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Um, and part of what we loved about it is how we could walk out our front door and up the street and be on a hiking trail. Um, we loved that. The kids could be free. There was lots of space. Um, we, um, enrolled them in Odyssey Charter School, which is a K through eight school. Um, a lot of the kids in the neighborhood went there. So, you know, between our house and school, you could count six people's houses. Who were my kids, classmates. They went to the park after school. They went to the farmer's market after school. Um, we were very involved with the school and the community through the school. Um. So somebody was asking me, like, if I knew other people who went through the fire, which I find is a strange question because I'm like, I can't even count how many people. And you probably are the same. Like, I can't count how many people I know who were impacted by who lost their house or out of their house because of smoke damage, like, whatever. Um, our house is on the far northern edge, like, there's like 10 or 12 houses between us and the national forest and the mountains. So we always knew that fire was a threat. Um, but we'd had an evacuation plan since the kids were little. We had, like, everybody had an index card of what they were supposed to pack. And, you know, if you have ten minutes to get out, this is what you do. And if you have an hour to get out, this is what you do and like. So, um, and we we had been on evacuation warning before. Like. Several years ago, when there was that big fire. I can't remember the name of it. I know it was during Covid. It was 20. It was 2020, fall 2020. Um, that it was like a three week thing where we were all engulfed in smoke and we were like, do you remember that? Like, yeah. So, um, but we'd never actually evacuated before. And being on the West. So we knew that the fire had started because we have friends who live over on the East Side. And like at 630, right after it started, she's like, there's a fire in Eaton Canyon. My friend texted me, um, and, uh, and of course we were prepared for the winds because we know we knew that there was going to be this, you know, apocalyptic windstorm coming. So, like, we'd done all of our procedures and batten down the hatches and put everything away in the backyard so the umbrellas wouldn't fly and the outdoor furniture wouldn't fly, and. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=3.52,177.9"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e was such a good question. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=177.9,179.34"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e we'd been without power on and off all day. So we we were monitoring the fire's progress through my friends. Um, and she was like, we're leaving. Like, pretty quickly. She's like, I can see it. We're leaving. But on the West Side, as you probably know, like there was no evacuation warning or anything. Um, but we didn't have any power. My parents live in San Marino. That's where I grew up. They had power. And so by like 730, we already knew that the fire was getting much larger. Um, and then my brother is also just on the east side, um, by Farnsworth Park. Um, and so we were talking with him too, and we both decided it was time to go to to our parents because they had power and this wasn't getting any better, like throughout the evening. And I was I kind of looked at my husband. I was like, we either leave now or we're going to have to leave at like three in the morning. Let's just leave now when even though nobody's telling us to leave, like we might as well. So, um, we packed kind of like the first layer of stuff, like we got documents, we got some overnight kind of clothes, like, for a few days, thinking we might be gone for a couple of days. Um, my daughter, who's in high school, she did a really good job, of which I didn't realize till later of, like, selecting meaningful things, um, that were irreplaceable. Um, I was more in the mode of make sure we have papers and, um, like, important documents and then like, clothes to wear for the next couple of days. My son was at karate, and I called him and he drove home, um, because they canceled his class early and I was and I called him and I was like, be safe driving home, but get home. We're packing and we're leaving. Um, we have two cats and a dog. We got all the animals. So he took my son, took the cats. My husband and daughter. No, my husband took the dog. And then we have three cars. And I took my car with my daughter and drove through the apocalypse. I mean, it really was apocalyptic, right? The winds. And, like, at that point, I was just like, are we even going to, like, get down the hill safely? Right. Uh, and, uh, we went to my parents and, um, which is not a big San Marino house. It's it's like it's like a three bedroom house that my parents have lived in by themselves for the last 20, 30, however long I've been gone, which is a long time, 30 plus years. And, um. And then my brother showed up there with his dog. Um, my sister in law was out of town at the time. o his dog and cat. So we had like five animals. Five extra people. Um. And at that point, the fire seemed like it was moving east, so I actually wasn't super worried. Like, I was worried. Worried a little bit worried because why wouldn't you be? But I wasn't super worried. And I just was like, I got to go to sleep. Like, I can't stay up all night monitoring what's going on. Like the kids did. Um, and the next morning when we woke up and I checked, I was like, oh, we're probably in trouble. Um, and our next door neighbor, he's a retired, um, LAPD lieutenant. He ended up going up there, and, uh, he's the one who called and told us that our house was on fire and that he tried to put a hose on it and there was no water. And, uh, And I asked if there were any firefighters and he said no. There was no sign of any fire engines or anything. And, um, he took a picture in a video which he sent me later in the day. At my request. He's like, are you sure you want to see this? I'm like, yeah, I need to see that. It's real. Um. And, uh, so, I mean, that was the beginning of the last six months and, like, you know, just every day you think of something new that's lost. I mean, if the theme of this station is lost and found, like, like, you know, of course, it was much more intense the first several weeks of, like, thinking about all the things that were gone. But but a day still doesn't go by that I don't like. Think of something else that maybe it's not as consequential or maybe just hadn't, you know, surfaced as something that I need in my daily life. Um, or, you know, memories like the, the hardest part for me is it's like, I feel like my kids childhood just got erased. Um, you know, like, we wanted to create a stable. Place","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=179.34,490.2"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e for our family. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=490.2,491.6"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e then, like, so. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=491.6,493.8"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e I imagined it as a place that they would come home to. And, uh, I mean, like, I'm super fortunate that I, my parents are still in the house that I was raised in, but my husband's family was all over the place. And, you know, that's what he wanted to like. We just wanted a, um. Beautiful,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=493.8,515.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e like a flower like that. So.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=515.0,519.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e Like,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=520.28,520.44"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e there's just no, I mean. For,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=520.48,523.32"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e like, on the personal side, like, I had all these things that I'd collected and travels around the world. I bought rugs when I went to places when I was young. And, um, art and all the things that, like, you just can't get back. And it doesn't, you know, insurance wants to know how much things cost. And I mean, like, that's it's just it's not that it's not relevant. It's just it's not meaningful. Um, I can go buy another Turkish rug, but it's not the one that I picked up with my friend and sat and had tea and negotiated over and then carried for the next five weeks on my trip. Um, now I'm thinking of like when we finally got to go back up there and, like, kind of sift through the remains. And, uh, like all the, all the metal things in the kitchen, that, of course, didn't burn up. So there's, like the mixing bowl from the mixer and all the cookie cutters. Like every Christmas we would make Christmas cookies. And of course, that had just happened. And so they were all there. And the measuring cups and measuring spoons and I just stacked it all together because I'm like. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=523.36,601.01"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e then you like, multiply it by all these other like, there's so many families, like, mine's just my story. And there's your family's story and thousands of other people's stories. Um, I find myself. Like,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=601.01,619.01"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e not really wanting stuff. Like, I just am, like, I don't want. I mean, like, there's the things we need. Obviously, we needed clothes and, like, kitchen stuff and, you know, like the house that we're renting was like there was some furniture, but mostly not. And so we're having to get furniture, but I have no interest in like shopping for things and picking something new, whereas that's something that I, I had really enjoyed, like creating our home and like, but it was so layered because it was all these things that I'd like collected over my lifetime. And now I'm like, like, I'm not just going to go to the store and buy stuff. And and I also have, you know, a friend was like, oh, she's like, I've got this really cool rug that was my. Grandmother's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=619.01,667.14"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e That","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=667.14,667.3"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm not using. You","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=667.3,668.06"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e can. Have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=668.06,668.3"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e it. And I was like, I don't want to. 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And it's just a weird, like, I just don't I don't feel like, um. Like I used to be like, okay, like I'm going to have this thing forever. Because again, that's like my parents house is still there. They have things that they had when I was born 50 plus years ago. But now I'm just like, who knows? Like things may or may not last. So, like, don't get too attached and and don't spend a lot of time like, don't invest a lot of time emotional, you know, content in whatever. The thing is. It's just a thing. You know, I don't I've. Been","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=672.06,723.22"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e struggling with that because I feel like like I'm somebody who like, visually, like. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=723.22,727.94"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e want to be in like a nice environment. Like my environment really impacts me. So like, I want, like, color and materials that feel good and like, like that's. And I want a home. I mean, somebody had just been in our home like right before Christmas, a neighbor. And he's like, it just feels so, like homey and cozy here. And like, that's what I want. So I can't just be like, yeah, I'll just live in whatever. And it's it doesn't matter. I can't pretend it doesn't matter. but but at the same time, it's like I have no confidence that anything's going to stick around. Um, and I mean, as far as, like, and that's like sort of creating the home environment, but I have been struck by even initially, how much like there was all those distribution sites with all the stuff and like, people wanted to kept coming, wanted to bring us stuff. And I was just like, thank God. Like Americans, we really like our stuff. Like people really want things like, and they want to, like, give me things. And I'm like, I don't want all these things like, so it's a bit of a push pull, I don't know. Um, I mean, I do feel like. We often try to make ourselves, ourselves feel better by shopping and, like. 