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California Mom: I Called Daughters to Tell Them I Was About to Die in Wildfire

COUNTING THEIR BLESSINGS

Nurse—and mother of five—stayed behind in Paradise to try help her patients get to safety as the flames closed in.

Allison Quinn
Allison Quinn 

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Allison Quinn

Allison Quinn

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