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Long Recovery for Iconic Napa Pet Cemetery After October Fire | KQED News

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Channel: KQED News · 2018 · News & Politics

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First, Dan Harberts heard the wind.

At home on Atlas Peak Road, on a hillside overlooking the Napa Valley, he noticed the breeze rising all evening after a beautiful October day.

"It started picking up to the point where as we got into bed, branches were falling on the roof and making a racket," Harberts says.

An hour or so later, for no reason he can explain, Harberts climbed out of bed to take a look outside.

"I didn’t hear anything, I didn’t see anything," he says. "I just got up. I walked to the front of our bedroom, and I looked out over the valley, and there was a wall of fire that was coming."

Harberts says one thought leapt to mind: "That I better be making very good decisions because this is a critical situation." He called to his wife, Peggy, " 'Honey, get up, we have got to get out now.’ "

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