Caldor Fire victims living in tents gifted a trailer after wildfire

2022-08-26 20:18:15 By : Ms. Lynn Li

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A family who lost everything in the Caldor Fire has been given a new trailer.

The trailer came on Monday, fully furnished to Grizzly Flats.

A Colfax man said he saw KCRA 3’s story on the family living in tents on their properties after the fire and wanted to donate the trailer to them anonymously.

KCRA 3 spoke to the family and their neighbors who say that for them Grizzly Flats is their home and they would not want to live anywhere else.

“After the fire, I had to leave home,” said Jessica Carillo, who received the trailer. “I had to be away from everything that I knew. To be able to accept something like this for me and my family it’s beyond words.”

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Neighbor Brent Richardson said that people have a misconception that people had second homes there.

“This isn’t Tahoe where are vacation homes and stuff like that,” he said. “This is our home.”

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The man who donated the trailer needed someone to haul it from Colfax to Grizzly Flats. Boehman’s Trucking donated their time and labor to do that.

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