If you leave something behind at an airport, what are the chances you'll ever see it again?

So we have over 10,000 items that are lost yearly and only 30% that actually end up making it back to the owner.

But what if it's something really important, like a much-love soft toy?

Stay with us.

Hi, I'm Stephanie Rayner. And I'm Brian McShay. And you're listening to

the Happy Pod on the BBC World Service. This is Andrew Peach and on the way how Stephanie and

Brian's engagement ring survived the LA fires. We're both kind of in the mess of our home.

My tears under my goggles and glasses.

I remember saying at least we got engaged in this house.

You did. We were inside the house.

The grandmas bringing solar power to parts of Madagascar.

My daughter goes to school and now she has enough light to study after class.

It's really changed a lot for us.

And why a former soldier and triple amputee wants to set a solo sailing record.

If someone said, I didn't know if I could sail up or I didn't know I could do something until I saw you and you really helped.

I think that's where I'd be like, oh, wow, I really did what I wanted.

Let's start with the story of a man who feared his marriage proposal plans had gone up in smoke in the LA fires.

Brian McShay had been planning to pop the question to Stephanie

Rainer and had hidden the engagement ring at their home in San Gabriel Valley until the right

moment. But when their house and all their belongings were destroyed, he assumed the ring had been

lost. The couple who met at Music College in 2013 told their story to my colleague Harry Bly.

I had bought the ring a little less than a month earlier.

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