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A year after East Troublesome Fire, 'almost no one' has started to rebuild
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6:01Now PlayingThe fine line between chaos and order can be drawn in fire for people like Marjorie Cranston.
She lost her home when the East Troublesome Fire burned that line across Grand County on Oct. 21, 2020.
"I had no idea what was about to happen," Cranston said. "A neighbor came and got me, and he said, 'What are you doing?' and I said, 'I'm just going to have dinner,' and he said, 'No, you're not. You get in your car right now,' and I turned around. I said goodbye to my home."
Within minutes, the flames came over the hill and destroyed her house.
"There's no way to describe that everything in your life is gone," Cranston said. "All your memories. Everything."
The next week, the next phase began for Cranston. She started the process of reconstruction.
"It was going to be the next fire in a way, the trial that came afterwards," she said.
Over the past 12 months, she and her husband, both in their 70s, have lived in three places. She's had to deal with five insurance adjustors asking to have all of her belongings documented when her documents burned up in the fire.
"Everything in that house, I had to try to recover in my brain," Cranston said.
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