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The plaque dedicated to the first responders who rescued campers and staff in 2017 outside the dining hall, now with new fire retardant dark brown paint. lodge behind him. “But we’re looking at ways to even make it safer. So a good number of kids are coming back who were here the day of the fire.” This is Isaiah Simental’s fourth year at Circle V, and his first time back since the Whittier Fire broke out. He was in his cabin hanging out with other members of his outfit when they heard the fire siren. At first, they laughed, thinking that somebody must have set it off. But when a burning tree that had fallen on the access road they were using to evacuate forced them to return to camp, it became all too real. “I felt scared and I felt sad,” remembered the 12-year-old. “And I wanted to get out. But then the fire was like halfway around the camp. You could see the fire now in the back. And some of the windows were melting. So we were just praying. We were just hoping that we could get out.” That was when a man driving a bulldozer showed up. He started relaying where loads of fire retardants should be dropped. And he made a path behind the dining lodge if the wildfire got out of control. “The counselors were giving us ice, water, and helping kids to sing. They were doing everything just to help us calm down. But I thought I was going to be stuck there, because I had seen forest fires on TV.” But led by the bulldozer, campers and staff members started driving down the access road to Route 154 again. This time they made it through. He was glad to be getting out, but sad, too, thinking the camp would burn down. “Because I’d been going here, and I had a lot of good times,” he explained. This summer, 95 percent of Circle V’s campers are either on partial or even full scholarships, Lopez said. Few pay the full cost of $600 for a week of six days and five nights in the Santa Inez Mountains. And it can be a life-changing experience. “You can watch the wonder through their eyes when they see a family of turkeys or a deer in a meadow or a starry night,” said Lopez, “and just see their awe of witnessing God’s beauty, where that can be hard in urban places. Kids today don’t have that opportunity in city parks, where programs are filled up or the neighborhood park isn’t safe. “So we’re blessed to be part of an amazing ministry that really gives kids a chance to be their true selves. The counselors and the CILTs sacrifice their summers to make a difference in the lives of young people.” R.W. Dellinger is the features editor of Angelus. R.W. DELLINGER 18 • ANGELUS • August 2-9, 2019
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