Marchelle Sellers and Kathy Selders could only get through so many stories before they had to stop. Reading through the tabulation of what people lost in January’s Eaton fire wrenched at their hearts but also steeled their determination: One man lost his collection of every Beatles album ever released. Another missed his Stetson hat. Could they find a Robot Chicken toy?

One lady yearned for the heirloom Hallmark ornaments she bought for her then-newborn in 1990, then 1991, then again in 1992.

“Baby’s First Christmas.” A cutesy bear in a Santa hat hugging a number “2.” “Baby’s Second Christmas.”

“After every 10 stories telling us what they were missing, I would have to stop, and cry, and my husband would say, ‘We’re going to get it for them,” said Selders, one of the 28 members of the

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