The Santa Ana winds were howling on Jan. 7, when Daniel Limon happened to look outside. “I could see from a distance a lot of smoke and red,” he says. It was dark, around around 6:45 p.m., when Limon’s wife, two dogs and his mother-in-law left the family home in Altadena, California, to get ahead of the Eaton Fire, which would ultimately destroy more than 14,000 acres and almost 9,500 structures. A separate fire in the Pacific Palisades consumed almost 7,000 structures and spanned more than 23,000 acres. Limon stayed behind longer to keep track of the fire, but he…

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