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Couple missing in California fire sought shelter in a pond

by Associated Press
| September 10, 2020 4:27 PM

GRIDLEY, Calif. (AP) — Flames were bearing down on Sandy Butler's home in the wooded hills of Northern California when she called her son to say that she and her husband were going to climb a fence and try to find shelter in a nearby pond.

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