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Since early December, he and his wife have parked their RV along a fence crammed with other campers abutting a Chevron station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get tired of being pushed from one place to another, told you can't be here, you can't be there, it's a little tiring,\" said Soto. \"We fled the fire only to jump into hell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soto suffers from chronic lung disease and diabetes. At almost 70, with long salt-and-pepper hair pulled back in a ponytail, he often has to use a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sotos also rescue dogs. With four dogs and two cats, they're crammed inside the camper. 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"content": "\u003cp>The quaint college town and farming hub of Chico is clogged. People are living out of every hotel in town. Campers line neighborhood streets and the country roads that fan out into the walnut and citrus orchards. Every guesthouse and guest room is full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I live in a bedroom, I've lost everything I had,\" says Brian Grahlman, 70, one of thousands of victims of last November's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> that nearly destroyed the town of Paradise, 15 miles from Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grahlman narrowly escaped the fire. Now he's living in a spare room in his daughter's house in Chico. His home in Paradise is gone. His wife has to stay with her daughter nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody I know is living with somebody else,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Camp Fire, the small city of Chico in Butte County was already grappling with a severe housing shortage — vacancy rates for the county routinely hovered between 1 and 2 percent. Rents far outpaced wages and homelessness was rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of rural communities, the area has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicoer.com/2019/01/13/2-overdose-victims-released-7-others-in-good-condition/\">hard hit by the opioid crisis\u003c/a> and other addiction issues that are straining health care and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, literally overnight, Chico's bedroom community of Paradise almost entirely burned to the ground: 19,000 buildings were destroyed, and thousands of people were displaced. 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Classrooms are overflowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11718339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/image-from-ios-2-_sq-07fb17bf120ca557635dd3656bc8d84cdc019905-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Grahlman and his dog, Scout, narrowly escaped the Camp Fire. His home in Paradise was destroyed, and for now he is living with his daughter in Chico.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Grahlman and his dog, Scout, narrowly escaped the Camp Fire. His home in Paradise was destroyed, and for now he is living with his daughter in Chico. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The people who live here are just as stressed as we are who have moved here,\" Grahlman says. \"It's very difficult and there's no short-term solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what is the plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The plan is, there is no plan,\" says Chico Mayor Randall Stone. \"As scary as that sounds, it's just a world that we have to get used to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone became mayor not long after the Camp Fire ignited. His town's infrastructure just wasn't built for the influx of fire refugees, he says, particularly the roads. The thousands of newcomers don't always know where they're going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As you're driving around it feels like everyone's constantly looking for an address,\" Stone says. \"We're the traffic equivalent of a clogged toilet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pulling Disaster Funds?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In terms of short-term solutions, this rural region has had no choice but to rely heavily on state and federal disaster funds. So folks here reacted with shock and confusion when President Trump threatened to cut off federal disaster aid\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083022011574747137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1083022011574747137&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fseamus.npr.org%2Ftemplates%2Fpreview%2FtwitterPreview.php%3FtweetId%3D1083022011574747137%26hideMedia%3Dtrue\"> in a tweet \u003c/a>about how federal forests are managed in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083022011574747137\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the forests in this state are either privately owned or managed by the federal government. But officials like Stone didn't have time to try to decipher or fact-check the president's tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump Twitter scare seemed to follow a pattern. One day it looks like things might be getting better, and then there's another setback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have the president of the United States saying that he's yanking back FEMA funding already,\" Stone says. \"I don't think we took too much to heart, but you can see how volatile things get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chico is Fully Occupied\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The single most immediate concern is what to do about the nearly 700 people who — more than two months on — are still living in their cars or RVs at a Red Cross shelter at the Chico fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11718340 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/image-from-ios-4-fcac4a2fb2c31ba472991da9a3c6e8b684f5709d-800x600.jpg\" alt='A message, written in white spray paint on a car window, reads \"any help is help.\" The car sits in the parking lot of a shelter in Chico where, more than two months after the fire, 700 victims still live.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A message, written in white spray paint on a car window, says \"any help is help.\" The car sits in the parking lot of a shelter in Chico where, more than two months after the fire, 700 victims still live. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross is expected to pull up stakes at the end of the month. But the shelter is still seeing new arrivals. After weeks of couch surfing or paying out of pocket for a hotel, people have nowhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally we are playing a game of musical chairs,\" says Ed Mayer, director of the Housing Authority of Butte County. \"In order for someone to find a home in Chico, somebody has to leave Chico, because we are fully, fully occupied.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of Mayer's employees lost their homes in the fire, and most of the rest of his staff are housing displaced families. Federal HUD staffers moved into his office recently to work with his office to find willing landlords across the entire western U.S. Fire victims have already been relocated to Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Utah and Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/685137701/685434162\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, Mayer has been saying what a lot of other people are afraid to say: Folks are going to have to move out of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We may have natural disasters like the Camp Fire, but we [also] have man-made disasters,\" Mayer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California communities are simply not able to absorb a large natural disaster like the Camp Fire, Mayer says, because the region also has an ongoing housing shortage. