 He may be in uniform, but today Santa Rosa assistant fire marshal Paul Lewinthal is just like any one of the more than 6,000 homeowners here This was the entryway Beginning on Sunday night October 8th the tubs fire ripped through Sonoma County and destroyed his home as You can plainly see there's nothing left to salvage though He found a few things he'll keep kind of old badges from throughout my career as a firefighter Paul understands how this happened He knows the goal was to protect his community and that most of the other homes in Larkfield would burn and burn they did Now the question everyone is pondering will they rebuild? Yes, I do absolutely. I plan on rebuilding one of the first steps in that process is to clear all this hazardous and toxic debris from The property and that includes slab foundations. It's sat and smoldered for days and it's apparent it's cracking and crumbling Reality has set in I know that my structure is a complete loss. My foundation is not salvageable And that there's a process in place that's going to clean and clear as many properties as quickly as possible It was the right decision to make today Paul Lewinthal is making his first trip to the ROE center He's talked with his insurance company and decided it's in his best interest to fill out sign and turn in the right of entry form The ROE this will allow the US Army Corps of Engineers to do the clearing for him at no out-of-pocket cost to him Hopefully we'll see a lot of ROEs in our in our areas that will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to quickly and efficiently do a lot of good work and it'll also give me time to focus on other things and Work towards my rebuilding working with an architect with a with a designer a builder And then continue moving forward with my own recovery process as an assistant fire marshal He also knows what the intense and sustained heat from the fire has done to his foundation So it goes and the more ROEs that come in the faster his entire community's recovery will be ultimately Get our community back to where it was if not better. It's just gonna take time