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Waiting it out at ‘Camp Silverado’

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Orange County:

Evacuated from their rustic Orange County canyons for nearly a week, scores of residents are gathering in the parking lot of a nearby Albertsons market that they have dubbed ‘Camp Silverado.’

Children are handing out homemade Halloween cupcakes; volunteers are tending pets, including roosters and iguanas, in a makeshift animal shelter; and fire authorities are providing regular updates about the blaze’s direction as the evacuees wait to find out whether their homes are among the 14 destroyed.

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‘I’m feeling optimistic, but I’m dead tired and I’m pretty stressed out,’ said Sherry Meddick, a Silverado Canyon resident, as she tended the pets. ‘Keeping the animals keeps my mind off the situation, and people need the help.... It’s pretty hard to take your iguana, 15 rabbits, 10 chickens and pot-bellied pig to Motel 6. They might not leave the lights on.’

-- David Haldane

Photo: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

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