Evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings in some areas impacted by the Line Fire, including Running Springs.
“I’m glad to be home. It was a long week,” said Angela Jobe, a Big Bear resident.
For many residents who had to evacuate from Big Bear Lake — life today feels like it’s settling back to normal.
“I was talking to my sister too, and my sister was worried about it, and I noticed she was sending me messages and then she stopped sending me messages,” said Alex Portillo, a resident who evacuated Big Bear.
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“We got back late Saturday, so we go into town until Sunday yesterday. And it was really a ghost town for a Sunday,” Jobe said.
But elsewhere on the mountain — there are plenty of reminders of the threat the line fire still poses
In Running Springs — workers repairing utility lines in front of a house destroyed by the fire. Along Highway 18, between Arrow Bear and Big Bear, dozer crews cleared 70 to 100-foot-wide lines of brush to slow the fire’s spread should it reach this point.