After packing my life into a mid-sized SUV and evacuating my house off of Foothill Rd., the full effects of the Jesusita fire hit me. The fire is growing closer and closer to the house where my girlfriend and I, our two cats and two dogs reside.

As the winds picked up, I was put on assignment to document a project that I had picked up last month. As part of Earth Week, multiple companies came together to completely rebuild a house for a family that lost everything in the Tea Fire of last year. Upon completion, the house was moved up Coyote Canyon, and placed neatly on the plot of land in which the families house once stood.

Tracy Trotter (the director of the documentary), Gavin White and myself filmed the construction, interior design and the actual moving of the house itself. It was an amazing feat, especially considering it was all done within a weeks time. Even more amazing is the community of Santa Barbara for coming together and helping a family that lost something so dear to them, their home.

Now that the Jesusita fire has made it's way up Mission Canyon, the family is once again threatened. It made my stomach churn watching the flames make their way toward something everyone had worked so hard to achieve. And for the family that had already lost so much, to have to face it all again would be devastating.