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(images of a forest) 1.5 years before the fire: I hiked those same trails that burned down now, it was beautiful, the kind of green forest and streams that I obsess over

(image of swaying palm trees) The day the fire broke out, insane winds, I remember being scared the palm tree in front of my apartment would fall over (screenshot of watch duty app on a map of SoCal with multiple fires shown) Beginning of the fire, I downloaded the “watch duty” app and refreshed it relentlessly

(close up image of a fire) First evacuation, the fire was huge and visible from my apartment, I had to go to my mom’s house one city over, (screenshot of alert from the city calling for evacuation)

(a bedroom, there’s a wall with a sun and tiny stars painting on it in blank, there’s a curtain, holes in the shape of stars are poked in it and light is shining through) I was staying in my sister’s old bedroom (she’s at college), she’s so artistic, she poked holes in the curtains to look like stars

(Picture from my dash cam while driving, the sky is so thick with smoke that it looks like sunlight is only coming from in front of me) Day after first evacuation: the fire had spread and now my parent’s house was no longer safe, I packed everything I brought in my car and went to work no knowing where I was gonna stay after that, my parents left to stay with my grandparents

(Image of small apartment that still has Christmas decorations up) Checking on the apartment: before going to my cousins house to make sure it had not actually burned down (Picture of a disgusting swimming pool full of black ash ) the swimming pool was full of ash

(image is overlayed on the blurred podcast logo) one particular moment that I think I posted about on tumblr was listening to Anna McGuire’s Hymns for the Road (an audio drama about driving through a post apocalyptic United States) while I myself was driving from relative’s house to relative’s house which all the belongings I was able to get out of my apartment my trunk

(Picture of a windowsill with ashes) Return to my apartment: there were ashes in my windowsill, (image of an air purifier) my mom bought me an air purifier

Picture of a mural that says “Eaton Fire Heros” on a wall under a burnt piece of wood

(image of a burnt lot, you can’t tell it used to be a resturant) pizza of venice, host of “trans pizza party” did not make it

the image of my sister’s bedroom with the stars in the curtain again

the forest again

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