“The kids and I walked around to see the fire from different angles. “There was no danger or stress in the situation at all,” Dave recalls. Meanwhile, the Roths studied the scene from across the street. Firefighters invited neighborhood children to spray the flames with the hose. Families watched the controlled inferno like they would a high school football game. Any sense of danger quickly dissipated as onlookers learned the house had been donated to the fire department for training. By the time the Roths arrived at the blaze, it was a community event. News travels fast in Mebane, North Carolina, just 20 miles outside Chapel Hill. Dave Roth, Zoe’s dad, quickly gathered the kids and his new digital camera.
She was watching TV with her brother Tristan one Saturday morning in January 2004, when her mom said a house down the street was burning. and creepy as hell.įor the record, Zoe didn't start that fire in the photograph. "I was, like, 'C'mon, this is my meme!'" That meme, known as Disaster Girl, shows 4-year-old Zoe smiling slyly at the camera while a house burns in the background. "Everything was wet, and it was so frustrating," she laughs. But it's true that, a few weeks ago, she and a friend spent two hours trying to light a campfire in Lake Tahoe, where Zoe's working a summer restaurant job.
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