'I don't know what to call it when it feels like you can't breathe,' Vas Arora told the Orange County Register newspaper as he and his family looked at their completely burnt-down house in the city of Yorba Linda. 'But that's what it feels like.'
The 67-year-old retired engineer's house was destroyed by the fire that raged through his neighbourhood on Saturday. "I came to this country with zero dollars in my pockets. We built this. We will build over again," he said.
The Arora family is among the few Indians, who lost most of their possessions in the several fires that devastated areas of Southern California in the last four days. Fires erupted and spread in the cities to the north, south and east of Los Angeles.
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Image: An inmate work crewman from the California Correctional Facility battles a blaze in Diamond Bar, California. Several fires grew together in this area to create what is now called the Triangle Complex Fire.
Text: Preeti Chandan | Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images
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