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It's my whole area, my whole town, my region, my county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pool was once an affordable destination vacation spot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1920x1438.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg 1965w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pools was once an affordable destination vacation spot. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the disasters did not stop. The summer after the Valley Fire, an arsonist allegedly sparked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11052363/clayton-fire-how-to-help\">Clayton Fire,\u003c/a> destroying 300 more buildings and wiping out much of downtown Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2017, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49866:city-of-lakeport-issues-mandatory-evacuations-for-several-locations-due-to-rising-flood-waters&catid=1:latest&Itemid=197\">Willow Point Flood\u003c/a> forced more residents in Lakeport from their homes. Then in October the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1876\">Sulphur Fire\u003c/a> burned down 162 more structures along the waterfront of Clear Lake, California’s largest natural lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing in Lake County is being destroyed at an alarming rate. Recovery, meanwhile, is taking its time. Less than 200 homes have been rebuilt since 2015, according to the county administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Levenson’s house burned down, she says finding a stable place to live was nearly impossible. Three percent of all housing stock in the county had been destroyed, making the rental market highly competitive. On top of that she couldn’t afford to keep shelling out $35 to $65 for each rental application she filled out. And once she did find a place, her insurance company required that she keep house-hunting every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Into this widespread housing crisis stepped an unlikely savior. Levenson is now the longest-term resident of Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa, a place that has its own unique history in Lake County, and that has come to serve an entirely new purpose to survivors like Levenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Last Resort\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ualocal38.org/\">UA Local 38, Plumbers and Pipefitters Union\u003c/a> opened Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in the small town of Kelseyville in 1959 as a place for union members to vacation. Over the years it became a destination, complete with a 5,000-seat amphitheater that hosted bands like the Scorpions and Kiss. People would come to see live music, jet ski and stay at the 300-room resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a series of \u003ca href=\"https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/mazzola-is-slippery/Content?oid=2162968\">lawsuits\u003c/a> and financial troubles forced the union to close the resort in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years it sat empty, quietly sliding into disrepair. A number of sales were rumored, but ultimately fell through. Then, when disaster struck in 2015, the union stepped in and offered the resort to FEMA and county officials as a place to house fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson pays about $1,000 a month to stay in what’s essentially a one-bedroom apartment. It’s not without its quirks. Out the sliding glass door she’s got a beautiful view of the lake, and a hot tub that doesn’t work, all framed by rotting green trim. She has gone days without power, running water and heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she says, she's just grateful to have somewhere to be, and that the skeleton crew who managed the place treated her and other survivors like guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds mushy, but every county should be so lucky as to have an old defunct resort that could step in like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-e1524270544365.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she first moved in, Levenson says about 100 other people stayed there. As each new season brought a new disaster, it also brought her new neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after the flood is when we got the most children,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past fire season was no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9, 2017, Bart woke up because she thought the sun was rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like Mount Vesuvius had erupted,” she says. “The entire horizon was like more lava oozing down the hill toward the water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sulphur Fire sparked the same night as deadly wildfires ravaged eight counties, including Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino. It created another wave of refugees. Now a total of 18 families displaced by three years of disaster still live here at the resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who died here,” she says. “There have been people who've gotten born here. It's a whole little village. It really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resort-turned-refugee village still features signage from 2009, Olympic-sized swimming pools containing a few inches of brackish water, and a thatchless tiki bar overlooking the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where some see decay, others see opportunity. In March, Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa was bought by new owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8612-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Season?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our vision for the resort is to really make it a full-service quality resort that's good for people and families, that really emphasizes the waterfront,” says Russ Hamel, managing director of the new Konocti Harbor Resort project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says the Bay Area group he represents sees big potential profits in the sprawling property. And if it’s revitalized, Konocti could also bring jobs and opportunity to a local economy that has struggled for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is still a daunting amount of work to be done, and Hamel and his crew are just getting started on a renovation they estimate could take anywhere from two to five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally inherited a city,” Hamel says. “We have our own water treatment plant, we have our own sewage treatment plant, many buildings that have to be maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the new staff learn where the light switches are, they are also reaching out to the current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first things that we did when I got here was I started interviewing everybody,” Hamel says. “I put a note on everybody's door that said we're not the evil empire with the new owners. We're not going to evict anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says he will continue to rent to survivors who need somewhere to stay until they can find a more permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8960-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for its longest resident, Bart Levenson says she is finally checking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson says she had no idea it would take this long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm surprised,” she says. “If I wasn't leaving this, I never would believe it. I'd be judgmental. I just would not be able to understand how long it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there would never be home to go to. And not just my home. It's my whole area, my whole town, my region, my county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pool was once an affordable destination vacation spot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1920x1438.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg 1965w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pools was once an affordable destination vacation spot. