Victims of the fast-moving brush fire at Jamestown Estates in Lakewood are continuing to pick up the pieces of their lives, little by little. FOX13
The community came together Monday to offer clothing and other items to those that lost everything in Friday's devastating, fire that left two men dead and dozens of mobile homes burned. One of the grassroots community donation locations is pictured below.
On Monday he showed FOX 13 News crews the blackened shell that remained on the plot his mom, dad and four sisters once called home. An"You can see her bike; she had a kitchen set up, a little tent, it was everything for her," Galvez said about his four-year-old sister. "Her dollhouse and everything was out there."
Monday the Lakewood City Council held a moment of silence for the two men who died. The city manager says more than 20 people remain displaced following the fire.
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