finally ready to open its doors.

But the already tortuous birth of Berlin-Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport (BER) expected to open on 31 October, and once hailed as a celebration of the ambitious German reunification project, has only been compounded by the decision to unveil it in the middle of a pandemic.

With the air industry plunged into the worst crisis of its 100-year history, most airplanes grounded and major airlines facing the prospect of bankruptcy, even the airports chief admitted the endeavour is at best courageous, at worst foolhardy.

During a recent guided tour ahead of the opening, Engelbert Ltke Daldrup, the chairman of Berlin-Brandenburg airport since 2017, said: Not only Berlin, but by extension the whole of Germany became a laughing stock over this. German engineers like me have felt embarrassed.

He admitted it may take years for the industry, and by extension his airport, to crawl back to anything like its former standing.

We are ready for take off, he said. But I expect it to take as long as maybe three or four years, for us to reach pre-coronavirus level of business ... the economic situation is dramatic.

His operating manager, Patrick Mller, goes so far as to say a recovery cannot be expected until there is a vaccine.

Daily passenger numbers at BER are down by 100,000 passengers compared to before the crisis. It is currently haemorrhaging 1m a day, on top of high losses due to being over budget and years behind schedule.

Four months ago Lufthansa, the national airline and the second largest passenger carrier in Europe, had already received a 9bn state bailout, in an already stark warning of the state the air industry was already in.

Even before it opens, the operators of BER, 11 miles south of the centre of the German capital, which replaces the East German era airport Schnefeld, have requested 300m in taxpayers money just to keep it afloat. Detractors have accused the operators of using the coronavirus as a cover-up for an already existing crisis.

In a further sign of how diminished the air industry is, hundreds of airport workers will be put on Kurzarbeit, the German government scheme where employees accept reduced working time and pay and the state compensates them.

Finally, BER is ready to start operating, but there is very little air traffic and that really is tragic, admitted Roland Bhm, head of testing.

Nevertheless, he is going through with meticulously planned dress rehearsals, with thousands of extras members of the public who have been drafted in as volunteers to test the workings of everything across the 300,000 sq metres space, from check-in procedures, to the comprehensibility of signs and symbols, right down to the toilets.

Currently there are 430 testers. Silvia Schulz, a gardener from Berlin, has brought her mother Elke for what she calls a historic day out to the airport.

I love flying, but obviously havent done so since before March, so it feels a bit nostalgic, she said, clad in a face covering and picking up a bag of freebie airport memorabilia, including a BER coffee cup, a keyring, and a drawstring bag. While she cant fly, she will have to make do with todays test destinations of Grenoble, and later Bournemouth, which will see Schulz and her mother driven down the runway in a bus half-full of masked, socially-distancing fellow travellers.

We will have to pretend we are really flying. Though if I had the choice, Id go to the Maldives, she said. She and her mother have followed the dramas of the airports failure to open over the years, which has led to a range of wry slogans on T-shirts and mugs such as: Lets just move the city of Berlin to a functioning airport.

Its turned the city into a bit of a joke and added to the distrust in politicians and to be quite honest, I will only believe it is to open next month when it really happens, she admitted.

Its shiny walnut panelling, and Jurassic-era beige floor, have prompted German design critics to say the airport is embarrassingly 1990s, the decade when it was first conceived in the euphoric post-unification era. The choice of the name, Willy Brandt after the former West German chancellor, whose strongest legacy is his attempt to achieve reconciliation between western and eastern Europe during the Cold War, is in a similar spirit.

Throughout the airport preparations are being made for the opening day. Plastic is being taken off monitors, advertising billboarding is being installed, and equipment is being moved from Tegel airport in the west, due to close in November. Everything appears to be a reminder of how life used to be.

Daldrup now insists the airport, once considered too small to cope with the growth in air travel, will now be really useful as long as people physically distance.

But even before the pandemic the project was beset with challenges. Its construction was beset by rows, often played out very publicly, over trivial matters like the type of rawl plugs used and more seriously the sprinkler system, the cabling and fire doors. Almost all Berliners remember how, in the winter of 2013, no one knew how to turn the terminal lights off, so they were left to burn day and night for weeks on end.

Daldrup blames European over-regulation for many of the complications. But he said the result of repeated returns to the drawing board is the safest airport in the world.

The opening ceremony, once expected to be a big party which would attract hundreds of local and international celebrities, he said, will now be low-key.

Some commentators have said one of the more recent fall-outs over noise reduction specifications campaigned for by local residents is a fitting denouement to what has been a humiliating drama.

The southerly runway was redesigned in an effort to reduce noise. But the aviation trade union Cockpit argued it would force pilots to make a complex 145-degree turn on takeoff, referred to as a Hoffmanns curve. The national association of air traffic control has referred to the turn as challenging, while pilots wary of its potential to unnerve passengers have already nicknamed it the puke curve.

