Coming to an end. Everywhere you looked was on fire. Houses on fire, trees on fire. I was transported into a war zone. I just lost it. I hear my dad screaming, its here, run. You just got to push through. You do not stop. I said, please send somebody. And she said, theres nobody to send. It was, survivors said, like something alive a living, breathing giant that came out of the woods to hunt them down. The flames were so relentless, they burned for a month. So fast, they raced through roughly three football fields per second. Hi, everyone. Im lester holt. Welcome to dateline. It was californias biggest wildfire, one of the most brutal ever recorded. Tonight, youll hear from the people trapped in its path, how they ran for their lives against the flames, against the clock to escape. And it began in one of the most beautiful places on earth. It was perfect. It was our dream home. Its exactly what you want if you want to be away from a city. Its just so peaceful and so calming and just to
You just got to push through. You do not stop. I said, please send somebody. And she said, theres nobody to send. It was, survivors said, like something alive a living, breathing giant that came out of the woods to hunt them down. The flames were so relentless, they burned for a month. So fast, they raced through roughly three football fields per second. Hi, everyone. Im lester holt. Welcome to dateline. It was californias biggest wildfire, one of the most brutal ever recorded. Tonight, youll hear from the people trapped in its path, how they ran for their lives against the flames, against the clock to escape. And it began in one of the most beautiful places on earth. It was perfect. It was our dream home. Its exactly what you want if you want to be away from a city. Its just so peaceful and so calming and just to me, its heaven on earth. The mountains are gorgeous. Its the valley of the sun. I grew up in ramona. And i always loved just the people and the area. Ramona is 30 miles east
Its a presence. You can sense it. It has an energy all to its own. It felt like a beast. Suddenly i was in terrible danger. The sky turned brown. The sun was blood red. It was as if the world were coming to an end. Houses on fire, trees on fire. I was transported into a war zone. I just lost it. I hear my dad screaming, its here, run. You just got to push through. You do not stop. I said, please send somebody. And she said, theres nobody to send. It was, survivors said, like something alive a living, breathing giant that came out of the woods to hunt them down. The flames were so relentless, they burned for a month. So fast, they raced through roughly three football fields per second. Hi, everyone. Im lester holt. Welcome to dateline. Youll hear from the people trapped in its path, how they ran for their lives against the flames, against the clock to escape. And it began in one of the most beautiful places on earth. It was perfect. It was our dream home. Its exactly what you want if yo
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With the prick of a needle, an elderly Chula Vista man was vaccinated against COVID-19 on Dec. 21, drawing cheers and applause from a room filled with health care workers.
Carlos Alegre had just become one of the first San Diegans to receive a vaccine that fights the novel coronavirus, raising people’s hope that the county, and the country, will emerge from the pandemic, perhaps by mid-to-late summer.
For the record:
4:02 PM, Jan. 12, 2021The original version of this article said that the CDC estimates 55 to 82 percent of the public will need immunity to the coronavirus to halt the pandemic’s spread. Those figures were actually reported by non-CDC researchers in a journal published the CDC.