Terrie Morin, 60, and her husband, Dave, were at the barber shop when they heard about a raging wildfire making headway toward their Camarillo home on Wednesday morning.The couple were hosting two guests at the time, but because their guests worked late, Morin suspected they slept through the residence’s fire alarms.“I run in the house, and I’m banging on the door, and they did not hear me. They were knocked out,” Morin told CNN. “Get the dog. Get out of here. You don’t have time, just get out!” she recalled telling them.Ten minutes later, Dave noticed sparks in their backyard. The temperature was also picking up.“It was hot. It was so hot,” Morin recalled.Dozens of homes in California’s Ventura County were set alight in a sweeping wildfire that burned through thousands of acres of land in just a matter of hours midweek — prompting authorities to send more than 14,000 …
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