one bic lighter. >> sergio martinez was arrested and he did plead guilty and was in the end sentenced was a miscarriage of justice. >> i went to most of the court proceedings, so i went over to him and said, "i lost my house in the fire. and i forgive you." and he started talking about his involvement and his remorse. i don't know if it helped sergio martinez that i forgave him, but i know it helped me. >> this changed the way i looked at the community looked at my every day life. when the chips are down and the community is facing adversity this community still comes together. and that's what changed for me. i got to see it, and it was amazing. i think in some ways i really did die that night. i died to the old way of thinking of life. and i think in some ways i let go of a lot of things in this life that no longer meant anything to me. >> the constant criticism that we heard immediately after the fire was that firefighters weren't there. they were abandoned. i understand that frustration. communities were left, but not by abandonment, by inability to get the resources. we just didn'