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Today’s introduction comes from Jim Wilson, a Times photographer based in the Bay Area.

Ben Hernandez stood, mostly silent, watching a crew of cleanup workers using an excavator to pick up the pieces of what was once his family’s four-bedroom home in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood. Occasionally he raised his phone to take a photo or record video of the scene where the deadly Tubbs fire had burned.

On the morning of Oct. 9, he woke up early to the smell of smoke, looked outside, saw flames advancing toward his street and knew he had to get his wife and four children out. Quickly, they evacuated.

Now, the cleanup of the fire has begun. Crews wearing full face masks and white protective suits have started peeling away the debris left by the blaze which destroyed most of the homes in the tidy urban area, where some streets bear coffee-themed names.