Lake County (KRON) Fire evacuees are being given 15 minutes to collect belongings and check on pets trapped during the Valley Fire days earlier where hundreds of other homes were lost.
In some cases it is a race to save starving pets. It has been nearly 4 days since many pets have had any food or water.
KRON4’s Terisa Estacio followed one woman Wednesday that she wanted to go into the fire zone to find her friends deceased pets
For Debra Sturm she tried to leave with all of her animals, but the fire came in too quickly and she was trapped. She lost her car keys and faced a wall of flames, her nephew raced up the hill.