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the forests in this state are either privately owned or managed by the federal government. But officials like Stone didn't have time to try to decipher or fact-check the president's tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump Twitter scare seemed to follow a pattern. One day it looks like things might be getting better, and then there's another setback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have the president of the United States saying that he's yanking back FEMA funding already,\" Stone says. \"I don't think we took too much to heart, but you can see how volatile things get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chico is Fully Occupied\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The single most immediate concern is what to do about the nearly 700 people who — more than two months on — are still living in their cars or RVs at a Red Cross shelter at the Chico fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11718340 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/image-from-ios-4-fcac4a2fb2c31ba472991da9a3c6e8b684f5709d-800x600.jpg\" alt='A message, written in white spray paint on a car window, reads \"any help is help.\" The car sits in the parking lot of a shelter in Chico where, more than two months after the fire, 700 victims still live.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A message, written in white spray paint on a car window, says \"any help is help.\" The car sits in the parking lot of a shelter in Chico where, more than two months after the fire, 700 victims still live. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross is expected to pull up stakes at the end of the month. But the shelter is still seeing new arrivals. After weeks of couch surfing or paying out of pocket for a hotel, people have nowhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally we are playing a game of musical chairs,\" says Ed Mayer, director of the Housing Authority of Butte County. \"In order for someone to find a home in Chico, somebody has to leave Chico, because we are fully, fully occupied.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of Mayer's employees lost their homes in the fire, and most of the rest of his staff are housing displaced families. Federal HUD staffers moved into his office recently to work with his office to find willing landlords across the entire western U.S. Fire victims have already been relocated to Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Utah and Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/685137701/685434162\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, Mayer has been saying what a lot of other people are afraid to say: Folks are going to have to move out of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We may have natural disasters like the Camp Fire, but we [also] have man-made disasters,\" Mayer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California communities are simply not able to absorb a large natural disaster like the Camp Fire, Mayer says, because the region also has an ongoing housing shortage. It's widely feared that, with climate change and future wildfires, the housing crunch could only get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Chico leaders point to the irony that, in a region with an ongoing affordable housing crisis, if and when Paradise rebuilds, the new town will probably have tougher building codes and be more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that new town won't even happen for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: NPR's Kirk Siegler is based temporarily in Butte County. Along with other reporters, he will be covering the cleanup and recovery effort in and around Paradise. If you want to share your story email, natdesk@npr.org with \"Paradise\" in the subject line.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+The+Aftermath+Of+The+Camp+Fire%2C+A+Slow%2C+Simmering+Crisis+In+Nearby+Chico&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of refugees from the Camp Fire will be spending Christmas with friends and family next week, many of them in Chico. The city has become a safe haven, not just for those burned-out individuals, but for several religious congregations, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last month, \u003ca href=\"http://paradise1st.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Assembly Paradise\u003c/a> and its sister in \u003ca href=\"http://chico1st.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chico, First Assembly,\u003c/a> have blended together. Leaders of both churches run the services, including youth pastor \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/kyle-bentley-and-brandy-restart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Smith\u003c/a> of Paradise and his family. They are currently living in a 26-foot trailer outside his brother-in-law’s house in Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just didn’t know where our help was going to come from. But when I opened up my eyes the next day, all the phone calls we received, the funds that came through, the blessings that came in, I saw rivers in a desert place,\" Smith said, referencing the Book of Isaiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isaiah 43:18-19 New International Version (NIV)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>19: See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Listen to First Assembly Paradise and its sister church, Chico First Assembly, sing \"The Stand\" by the Australian Christian band \u003ca href=\"https://hillsong.com/united/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillsong United\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/547877892\" params=\"color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pews in Chico are packed now every Sunday, but Smith says they’re all too aware of who’s not there — or who’s about to leave for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first couple of weeks we had more, but people have since had to move and relocate out of state, and the Bay Area, different places, just to have someplace safe to be and stay,\" Smith said. \"We have phones. We have social media and we can stay connected that way, but it is hard not to see them like we did in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $10,000 in gift cards and donations from other churches have rolled in, which the combo congregation intends to share widely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will First Assembly Paradise rebuild? That’s the hope, two or three years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don’t have plans. We don’t have a blueprint. