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"content": "\u003cp>After more than three decades in the Sierra foothills town of Grass Valley, Emma Titus lost her homeowners insurance last week. Her insurer, The Hartford, said she hadn’t done enough to fireproof her property, a 5-acre spread with old-growth pines and fruit trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never missed a payment. Never had a claim. And all of a sudden they can’t insure me,” said Titus, who said her house had been covered by The Hartford for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the nonrenewal notice came, an inspector from The Hartford visited Titus’ property and gave her three weeks to clear it. But with all the brush, trees, an old grapevine and more, there just wasn’t enough time, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787624\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40232_Emma-Titus-2-qut-800x849.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Titus holds a letter of nonrenewal from her insurer, The Hartford. Her homeowners policy expired Nov. 14, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40232_Emma-Titus-2-qut-800x849.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40232_Emma-Titus-2-qut-160x170.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40232_Emma-Titus-2-qut-1020x1082.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40232_Emma-Titus-2-qut-1131x1200.jpg 1131w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40232_Emma-Titus-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Titus holds a letter of nonrenewal from her insurer, The Hartford. Her homeowners policy expired Nov. 14, 2019. \u003ccite>(Mary Franklin Harvin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, even after the three-week deadline had passed, Titus continued to clear her land. In October, she sent her insurance company photos documenting the mitigation work she’d done and receipts for the clearing costs, which she said totaled around $3,000. She hoped that she would earn reconsideration, but on Nov. 14 her policy expired anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titus said she thinks The Hartford doesn’t really care how fireproof her land is — she thinks they just want out of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s been declared a fire hazard state, and that’s the reason,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Simply Denied\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Titus and her late husband bought a plot of land to build on in the early ’80s, no one ever discussed fire risk, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time, they wouldn’t let us cut trees down,” she said. “They marked one tree that we could cut down … to build this house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Titus waters bushes in her front yard in Grass Valley. She said she spent $3,000 on clearing her land to make her property more fireproof.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Titus waters bushes in her front yard in Grass Valley. She said she spent $3,000 on clearing her land to make her property more fireproof. \u003ccite>(Mary Franklin Harvin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the Camp Fire devastated the town of Paradise last year, Titus has noticed a dramatic uptick in concern about fire risk from home insurers and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t have a route to get safely out of [Paradise]. We don’t either. And they weren’t thinking about that when they built Grass Valley,” said Titus’ daughter, Kathy Lafayette, who lives with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When insurance companies assess homes for renewal and premiums, they assign risk scores to properties. Risk factors can include a home’s proximity to water sources, the amount of dry brush on the property that could fuel a fire and the local topography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homes in Grass Valley and much of Nevada County are like Titus’: perched at the end of windy narrow roads, far from fire departments and water sources. Cal Fire has labeled Grass Valley a “Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone,” and designated it as one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5575/45-day-plan_24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">35 Priority Projects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada County District Supervisor Ed Scofield, who was born in Grass Valley, said he’s noticed a recurring theme of complaints from constituents like Titus. He said many residents feel like they’re being strung along by insurers that have no intention of renewing their policies, even after owners install fireproofing systems like irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know of property owners that have done major mitigations to even having their own fire systems on the ground … that are simply denied,” Scofield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Pettitt, head of Nevada County’s Office of Emergency Services, has heard similar complaints from residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve put out all this money to make their home defensible per their insurance company and they still get canceled,” he said. “That’s got to be an incredible frustration for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact remains that insurance companies have no obligation to factor homeowners’ efforts into their renewal or premium rate-setting decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has … no mandate that insurers give you any credit for spending money to make your home more resistant to damage or reward you or give you a break or even keep you as a customer,” said Amy Bach, executive director of the consumer advocacy group United Policyholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m on my own’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August, state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara \u003ca href=\"https://www.theunion.com/news/california-insurance-commissioner-hosts-fire-insurance-town-hall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hosted a fire insurance town hall\u003c/a> in Grass Valley. So many homeowners flooded the venue that they spilled out into the parking lot and, according to Supervisor Scofield, also crowded into a remote location. Several thousand people watched live streams online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titus’ daughter, Lafayette, was there, but said the forum left her feeling like homeowners are in this fight alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m on my own. Now I have to do what I need to do to take care of myself and my family and try to be as safe and prepared as possible,” Lafayette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Nevada County residents are forming their own support networks. They’ve created fireproofing programs through the \u003ca href=\"https://cafiresafecouncil.org/about-us/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Fire Safe Council, \u003c/a>which has given more than $100 million in grants over the last 15 years for creating defensible space and education projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities have also established their own local awareness groups through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/Wildfire/Firewise-USA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise Communities\u003c/a> program, which provides information on how neighbors can organize to protect their homes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have more Firewise Communities in the county than any other county in the state,” Scofield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county seat, Nevada City, even launched a prescriptive grazing campaign, or as they called it, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/goatfundmenevadacity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goat Fund Me\u003c/a>,” to raise enough money to deploy goats to eliminate overgrowth by grazing city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787488\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Nevada City's "Goat Fund Me" campaign raised money for goats to graze and clear overgrown lands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r.jpeg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada City’s “Goat Fund Me” campaign raised money for goats to graze and clear overgrown lands. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reinette Senum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what about all the folks stuck struggling with astronomical premiums or who have mortgages and can’t forgo homeowners insurance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Policyholders’ Bach says there’s a precedent of state governments stepping in with legislative policy to protect insurance policyholders who can’t get dependable or affordable coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many other states have had to put those mandates into place because insurers wouldn’t come to the table willingly,” Bach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Soller, deputy commissioner of communications at the state Department of Insurance, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely there’s a role here for the state,” he said, adding that his department wants to see more transparency from insurers about how they assess risk scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a homeowner is doing work to mitigate their property, “it should be reflected in [their] risk score,” Soller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Titus is looking for coverage she can afford. The only quote she’s gotten so far would cost her over $7,000 a year — more than $5,000 more than what she was paying before her policy was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s been declared a fire hazard state, and that’s the reason,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Simply Denied\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Titus and her late husband bought a plot of land to build on in the early ’80s, no one ever discussed fire risk, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time, they wouldn’t let us cut trees down,” she said. “They marked one tree that we could cut down … to build this house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Titus waters bushes in her front yard in Grass Valley. She said she spent $3,000 on clearing her land to make her property more fireproof.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40225_IMG_2878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Titus waters bushes in her front yard in Grass Valley. She said she spent $3,000 on clearing her land to make her property more fireproof. \u003ccite>(Mary Franklin Harvin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the Camp Fire devastated the town of Paradise last year, Titus has noticed a dramatic uptick in concern about fire risk from home insurers and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t have a route to get safely out of [Paradise]. We don’t either. And they weren’t thinking about that when they built Grass Valley,” said Titus’ daughter, Kathy Lafayette, who lives with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When insurance companies assess homes for renewal and premiums, they assign risk scores to properties. Risk factors can include a home’s proximity to water sources, the amount of dry brush on the property that could fuel a fire and the local topography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homes in Grass Valley and much of Nevada County are like Titus’: perched at the end of windy narrow roads, far from fire departments and water sources. Cal Fire has labeled Grass Valley a “Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone,” and designated it as one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5575/45-day-plan_24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">35 Priority Projects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada County District Supervisor Ed Scofield, who was born in Grass Valley, said he’s noticed a recurring theme of complaints from constituents like Titus. He said many residents feel like they’re being strung along by insurers that have no intention of renewing their policies, even after owners install fireproofing systems like irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know of property owners that have done major mitigations to even having their own fire systems on the ground … that are simply denied,” Scofield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Pettitt, head of Nevada County’s Office of Emergency Services, has heard similar complaints from residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve put out all this money to make their home defensible per their insurance company and they still get canceled,” he said. “That’s got to be an incredible frustration for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact remains that insurance companies have no obligation to factor homeowners’ efforts into their renewal or premium rate-setting decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has … no mandate that insurers give you any credit for spending money to make your home more resistant to damage or reward you or give you a break or even keep