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“I keep trying to tell myself it’s gonna be here when it’s all over. It’s gonna be here, it’s gonna be here, it’s gonna be here. I never dreamed the fire was going to get here. Never in a million years.”
— Joey Anderson, a retired Tahoe Douglas firefighter, as the Caldor Fire threatened his South Lake Tahoe area home.