It was the second time in six years the Baker family had driven away from their dream home with a dark plume of smoke from a wildfire hanging overhead.
COHASSET â It's also the second time in six years that they evacuated only to learn that their home was among the hundreds of others destroyed by the flames.Sylvia and Ken Baker had just spent months upgrading and renovating their house off Watson Lane in Cohasset. 'People ask you, have you been through the fire? Did you lose anything? And I'm like, 'Yeah, for the second time,' ' Sylvia said.
Everything we own is sitting in an ash pile that you saw in Cohasset,' Ken said.It took hours to evacuate, with the fire jumping the freeway and taking down power lines across roads and streets.Ken has served in the military most of his life, serving two tours overseas, and hoped that after surviving the Camp Fire his home in Cohasset would be a fresh start.
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