One decision may have saved Jean Morse's home in Barefoot Landing.
She said she was fast asleep in her home on that Thursday morning when her son came rushing in to wake her up around 2:30 a.m.
"He was screaming that the whole neighborhood was on fire," Morse said Thursday morning. "I told him to catch the cat, and put it in a cage, and I threw on some clothes and then we left just with what we had on our backs, and we went and put the sprinkler system on," she said.
That alone may have saved her six-year-old house, as neighbors houses were completely destroyed by what became the second-worst wildfire in state history.
"It's sad," Morse said. "We still see the neighbors, a lot of them have rentals, so we still see them. There are a few that have decided they're not going to come back."
Some of Morse's neighbors tell News13 they've been frustrated by insurance companies, and because they have to keep calling insurance adjusters and restoration experts back when they find more smoke or structural damage that has to be cleaned up.
Still, Morse says one day, her neighborhood will be back to normal.
"I think once all the the houses get built, it will be (normal)," she said.
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