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Just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, Adrienne Bracks was awoken by a call from her neighbor in the Oakland Hills.
“He called us and said, ‘Get up. The house is on fire next to you,’” she recalled, standing outside the charred ruins of the building two days later.
With her husband, Anthony, and dogs in tow, she hurried out to the street, where neighbors were already connecting their garden hoses, throwing water on the pavement and checking their watches, waiting for firefighters to come…