双语阅读：令人泪目，一个父亲在俄勒冈州大火中拼死寻救妻儿的感人故事
“找不到儿子就不要来见我”：俄勒冈州大火中一个父亲拼命寻救儿子的悲惨故事
翻译：涂博士（微信号：jefftu95）
俄勒冈州萨勒姆市—克里斯·托夫特（Chris Tofte）驾驶着他的绿色吉普车冲过了封锁线的阻挡，直奔熊熊烈火中的比奇溪的最深处而去。
这是在星期二凌晨4点左右，绝望的他在拼命地寻找他的妻子，儿子和岳母。他的家在North Fork Road SE路往北走4.5英里处，距离里昂（Lyons）约10分钟路程，距离塞勒姆（Salem）30分钟路程。
回家道路的两旁到处都是大火形成的火墙和倒下的树木，开到半道上他把车停了下来，因为有一个胳膊被严重烧伤的男子想搭便车，但当这个人发现克里斯居然是要前往大火的深处后，他没有上车。
克里斯表示愿意在回来的路上接他，但那人大声地告诉他，不相信他还回得来。
回到吉普车上后，克里斯继续艰难地在这条道路上蜿蜒前行，这条他曾经无比熟悉的道路如今已经被浓烟的黑暗所笼罩。克里斯差点撞到一个跑到路上的女子。这个女子看上去像穿着比基尼泳衣，但当他靠近时才意识到她其实是穿着内衣的。她的头发被烧焦了，嘴巴看上去几乎变成了黑色，赤着的脚也被严重烧伤。
他有些不耐烦地帮助这位女子上他的车，解释说他还急着要去找他的妻子和儿子，他感觉到这位女子有些抗拒他。
最后，这个女子开口了， “我就是你的妻子。”
他说他觉得自己差点要晕倒，他本以为自己会哭，但是相反，就好像身上的某些开关给关了，他的感觉都麻木了。
当他妻子上车后，他就赶紧把车往回掉头。这是他借来的拖车，在路中间把拖车掉头非常不容易。掉头后他就拼命往回开，当接近封锁线时，他不停地按喇叭以引起附近救护人员的注意。
当救护人员在救治他妻子的时候，他问妻子儿子怎么样了。
他们的13岁儿子失踪了。
逃离大火
安吉拉·莫索（Angela Mosso），大家一般叫她安吉，一直是一位贤妻良母。
当她儿子的棒球队需要教练时，她就主动去报名，即使她几乎都不知道怎么扔球也没关系。
近十年来，她也一直是她妈妈佩吉·莫索（Peggy Mosso）的专职看护。
她在家里发现远处忽然冒出了很多野火而且在迅速蔓延，看来疏散命令迫在眉睫了。她开始收拾行李，并将物品放在门廊上，这样当她的丈夫从朋友那里借拖车回来时，她的丈夫可以很方便地把这些物品装上车。
一直等到全家上床睡觉，他的丈夫都还没有回到家。当她晚上醒来的时候，发现他们的房子已经着火了。
他们三个人带着他们的狗和三只猫逃出了房子，但在准备开着家里的一辆车出逃时发现汽车出问题了。后来克里斯认为这辆汽车肯定是烧着了。
在安吉拉看来，很明显他们已经无法开车出逃了，但她还是要救下儿子怀亚特，所以她告诉儿子带着他们家200磅重的混血獒杜克（Duke）赶紧跑。
步行出逃对于她的母亲来说已经是不可能做到了。 71岁的佩吉（Peggy）最近摔了一跤并摔断了腿，本来预约了在近几天内要接受手术的。最终，安吉拉知道如果她要是想活下来，她没有别的选择。
她不得不把妈妈留下来。
佩吉·莫索（Peggy Mosso）在大火中丧生，遗体至今尚未被找到。
安吉拉（Angela）在炽热的沥青路上走了将近三英里。她刚开始还穿着鞋，但鞋后来被融化掉了。
克里斯仍然不知道这场劫难的所有细节，他永远也不想知道，因为即使Angela能够提供其中的一些细节，他也很难听进去。自从星期天晚上以来，他一直没有睡觉，也几乎不知道今天是星期几。
安吉拉（Angela）先是被运送到Salem医院，然后被运送到波特兰（Portland）的Legacy Emanuel医院的“烧伤中心”，在那里她仍然处于病危状态。除了脚，她的手臂和背部都有烧伤。
医生给她服用了大量的镇静剂，但是她知道自己的那个喜欢运动和电子游戏的儿子现在仍然下落不明。
当那个和她结婚24年的丈夫在周二探视她时，她对丈夫的指示只有一句话：“在没找到儿子之前你不要回来。”
寻找怀亚特
安吉拉（Angela）不知道的是，就在她被送往俄勒冈州唯一的烧伤中心的那个晚上，克里斯又开车返回到North Fork Road路上去寻找怀亚特。
但那时大火已经蔓延开了。
这一次他还没有走到上次走的一半远的地方就不得不回转了。即使那样，他也好几次和倒下的树木擦肩而过。当他看到山脊上冒起的火焰时，都不能确定自己能否赶在大火到来之前逃下山去。
克里斯在第二天的白天晚上继续到处搜寻儿子，因为喊叫儿子的名字而使嗓子沙哑了。朋友和家人通过在Facebook上发布怀亚特的照片来帮助传播这一求救信息，成千上万的人分享了这些帖子。
有些人看到信息后过来一起加入了搜索队伍，另外一些来不了的人也在为其祈祷。
当有人发贴说那个男孩被发现在朋友家中很安全时，很多人都松了一口气，可惜这要是真的就好了。
