After I escape a California forest fire

A couple sees their house on the social media, after it turned into a pile of ashes

  • The fire destroyed the house and turned it into rubble.

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  • Dusky sits on the lawn of her in-laws.

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  • Dasky with her daughter after the family lost their home in the fire.

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In neighborhoods all over California, huge fires broke out last August and are still, leading to the displacement of thousands in the midst of the Corona pandemic.

American citizen, Britney Dasky, remembers those critical moments in her life, when the house became like a battlefield: ashes were falling, clouds of smoke approaching, planes flying overhead, and firefighters screaming, asking residents to evacuate.

"I had a panic attack, being pregnant in my last two months, and found myself covered in chemicals, as was the case with my daughter, and we didn't know what to do," says Daski.

The fire, which broke out on August 12, destroyed more than 31,000 acres and 12 buildings.

It came as a surprise to Dasky, when her husband, Bon Okanavan, called her on his way home from work, warning her that smoke was spreading in the area.

Dasky was working from home due to the Corona epidemic, so she looked outside and saw the smoke, but she was not worried at first.

She and her husband have witnessed bushfires before, but have never had to evacuate their home, located on Pine Canyon Road, on the edge of the Angeles National Forest.

The north of the city was surrounded by pine trees. "It was an oasis, an ideal little sanctuary in town," Dasky describes it, saying it.

But in an instant, the oasis turned into hell.

Dusky, her husband, their daughter, their dog, and six chickens miraculously escaped from the fire.

But her Lake Hughes home, which the couple bought six years ago, did not survive, leaving the family homeless in the midst of a global pandemic.

She now lives in her truck, sleeps on the floor of her in-laws' house, and relies on a crowdfunding campaign to survive. "We have nothing left at all," she says.

When the fire approached her home, Dasky, 27, was eight months pregnant.

As she packed her last belongings in her car, a low-flying plane threw a chemical to extinguish the fire, drenching her and her one-year-old daughter in and around the chemicals.

Suddenly, she saw dozens of firefighters storm her house, shouting at her to evacuate the place, and were covered in clouds of dark smoke from time to time.

And she was able to film the last minutes after their escape from the house in a short video clip on her mobile phone, and in this video she was panting for air.

Daski was paralyzed as she filled the car.

She carried her valuables, framed pictures from her walls, and some clothes for her baby, due to be born on September 14th, but she forgot to pack any bits of her own clothes.

The couple set out with their daughter and their pet.

The Red Cross put them in a hotel, but they did not know if their home had escaped from the fire.

They were unable to obtain information from officials about what had happened to their home.

Finally, the couple saw a video on social media, filmed by a person crossing that area in their car on Pine Canyon Road.

The couple watched the video clip, and immediately recognized the land on which their house was. “It was all gone, it was horrific, to see our house, and it was completely burned,” says Daski.

Four days after they were evacuated, the couple returned to what was left of their home.

"Our house became just a pile of ashes and rubble," Dasky added. "It was as if our house had just disappeared. It's the strangest thing to have all your things disappear."

Later, the family was forced to live in her husband's family home, as Dusky spent the last days of her pregnancy sleeping on the floor.

The couple managed to find a house to rent, and they will move in next month, before the birth of their second child.

Daski says that the family will rebuild the house again, but she does not think that it will be on the same land, or in the same state, and comments on that, saying: "We were kind of frustrated in California, but I think this will be the last time we stay here." "They are interested in Idaho or Minnesota," she says, "" It's time to leave. "


Daski was paralyzed as she filled the car.

She carried her valuables, framed pictures from her walls, and some clothes for her baby, due to be born on September 14th, but she forgot to pack any bits of her own clothes.

The fire, which broke out on August 12, destroyed more than 31,000 acres and 12 buildings.

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