Twenty-four Triangles

If you were told to evacuate your home – right now – what would you grab? If you have a pet, it would surely be on the short list of things you wouldn’t leave behind. But what if your cat was a hide-and-seek expert? What if your pooch was a 120+ pound Bernese Mountain Dog? Like so many other people scrambling to escape California’s raging wildfires, Katherine Weaver fled her home still wearing her nightgown. There was no time to change, or to rescue her beloved Izzy. After the smoke cleared, her son Jack and son-in-law Patrick hiked the charred hill to retrieve Izzy’s body. But when they arrived at the place where Katherine’s house had once been, the big shaggy dog bounded up to meet them - unhurt. “She was very happy to see us,” Jack reports. “She’s such a brave dog. We couldn't get back home fast enough. Mom’s in much better spirits now that Izzy is with her.”