Warren Allen had the hose out Sunday afternoon, wetting down his roof again just to be sure.
Allen and his wife escaped their Malibu home in front of a fast-moving wildfire early Saturday morning, grabbing their three dogs and two cats, along with Allen's childhood baseball glove and his grandfather's violin. As word of the fire's damage spread, they began to fear the worst.
"We thought we'd lost the house," Allen said, "but our house was actually standing, which I couldn't believe."
"There's no rhyme or reason to what burned."
A change in winds, rising humidity and cooler temperatures helped firefighters get the upper hand on the Malibu wildfire Saturday afternoon, and by Sunday, the only visible flames were from backfires set by firefighters to burn off brush.
A day after the Corral fire chased them out, the Allens returned to their Lockwood Road home in the Malibu Bowl area to find several of their neighbors' homes reduced to ash and twisted metal. A neighbor's classic car collection, including a 1965 Shelby Mustang GT-350, was a charred, mangled mess nearby.
"We know everybody on this street who lost a home," Allen said. "I looked into that garage, and literally I cried.
"It's odd; you're so happy your home is here, but then you look up the street."
Investigators said the fire, which broke out early Saturday along a dirt road off a paved highway, was caused by humans, but they had not determined if it was started intentionally, Los Angeles County Fire Department Inspector Rick Dominguez said.
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