Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires
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What is the main focus of Dana Goodyear's reporting?
And recently, she and her family found their lives very much at the center of the story.
you so you you have a press pass and you're trying to get up there is that well i guess my question to you is what's your ultimate goal today i have combined goals um so i write for the new yorker magazine it's long form non-fiction journalism okay and i need to be seeing things that all the heroic emergency operations people are doing and i also need to figure out what in the hell is going on at my house because we haven't been able to see it okay and i know it's gone but
How did Dana Goodyear feel returning to her home after the wildfire?
More than that.
Yeah, I'm sorry for that.
What did Dana discover about the aftermath of her house?
Well, I mean, the thing that's so weird for me is that I've reported on so many fires, and I just can't believe that... It happened to you. I can't believe it. The beautiful Palisades. It's just... Unreal. I'm driving up Chautauqua, and I have an absolute pit in my stomach. I know I'm about to see the neighborhood, but this is the road that I drove up every day. And I'm glad a lot of these houses are standing on Chautauqua. So the fire didn't rip down through this little stream so much. But I'm just so scared because I'm about to actually finally see it. I've been imagining it for a week. And when I was here with Brad, it was like fire everywhere, smoke in the air, emergency vehicles. Just now it's pretty much dead calm.
Dead calm, no cars, no fire trucks. It's like a lot of broken lives. Okay, here we go. Here we go. There is literally no one anywhere in this neighborhood. It's... It's so strange. It's so quiet. The wind is blowing lightly. The doves are back on the wires behind the house. I'm looking into this pit of plaster and rebar and kind of understanding how my house was made there's the fireplace that i really loved in our family room with the kind of i forgot the name of that shape but it's i think it's maybe a kiva shape the sort of um almond shape half an almond shape opening in the fireplace and the tiles on one side are still there um Then there's sort of a tangled mass, and there are all of our roof tiles scattered everywhere. Pizza oven. There's, like, shampoo bottles that are completely intact that were by the outdoor shower. The garage, it looks like Monday afternoon in my garage. The pillows are on the couch. My...
daughter's jar of homemade slime is sitting there intact on the on the counter all my books are in the shelves everything looks completely fine um and then The house just is an idea of a house, or the aftermath of the house, I guess. You can walk through the arched door at the front and the back, but there's just pretty much nothing in between. Ugh.
What emotions did Dana Goodyear express about her possessions?
I wish I knew how it caught and why and if there's anything we could have done to change this outcome. And why is our garage still standing? I wish I knew how to know what its narrative was at this particular house, like where the ember went in, what caught, what's that splatter all over the back. wall of the house the part that's still standing is just looks like someone took a paintbrush with black paint and flicked it flung it all over the house did something explode there what's so weird is just we had so much We had so many possessions, so many stupid possessions and so many really special possessions. And you can't see any of that here.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main focus of Dana Goodyear's reporting?
1:13–2:20
2
How did Dana Goodyear feel returning to her home after the wildfire?
2:20–2:23
3
What did Dana discover about the aftermath of her house?
2:23–6:20
4
What emotions did Dana Goodyear express about her possessions?
6:20–7:37
5
What insights did Dana share about the nature of her home?
7:37–14:04