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When Beckie Simmie and her husband left their home on the east side of Santa Rosa as the Kincade fire approached, they were much better prepared than they were in 2017.

That’s when the deadly Tubbs fire stunned Sonoma County, leveling huge swaths of homes, including in Coffey Park, where Ms. Simmie had lived for decades.

“When you lose everything, you’re numb,” she told me on Monday morning. “You’re like, ‘Should I buy a shirt? Should I go buy furniture? Or should I just sit still?’”

This time, Ms. Simmie, 67, said she and her husband calmly packed their Ford Transit Connect van with camping gear and provisions, as well as the relatively few possessions they didn’t want to lose when the evacuation order came.