Monday , April 29 2024

Ordered To Leave Their Homes, Creek Fire Evacuees Decide What Goes With Them

More than 30,000 people in Fresno County have had to leave their homes due to the Creek Fire. Sharon Souza is one of them. She left Tollhouse Tuesday morning, but spent the weekend deciding what items would stay and what would go. She says she tried to be practical rather than sentimental. “At some point, when I realized ‘I can’t take everything with me,’ I actually, one night, went around and took pictures of my pictures on the wall,” she says. “I took pictures of family favorite recipes, I did things like that.” Souza is now staying in her van in Clovis. She plans to hit the road to Montana, where her son lives, later this week. She already had plans to drive there, and says the evacuation moved her trip up a week. Anna Hamre, director of the Fresno Community Chorus, says along with the essentials, she had to grab one more thing before evacuating from Auberry on Monday. “I’m a choir director, I had to have my collected box of scores,” Hamre says and then laughs. In addition to
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