"I was at first overwhelmed with joy, but my happiness was short-lived. It was a mixture of both a tremendous relief, but a sense of it being a hollow victory because what we loved about that town is definitely gone forever," said Ms. Perez, capturing the conflicting emotions felt by many who survive wildfires.
"In the aerial photographs that have become ubiquitous in this era of supersized wildfires, there is invariably a lonely house still standing, a baffling survivor. For the owners of the homes that manage to skirt fate, elation can turn to grief and frustration," illustrating the complexities of survival amid destruction.
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