you as a customer,” said Amy Bach, executive director of the consumer advocacy group United Policyholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m on my own’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August, state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara \u003ca href=\"https://www.theunion.com/news/california-insurance-commissioner-hosts-fire-insurance-town-hall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hosted a fire insurance town hall\u003c/a> in Grass Valley. So many homeowners flooded the venue that they spilled out into the parking lot and, according to Supervisor Scofield, also crowded into a remote location. Several thousand people watched live streams online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Titus’ daughter, Lafayette, was there, but said the forum left her feeling like homeowners are in this fight alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m on my own. Now I have to do what I need to do to take care of myself and my family and try to be as safe and prepared as possible,” Lafayette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Nevada County residents are forming their own support networks. They’ve created fireproofing programs through the \u003ca href=\"https://cafiresafecouncil.org/about-us/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Fire Safe Council, \u003c/a>which has given more than $100 million in grants over the last 15 years for creating defensible space and education projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities have also established their own local awareness groups through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/Wildfire/Firewise-USA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise Communities\u003c/a> program, which provides information on how neighbors can organize to protect their homes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have more Firewise Communities in the county than any other county in the state,” Scofield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county seat, Nevada City, even launched a prescriptive grazing campaign, or as they called it, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/goatfundmenevadacity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goat Fund Me\u003c/a>,” to raise enough money to deploy goats to eliminate overgrowth by grazing city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787488\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Nevada City's "Goat Fund Me" campaign raised money for goats to graze and clear overgrown lands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/35123540_1550940820700115_r.jpeg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada City’s “Goat Fund Me” campaign raised money for goats to graze and clear overgrown lands. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reinette Senum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what about all the folks stuck struggling with astronomical premiums or who have mortgages and can’t forgo homeowners insurance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Policyholders’ Bach says there’s a precedent of state governments stepping in with legislative policy to protect insurance policyholders who can’t get dependable or affordable coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many other states have had to put those mandates into place because insurers wouldn’t come to the table willingly,” Bach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Soller, deputy commissioner of communications at the state Department of Insurance, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely there’s a role here for the state,” he said, adding that his department wants to see more transparency from insurers about how they assess risk scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a homeowner is doing work to mitigate their property, “it should be reflected in [their] risk score,” Soller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Wearing a bright orange Ridge Construction T-shirt and work boots, Jon Hornback stood in the middle of a construction site in Paradise — just a foundation and wood framing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where we stand right now is in the middle of a kitchen slash dining room, living room area of a residence of a local person who lives here in town, a businessman,” Hornback said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home was destroyed by the Camp Fire, which broke out a year ago and became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, killing 85.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It almost completely leveled the town of Paradise, which now faces a variety of roadblocks to recovery, from polluted drinking water to damaged septic systems. There’s also a shortage of construction workers to rebuild businesses and homes like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a challenge Hornback is facing as he tries to rebuild this and one other home in Paradise. Hornback says two projects are all his company, Ridge Construction, can handle, because so many laborers and tradespeople were displaced due to the fire. Some 23% of construction workers in Butte County lived in Paradise and neighboring Magalia, which was partially destroyed by the fire, according to the Chico Builders Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='camp-fire' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so, you know, they’ve not come back,” Hornback said. “And so consequently, those people that we would have had maybe some pool to pull from — your manpower, laborers, skilled tradespeople — are not here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to quantify how many construction laborers work in Butte County, said Kate Leyden, executive director of the Chico Builders Association. But she does know, anecdotally, that there was a labor shortage before the fire, when there were around only 1,000 new homes built in the whole county each year. Nearly 14,000 homes burned in the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re pretty sure we don’t have the right number of workers,” Leyden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help connect contractors with workers, the Chico Builders Association is helping to build a database of tradespeople and their skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then when a general contractor is looking for a plumber, ideally he or she will be able to look up the plumbers in this directory and give him a call and see if they’re available to help,” Leyden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers from Sacramento and the Bay Area have offered to come to Paradise, but Hornback said they were asking for around $80 per hour — much higher than the $50 hourly rate that’s standard in Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes it kind of tough because you’re paying somebody an awful lot more than you normally would to do the same job, or you just struggle along with the help that you have,” Hornback said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has opted not to hire workers from out of town, because his clients and other Paradise residents can’t afford the extra cost. Before the fires, homes had a median value of about $260,000, according to the online real estate company Zillow. That’s a far cry from the median home value in the Bay Area — almost $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, Hornback would have a crew of six people per house. But, for right now, it’s mostly him and his son-in-law, Michael Richardson, bouncing between their two projects and occasionally bringing in some extra help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Sharrett, the homeowner, is anxious about the construction setbacks and the possibility that the project could be delayed even more if it’s not watertight by the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11785591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Sharrett stands in the living space of his new home in Paradise. He lost the home that used to stand here in the Camp Fire. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Sharrett stands in the living space of his new home in Paradise. He lost the home that used to stand here in the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s very frustrating,” Sharrett said. “We currently live in Oroville. We have our mother- and father-in-law that live with us. They have a bed in the living room. We have a two-story house. They can’t go upstairs. So it’s a tough condition to be in. And the sooner we get up here, the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Richardson was optimistic, despite the challenges of having only a two-person crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating, but it always works out,” Richardson said. “The Buzzards, the first house that we started, they want to move in by Christmas. We’re two guys,” said Richardson, pausing to laugh, “but we’re gonna try our hardest to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the Camp Fire swept through Paradise, Magalia and Concow last November, killing 85 and destroying almost 14,000 homes, it displaced some 52,000 people. And while some of them were able to quickly find solace on friends’ couches or in motel rooms, others were forced to seek shelter elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with a norovirus outbreak at the Red Cross shelter, many chose what they considered the lesser of two evils: camping at a Walmart parking lot in Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation was untenable. While the camping may have started as a last resort for fire survivors, other homeless residents from Butte County began camping there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, on Nov. 29, 2018, the Walmart Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2018/11/29/walmart-and-the-walmart-foundation-increase-commitment-to-california-wildfire-relief-and-announce-funding-for-homeless-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed $1 million\u003c/a> to “help address the increased needs of the local homeless population affected by the Camp Fire” and to establish a year-round, low-barrier homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shelter was never built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents were conflicted over the proposed shelter. Part of the problem was that, because the real estate market is so tight in Chico, the chosen shelter location ended up being a few blocks away from an elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backlash was \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/news/butte-county/citizens-react-to-low-barrier-shelter-proposed-in-chico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heated\u003c/a>. A petition opposing the shelter gained nearly 5,000 signatures, and during a lengthy public comment period at a Chico City Council \u003ca href=\"http://chico-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting in early April\u003c/a>, dozens of residents expressed their concerns over the placement of the shelter. One resident said the shelter had “no business” in their school neighborhoods, arguing that organizers should be prioritizing “public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The location sucks, the plan sucks, the impact sucks,” Chico resident Rob Berry said during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"camp-fire\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, one of the service providers key to the project — the Jesus Center — dropped out due to the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local stakeholders said that Walmart later dropped out of the project as well, though the company would not return a request for comment. And, at the end of the day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/24/nvcf-returns-1-million-camp-fire-donation-to-walmart-foundation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the funding was returned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a council member call and say, ‘What are we supposed to do? There’s people everywhere,’ ” said Laura Cootsona, executive director of the Jesus Center. “This was our big idea, and we had a big break because we had a funder that we don’t normally have and we’re not going to have again. I think that’s the part that’s just so sad to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chaos at the Continuum of Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In her first year in a new position, Jennifer Griggs was having a hard time making her job work. Griggs had been hired as the Homeless Continuum of Care coordinator in Butte County the winter before the 2018 Camp Fire hit. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her job\u003c/a> to help connect homeless service providers with state and federal funding, conduct the biennial point-in-time homeless count and support rehousing efforts for the ballooning homeless population across Butte County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.buttehomelesscoc.