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Some Californians didn't get evacuation alerts in wildfires

by Associated Press
| August 30, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Debra DeAngelo went to sleep, she thought the flames chewing through Northern California wine country were too far away to be dangerous. Plus, she had signed up for all the alerts that emergency officials pressed on people after years of catastrophic wildfires.

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