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Transcript of Evacuees make emotional return to burnt out homes

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I watched this house burn down live on the news while I was at work. So just to make it real and see what was here. I don't think I didn't expect to find much, but there's a few keepsakes. Yeah, this was a beautiful home. It's like my spin bikes in there. It's still there. It's not like we just lost our house. Everybody lost their house.

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Gone. Just absolute. It's the further you go up, it's just an absolute wasteland. It's just stunned, shocked, speechless.

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It's the worst thing I've seen. Looked like a bomb just went off over here. That's the only way I could describe it.

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I can't explain how we're feeling right now. It's so heartbreaking. Just seeing our home go down, our memories, just everything about it. We're hurting a lot, our neighborhood, our city.

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Episode description

"It's just an absolute wasteland." Evacuees make emotional returns to homes burnt down by the Southern California wildfires.