LOS ANGELES — Kathy Petersen has lived in Hemet for 13 years and had known of fires in the area but had never been close to one until Monday.
Petersen, 54, got an alert on her phone that warned about the Fairview fire and looked out her window, seeing smoke everywhere.
“I didn’t think I was gonna have to evacuate,” she said, “but as it got closer, I knew.”
