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“We left at 4 a.m. I took nothing from my house but what you see me wearing,” Saqo said, adding that the house had since been burned.

Between the high cost of housing, the unhelpful unemployment offices and the cops finding excuses to harass him, Paul can’t find his footing, let alone his way home.

“We found that women in households tend to make most of the healthcare decisions for the house,” he said.

On any given street, houses facing the expected wildfire path could be displaced to create yet another buffer zone.

“It’s having a major effect on what people think needs to be done in terms of making housing safer.”