Article 6TFMC Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’

Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’

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Sam Levin in Los Angeles
from US news | The Guardian on (#6TFMC)

An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter's Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets

The timing of the evacuation order could not have been worse.

Galen Buckwalter and his wife, Deborah, were alerted around 9.30pm on Tuesday evening that the rapidly spreading Eaton fire near Pasadena, California, was endangering their home and they should immediately flee to safety.

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