This is what's left of the Tehan family home in
northern California. Father and son, Dave and Jonathan
are volunteer firefighters. But as they tried to save
their community of Cohasset from California's Monster Park fire,
their own homes were lost. It's sad to see
my son lose his place and he's worked so hard
and it's where he grew up as a child.
And I sold it to him when he came and
said he wanted to buy it and raised his kid
there. And you know, he was doing that
. The park fire is the largest wildfire in the
US. Officials said on Tuesday night, it was
bigger than the city of Los Angeles. Thousands of
firefighters have been working to tame it. Dave and
Jonathan were on a camping trip and more than six
hours from home when they heard about the fire edging
ever closer to Cohasset. Once they realized the seriousness
of the park fire, they sprang into action.
We got on the engine, we left and we
got to it and I, I knew it was
gonna be bad. Um I was hoping that it
wouldn't. The pair graduated from the Cal Fire academy
together and have battled wildfires alongside one another over the
last several years, they are still coming to terms
with what happened. I feel luckier than some of
the people here because we do have a few things
, not very much but a few things to hold
in our hands that survived. He's trying to focus
on what did survive like the family pets and some
photos right now is the devastation is very emotional and
about um the friends from um that I've known for
so many years have just stepped up and shown so
much support. Um It's, it's, you know
, I feel rich in that. Both father and
son say they hope to focus on rebuilding their community
eventually give us what we need and we'll, we'll
spread it out and, and get people, you
know, back to some kind of a normal life
. There's a lot of work to do. We
lost a lot, but there's still, the heart's
still here. The heartbeats still going.