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Some of the sailors even had singed hair because the flames were so close, the sailor added.

He was, to use a phrase he coined 10 years later, “singeing the beard of the king of Spain,” raiding his way up the Spanish territories along the Pacific.

He walked down Tahiti Avenue, flying embers singeing his skin, to Temescal Canyon Road, where he had parked his car.

Along the roadway, Ballantyne pointed out two peach trees, now completely singed.

Meanhile, his skin was singed by embers, and ashes covered his hair as the fire continued to advance.