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846730/love-song-to-paradise-goes-from-viral-hit-to-nashville-studio-single\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One of these days\u003c/a>! We don’t know when, but it’s coming,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'It Was Easy For Us'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The congregations of Second Baptist Church Chico and First Baptist Church of Paradise sing the classic African-American spiritual, \"Go Tell It on the Mountain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/547902651\" params=\"color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no time limit to the welcome coming from \u003ca href=\"http://www.secondbaptistchico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Baptist Church Chico\u003c/a>. For the last 12 years, Pastor Joseph Kiwovele has been good friends with Sam Walker, who leads two burned-out Paradise congregations: \u003ca href=\"http://www.hareiyeshua.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harei Yeshua\u003c/a>, a Messianic Jewish community, which meets on Saturdays, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbcparadise.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Baptist Church Paradise\u003c/a>, which meets on Sundays now in conjunction with Second Baptist Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an organic thing. I told Pastor Sam, this building is an open building. As long as there is a need of it, it will be open,\" Pastor Kiwovele said, adding a thought common among Chico’s faithful: They have an \u003ci>opportunity\u003c/i> this holiday season to practice the spiritual values they believe in most dearly in the most practical way possible — by taking in congregations made homeless by the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\">Walker writes the love keeps coming in remarkably thoughtful and directed ways. After finding out that he lost his home in the fire, Pastor Tim Rhul of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pvbaptist.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pleasant Valley Baptist Church\u003c/a> raised money to buy Walker and another pastor two suits apiece. \"This was very thoughtful, since we may be needing formal dress in the near future to preside over several memorials for church members that we have lost in the fire.\"\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\"We are in a warm place. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After Paradise\" features interviews with government officials, insurance experts, psychotherapists and others living through the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in California history. At a time when most national reporters have decamped to cover new headlines, Butte County locals still need a place to talk about what's going on for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713663\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/programs/after-paradise#stream/0\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-800x384.jpg\" alt='\"After Paradise,\" a production of North State Public Radio, broadcasts weekly on Thursday nights.' width=\"800\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-160x77.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-240x115.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-375x180.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-520x250.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"After Paradise,\" a production of North State Public Radio, broadcasts weekly on Thursday nights. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NSPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, you don’t need to live near Chico to hear more about the awful day the fire struck, from folks like the Rev. Ron Zimmer of \u003ca href=\"http://eastavechurch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Avenue Church\u003c/a> in Chico, who provided shelter for many fleeing in the early days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After Paradise\" also serves up forward-looking conversations with people like \u003ca href=\"https://www.townofparadise.com/index.php/our-government/town-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Jody Jones\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have an opportunity to do things better. To look at some of our streets so that we have better evacuation routes. To look at our building so we have more fireproof structures in town. Those sorts of things,\" Jones said on a recent show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigeland added, \"We are at the crossroads of human suffering and human resilience, and it is a fascinating place at which to stand and watch how people get through something like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilke was general manager at NSPR for less than three months before the Camp Fire broke out Nov. 8. He wrote in the public media industry publication \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2018/12/with-generous-help-from-volunteers-overextended-california-station-creates-local-show-about-wildfire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Current\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"I really hate to say this, but the experience of covering the Camp Fire has prepared us to respond to the next emergency. We know how to deploy reporters, board ops, volunteers and interns. We have a playbook — though it’s one you don’t want to use because it means your listeners and your community are in trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigeland headed home to Portland. She'll be helping out remotely, but she's leaving the show in the capable hands of the station's two-person newsroom, consisting of Marc Albert and Sarah Bohannon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New volunteers are welcome to join the effort.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny’s home is just the latest mega-fire in California — and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands — in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa — helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas — Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state’s WUI is made up of chaparral — dry shrubland — that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour — who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 — agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve taken a lot of land in [California] … that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages … and now you put homes in there,” Harbour said. “Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major concern,” Ting said. “We’ve had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever’s possible to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request — but insufficient. November’s Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington’s top fires. And the daily reports aren’t even complete– reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California’s costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state’s unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California’s most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon’s priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington’s fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California’s Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,” read the second of the Butte firefighters’ Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington’s most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon’s most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California’s 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are “always going to be more costly,” said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. “It costs more money when you’re bringing in more expensive resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million — 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it “took forever” to get into Placerville from the forest. “Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.”