Mannford fire survivor calls new home the best Christmas gift
Mannford, OK – ‘In a word, just traumatic’
Ilia Stanfield described the loss as something that follows her into everyday life.
“In a word, just traumatic,” she said. “There are days I’ll be driving down the road… and I think, oh, man, I lost everything in the fire.”
She said those moments can turn into vivid mental images of the blaze and what it took from her family — including irreplaceable parts of childhood for her and her children…