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Angela Adams did not like what she was seeing from her front door: a billow of smoke and flames on a mountain ridge not far from her home.

“I don’t like this view at all,” the 48-year-old said.

She had been keeping an eye on the mountain that sits across from her single-story Pacific Crest Estates home since 5 a.m.

Even though officials ordered mandatory evacuations in Wrightwood, she and hundreds of other residents had chosen to stay behind.

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