Sue McAllister and Michael Palmer are only a few months into their retirement.

In June, they moved from Oklahoma to the small mountain community of Blue River, Oregon,

onto the property where McAllister grew up.

My family's had this property for several generations.

My great-grandfather bought it in the early 1900s.

A few nights ago, just after McAllister and her husband went to bed,

their phones lit up with a level three evacuation warning.

Which is immediate, leave now, do not gather your belongings.

They grabbed a few important documents, their three cats, and headed for the door.

And there was this moment where he hoped the warning was some kind of error.

And I started looking around and the fire had already jumped on our property.

Basically, the embers were flying miles.

The trees were torching up as tall as, you know, they're a hundred and some feet tall,

and they were torching. I mean, flying flames everywhere.

It was, it was really scary.

Not long after they escaped, a neighbor sent them a photo of their property.

There's nothing remaining except for a brick chimney.

Michael Palmer and sumigalister, they were called their escape to my colleague,

Lulu Garcia Navarro.

The wildfires spreading through Oregon aren't slowing down.

And if that wasn't enough, rumors have sprung up about the origins of the fires.

Rumors that play on the tension between far left and far right groups in Oregon.

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