‘Please Save Our House’
The fire arrived with a quickness, driven by fierce winds and hot, dry weather. Dramatic photos posted to social media by local news outlets and others show an almost apocalyptic scene of “near total loss” in Greenville.
“I’m so sorry for the town of Greenville,” the account @SoCalFire wrote on Twitter as a caption to a video showing smoky skies and the town’s library and other buildings on the main drag going up in flames. While officials haven’t begun tallying all the damage in the town yet, it’s likely to be catastrophic. Some of the buildings burned are more than a century old; the town dates back to the Gold Rush of the late 1840s and early 1850s.
On the sheriff’s update on Facebook, dozens of residents and people with family and friends in the area posted concerns, prayers, and questions about the status of their homes or loved ones.
“Is lower Williams valley road gone?” one person asked.
“Please save our house,” another user wrote, before giving their address.
