California Wildfires Have People Rushing to Leave Their Homes

Story by Serenity Bussey. Photo Courtesy of CNN.

OCT. 25, 2017: Have you heard about the California wildfires? Well, if you haven’t, it is all over the news. It all started two weeks ago at the first of the month in October in Santa Rosa, California. So far there have been fifty-one people who have died and more than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. According to CNN, more than 5,700 houses and buildings have been destroyed.

The fires in Northern California are the deadliest on the record for the entire state. A lot of people left Santa Rosa and had to hide in a 24-hour grocery store. The people stayed in the grocery store for weeks until they could be sent to a safer location at a hotel fifty miles away. During the first week only 17 people died, but then the wildfires spread and now there are 51 deaths!

This story is very sad because people should not have to suffer a miserable death for no reason such as a fire. The people who survived have lost their personal belongings such as clothes, pictures, furniture and loved ones. With Thanksgiving right around the corner and knowing that these people have lost their family and so much more, it makes us proud that we have a lot of things to be thankful for.

Serenity Bussey is a 3rd grade scholar at Friendship Woodridge International School.