What Happens When Wildfires Destroy Your Home

Brut America

"I literally left one day to go to work and came back to nothing." California’s wildfires destroyed almost everything she owned. This is her advice to others still at risk.

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00:00This is just so horrible, oh my god!

00:04She started coming through the vent right here and Colleen got her outside real quick.

00:08The window shattered.

00:10Still kind of in shock.

00:30I never, going back there and even walking inside, I just, you know, you always think

00:39like it's never going to happen to me, you know.

00:43And then going in there, I still don't even know how to feel, like there's really no words

00:48to describe it.

00:50Just walking in and, you know, the smell, like it's, you would think a house fire smells

00:56like a campfire or something like that, but no, it smells like burnt up electricity and

01:01burnt up insulation and it smells like chemicals.

01:05I never imagined it was going to be in the state that it was.

01:10Oh god, honey.

01:14This was the last room to catch on fire, actually, and I actually had all my stuff on the shelves

01:20over there.

01:21I already took it out and kind of threw away most of it.

01:24It was mainly the upstairs.

01:26The downstairs is okay, like all of the dishes that we had downstairs in the kitchen because

01:32we had the kitchen and the living room were downstairs.

01:36That was all fine, but upstairs was all of our bedrooms.

01:39We lost all of our clothes, all of our personal care items.

01:44At this point, we still just don't have anywhere to go.

02:32Anyone that's in the fire area, I would say have an emergency pack of things in your vehicle

02:57ready to go already in your car because I literally left one day to go to work and came

03:04back to nothing.

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