Josie Huang covers Asian American communities for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
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Leading the team at my property for the next three hours is Nancy Valentine, a retired ophthalmologic technician from Albuquerque, N.M. who spends months of the year volunteering with Samaritan’s Purse. “You know, things move,” Valentine said. “Fire creates a tornadic kind of thing lots of times in structures. The other day, we found china on the opposite side of the house of where the china hutch was, and some plates were still intact. Go figure.”I’ve asked people working for county agencies to recommend groups that salvage valuables and have come up empty. No other group seems as focused on this work as Samaritan’s Purse and certainly not at this scale.
“We have semi trucks, kitchen trailers and cook trailers that we have in one of our warehouses in Fullerton,” Graham said. “So we're spread out with equipment between here Texas and back in North Carolina.” But in some of those piles are memories. The volunteers found a tin robot I bought in my 20s, its bright varnish now dulled by soot. A charred alarm clock has retained its familiar form but will never trill again. A tin box protected the Trivia Pursuit cards inside, intact but the questions faded away, likely from the passage of time.
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