Garbage Collector Rescues Woman, 93, From Deadly Camp Fire

BUTTE COUNTY, CA -- A Northern California garbage collector received praise Sunday after a 93-year-old woman said the worker rescued her from the most destructive and deadliest fire in state history.

KCRA reported Margaret Newsum of Magalia learned about the Camp Fire after her caregiver left for the day.

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Newsum said she turned on the television to learn a fire was closeby and that evacuations were ordered. She was home alone with her cats, the news station reported.

"I went out and was standing on my front porch," Newsum said.

That's when Dane Ray Cummings, a longtime garbage collector, came rolling up to her house.

"He said, 'Get your things together quick. We'll get out of here,'" Newsum told KCRA.

Cummings said he and others lifted Newsum into the truck, fastened her seatbelt and drove off.

Since that day, the two have formed a bond.

"I wish I had known her when she was younger," Cummings told the news station. "I would've married her."

The blaze, which erupted Nov. 8, has killed at least 76 people with more than 1,000 people reported missing. The most destructive fire in California history, the blaze also destroyed more than 12,000 structures.

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