christina taft and her mother, victoria, lived in central paradise. >> i wasn't thinking it was tharhower, i started to smell oke. i was definitely panicked. i thought itouldll, like, burn.an i told that to my mom, and she just... she didn't want to listen to that negativity. we weren't really, ly,e, arguing, it was just kind of like i was saying stuff andng then pacp everything i could into the car.ar like, it was completely filled in the trunk and the tack seat, and just with the fron, you know, for my mom.en iton for a hour, kind k. she was just not really packingt she didn'tut of her pajamas, and then she started calling other people to find out what wasappening. looking outside, it started getting, you know, traffic and darker. i, you know, i just didn't know what. like, it was either i leave or stay and risk my ost life, and i had a life to live. like, told her that, like, "i have a life to live." and she was just kind of, like, lking to people on the phone, and they weren't telling her, "leave." >> narrato christina joined the thousands of othersev uating the town. her mom ref