An advance party of gardeners, maids and contractors, many of whom had lost days of work, arrived first in Montecito. At the gates of a family home where she has worked for two decades, Juana Garcia said, I know Im going to find a lot of ash.
Left behind in California were his wife, Juana Garcia, and five children and stepchildren. Desperate to return to them, Martinez tried crossing three times in the mountains east of San Diego but was caught.