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I mean, it's not like I didn't know that before, but it's like, um, it gets more important, obviously, like that we have each other and that our family is safe. I mean, not everybody can say that. Um, and, you know, like, that's that's more important than the stuff, um, for sure. Um. So.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=813.31,850.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e But,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=850.75,850.95"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e you know, like, one of my friends was talking, she's like, you know, people always say like, home is where the heart is. And like, maybe it doesn't like place isn't really important, but it is like, it's still like part of who we are. And, um, you know, like, we chose to live in that community because we felt like it reflected our values and who we are and who we wanted our kids to be and how we wanted them to grow up like that was a choice we made to move there. So like, I don't, you know, we're renting in Pasadena, which it's fine, but it doesn't. It's not the same. It doesn't feel the same. People aren't as friendly walking around like everybody in Altadena, like, talk to you and like, chat. And it's just a very, um, just a unique place. So, you know, so when I see when I'm with other Altadena people, like, I feel that, um, but like trying to find the, the ways to make those connections now is hard, right? Because because there's because so much has been lost. Like our gathering places are not there. Um. Because that's like like that's what I wanted. And that's what we built over, like, again, for our family. We've been there 13 years. Like, we built a very layered kind of community connections with our neighbors, with folks from school, with businesses like all of those connections take time to to build on one another. And, um. Thank","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=850.99,951.12"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e you guys. And,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=951.12,953.16"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e you know, like. It's not that it was like perfect, but like, fundamentally, there was nothing wrong with it. Like the fire destroyed it, like, I mean, you know, we're we're starting the process of designing the new house. And there's certainly things about the house like we've done the best we could with our house and we loved it. Um, it was not looking for it to be burned down, obviously, but like, starting over, like we're creating a different floor plan. Um, because it wasn't very, you know, it was like a lot of West Altadena houses where things had been, like tacked on over time and like it had evolved. It didn't always make the most sense. But, um, So in that respect, like the structures like. Sure. Like there's things that can be changed. But I guess I was taking your question more like at the community level. Um, sure. We have an architect because we've done a big remodel when we first moved in in 2012. So our architect, um, Katherine Garrison, she's in northeast LA. She's an so she's helping us do the design. And then we have a builder, um, heyday builders. Hardy Wronsky. Um, so, you know, I still there's still a lot of unanswered questions, like about insurance money, them paying up as much as they should. And, um, and then who's going to insure us after this two year moratorium? Like. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=953.2,1049.81"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e Nobody","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=1050.49,1050.81"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e has an answer to that. Um. But","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=1050.81,1054.69"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S5:\u003c/strong\u003e thank you very much. We're","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685#t=1055.05,1056.21"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164576/file/299685/transcript/88187/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e taking steps forward because there's nothing else. We don't want to leave. My daughter is still in high school like you probably are. You know, like, it's like we're here now, I guess, like, in the, like, non-material sense. The other thing I've lost is my sense of. I'm going to say my sense of safety and security. Um, and just like, I don't like the emergency response system did not work. And nobody's been able to explain that in any, like, real way yet. And so I'm like, so what if not? Not if when there's another fire, like, what are you guys going to do different? Because like, they don't even have an answer as to what went wrong this time. Um, so I have I have very much lost my faith in um. just in government and their ability to respond, um, and like, which is kind of a basic governmental function and that like, you don't know me like my dad worked in county government. Like, I like, like I have spent most of my professional life to, like, in sort of community based organizations and doing stuff. So feeling like that loss of faith is, um, it's very disturbing for me. Um, and, you know, there's other people who probably never had that faith, um, to begin with. And so they're not surprised. But, um, and I'm speaking of like, non-white people who probably like, but, um, now I'm like, all right. Like, we're just kind of like, we were left on our own, like we were. And I don't understand that, and I don't understand. The lack of accountability, the lack of ability to take responsibility. Um, and, uh, and it's like I've now gotten to the point where I'm really angry. Like, I did not let myself get angry first. I was just sad and overwhelmed. And this last week or two, I'm just like, I'm just raging mad. Um, and I don't really like being that way, but I feel like I have to like. It's an emotion I have to work, like, go through. I don't think I'll stay this way, but, um, trying to trying to make it be productive. Anger and, like, channel it into advocacy in some way. And that's part of why I wanted to come here, because I'm just like, I just feel like I need to. It's not like I haven't been talking to people, but, um. 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