Spot on lake countys cobb mountain, convinced the valley fire was in the process of consuming their home not more than a mile away. Teri gormley oh gosh, just overwhelming emotion, just holding each other and sobbing, and just thinking, we lost it all. Its all gone. Garvin this, however, is the story of how the gormleys and 28 of their neighbors didnt lose their homes. John and it started right on the other side of that hill a little ways. Garvin it begins really just a couple of hours earlier, when john, a current firefighter, and terry, a retired one, heard about a small fire burning near a friends ranch, and headed over to help. John he said, oh, im glad you guys are here. Do what you can to save my house, theres a little grass rig here. Garvin the grass rig, a pickup truck with a water tank and pump, would prove critical to the gormleys, just not yet. What they were facing here was no big deal for a couple with 44 years combined firefighting experience. John i wasnt concerned about
This cal fire map shows you the magnitude of the valley fire in perspective. The red area is all that burned, but did you ever notice this small pocket right here that didnt burn . Well, youre about to learn the two reasons why. It turns out theyre married to each other. Garvin rain, even just a little of it. What john and teri gormley wouldnt have given for a little rain on that day in september, the day they stood in this very spot on lake countys cobb mountain, convinced the valley fire was in the process of consuming their home not more than a mile away. Teri gormley oh gosh, just overwhelming emotion, just holding each other and sobbing, and just thinking, we lost it all. Its all gone. Garvin this, however, is the story of how the gormleys and 28 of their neighbors didnt lose their homes. John and it started right on the other side of that hill a little ways. Garvin it begins really just a couple of hours earlier, when john, a current firefighter, and terry, a retired one, heard a
The Los Altos/Mountain View branch of the American Association of University Women, along with members of the seven branches of the Santa Clara County Inter-Branch Council of AAUW, marked the