While in shelter, couple worried about others’ fire challenges
By Jim Burns

Sam and Mickie Orchard are shown inside a Red Cross shelter in Santa Rosa.
Sam and Mickie Orchard had their bags packed on a Sunday night in October, prepared to leave their Santa Rosa home the next day for a vacation in Palm Springs. Instead, shortly after 2 a.m. on that Monday, October 9, the couple took an unplanned trip to a shelter the American Red Cross opened at the Finley Community Center in town. Read more