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Sitting down, breaking bread with your friends and neighbors is usually the theme of the annual Galt Sunrise Rotary Community Dinner; however, faced with COVID-19 restrictions, members of the local Rotary shifted the focus from an in person hot meal, complete with a visit from St. Nick, to a drive-through boxed meal for the entire family event. Held Saturday, Dec. 19 at Galt United Methodist Church, more than 175 food boxes were distributed, which serviced nearly 1,000 individuals, down more than 500 people usually served at the in-person hot meal event. “One of our (Rotary) mottos is â...

>> we could see the fire was a couple miles north, so not heading towards our house. >> i said we would be fine. we'd just leave if we will to be evacuated. >> we'd been warned by the firefighter, if you get the evacuation notice, you need to get out quickly. i took the photo albums out, put them in the truck. some of our paperwork, put that in the truck and we hooked up the suv to our tent trailer and pointed all the cars down the hill in case we had to get out quickly. so our plan was to all get in separate vehicles and take all our vehicles off of the property. >> it was about 1:00 in the m...

Blocking everyone. lori and i are in my truck. we start heading down the driveway slowly looking for alison. >> where's alison? we can't find her. and we're driving and we're looking and we're trying to figure out and we figured maybe we missed and she got in the car with jason? we didn't -- it didn't make any sense. so she couldn't have been in front of us. we haven't driven past her. there's a fence. she couldn't have gone through the fence. the fence was on fire. so it just didn't -- it didn't process as to where she could have possibly gone. >> i can't see anybody behind me. i'm hoping the...

Says "i can't find my keys." at that point i just tell her forget your keys, run. i'm thinking she's going to run either to us or to jason. and then right after she takes what just seems like a few steps, this incredible ball of fire goes past followed by smoke. and that i know is when my first set of shock really set in because i was processing i think that she's dead. right there in front of me. >> lori watched flames rise up and surround her daughter, but she didn't know even more danger was ahead for her entire family and the other residents trapped in the great california wildfire were al...

And it turns out that it's my sister allison. and i remember seeing her smoke, like she had just come out of a shower steaming. she looked like that, but smoking. >> jason roach found his sister, but what kind of shape was she in? the fire was threatening the whole family and they were in more trouble than they knew. and so many other people trapped in the wildfire were also left with life-or-death decisions. coming up -- >> i said where is the fire? >> sisters with just seconds to survive. >> once we hit that wall of flames, realty set in. >> she was panicking. >> i just lost it. i said i don...