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She's £20. She has been with me through 11 displacements since the fire. Yeah. And so one of the first things that I thought of. But you didn't ask the question yet, so I'll wait. I am back at my property. I've been back for about six weeks, I stayed away, I was in 11 different places because the fire came. I saw the flame in my window and that's how I. I looked on my phone and there was an evacuation thing. Yeah. So the first thing I was thinking about telling you was I lost my babysitter for my dog. Um, it was difficult being with Rumi 24 over seven through 11 different displacements, and it reduced the amount of places that I could go to because I had a dog and some people were like, no, sorry. But I mean, at one point I was really stuck and I didn't know where I was going to go next. And the reason, one of the reasons I was stuck was because I had gone to stay with some lovely people. They were so welcoming, but my dog didn't know how to function with a big yard. She was used to me walking her, and she also smelled the multiple dogs that were there, and she peed on a low coffee table. And then very soon after that and somebody watch was on the table. Very soon after that, they I was told to leave, so I didn't know where I was going to go. And, um, I, I texted some friends in Las Vegas who said that I could go there. And when I mentioned that I had a dog, they said I couldn't. So that was how that was. So my neighbor used to be like an auntie to my dog, and she was displaced in Pasadena, so she was with me 24 over seven. But I will mention something amazing that happened. I'm not sure if this absolutely goes with Lost and Found, but I was in target about six weeks ago and it was day when I was feeling kind of down and I was in line and there was someone in front of me and she asked me about my dog, and we chatted a tiny bit and she said, I'm going to pay for your cart. And I'm like, oh, you know. And I had I had told her that it was hard having a dog 24 over seven. And she said she understood she had sisters in Altadena, and then she was this strong black woman and she insisted that I'm like, not the fan. And she said, yes, the fan. Everything in your cart. I'm paying for. And her name. I asked her her name. Her name was cashmere and things like that. So are so beautiful to balance out the sort of, you know, the losses along the way. One of the things that I lost when I left, um. Was one of my hearing aids. It was like in my bed, and I and I didn't, and I lost my wallet. So I actually didn't have gas in my car to get to the church. All Saints Church, which was a wonderful volunteer in, um, Altadena named Deb Halverstadt or something. I don't know how to say it. Said Albertstadt. She called me the night before and said, um, you know something about that? The the fires were starting in Eaton Canyon area and they might come to the west side, but it seemed so far away we couldn't imagine it. But when when the flame was in my window from the house burning across the street, I remember what she said was like to drive west and south. So I basically left everything behind except my dog, my dogs, doctor Marty's food, and maybe like one shirt. And I was the shoes I found were like tennis shoes that didn't fit me anymore. So there I was, and I guess I lost a part of my identity at the time because through having all these Displacements. I lost my hair care products. I lost, like, you know, the clothes. It became like you just wear what's functional. This is a I wore today clothes that were, like, associated with my, um, displacements. My shoes were when I was downtown because I didn't have any clothes, shoes that fit. And I was wearing, like, sandals. And it was downtown LA. And it was kind of scary for me because I hadn't been in downtown LA in a long time. I was staying at the Ace Hotel, um, courtesy of the Baha'is of some someplace. And um, so I saw a Ross amidst all this craziness downtown. There's so many homeless people and, um, and, uh, I stayed at a historic hotel. The what was the Ace Hotel? It's now style. And so I got these shoes, earth shoes. Maybe I can put her with this woman that likes dogs. Oh. Anyway, so when I say I lost part of my identity, I. I looked like a vagabond. I mean, I'd wear whatever was functional. And my hair, which had a weird haircut at a beauty school. Anyway, uh, but an accidental haircut. Um, you know, it was just how it was. Um, it was just like, how am I going to wear a short sleeved shirt? Or am I going to wear a long sleeve shirt? And I did when I was in Claremont, my second displacement, I did reach out to some optometrists to see if anybody could help me with a hearing aids, but I didn't hear back. Um, I guess the next thing that would be really relevant to say. Eventually I did contact a previous, um, not an optometrist, an audiologist, a previous audiologist that gave me a loaner pair of hearing aids. It took a few months before that happened, and that was kind of hard. I, I ordered a device called a pocket talker where I could talk into this thing so I could hear people and they can hear me. Um, but when I did go back into my apartment. Like","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=3.72,450.08"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e when you got displaced and. Um.