SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

During an evacuation, every second matters. Having a 'Go Bag' can save precious time, but you may not have time to look for irreplaceable family photos.

Digitizing family photos and videos and uploading them to flash drives or into the cloud ahead of fire season can give you piece of mind during an evacuation.

You can do this at home with a scanner or even just taking pictures with your phone, but that could greatly reduce the quality and be very time consuming. There are companies that offer this service, including Mike's Camera in Midtown Sacramento. They can digitize photographs of all sizes, slides, negatives, video tapes and reels.

"We do offer a service called a ‘gather box’ for photographs, so that’s a box that you buy from us, fill it all up as much as poss

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