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Quentin Fears, a soft-spoken 51 year old, has lived in and around a flood-control channel that runs under Interstate 10 for around a decade. That day in November, he rescued a friend he saw floating away on a mattress.

“I’ve seen on TV where there’s a fire or storms or whatever and you see that they’re warning everybody, and they never warned us at all,” said Naranjo. “They should have gotten us out in time.”

Today, Fears still lives in the same spot. “There’s nowhere to go,” he said.