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the disasters did not stop. The summer after the Valley Fire, an arsonist allegedly sparked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11052363/clayton-fire-how-to-help\">Clayton Fire,\u003c/a> destroying 300 more buildings and wiping out much of downtown Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2017, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49866:city-of-lakeport-issues-mandatory-evacuations-for-several-locations-due-to-rising-flood-waters&catid=1:latest&Itemid=197\">Willow Point Flood\u003c/a> forced more residents in Lakeport from their homes. Then in October the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1876\">Sulphur Fire\u003c/a> burned down 162 more structures along the waterfront of Clear Lake, California’s largest natural lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing in Lake County is being destroyed at an alarming rate. Recovery, meanwhile, is taking its time. Less than 200 homes have been rebuilt since 2015, according to the county administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Levenson’s house burned down, she says finding a stable place to live was nearly impossible. Three percent of all housing stock in the county had been destroyed, making the rental market highly competitive. On top of that she couldn’t afford to keep shelling out $35 to $65 for each rental application she filled out. And once she did find a place, her insurance company required that she keep house-hunting every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Into this widespread housing crisis stepped an unlikely savior. Levenson is now the longest-term resident of Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa, a place that has its own unique history in Lake County, and that has come to serve an entirely new purpose to survivors like Levenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Last Resort\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ualocal38.org/\">UA Local 38, Plumbers and Pipefitters Union\u003c/a> opened Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in the small town of Kelseyville in 1959 as a place for union members to vacation. Over the years it became a destination, complete with a 5,000-seat amphitheater that hosted bands like the Scorpions and Kiss. People would come to see live music, jet ski and stay at the 300-room resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a series of \u003ca href=\"https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/mazzola-is-slippery/Content?oid=2162968\">lawsuits\u003c/a> and financial troubles forced the union to close the resort in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years it sat empty, quietly sliding into disrepair. A number of sales were rumored, but ultimately fell through. Then, when disaster struck in 2015, the union stepped in and offered the resort to FEMA and county officials as a place to house fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson pays about $1,000 a month to stay in what’s essentially a one-bedroom apartment. It’s not without its quirks. Out the sliding glass door she’s got a beautiful view of the lake, and a hot tub that doesn’t work, all framed by rotting green trim. She has gone days without power, running water and heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she says, she's just grateful to have somewhere to be, and that the skeleton crew who managed the place treated her and other survivors like guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds mushy, but every county should be so lucky as to have an old defunct resort that could step in like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-e1524270544365.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she first moved in, Levenson says about 100 other people stayed there. As each new season brought a new disaster, it also brought her new neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after the flood is when we got the most children,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past fire season was no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9, 2017, Bart woke up because she thought the sun was rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like Mount Vesuvius had erupted,” she says. “The entire horizon was like more lava oozing down the hill toward the water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sulphur Fire sparked the same night as deadly wildfires ravaged eight counties, including Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino. It created another wave of refugees. Now a total of 18 families displaced by three years of disaster still live here at the resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who died here,” she says. “There have been people who've gotten born here. It's a whole little village. It really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resort-turned-refugee village still features signage from 2009, Olympic-sized swimming pools containing a few inches of brackish water, and a thatchless tiki bar overlooking the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where some see decay, others see opportunity. In March, Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa was bought by new owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8612-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Season?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our vision for the resort is to really make it a full-service quality resort that's good for people and families, that really emphasizes the waterfront,” says Russ Hamel, managing director of the new Konocti Harbor Resort project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says the Bay Area group he represents sees big potential profits in the sprawling property. And if it’s revitalized, Konocti could also bring jobs and opportunity to a local economy that has struggled for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is still a daunting amount of work to be done, and Hamel and his crew are just getting started on a renovation they estimate could take anywhere from two to five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally inherited a city,” Hamel says. “We have our own water treatment plant, we have our own sewage treatment plant, many buildings that have to be maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the new staff learn where the light switches are, they are also reaching out to the current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first things that we did when I got here was I started interviewing everybody,” Hamel says. “I put a note on everybody's door that said we're not the evil empire with the new owners. We're not going to evict anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says he will continue to rent to survivors who need somewhere to stay until they can find a more permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8960-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for its longest resident, Bart Levenson says she is finally checking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson says she had no idea it would take this long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally aired on \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KALW’s\u003c/a> program \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/programs/crosscurrents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crosscurrents\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pamela Voyles got the knock on her door to leave, she already had a bag ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela ticks off the supplies she had packed: “I had copies of certain pictures in my bag. I had emergency water, energy bars. I was more prepared than most people because I had been through fire before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Pamela at an evacuation shelter at the Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa. She’s in her late 50s, with a slight limp and dark purple hair. She’s been staying there with her service dog, Blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Things Were Getting Better\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2015, Pamela was living on Cobb Mountain in Lake County. Things were looking up for her. After a few run-ins with the law, she left an abusive relationship and got sober. She went through a rehabilitation program and cleared her record. She was managing some of her health issues; lung disease and chronic pain from an incident in 2000 in which she says someone attacked and robbed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in pain ever since,” Pamela tells me. “I had to teach myself how to walk all over. They wanted to put me in a wheelchair. And I was like, ‘nuh-uh, I’m not going.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I don’t know exactly what they’re going through, but I know what I went through. So I help wherever I can help.” \u003ccite>Pamela Voyles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pamela was just starting to get back on her feet. But then, one September afternoon, \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/Valley/J_Damage%20Assessment%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fire broke out\u003c/a> nearby. She had 20 minutes to gather her things and leave. By the time the Valley Fire was contained, almost 2,000 buildings were gone, including her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no place to go back to,” she explains. “There just wasn’t anything that I could afford up there at the time, or housing. There wasn’t enough housing for people. And so that’s why I came down to Santa Rosa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homeless in Santa Rosa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pamela spent most of two years in and out of Santa Rosa homeless shelters. She’s now bracing herself for the psychological aftermath of having to flee from flames yet again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just brought all those feelings and those flashbacks of the Valley Fire,” she says sadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela also knows how hard it is to find housing after a fire, especially without a job — she’s on disability. Shelter workers helped her save money and rent an apartment in Santa Rosa. She says she must have put in 30 applications to different places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long wait, she got a federal Section 8 voucher and found a one-bedroom apartment. She’s so grateful for all the support that she now volunteers with shelters, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelivingroomsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Living Room\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/redwoodgospelmission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rose\u003c/a>. Her favorite place to help out is \u003ca href=\"http://www.homelesswithpets.