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City Manager Darin Atteberry has signed a declaration and order for mandatory action level IV water restrictions for lawn watering and other outdoor water uses going in effect Thursday, October 1 to avoid water shortage due to ongoing drought conditions, Cameron Peak fire and infrastructure repairs related to the Horsetooth Outlet Project.

The water restrictions are pursuant to Fort Collins City Code Section 26-167 (a) and the Water Shortage Action Plan (WSAP). Additionally, action level IV alternative water restrictions are reserved for unique water shortages that are not addressed by other action levels within the WSAP.

The city manager will proclaim the end of the water shortage, lifting restrictions when they are no longer required which is expected to be Monday, November 30. The mandatory water restrictions will be for all Fort Collins Utilities water customers.

Lawn watering is not allowed and sprinkler test times must run minimally to maintain a sprinkler system, but sprinkler blowouts are allowed. Trees can be watered by hand, drip system of deep root fork or needle only at any time.

Non-Landscape Water Use are as follow:

EXCEPTIONS BY PERMIT

Exceptions will be made for athletic/active fields for health and safety purposes and new lawn installations. Enforcements for not abiding by the new water restrictions include $50 to $1,000 for residential fines per violation and $250 to $1,000 for business fines per violation.

For information regarding water quality and the Cameron Peak Fire, visit:fcgov.com/utilities/2020-wildfires

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Hocus Pocus is centered on witch sisters Winifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson. Fans of the beloved hit may have overlooked these plot holes about them.

In the decades since its release in July of 1993, when the summer sun made autumnal frigidity seem a distant memory,Hocus Pocushas become an October institution. Fans singing "I Put A Spell On You" into their hairbrushes, throwing elaborate viewing parties under the glow of orange twinkle lights, and working tirelessly to recreate the screen accurate costumes of the iconic Sanderson Sisters have become assynonymous withHalloween ascandy corn.

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After so many repeat viewings, fans might find some inconsistencies surrounding the trio of Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson. Some of the details of their use of magic, their motivation for destroying the children of Salem, and even some pieces of their eyebrow-raising dialogue are tempting to deconstruct given the umpteenth watch party.

The film opens in Salem, Massachusetts in 1693 on Halloween night. The Salem Witch Trials were over by September of 1692 when then-Governor William Phips (whose wife stood accused of witchcraft) dissolved the trials and made spectral evidence unusable.

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How then were the Sanderson sisters still getting persecuted? Wouldn't they have been ignored? How did they manage to escape the Salem witch trials to begin with - by holding up in their ramshackle house until villagers found them illegally?

The Sandersons curse Thackery Binx to assume the form of a black cat for all eternity after he interferes with their ritual early on in the film. At their hanging, this proves to be a particularly useful curse on their part because he can't get the attention of his parents, save for a few meows. No one in the town ever finds out what happened to Thackery, and he remains trapped in his feline form.

By the time he encounters Max and Dani some several hundred years later, he hasthe unexplained and sudden ability to speak English to the extent that he can be understood. What are the particulars of their curse then,to allow him to speak only when it's a convenient plot device?

When Max and Danicrash the Halloween party at Allison's parents' house, they realize that not only does she come from an affluent family, they're also more than likely descendants of the puritanical witch-hunting party responsible for killing the Sanderson sisters.

If that's the case, given all the more credence by the party's 17th-century dress code, then why don't the Sanderson sisters simply hold them accountable for their murder? Instead of razing the colonial mansion to the ground with every resplendent attendee still inside, they go to the much more plebeian party at the town hall where Max and Dani's parents are dresses like Dracula and Madonna.

William Butcherson and Winifred Sanderson are mentioned by Thackery Binxto have been romantically involved until Billy cheated on her with her sister Sarah. Winnie killed him, cursed him, and buried him until his resurrection in the 20th century as an instrument of her wickedness.

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The reason for his untimely demise notwithstanding, what exactly about Winnie drew Billy to her in the first place? Was she ever pleasant to be around? Sarah Sanderson is shown to be kinder -if a little dim-witted-whereas Winnie is clearly a bully. And how did Thackery come to know about Billy in the first place?

Despite the fact that the Sanderson sisters have been dead for hundreds of years, when they're resurrected they seem to know a thing or two about the ways of the modern world. For one thing, Winnie knows something about driver's permits.

How is this possible when she doesn't even know what a city bus is? Or a paved road? A driver's permit should be the last thing about the concept of automobiles that she's aware of, yet she asks Max for his.

In an attempt to distract them while running through the Sanderson Sisters' Museum, Max sets off the sprinklers onto the Sandersons. He refers to it as a "burning rain of death," which they take to mean H2O will kill them.