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117500423/final_2019_point_in_time_executive_summary_report_published_on_june_17_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless count\u003c/a> was conducted on a single day in March, just five months after the Camp Fire. That tally identified 2,304 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people in Butte County, many of whom were directly impacted by the fire. That’s a 16% increase since 2017. But the report acknowledged that the results were likely an undercount “due to ongoing challenges in locating homeless individuals, especially those that are displaced and unhoused due to the Camp Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Griggs left the job — and the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griggs cited many reasons for leaving. For one, while her home didn’t burn during the fire, it was damaged during subsequent floods — resulting in the loss of most of her belongings. And because of the damage to her home, Griggs and her husband spent several months living in a trailer on her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said one of the biggest reasons she left Butte County was the chaos behind the scenes at the Continuum of Care among providers and stakeholders, and a lack of empathy from residents as they tried to address the homelessness crisis in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the Camp Fire devastated the town of Paradise and surrounding areas in early November, the Continuum of Care system, which is responsible for assisting local providers in obtaining money to address homelessness, was already overextended — both because of funding changes at the state level and a lack of administrative and technical support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2018, California created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/getdoc/341f4873-3c91-4cf3-8031-ab54c8fafebc/HEAP-Overview-August-2018-Final.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new block of grant funding\u003c/a> to address the homelessness crisis in the state. That funding changed the way that the Continuum of Care did business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11755513\" label=\"Homelessness in Butte County\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just one of many across the state trying to figure out ways to process all these new resources,” said Thomas Tenorio, CEO of the Community Action Agency of Butte County and current chair of the Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care. “We had a brand-new coordinator at the time, so she was trying to get on top of expectations or requirements of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all that money on the table, that brand-new coordinator — Griggs — encouraged providers to collaborate on projects, rather than apply for them individually. 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And along with more people came more traffic, a smaller safety net and changing demographics in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cootsona, director of the Jesus Center, thinks that frustrated Chico residents see their city changing into a place that they don’t recognize and that their way of life is being threatened by an increasingly visible homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Laura Cootsona, executive director of the Jesus Center\"]“I think the amount of poverty on the ridge [in Paradise] and the burn scar revealed something that most people didn’t understand. Those of us who look at the numbers … we knew how poor we were. 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But I would be lying to myself if those thoughts haven’t arisen in my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovering from the physical losses has been a challenge, but the emotional ones have proved tougher for Hanes due to her history of trauma. Natural disasters like the Camp Fire can reopen those old wounds or create new ones, experts say, bringing up trauma symptoms like insomnia, worry and hopelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785098 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39864__DSC4817-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Hanes home schools her daughter Aroara in their trailer on October 7, 2019 outside Paradise, Ca where their home was destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39864__DSC4817-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39864__DSC4817-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39864__DSC4817-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39864__DSC4817-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39864__DSC4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hanes home-schools her daughter, Aroara, in their trailer on Oct. 7, 2019, outside Paradise, where their home was destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Compounding Trauma Upon Trauma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Camp Fire, Hanes already had more stress than most. She was a single mother, living off of the disability check she received for a bad back, and would skip meals to make sure Aroara had enough food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also carried the scars of a painful childhood, including, she said, being raped by a neighbor. The trauma of her past led her to attempt suicide multiple times as a young adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Sabrina Hanes, Butte County']‘Now I’m on a different path and it’s hard. But I know that at the end something good will come out of it.’[/pullquote]But in Paradise she had turned things around, creating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687798/childhood-trauma-can-mean-early-death-this-california-mom-wants-to-beat-the-odds\">a stable routine\u003c/a> for herself and Aroara. She was on track to get her bachelor’s degree, with the goal of working in early childhood development. She helped teach classes for toddlers and parents at a nonprofit, and took her daughter to a special kind of \u003ca href=\"https://pcit.ucdavis.edu\">play therapy\u003c/a> to learn how to better manage Aroara’s meltdowns. The pair spent most afternoons at a dance studio, where they found a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its wake, however, the fire destroyed that sense of normalcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just losing the home, it’s not just losing the town,” Hanes said. “It’s losing people that we cared about because they had to move away — because there was nowhere to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing these social ties has made life harder for Hanes, and so has the reawakening of old, painful memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s stuff that I never fully worked through,” Hanes said. “This trauma has just added this new layer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she is trying to do the best she can, “it’s a lot harder to cope with day-to-day life,” Hanes said. Even little challenges set her off: “I feel like it’s because of this (the fire). I’m just so angry that this happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785773 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39865__DSC4866-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Hanes and her daughter Aroara do a science experiment in their trailer. Hanes chose to homeschool her daughter in part due to behavior issues that emerged after the Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39865__DSC4866-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39865__DSC4866-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39865__DSC4866-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39865__DSC4866-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39865__DSC4866-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hanes and her daughter, Aroara, do a science experiment in their trailer. Hanes chose to home-school her daughter in part due to behavior issues that emerged after the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Another Trauma Often Reawakens Symptoms’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://childtrauma.ucsf.edu/our-team#Chandra\">Chandra Ghosh Ippen\u003c/a> said past trauma, like Hanes’, can resurface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve had a very heavy trauma history, another trauma often reawakens symptoms,” said Ghosh Ippen, associate director of the Child Trauma Research Program at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about asthma, we think about how there’s often a reemergence of symptoms when you’re around pollen,” she added. “It’s that same way with trauma. There’s a re-emergence of symptoms when you’re around reminders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been the case for Mary Chelton, of Glen Ellen in Sonoma County. The scars of the 2017 North Bay fires reopened in late October, when the Kincade Fire erupted. Just before the blaze, her mother died. Then she lost power at home during the PG&E preemptive shutoffs — just like what happened during the earlier fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The traumatic reminders of smoke and wind, like the wildfires we experienced previously, has been a less than perfect storm,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reminders have also come up in everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Mary Chelton, Glen Ellen']‘The traumatic reminders of smoke and wind, like the wildfires we experienced previously, has been a less than perfect storm.’[/pullquote]“I’ve had the experience where I go to eat a smoky type of food like salmon,” she said. “And just the taste of it or the smell of that will make my stomach clench and make my heart start beating faster. It’s a visceral reaction that I didn’t expect to be sort of scarred with because of what happened a couple of years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2017 blazes, people “felt fragile, overwhelmed and flooded with fear and stress, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/daniela-dominguez\">Daniela Domínguez\u003c/a>, a psychologist and assistant professor at University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domínguez, who has spent the past two years working with community members in Sonoma County affected by the 2017 fires, focuses on the Latinx and undocumented populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactions to wildfires differ from person to person, ranging from social withdrawal to increased irritability to a lack of self-compassion for the feelings they are experiencing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Anayeli Rodriguez, 33, those symptoms have come in the form of nightly anxiety. Rodriguez and her family had to evacuate from their home in Winters during the 2017 North Bay fires and again during the Kincade Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few weeks ago, they were preparing their home for a party following Rodriguez’s daughter’s baptism. Instead of guests coming to their door, it was police with evacuation notices. The family struggled to find an evacuation shelter that was not yet full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel a lot of sadness about what’s happened these past two years,” she said. Now that they’ve returned home, Rodriguez said her children don’t want to be there alone: “They constantly want to be with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11687798']Both Domínguez and Ghosh Ippen said ways to deal with the pain brought up by the wildfires include acknowledging the severity of the event and the feelings it has brought up, and seeking out counseling from people trained in disaster response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domínguez cautioned, however, that those services should be responsive to a person’s culture and language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of wonderful mental health practitioners who understand trauma, but folks who might not necessarily understand the structural barriers, the disparities and the adversities that the Latinx community is experiencing in Sonoma County,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domínguez said counseling also isn’t an option that’s available to everyone — especially people who are undocumented and fear using services due to their immigration status. She worries that having no way to process fire trauma will lead to prolonged stress, which can impact physical health in adults and brain development in children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39862__DSC4742-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Aroara sits outside the trailer where she lives with her mother in Butte County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39862__DSC4742-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39862__DSC4742-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39862__DSC4742-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39862__DSC4742-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS39862__DSC4742-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aroara sits outside the trailer where she lives with her mother in Butte County. