california. so tonight here s cnn s sara sidner in doyle, california, for us. the entire town was evacuated. reporter: this is the second time in just eight months kathy s hometown has lost more than a dozen homes to wildfire. it sounded like a freight train coming down the mountain. all you see is this orange wall of flames everywhere in front of you, everywhere you look. reporter: she s the volunteer fire chief of this town of about 600 residents. she is often the first one to call residents to tell them their home is gone. i m still kind of numb. i mean after losing everything that i worked for and everything all these years, it s gone, and everybody says, oh, it s so replaceable and stuff like that. well, no. a lot of it isn t. reporter: saturday, kelly grosso lost one of the 16 homes burned in doyle. everyone thought the danger was over. but on monday, the fire came roaring back, devouring more