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California Firefighters Doing Video Interview And Searching Through Rubble Make Heartwarming Discovery

A heartbroken California firefighter and his colleagues discovered a wedding ring in the ruins of their Altadena home.

Pasadena fire engineer Qian Yu, who took CNN's Erin Burnett on a tour of the ruins of his home, said he was sitting down when he saw an “orange light” behind a nearby tree that signaled an approaching fire. I showed him the place. Yu said he and his family had lived in the house for about seven or eight years.

Yu evacuated his wife and two sons and then went on a 16-hour shift to protect his neighborhood from the Eaton Fire, Barnett reported. At the end of his shift, he realized his home was gone.

Two of Yu's firefighter colleagues found something while digging through the rubble of Yu's home.

“What is that?” Yu, Barnett, and another firefighter asked.

The firefighter who found the ring handed it to a surprised and grateful Yu, who began to laugh with relief as Barnett clapped.

“Mr. Chien, what does your wife say?'' Barnett asked.

“She didn't know,” Yu said with a laugh.

“Did you tell her you lost it?'' asked Barnett, who was surprised and laughed.

“Everyone knows now,” Yu said.

In the video, Yu's wife can be heard crying in shock at the discovery, hugging him and breaking down in tears over the devastation.

a GoFundMe campaign That's because Yu's family has raised more than $230,000 of their $300,000 goal as of this report.

The Eaton Fire, which broke out on January 7, has destroyed 14,117 acres and is only 55% contained. Official update. This is one of four fires hitting the Los Angeles area and is being fanned by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds. At the time of this report, the latest information revealed that the Eaton Fire alone had killed 16 people and destroyed 5,356 structures. City and state officials have faced accusations of incompetence. (Related article: 'Gross mismanagement': Petition to recall Los Angeles mayor gathers nearly 100,000 signatures amid devastating fire)

Yu told Barnett that he returned to work to find some normalcy. “But it will never be the same for the kids,” he added.

Yu said the children were trying to cope, but sometimes told their mother they wanted to go home or go back to school. He added that the fire destroyed a school right next to his home.

Yu told Ms Barnett that she had no intention of taking the children back to see what was left of the house. “We told them that place burned down, our house burned down, the school burned down, so they're trying to figure it out,” he said.

Yu said she grew up in the nearby San Gabriel Valley and, like many of her neighbors, plans to return to Altadena.

“You see fire every day, you see destruction every day. But how is it different when it becomes your life?” Barnett asked.

“I don't know, I can't express it in words,” Yu answered. “So when we go to a house fire, you kind of isolate yourself and just do what's best for the homeowner, you put out their fire and we do whatever rescue we can.” We want to get as much out of it as we can and hopefully some of their work will do that. But this just went away.”

Victoria DeSantis, also of Altadena, said firefighters helped her find her wedding ring in the rubble of her home, 20 years after finding it melted in the heat of a fire. said Good morning America.

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