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Becoming the Journey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanes has seen a change in her daughter Aroara’s behavior since the fire. Aroara gets scared when she smells any kind of smoke, and she began acting out in school, which led Hanes to home-school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologist Ghosh Ippen said behaviors like Aroara’s are normal and children will exhibit trauma symptoms in several ways, including developmental regressions, tantrums and anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='kincade-fire' label='Related Coverage']Hanes regularly brings Aroara with her to therapy to work through the lingering impacts of the fire, but she has found it difficult to make time for counseling. She is on disability and is struggling to provide food for herself and her daughter, and she said the trailer where they live always seems to need some repair. She spends evenings preparing lessons for the kindergarten education she’s giving Aroara at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a year that has tested her, Hanes said she doesn’t think she will resort to her old coping mechanisms, like cutting herself or drug use, because of Aroara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past spring, when she thought cutting herself might bring some relief, she chose a different path. She looked online for meaningful quotes and found one she liked by author Robert M. Drake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said; “In the end, she became more than what she expected. She became the journey. And like all journeys, she simply changed directions and kept going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tattooed it on her arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on one path. Now I’m on a different path and it’s hard,” she said. “But I know that at the end something good will come out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News’ Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Hornbacks were a close-knit family before the Camp Fire destroyed their hometown of Paradise one year ago. But now, they’re really close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multigenerational family of 11 lost all four of their houses in the catastrophic fire that incinerated the town and killed 85 people. After struggling to find new places to live, the individual households pooled their savings to buy one big house on the outskirts of Paradise, moving into it in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Ed Mayer, Butte County Housing Authority\"]'We still see large numbers of people looking for housing, looking for meaningful housing, looking for stable housing.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were empty nesters and now we're one huge family, 24 hours,” said Lori Hornback, whose kids, Brittani and JB, now have their own families. “Now they don't go home. They stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new household includes Lori, her husband Jon, their two children and their spouses, four grandchildren and their daughter-in-law’s mother. That's 11 people under one roof, ages 2 to 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large white house sits on a 40-acre lot at the end of a long dirt road, removed from the fire-damaged areas, with a pristine view of the nearby mountains and valleys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hornbacks never thought they would all be living together. After the fire, Butte County's already tight housing market was flooded with demand from more than 13,000 displaced families, many living in tents, trailers, on friends’ couches or in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11785668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon and Lori Hornback used to be empty nesters. Now they live with nine other members of their extended family in a three-bedroom house on the outskirts of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The town's roughly 1,000 rental units that survived the fire were all quickly claimed by fire survivors, according to Ed Mayer, executive director of the Butte County Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scarcity of housing led to major price spikes, with rental rates jumping around 13% per square foot and sale prices jumping 20% per square foot in the first three weeks after the fire, based on data from Zillow, a real estate listing firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents and home prices have dropped slightly in recent months and there’s now a bit more availability, said Mayer. But finding housing is still a major uphill battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still see large numbers of people looking for housing, looking for meaningful housing, looking for stable housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the market is pressuring people to leave, many don’t want to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a real population here, particularly in the hill country, of folks who've lived here ... this is all they know,” Mayer said. “It’s a rural lifestyle and there are the kind of communities up there that are mutually supportive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'I Don't Think We Had a Choice'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I don't think we had a choice,” said Jon Hornback, Lori’s husband, explaining why the extended family moved in together. “We’d looked all over the valley as well. And I'd had my insurance company looking for us, you know, for two months. They looked and never could find anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Wednesday evening, the Hornbacks stood around their kitchen island eating dinner by the glow of electric lanterns. That night, PG&E had shut off power in a preemptive effort to avoid a repeat of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s really the same for us,” Jon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11785651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Hornback displays a painting the family asked an artist to make on a portion of a tree stump they found outside their destroyed home. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The kitchen spills out onto a large open living room area where the extended family hangs out each night, although now they hardly ever watch TV anymore; everyone streams shows on their own devices so as not to disturb each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've learned to app just about everything,” Jon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they’re not trying to be quiet in the mornings, the Hornbacks are such a loud family that “at times you can't hear yourself think,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they have a solution for that, too: Even though the house is only technically three bedrooms, the family converted the garage and a couple of other side rooms into extra sleeping areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it gets chaotic ... we go to our respective corners and put ourselves in time-out room,” Lori said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The setup seems to work for Ayden Richardson, Lori and Jon's 9-year-old grandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This house is very nice,” he said. “And I love living in it. It's my future home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Future home?\" Lori interjected. \"It’s your forever home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, forever home,” Ayden corrected himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori said when she first saw this house, she knew it was a place they could all live in together. “I got in the foyer and I said, ‘I'm home.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Life After Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Brittani Hornback — Ayden's mom and Jon and Lori’s daughter — said that she and her family lived in a trailer for four months after losing their home in the fire, while searching for a new place to move into near Paradise. But the selection was scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn't want to be away from my family and I wanted to go back home,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone in the family, though, was sold on moving back to Paradise — especially Lori, who was still traumatized from the day they escaped the fire, and worried about lingering toxins from the debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning the fire broke out, she fled town in a caravan with Brittani and her kids, the flames closing in on them and propane tanks exploding in every direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's all we heard, was propane tanks,” Lori said. “I was picking my son up from elementary school and there were just these big embers. ... We were running from flames and smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11785661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Hornback sits with her husband Jon while feeding her granddaughter Marlee. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A number of family members continue to struggle with that trauma, and living under the same roof is helping them deal with it. That was on display that night as they sat around the kitchen table talking, and something started beeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is the fire alarm going off?” Kelli Hornback, Jon and Lori’s daughter-in-law, asked, in a slightly panicked tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brittani and Kelli ran upstairs to check and quickly informed everyone that smoke from their generator had drifted into the house through a window, setting off the alarm. Nothing to be concerned about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two said they also felt disturbed when they came across the candles that were being used to illuminate the bathroom during the power shutoff, the flame casting a red glow on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a big trigger for me and my sister because, you know, the glow of fire is something that we don't like to look at,” Brittani said. “So when you see certain things, you freak out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"paradise\"]There are also plenty of other uncomfortable reminders. Two of Brittani's kids, who were in the backseat of her car as she fled that day, have regressed in their development. Her daughter McKenzee, who was 1-year old at the time, abruptly stopped crawling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wouldn’t do anything. She would just sit there and just cry,” Brittani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 4-year-old daughter Marlee, who used to be really talkative, pretty much stopped speaking, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn't feel good at all,” Brittani noted. “It was really sad because they went backwards and that's not good. It's not a good sign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlee sat on Brittani’s lap, holding a doll they were able to rescue from the ruins of their house, its plastic head partially melted by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the only thing she had left of her home,” she said. “We named him Ash after the fire. And he survived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>New Beginnings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jerillyn Ramsey, a 73-year-old Camp Fire survivor whose mobile home burned down, struggled for months to find housing in Butte County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-January, months after the fire, she was still living in a Red Cross shelter in Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt adrift,” she said. “I didn't know what's going to happen, just trying to get by one day at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785645\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0846-e1573233795324.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11785645 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0846-e1573233795324-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0846-e1573233795324-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0846-e1573233795324-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0846-e1573233795324-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0846-e1573233795324-1200x823.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0846-e1573233795324-1920x1316.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerillyn Ramsey, 73, at the Red Cross shelter last winter where she lived for several months after the Camp Fire destroyed her Paradise mobile home. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers at the shelter weren’t able to find Ramsey a place anywhere nearby that she could afford. By the end of January, they had found her a one-bedroom apartment nearly 200 miles north in the town Yreka, near the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels good to have a place of my own to gather my thoughts and pull myself together,” said Ramsey, sitting comfortably on a sofa in her new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her doctor, Ramsey said, diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition brought on by her harrowing experience fleeing her home as flames closed in around her. For three days, she said, she couldn't find her son, who has a disability, thinking he had died. She remained homeless for more than two months afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her new life, though, is far from Butte County, where her son still lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785646\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11785646 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerillyn Ramsey, one year after the Camp Fire, in the living room of her new one-bedroom apartment in Yreka, nearly 200 miles north of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being a mom, you want to be closer to take care of your children if they need [you],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said she hopes to move back to Butte County someday. