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“It was scary,” said Fine, and the hellish ordeal took another jarring turn when fire advanced on the facility where they’d just been transported, forcing a second evacuation.

From the rubble, many found small trinkets that brought them smiles and, occasionally, a moment of joy amid the hellish ordeal.

His release, she said, has returned her family to a “state of hellish angst.”

The fact the lodge and most of the nearby resort escaped the hellish firestorm is a testament to the work of Smith’s team and firefighters.

That includes telling people to stay out for a week or two when the foliage is bone-dry and another hellish heat wave appears in the weather forecast.