WEBVTT 00:00.230 --> 00:02.599 I would want to remind all of us that 00:02.599 --> 00:06.070 are going through this uh is . As much 00:06.070 --> 00:08.510 as Altadina is the place that no one 00:08.510 --> 00:10.621 would have wanted this to happen to . 00:11.060 --> 00:13.116 It's probably the best place that it 00:13.116 --> 00:15.171 could have happened to for all of us 00:15.171 --> 00:17.282 because this community is so strong . 00:22.670 --> 00:26.190 My husband Mitch and I bought our dream 00:26.190 --> 00:29.020 house about 6 months before the fire , 00:29.430 --> 00:32.869 and the night of the fire , my husband 00:32.869 --> 00:35.430 was actually coming home from Cedar , 00:35.470 --> 00:38.220 Sinai . He got home , he wanted to go 00:38.220 --> 00:40.220 outside to look at the planets that 00:40.220 --> 00:42.387 were all visible , and when he went to 00:42.387 --> 00:45.110 go look at the planets , he saw just . 00:45.709 --> 00:47.765 Off into those hills right there , a 00:47.765 --> 00:49.820 fire that had started that we had no 00:49.820 --> 00:52.509 idea about . We were just so panicked 00:52.509 --> 00:55.189 seeing the fire so close . We headed 00:55.189 --> 00:57.245 out to my aunt and uncle's house and 00:57.245 --> 00:59.300 then just watched it all play out on 00:59.300 --> 01:02.110 the news and um started hearing from 01:02.110 --> 01:04.221 our neighbors , you know , throughout 01:04.221 --> 01:06.054 the night and the next day about 01:06.054 --> 01:08.110 different people that had lost their 01:08.110 --> 01:10.166 homes and at that point we knew ours 01:10.166 --> 01:12.110 had probably gone to and it's been 01:12.389 --> 01:14.389 absolutely devastating , you know , 01:14.389 --> 01:17.010 after . We found out about our house 01:17.010 --> 01:19.730 and came in and saw what happened , the 01:20.449 --> 01:22.970 amount of people , both , you know , 01:23.050 --> 01:25.010 people whose job it was and people 01:25.010 --> 01:27.066 whose job it wasn't that reached out 01:27.066 --> 01:29.410 and have helped us continuously since 01:29.410 --> 01:33.129 this happened has been overwhelming and 01:33.610 --> 01:36.529 so encouraging and you know now working 01:36.529 --> 01:39.849 with uh the Army Corps getting our 01:39.849 --> 01:43.360 place cleaned up , um . There's been so 01:43.360 --> 01:45.809 much communication it's been 01:46.919 --> 01:49.339 shockingly easy to get a hold of people 01:49.339 --> 01:51.830 and ask questions . I think in any 01:51.830 --> 01:54.239 other thing that you ever do in life , 01:54.279 --> 01:56.279 whether it's trying to talk to like 01:56.279 --> 01:58.557 health insurance or anything like that , 01:58.557 --> 02:00.779 you know , it's always a struggle , but 02:00.779 --> 02:02.501 somehow these all these groups 02:02.501 --> 02:04.501 including Army Corps that have been 02:04.680 --> 02:06.569 helping out throughout this whole 02:06.569 --> 02:10.410 process have made it . So easy and so 02:10.410 --> 02:13.570 as painless as it can be and that has 02:13.570 --> 02:15.626 just been really appreciated because 02:15.626 --> 02:17.626 this is probably the most stressful 02:17.626 --> 02:19.514 situation that most of us will go 02:19.514 --> 02:21.570 through the the more that people can 02:21.570 --> 02:23.649 kind of um break down some of those 02:23.649 --> 02:25.760 barriers and make it easier for us to 02:25.760 --> 02:27.982 get through the hard things , um , it's 02:27.982 --> 02:30.093 really appreciated . We're gonna come 02:30.093 --> 02:32.260 out of this . A community that looks a 02:32.260 --> 02:35.630 bit different , but that is even more 02:35.630 --> 02:37.574 strongly tied together than it was 02:37.574 --> 02:39.352 before and I think that will be 02:39.352 --> 02:41.519 something really special that that not 02:41.519 --> 02:42.669 every city and community gets to have .