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were empty nesters and now we're one huge family, 24 hours,” said Lori Hornback, whose kids, Brittani and JB, now have their own families. “Now they don't go home. They stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new household includes Lori, her husband Jon, their two children and their spouses, four grandchildren and their daughter-in-law’s mother. That's 11 people under one roof, ages 2 to 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large white house sits on a 40-acre lot at the end of a long dirt road, removed from the fire-damaged areas, with a pristine view of the nearby mountains and valleys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hornbacks never thought they would all be living together. After the fire, Butte County's already tight housing market was flooded with demand from more than 13,000 displaced families, many living in tents, trailers, on friends’ couches or in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11785668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon and Lori Hornback used to be empty nesters. Now they live with nine other members of their extended family in a three-bedroom house on the outskirts of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The town's roughly 1,000 rental units that survived the fire were all quickly claimed by fire survivors, according to Ed Mayer, executive director of the Butte County Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scarcity of housing led to major price spikes, with rental rates jumping around 13% per square foot and sale prices jumping 20% per square foot in the first three weeks after the fire, based on data from Zillow, a real estate listing firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents and home prices have dropped slightly in recent months and there’s now a bit more availability, said Mayer. But finding housing is still a major uphill battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still see large numbers of people looking for housing, looking for meaningful housing, looking for stable housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the market is pressuring people to leave, many don’t want to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a real population here, particularly in the hill country, of folks who've lived here ... this is all they know,” Mayer said. “It’s a rural lifestyle and there are the kind of communities up there that are mutually supportive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'I Don't Think We Had a Choice'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I don't think we had a choice,” said Jon Hornback, Lori’s husband, explaining why the extended family moved in together. “We’d looked all over the valley as well. And I'd had my insurance company looking for us, you know, for two months. They looked and never could find anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Wednesday evening, the Hornbacks stood around their kitchen island eating dinner by the glow of electric lanterns. That night, PG&E had shut off power in a preemptive effort to avoid a repeat of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s really the same for us,” Jon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11785651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic4-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Hornback displays a painting the family asked an artist to make on a portion of a tree stump they found outside their destroyed home. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The kitchen spills out onto a large open living room area where the extended family hangs out each night, although now they hardly ever watch TV anymore; everyone streams shows on their own devices so as not to disturb each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've learned to app just about everything,” Jon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they’re not trying to be quiet in the mornings, the Hornbacks are such a loud family that “at times you can't hear yourself think,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they have a solution for that, too: Even though the house is only technically three bedrooms, the family converted the garage and a couple of other side rooms into extra sleeping areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it gets chaotic ... we go to our respective corners and put ourselves in time-out room,” Lori said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The setup seems to work for Ayden Richardson, Lori and Jon's 9-year-old grandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This house is very nice,” he said. “And I love living in it. It's my future home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Future home?\" Lori interjected. \"It’s your forever home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, forever home,” Ayden corrected himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori said when she first saw this house, she knew it was a place they could all live in together. “I got in the foyer and I said, ‘I'm home.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Life After Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Brittani Hornback — Ayden's mom and Jon and Lori’s daughter — said that she and her family lived in a trailer for four months after losing their home in the fire, while searching for a new place to move into near Paradise. But the selection was scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn't want to be away from my family and I wanted to go back home,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone in the family, though, was sold on moving back to Paradise — especially Lori, who was still traumatized from the day they escaped the fire, and worried about lingering toxins from the debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning the fire broke out, she fled town in a caravan with Brittani and her kids, the flames closing in on them and propane tanks exploding in every direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's all we heard, was propane tanks,” Lori said. “I was picking my son up from elementary school and there were just these big embers. ... We were running from flames and smoke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11785661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/pic3-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Hornback sits with her husband Jon while feeding her granddaughter Marlee. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A number of family members continue to struggle with that trauma, and living under the same roof is helping them deal with it. That was on display that night as they sat around the kitchen table talking, and something started beeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is the fire alarm going off?” Kelli Hornback, Jon and Lori’s daughter-in-law, asked, in a slightly panicked tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brittani and Kelli ran upstairs to check and quickly informed everyone that smoke from their generator had drifted into the house through a window, setting off the alarm. Nothing to be concerned about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two said they also felt disturbed when they came across the candles that were being used to illuminate the bathroom during the power shutoff, the flame casting a red glow on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a big trigger for me and my sister because, you know, the glow of fire is something that we don't like to look at,” Brittani said. “So when you see certain things, you freak out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her doctor, Ramsey said, diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition brought on by her harrowing experience fleeing her home as flames closed in around her. For three days, she said, she couldn't find her son, who has a disability, thinking he had died. She remained homeless for more than two months afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her new life, though, is far from Butte County, where her son still lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785646\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11785646 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2812-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerillyn Ramsey, one year after the Camp Fire, in the living room of her new one-bedroom apartment in Yreka, nearly 200 miles north of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being a mom, you want to be closer to take care of your children if they need [you],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said she hopes to move back to Butte County someday. But for now, she’s focused on building a new community in Yreka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be temporary, this place,” Ramsey said. “But it feels good to have a place at least you can call home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a secluded corner of Marywood Drive in Paradise sit two vacant lots, side by side. The empty space used to hold single-family residences surrounded by Ponderosa pines. That was until the November 2018 Camp Fire — California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire — leveled the Butte County town and destroyed more than 13,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, one year later, these lots are being rebuilt by two Paradise natives, Christine and Dave Williams, who bought the properties after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair didn’t lose their own home but are deeply invested in the future of their town, and see these purchases as part of that investment. So far, Dave and Christine have been focused on cleaning the lot by removing dead trees and debris. But they’re planning to build two traditional, single-family homes, reminiscent of what used to be there before the fire, and are already looking at floor plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785402 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png\" alt=\"After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757.png 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just want it the way it used to be,” said Christine Williams. “It’s a beautiful town, a beautiful place to live, a great place to raise families. And we just want to encourage people to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days and weeks after the Camp Fire struck, there were concerns among residents that their town would be bought up by big developers who would rebuild a Paradise not meant for the people who lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a KQED analysis of data from Butte County, including property sales and building permits from the day the fire hit through September 2019, big developers didn’t move in — locals did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis found that 71% of people who purchased parcels in the town of Paradise had a Butte County mailing address. The majority of purchases were very local: 38% of buyers have an address in Paradise and 25% in nearby Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not how post-wildfire rebuilding typically plays out. 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The hospitals were gone, most of the homes were on septic systems and they also had a problem getting water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just infrastructure issues that complicate rebuilding. Due to the widespread destruction, Paradise has a lot of rebuilding to be done, and there are not enough construction workers to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Camp Fire, Assistant Town Manager Marc Mattox said Paradise would process 25-35 permits “on a good year.” This year, from February through the end of September, Paradise approved 962 permits, according to data obtained from Paradise officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"camp-fire\" label=\"RELATED COVERAGE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owen said he might consider developing in the Paradise area but not for at least two to three years. That’s in part because, right now, investing in the town seems risky, especially if Paradise doesn’t recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local developers don’t want to wait. They have more confidence that the town will bounce back because they can see it recovering in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico-based developer Luigi Balsamo is one of them. He has purchased four parcels in Paradise since the fire, according to data from the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people like myself are here with, sort of, your finger on the pulse,” said Balsamo. “There’s a lot of group meetings, town halls and things going on here. But I think it’s also kind of a feeling. … I believe in Paradise, I want to see it come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Good Investment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But purchasing property in Paradise could also be a good investment: Land values have significantly decreased since the fire hit. 