A Saskatchewan business owner lost her Los Angeles home as wildfires ravage parts of the city.
“Everything is gone, our whole community, it’s unbelievable.” Nadia Williamson, the owner of Regina based bridal business NWL Dresses said on Friday. “Everything, thousands of homes have disappeared, elementary schools, high schools.”
Williamson, who runs a satellite store in Santa Monica, said she got a text from her neighbour while she was at work earlier this week telling her to come home.
“They were like, ‘You should really come home like, we are evacuating. You should really come get some stuff and your pets and come home and deal with everything,’” she recalled. “I was kind of like, you know, we have fires every year. I wasn’t taking it that seriously, but she urged me to go back.”
Williamson said she drove back, grabbed her two cats, and then returned to work. She said …