Sixty residents were airlifted from the camp, three at a time. Altogether, 73 people were evacuated. KOB Eyewitness News 4 was there when the residents arrived on safe ground. One evacuee said it was an uncomfortable journey. "My husband had surgery last weekend. They evacuated the medical people first. He would have rather stayed in our rig, laying on the bed. He's quite uncomfortable in the bus now," Marg Schinke said.
The evacuees were placed on buses and sent to Carlsbad, where the Red Cross has set up an evacuation center. More
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