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When the first big earthquake hit, a magnitude-6.4 on Thursday morning, Ridgecrest resident Heather Martin said so many of her belongings fell in front of her bedroom door that all she could do was crouch in a corner and wait for the shaking to stop. When the magnitude-7.1 quake struck the next night, Martin knew she had to get out of her apartment. Each doorway was another hurdle to pass through. “My back slammed into the doorframe,” she says, as she passed the bathroom, “and I had such an adrenaline rush at that point that I didn’t even realize I had hurt my back.” Martin says her brother, in a manufactured home in a different part of town, broke his ankle. Otherwise, she says their family is fine, and she doesn’t think their homes sustained major damage. The first few days following the quakes were chaotic, as the city of 29,000 and nearby communities grappled with house fires, blackouts, road closures and an inundated 911 system. Governor Gavin Newsom, who toured the areas and
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