Julie Dominguez was watching her kids play in the pool Friday afternoon when she first saw the fire.
When she realized the blaze wasn't dying down, she wrangled about 10 family members and shoved them in her Chevy Suburban, along with two dogs, rabbits and a pig. She had a friend ride off with her horse.
Dominguez, still wearing her bathing suit at an evacuation center Friday night, recalled feeling the heat of the flames against her car as she drove away from her home in Phelan in San Bernardino County.
"It's like I'm in a movie," said Dominguez, 45.