There's a monster and the monster's got to eat.
It's been the worst fire season ever recorded in California's history.
The whole town's literally burned to the ground.
There's a possibility we'll never fully know how many people are dead.
I haven't dreamt since it happened.
I feel when I close my eyes, I see the fire coming up the trees,
crowning on the trees and …
The morning that it happened, that's me, my husband, my 14-year-old daughter,
my 22-year-old daughter and my two and a half year old granddaughter.
We left, we were almost empty, on both of our cars.
We were driving through so much smoke, you couldn't even see in front of your hand.
It was coming into the cars.
We didn't have gas masks neither at that time.
Nothing.
Everybody panicking and you can't imagine
how much different types of panic there are with each person.
It's so devastating to see what's been your home,
and your community, gone.
It still feels like we're dreaming, we're all in a daze.
We're forgetting like our memories, we're forgetting our good memories from before.
We only remember from the day of the fire odd it seems like …
And every time we close our eyes, we're seeing the fire,
we're seeing, we are smelling the smoke.
All of these people went through this horror,
There's a lot of post-traumatic stress going to be happening from this.
I love this community, I'm the sixth generation here.
We left when they told us but then the flames are gone
so we came back because of our animals.
I can't leave them, this is what I live for,
this is what I do.
All right. Hi!
Come here!
I got special treats.
You are a good kid.
You're my good girl.
This is Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon is a very good boy.
Very stressed out, I can tell, the fires have really,
taken their tolls on everybody.
The past three years, we've evacuated because of the Oroville Dam.
We've had a fire here and then this camp fire.
It's exhausting.
This one's just like nothing we've ever seen
and there's whole communities gone and these are my friends, these are my family,
these are my pigs.
These aren't nameless people to us, this is us.
This TV makes a great birdbath.
Poor old guys are all black and gross.
I've lost everything too many times
I would rather die than lose it again.
This is my mother Norma.
Here you go.
Mom said she wouldn't leave, no matter what.
Want me to make you some more watermelon up?
That might be good.
That's pepper.
She likes the salt on her watermelon.
Yeah mama.
Yeah, not quite as … right about a year.
This is my dream home.
I built it for my wife.
Her angel was definitely standing right next to me fighting the fire.
I had the chance to stand here and fight it.
Thank God the two of us together had enough strength and spine to make it happen.
If I didn't have this guy, I would not have a home.
We used the doughboys swimming pool and the five gallon bucket, did a bucket brigade
and him and I fought the fire for 24 hours about all together.
This is my little Utopia.
There we go.
It's just my part of paradise
and I really don't want to leave.
Yeah, picture this on a spring day with ice-cold beer in your hand.
You want to leave?
I'm so glad they find him OK.
Yeah, he's doing fine.
We have just under 500 animals, horses, sheep, pigs, goats, cattle …
A lot of the animals here will just let loose,
hope they survive.
We've had a couple animals that our evac teams have found in pools …
A lot of them have survived and we've reunited quite a few people with their animals.
I had a lady and her son come in just now, that found their horse.
First question he had for me, besides, 'where's my horse?',
was, 'what do you guys need help with?'
And later on I found out they don't have anything left.
I think that's incredible, you know?
Just all that emotion.
Our community is going to lose a lot of really important people.
It's hard, it's a kind of fathom it
and then literally breathing him in right now.
I just want to be one of the people that make it better.
I have a feeling, I'll be picking up the pieces for the rest of my life.