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Number of People Have Lost Homes in Wildfires
Aired October 30, 2003 - 05:01 ET
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And while authorities look for their suspects, the number of people who lost their homes are looking to start all over again.
Reporter Kathleen Bade of CNN affiliate KFMB tells us about one of them.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TAMARA COACHO: Here's where I had my Christmas stockings. This is where I pushed my daughter.
KATHLEEN BADE, KFMB CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A swing for her 2-year-old daughter Alexandra is just about all that's left of Tamara Coacho's (ph) home in Scripps Ranch. On Sunday morning, the family woke up to the sound of neighbors screaming.
COACHO: They said, "Get out! Get out! The fire's here. You have to get out now."
BADE: Tamara and her husband Ernie literally had 10 minutes to pack up and leave.
COACHO: We grabbed our baby out of the bed. She was clinging onto her pink blankie. And we grabbed as many pictures as we could.
BADE: Those pictures are now cherished memories of the place the family called home for the past two years, a neighborhood Tamara is deeply entrenched in, having grown up here herself. Today, she came back for the first time, to this now unrecognizable site, reuniting with her neighbors.
COACHO: She's the one who knocked on our house. She's the one who saved my family. She's the one who said, "Get out! Get out! It's coming!"
BADE: Now, it's the little things that bring tears.
COACHO: Oh, the Oreo cookie jar. My daughter loves Oreo cookies. Look at that.
BADE: And the biggest heartbreak is the loss of the place Tamara had prepared for her unborn son.
(on camera): This is all that's left of the crib that baby Andre was supposed to be sleeping in just days from now in a nursery he'll never know in a home he'll never see. (voice-over): This neighborhood was once filled with children and it will be again. Tamara's due date is next week. And like many of her neighbors, she plans to rebuild.
COACHO: I'm just trying to get this baby out healthy and then we need to find a place to live and then we start all over again.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: That was reporter Kathleen Bade of CNN affiliate KFMB.
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Aired October 30, 2003 - 05:01 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And while authorities look for their suspects, the number of people who lost their homes are looking to start all over again.
Reporter Kathleen Bade of CNN affiliate KFMB tells us about one of them.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TAMARA COACHO: Here's where I had my Christmas stockings. This is where I pushed my daughter.
KATHLEEN BADE, KFMB CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A swing for her 2-year-old daughter Alexandra is just about all that's left of Tamara Coacho's (ph) home in Scripps Ranch. On Sunday morning, the family woke up to the sound of neighbors screaming.
COACHO: They said, "Get out! Get out! The fire's here. You have to get out now."
BADE: Tamara and her husband Ernie literally had 10 minutes to pack up and leave.
COACHO: We grabbed our baby out of the bed. She was clinging onto her pink blankie. And we grabbed as many pictures as we could.
BADE: Those pictures are now cherished memories of the place the family called home for the past two years, a neighborhood Tamara is deeply entrenched in, having grown up here herself. Today, she came back for the first time, to this now unrecognizable site, reuniting with her neighbors.
COACHO: She's the one who knocked on our house. She's the one who saved my family. She's the one who said, "Get out! Get out! It's coming!"
BADE: Now, it's the little things that bring tears.
COACHO: Oh, the Oreo cookie jar. My daughter loves Oreo cookies. Look at that.
BADE: And the biggest heartbreak is the loss of the place Tamara had prepared for her unborn son.
(on camera): This is all that's left of the crib that baby Andre was supposed to be sleeping in just days from now in a nursery he'll never know in a home he'll never see. (voice-over): This neighborhood was once filled with children and it will be again. Tamara's due date is next week. And like many of her neighbors, she plans to rebuild.
COACHO: I'm just trying to get this baby out healthy and then we need to find a place to live and then we start all over again.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: That was reporter Kathleen Bade of CNN affiliate KFMB.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
