dmgreene's blog

My family lost our home and all our belongings, etc, along with 400 other families in our town due to a forest fire (Cerro Grande Fire of 2000). We weren't allowed in our area for 10 days. For help from FEMA, we had to wait hours in line, different lines for different needs so it was several hours over a few days, filling out forms, waiting to get approval, and that was only begun AFTER the 10 day evacuation. It was awful. Fortunately, the Red Cross and it's volunteers, showed up at the shelters and fed our families, brought donated clothes (as we left with limited clothes as the fireman evacuated us from our homes).