Today it's exactly one year since many Californians lost every material thing they had when their homes burned to the ground. That happened to a renter, Meghan (photo), and this is her account.
What she grabbed in her hasty evacuation by car was her: dog, laptop, change of clothes, dinner, handbag, shoes. She didn't really think the fires would reach her home. But on the 8th, ~nine hours later, her home was destroyed along with about 16,000 other homes in the Los Angeles area.
What she regrets not taking: family pictures, artwork, book manuscripts, etc.: "What haunts me is how much time I would have had to take more things, had I known what was about to happen."
from The Free Press
(cont'd tomorrow: LA fires)
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