Transcript for Gatlinburg Mayor Loses Home in Tennessee Wildfires

We lost our home we lost her business. It's been. The bill I called a huge bump in the road but our family safe everybody's healthy we all love each other. My kids and then I've got seven kids and they've been holed media Bruce in the so that in my wife has been just a jam she's just wonderful so I've had that support. That our focus on the people that lost everything that don't have resources to. Does it take care themselves and we just came from the shelter over here in. We just had a chance tell people. You know don't worry I tell us like my mommy's to tell me it everything's going to be OK so. I think that's how I'm getting through this is focusing more on and on others than myself because so many other people are in the same but I still be able that another of las their house like friends of mine has that. We're in the same boat is not good though there were in the same boat people of this area is like a family. Friend a mind he. Semi at Texas morning. A sympathetic and eats you up. It and half he said you know it's it's not the buildings. It's not the homes in the stuff in the homes as the people that scout number. And that's how true you know how reassuring that there's this strongest people the world around here there's people that. Bend over backwards. I get I get emotional home when people ask me what kind euphoria because. You know. Were fine you know we're we're gonna be OK we've had friends opened their house to us we've had so may people offer places that we can live. That. I'm I'm disabled to were here to be able to try to help everybody that's that's our our goal.

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