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Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires

2025/1/28
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Dana Goodyear：我作为《纽约客》杂志的记者，报道了2018年的伍尔西大火以及最近的加州野火。这次野火烧毁了我的家，我亲身经历了这场灾难。起初，我既要以记者身份报道火灾救援工作，也要了解我家被烧毁的情况。当我回到家时，我发现房子几乎被完全烧毁，只剩下房屋轮廓。火灾烧毁了我们所有的财物，只留下一些建筑残骸。然而，在被烧毁的办公室里，我找到了我的防火保险箱，里面保存着一些重要的物品，包括我订婚戒指上的宝石。这让我感到一丝安慰和希望，也让我意识到这次灾难增强了我们家庭的凝聚力，这象征着我们家庭的团结和韧性，即使我们失去了物质上的东西，但我们仍然在一起。 David Remnick：我介绍了Dana Goodyear及其报道加州野火的经历，包括她家被烧毁的事件。她的经历突显了加州野火对居民生活造成的巨大影响，以及灾后重建的艰难。

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Dana Goodyear, a New Yorker staff writer, recounts her experience returning to her home in Pacific Palisades after it was destroyed in a wildfire. She describes the eerie silence and devastation, contrasting the destruction of her house with the surprisingly intact garage. The emotional impact of the loss is palpable, highlighting the fragility of possessions and the resilience of the family.
  • Return to fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades home
  • Description of the devastation
  • Intact garage amidst the destruction
  • Emotional impact of loss

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The staff writer Dana Goodyear) has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a deadly crime spree in Malibu; Kamala Harris’s rise in politics; and the ever more fragile environment. She covered) the destructive Woolsey Fire, in Los Angeles, in 2018. Recently, Goodyear found her own life very much in the center of the story. Living in Pacific Palisades, she had to evacuate early this month, and she documented her return days later to a scene of devastation in this audio story. “The house just is an idea of a house, or the aftermath of a house,” she said. “You can walk through the arched door at the front and the back, but there’s just pretty much nothing in between.”