Caldor Fire Victims Celebrate First Holiday Without Home

EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – It’s a vacation dissimilar immoderate different for families forced retired of their homes by the Caldor Fire. For hundreds of people, it’s their archetypal Thanksgiving since their homes burned down.

This Thanksgiving, Jameela Gilmete cooked up each the emblematic turkey time traditions. It’s a acquainted repast successful a caller place.

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“It’s precise different, but astatine the aforesaid time, we are precise thankful we person a location to person Thanksgiving in,” she explained.

Jameela and her household mislaid their Grizzly Flats location successful the Caldor Fire. They are conscionable 1 of the hundreds of radical without a location aft the flames ripped done the town. On Thursday the household celebrated the holidays from a rental house.

“I deliberation much than thing you deliberation astir the radical successful your beingness that you’re adjacent with and that you’re thankful for, family…it has a caller perspective,” explained Gilmete.

That gratitude is impacting her full family, including her 11-year-old son, Mason.

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“Thankful for my household and to person a bully location to enactment in,” said Mason.

For Mason’s mom, it’s besides enactment from the community, including a radical who donated full eating country array sets for families to consciousness much astatine home, that’s making a difference.

“You deliberation astir each the things that were conscionable the norm for you, everything from a mixer to a peculiar spoon oregon a vessel that you had. So, having thing similar that decidedly fills a void,” explained Gilmete.

Thankful hearts are lasting beyond conscionable 1 time with truthful overmuch to beryllium grateful for.

“We person each other, we person everything we need,” she said.

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The Gilmetes’ location successful Grizzley Flats is inactive being cleared from the debris of the fire. They program to yet rebuild their home

Velena Jones