Fires taking more than physical toll on firefighters
Wildfires are taking more than just a physical toll on the firefighters battling flames across California, CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan reports. Ben Holliday and Joshua Wilkins have been moving from fire to fire since June.
Both men are from Butte County, where the Camp Fire has devastated their community. “This is our home,” Holliday said. “We both, everyone on our task force that we’re on has family here, houses gone and whatnot, so, yeah, this one definitely hit home more than any fire I’ve ever been on, hands down.”
Cal Fire Capt. Joe Chavez helped his wife and two young daughters evacuate before watching his home burn down in Paradise.
“That was definitely hard to watch, and there’s still a lot of feelings I need to deal with with that,” Chavez said. “I’m just glad to have my family whole because there’s a lot of families out there that are not whole right now. There’s a lot of people that still haven’t been found … Knowing that there are people out there that don’t have a family anymore, that hurts.”
