A real diamond within the rubble.
A California man shocked his girlfriend when he proposed to her on the spot after he discovered the engagement ring he thought he misplaced within the Los Angeles wildfires together with every part else he owned.
Brian McShea and Stephanie Raynor stopped by their now-burned-down residence in Altadena Friday to see if they might get well any objects which may’ve survived the flames from the Eaton Fireplace when McShea determined to scour for the ring, in line with ABC 7 Los Angeles.
The couple fled their residence on Jan. 7 earlier than it was leveled by the Eaton Fireplace, which torched greater than 140,000 acres in LA. The blaze was one in a sequence of fires throughout Los Angeles County that destroyed greater than 16,000 buildings and killed at the very least 28 folks earlier this month.
McShea recommended to Raynor they sift by way of rubble round the place his desk – wherein he hid the ring in a drawer – would have been, however didn’t inform her why.
“I was thinking, ‘Well, maybe the stone can survive and maybe we’ll find the little stone.’ I thought the ring was going to completely disintegrate,” he informed the station.
Nonetheless, McShea went searching for a shiny object.
“So we’re digging around where my desk is, again just looking for a stone — man, I really didn’t have a lot of hope,” he informed the native outlet. “But you just brush away some rubble and there’s a little ring, and you pick that up and it’s actually a washer to something, and that happened like four times, and then you pick it up, and there’s a little diamond.”
McShea — who, earlier than the hearth, had plans to suggest within the close to future — couldn’t wait and popped the query proper the place their home as soon as stood.
“And I was on my knees and I was like, ‘Hey, will you marry me?’” he mentioned. “And I’m in complete PPE, zipped up with the white hood and everything.”
“And I’m crying,” Raynor added.
The couple doesn’t have a marriage date but however desires to stay within the space and rebuild.
“We’re really hoping that Los Angeles can support Altadena in its rebuild effort for the next couple years and we’re able to return because this community is just so special,” McShea informed ABC 7 LA.
