“If your house burns down and your family is safe, your house is still burned down. It’s a bit like that,” Alex Krem, board chair at Camp Krem, said. “We lost the heart and soul of our camp.”
Located in the forests of Boulder Creek, Camp Krem represents a small handful of the 1,490 structures that fell victim to the CZU Lightning Complex fires in Santa Cruz County. But it was an outsized, deeply felt loss for its thousands of current and former campers, their families and staff.
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