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=450.08,452.84"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=453.6,453.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e like, could you just explain how that was? I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=454.08,456.72"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e don't know how she did this, but I have one friend, and we suited up in Tyvek suits, and I, um, I had to throw away my stuff because we were so close to the fires, and I'd been reading up on the different toxic chemicals, and I was especially Scared of dioxins, which is a very dangerous chemical because it was a school that burned down very like yards from our, uh, place. And, you know, it was built in the early 1900s before there were led, um, standards. So, I mean, I could barely do it. My friend is very like, you know, very proactive. And she helped me, like, I pretty much threw away everything in my closet. But I'd pull something out, and I saw some dirty laundry, and I took it. So I threw away my new blender and, you know, appliances, my bedding. I got rid of my bed, my love seat. That was like the nicest thing I had. It was a little a little token of I have family members that are quite affluent and I'm like the the one that's not. But this was like the affluent symbol of my little somebody had given me this beautiful love seat. Well, anyway, I threw that away. The bedding. Um, but what's hard now is that I have some things left over that I just couldn't throw out, and they're just sitting there, probably holding toxicity. The thing I'm most concerned about is my carpet. My management would not let me remove my carpet, which I think is, um, roomy. Come here. Honey. Um. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=456.76,571.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e always thought. We","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=571.15,573.31"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e were supposed to get rid. You see, people that had insurance that were homeowners were guided through this process. The renters didn't have a clue as to what to do, and we couldn't afford the remediation, which was costing the people with insurance. The insurance was paying like thousands and thousands of dollars to remediate very professionally. Even though it didn't always take care of everything. Um, but eventually, maybe 2 or 3 months ago, I had help. Um, the Christian disaster relief came to my house and they helped clean, and they gave me a beautiful quilt, which I'm using now. Um, and then there was a remediation, um, called Fire Poppies, that through an organization named core that camped out across the street from us at the seventh day Adventist Church. Um, they told us about certain, um, uh. Certain resources, like fire poppies. So they, uh, remediated my place. So I am back there. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=573.31,655.23"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e how does it feel to be living back there? It's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=655.23,659.47"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e like a mixed blessing. You know, what happened was, um, I, I lost my sense of belonging, going to all these places, staying with people that were very kind. But when they had their special family occasions, celebrations, I wasn't invited. And it was. That's like a big trigger for me. And it was just sort of like, um, the last place next to the last place I stayed where Rumi peed on her precious carpet. So I, um, you know, I paid to get it cleaned, but there was so much ambivalence, you know, it was like the person had agreed that I could stay there, which was, like, pretty amazing, especially in LA. Um, but she said, like, I'm not going to move anything in the refrigerator. I'm not going to, you know, you know, how long are you going to be here? And so it's like by the time and then Rumi peed on her really precious carpet. And, um, so that option of looking for places to stay was for two months was gone to me. So I feel kind of ambivalent. When I got home, I was so glad to be home. I was so glad to be somewhere where I didn't have to be on my tippy toes, wondering if I was going to, like, not wash the dishes the way they want, or have a smear on the counter, or they were going to feel ambivalent towards me because it's just a really bad feeling when you don't know where you belong anyway. Yeah. Um, and some wonderful organizations have helped me, which I think I'll talk about at some other station? Yeah,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=659.47,772.18"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e there's a few upstairs, too. Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=772.18,774.5"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm not. I think it's the one where, uh. Resilience. I'm not sure. Because I want to talk about the organizations that helped me, and I brought some. Um, I just want to tell you that there was an event at the main library, and it was for Altadena, and it was LeVar Burton of Rainbow rainbow, Reading Rainbow. And he was going to read this book called The Rhino That Swallowed a Storm. And it I feel it was so profound. It was just like. And the people there, there was like it was packed the parking lot. The people were so excited. The moms were singing the Reading Rainbow song, and there were kids there. They were like beautiful little children. I think I brought some token of that day. So at the library which had reopened, they had all these different booths. They had food and, you know, they had like, I think like, you know, cotton candy. They had weird stuff that kid loved, but they also gave away free books. And when I was there, I got this children's book. I found it, I am brave, I have used this book. I think it's fantastic. It was written by some psychologists and since I'm a writer, it's been very encouraging to us. It says things like, um, you are brave. You've got this. Be courageous. I mean, it's just as much for adults. Well, I've lost my sense of security because I don't think my place is free of toxins and I can't really afford paying for a. Well, I'm choosing not to afford because it's very expensive. And the more toxins you ask for in an industrial hygienist evaluation, the more expensive it is. It can get up to like 5000 or more dollars, depending on who you're talking to. So I'm living in this possibly toxic. Place with some new things, some some things that were given me by a sense of home and by, um, all hands and hearts, which I'll talk about in a minute, because some of these people have been able to give me what people who I expected would be more involved could not. They were just people with open hearts. My","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=774.54,949.39"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e brother. They.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=949.39,950.31"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692/transcript/88193/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e They gave me this thing I forgot to bring. They gave me kitchen appliances to replace the stuff I tossed out, as well as a lot of other things. They gave me furniture and everything, and I opened up the bag of appliances and there was a card inside and it said, our hearts are with you. You are not alone. And people that haven't been disputed this, they just don't understand how much a little note means or a little gift. It's just amazing. So I have that on my new desk. I am so grateful for people that just friends and people that I hadn't, I hadn't even really known well, but they were just like amazing people That at times like it gave me money for a hotel. Um, FEMA was not always. Um, and housing is really expensive. Like when you're a senior in a retirement community, even sharing a place in LA. So sometimes I do get grateful. And at some point I might share with you I wrote about all my experiences being displaced. I might share it with somebody in your group. Your team. Um. Um, I, I think that the people that helped me went above and beyond. I don't know if I could have done it for other people. Um, and, um, some people, like, in Altadena, there's a woman named Wanda Rapp. One day she came, there was some event in Altadena. Um, it was a concert. And, um, she came with a bag of clothes, and I've been wearing. I've been wearing those clothes. You know, it was like, oh, clothes that you decide what to wear. And I'm not used to like having so many clothes. So now I'm used to having just a few. So this is like an adjustment. But, um, this was the first thing I bought for myself at target when I didn't have clothes. And, um, this was a t shirt that was in a box at my second placement. It doesn't really fit so well, but it was helpful to have. And these were at my 11th placement. A neighbor gave me these pants. These socks are from a disaster assistance, uh, event that was at, I believe, an LDS church who, by the way, helped me by giving a grant through, um, all hands and hearts for a bed that I now have because I lost my bed. You know, so, um, so I have written a story about from from a perspective of gratitude, but I guess I feel a little bit grouchy just, um. Because my life is still in chaos. I can't even fit all my new stuff in my new apartment, studio, apartment. And I want to thank you and and wish you well in your careers as journalists. Rumi. Do you want to say something? Rumi. 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She expresses relief at having her own space again, free from the anxiety of staying with others and feeling like an outsider. 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She describes receiving a children's book that helped her emotionally, and discusses ongoing concerns about the safety of her living environment due to potential toxins and the high cost of professional testing. 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She highlights the emotional impact of small gestures, such as a note included with donated items, and the generosity of friends and strangers who provided financial and practical assistance. The narrative underscores the critical role of community and kindness in her recovery.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164583/file/299692#t=949.0"}]}]}]}