Tucsonans with ties to Greer rattled
Sobs punctuated Tucsonan Gina Murphy-Darling's recollections of her family's second home, which burned to the ground last week.
Losing the cabin in Greer left her "numb," "devastated" and "hurt," she said.
Yet even with the pain still fresh, words of hope sometimes broke through her tears. The host of a weekly talk radio show in Tucson on sustainable living, Murphy-Darling said she wants to rebuild a "green" home, LEED certification and all.
How to bring the town back seemed on the minds of many Greer residents, part- and full-time, as they contemplated the future of the tiny community, elevation 8,500 feet, that Gilbert resident Michael Dentzer called "my Shangrila" Friday on a Facebook site dubbed "I love Greer, Arizona." His connections to the town date to the 1930s, when his great grandparents bought a house there, although his family owns no property there today.
Murphy-Darling's cabin was one of 22 homes out of maybe 500, along with 24 storage sheds, barns, utility buildings and other "outbuildings" that were destroyed within a few hours last Wednesday afternoon. They burned when the Wallow Fire jumped over the East Fork of the Little Colorado River and into Greer's east side. Five homes were damaged but not destroyed.
Many residents, who had evacuated Greer, didn't get word that their cabins were destroyed until Friday. Some were staying with friends. Others slept on cots and mattresses inside a gymnasium-turned-Red Cross evacuation center at a high school in Lakeside, about 30 miles from Greer. Murphy-Darling was interviewed from her Tucson home.
"We were with family tonight. … It is like an actual grieving process - not the stuff (at the cabin), but the place of magic," Murphy-Darling said late Friday night. "We will all be OK, but it really hurts."
For now, she and others connected to Greer must deal with some practical concerns. When can those whose homes survived return, assuming the fire doesn't kick up again this weekend, when the winds that drove the blaze into disaster stage were scheduled to resume? How will the sight of blackened trees and hillsides surrounding parts of this community affect the tourist industry that is the entire region's lifeblood? How long will it take for the grassland, pine trees and homes worth up to $1.2 million to come back?
in love at first sight
Soon after Gina Murphy and James Darling of Tucson married more than 30 years ago, they took a day trip to Greer during a visit to Hawley Lake on the neighboring White Mountain Apache Reservation.
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COURTESY OF GINA MURPHY-DARLING Gina Murphy-Darling with granddaughter Madison Davisinger, in bunk bed, in Greer house that burned. Sobs punctuated Tucsonan Gina Murphy-Darling's recollections of her family's second home, which burned to the ground
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