\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California’s WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a huge chess game,” Huang said. “We have fire engines … trying to put out the fire … a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don’t catch on fire, and at the same time we’re working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like that,” Harbour said of the smoke produced. “You don’t like it. The American public doesn’t like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts “a little bit more teeth” into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands — for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901’s changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we call a moral hazard … [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a “working group” to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor’s office. The appointee would be charged with “developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,” said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE’s climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month’s Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just like the mountains. We like the trees,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else’s: “Get the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not sure yet where he will land — Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how ridiculous it sounds,” he said. “But that’s the kind of country we like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\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>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny’s home is just the latest mega-fire in California — and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands — in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa — helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas — Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state’s WUI is made up of chaparral — dry shrubland — that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour — who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 — agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve taken a lot of land in [California] … that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages … and now you put homes in there,” Harbour said. “Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major concern,” Ting said. “We’ve had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever’s possible to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request — but insufficient. November’s Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington’s top fires. And the daily reports aren’t even complete– reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California’s costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state’s unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California’s most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon’s priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington’s fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California’s Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,” read the second of the Butte firefighters’ Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington’s most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon’s most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California’s 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are “always going to be more costly,” said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. “It costs more money when you’re bringing in more expensive resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million — 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it “took forever” to get into Placerville from the forest. “Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.”\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California’s WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a huge chess game,” Huang said. “We have fire engines … trying to put out the fire … a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don’t catch on fire, and at the same time we’re working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like that,” Harbour said of the smoke produced. “You don’t like it. The American public doesn’t like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts “a little bit more teeth” into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands — for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901’s changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we call a moral hazard … [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a “working group” to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor’s office. The appointee would be charged with “developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,” said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE’s climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month’s Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just like the mountains. We like the trees,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else’s: “Get the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not sure yet where he will land — Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how ridiculous it sounds,” he said. “But that’s the kind of country we like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, with flames and smoke darkening the sky above Paradise, a very pregnant Melissa Johnson packed her whole family into two cars and fled down the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time, it was my daughter who's 14 and my son who’s 11. My father-in-law, he’s disabled, and so is my husband. He’s disabled as well. We had three dogs and a cat and a rabbit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They managed to get out, as did three other households in her extended family. In total, 14 people, 11 dogs, five cats, two birds and the rabbit gathered at her sister’s one-bedroom apartment in Chico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That night, we knew we couldn’t stay there. It was too crowded,\" said a remarkably optimistic Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Johnson made it out of Paradise with her cellphone and her bank card, so she started calling hotels. But she was one of tens of thousands of desperate people doing the same thing at the same time. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> displaced roughly 50,000 people. She finally found two hotel rooms way up north, in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"Lilly and William sleep on an air mattress in a Redding hotel in November, before Melissa Johnson found a better, free option through the Airbnb Open Homes program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilly and William sleep on an air mattress in a Redding hotel in November, before Melissa Johnson found a better, free option through the Airbnb Open Homes program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In less than a week, Johnson spent $1,000 on hotel rooms before somebody told her about Airbnb’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/welcome/evacuees/buttecounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Homes\u003c/a> program, which pairs hosts with disaster survivors and relief workers in need of free temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb waives its fees, as part of the program, and the hosts do, too. Kellie Bentz, chief of the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnbcitizen.com/disaster-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Disaster Response & Relief\u003c/a>, calls Open Homes “surge capacity,” adding that it \"hits a sweet spot, creating a bit of comfort in a really tough time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meanwhile, in Sacramento\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cinde Dolphin is originally from Southern California, where her block once survived a fire unscathed. Dolphin said the experience sensitized her to the plight of those escaping the Camp Fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just gut-wrenching,\" Dolphin said. \"It just seemed as though there was very little help for those in Paradise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolphin signed up her spare mother-in-law studio apartment on Airbnb, and within an hour received a query from Melissa Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg\" alt='When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1020x537.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1200x632.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinde Dolphin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was a bit skeptical that they would be comfortable in my house,\" Dolphin said. \"But [Johnson] said, 'Anything is better than where we are right now.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was enough to get Johnson through until she found a two-bedroom apartment in Carmichael, east of Sacramento. She figures they'll stay there for at least the next six months, given how long the cleanup and rebuilding effort in Paradise is likely to take. Johnson is a professional caregiver, and near Sacramento, she's in a better position to look for new clients, after she lost a primary one who relocated three hours away after the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, everything they have is donated, including a baby shower's worth of gifts for little Annette Marie, born 10 days after the Camp Fire started, at a robust 11 pounds 2 ounces. Dolphin posted about Johnson’s family on Facebook, and her social circle responded with everything from a playpen for the baby to a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa, Annette, Trevor, Jerry, Kalea, William, the Great Danes Lilly and Penelope, the toy poodle Callie, the cat Damon Chewy, and the rabbit, JJ, will all celebrate Christmas here while they negotiate with their insurance company. Johnson plans to rebuild the Paradise home they moved into \u003cem>one week\u003c/em> before the Camp Fire struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-800x521.png\" alt=\"More than 2,500 Airbnb hosts in California volunteered their properties for the company's Open Homes program during the wildfire season, providing temporary shelter for roughly 1,800 people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1020x664.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1200x781.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1920x1250.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 2,500 Airbnb hosts in California volunteered their properties for the company's Open Homes program during the wildfire season, providing temporary shelter for roughly 1,800 people. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Airbnb)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We still own it … what’s left of it. It was beautiful, surrounded by trees. Dogs ran and played all day long,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's fair to say Johnson's family relies on her strength and generosity every day, but she said she’s been overwhelmed by the generosity she’s received from people who were strangers before the Camp Fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been overwhelming to see how kindhearted and supportive people have been. It just makes me realize how I want to be like that. You know? Not only in time of need, but in general.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience had a big impact on Dolphin, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This experience really reinforced in my thinking that we are so blessed and fortunate to have what we have,\" she said. \"And if we can share it with others, just give them a place to regroup and plan for the next step, it makes a huge difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, with flames and smoke darkening the sky above Paradise, a very pregnant Melissa Johnson packed her whole family into two cars and fled down the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time, it was my daughter who's 14 and my son who’s 11. My father-in-law, he’s disabled, and so is my husband. He’s disabled as well. We had three dogs and a cat and a rabbit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They managed to get out, as did three other households in her extended family. In total, 14 people, 11 dogs, five cats, two birds and the rabbit gathered at her sister’s one-bedroom apartment in Chico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That night, we knew we couldn’t stay there. It was too crowded,\" said a remarkably optimistic Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Johnson made it out of Paradise with her cellphone and her bank card, so she started calling hotels. But she was one of tens of thousands of desperate people doing the same thing at the same time. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> displaced roughly 50,000 people. She finally found two hotel rooms way up north, in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"Lilly and William sleep on an air mattress in a Redding hotel in November, before Melissa Johnson found a better, free option through the Airbnb Open Homes program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilly and William sleep on an air mattress in a Redding hotel in November, before Melissa Johnson found a better, free option through the Airbnb Open Homes program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In less than a week, Johnson spent $1,000 on hotel rooms before somebody told her about Airbnb’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/welcome/evacuees/buttecounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Homes\u003c/a> program, which pairs hosts with disaster survivors and relief workers in need of free temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb waives its fees, as part of the program, and the hosts do, too. Kellie Bentz, chief of the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnbcitizen.com/disaster-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Disaster Response & Relief\u003c/a>, calls Open Homes “surge capacity,” adding that it \"hits a sweet spot, creating a bit of comfort in a really tough time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meanwhile, in Sacramento\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cinde Dolphin is originally from Southern California, where her block once survived a fire unscathed. Dolphin said the experience sensitized her to the plight of those escaping the Camp Fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just gut-wrenching,\" Dolphin said. \"It just seemed as though there was very little help for those in Paradise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolphin signed up her spare mother-in-law studio apartment on Airbnb, and within an hour received a query from Melissa Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg\" alt='When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1020x537.