Shockey fire aftermath

[nadinbrzezinski]

This family lost all, the fire was so hot that engine blocks melted. Yet that kid's toy survived. I sent my husband's version of that photo to the paper. Hell of a way to spend the day off for him.



A camp of some sort, we never quite found out what it was.



From the same location. We can theorize this was a mess hall, but we have no idea.



Utilities down, and cables where like everywhere. So we had to be damn careful. That pole is over a children's monkey bar at that camp. Behind it you can see the almost moon like state of the ashy ground.



The toy I posted first, they are the family. It is their son. They were looking for a petrified rose that the family got from the Walk of Tears. They never found it. He was boiling over, and I get it. They lost all. That is the hard part. We gave his son a plus toy, I know that from years of EMS that is something for the child, but it will not be easy and last night, it was cold.

They staid there, in a tent.



Finally this is a singed cactus plant.

But this is the statistics in the flesh as it were.

Oh we also got one of the neighbors, who came home, and had with him the dog of the person who died in the car. And another older lady and her husband. I met them on Sunday, I could not help to think about them. they went home, they did not lose anything. Such is the fate of wild fires.

Oh and now that we drove in the clear, I realize I did get in quite a bit to get the fire shots.

[Celebration]

1. they all make me sad, but

I really like the last one.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Usually people don't photograph plants

the light was right.

We ended up doing a tad of something press usually does not do. No, not get close to the story... but still try to be humane to people.

I will be honest, I hate these kinds of stories, (and this was a bad fire due to losses), because of the losses. A good fire is the one that does not take property or lives... that is a good fire. I do not mind those, They are part, especially in chaparral land, of the cycle of life. Manzanita needs a hot fire, to sprout seeds, period.

But when property is lost and all that.