A house guest awoke Yoshi Makino around 1:30 a.m. to look at the glow of fire showing over the eastern hills from Potter Valley. Within a half hour, the whole ridge was on fire. "It was so fast-moving," she said. Eight people died in the Redwood Valley fire near Ukiah, while last week's fires overall have killed 41 people, burned more than 245,000 acres and destroyed more than 5,700 structures across California, CAL FIRE's Public Information Officer Lynne Tolmachoff reported Tuesday. CAL FIRE is a name of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in charge of fighting the state's fires in "State Responsibility Areas of California," totaling 31 million acres...