很多朋友和家人仍然抱以一丝希望，希望这个在2月份就年满13岁的男孩怀亚特（Wyatt）能够安全逃脱。但是他们也都看到了他的妈妈逃出来时的样子，她受的伤，她的赤脚，那么怀亚特的鞋子又能持续多久呢？
由于撤离区域的极端危险的环境条件，执法部门只能采取安全上有保障的救援行动。克里斯对执法部门的反应感到非常沮丧，干脆自己来组织搜救工作。
他星期三下午在Stayton Park and Ride召集了一个小组来协调搜救计划，然后他们的车队驶向North Fork Road路的起点，就是那个当初他驾车冲过封锁线的地方，那些封锁路障都还在那里。
到达路障那里后，他与马里恩县的几个警察谈了话，可以看到他先是在听警察说，然后很显然受到了巨大的打击。他和一些人拥抱了一下，拒绝了一些朋友试图的安慰，跨进了他的吉普车飞快地开走了。
怀亚特的遗体被找到了。他的儿子死了。
根据安吉拉（Angela）20多年的朋友Leann Moore的说法，怀亚特是在他家旁边的一辆汽车的驾驶员座位上找到的，狗狗杜克（Duke）趴在他身上。
没有人知道怀亚特是怎么回来的或为什么要回来。
当天早些时候，怀亚特的父亲把当初那个梦魇般的场景一遍一遍的重复，想象着如果他当初被允许越过封锁线，或者在更早些时候冲回去会是什么样的情形？那样他能救下他们吗？
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harrow - v. 使苦恼
harrowing - adj. 令人肠断的
desperate - adj. 拼命的，绝望的
attempt - n. 企图
wildfire - n. 野火
blockade - n. 封锁，路障
flank - v. 在...侧面
burn - v. 烧
pick him up - 开车接他
want a ride - 想要人开车带上一程
wonder - v. 提问，想知道
navigate - v. 航行
shroud - v. 遮蔽，覆盖
run over - 开车压过去
wear - v. 穿
underwear - n. 内衣
singe - v. 烧灼
severely - adv. 严重地
impatiently - adv. 不耐烦地
turn off - 开关的关闭
turn around - 调头
borrow - v. 借
trailer - n. 拖车，房车
approach - v. 靠近，接近
paramedics - n. 护理人员
tend - v. 照料
devoted - adj. 全心全意的
coach - n. 教练
dedicated - adj. 一心一意的
caretaker - n. 看护
spread - v. 扩散
pack - v. 打包
belonging - n. 行李
porch - n. 门廊
load - v. 装
absorb - v. 吸收
critical condition - 病危状态
negotiate - v. 协商
flame - n. 火焰
ridge - n. 山脊
hill - n. 小山丘
evacuation - n. 疏散
gather - v. 收集
caravan - v. 车队出行
deputy - n. 代理
distraught - adj. 心急如焚的
spurn - v. 推开，拒绝
attempt - v. 试图
console - v. 抚慰
vehicle - n. 车辆
rehash - v. 重新整理
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'Don't come back until you find him': The harrowing story of a father's desperate attempt to save his son in the Oregon wildfires
Capi Lynn, Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY
SALEM, Ore. — Chris Tofte blew past the blockade, his green Jeep Cherokee aimed for the bowels of the raging Beachie Creek Fire.
It was around 4 a.m. Tuesday, and he was desperately searching for his wife, son and mother-in-law. The family lived 4½ miles up North Fork Road SE, about 10 minutes from Lyons and 30 minutes from Salem.
