RENO, Nev. (KOLO) -When Kendall Vaughan spotted smoke billowing outside her Lemon Valley home, she knew she had to move fast. Within 15 minutes, her phone blared with an emergency alert.
For Vaughan and her daughter, it was the start of a grueling week. The pair would be forced to flee their home not once, but twice, as the Bug and Hawk fires swept through Northern Nevada in a matter of days.
While Vaughan’s home survived both blazes, the back-to-back disasters have left her emotionally exhausted and financially devastated.
A Race for Survival
Vaughan, a single mother and type 1 diabetic, describes herself as a “prepper” who keeps emergency bags packed. But when the Bug Fire threatened her neighborhood near White Lake and Bordertown, the reality of the evacuation set in quickly…