Dorothy_Lucey's Blog

It started with 2 startled kids yelling "Somebody is trying to break in the house". 6AM Sunday morning...Nash had his friend Chaise sleeping over. The kids burst in our room (that was fine it was waaaaay too early for anything to be going on in there.) They were scared. They had reason to be. It wasn't a thief it was the fire. Chaise's dad was trying to wake us up. He didn't want to just yell FIRE!!! But why not...our Church was burning, the neighborhood would be next..

We grabbed the kids, the cat, the dog , the geckos and pictures and ran. We watched the fire from the parking lot at Duke's ( a Malibu restaurant I have to plug because they fed us for days).

Nash cried when I told him about our church. I was trying so hard not to cry because I didn't want to scare him but when he started...I started. Malibu Presbyterian Church has been at the heart of our lives ( between Sunday service, Bible study, Preschool, meetings..I think I spend more time there than at home). "THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE" is so much more than a movie title now. I know a Church is just a building but it's a building I loved.

We also lost a member of the family (although not one I loved). We...okay...Nash lost one of his pet geckos. Lemon (all our pets have food names Milky Way the dog, Oatmeal the cat, Banana and Lemon the geckos) was lost in my car. Lemon may still be in there (I fear if...he/she...we never knew...if it is still there I will know soon enough!) So we dealt with the fear and the sorrow..and the mess. I ripped up everything in my car looking for the gecko. I dropped and broke a bunch of the frames I had put in my car to save. It was a long smoky day but we got to go home.

Monday morning 5am...FIRE!!!!!!AGAIN!!! When I woke up I could see it from my window...that I really don't care for. Again we ran...dog,cat and one gecko. Monday was so much worse. The fire was all around our house and the homes of the people I love. My husband (David Goldstein from CBS2) and I worked the story together. We haven't done that since we were both news reporters in NY. Well he worked the story, I mostly got on TV and tried not to cry.

I am so thankful. Our house is fine. The only house to burn nearby is a house David and I almost bought. Nash and I made muffins for the fireman. I burned them. I have decided to say thank you by not giving them the muffins.

If your ending is not yet a happy one you have my prayers. And honestly I am sorry I think I was a bit giddy on TV today . Maybe it's the relief.. In my house we are all home...well all except the gecko.