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeless With Pets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela moved into her new place about seven months ago. It was an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to get used to being back in your home again,” she tells me. “It’s like, oh, I can walk around the corner and go to the bathroom. I don’t have to drive to a certain building and go. Or, I can take a shower whenever I want to. I can change my clothes whenever I want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Waiting for News\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When I talk to Pamela at the shelter, she’s waiting for news about her home. It’s just across the highway from the Fountaingrove neighborhood where the fire consumed hundreds of buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, she calls me and tells me that she’s allowed to visit her place during the day as long as she’s out by the sunset curfew. So, the next morning we head over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Visiting Pamela’s Home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pamela’s apartment complex is in good shape. Her place is cozy, and filled with knickknacks. There are boxes piled in corners — she says she hadn’t had time to fully unpack yet. We walk around, inspecting her bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has water, but still no electricity. Pamela shows me her jewelry table, which takes up most of one wall of her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do a lot of crafts,” she says, gesturing to the table. “I make owls out of pinecones. Before the Valley Fire I had picked up a lot of the pinecones before all the trees burnt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fire Victims Face Tough Times Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two years after the Valley Fire, Lake County is still trying to rebuild. There was an estimated $1.5 billion in losses. Like Pamela, people left the area for better housing, though \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6041674-181/a-year-later-valley-fires?gallery=6044366&artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it’s not clear exactly how many\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Santa Rosa will likely face the same problems. The fire destroyed \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/infernos-could-worsen-bay-areas-already-brutal-housing-market/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 percent of the city’s housing stock\u003c/a> in the midst of a regional housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thousands of people will be looking for a new place to call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know exactly what they’re going through, but I know what I went through,” Pamela says. “So, I help wherever I can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is back in her apartment now. She’s still waiting for the gas to be hooked up again. She’s grateful that her place and all her things are still here. And she empathizes with those who lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for them,” Pamela says, hand to her chest. “When I first went through the fire, it was confusing, devastating, mentally, emotionally and physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is one of the lucky ones — this time. But for anybody who struggles to pay the rent, anybody who’s more vulnerable because they don’t have family support or have lost their job, and for the \u003ca href=\"https://sonoma-county-continuum-of-care.wikispaces.com/file/view/ExecutiveSummary_Sonoma.pdf/615371337/ExecutiveSummary_Sonoma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost 3,000 homeless living in Sonoma County\u003c/a>, life will likely be harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These fires have long-lasting ramifications for the people who had homes — but also for the ones who didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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By the time the Valley Fire was contained, almost 2,000 buildings were gone, including her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no place to go back to,” she explains. “There just wasn’t anything that I could afford up there at the time, or housing. There wasn’t enough housing for people. And so that’s why I came down to Santa Rosa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homeless in Santa Rosa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pamela spent most of two years in and out of Santa Rosa homeless shelters. She’s now bracing herself for the psychological aftermath of having to flee from flames yet again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just brought all those feelings and those flashbacks of the Valley Fire,” she says sadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela also knows how hard it is to find housing after a fire, especially without a job — she’s on disability. Shelter workers helped her save money and rent an apartment in Santa Rosa. She says she must have put in 30 applications to different places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long wait, she got a federal Section 8 voucher and found a one-bedroom apartment. She’s so grateful for all the support that she now volunteers with shelters, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelivingroomsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Living Room\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/redwoodgospelmission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rose\u003c/a>. Her favorite place to help out is \u003ca href=\"http://www.homelesswithpets.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeless With Pets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela moved into her new place about seven months ago. It was an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to get used to being back in your home again,” she tells me. “It’s like, oh, I can walk around the corner and go to the bathroom. I don’t have to drive to a certain building and go. Or, I can take a shower whenever I want to. 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Pamela shows me her jewelry table, which takes up most of one wall of her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do a lot of crafts,” she says, gesturing to the table. “I make owls out of pinecones. Before the Valley Fire I had picked up a lot of the pinecones before all the trees burnt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fire Victims Face Tough Times Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two years after the Valley Fire, Lake County is still trying to rebuild. There was an estimated $1.5 billion in losses. Like Pamela, people left the area for better housing, though \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6041674-181/a-year-later-valley-fires?gallery=6044366&artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it’s not clear exactly how many\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Santa Rosa will likely face the same problems. The fire destroyed \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/infernos-could-worsen-bay-areas-already-brutal-housing-market/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 percent of the city’s housing stock\u003c/a> in the midst of a regional housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thousands of people will be looking for a new place to call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know exactly what they’re going through, but I know what I went through,” Pamela says. “So, I help wherever I can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is back in her apartment now. She’s still waiting for the gas to be hooked up again. She’s grateful that her place and all her things are still here. And she empathizes with those who lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for them,” Pamela says, hand to her chest. “When I first went through the fire, it was confusing, devastating, mentally, emotionally and physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is one of the lucky ones — this time. 