As Vicken Maringuan moved to Eaton fire in Jan. 7 The trunk of his car was opened and decades of memories turned away.
In the running, he seized photos albums, which contained hundreds of family members – his parents, parents’ parents, his involvement group. He drew pictures to the trunk. But by the broke of the wind, the trunk went out to the pictures, climbing in the air.
Picture found by Claire Schwartz.
(Kind of Kind of Vicken Marganian)
“As if I was in a large bowl, it was like a confetti, but instead of coming, they were flying in the air,” he said. “I shouted, ‘Oh my God.’ I lay my hands on my head. I felt that my past came before me. “
With smoke and Ash, Margin ripped to take as many as possible, but she was supposed to give as the flames approached.
He thought he had lost hundreds of Eternal Image.
Fortungrine, a roommate in training as the art keeper and a heartbreaker of combination of pictures and their owners came to her salvation – and to salvation in some victim victims.
Before the fire, Claire Schwartz liked to find old photographs sold in the Pasadena College Flea and could try to return to photographers. His recreation began years ago when he looked at a picture that was sold at the flowery market and saw that the house shown in the picture had a silver.
Claire Schwartz searches the Altadena Golf Course with missing pictures.
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Schwartz is pulled on the burned pages from the yearbook by phone near the Altadene Golf Course.
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“I looked at the address and I was like, oh, some pictures are easy to track,” he said. “When I get a picture of a clear shot of the house, I will take hold and try to find out who was living in the house at that time. I try to find their living offspring.”
Hobby has mixed effects. Recently, Schwartz had a picture of a woman trying to return to a woman’s family, only they were told that the woman was horror and that her daughter did not want to see the picture.
But after Eaton’s fire, the Schwartz saw that it was its canal as the Teuri’s canal can be used to help people who have lost some of the disasters at times.
He built a website and Instagram called “Eaton Fire found,” and people soon began to attend him with the pictures they had received. Schwartz has attempted to identify and find photographers, but when it comes to the end dead, sending photos on the website and Instagram and hope visitors from his sites can help.
He currently has about 25 pictures are trying to return to their owners.
In one case, he found a perfect picture album. Although he shows the family he believes it is time, Schwartz is waiting to hear from them.
Schwartz looks at the burned pages from the annual book he found in Altadena.
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Her hobby covers not only the work of investigation but also keeping history. The SCHWARTZ in front of the Corita Art in Los Feliz in the Department of Slumano and has a cleaning experience and the lithographs, directly translated his current worksheets. He is cleaning the pictures and keeps them in Archarval envelopes at storage control over temperatures until they say. He says he is happy to hold on to idols all his life.
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His mother Sinnatamfy’s husband was cleaning the back of the Pasadena behind Eaton’s fire when she found a picture of a woman in a shower.
When the Schwartz moves a picture from Sinnatamfy, he knew who they were: Vicken and Hourganian.
The picture was Hourie’s mother, someone saw some 20 pictures or so she had already returned to a couple.
“We are blessed to have Claire did that,” Vicken Marganian. “We are kind to this world.”
It is more difficult to track owners of other pictures.
Photographs found by Clair Schwartz from the aftermath of Eaton, sent to social media to try to meet memories and victims of fire.
(Kaculous Kacaire Schwartz)
In Altadena Golf Course, Schwartz used a stick last week to pull pictures of the phone. You were set aside that the pictures were beaten in the array and vegetables. Many of his findings were half-burned pages from books that were determined without burning houses.
Ischwartz found a picture that seemed from the book of the year. The crowd of brothers who participated in their part. They seemed to be members of the Jewish fraternity at a certain university. One wore a shirt that said, “Restore me in 2008.” There is a separate campus building from campus on the other side of the page of the entire page.
It is the guidelines that will help the Schwartz in his search for the image owner.