Halfway there, the road flanked by walls of fire and fallen trees, he stopped for a man whose arm was badly burned. The man wanted a ride but didn't get in when he found out Chris was headed deeper into the wildfire.
Chris agreed to pick him up on the way down, but the man wondered out loud whether he'd make it.
Back in the Jeep, struggling to navigate a road once so familiar but now shrouded by smoke-filled darkness, Chris almost ran over what looked like a bikini-clad woman on the road. Once he was closer, he realized she was wearing underwear. Her hair was singed, her mouth looked almost black, and her bare feet were severely burned.
He impatiently tried to help her into his car, explaining how he needed to find his wife and son, feeling like she was resisting.
Finally, she spoke. "I am your wife."
He felt like he was going to pass out. He thought he would start crying. Instead, he said, something turned off in him. He didn't feel anything.
Once they were in the car and he got turned around, which was tricky with the borrowed trailer in tow, he sped down the road. As he approached the blockade, he honked the horn to get the attention of nearby paramedics.
While Angela was being tended to, he tried to ask about Wyatt.
Their 13-year-old son was missing.
Escaping the fire
Angela Mosso, Angie to most, is a devoted wife and mother.
When her son's baseball team needed a coach, she volunteered. It didn't matter that she barely knew how to throw a ball.
She's also been a dedicated caretaker for her mom, Peggy Mosso, for nearly 10 years.
She had watched the wildfires come out of nowhere and spread swiftly. When evacuation orders seemed imminent, she began packing some of their belongings and putting items on the porch. Her husband could load them when he returned with the trailer he was borrowing from a friend.
He still wasn't home when they went to bed — only to wake up to their house on fire.
The three of them were able to get out, with their dog and three cats, and were set to leave in one of the family's vehicles when something went wrong. Chris figures the car must have caught fire.
It was clear to Angela they would not be able to drive out. She needed to save Wyatt. She told him and Duke, the family's 200-pound bull mastiff mix, to run for it.
Escaping on foot wouldn't be possible for her mother. Peggy, 71, had recently fallen and broken her leg. She was scheduled to have surgery in a few days. Ultimately, Angela knew if she wanted to survive, she had no choice.
She had to leave her mom behind.
Peggy Mosso died in the fire. Her remains have yet to be recovered.
Angela got out by walking nearly three miles on the blazing hot asphalt. If she had shoes when she started, they melted away.
Chris still doesn't know all the details. He never will. Even when Angela has been able to provide some of them, they've been difficult to absorb. He hadn't slept since Sunday night and barely knows what day it is.
Angela was transported first to Salem Hospital, then to the Legacy Emanuel Hospital Burn Center in Portland, where she remains in critical condition. In addition to her feet, she has burns on her arms and back.
She's been heavily sedated but knows her son, who's athletic and loves video games, is still missing.
Her instructions to her husband of 24 years after he visited her on Tuesday: "Don't come back until you find him."
Searching for Wyatt
What she didn't know was that Chris drove back up North Fork Road that first night, while she was on her way to Oregon's only burn center, looking for Wyatt.
By then, though, the fire had spread.
He couldn't make it half as far as he did the first time before turning around and even then, he had some close calls negotiating fallen trees. He saw flames rising over the ridge and wasn't sure he could beat the fire down the hill.
Chris continued to search the next day and night, his throat hoarse from yelling his son's name. Friends and family spread the word by posting photos of Wyatt on Facebook. Thousands of people shared the posts.
Some responded by joining the search. Others could only offer prayers.
False hope surfaced when someone posted that the boy had been found safe at a friend's house. If only it had been true.
Friends and family still clung to hope that Wyatt, who turned 13 in February, had made it out safely. But they had seen his mom, her injuries, her bare feet. How long would Wyatt's shoes last?
Chris grew frustrated with the response from law enforcement — limited to what it could do because of extremely dangerous conditions in the evacuation area — and organized his own search efforts.
He gathered a group Wednesday afternoon at the Stayton Park and Ride to coordinate plans, and they caravanned to the base of North Fork Road, the same place where Chris blew past the blockade that still stands.
Then he spoke with Marion County Sheriff's deputies. He listened, obviously distraught over what they told him. He hugged someone, spurned attempts from friends trying to console him, then got in his Jeep and sped away.
Wyatt's body had been found. His son had died.
Leann Moore, a friend of Angela's for more than 20 years, said he was found in the driver's side of a vehicle on the family's property, with Duke draped over him.
No one knows how or why Wyatt returned.
Earlier in the day, his dad rehashed his worst nightmare. What if he had been allowed past the blockade or blown through it earlier? Could he have saved them?
