Caldor Hearth evacuees, with truck filled with treasured belongings, victimized by thieves in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – While the fire continues in Caldor, near South Lake Tahoe, two evacuees were killed in San Francisco on Labor Day Weekend.

“At least 700 photos of my father. My husband had a lot of fishing gear, camping gear in there. A guitar that had belonged to my other grandfather. A table that had belonged to my grandfather,” said Jadeen Young.

Young of South Lake Tahoe describes some of the items that were stolen from her husband’s Toyota Tacoma truck in San Francisco late Sunday evening or early Monday morning.

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A vehicle break-in in San Francisco may not surprise you, but Young and her husband are South Lake firefighters who have stayed in town and have not been able to go home for the past ten days.

“It was really eye-catching for a minute, the fire came up to 300 meters from our house,” says Young.

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She says her South Lake Tahoe neighborhood was saved by firefighters and they are forever grateful.

Unfortunately, Young shared a few digital pictures showing her and her late father, who passed away earlier this year. The originals she tried to save from the fire were stolen from the couple’s truck that Labor Day weekend, which was parked in the Pierce Street garage in San Francisco’s Marina District – a location near their hotel.

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When we spoke to Young Monday she was close to tears: “There is the photo of him holding me in the hospital for the first time, when I was born, and all these firsts in my life and some of my first memories became Captured in these photos and it was really heartbreaking to see that someone had taken them. “

Young says everything was locked and off the premises when they got off the truck at 11 p.m. Sunday night. The metal cover on the back of this truck can hold up to 500 pounds, but it appears that someone broke the lock. Car thefts are up 19 percent year over year, and this section of the marina has seen dozens of cases recently, according to the latest police data from July.

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Young says she hopes the thief will have a change of mind and returns the pictures.

“They are the only photos I had of my father. To see that they were gone, it was the greatest success.”

We asked the police for a comment, but received only out-of-office messages due to the Labor Day holiday.

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