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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
It’s an overwhelming sense of loss. People want to do something to help and the reality is, I don’t know what that is. But the offers are there, and the offers are tremendously meaningful.
— Judy Keyes, an employment partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, in comments given to Law360, concerning the destruction of her home due to the raging California wildfires. Keyes had been staying with a colleague from the firm, and recently moved to an Airbnb in Santa Barbara with her daughter’s family, whose home was also destroyed by the fires. As she has been rendered homeless, DWT is allowing Keyes to use her office address for her financial accounts and to have packages delivered. Keyes explained that soon, she’d go back to her home to dig through the rubble and ash to search for anything of value. “I just need to see it with my own eyes,” she said.
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