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1200x632.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinde Dolphin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was a bit skeptical that they would be comfortable in my house,\" Dolphin said. \"But [Johnson] said, 'Anything is better than where we are right now.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was enough to get Johnson through until she found a two-bedroom apartment in Carmichael, east of Sacramento. She figures they'll stay there for at least the next six months, given how long the cleanup and rebuilding effort in Paradise is likely to take. Johnson is a professional caregiver, and near Sacramento, she's in a better position to look for new clients, after she lost a primary one who relocated three hours away after the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, everything they have is donated, including a baby shower's worth of gifts for little Annette Marie, born 10 days after the Camp Fire started, at a robust 11 pounds 2 ounces. Dolphin posted about Johnson’s family on Facebook, and her social circle responded with everything from a playpen for the baby to a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa, Annette, Trevor, Jerry, Kalea, William, the Great Danes Lilly and Penelope, the toy poodle Callie, the cat Damon Chewy, and the rabbit, JJ, will all celebrate Christmas here while they negotiate with their insurance company. Johnson plans to rebuild the Paradise home they moved into \u003cem>one week\u003c/em> before the Camp Fire struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-800x521.png\" alt=\"More than 2,500 Airbnb hosts in California volunteered their properties for the company's Open Homes program during the wildfire season, providing temporary shelter for roughly 1,800 people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1020x664.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1200x781.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1920x1250.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 2,500 Airbnb hosts in California volunteered their properties for the company's Open Homes program during the wildfire season, providing temporary shelter for roughly 1,800 people. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Airbnb)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We still own it … what’s left of it. It was beautiful, surrounded by trees. Dogs ran and played all day long,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's fair to say Johnson's family relies on her strength and generosity every day, but she said she’s been overwhelmed by the generosity she’s received from people who were strangers before the Camp Fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been overwhelming to see how kindhearted and supportive people have been. It just makes me realize how I want to be like that. You know? Not only in time of need, but in general.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience had a big impact on Dolphin, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This experience really reinforced in my thinking that we are so blessed and fortunate to have what we have,\" she said. \"And if we can share it with others, just give them a place to regroup and plan for the next step, it makes a huge difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow KQED's ongoing wildfire coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he East Avenue Church in Chico on Tuesday was sheltering a few hundred people who lost their homes in the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a>, even though the church isn't on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.buttecounty.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official shelter list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's played the role many times before, said Robert Warf, a Sunday school teacher who was directing traffic into the surrounding fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we're extremely organized,\" Warf said. \"We've been doing this every time there's a need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need has been overwhelming since last week, when the Camp Fire ravaged the nearby town of Paradise and displaced some 52,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We're making sure nobody is breaking into any cars because everybody knows that they've got their stuff in their cars. That's the last thing anybody needs — to be victimized more than they have already been.'\u003ccite>Matt Straus, Hellbent Motorcycle Club 823 Chapter president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Volunteers had separated donated clothing, bottled water, toiletries and other essentials in different areas around the church yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warf said they had to start turning down clothing donations — the church received much more than was needed. He had a list of other donations that would be helpful: Visa gift cards of at least $28 so people can set up post office boxes to receive mail, tents in good condition and new sleeping bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need new shoes,\" he added. \"These people don't have anything, and some of them were running down that hill and don't have shoes. ... They don't have to be fancy shoes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People wearing medical scrubs and stethoscopes moved among the crowd, and food was available in a large hall inside the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11706443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33958_20181113_145406-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A burned bus sits along Skyway road in Paradise on Nov. 13.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33958_20181113_145406-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33958_20181113_145406-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33958_20181113_145406-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33958_20181113_145406-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33958_20181113_145406-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burned bus sits along Skyway Road in Paradise on Nov. 13. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Members of the 823 chapter of the Hellbent Motorcycle Club were also walking the grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapter president Matt Straus said the club showed up Sunday with a bunch of personal hygiene kits to donate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought that there was only about 50 people here or so, and we made 100 of them,\" he said. \"As soon as we showed up, we noticed that there was a need for a lot more. We barely even put a dent in anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said about a dozen bikers from his club and others have been at the church ever since, handling security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're patrolling all of this area, making sure nobody is breaking into any cars because everybody knows that they've got their stuff in their cars,\" he said. \"That's the last thing anybody needs — to be victimized more than they have already been.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Lopez and Penny Spaletta have been staying in a tent behind the church since Thursday, when they fled the fire that would destroy their Paradise home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11706446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Al Lopez and Penny Spaletta fled the Camp Fire and took shelter at the East Avenue Church in Chico.