500,000 people were under some sort of evacuation order — nearly 10 percent of the state’s population — displacing tens of thousands and leaving many without homes to go back to.“As of now we know that 13 women who are a part of our group have lost their homes in the fires” says Lori Warfield and Jean Hanna, board member and founder, respectively, of the nonprofit lesbian organization Wild Womyn. “You lose your home so suddenly that people did not even have a chance to grab a toothbrush.
It is destroying the memories that live in that house. It shakes the very earth under their feet.” Hanna continued: “Hotels are at full capacity, parking lots are full of fire refugees living in their cars, and the supermarkets are running bare.