back in the 80's I came home from working the night shift and my apartment building had burned to the ground - I was young, and it was a furnished apartment so I didn't lose much but it truly sucks to lose your home.....my cat got out when firemen kicked the door in and I found him a couple days later (he was OK)

Apartment complex fire. Some moron put the couch against the electric heater. Top floor. The fire didn't do much, but the water damage since it was the top floor burning trash everything below it. I was one of the few places with neither significant water or fire damage.

also, some stuff appeared OK, like some clothes - but they STUNK and just retained that smell

if I remember correctly the cause something to do with a water heater in a laundry room

Dry cleaners usually won't touch them. My wife lost a lot of stuff in a laundry room fire. All her clothes were too smoke damaged to clean.

I can't imagine the heartbreak of losing everything.

We keep our vital records in a fire proof safe, but I look around this home that I've lived in for 35 years and there are so many sentimental treasures.

he couldn't wait to get out! He was able to escape before the roof collapsed down. He was a stray I had recently adopted so he was savvy outside

yes I do remember being heartbroken to lose some ornaments my grandmother had given me......

I have never faced a situation to loose everything like this tragedy. Climate change is real and it is here.

We were warned by science professionals numerous times. LA Strong.

Cha

Many of us can imagine what that would be like having near misses ourselves or Even having experienced it.

bdamomma

That's horrible.

we could give to our fellow Californians, doesn't matter how small. I donated to Direct Relief a DU poster posted this organization.

https://www.directrelief.org/

experienced catastrophic loss can fully empathize with what those who've lost their homes in LA must be going through.