After Renee and Brian’s house burned down, they had nothing, but found rebirth at a church, and at Easter.
Brian Smith and partner Renee Dominique with their dog Kirby in their apartment on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Eagle Rock home they lived in was destroyed by fire forcing them to temporarily move to a Pasadena apartment. The are celebrating Easter on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at a central Pasadena church they were drawn to after seeing a poster about “returning to ashes” for Ash Wednesday.
Brian Smith and partner Renee Dominique in front of First Baptist Church Pasadena on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Eagle Rock home they lived in was destroyed by fire forcing them to temporarily move to a Pasadena apartment. Brian Smith and partner Renee Dominique with their dog Kirby in their apartment on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Eagle Rock home they lived in was destroyed by fire forcing them to temporarily move to a Pasadena apartment. The are celebrating Easter on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at a central Pasadena church they were drawn to after seeing a poster about “returning to ashes” for Ash Wednesday.
Symbolism, whether in poetry, religious texts, or art and architecture, kept surfacing as Dominique, 58, and Smith, 63, pointed out little things that took on bigger meaning at the apartment in Old Pasadena where they’ll be staying for the next year as they pursue rebuilding their home. As they gingerly stepped over piles of debris, amid blackened walls and blistered ceilings, they occasionally glanced down and found a charred memento. They think the fire may have started from a power surge that blew through a laptop’s electrical converter which was plugged into a living room wall outlet.
It was just a few days after looters had robbed them of valuables the couple had dragged from their home to locked backyard sheds, only to find them broken into, their valuables gone. When hiking in the forest a friend of Dominique’s noticed her friend, Paula Weston Solano walking by and the friend introduced her to Solano.
Solano invited Dominique to a clothes circle, where women swap used clothing items. Solano, who has just begun rebuilding the home she lost, shared tips with the couple about the journey. Both talked briefly about how they were fortunate to escape the fire with their dog, and without injury, except for Dominique’s singed hair. “For me it was very surreal,” said Smith. “You see an inferno inside your house and it’s like you can’t process it.”
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