The flames just sucked up the house and the roof went down on them. that s what those of us who never lived through a wildfire can t understand. a tornado of fire that is over your house, that it s spinning around your house and that it could take the roof off of your house. these are things that our imagination can t even deal with and that you all just witnessed? we ve never seen anything like it. we ve never seen anything like this. all the fire was across the street about a mile. you couldn t even you couldn t see the fire, just smoke. it was on the other side of the sacramento river and we had a dam and a big old lake so and that s where they was watching to see if the fire was coming across and it never did come across, it went down the river, came around and came in behind us and it just got us.