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A Rocky Fire Notebook: Flames, Evacuations and a Woman Who Wouldn't Flee

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Signs of normalcy are returning slowly in and around Lake County, a spot about two hours north of San Francisco where a ferocious wildfire has incinerated more than 70,000 acres. Friday morning, two main highways reopened and many people who evacuated the Rocky Fire are now returning home -- or what's left of it. KQED's Dan Brekke has been up in Lake County talking with firefighters, evacuees and some who refused to leave.

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