Chapter 1
Jacob’s recovery
Ongoing medical care, physical and psychological recovery, the tools of living with burn injury, and the time to tell this story without rushing it. Until this chapter is funded, every gift stays here.
Wildfire survivor · Cold Springs, 2020
Still here. Still healing. Still reaching back.
Jacob Hyland survived a wildfire that took almost everything. Emberlight exists so his body can keep recovering — and so other burn and trauma survivors do not have to walk out alone.
The ask
First his health. Then theirs.
Recovery from a major burn is not a single hospital stay. It is years of care, therapy, and the ordinary cost of living in a body that was on fire. Jacob is asking for help with that work. When Chapter 1 is met, this fund becomes a table for other survivors — people still in the ward, still learning their scars, still looking for someone who understands.
You do not need to have been in a fire to stand here. You only need to believe that the people who walked out should not have to finish the walk by themselves.
Chapter 2
Other survivors
Peer presence from someone who has been through fire. Emergency help for care and travel. A voice beside people still finding theirs. This chapter opens when Jacob’s own need is steadier.
See the survivor work
September 2020
A family camping trip met a fire they could not outrun.
The Cold Springs wildfire overtook Jacob, his wife Jamie, and their son Uriel in Okanogan County, Washington. They hid in the cleft of a rock. Searchers found them by the river. Jacob and Jamie lived. Their boy did not. An unborn child was lost in the days that followed.
Harborview in Seattle. Surgeries. Hands rebuilt. Years of a burned person’s ordinary life. The story is public because they chose to tell it. The need is not finished.
Read it in full
The trail does not end at surviving.
If you can give, give. If you have walked through fire or trauma of your own, you are welcome here whether you can give or not.
Stand with Jacob