Despite Max shouting this, he's drenched by the water himself, and in their frenzied flight away from it, they don't seem to notice that he isn't succumbing to it. Is it really the spray of water out of something as novel as a sprinkler system that scared them, or did they actually think they wouldmelt like the Wicked Witch of the West?

On their quest to track down Max and Dani, the Sanderson sisters make a little house call to who they perceive to be their "Master;" a man dressed as Satan. At one point, Winifred is even told to "go to Hell" and she responds, "Oh, I've been there, thank you. I found it quite lovely."

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If they have no fear of the Afterlife or being sent somewhere to suffer for eternity, why are they so driven to become immortal and regain their beauty? Why even fear death? Why be concerned that Dani and Max could use their spellbook against them?

After the Sandersons crash the party that Max and Dani's parents are at, Winnie takes to the stage and commands the room by singing, "I Put A Spell On You," a popular song from the '50s that she would never have heard given her death in 1693.

How is she able to call upon the lyrics? Did she somehow scan the minds of the performers and gain their knowledge? Is she tapping into the collective consciousness of the crowd?Since it's one of the most popular scenes in the film, fans probably never thought to question it too closely.

In a ghoulish climax, Sarah Sanderson summons all of Salem's children to the sisters' house to give them some of the potion intended to suck their lives from them. All the sisters have ever wanted is to use the children's life force to restore their youth and beauty, but Winifred makes a strange choice at this point.

Instead of everlasting life, she chooses vengeance against Dani with what remains of the potion. Surely getting revenge against one bratty child shouldn't usurp their only chance at succeeding in matters of immortality?

The Sanderson sisters are required to "wake" the spellbook up, but when Max and Dani defeat them at the end of the film, the end of their magic should have caused the book to be dormant once again. After they disappear, the eye on the cover pops open, implying they could return.

Regardless of the fact that a sequel to the popular film is in development, at the time no one knew the future of the franchise. How was the spellbook still "alive?" Does it have anything to do with Allison possibly being a witch as well?

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Parts of Vermilion Parish are now under a mandatory evacuation, as of 1 p.m on Wednesday.The Police Jury ordered these areas of the parish to be evacuated: Pecan Island Intracoastal City Esther Forked Island Mouton Cove Erath (south of La. 14) Delcambre (south of La. 14) Gueydan (south of La. 14) and low line areas prone to flood and those who live in mobile homes in the parish.As of noon on Wednesday, Hurricane Delta is expected to make landfall near the Cameron and Vermilion Parish border on Friday around 2 p.m.The winds in Vermilion Parish could reach 80 to 100 miles per hour. The parish is expected to get four to six inches of rain.Also, parish officials are extremely worried about flooding from a storm surge.From Forked Island to Delcambre, weather officials predict a storm surge of 8 to 11 feet high. Areas of Henry, Erath, Delcambre, Pecan Island and Forked Island are expected to get a storm surge.Becky Broussard, the Office of Emergency Preparation for Vermilion Parish, said, Those choosing to stay and face this very dangerous storm must understand that rescue efforts cannot and will not begin until after the storm and the surge have passed. Broussard said if you elect not to evacuate, OEP wants you to write your name, address, social security number, and next of kin on a piece of paper. Place the paper with the information in a Ziploc bag and place the bag in your pocket.We are expecting the worse, but praying for the best, Broussard said.

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Parts of Vermilion Parish now under mandatory evacuation - The Kaplan Herald

In early September, the Almeda Fire ignited at the edge of my hometown of Ashland, Oregon, and roared through the nearby towns of Talent and Phoenix, pushed by hot south winds.

Over 2,800 houses, mobile homes and apartment units were destroyed, representing much of the low-income housing in our increasingly expensive valley. Three people were killed. The story was repeated across Oregon this fire season, and at its peak almost a million acres burned across the state. Some 500,000 people were forced to flee or were under evacuation warnings.

These fires became so widespread because strong, dry winds sent flames racing to devour fuel wherever it could be found. And fuel could be found everywhere this year: in mountain forests parched from a winter of drought and a summer of record-breaking heat, in eastern Oregons sagebrush country, and yes, in mobile home parks and residential neighborhoods. Under these conditions, any fire seemed ready to explode into a major disaster.

As a member of the southern Oregon community, I felt stunned and heartbroken by the devastation these fires left behind. But, as a conservation biologist, I was not surprised. For many years, scientific modeling predicted a future of reduced snowpack, hotter summers and drastically increased fire danger in Oregon. The present we are now enduring is the climate-change future that we have been warned about for decades.

Tragically, a different kind of conflagration also smoldered in Oregon, one fanned by hatred and division.

