All That Matters Is We're Alive' :

California Fire Evacuees Crowd

Into Shelters

By Jose A. Del Real

July 30. 2018


【The New York Times】


REDDING,  Calif - Beneath  thick clouds

of smoke from the still - burning Carr

Fire nearby,  Ashley Myers and

her family leaned on their small black

subaru on Monday as they are a

breakfast of biscuits and gravy

from paper plates outside the

Cross Pointe Community Church.

The family had been at the church,

nowa shelter,  forthree days

already,  after evacuating their home

in Redding's Westwood

neighborhood.  ........ ........ ........ ........