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Robinson said he didn’t come to sift the cinders, not today.

Life savings, memories and livelihoods: all cinders within hours.

“If we have to take helicopters out of an area and the wind catches one of those cinders in that area and lifts it up, we could ignite a whole other area,” he added.

But as she wandered through the wreckage on Thursday, she stepped amid cinders left by the flames that had swarmed the land and erased the life she had built.

"I've been relieved from the burden of my stuff because it's all in cinders."