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dixiegrrrrl

(60,061 posts)

6. We were in the Forks Fire on the Peninsula, in 1951.

Reply to KT2000 (Reply #4)

Thu May 5, 2016, 12:52 PM

May 2016

I was a little kid and remember being in the back of large car, flames on both sides of the road, for what seemed like miles before we even hit the paved road.
We had been living in a small farmhouse in La Push area.
Ended up living in Port Angeles for awhile.

Yesterday it was reported there had been a fatal car crash on the Fort MacMurray road, clogged up the evacuation efforts for awhile......