A heartwarming video shows the moment a heroic firefighter and his wife break down in tears after finding their wedding ring in the ashes of their home destroyed by the Los Angeles wildfires.
Pasadena fire engineer Qian Yu lost his home while fighting the Eaton Fire. CNN joins him He went back to peer through the rubble and called it “indescribable.”
“What's that?” one of his colleagues suddenly said, taking out a ring and handing it to Yu.
“That's it, my God!” Yu said, delighted to have found his silver wedding ring, but admitted he had not yet told his wife, Kim, that it was missing.
The father-of-two, who works as a firefighter, was then shown proudly showing off his hand and ring to his wife.
“Oh my god!” she said as the overwhelmed couple hugged and cried outside their destroyed home.
Yu told CNN's Erin Burnett that after seeing the fire approaching last week, he evacuated his wife and two children and then prepared for a 16-hour shift to fight fires in his neighborhood. spoke.
He didn't know his home had been destroyed until he got off his shift.
They have since moved, but his two sons are struggling, asking multiple times when they can go home or go back to school. The school was right next door to their home and was also lost in the fire.
“It will never be the same for the kids,” he said. “They're trying their best, you know?”
He said he doesn't plan to show the boys the remains of his abandoned childhood home, but he plans to move back in with most of his neighbors.
The Eaton Fire was one of several large wildfires that broke out in Los Angeles last week.
