Redwood Valley residents return after their neighborhood was incinerated

Flowers are left on the mailbox of Roy Howard Bowman, 87, and his wife, Irma Elsie Bowman, 88, who died at their Fisher Lake Drive home in the Redwood Valley fire in Mendocino County.

A white picket fence is the only thing that survived on the property of Steve and Katrena Dursteler on Fisher Lake Drive in Redwood Valley.

Emily Learn recovers some china that survived the Redwood Valley fire at her parents’ home on Fisher Lake Drive.

Retired Cal Fire Capt. Redhawk Pallesen looks inside a gun safe at his home that was destroyed in the Redwood Valley fire.

Retired Cal Fire Capt. Redhawk Pallesen receives a hug of thanks from Cheryl Locatelli for saving her life from the Redwood Valley fire. Pallesen guided Locatelli out of the neighborhood as it was burning. All of the homes on the street were destroyed, and two seniors were killed in the blaze.

Frank Belford, a resident of Fisher Lake Drive, stands next to the truck that helped him escape the Redwood Valley fire.

Firefighter Martin Sommers stands at the mouth of Fisher Lake Drive, where every home on the block was destroyed by the Redwood Valley fire.

Steve Dursteler stands amid the ashes of his home on Fisher Lake Drive.

Volunteer firefighter Ron Locatelli, right, talks with an insurance adjuster amid the wreckage of his home on Fisher Lake Drive in Redwood Valley.

Emily Learn looks over the wreckage of her parents’ home that was destroyed in the Redwood Valley fire.