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"content": "\u003cp>Puffs of red Lake County dust coat my feet as I walk to the edge of a wide vista. If I unfocus my eyes and look straight out over the valley toward the distant town of Calistoga, I can almost imagine the view as it used to be -- a deep-green bowl of pine forest. Almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing my eyes again, the hillsides black with dead trees stand out in sharp relief. To my left, weeds hide what remains of a burned home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"0Hr43RzO67wEZvrK6keKQHP47UPY3Z8o\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where I grew up, and where the destructive \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/the-valley-fire-what-it-burned-and-what-it-left-behind/\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> did some of its worst damage. The fire started on Sept. 12, 2015, burned for weeks, decimated 70,000 acres and 1,280, homes and killed four people. Two years after the fire, the signs of devastation are still conspicuous, but so are the signs of recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have birds now,\" my friend Deb Helleren tells me. \"This is great. After the fire ... that was the worst thing for me. There was no birds for months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deb shows me, along the edge of the property, where blackened tree stumps sprout 20-foot shoots of new growth. And to my right sits a cement foundation -- the beginnings of her new house.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We lost literally everything'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the Valley Fire first hit the small mountain community in Cobb Mountain, Deb and her partner, Mel McMurrin, weren't that worried. There are fires all the time up here, and they usually don't amount to much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't ever believe it's going to happen,\" Deb tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on September 13, 2015 in Middletown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on Sept. 13, 2015 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they did grab their cat and their computers before jumping in the car and driving away from their home. Within hours it was ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we literally lost everything,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, Deb and Mel have felt as if they've been caught in quicksand, moving six times in two years and trying to keep a job, on top of dealing with the nearly endless task of cataloging their former life for their insurance adjuster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The process is overwhelming,\" Deb says. \"You have to remember everything in your house. How many rolls of toilet paper? How many notepads? How many? It’s like really? You’re kidding me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mel says what's hard is not just the drudgery of having to remember everything, \"but the dredging up the loss you're just constantly going through. I don't have that, I don't have that. Forgot about that. Oh wait. And then you go down a whole nother [sic] vein of loss because you can't think of everything you've lost all at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they didn’t just lose clothing, books, photographs, precious objects and a roof over their heads. They lost time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes so much time to redo everything,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10702549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of people up here, Deb and Mel made the decision to stay here just in the past few months. After a federal disaster like this, insurance companies usually give you about two years to sort out your claim. Now, as that two-year window comes to a close, many people are finally getting started on a rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But builders are facing a new crisis. All these new homes going up at the same time means a big increase in demand for building permits. At the same time, three of the county's building inspectors just quit, leaving many contractors stuck waiting weeks to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're short-staffed,\" Lake County Supervisor Rob Brown says. \"We don't have staff on a good day, let alone with all the building that's going on for the rebuild and just normal stuff that’s going on in the county.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown has come up with a solution to the inspection crisis that \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pretty well describes \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the kind of people who live here: If you want something done right, do it yourself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I've just completed 12 inspections,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right, Brown is doing it himself. He jumped in to help the building \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">department catch up with the backlog. He says the wait time for an inspection has now dropped from weeks to days.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their nw home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-960x586.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-375x229.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-520x317.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their new home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even with the uptick in building, 75 to 80 percent of the homes that were destroyed aren't being rebuilt at all yet. And Brown says he has no idea how many ever will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Valley Fire's 1,280 homes would be the same as nearly 500,000 homes being lost in Los Angeles County,\" he says. \"That's the perspective that I can offer, so you can imagine losing half a million homes in Los Angeles would take decades to recover. And so that's where we're at. It's going to take a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Living With Fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The landscape will take time to recover, and so will the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, you can feel how warm it is,\" Brown says, lifting his head as the 110-degree heat beats down on us. \"In the afternoon when that wind picks up, I guarantee you there's not a person on that hill that won’t stop and notice that wind and notice the heat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A perfect storm of record temperatures, drought and high winds made the Valley Fire intensely destructive, but fire has always been a fact of life up here. Already this summer, there have been a half-dozen small fires in Lake County. One was just a half-mile up the road from Deb and Mel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/IMG_1207-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I lost it,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know we got the cat carrier out, we got our suitcases out,\" Mel adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters put that fire out before it became a threat, but I had to ask Deb and Mel why they chose to stay here, living with fire. They told me there were many practical reasons, such as limited finances, but even more important emotional ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels like home,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other thing is, when you come close to a disaster like that, you know your mortality is really, really clear,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In fact, you realize there's always a fire chasing you. And so you're going to have everything taken. So it really kind of focuses you not only where you want to live where you are going to die. Where, where, where do I want to be?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Deb and Mel that place is here in the mountains, with their loved ones and their community that is slowly coming back.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deb shows me, along the edge of the property, where blackened tree stumps sprout 20-foot shoots of new growth. And to my right sits a cement foundation -- the beginnings of her new house.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We lost literally everything'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the Valley Fire first hit the small mountain community in Cobb Mountain, Deb and her partner, Mel McMurrin, weren't that worried. There are fires all the time up here, and they usually don't amount to much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't ever believe it's going to happen,\" Deb tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on September 13, 2015 in Middletown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on Sept. 13, 2015 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they did grab their cat and their computers before jumping in the car and driving away from their home. Within hours it was ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we literally lost everything,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, Deb and Mel have felt as if they've been caught in quicksand, moving six times in two years and trying to keep a job, on top of dealing with the nearly endless task of cataloging their former life for their insurance adjuster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The process is overwhelming,\" Deb says. \"You have to remember everything in your house. How many rolls of toilet paper? How many notepads? How many? It’s like really? You’re kidding me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mel says what's hard is not just the drudgery of having to remember everything, \"but the dredging up the loss you're just constantly going through. I don't have that, I don't have that. Forgot about that. Oh wait. And then you go down a whole nother [sic] vein of loss because you can't think of everything you've lost all at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they didn’t just lose clothing, books, photographs, precious objects and a roof over their heads. They lost time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes so much time to redo everything,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10702549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of people up here, Deb and Mel made the decision to stay here just in the past few months. After a federal disaster like this, insurance companies usually give you about two years to sort out your claim. Now, as that two-year window comes to a close, many people are finally getting started on a rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But builders are facing a new crisis. All these new homes going up at the same time means a big increase in demand for building permits. At the same time, three of the county's building inspectors just quit, leaving many contractors stuck waiting weeks to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're short-staffed,\" Lake County Supervisor Rob Brown says. \"We don't have staff on a good day, let alone with all the building that's going on for the rebuild and just normal stuff that’s going on in the county.