Laura Caro thought the fire on the freeway in the Cajon Pass was bad. And then she got the bill for leaving her vehicle there.
Caro was driving her 80-year-old mother home from a doctor’s appointment Friday when the North fire spread to Interstate 15 and started burning vehicles. On officers’ orders, she left her SUV and fled, pushing her mom in a wheelchair through a smoky maze of stopped cars and frightened people.
Strangers gave them a lift, and Caro left her Ford Escape behind. When the Fontana resident went to get it from Gonzalez Tow in Hesperia, she was shocked: The company charged her $1,600, she said.
“It was just a nightmare,” Caro said. “I didn’t do anything illegal to have my car towed.”
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