Bob Welch: Heart, Humor & Hope

Bob Welch: Heart, Humor & Hope

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Hope rising from the ashes

Hope rising from the ashes

As parts of LA still burn, two Lane County families offer bounce-back stories after losing their houses in wildfires

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Jan 16, 2025
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Lonnie Chlosta’s work vehicle after the 2018 Camp Fire in California.

LOS ANGELES — We arrived here Tuesday almost a week, to the hour, that the Palisades Fire broke out. Our destination: the so-called “happiest place on earth,” Disneyland, with a son, daughter-in-law and three grandkids.

But the smoky skies beyond the Matterhorn goad me with a twinge of …

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