No.

Worse a fire.

Exactly.

This one started at highway 93 and quickly moved east in the Northern Superior.

At highway.

Highway.

All made by all local police.

Hey, baby.

Ho, I'm very fearful for you two because I can see fire, and it's scary.

And I want to get you out.

Okay.

It's getting really bad.

From an event that affected many.

This is a glimpse into one family's story.

Mine and I turn it on.

It's on right now.

Hello?

I'm ten and I'm in fourth grade.

It was December 30th and it was hot all the way till December, which is rare for here.

We had 100 mile wind.

We've got some pretty serious fires here.

The smoke's blowing through fas because the winds are so high.

Ash is falling.

It's hot.

I'm across the street and I can feel the heat.

I can hear the house collapsing.

God was coming so fast I could see how fast it was, but I didn't know that it was going to be as bad as it was 25 years.

I've never seen anything like this.

I was like, this is a little.

My dad passed away in November, but we didn't have a great relationship.

So I went to Idaho in between Christmas and New Year's to go through the house and se what was there with my sister.

I had gone for the week and the day of the fires.

We were planning to drive back anyways, and we had already gotten in the car and started driving.

Me and Zoe were at our dad's.

I texted Andre, Savannah and Zoe's dad and I go, you guys okay?

And he's like, we're fine.

My mom called and I said, mom, it's six.

It's six miles away.

You're fine.

You're okay.

You have time.

Don't panic.

I didn't realize that it wasn't six miles away and that it was moving so fast.

I could imagine the people coming in yelling.

I'm saying to get out.

Most of the police in my home.

I hung out with my mom, and I jumped on my ring camera and watched everyone leave the neighborhood and watch my mom leave and made sure that she left.

It was 200 and 5 p.m. and then right after she left, the power went out.

I knew it was everywhere.

They're like, yeah, we got fire all around here.

I could just imagin our whole neighborhood burning.

I feel sorry because I didn't think about the animals.

You know, I just shut the doo and went out with the animals.

The cats were still in there.

You know anything I had with the clothes on my back?

Thankfully, that night.

That night, the winds died down.

Otherwise, the entire town of Lewis was gone.

And then maybe Lafayette too.

It would have gone until it couldn't go.

Yeah.

49, 34.

They go from devoured animals in their process, which was heartbreaking.

We were lucky that so many made it out alive.

And had it been at night.

It would have been devastating.

The PTSD that came out of that was huge.

Every day we miss those cats.

I grew up in Idaho, in a small, small town of 300 people, and we moved to Lewisville and I bought the house and moved here.

My mom sort of moved with us and moved in with us at that point.

I don't think it was intended for her to be with us the whole time, but it just sort of worked out that way.

I moved out her to be closer to the grandkids.

Yeah, that's the story of Lewisville.

It's not the da after the snow had just started.

So it's, you know, had stuck yet?

Everything's smoldering.

My friend went in the next day and videoed the neighborhood.

She must've been a wreck.

Rebecca, your fence stayed up there as best house.

I look like a. I've been sifting for ten hours.

Total of ten hours.

This is, like, my fifth time.

This is.

How we used to have Covid meetings.

We'd sit our chairs in the cul de sac and drink our wine.

Are you helping out?

She has too many other things to worry about.

And I told he I could take off a day of work.

So let me come today Let me sift through your stuff.

I said I could do the grunt work, and it's one less thing she has to worry about.

Yeah, it's.

It's tough.

I mean, I cannot even imagine.

And that's what I tell her.

You know, you cr all the tears.

You need to cry.

You got nothing.

No, she's gotten her payout.

But the bank took the money.

Yeah.

And it's like they can't.

They don't have a right to.

And so no she's forced to go get a lawyer.

And that's more money she's got to pay.

You get all of the help you could get.

I mean, she didn' even want us to come out here.

These were silver earrings that my dad gave me when I was doing a high school rodeo.

The county is going to come through and clean up the lot.

Take my 18,000 for my insurance, and then FEMA will cover the rest.

So some of the neighbor are really struggling with the whether or not to stay or go or rebuild or not.

So, the contractor is on his wa down here to come talk to you.

Well, debris operations is my, my area of expertise.

It's hard going through and seeing what people lost.

Yeah.

And, you know, the last few years, being on wildfires, there's nothing left.

I was in Oregon last year, and all the fire areas were up in the mountains.

So the small mountain communities.

So for this to be down in the cities, like it is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

From everyone I've talked to, it's unheard of.

We have a heads up when a hurricane is coming.

And with the winds as high as they get here.

No birds.

I couldn't imagine being here an and seeing that coming my way.

And if the winds just change slightly, that's the whole.

You're safe.

One minut and next thing you know.

Yeah.

You're not anymore.

But.

I saw our whole neighborhood.

I saw no houses.

I saw ash left over from each house.

I saw a bunch of ash.

And I saw this big hole with a bunch of stuff in it.

Let me have it.

You got it.

Hey, everybody needs a chance in the broom.

Hey, bro.

Like I know.

I know exactly.

I'm just.

I'm just really glad tha they're playing in the coldest.

This week.

I still am sa that the houses are, like, down.

I'm, like, happy because you.

Because of it.

What makes me happy is the grass.

It's already growing and it's all green.

Stop it!

Each movement is a milestone.

And sometimes just the flowers growing is a milestone.

Ash, that male.

Male.

Ash.

Yeah.

There's so many people right now that still don't have homes.

I just read a post the other da where the person said they've.

They're moving into their seventh location.

And I know people have put 100 hours int writing out their itemized lists so that they can get their money.

So everything that you want to do is hard.

How hard it is to get the birth certificate?

I am 300,000 short and I might make it, you know, I might make it and I might have the same mortgage that I have now.

So this is the biggest.

This is I mean, there's so many questions I have because I'm so under-insured.

My plan was to take whatever equit I could gain off that property and use it to build the house.

But I realized there's more complications in that.

There's just so many decisions.

Well, first of all, the crews are amazing.

Like, super sweet and considerate and kind and sensitive.

Thank you so much for doing this.

You guys have been so full of grace.

378 is my dwelling.

And it's going to cost me 750 to build.

What?

I've never hear anything like that in my life.

She's paying over 800 to build her house.

You ever thought about just selling it?

And no, no, I can't.

I owe 500,000 on that house.

And although there's, like, this cloud of love around you from everyon and and this cloud of support.

Right?

You still feel totally alone.

And you see that everyone around you is just happy.

We got our there yesterday.

And what are you doing next Monday on the 17th?

We're breaking ground here.

The.

Turning on the grain again.

The bells begin to chime.

You chant your song.

There's no turning.

The instant we break ground.

It's going to be phenomenal.

So we never did the last things together.

Last.

Year to.

Zoom in on our sister.

I think that our house has.

Well, I had bottles of wine from my friend, and I always saved them because they were great.

And I loved them.

And they were special to me.

I think I hate doing the thing more is important, an that's a great lesson to learn.

Well, I've learned that changes can be done.

I'm feeling actually really fine.

And I'm grateful for that.

For for everything.

I don't think you could have a quick recovery.

Every story is different.

Every person has a different story.

And so many things have happened.

It feels lik the whole world is upside down.

Recovery looks like time and on fire.

And fires took all we trust to kick in under us.

They shot.

They just like they do.

Oh, time went out.

We always knew.

The.

Whole time.

You know there's no.

Awful.

I you got it.

All right.

Oh, you don't got it.

Oh, God.

Oh, no.

She's new.

We adopted them.

This is salt and pepper.

Oh, oh, we got we got too much to fly.

Oh, baby.

It's okay.