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cargill philanthropy and the orange county community foundation. female announcer: hasa is a proud sponsor of "earth focus." [cattle lowing] man: we're awoken by a lightning storm, and we rarely get that here. [thunder] we saw these vein lightning bolts all through the sky, and it was-- i'd actually never seen anything like that before. the ones that landed actually started fires within a visual distance of our ranch. [rumbling] woman: the fire almost seemed like it was almost like a tennis match or something because it would kind of bounce back down the valley and then it would go back up again, and this is over a series of days. it's like i just didn't want to go to sleep because i didn't know what was going to be happening when i woke up. my parents house burned down when i was in high school. we came home to a burning house. i definitely thought that we were gonna lose our home. john: i came up to the house, and she was packing the car, you know, all your important papers, everything. she goes, "ok, john. ready? we're ready to go." i said, "dia