“Just imagine looking down Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles as far as you can see and seeing collapsed buildings and piles of rubble four to five stories tall in every direction you looked,” Orange County first-responder Chaplain Richard “Rick” Yeomans, 67, told The Epoch Times after returning earlier this month from Turkey, in the aftermath of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Feb. 6.
“The smells in the air within the destruction areas were like what I experienced at Ground Zero during 9/11, mildew mixed with body decomposition, mixed with the scent of wet cement. It was all over the place,” he said.
