"I literally left one day to go to work and came back to nothing." California’s wildfires destroyed almost everything she owned. This is her advice to others still at risk.
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00:00This is just so horrible, oh my god!
00:04She started coming through the vent right here and Colleen got her outside real quick.
00:08The window shattered.
00:10Still kind of in shock.
00:30I never, going back there and even walking inside, I just, you know, you always think
00:39like it's never going to happen to me, you know.
00:43And then going in there, I still don't even know how to feel, like there's really no words
00:48to describe it.
00:50Just walking in and, you know, the smell, like it's, you would think a house fire smells
00:56like a campfire or something like that, but no, it smells like burnt up electricity and
01:01burnt up insulation and it smells like chemicals.
01:05I never imagined it was going to be in the state that it was.
01:10Oh god, honey.
01:14This was the last room to catch on fire, actually, and I actually had all my stuff on the shelves
01:20over there.
01:21I already took it out and kind of threw away most of it.
01:24It was mainly the upstairs.
01:26The downstairs is okay, like all of the dishes that we had downstairs in the kitchen because
01:32we had the kitchen and the living room were downstairs.
01:36That was all fine, but upstairs was all of our bedrooms.
01:39We lost all of our clothes, all of our personal care items.
01:44At this point, we still just don't have anywhere to go.
02:32Anyone that's in the fire area, I would say have an emergency pack of things in your vehicle
02:57ready to go already in your car because I literally left one day to go to work and came
03:04back to nothing.