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Meet the 'unluckiest woman' who has survived wildfires, hurricanes and 'snowmageddon'

Meet the 'unluckiest woman' who has survived wildfires, hurricanes and 'snowmageddon'

Dayna Wyland

Dubbed the "unluckiest woman," Dayna Wyland, a resident of Lake Arrowhead, California, has either witnessed or escaped five natural disasters in her lifetime. Right now, she is escaping the wildfires in the state. She says she went to her aunt's place after a third emergency alert was sent to evacuate.

Lake Arrowhead is located in San Bernardino County where nearly 2,000 firefighters are battling the blaze. According to Fox Weather, fires have burned an area of more than 26,400 acres.

Talking to Fox News Digital, Wyland said, "I'm nervous now, and I know so many people in Running Springs, the next little tiny town over that are losing their house right now as we speak, and it absolutely kills me."

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"Those are my friends and even the people that aren't my friends, even the people I don't know," she added.

She was once given the title of the "unluckiest woman" by the media, considering the number of natural disasters she had witnessed

However, she begs to differ, since the last wildfire she got caught up in happened 17 years ago.

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"It has [been] 16, 17 years since the last fire, so you can't say the 'unluckiest one,' but we'll see because next time I move, we'll have that conversation," she said.

Hurricanes and a blizzard

But wildfires are not the only things she has witnessed. Hurricane Katrina in 2007 devastated their life in New Orleans. She said, "There was about 10 feet of flooding [in my house]. So everything on the bottom floor was completely destroyed."

The family drove 20 hours to Texas where they spent the next three months with a friend.

Next came Hurricane Rita and Wyland and her family had to evacuate once again.

Two years back, there was a blizzard, which she calls "Snowmageddon".

"We were snowed in for 11 days in our house with no electricity," she said.

Her husband is still in Lake Arrowhead, and waiting for the final alert to evacuate. Wyland says people seem to be leaving the area. "It looks like they're heeding the warnings, and everything's closed up in town. No banks," she said.

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