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    Clinging to memories in Carr fire ashes

    by Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times Aug 30, 2018 4 minutes

    REDDING, Calif. - Ed Bledsoe cradled the stone in his calloused right palm, using his thumb to scrape away a layer of dust and ash. Finding nothing but a gray, smooth surface, he hunched over and tossed it back into the dirt.

    The Carr fire had destroyed his home and killed his wife and two great-grandchildren. Bledsoe was looking for something to hang onto, even if it was just the rainbow-painted rock 4-year-old Emily had decorated.

    "The paint would've survived" the searing heat, he said.

    The fire took pretty much everything else. His wife, Melody. The great-grandchildren they were raising: James, 5, and Emily. A firefighter who had tried

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