Margrig Garcia has spent the last couple of decades living in a town that for all intents

and purposes no longer exists.

That's because it got devoured last week by the Dixie Fire, the largest single blaze in

California history.

It just seems surreal.

I would have thought downtown was the safest area, not the one that was gonna burn.

Margaret says our little town of Greenville.

It was supposed to be safe.

It wasn't tucked away in the woods.

It was right next to a big lake, but there had been these warning signs.

We'd been on edge all summer because this is an area where when I moved here almost 20

years ago it never got over like 90-some odd degrees, 93 degrees, maybe twice in the

summer it got that hot and we had just experienced 105 degree heat as the median temperature for

three weeks was 105 degrees.

So it's like you're living global warming.

We are living global warming.

We didn't anticipate the winds being so strong and entirely pushing the fire around the

lake into downtown.

Margaret cleared out for the summer with her kids and her husband.

But her mom was still there.

Last week her mother had just gotten the all clear to return to her home when the fire started

pushing closer.

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