Los Angeles fires|Residents evacuated from a residential area popular with families with children have resorted to each other’s help.
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Linda Noyer’s family lost their home in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The family was evacuated from the Pacific Palisades area on Tuesday.
Noyer’s house was completely burned down, and the family is now staying in a hotel.
Local authorities provided information on evacuation centers.
Finnish Linda Noyerin the family, like countless others, lost their home in the Los Angeles wildfires.
Noyer lived with her husband and children in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood where the fires began to spread on Tuesday. Residents were told to evacuate at two in the afternoon, and at seven in the evening Noyer received a fire alarm.
“Yesterday, we got confirmation when a neighbor had gone to film a video. Our house had burned to the ground, in fact the whole neighborhood and community is gone,” says Noyer by phone.
We had to get to safety quickly from under fire. Noyer was at home with her husband, the children were at school in an area not threatened by the fire.
“The children’s birth certificates were taken, the passports and the cat and dog were secured. There was no time to take any movables, only some of the most important papers.”
When Linda Noyer was able to leave, the roads were already blocked. Noyer’s spouse stayed at home for another half hour.
“The firemen told him to water the house with a garden hose, but it didn’t help because the fire was so aggressive.”
Noyerin the family had to evacuate five years ago due to the danger of wildfires.
“We did not think that we would have been in such a high risk area as we were higher up on the hill. When I left home to drive I saw that the fire was coming down the hill. I realized that this time this is not going to end well.”
Evacuation takes place with evacuation orders sent to residents over the phone. There was no evacuation transport organized by the authorities.
“Older people lived in the neighbor opposite, who at first didn’t want to leave their home. I know there was a nursing home in the area that was evacuated before it burned down. Our region had the most families with children.”
According to Linda Noyer, the local authorities have given information about the opening of the evacuation centers, but mostly the residents have had to rely on each other and their own activity.
“If our neighbor hadn’t gotten to the area to film, we wouldn’t have been sure that our home was on fire.”
The residents’ mutual advice and assistance has been facilitated by the fact that the telecommunications connections have been in order.
A wildfire approached the Pacific Palisades residential area on Tuesday.
Now Noyer’s family has stayed in a hotel and is thinking about how life will continue next.
“There are so many people here who have lost their homes that finding temporary housing will be quite challenging. We managed to get a rental apartment for a while so we can recover from this shock.”
In addition to looking for a new apartment, those who lost their homes have to deal with the insurance company.
Linda Noyer received crisis leave from her employer until the weekend and possibly beyond. Spouse Alex Noyer on film director, which has postponed its filming for the time being due to the events. Finnish-French Alex Noyer’s mother is Rafaela Seppäläwhich belongs to the owners of Sanoma.
Linda Noyer is prepared for the fact that it will take a long time to get over the ravages of the fire. Even on Thursday morning, it also looked like the fires were spreading due to strong winds.
Smoke filled the sky.