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown has come up with a solution to the inspection crisis that \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pretty well describes \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the kind of people who live here: If you want something done right, do it yourself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I've just completed 12 inspections,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right, Brown is doing it himself. He jumped in to help the building \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">department catch up with the backlog. He says the wait time for an inspection has now dropped from weeks to days.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their nw home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-960x586.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-375x229.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-520x317.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their new home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even with the uptick in building, 75 to 80 percent of the homes that were destroyed aren't being rebuilt at all yet. And Brown says he has no idea how many ever will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Valley Fire's 1,280 homes would be the same as nearly 500,000 homes being lost in Los Angeles County,\" he says. \"That's the perspective that I can offer, so you can imagine losing half a million homes in Los Angeles would take decades to recover. And so that's where we're at. It's going to take a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Living With Fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The landscape will take time to recover, and so will the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, you can feel how warm it is,\" Brown says, lifting his head as the 110-degree heat beats down on us. \"In the afternoon when that wind picks up, I guarantee you there's not a person on that hill that won’t stop and notice that wind and notice the heat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A perfect storm of record temperatures, drought and high winds made the Valley Fire intensely destructive, but fire has always been a fact of life up here. Already this summer, there have been a half-dozen small fires in Lake County. One was just a half-mile up the road from Deb and Mel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/IMG_1207-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I lost it,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know we got the cat carrier out, we got our suitcases out,\" Mel adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters put that fire out before it became a threat, but I had to ask Deb and Mel why they chose to stay here, living with fire. They told me there were many practical reasons, such as limited finances, but even more important emotional ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels like home,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other thing is, when you come close to a disaster like that, you know your mortality is really, really clear,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In fact, you realize there's always a fire chasing you. And so you're going to have everything taken. So it really kind of focuses you not only where you want to live where you are going to die. Where, where, where do I want to be?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just last year a massive wildfire was ripping through my \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/the-valley-fire-what-it-burned-and-what-it-left-behind/\">hometown\u003c/a> in Lake County, a small rural county in the mountains above Napa Valley. The Valley Fire ended up being the third most \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">destructive\u003c/a> fire in California history, burning 76,067 acres and razing 1,955 structures to the ground. Four people were killed and four firefighters were seriously injured in the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"columns\" columns=\"2\" size=\"full\" ids=\"11089308,11089373\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, I made the road trip back up to Cobb Mountain — a small township hit hard by the fire — to see how residents were recovering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283269036″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s gotten easier … sorry to say, but you cope with it,” local resident Dean Nicolaides said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11089388 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides runs the small corner store in Loch Lomond. He lost his home in the Valley Fire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides runs the small corner store in Loch Lomond. He lost his home in the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire experts I spoke to said the Valley Fire was unprecedented. Drought, extreme temperatures, high winds and hillsides of densely packed fuel all made it uniquely devastating. But then just last month \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1390\">another fire\u003c/a> hit the small town of Lower Lake a few miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was as if a monster was reappearing, literally, and nobody knew what to do about it,” Nicolaides said. “Like is this the way life is now? There’s always a terror over your shoulder like something else is going to burn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11089442 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August 2016. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to officials, an arsonist who’s now in custody set the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>, which destroyed almost 200 homes. Residents were somewhat relieved by this, Nicolaides said, but the fear of fire is still pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that have suitcases by the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I drove through Cobb Mountain’s neighborhood, I saw evidence of the Valley Fire and its aftermath everywhere. Trucks drove past me hauling out dead trees, and contractor advertisements dotted the roadside. And while I saw a few houses going up, many of the lots I passed remained empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"columns\" size=\"full\" ids=\"11089438,11089385\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Karl Parker says he and his wife, Linda Liang, are planning to rebuild, but they told me it’s a long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to remove over 80 tall trees,” Parker explained. And removing those trees was just one of a million details they’ve had to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to constantly deal and communicate with insurance,” Liang said. “And then there are the permits, and then there are the town meetings, and then there’s the water company, and the PG&E company, and the manufactured home, and replacement of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11089444 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of work to lose a house,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work has stalled rebuilding efforts for many residents. County supervisor and Valley Fire recovery coordinator Rob Brown said only about 20 homes have been completed in the past year. That’s out of 1,281 homes that burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"full\" type=\"columns\" ids=\"11089439,11089389\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup so far has cost over $1 billion, according to Brown. And this is in a county of just over \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/06033\">60,000 residents\u003c/a> that was already among the\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/01/10/247-wall-st-poorest-county-each-state/21388095/\"> poorest\u003c/a> in the state. Now the fire has gutted revenue from property taxes, and the recovery is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where government agencies and even nonprofits have fallen short, another kind of safety net has sprung from the ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stopped in at what’s always been called the Little Red Schoolhouse, where I once performed in a talent show as a kid. Now out back are three shipping containers and a small community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past year, retired schoolteacher Dave Geck, along with six other retirees, has been running this makeshift donation and distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t say ‘go do it, you have to do it,’ ” Geck said. “You just have to feel it in your heart that it’s the thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geck and his team took Facebook requests from local residents and did their best to connect them with the things they needed, like tools, shoes, winter clothes and even housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had somebody who was living in a tent,” Geck said. “And I said, ‘Can we help this person?’ Somebody that weekend donated a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started off my trip with a question: How’s my hometown recovering? And by the end I realized there are so many answers to that question. Four people died. Seven million trees were killed. It’s never going to be the same. But unlike last year, there is a sense of possibility. As my friend Dean Nicolaides said to me, “What was once forest will become a meadow.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was as if a monster was reappearing, literally, and nobody knew what to do about it,” Nicolaides said. “Like is this the way life is now? There’s always a terror over your shoulder like something else is going to burn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11089442 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August 2016. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to officials, an arsonist who’s now in custody set the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>, which destroyed almost 200 homes. Residents were somewhat relieved by this, Nicolaides said, but the fear of fire is still pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that have suitcases by the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I drove through Cobb Mountain’s neighborhood, I saw evidence of the Valley Fire and its aftermath everywhere. Trucks drove past me hauling out dead trees, and contractor advertisements dotted the roadside. And while I saw a few houses going up, many of the lots I passed remained empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Karl Parker says he and his wife, Linda Liang, are planning to rebuild, but they told me it’s a long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to remove over 80 tall trees,” Parker explained. And removing those trees was just one of a million details they’ve had to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to constantly deal and communicate with insurance,” Liang said. “And then there are the permits, and then there are the town meetings, and then there’s the water company, and the PG&E company, and the manufactured home, and replacement of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11089444 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of work to lose a house,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work has stalled rebuilding efforts for many residents. County supervisor and Valley Fire recovery coordinator Rob Brown said only about 20 homes have been completed in the past year. That’s out of 1,281 homes that burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup so far has cost over $1 billion, according to Brown. And this is in a county of just over \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/06033\">60,000 residents\u003c/a> that was already among the\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/01/10/247-wall-st-poorest-county-each-state/21388095/\"> poorest\u003c/a> in the state. Now the fire has gutted revenue from property taxes, and the recovery is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where government agencies and even nonprofits have fallen short, another kind of safety net has sprung from the ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stopped in at what’s always been called the Little Red Schoolhouse, where I once performed in a talent show as a kid. Now out back are three shipping containers and a small community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past year, retired schoolteacher Dave Geck, along with six other retirees, has been running this makeshift donation and distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t say ‘go do it, you have to do it,’ ” Geck said. “You just have to feel it in your heart that it’s the thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geck and his team took Facebook requests from local residents and did their best to connect them with the things they needed, like tools, shoes, winter clothes and even housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had somebody who was living in a tent,” Geck said. “And I said, ‘Can we help this person?’ Somebody that weekend donated a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started off my trip with a question: How’s my hometown recovering? And by the end I realized there are so many answers to that question. Four people died. Seven million trees were killed. It’s never going to be the same. But unlike last year, there is a sense of possibility. As my friend Dean Nicolaides said to me, “What was once forest will become a meadow.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>LOWER LAKE, Lake County -- We hear a lot about “resilience” these days -- in the face of climate change, social injustice and, of course, it’s the common currency of official post-disaster sound bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a resilient community,\" declared Mark Ghilarducci, the head of California’s Office of Emergency Services, last week, after he'd surveyed the streets of Lower Lake, a tiny town in Lake County savaged by the recent \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>. \"And collectively, we’re gonna work together to make it as good as it ever was in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resiliency bite seems like low-hanging fruit for an official surrounded by reporters — until you actually meet some of the people who embody this resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280100933\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met the Skidmore family, fire crews were still hosing down hot spots on what remained of their property on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Lower Lake!” was the first thing Michael Skidmore said to me. \"You’re about a week late. It was much nicer last week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His sense of humor wasn’t the only thing intact. Surrounded by gray ruins after the Clayton Fire \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">swept through his town\u003c/a> of about 1,300 people, his 4 Starr Auto Repair shop somehow remained standing with what looked like minor damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But up in back, the family home was simply gone, with little left among the ashes to even indicate \"home:\" the remains of a water heater, some metal chair frames and the skeleton of a pickup truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg\" alt=\"All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also gone: eight cabins they rented out to other Lower Lake residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We worked really hard for five years to restore those cabins,\" reflected Michael’s wife, Starr. \"They were white with blue trim to match the shop and white picket fences around each one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve been here for about 100 years,\" added Michael. \"But dry cedar, boy howdy. I was running out the front door and these were popping into flames. It was scary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door, both the home and business were a total loss. Formerly the local VW shop, the property was littered with the charred husks of cars, many trailing solidified silver puddles of melted aluminum wheels and engine blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg\" alt='The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours earlier, I had seen some firefighters sifting through the ashes next door. Joe Morrison and his Sonoma County team were among those who tried to save this block of Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This happened super-fast,\" said Morrison. \"We did our best to make a stand here and then, the heat was so intense, so fast -- we had to cut and run.