From Oak Park to the Front Lines: A Canadian Family’s Experience with California Wildfires

The battle continues south of the border with wildfires in California that began back on January 7th. Some fires still burning and some now under total control. We connected with myFM’s own Chris Soares’ sister, Angela Callegari, who’s family have been living in Oak Park, about 12 minutes West of Calabasas for about a year now. She told myFM when they moved there, they did do their homework, but they knew there is a price to pay for living in a normally dry area.

Back on January 7th, word travelled fast about the wildfires, and started with her own daughter.

She says one thing many people don’t know is that in wind events on the coast, power disconnection is actually a safety step.

Callegari says they pretty much knew when to start packing for a possible evacuation and came to a very important realization in the midst of all of that.

myFM asked her, almost ten days after it all began, what her thoughts were.

And what about the fact that she’s Canadian and her homeland being very present with air water tankers helping out.

Written by: myFM News