hastings and her husband fled their vacation home. when you saw this for the first time d i cid? yeah. reporter: now they re staying in a red cross shelter waiting to see what s left in the rubble. you get upset thinking about all the stuff that you had memorywise. and the before pictures of it starting out and then the after pictures of it just being gone. reporter: and in nearby medical lake officials estimate roughly 100 homes are gone. in this city alone at the peak roughly 5,000 people ordered to evacuate. i just see a fireball up behind the white building, and i was just and my reaction was like oh, crap, i need to make sure they re evacuating. reporter: among those in danger, a group of roughly 50 residents who use wheelchairs. josh bartholomew says he and others pushed the group uphill for about a quarter mile to safety. it was scary. it was it was dire life or death because it was coming. eporter: tonight authorities say hundreds of