Firefighters return a wedding ring to a longtime resident who had two houses destroyed in the same location by separate fires.
Firefighters from Engine 89 battling the blaze spotted the box Wednesday. Strong winds were threatening to spread the destructive fire, which had ignited two days earlier, as variousThe fire crew delivered the precious find to Jaime Moore, an assistant chief and public information officer with the Los Angeles Fire Department and the de facto lost-and-found keeper for the base. He’d arrived in the area at 2 a.m. Oct. 28 and wouldn’t leave for a week.
Moore noted the address, believing it to be the place where the ring belonged — the only thing left of the burned-out home. On Friday, Moore greeted evacuees as they returned to assess the damage done by the Getty fire. Checking addresses, he spied the one he’d been searching for throughout the morning.
The resident’s insurance company had already told her that her house was gone, but she came back to view the ashes anyway. Moore didn’t know the woman’s name, but he told her to wait, that he had something to show her.He retrieved the ring from his car, where he’d secured it, and handed over the box.
The woman’s house was rebuilt and for more than 50 years, withstood the test of time. The ring belonged to her mother, the longtime resident told Moore. For the second time in more than half a century, the heirloom was all that was left of her family’s possessions.The woman gave Moore a hug, and he escorted her up the hill, where other firefighters greeted her and walked with her to her burned-out home. Grief counselors waited nearby, a customary practice after a fire.
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