Thursday night started a nightmare fire for Californians, which they will not easily forget. It was expected that Monday would be easier for them. It was broadcast that the winds would ease off. Unfortunately, the bad spell continued through Sunday too. Coming back to their homes has been a catastrophic moment for most. Their homes razed to the ground and destruction galore.
“It was really hard when we first got here. It was shocking. We were all crying,” Brittney Fowler, 23, told Reuters as she tried to salvage what she could of her family’s large modern house in Yorba Linda, in Orange County.
The devastation has been of great magnitude. Wildfires have burnt down more than 20,000 acres after the fire broke out on Thursday night in Orange County canyons to the south-east. The celebrity heavy areas were predictably heavily affected with Mobile homes, apartments and multimillion-dollar mansions destroyed.
There have no deaths been reported mercifully. It was a tinderbox with the recent minimal rainfall in the terrain. 50,000 people had evacuated when the fire broke out.
The people are unfazed. And vow to recreate.
Antonio Villaraigosa who told journalists on Sunday; “We are going to rebuild, make no mistake about that.”
Arnold Caudill, 69, says “There’s not a whole lot to save. All of our mementos are melted,” he told Reuters on his return. “This big wall of flames came right over the house and we just said, ‘Holy Shit’. Before you knew it, the flames were in our face…
