PRESCOTT, Ariz. - It wasn't the recollection of the "wall of fire," the blaze sweeping through the scrubby terrain, that caused Cindy Carrillo to take off her glasses and wipe away tears. It was something that came before, on Saturday night, when she was fearful about what would come. She had to release her birds. Carrillo, a 55-year-old with a mane of dark curls and round spectacles, kept 50 pigeons on her property, a secluded acre or so, in Peeples Valley, about three miles as the crow flies - pigeon flies? - from Yarnell. She had kept the birds for years, starting with injured ones she'd find through her work as gardener. Also "It's like they're my kids," she said. "I was telling...
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