Along Beasore Road in Madera County, local ranchers who have deep, century old family roots in the local town of O’Neals frantically evacuated their horses and other belongings with just a few hours of notice. Meanwhile, the Creek Fire slowly engulfed the road behind. While the family refrained from providing their name for this story, the matriarch of the pack noted, “We had to get our horses out of there. Now waiting [on side of the road] for the rest of us. Never seen it this bad in my time here.”