The best thing that can be said about the Boles fire sweeping through Weed on September 15 is that nobody died or suffered a serious injury.
But losing 148 homes is not an event from which a community recovers overnight.
There's a long road ahead before the lost homes are rebuilt, and the community will bear a permanent scar.
We visit with a sergeant in the police department and the elementary school principal about pulling the community back together.