LUBBOCK, Texas — Beverly Davis grew up in the Palisades in southern California, and moved to Lubbock in July of 2000, her friends from her hometown were keeping Davis up to date on the wildfires that were raging through the area.
“It’s just, the Palisades has always been my happy place, and I don’t go back to California as often as I used to, but every time I do, I would always spend a day in the Palisades just like going to my favorite shops, and restaurants, and sitting on the corner in the village,” Davis said.
Davis was close to her grandparents who owned two houses in the Palisades. Davis also went to Palisades High School, which was destroyed in the fires. These wildfires were not the first she had seen in the area.
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“We always had the Malibu fires, Topanga fires, there was a fire in the Palisades Highlands probably early 90s right before I moved that we had that the ashes falling on our cars, but it was contained, it was never, I’ve never seen anything to this magnitude,” Davis said.