| Article: | Some escaped with their lives, and nothing more PAUMA VALLEY ---- One year later, memories of that horrible Sunday morning remain so immediate. Hortensia Garcia and Carmen Ortega recall the panic, the rush to corral their many children into the family vans, smoke so black and thick that to drive was impossible, everywhere the flames, consuming the scrubby hills where they lived near Valley Center and searing the paint of the vans to which they fled. |