That was my perfect house and of course you always think it's not going to be your house
so your community, you know.
I mean it was probably a quarter after four and they gave the mandatory evacuation and
we just sat there in front of the TV for another couple minutes and was like well, I guess
start getting stuff together and walked outside and looked at it and was just like oh my god.
The land was flat and then it went up the side of the mountain and fire kind of stayed
on the side of the mountain but you could just see how it was shoved all the way down
and it just burnt everything in its path and it just followed that like a guide, just went
right to the houses.
And the heat got real heavy, hot, hot, you know and I looked at my arms and we jumped
in the vehicles and my suitcase that I had, which I journeyed travel with, I had it all
full of clothes but it's still laying on the bed, there was, I probably don't have a bed.
See what's left in the bed.
After a few minutes when I got there today, I had some tears because it was a positive
sure thing, you know, because I actually saw it.
It's not easy but you know I'm not alone, I mean there was so many people there today
under the same circumstances that I was there to see.
It was really cool tonight to see streets calling out and getting together so they could
support each other.
When you hear, you know, your neighbor's house is standing and your own house is not
or something like that, all the people together.
I just, I really love this community.
I thought I'd never see my home again.
From what I've heard it was the firemen, the local firemen that held the line up the
street to make sure the fire didn't come down here, so I owe so much to them.
I wanted those residents, I wanted those people who lost their homes and those people that
died, I wanted them to know that we were working as hard as we could to save that neighborhood,
to save all the structures that we could and it was a difficult task, it almost seemed
like an impossible task.
It's not the end of the world, you know, you lose some things that you can't replace,
but you know, as long as you're alive we got us out and our daughter out and our cat
out and what else matters.
Walking up the steps to the porch to nothing, I mean, you know, no house to go to.
There's just days or times that you just can't help but cry in front of them and as a whole
I'm so impressed with their strength.
I'm utterly, utterly overwhelmed and I'm so thankful.
I think for sure we're going to come out on the other side of this better than we were
before this fire.