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But they’re planning to build two traditional, single-family homes, reminiscent of what used to be there before the fire, and are already looking at floor plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785402 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png\" alt=\"After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757.png 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just want it the way it used to be,” said Christine Williams. “It’s a beautiful town, a beautiful place to live, a great place to raise families. 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"content": "\u003cp>At the tail end of the Paradise Town Council meeting on Tuesday night, Town Manager Lauren Gill shared a warning with the crowd: Traffic signals in the town would go dark due to PG&E's plan to shut off power for nearly 30,000 customers in Butte County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traffic signals in town will blink for a few hours, then go dark at some point,” Gill said. “We are looking for a solution that will keep the signals on longer, but for now we do not have that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power outages in parts of Butte County, which went into effect around midnight last night, have stirred up anxiety, fear and anger from many in the area. With the one-year anniversary of the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710884/list-of-those-who-died-in-butte-county-paradise-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> one month away, those feelings are particularly acute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='public-safety-power-shutoffs' label='The Power Shutoffs']“The feedback I've gotten from a few individuals during the power shutoffs is that they understand cognitively that it's an issue that needs to be resolved as far as safety for the public, but because some of them have been through the horrific experience during the Camp Fire and they cite PG&E as the root cause, they have some resulting anger,” said Eric Eckhart, who works as a fire recovery counselor for the Butte County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power shutoffs across Butte County are part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778706/pge-power-shutoffs-what-you-need-to-know\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a series of massive power shutoffs PG&E initiated for over 500,000 customers\u003c/a> early Wednesday morning across Northern and Central California. With high winds and low humidity, weather conditions are ripe for another large wildfire. Preemptive power shutoffs are supposed to decrease the risk of electrical equipment sparking a fire like the one in Paradise last November. It's a move that county residents have mixed feelings about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in May, a Cal Fire investigation found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747485/cal-fires-official-finding-pge-equipment-touched-off-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issues with PG&E transmission lines\u003c/a> caused the massive fire last year, which killed 85 people, destroyed 14,000 homes and decimated the town of Paradise. That has eroded the trust between some residents and the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s such a mistrust now,” said Valerie Cross, who lives in Oroville. “PG&E took away our power — literally and figuratively. And that creates anxiety. When you feel a loss of control, a loss of ability to do something, a fear of what’s going to happen next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that mistrust has spawned rumors and misinformation among residents about when the shutoffs are happening and how long they’ll last. Meanwhile, others are frustrated that PG&E didn’t do power shutoffs like this before the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm not happy,” said Paradise resident Stacy Pineda. “I don't understand why it is that they failed to shut off the power on Nov. 8 and why now in their 'success' are pulling so many days in a row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E, the shutoffs could last for several days because the utility needs time to do safety checks and ensure no lines were damaged during the high fire risk weather event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pineda knows the shutoffs can help prevent fires like the one that destroyed her hometown, “there's got to be some middle ground. We can't lose everything that's in our refrigerators every time there's a danger. They need to upgrade and repair their systems to where it's safe enough to operate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is in the process of putting their electric distribution power lines in Paradise underground. The utility is also working on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11750896/cpuc-pge-deenergization-wildfire-safety-power-shutoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-mandated wildfire mitigation plan\u003c/a>, which aims to cut down on the potential of igniting a fire during high-risk periods. That plan includes preemptive power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/DSC5467-800x534.jpg\" alt=\""It's really kind of a no win situation. It's very inconvenient for people. There's the potential loss of food and there are people who depend on their medical equipment that needs to be plugged in. But on the other side, if it can prevent some other town from burning up like we did, then it's worth it," said Paradise Mayor Jody Jones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"It's really kind of a no-win situation. It's very inconvenient for people. There's the potential loss of food, and there are people who depend on their medical equipment that needs to be plugged in. 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Those revisions come in the wake of \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760492/california-legislature-approves-wildfire-bill-utility-customers-to-pay-10-5-billion-into-fund\">Assembly Bill 1054\u003c/a>, which lawmakers passed on an urgent basis this summer. The law establishes a wildfire fund paid for by both ratepayers and shareholders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, California’s largest investor-owned utility, had initially asked the CPUC to let it hike its return on equity from the current 10.25% to 16%. 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"content": "\u003cp>California fire officials have learned through hard experience to temper their optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having just endured more than a decade of rampaging fires — 14 of the 20 most destructive fires in state history have occurred since 2007 — fire bosses say this year the glass is half-full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11771472 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC-.jpg 1239w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--160x264.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--800x1322.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--1020x1685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--726x1200.jpg 726w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--1920x3172.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a few things going for us at the moment,” said Scott McLean, a spokesman for Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency. “We still have a snowpack. Our upper elevations haven’t dried out. Because of that, we are able to continue our fuel-reduction projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, this year featured a wet winter — usually good news for fire officials. But so did 2017, one of the state’s wettest winters in half a century and one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">devastating years\u003c/a> for wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearing and cutting has helped eliminate some of the brush and trees that fuel the flames. But California’s forests are still clogged with 147 million \u003ca href=\"http://calag.ucanr.edu/Archive/?article=ca.2019a0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dead trees\u003c/a>, and counting. And the late-winter rains encouraged the growth of grasses and other \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/02/californias-charred-hills-bloom-again-not-all-good/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highly combustible\u003c/a> plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire battled 164 fires across the state in the third week of August, many of them small. History shows that September and October, with their hot, fierce winds, are the worst months for fire. And “this week we have dry lightning predicted,” McLean said. That could spark fires in the state’s northern forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, state officials have been showering Cal Fire with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2019-20EN/#/Department/3540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financial aid\u003c/a>. The agency’s ranks are bolstered by an additional 400 seasonal firefighters and 13 new engines and crews to operate them. And the state is taking delivery of a new Sikorsky S-70i Firehawk helicopter next month, the first of 12 replacement firefighting helicopters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got everything out of maintenance; everything’s ready,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t look for California’s biggest air tool to come to a rescue anytime soon. The converted 747 jet, which can carry 24,0000 gallons of water or retardant, is currently flying over the Amazon, fighting fires in Brazil.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mapping the Fire Threat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire is in the process of updating its map of \u003ca href=\"https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/media/6636/fhszs_map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire-hazard zones\u003c/a>, identifying areas of fire danger and assigning degrees of risk to those places. The California Public Utilities Commission is revising its fire map as well. So are the state’s power providers and insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all trying to better predict where and how wildfires may strike, as officials across the state seek to gain some advantage over fire’s growing menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Cal Fire, the mapmaking — painstaking and devilishly complex, combining detailed data about weather, topography, vegetation and the placement of roads and homes — was last undertaken about 12 years ago. Officials say that doesn’t mean the 2007 version is out of date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11759209\" label=\"High-Risk Fire Zone Map\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at hazards by themselves, they are long-term factors that don’t often change,” said Daniel Berlant, Cal Fire assistant deputy director and chief of planning and risk analysis. “The slope of topography is not going to change in a decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much else has changed. A debilitating drought has come and gone. That and widespread insect infestation \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2016/11/sierra-forests-turned-to-brown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wiped out\u003c/a> trees in especially fire-prone regions of the state. And more and more Californians are living in the very landscapes that are most flammable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire’s map is used largely by counties and local authorities in making decisions about construction in high-fire-hazard zones and fire-mitigation measures from homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berlant said the document’s “major overhaul” will include the latest science, particularly sophisticated new models for where and how wind drives wildfires. It will be completed sometime next year, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility commission’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/firethreatmaps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map\u003c/a> is somewhat different. It breaks the state into a grid of one-mile squares, focusing on power companies’ lines and equipment and assigning fire threats. The identification of risk areas dictates what prevention efforts the companies should undertake to safeguard their property from fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map includes Cal Fire and utility-company data, updated yearly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason Withers, who helps run San Diego Gas & Electric’s risk-management group, said his company assumes the worst-case scenario in all of its 4,000-square-mile service territory and assigns its own fire-potential index.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If vegetation could be dry, we assume it is dry. We assume winds will get as bad as they can get,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Curtis Simms, who lives in Paradise\"]“You don’t need a map to know you are in a high-risk area. You’re an idiot if you don’t.