The Fireproof Box After the Wildfire

When the 2018 Camp Fire swept through Paradise, California, Dave and Kathy Locatelli lost everything. Their home of twenty-three years was reduced to a concrete slab and ash. Photo albums, furniture, the kitchen table where their kids had done homework for two decades — all gone in an afternoon. But when Dave returned to sift through the wreckage, he found their small fireproof safe sitting in the rubble, blackened but intact.…