‘I Believe in Prayer’: Family Refuses to Evacuate and Survives Deadly Camp Fire

Brad Weldon, a 63-year-old retired master carpenter, chose to stay behind and fight the fire after his 90-year-old mother refused to evacuate. Screenshot/Fox

“Mom didn’t want to leave,” Brad Weldon said, recalling the day he desperately tried to save his house and his 90-year-old mother from the Camp Fire in Northern California.

The deadly wildfire wiped out almost all of the homes in their town of Paradise on Nov. 8.