‘Everything Was Incinerated’: Scenes From One Community Wrecked by the Santa Rosa Fire<br />“It was safe and everybody got along.”<br />Mr. Tran described the chaotic scene in the early hours of Monday morning when police cars came through the neighborhood with horns<br />and sirens blaring – and loudspeakers barking orders for residents to leave.<br />“It looks like a bomb went off,” said Ms. Coats, an accounts assistant at a retirement home.<br />SANTA ROSA, Calif. — It looked like a blizzard of red embers had slammed into the suburban home of Bruce and Lisa Coats.<br />“We had a good mix,” said Kevin Tran, a district manager at Verizon.<br />Mr. Coats spotted his water heater and the tools in his garage workshop: the<br />mangled remains of a drill press, a compressor, a belt sander and a tile saw
