‘GRAB ME A HOSE!’
Priest Morgan woke up Sunday to the smell of fire.
The 62-year-old looked outside, didn’t see much and drifted back to sleep again.
But about 3 a.m., panic set in, he said. He looked outside to find an inferno heading toward his neighborhood at Journey’s End, a mobile-home park in Santa Rosa.
Firefighters were there. He remembers shouting, “Grab me a hose!”
Morgan said he wanted to help save his neighbors and their homes.
“I lost the first one,” he said, recounting how the Tubbs Fire swallowed the homes. “The second one was lost. But then, I thought, ‘That one. That one’s good.’ ”
The fire finally stopped at a blue home with white trim. Morgan said he heard a dog barking.
“We went and we followed the sound of that dog,” he said. “And, there she was.”
Morgan said he found a woman in a wheelchair who couldn’t get out of her home. Morgan and his neighbors alerted a firefighter, who was able to save her.
“We got her out,” he said. “Thank God, we got her out.”