My house burned in a forest fire in Southern CA when I was a kid. When we had to evacuate we had all of our cats with us and packed in the car. One panicked as we were trying to get her in the car and she ran off into the woods. We tried to find her but the fire was coming right there and we had to leave. We thought we would never see her again and we were so upset. The top floor of our house burned off. When we were at the house five days later dealing with the mess she walked out of a storm drain. She was filthy and exhausted but we felt it was a miracle to have her back. Sometimes there are reasons that you don’t realize why something like this might happen.