The fires in California hit close to home for Tribune columnist Gordon Monson.
My neighborhood is on fire. The beautiful Altadena neighborhood I lived in for years before moving with my family to Salt Lake City. And it’s devastating for family and friends who still live there. Heartbreaking.
I’m told many of them, domiciles I saw every day, and visited every so often, and some of the buildings I passed on my way to work, some of the stores where we shopped, some of the businesses we patronized, some of the restaurants we ate in, some of the trees and gardens and lawns my kids used to play in and on, properties we admired, are scorched and cremated by fire and wind.
The physical and financial toll from these fires is overwhelming. The emotional costs stack up just as high.
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