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis is intended for use by firefighters and utility companies but is only glanced at by insurers, which have been assembling their own risk assessments for decades. Many companies hire outside firms to provide them with satellite data as well as information from NASA and other federal institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verisk Analytics provides reports to insurers about risk but does not do forecasting. “We are not trying to predict where the next wildfire is going to happen; it’s too complex,” said Arindam Samanta, the company’s director of product management and innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Cal Fire and the utilities commission publish their maps online, California residents may never hear about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know there was one,” said Curtis Simms, who lives in Paradise, which was devastated by a wildfire last year. “You don’t need a map to know you are in a high-risk area. You’re an idiot if you don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Risk in Power Shutoffs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Utilities call it “de-energizing” or Public Safety Power Shutoffs. To consumers, it’s what happens when a power company cuts electricity as a precaution during times of high wildfire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the practice is a prudent fire-mitigation strategy, and it’s about to become a widespread tool, whether customers like it or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say one in 10 wildfires in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5193666-CPUC-Meeting.html#document/p63/a466643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is related to\u003c/a> energy equipment. Even as California’s utilities do more to fireproof their lines and transformers, state officials say, the safest course during periods of high heat, dryness and winds may be to turn off power to some lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric has been proactively shutting off power ahead of high-fire-risk periods since 2013, but the state Public Utilities Commission adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/deenergization/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy\u003c/a> on such cuts only last year. Customers around the rest of the state are still adjusting to the prospect of blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11750896\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some customers are not particularly enthusiastic about the program when they first hear about it,” said Jeff Smith, a spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric. “They are frustrated that their power will be turned off but understand it once we tell customers that it’s to reduce fire risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company experienced that kind of frustration earlier this month when it made public its \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/Wildfire-Safety-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> for emergency shutdowns, involving four times as many power lines as in the previous year. Even though PG&E stressed that it doesn’t envision cutting power along every line it operates at once, residents reacted with trepidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the company has hosted dozens of events to describe the program, which is still new to PG&E’s 5 million electricity customers. The utility cut power only once in 2018, during high-fire-risk conditions, and twice this year, he said. The company has established a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/psps-weather-map.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> for customers to check for shutoff forecasts, as have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdge.com/wildfire-safety/public-safety-power-shutoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SDG&E\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sce.com/safety/wildfire/psps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern California Edison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies are loath to curtail power, for reasons that go far beyond spoiled food and other inconveniences. A representative of the city of Malibu testified at a Public Utilities Commission hearing last year that a power outage during a 2018 fire there cut off internet access and made it difficult for residents to keep abreast of emergency information and other public-safety announcements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that there are risks on both sides,” Smith said. “There are impacts on first responders, impacts on traffic, on folks that have life-saving equipment they rely on. And there is risk with keeping power on during those high-threat periods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology has made the shutdowns less expansive. The San Diego utility has adopted a sophisticated system enabling it to curtail power to a single neighborhood or street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities have been meeting with local officials to discuss emergency power options that cities and counties may use to protect vulnerable people. Some residents are preparing for electrical outages by buying gasoline-powered generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new state rules, utilities are required to ramp up efforts to inform the public before outages, giving 24 to 48 hours of advance notice, or more, depending on the nature of the fire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fire-Insurance Angst\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara laid out the dire news to legislators earlier this month: Insurers have declined to renew 350,000 homeowner policies in high-fire-risk areas in California since 2015, when the state began collecting data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have heard from many local communities about how not being able to obtain insurance can create a domino effect for the local economy, affecting home sales and property taxes,” Lara said in a prepared statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This data should be a wake-up call for state and local policymakers that without action to reduce the risk from extreme wildfires and preserve the insurance market we could see communities unraveling,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara’s news, which did not reflect those who were able to obtain replacement policies, reiterates that for insurers, California remains an expensive place to do business, and for homeowners, a costly place to buy insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data firm CoreLogic, in a report due out in September, estimates that about 640,000 homes in California are in areas of \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/fire-card-deckchap-1card-1-1h1749qzj8wd2zj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high or extreme fire risk\u003c/a>. The cost to replace those homes: nearly $280 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11769023,science_1943180,news_11746728\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A RAND Corp. \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP67670.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a>, prepared for the state last year, estimated that the insurance industry’s underwriting profits of $12 billion from 2001 through 2016, “were almost completely wiped out” by catastrophic wildfires in 2017. Residential insurance claims from the 2017-2018 fires, the worst fire period on record for California, totaled $26 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Sektnan, a lobbyist for the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, a trade group, said that for every dollar taken in via premiums, companies have been paying out $2 for fire claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things have been changing quickly,” he said, noting that the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, which killed 25 people, was long thought to be the worst-case scenario for loss of life and property. Those once-in-a-generation events are happening with greater frequency, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of the dropped policies, there has been some legislative relief. A law passed last year requires insurers to offer a homeowner who lost a residence to disaster two renewal periods or two years of coverage, whichever is greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that law doesn’t prevent those whose homes were untouched or only damaged by fire from having their policies cancelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Nielsen’s story of frustration is all too familiar to many fire victims. The 52-year-old lost his Santa Rosa home in the October 2017 Tubbs fire in Sonoma County. Bureaucratic entanglements with his insurer of 25 years delayed the rebuilding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, insurers were required by law to offer fire victims at least one policy renewal, which Nielsen received, taking him through 2018. But when renewal time came again a few months ago, he said, his insurer sent him a letter saying that because no home was built at his address, the company was dropping him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he counts himself lucky to have found a company to cover the rebuilt residence when it’s ready. He expects his premium will go up 60-80%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For California homeowners who cannot find or afford new insurance, there is the FAIR Plan, a bare-bones fire policy created by the state and operated by insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislation: What’s Next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After spending some of this year promising to roll out comprehensive fire legislation, lawmakers hustled a single \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2019/07/californias-new-wildfire-plan-5-things-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mega-bill\u003c/a> out in July, on a tight schedule, days before their month-long summer recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Sacramento and elsewhere are still arguing over the bona fides of the bill, which was brokered by the governor: Is it a reprieve for Pacific Gas and Electric, which filed for bankruptcy because of fire-related liabilities, or substantive improvement in how California addresses wildfire?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law\u003c/a> does help the state’s largest utility pay fire victims by establishing a $21 billion compensation fund that it and other companies can tap under certain circumstances. It also requires California’s three biggest utilities to spend $5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2019/06/scant-details-are-california-utilities-doing-enough-to-fireproof-their-equipment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fireproof\u003c/a> their equipment. They had already pledged to spend $3 billion in that effort, replacing wooden poles with steel ones and insulating lines and other equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for the first time, the state is requiring utilities to obtain a safety certification, setting a standard for safe and responsible operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now comes the legislative mop-up. Pieces of earlier proposals were swept into the mega-bill or reconstituted into new bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a lot of progress, but there’s a lot more work to be done,” said state Sen. Bill Dodd, a Democrat from Napa whose district has been beset by wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t look for blockbusters; the bills still on the table are more modest, addressing discrete pieces of a complex problem. “None of these things are a be-all, end-all,” Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are bills to fund \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education\u003c/a> programs and brush-clearing projects, beef up \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enforcement\u003c/a> of “defensible space” ordinances and conduct independent audits of the utilities’ fire-mitigation work. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another\u003c/a> proposal would establish a state wildfire warning center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional legislation would \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand\u003c/a> notification periods before power companies shut off electricity to customers, especially to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health care facilities\u003c/a> and first responders, during times of high fire risk. Another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> would help low-income customers with back-up service or financial aid during power cutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And legislators are not finished with PG&E. One \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal\u003c/a> would allow the state to sell billions in bonds that would help the company pay off wildfire liabilities exceeding its insurance limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the proposals have been put on hold; it’s not clear which, if any, will pass the Legislature before it adjourns in two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CalMatters.org\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California fire officials have learned through hard experience to temper their optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having just endured more than a decade of rampaging fires — 14 of the 20 most destructive fires in state history have occurred since 2007 — fire bosses say this year the glass is half-full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11771472 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC-.jpg 1239w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--160x264.