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  1. Chunk the article into manageable (2 paragraphs max.) pieces. Number them. Don’t forget the title/opening!
  2. Highlightat least three words you are not familiar with or that are important and define them on the graphic organizer.
  3. Show evidence of a close reading. Mark up the left side of the text (each chunk) with questions and/or comments that demonstrate interacting with the text. You may also include any confusion you have.
  4. Complete the attached graphic organizer to analyze author’s craft.

Husband and Wife Survive California Wildfire by Hiding inPool

ByChris Perez

October 12, 2017|11:11pm|

John and Jan Pascoe survived the firestorm Monday morning by running out of their home and into their neighbor's swimming pool in Santa Rosa. The married couple from California managed to survive six hours inside their neighbor’s pool while their entire neighborhood was engulfed by wildfires, a report says.Jan Pascoe, 65, and her husband, John, 70, were trapped outside their home in Santa Rose on Monday — with nowhere to run or hide — when they made the fateful decision to seek shelter in the blackened, debris-filled pool next door,according to the LA Times.

With houses burning down all around them, and the flames inching closer, the pair was able to hide from the deadly heat and embers thanks to their quick thinking.“We are going to get into the neighbor’s pool, should we do this?'” Jan remembered telling a 911 dispatcher.“The heat was ‘whoa,'” recalled John.

The couple had been watching the wildfires from inside their mountaintop home before they eventually went outside in an attempt to escape around 12:40 a.m. Monday, the Times reports.“We were in survival mode,” Jan told the newspaper, explaining how they first jumped in their car and tried speeding away, to no avail.

“It was a wall of flames,” she said, describing the end of their driveway.“What are we going to do? What are we going to do?”Fearing the worst, Jan and her husband thought of their neighbor’s pool and quickly made a run for it.“You’ve got to calm down, Jan,” she told herself. “You can’t go underwater and hyperventilate.”

It was several hours past midnight — and the wind was howling.“We were freezing,” Jan said. But they had to move quickly.“Jump in now,” John ordered, after stripping off his pants and jacket.All Jan was wearing was a tank top and pajama bottoms. She said her glasses disappeared the minute she hit the water. “I just kept going under,” Jan explained. “And I kept saying, ‘How long does it take for a house to burn down?'”

In order to protect themselves from the smoke and embers, the Pascoes told the Times, they held T-shirts over their faces — while bobbing in and out of the water.“I thought someone would come to get us,” Jan said. But no one came.Luckily for her and her husband, though, the pool was just 4 feet deep all the way across — making it easy to stay submerged.The couple wound up staying in the water for about six hours, according to The Times.They reportedly held each other to stay warm and stood back-to-back to stay awake.

When they got out, Jan’s shoes and personal belongings that she had left by the pool were melted — and everything around them, including their home and their neighbors’ homes, was completely destroyed.“We held hands,” John said, “and walked out.” The wildfires in Northern California have killed at least 31 people — making this the deadliest single week of wildfires in state history, according to officials.The blazes broke out Sunday night, with more than a dozen fires being reported since.

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