Sonoma wildfire stories--Marcel and Meher Siegel

there were a couple of things. So the person we may hear set that up, a good friend of hers or ours took us in basically, but her parents also lost their house that night. So they also came in. So of course for the couple of days

we didn't know if they actually lost the house. So there was a lot of anxiety. So you know, we, you know, we, we suddenly became this small group of people helping each other and we became really close and the kind of thing that you can't, you

don't ever forget like, so, so we had some emotional nights, we did a lot of cooking and drinking and eating and then my daughter and I, we volunteered, my daughter volunteered with the horses at the, so we helped out there at the fairgrounds the first day

actually when all the horses and everything came in, we help with, you know, a lot of people donated stuff. It was amazing that we were just becoming in truckloads of hay bales or food and oats and stuff like that. I just had to be moved around

and, and, and this was just another uh, stables that just donated the stuff. They knew that had they, this is what's gonna be needed. There's no, nobody asked for it, They just send it. Um, and I volunteered a few days at the, at the shelters just,

you know, sweeping and just talking to people and doing whatever it needed to be done