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Heartwarming video shows the moment a hero firefighter and his wife break down in tears at finding his wedding ring in the ashes of their home that was burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires.
Pasadena Fire Engineer Chien Yu lost his own home while out battling the Eaton Fire, with CNN joining him as he went back to look through the rubble, calling it “indescribable.”
“What’s that?” one of his colleagues suddenly said, picking out the ring and handing it to Yu.
“That’s it — oh my God!” Yu said, celebrating finding the silver wedding band — while admitting he had yet to tell his wife, Kim, that it was lost.
The firefighting father of two was then shown proudly flashing his hand to his wife, showing her the ring.
“What! Oh, my gosh!” she said, as the overwhelmed couple hugged and cried outside their destroyed home.
Yu told CNN’s Erin Burnett he saw the fire approaching last week and evacuated his wife and their two children before suiting up for a 16-hour shift, battling the blaze in his own neighborhood.
He didn’t know until he got off that shift his own home had been destroyed.
They’ve since relocated but his two sons have been having a hard time, repeatedly asking when they can go home or go back to their school — which was right next to their house and also lost in the fire.
“It’s never going to be the same for the kids,” he said. “They’re doing the best they can, you know?”
He said he doesn’t plan to show the boys the remains of their childhood home in ruin, but he plans on returning, along with most of his neighbors.
The Eaton fire was one of several major wildfires that erupted in Los Angeles last week
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