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Posted on 09/19/2015 1:19:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
"He looked up in a daze. I barely had the back door open when Thumper pushed her way out and ran towardhim..."
Lawrence Ross looked beat, his head hanging and his eyes bloodshot five days after fleeing his home in the path of a wall of flames. Ross showed up at a high school in the small Northern California town of Lower Lake, where authorities were escorting residents briefly into the evacuation zone to inspect their homes and check on pets and livestock. They had not let residents return since the fire erupted Saturday about 100 miles north of San Francisco, scorching thousands of acres and reducing more than 800 homes to ash.
When told officials were no longer letting residents in at all, not even with escorts, Ross sighed heavily, shook his head and fought back tears. "I think my house is OK, but I don't know, and my dog is there, and my goats and horses and alpacas," he told me. "My dog, my dog."
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Yay For Thumper! I donated yesterday to the ASPCA who is there helping out animals and owners. Please donate if you can it’s a desperate situation. I used to have a cat named Thumper.
This story made me tear up a bit. So glad he found his friend alive!
My screen got a little blurry as well. :)
I’m so glad the dog was safe. They are SO smart.
Now I’m worried about the other animals. But It doesn’t compare to this guys worries.
Thanks for the post- great story.
I guess I can see a quantity of livestock- okay, not really- unless it was a really fast moving blaze, but there is nothing in this world that could make me leave my pets behind. Ya just might as well shoot me now, cause that’s the only way.
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