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--800x1322.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--1020x1685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--726x1200.jpg 726w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/PEAK-WILDFIRE-MONTHS-GRAPHIC--1920x3172.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a few things going for us at the moment,” said Scott McLean, a spokesman for Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency. “We still have a snowpack. Our upper elevations haven’t dried out. Because of that, we are able to continue our fuel-reduction projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, this year featured a wet winter — usually good news for fire officials. But so did 2017, one of the state’s wettest winters in half a century and one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">devastating years\u003c/a> for wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearing and cutting has helped eliminate some of the brush and trees that fuel the flames. But California’s forests are still clogged with 147 million \u003ca href=\"http://calag.ucanr.edu/Archive/?article=ca.2019a0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dead trees\u003c/a>, and counting. And the late-winter rains encouraged the growth of grasses and other \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/02/californias-charred-hills-bloom-again-not-all-good/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highly combustible\u003c/a> plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire battled 164 fires across the state in the third week of August, many of them small. History shows that September and October, with their hot, fierce winds, are the worst months for fire. And “this week we have dry lightning predicted,” McLean said. That could spark fires in the state’s northern forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, state officials have been showering Cal Fire with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2019-20EN/#/Department/3540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financial aid\u003c/a>. The agency’s ranks are bolstered by an additional 400 seasonal firefighters and 13 new engines and crews to operate them. And the state is taking delivery of a new Sikorsky S-70i Firehawk helicopter next month, the first of 12 replacement firefighting helicopters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got everything out of maintenance; everything’s ready,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t look for California’s biggest air tool to come to a rescue anytime soon. The converted 747 jet, which can carry 24,0000 gallons of water or retardant, is currently flying over the Amazon, fighting fires in Brazil.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mapping the Fire Threat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire is in the process of updating its map of \u003ca href=\"https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/media/6636/fhszs_map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire-hazard zones\u003c/a>, identifying areas of fire danger and assigning degrees of risk to those places. The California Public Utilities Commission is revising its fire map as well. So are the state’s power providers and insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all trying to better predict where and how wildfires may strike, as officials across the state seek to gain some advantage over fire’s growing menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Cal Fire, the mapmaking — painstaking and devilishly complex, combining detailed data about weather, topography, vegetation and the placement of roads and homes — was last undertaken about 12 years ago. Officials say that doesn’t mean the 2007 version is out of date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some customers are not particularly enthusiastic about the program when they first hear about it,” said Jeff Smith, a spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric. “They are frustrated that their power will be turned off but understand it once we tell customers that it’s to reduce fire risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company experienced that kind of frustration earlier this month when it made public its \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/Wildfire-Safety-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> for emergency shutdowns, involving four times as many power lines as in the previous year. Even though PG&E stressed that it doesn’t envision cutting power along every line it operates at once, residents reacted with trepidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the company has hosted dozens of events to describe the program, which is still new to PG&E’s 5 million electricity customers. The utility cut power only once in 2018, during high-fire-risk conditions, and twice this year, he said. The company has established a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/psps-weather-map.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> for customers to check for shutoff forecasts, as have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdge.com/wildfire-safety/public-safety-power-shutoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SDG&E\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sce.com/safety/wildfire/psps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern California Edison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies are loath to curtail power, for reasons that go far beyond spoiled food and other inconveniences. A representative of the city of Malibu testified at a Public Utilities Commission hearing last year that a power outage during a 2018 fire there cut off internet access and made it difficult for residents to keep abreast of emergency information and other public-safety announcements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that there are risks on both sides,” Smith said. “There are impacts on first responders, impacts on traffic, on folks that have life-saving equipment they rely on. And there is risk with keeping power on during those high-threat periods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology has made the shutdowns less expansive. The San Diego utility has adopted a sophisticated system enabling it to curtail power to a single neighborhood or street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities have been meeting with local officials to discuss emergency power options that cities and counties may use to protect vulnerable people. Some residents are preparing for electrical outages by buying gasoline-powered generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new state rules, utilities are required to ramp up efforts to inform the public before outages, giving 24 to 48 hours of advance notice, or more, depending on the nature of the fire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fire-Insurance Angst\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara laid out the dire news to legislators earlier this month: Insurers have declined to renew 350,000 homeowner policies in high-fire-risk areas in California since 2015, when the state began collecting data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have heard from many local communities about how not being able to obtain insurance can create a domino effect for the local economy, affecting home sales and property taxes,” Lara said in a prepared statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This data should be a wake-up call for state and local policymakers that without action to reduce the risk from extreme wildfires and preserve the insurance market we could see communities unraveling,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara’s news, which did not reflect those who were able to obtain replacement policies, reiterates that for insurers, California remains an expensive place to do business, and for homeowners, a costly place to buy insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data firm CoreLogic, in a report due out in September, estimates that about 640,000 homes in California are in areas of \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/fire-card-deckchap-1card-1-1h1749qzj8wd2zj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high or extreme fire risk\u003c/a>. The cost to replace those homes: nearly $280 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A RAND Corp. \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP67670.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a>, prepared for the state last year, estimated that the insurance industry’s underwriting profits of $12 billion from 2001 through 2016, “were almost completely wiped out” by catastrophic wildfires in 2017. Residential insurance claims from the 2017-2018 fires, the worst fire period on record for California, totaled $26 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Sektnan, a lobbyist for the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, a trade group, said that for every dollar taken in via premiums, companies have been paying out $2 for fire claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things have been changing quickly,” he said, noting that the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, which killed 25 people, was long thought to be the worst-case scenario for loss of life and property. Those once-in-a-generation events are happening with greater frequency, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of the dropped policies, there has been some legislative relief. A law passed last year requires insurers to offer a homeowner who lost a residence to disaster two renewal periods or two years of coverage, whichever is greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that law doesn’t prevent those whose homes were untouched or only damaged by fire from having their policies cancelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Nielsen’s story of frustration is all too familiar to many fire victims. The 52-year-old lost his Santa Rosa home in the October 2017 Tubbs fire in Sonoma County. Bureaucratic entanglements with his insurer of 25 years delayed the rebuilding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, insurers were required by law to offer fire victims at least one policy renewal, which Nielsen received, taking him through 2018. 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He expects his premium will go up 60-80%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For California homeowners who cannot find or afford new insurance, there is the FAIR Plan, a bare-bones fire policy created by the state and operated by insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislation: What’s Next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After spending some of this year promising to roll out comprehensive fire legislation, lawmakers hustled a single \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2019/07/californias-new-wildfire-plan-5-things-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mega-bill\u003c/a> out in July, on a tight schedule, days before their month-long summer recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Sacramento and elsewhere are still arguing over the bona fides of the bill, which was brokered by the governor: Is it a reprieve for Pacific Gas and Electric, which filed for bankruptcy because of fire-related liabilities, or substantive improvement in how California addresses wildfire?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law\u003c/a> does help the state’s largest utility pay fire victims by establishing a $21 billion compensation fund that it and other companies can tap under certain circumstances. It also requires California’s three biggest utilities to spend $5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2019/06/scant-details-are-california-utilities-doing-enough-to-fireproof-their-equipment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fireproof\u003c/a> their equipment. They had already pledged to spend $3 billion in that effort, replacing wooden poles with steel ones and insulating lines and other equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for the first time, the state is requiring utilities to obtain a safety certification, setting a standard for safe and responsible operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now comes the legislative mop-up. Pieces of earlier proposals were swept into the mega-bill or reconstituted into new bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a lot of progress, but there’s a lot more work to be done,” said state Sen. 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