Two weeks before the fires, my valley experienced an ugly racial confrontation. Like most of Oregon, the Rogue Valley is overwhelmingly white. Still, we have Black Lives Matter support groups, and one of them, the Southern Oregon Coalition for Racial Equity, planned a community forum in the tiny town of Rogue River. The purpose of the event was to invite local residents of color to share their experiences and educate the community on systemic racism. It was to be followed by a family-friendly barbeque, to which everyone was invited.

Unfortunately, in the toxic atmosphere of social and racial division that is daily fanned by President Trump and right-wing media, this community event was seen as a threat by local patriot groups, which descended on the town heavily armed. For hours, these angry people screamed curses and threats at the small group of coalition supporters, while some tried to provoke physical confrontations. Coalition supporters, fortunately, had the discipline to remain calm while resisting.

Then, in the aftermath of the Rogue Valley fires, this social pathology flared again. Rumors began to fly on social media that the fires were deliberately set by antifa, which is not an organized group, feeding more fear and paranoia. These rumors tied up 911 lines and interfered with critical fire-response activities.

After forceful denials by local law enforcement, the antifa rumors died down, and the Rogue Valley seemed to unite in response to the tragic fires. A spontaneous brigade of bicycle riders ferried supplies to victims in the burn zone. Dozens of local organizations mobilized to offer shelter, food, water, clothing and emergency funds to displaced families.

But conspiracy theory-fueled paranoia is not so easily overcome. Its next target was a tent city that sprang up in a park in Medford, the valleys largest town. Residents of the tent city included low-income people burned out of their homes and homeless people who formerly camped along Bear Creek, another area consumed by the fire.

In short order, a Medford City Council meeting was packed with outraged citizens, with some spouting ugly theories that many of the tent-dwellers had been bused in from other towns with help from antifa, according to the Medford Mail-Tribune. Some of the protesters threatened vigilante action to take care of the problem. A week after the city council meeting, Medford police dismantled the encampment and evicted the residents.

Who benefits from this trumped-up rage? Only those whose grip on power is served by fomenting fear and chaos. The future will challenge us all. Those who work to divide us are simply fanning the flames.

Our valley has plenty of divisions, but also incredible strength and generosity. Community spirit is shining through as we begin the hard work of recovery. The only way to survive wildfire, to survive COVID, to survive climate change, and to survive vigilante hatred, is to work together for the common good. Let us hope that this terrible year teaches us that lesson at last.

Pepper Trail is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.com, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He is a conservation biologist and writer in Ashland, Oregon.

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Writers on the Range column: Fanning the flames of hate in Oregon - Glenwood Springs Post Independent

Help is on the way for families who lost their homes and belongings when in a fire in the Pueblo del Sol community on Wednesday.

The29 Palms Band of Mission Indians is purchasing all brand new trailer homes for the families, Indio Mayor Glenn Miller shared exclusively with News Channel 3.

A gift from God thats all Monica Tessandore could say to rationalize the news that she and her family will have a home again.

Ive gone through anger, frustration, sadness, heartbroken every emotion that you can come up with from losing your home, your entire things youve worked so hard for. Just having a home for the kids to come home and play. For me to come home from work and cook and clean, you know, do everything I can do for them as a mother. In the blink of an eye it was all taken from us, she said.

Tessandore was stopping by to survey the damage left behind by the devastating fire at the Pueblo del Sol community, destroying three families homes and all their belongings. Indio Mayor Glenn Miller was there to deliver Life-changing news.

Chairman Darrell Mike from the 29Palms Band of Mission Indians and the tribe and the tribal council will be purchasing all three of the mobile homes for these families, free of charge and installing them as quick as possible, he already looked at them in Thermal, said Mayor Miller.

That hope is coming back I didnt think it would be possible to get that hope back, said Tessandore.

Two of the three families did not have insurance to cover the damage. Mayor Miller said the money given by the American Red Cross is not enough to cover all expenses, which is why the communitys support is so important.

The community is amazing, it always has been. Whenever anything happens here in the city of Indio, we rally. Residents, businesses, we come together any time theres adversity, Mayor Miller said.

If you have it, give it. This is just a big eye opener. If you have it, give it. You have no idea how this helps somebody out. If its just socks if its one shirt. Anything, just give it, Tessandore said.

The city of Indio and Desert Sands Unified School District are also encouraging the community to show support to three families who lost everything in a mobile home park fire this week.

DSUSD is accepting donated items and gift cards at Indio High School or Summit High School. Items are needed for both men and women, adults and children - including, but not limited to, clothing and school supplies.

Five adults and five children in the Pueblo Del Sol community lost everything they've ever owned Wednesday as the fire ripped through their homes.

Tessandore's daughter also organized a GoFundMe page to collect donations.

"We lost everything," said Roberto Valdez, speaking in Spanish. "The two cars, the work tools. We've only got the clothes we're wearing. I don't even have socks; I don't have anything."

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New trailer homes donated to Indio families left only with ashes after devastating fire - KESQ