A Profound Thanksgiving Story-Camp Fire Survivors That Thought Themselves About to Die in Fire
I’m typing here but at a loss for adequate words. It’s Thanksgiving and I have it easy. Home, wife, family, friends all good. Dad turns 90 in a week or so. So I’m immensely thankful for what is around me, a bad admin won’t take that away. Not in the face of what was really lost this year.
Those people are in my thoughts and prayers. The woke up in the middle of the night kind, not just a few thoughts as a headline scrolls.
They drove one mile before the ambulance ahead of them caught fire. That’s when they pulled up to the house on Chloe Court, when they broke into the garage to seek refuge, when the inferno around them became terrifyingly clear.
Now the garage holds a mother who just had a C-section, an elderly woman strapped to a backboard and another woman on a gurney. Inside the ambulance is a man on a ventilator who can’t be moved. Tamara checks on them, speaks gently and assures them that they will make it through this.
Then she pulls out her pink phone and begins making final calls to those of her daughters old enough to understand.
More: As deadly flames approached, a mother called her daughters to say goodbye - Los Angeles Times