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As part of a series of reports marking the one-year anniversary of the 91����� Fire, KEYT News 3 has produced a about 91����� Aquinas College and how, by God�s grace and the efforts of many, the California campus survived the blaze largely unharmed.

�When I was awakened at 2:00 a.m. in the morning that entire hillside was on fire,� President Michael F. McLean recalls. �I have this vivid memory of the fire burning up from the west through the creek bed.� He goes on to describe that night�s evacuation � �The students, God bless them, did a wonderful job getting off campus, some of them without their shoes, cell phones, wallets� � and his own decision to remain on campus: �I decided to stay,� he says. �I think it�s partly my background as a Coast Guard officer, and I sort of had in mind the idea that the captain stays with the ship.�

The video culminates with reporter Beth Farnsworth poignantly saying, �By sunrise, through heavy smoke, not one life or building was lost; it was evident the campus had survived� � as the camera pans to the statue of the Blessed Mother atop Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.