When the Jeberg family evacuated their Calistoga Road home on Oct. 8, fleeing the Tubbs fire, they assumed it would be the last time they’d ever see it.
A couple days later, they learned their home had been spared.
“It was just so hard (for him) to find words,” Michala Jeberg said on behalf of her husband, who was out of the country during the interview. “All he could come up with was, ‘Thank you,’ basically, and the fire crews were all just saying, ‘Well, we’re just doing our jobs.’ They didn’t seem to think much about it.”
“I saw these signs popping up here, there and everywhere,” she said. “I thought, ‘All these people must be feeling the same way as I do. … (Since) a lot of the firefighters were not local, they were coming from out of town or out of state or even out of country, I thought that they were never going to see all these beautiful, heartfelt signs. And I thought that was a shame.”
With the help of local designer Monica Kamsvaag and Glen Rankin, a printer, the photo collection morphed into a poster that is now being mailed or dropped off to 350 fire stations around the world.
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