Caldor Fire Survivors Stay Focused On Healing Despite Recent Arrests

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EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – Caldor Fire victims are sharing their earthy emotion with CBS13 aft 2 men were arrested successful transportation with the devastating fire.

Sandy Mecham and Katrina Dawson are 2 women who stock the symptom of losing astir of their assemblage successful Grizzly Flats.

Several homes successful the municipality were leveled by the Caldor Fire.

“It’s conscionable each not there,” Dawson said.

She is inactive processing her caller world pursuing the arrests of David and Travis Smith. The begetter and lad are accused of reckless arson.

Dawson says she doesn’t consciousness choler towards the men and is staying focused connected healing.

David Smith and Travis Smith (l-r) (credit: El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office)

“I personally americium beauteous similar past however it started. I’ve been done truthful much. I’m trying to determination on…it happened and I’m trying my champion each time to judge that it happened,” she explained.

“Innocent until proven blameworthy but, god, we each mislaid everything,” Mecham said.

Mecham feels the aforesaid way, though years of memories were mislaid wrong her grizzly flats home.

“It’s truthful overmuch and everything other and maine not moving that stresses maine retired excessively and there’s inactive truthful overmuch to bash and I mean it’s hard, it’s very, very, it’s astir similar a having a decease successful the household that’s adjacent to you,” she explained.

Mecham has turned her symptom into creation transforming figurines that were erstwhile buried successful debris and pieces of melted tyre rims.

The two women now stock successful their emotion for their community, their shared experiences, and their caller foundations.

“I americium grateful, I emotion my home,” Mecham said.

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“There’s a batch of radical I enactment with that mislaid their homes and conscionable the assemblage is what has truly gotten maine done it,” Dawson said.