Robin Abcarian: They leapt into a pool to save themselves from fire, their story went viral, now they are starting over
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Dec 20, 2017
4 minutes
After the fire, they had nothing.
To their surprise, they also had everything.
You may recall the story of Jan LeHecka Pascoe and her husband, John, who spent six terrified hours in a neighbor's swimming pool, slipping below the surface to avoid the flames and embers, coming up for air, then slipping into the water again as a deadly, wind-whipped firestorm consumed their home, their neighborhood and very nearly cost them their lives.
Something about their story captured imaginations. Perhaps it was simply that it had a happy ending - they survived, together, by their own wits - when so many others perished in October's wine country fires. At first light,
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