A 101-year-old man who got as far as the front door of his burning Fountaingrove home before telling his wife to run to safety without him was the latest victim to be identified Thursday by coroner’s officials as one of 23 people known to have died in Sonoma County in last month’s wildfires.
Flames from the rampaging Tubbs fire threatened from every direction when Tak-Fu Hung and his wife, Helen Hung, 76, peered into the night in search of a way out of the inferno, his daughter and granddaughter said Thursday.
But even with a wet towel draped over them, Tak-Fu Hung didn’t see how he would survive the violent storm and told his wife to try to get out on her own, they said.
“He told her, ‘Just go,’” Rosanne O’Hara said by phone from San Francisco, describing her grandfather’s last moments. “He would not make it. He couldn’t make it.”