We’ve learned that the Hawk Fire destroyed 47 homes and damaged 14 more. Some of those are in the Peppermint Drive area of Stead, just down the street from other homes left untouched.
Janitza Santos vividly remembers the moment her family got the notification to evacuate.
“We didn’t think that the fire was going to get really close to our house because it was on the other side of the mountain,” she says, “and we wouldn’t think it would get over to the freeway, but it was really traumatizing.”…