When the Airport fire hit the El Cariso Village neighborhood of Lake Elsinore, one family of six escaped with their 46 animals.
Garrett Keene watched as the Airport fire grew closer to his neighborhood above Lake Elsinore this week until the afternoon he was suddenly warned to flee. As ash rained down, Keene and his wife packed up their three young daughters, their infant son and their family’s most prized possessions — a menagerie of dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, birds, tortoises and pigs, 46 animals in all — and raced out of their neighborhood down Ortega Highway as 100-foot-tall flames encroached.
' Days after the fire had passed through, scorched trees were still smoking with heat, and broken glass, nails and downed power lines littered the ground. At a neighboring property that Keene rents to a mother of two, the fire had blown out the windows and front door. An abandoned jigsaw puzzle was unfinished at the dining room table, and children's drawings and a note in red crayon wishing for a “wonderful life” clung to the refrigerator.
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