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Hello: I’ve tried to write this about me Family the 24hrs & it’s very, very hard to actually open up, let people in & share your story! I’m not looking for self pity or someone to feel sorry for me! So, here it goes, this is our story: myself, my 2 daughters Megan & Maddi, my grandson Kade who will be 4 in 3 weeks. We’ve had a tough year and a half, my husband passed away, my youngest was having an extremely hard time in March she tried to kill herself which put her in UC Davis for 21 days, now on top of everything we lost our home in he fire. We didn’t have any notice. We were all a sleep, we got woke up about 9:20am saying fire get out. We grabbed my 3 English Bulldogs, the baby, my husband’s ashes and left! Didn’t have time to even put on a bra!! Our neighbors house was already on fire, we ended up getting about a mile down the road until we hit grid lock. With propane tanks exploding all around us, fires on both sides of us, after being in this for 3hrs at that point we were told to get out of our cars and run for our lives! We didn’t have leashes for our dogs and there was so much chaos we, said good bye to our dogs closed the doors and ran. We got about 3/4 mile down the road, my youngest said I can’t do this turned around and ran back to the car! We were separated, I was crying screaming and yelling for her to come back! She didn’t. So, my daughter, grandson and I just stood there looking at everything crying, we looked at each other and said this is it, we’re gonna die. No where to go. These 2 fire fighters came up to us about 15 min later tried to get us to keep moving, we were not budging. We told them about my daughter, gave her name description and they went looking for her. 30 min later, there was Maddi in the car, the fire fighters found her, moved a couple cars so she could get thru!! Took us 6 long horrifying hours to get to Chico, the last hour our beloved Sassafrass didn’t make it. With the heat and everything her heart just stopped. We then had to find a vet to take her and we got her cremated! They wouldn’t even give us a discount due to circumstances.. So, we literally lost everything.. we are looking for a long term housing, support it would be nice to have someone to talk to. My oldest daughter could use some help with gas cards, she works for IHSS and her paychecks are mailed to her, she is now a month with no pay lost out there like everyone else’s..
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  • Corinne Kinczel
    • $5 
    • 5 yrs
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Jessica Collinsworth
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Chico, CA

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