Jennifer and Andrew Krowne and their five small children spent five months in hotel rooms during the four-month disaster that began in Oct. 2015. Andrew and Jennifer have since marched with the Food & Water Watch and Save Porter Ranch organizations and testified before the state legislature. They joined a community advisory board and even personally financed a mobile app to help community families and researchers share gas well emissions and symptom data. “It’s frustrating navigating the political landscape because corporations and politicians don’t give a hoot about the people unless they are dying right in front of them,” Andrew says. The family suffered nausea, headaches and severe abdominal cramping until fleeing the neighborhood. Since moving back, they have felt an anxious uncertainty in their daily lives. “When I wake up with a headache or feel sick, I think, ‘is it happening again?’ You can’t see or smell the gas approaching your home like a wildfire,” Jennifer says.