Tufts student describes waiting with go bag NECN [Video]

A Tufts University student made it back to the Massachusetts campus after a harrowing end to winter break at her home in Southern California.

Malibu native Kylie McNulty and her family were prepared to evacuate their home if the raging fires came too close.

“I saw the fire. I saw it coming from the mountains right when I was on PCH [Pacific Coast Highway]. But in the moment, I didn’t think it was anything … because fires are just kind of part of our life over there,” she said.

But McNulty soon realized, as she drove back to her family’s Malibu home, this wasn’t just any wildfire.

She found the Pacific Coast Highway closed because of the Palisades Fire, then spent days in her home without power or much communication from the outside, with a fire bag packed ready to evacuate.

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