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Lopez and Penny Spaletta fled the Camp Fire and took shelter at the East Avenue Church in Chico. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They'd both noticed fire on a neighboring property early Thursday morning. Lopez said he grabbed a fire extinguisher and tried to put out some smoldering grass in the field across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A gust of wind picked up and it went about 50 feet up a pine tree,\" Lopez said. \"I mean the flames just attached to that pine tree and it was ablaze in seconds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife, Spaletta, had been trying to douse their own property with a garden hose. Both decided it was time to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they made a stop, to pick up Spaletta's mother. By the time they were headed down the hill toward Chico, traffic was moving slower than the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705542/how-to-help-camp-fire-victims\">How to Help Camp Fire Victims\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705542/how-to-help-camp-fire-victims\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1059345284-1180x775.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We're in this inferno on either side of us, and we can't go anywhere,\" Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spaletta said she could feel intense heat through the windows of her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I honestly didn't think we were going to make it out,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They did make it to Chico by late Thursday afternoon, but had no idea where to turn next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a friend called and suggested they head over to the East Avenue Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This church is wonderful,\" Spaletta said. \"They're feeding us very well. They're giving us necessities to live day to day, and it's so wonderful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said he was able to confirm their home in Paradise was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing standing is the brick for the foundation and the chimney,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11706450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A sign appears warped by heat off New Skyway road in Magalia on Nov. 13.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign appears warped by heat off New Skyway Road in Magalia on Nov. 13. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The couple left three pet cats behind when they fled. Spaletta said she'd held out hope that they could have survived until she learned the house was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It goes in waves,\" she said. \"I was hoping that three of our pets — that the house had stayed and they were inside. And when he came back and he told me the house was gone, I knew that they had been lost in the fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spaletta and Lopez said they're not sure where they'll go next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've never been through anything like this before,\" Lopez said. \"All we can do is just put one foot in front of the other — you know, build a bond with these people that are going to go back up that mountain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said they found a new sense of community at the East Avenue Church. And when they can, both said they'd like to rebuild in Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These people here, they're becoming our new family,\" Spaletta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said about a dozen bikers from his club and others have been at the church ever since, handling security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're patrolling all of this area, making sure nobody is breaking into any cars because everybody knows that they've got their stuff in their cars,\" he said. \"That's the last thing anybody needs — to be victimized more than they have already been.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Lopez and Penny Spaletta have been staying in a tent behind the church since Thursday, when they fled the fire that would destroy their Paradise home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11706446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Al Lopez and Penny Spaletta fled the Camp Fire and took shelter at the East Avenue Church in Chico.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33957_20181113_163550-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Lopez and Penny Spaletta fled the Camp Fire and took shelter at the East Avenue Church in Chico. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They'd both noticed fire on a neighboring property early Thursday morning. Lopez said he grabbed a fire extinguisher and tried to put out some smoldering grass in the field across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A gust of wind picked up and it went about 50 feet up a pine tree,\" Lopez said. \"I mean the flames just attached to that pine tree and it was ablaze in seconds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife, Spaletta, had been trying to douse their own property with a garden hose. Both decided it was time to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they made a stop, to pick up Spaletta's mother. By the time they were headed down the hill toward Chico, traffic was moving slower than the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705542/how-to-help-camp-fire-victims\">How to Help Camp Fire Victims\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705542/how-to-help-camp-fire-victims\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1059345284-1180x775.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We're in this inferno on either side of us, and we can't go anywhere,\" Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spaletta said she could feel intense heat through the windows of her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I honestly didn't think we were going to make it out,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They did make it to Chico by late Thursday afternoon, but had no idea where to turn next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a friend called and suggested they head over to the East Avenue Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This church is wonderful,\" Spaletta said. \"They're feeding us very well. They're giving us necessities to live day to day, and it's so wonderful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said he was able to confirm their home in Paradise was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing standing is the brick for the foundation and the chimney,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11706450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A sign appears warped by heat off New Skyway road in Magalia on Nov. 13.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33954_20181113_133344-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign appears warped by heat off New Skyway Road in Magalia on Nov. 13. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The couple left three pet cats behind when they fled. 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