After the fires, starting from scratch in their 70s, 80s and 90s
Toothbrushes. Slippers. Hearing aids. Walkers.
One day you have all of your stuff. The next day it’s gone, and you’re starting from scratch — something you never expected to be doing in your 70s, or 80s, or 90s.
“We had to go buy underwear the first day,” said Diane Williams, 86, who lost her 100-year-old English Tudor home two months ago in the Eaton fire and is now furnishing a Pasadena apartment that’s serving as a temporary home.
She bought a couch, a kitchen table, some lamps and a new bed for Tommy, her 13-year-old terrier.
“It’s piecemeal,” her 89-year-old husband Verne said about stocking up again. “One day I go and get some more shirts, or get a pair of pants. Two times I had to get shoes before I had this pair that I like.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-15/new-shoes-spatulas-and-hearing-aides-up-from-the-ashes-and-starting-over-in-their-70s-80s-and-90s
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