‘We Couldn’t Keep’: A California Household’s Life After Evacuating

“They’re having meals proper right here. Now we’re staying at an Airbnb. I come backwards and forwards to get meals, or waters and stuff like that. Actually, to return get scorching meals so we will come eat. A number of stuff that’s been useful is all of the donations and stuff that these folks have offered for us. They’re going to have a wildfire aid evening, too. After which additionally this different place referred to as Altadena Ladies, they’re freely giving some stuff too.” “With out faculty, I actually don’t have so much to do. However once I hang around with my mother and my aunties and my cousins, they replenish my schedule. Despite the fact that I don’t actually like having to do math and never having the ability to play on a regular basis, I actually like faculty, hanging out with my buddies. I all the time knew a hearth was going to occur finally, however I didn’t comprehend it was going to be like this — destroying homes in every single place it went and blocking issues. And yeah, making folks not have the ability to have a house or going again to their house to get what they want.” I by no means thought that it might occur to Altadena, to our neighborhood. It’s now not going to look the identical. It’s now not going to be the identical.”