Los Angeles is where I was born, at a hospital in Hollywood.
I have two places I call home, the West side, which is burning, and Laguna Beach.
I have been everywhere that is on fire, and have friends, and an estranged brother, that has been touched by this fire. It has gutted me.
I cannot image how they will come back from this,
especially with the news of what is now in the topsoil.
These fires are more than the loss of a home, which is devastating;
they leave behind a toxic wasteland.
The images above (and details below) were
based on a still shot from a video.
The image above was loosely on the image here taken
by Associated Press photographer Mark Terrill. It stayed with me and haunted me.
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The loss, even of the places in your memories, must be devastating. I am sorry for everyone who has been affected by these fires.
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It is hard to even wrap my mind around it, but then there are the images. And no way to reach people. I have one friend whose husband has been unwilling to get a cell phone. She was traveling for business in Arizona when the fir4es started, and she had no way to reach him to find out whether their home was even threatened due to power outages. (He’ll be getting a cell phone!)
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