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Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay

Back-to-School Bright Spot

Mark Fiore
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There's a back-to-school bright spot as many Northern California schools reopen after devastating wildfires.

At their peak, fires disrupted classes for 260,000 students in 600 schools.

Here's hoping returning to school will help students achieve some level of normalcy and begin the process of rebuilding communities.

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