For roughly 15 hours from Thursday afternoon into Friday morning, when she should have been preparing for the Go Bowling PWBA Players Championship, Gabriella Mayfield was trying to find out if her family was alive.
Her family home in Lake Isabella, California, was destroyed and her grandmother’s home was damaged in one of the wildfires raging in the western U.S., but she didn’t know that or the fate of her family after a harrowing phone call on Thursday evening got cut off....