Coffey Park Residents Left Everything Behind
Santa Rosa natives Tashi and Derek Kennedy moved to the Coffey Park neighborhood after getting married in 2016. They hadn’t even been in their new home for a year when it burned to the ground in the Tubbs wildfire. Tashi recalls, “We woke up at 2:30 AM to the smell of smoke and a text from a friend asking if we were safe because there’s a fire really close to us. We looked outside only to find utter chaos. We were out of there in two minutes. My husband went back 30 minutes later to look for our cat and couldn’t find her. He left the doors open for the cat to flee and then fled himself.”
With the help of social media, the couple was reunited with their cat, Catnap. The cat was found with burns on her paws and treated at the VCA. Sadly, their home was destroyed. She continued, “My husband returned later on in the morning to find everything gone. Our whole neighborhood was completely gone.” The couple has set-up a Go Fund Me account in hopes of getting back on their feet and moving on from the devastation.
Meanwhile, the Tubbs, Nuns, and Atlas fires touched down on the wineries.
