the winds were probably blowing 30 miles an hour at that time. and said now there was a column of smoke coming from the same vicinity of our missing hunter. and we realized as we got closer, yeah, there s a fire on top of this hill. i went down to feed at around 5:20 in the evening, which is before dusk, because that s when animals want their dinner. and that s when i saw the smoke. it was a clear, blue sky. and out beyond us, over the mountains, it looked like somebody had taken a pencil and drawn a single, wispy line. it was just one single, little plume in the sky. and that was the start of it. coming up i just remember the smoke alarm going off. he was just yelling, i smell smoke. concern begins to spread.
and i went out to answer it. answer it. nobody was there. looked out the window, it looked to me like the entire world was on fire. i just saw flames that i would have sworn were 50 foot to 100 foot tall. at that point, i yelled to lonnie, melanie and lindi. i said, get up. we re outta here. there s a fire. there was something in her voice that i knew that i needed to do exactly that. she comes in, wakes us all up. get up, get up. get your stuff. get your books. go out to the truck. we have to go. i said, you know, take your pillows out of your pillowcases. fill your pillowcase up with whatever it is that you want to take with, that you want to save, in case the worst happens. i got a backpack and i had kept all our home movies together in one spot for a moment like this. i remember when we were going
dispatch called us as we were en route to the missing hunter. the winds were probably blowing 30 miles an hour at that time. and said now there was a column of smoke coming from the same vicinity of our missing hunter. and we realized as we got closer, yeah, there s a fire on top of this hill. i went down to feed at around 5:20 in the evening, which is before dusk, because that s when animals want their dinner. and that s when i saw the smoke. it was a clear, blue sky. and out beyond us, over the mountains, it looked like somebody had taken a pencil and drawn a single, wispy line. it was just one single, little plume in the sky. and that was the start of it. coming up
grew up in a city. had no experience with fires when i moved to ramona in 1990. i had evacuated numerous times growing up you know, you just, you know, there s a fire, you evacuate. i said to myself, well, it s still light enough. i m sure the planes will come. but i m gonna go call 911 anyway because i m paranoid about fires. the evening the fire started, i had just gotten home when the pager went off. and so i immediately, you know, said good-bye to everybody and loaded back up. i got about ten minutes from the house when i looked up the first time from 67 and was able to see fire, very briefly, but i was able to see that we did have an active burning fire. i went and got the scanner that we had. we had a fire police scanner because of incidents like this, so we could keep track of what was going on.
solia, in starting to make bombs. one time they were fooling around with these pipe bombs in the backyard and went this for lunch. lo and behold there was a fire department in the back and all of a sudden the fire department comes barging in. they don t knock, they come barging in, there s a fire. went right through the house. didn t see patty hearst, didn t see the guns, didn t see anything, just saw a fire in the backyard. that s how incompetent and comedy of errors this whole thing was. august 7th, 1975, patty hearst herself goes to taraval station, a police station in san francisco, and with her own hands places a bomb under a police car. fortunately it was a dud, it never went off. august 20th, 1975, they wanted to set two bombs off at the marin county courthouse. the intention was for the first device to go off underneath the law enforcement vehicle which would likely