'If I can keep one other person from feeling the loss that we have felt, it's worth it,' Upper McKenzie Rural Fire Protection District Chief Christiana Rainbow Plews said.
, Chief Plews' husband said:"We were just running and gunning and doing everything we could, but it was against all odds.It wasn't until 10:00 p.m last Tuesday that Chief Rainbow learned the fate of her home. She told the local newspaper:"My first thought was,"How do I tell my family?" I didn't know where my family was."
, even though she and four of her district volunteers had lost their homes, as well as the station in Upper McKenzie Rural Fire District, Chief Plews refuses to give up. She and her crew of volunteers continued to fight the inferno at Holiday Farm through to Thursday."Just to be able to compartmentalize that devastation and continue to do your job I'm in complete awe of," her son Kiger Plews told local ABC affiliate KEZI 9.
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