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FILE - In this file photo, photo Logan Hertel fills a bowl of goldfish with water after he and some friends rescued them from a destroyed home on Parker Hill Court in Santa Rosa, Calif. Hertel is determined to reunite them with their owners. (Nhat V. Meyer/San Jose Mercury News via AP)

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What Logan Hertel and his friends found in the scorched remains of their Northern California neighborhood wasn't a photo album, wedding ring or even a skittish cat separated from its family for months. What they discovered were goldfish — plain, sickly and living off ash in a grimy tub.

By Associated Press December 29, 2017