Destructive fire has Ojai in its sights as powerful winds return
OJAI, Calif. - The people who pressed into the fire station in downtown Ojai were scared and hoping for reassurance. From the street corners of this picturesque valley town, they could see flames marching along the mountain ridge to the north. Fire trucks rumbled by wine tasting rooms, meditation retreats and spas toward a second wall of fire moving in from the south and east.
One citizen after another approached the station's front counter Wednesday with a version of the same question: Is Ojai going to burn?
And one by one they received the same disconcerting reply: We just don't know.
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