Homeowner watches grass fire through door camera

When Molly Lubbock received an alert from the doorbell camera at her home between Falls City and Poth on Sept. 16, she expected to see something simple and harmless. “What I actually saw stopped me cold — smoke and flames flickering across the screen in front of my house,” Lubbock recalled. “After months without meaningful rain, my yard and the surrounding fields had become like a match, ready to ignite at the smallest spark.” Lubbock, who was miles away from her home watching a school football game, began calling neighbors, hoping to find out what was going on; when neighbors...

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