A New Start After A Total Loss in a blink
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- Hello to everyone , my name is Ronnie Fukuda and would like to raise enough funds to rebuild our home and have enough to restart my business , just 4 days ago I had a Wildlands fire come thru in a matter of minutes destroy everything my family and I owned and was left with just the clothes we were wearing , my step mom was able to save only one picture of my father and her husband of over 50 years that had just passed less than 3 months ago and " I'm glad he didn't have to go thru this " , we lost all are personal belongings , household appliances , paperwork , and what money was in the home , basically what was in my pocket and what little in the bank is what we had , was going to make deposit this week , we take for granted little things in our home and when you loose everything and you need a can opener , plate , cup or bowl , it makes you stop and think for a moment , we also were able to save 2 of the eight cats we've raised and one of the four dogs , the other three got spooked and ran off during the evacuation , we were fortunate to find one that someone had rescued one yesterday and she's happy to be with me at what's left of home , then yesterday evening my dog heard something and ran to see but we couldn't see anything then went back to where we were parked and a small miracle happened one our cats survived 3 days thru the fire with no water or food , well I'm happy that everyone is safe and staying with family and friends temporarily , I on the other hand is staying on site camping with the animals to look thru if anything survived the blaze , and now just looking for our other dogs because they are also part of the family , as I've said before to others the home and equipment can be replaced but not your animals (or as I call them the children) , as far as the funding will be used to replace the home and business equipment of 40 year ( not so much as new but with something reasonable to restart because the amount we lost is large and don't think it would be right to buy new ) , this fire almost had a mind of its own and being very selective what to burn because a couple of key pieces to help clean up like my oldest forklift and hauling bins were untouched completely as well as my fathers crawler tractor we used when we were farmers (just weird) but lost all the newer trucks , lowbed trailers , pickups and tractors , the forklift was parked in the middle of this fire as my brother other friends said they looked like I just brought them in , could not afford fire insurance after other areas had great losses they would double or triple rates in my area , so I would really like to thank all the folks that have helped during our displacement , ie: Red Cross , Cal Fire , It has made this dramatic or more so life changing event to remember the saying " Life Can Change in A Blink of an Eye " , so I hope you can help with anything we would really appreciate that , I've posted a overall picture of damage and included other pictures , Thank you in advance for your help , Ronnie Fukuda
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Ronnie Fukuda
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Potrero, CA