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking around, Michael estimated that perhaps 70 percent of Lower Lake's commercial core was lost. Two doors down, even the local Habitat for Humanity office was gutted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody was trying to assure us that, no, it would not get down into Lower Lake,\" recalled the Skidmores' granddaughter, Grace, who lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were gonna take control of it and the next thing you know, there’s a tree in the back that burst into flame, dropped on the ground and the fire was coming down the hill at us and we were running out of there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060949\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg\" alt=\"Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, they were back, with the ruins still smoking, and Grace was looking for her three cats with a 15-year-old's optimism that no one wanted to dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not gonna cry,\" said Michael, tapping a seemingly bottomless reservoir of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" he insisted. \"Gotta move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn't mean that literally. For this family, “moving on” means staying put. It wasn’t even up for discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve got my job and I’m gonna keep working,\" Michael vowed, \"but ... where’s my customer base, you know? They’re ashes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">Scenes From Lake County After the Clayton Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FireAside.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And then, doubling down on his resolve: \"I gotta rebuild, and the funds gotta come from somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be challenging; the Skidmores say the insurance on the home and cabins might have lapsed. The shop survived, but it’s all they’ve got now. Michael said the shorts and brown tank top he had on were all that remained of his wardrobe. To even ask people like this where they get their pluck is to trivialize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey, it’s gonna take a lot of polishing to get that silver lining out of this — but it’s in there somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He found a thread: the nearby Wal-Mart was about to reopen, which meant he could buy some new clothes. It’s not hard to see where Grace, who has been raised by her grandparents since the age of 3, gets her buoyancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just gonna bring Lower Lake closer together,\" she insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, we were already pretty close from the Rocky Fire and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-what-happened-fire-20150920-story.html\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> [last year], but this is just another step to closeness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of a week after the fire, no cats had turned up. The three were still looking for long-term housing. But Grace was already readying her audition for the school play. And Starr, who appears on the brink of tears much of the time, said, “God’s got this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/16/clayton-fire-how-to-help/\">How to help\u003c/a> victims of the Clayton Fire in Lake County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"description": "When wildfire takes nearly everything that you have -- as the Clayton Fire recently did to the Skidmore family -- that's when you find out what resilience really means.",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>LOWER LAKE, Lake County -- We hear a lot about “resilience” these days -- in the face of climate change, social injustice and, of course, it’s the common currency of official post-disaster sound bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a resilient community,\" declared Mark Ghilarducci, the head of California’s Office of Emergency Services, last week, after he'd surveyed the streets of Lower Lake, a tiny town in Lake County savaged by the recent \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>. \"And collectively, we’re gonna work together to make it as good as it ever was in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resiliency bite seems like low-hanging fruit for an official surrounded by reporters — until you actually meet some of the people who embody this resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280100933&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280100933'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met the Skidmore family, fire crews were still hosing down hot spots on what remained of their property on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Lower Lake!” was the first thing Michael Skidmore said to me. \"You’re about a week late. It was much nicer last week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His sense of humor wasn’t the only thing intact. Surrounded by gray ruins after the Clayton Fire \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">swept through his town\u003c/a> of about 1,300 people, his 4 Starr Auto Repair shop somehow remained standing with what looked like minor damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But up in back, the family home was simply gone, with little left among the ashes to even indicate \"home:\" the remains of a water heater, some metal chair frames and the skeleton of a pickup truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg\" alt=\"All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also gone: eight cabins they rented out to other Lower Lake residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We worked really hard for five years to restore those cabins,\" reflected Michael’s wife, Starr. \"They were white with blue trim to match the shop and white picket fences around each one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve been here for about 100 years,\" added Michael. \"But dry cedar, boy howdy. I was running out the front door and these were popping into flames. It was scary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door, both the home and business were a total loss. Formerly the local VW shop, the property was littered with the charred husks of cars, many trailing solidified silver puddles of melted aluminum wheels and engine blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg\" alt='The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours earlier, I had seen some firefighters sifting through the ashes next door. Joe Morrison and his Sonoma County team were among those who tried to save this block of Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This happened super-fast,\" said Morrison. \"We did our best to make a stand here and then, the heat was so intense, so fast -- we had to cut and run.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking around, Michael estimated that perhaps 70 percent of Lower Lake's commercial core was lost. Two doors down, even the local Habitat for Humanity office was gutted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody was trying to assure us that, no, it would not get down into Lower Lake,\" recalled the Skidmores' granddaughter, Grace, who lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were gonna take control of it and the next thing you know, there’s a tree in the back that burst into flame, dropped on the ground and the fire was coming down the hill at us and we were running out of there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060949\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg\" alt=\"Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, they were back, with the ruins still smoking, and Grace was looking for her three cats with a 15-year-old's optimism that no one wanted to dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not gonna cry,\" said Michael, tapping a seemingly bottomless reservoir of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" he insisted. \"Gotta move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn't mean that literally. For this family, “moving on” means staying put. It wasn’t even up for discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve got my job and I’m gonna keep working,\" Michael vowed, \"but ... where’s my customer base, you know? They’re ashes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">Scenes From Lake County After the Clayton Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FireAside.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And then, doubling down on his resolve: \"I gotta rebuild, and the funds gotta come from somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be challenging; the Skidmores say the insurance on the home and cabins might have lapsed. The shop survived, but it’s all they’ve got now. Michael said the shorts and brown tank top he had on were all that remained of his wardrobe. To even ask people like this where they get their pluck is to trivialize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey, it’s gonna take a lot of polishing to get that silver lining out of this — but it’s in there somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He found a thread: the nearby Wal-Mart was about to reopen, which meant he could buy some new clothes. It’s not hard to see where Grace, who has been raised by her grandparents since the age of 3, gets her buoyancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just gonna bring Lower Lake closer together,\" she insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, we were already pretty close from the Rocky Fire and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-what-happened-fire-20150920-story.html\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> [last year], but this is just another step to closeness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of a week after the fire, no cats had turned up. The three were still looking for long-term housing. But Grace was already readying her audition for the school play. And Starr, who appears on the brink of tears much of the time, said, “God’s got this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/16/clayton-fire-how-to-help/\">How to help\u003c/a> victims of the Clayton Fire in Lake County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1390\" target=\"_blank\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned through nearly 4,000 acres, destroyed more that 175 structures and still threatens 380 buildings in Lake County, is now 40 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,300 fire personnel continue to battle the blaze that law enforcement officials believe was started by 40-year-old Clearlake resident Damin Pashilk. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/15/clayton-fire-lower-lake-arson-arrest/\" target=\"_blank\">He was arrested Monday on 17 counts of arson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town of Lower Lake, about two hours north of San Francisco was hit particularly hard. The small community of about 1,300 — roughly 15 miles north of Middletown, a town badly damaged in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/13/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county/\">last year's Valley Fire\u003c/a> — saw whole blocks swept up in the blaze. See images of the aftermath below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053244\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nAlan Griffien describes how by using buckets of water and a garden hose he was able to keep both his and his neighbor’s house from being burned during the Clayton Fire that raced through his neighborhood in Lower Lake on Aug. 15, 2016. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053291\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nAlan Griffien (left) and his 4-year-old son Adin look over the debris from the house next to theirs that was destroyed by the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. With the help of buckets of water and a garden hose Griffien was able to save both his and his neighbor’s house from catching on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20753_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs03-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20753_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs03-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20753_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20753_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs03-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20753_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20753_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs03-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20753_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs03-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nSilke Knebel with the American Red Cross looks out over several burned buildings during her initial evaluation of the damage done by the Clayton Fire in Lake County. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nStarr Skidmore (right) and her husband Michael Skidmore (left) stand in front of their automotive repair shop that was left standing after the Clayton Fire. Their home behind the shop, however, was destroyed in the fire. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053293\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nThree burned cars sit in a lot just off Main Street in Lower Lake, Lake County on Aug. 16, 2016. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nA melted swing hangs from a tree next to one of the burned homes on Lake Street in Lower Lake after being damaged by the Clayton Fire. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nFire crews spray water over the remains of burned homes in Lower Lake on Aug. 16, 2016. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nA sign at the entrance of Main Street in Lower Lake is splattered with red fire retardant from fire crews working to combat the Clayton Fire. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut(1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nA dead goat is seen in a wheelbarrow off Winchester Street after the Clayton Fire burned through Lower Lake, California, on August 16, 2016. A man was arrested and charged with arson Monday for starting a massive wildfire in northern California that has destroyed 175 buildings and forced thousands to flee to safety. (Gabrielle Lurie/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde and Getty Images contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1390\" target=\"_blank\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned through nearly 4,000 acres, destroyed more that 175 structures and still threatens 380 buildings in Lake County, is now 40 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,300 fire personnel continue to battle the blaze that law enforcement officials believe was started by 40-year-old Clearlake resident Damin Pashilk. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/15/clayton-fire-lower-lake-arson-arrest/\" target=\"_blank\">He was arrested Monday on 17 counts of arson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town of Lower Lake, about two hours north of San Francisco was hit particularly hard. The small community of about 1,300 — roughly 15 miles north of Middletown, a town badly damaged in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/13/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county/\">last year's Valley Fire\u003c/a> — saw whole blocks swept up in the blaze. See images of the aftermath below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053244\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20744_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs06-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nAlan Griffien describes how by using buckets of water and a garden hose he was able to keep both his and his neighbor’s house from being burned during the Clayton Fire that raced through his neighborhood in Lower Lake on Aug. 15, 2016. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053291\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20743_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs05-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nAlan Griffien (left) and his 4-year-old son Adin look over the debris from the house next to theirs that was destroyed by the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. With the help of buckets of water and a garden hose Griffien was able to save both his and his neighbor’s house from catching on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20767_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs24-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nStarr Skidmore (right) and her husband Michael Skidmore (left) stand in front of their automotive repair shop that was left standing after the Clayton Fire. Their home behind the shop, however, was destroyed in the fire. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053293\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20756_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs15-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nThree burned cars sit in a lot just off Main Street in Lower Lake, Lake County on Aug. 16, 2016. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20750_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs12-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nA melted swing hangs from a tree next to one of the burned homes on Lake Street in Lower Lake after being damaged by the Clayton Fire. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20775_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs32-qut-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nFire crews spray water over the remains of burned homes in Lower Lake on Aug. 16, 2016. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20766_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs23-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nA sign at the entrance of Main Street in Lower Lake is splattered with red fire retardant from fire crews working to combat the Clayton Fire. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11053333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut(1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20759_GettyImages-590189466-qut1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nA dead goat is seen in a wheelbarrow off Winchester Street after the Clayton Fire burned through Lower Lake, California, on August 16, 2016. A man was arrested and charged with arson Monday for starting a massive wildfire in northern California that has destroyed 175 buildings and forced thousands to flee to safety. (Gabrielle Lurie/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde and Getty Images contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin announced the arrest of a Clearlake man -- Damin Pashilk, 40 -- on charges he set the Clayton Fire on Saturday evening. Details: \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/15/clayton-fire-lower-lake-arson-arrest/\" target=\"_blank\">Arson Arrest Announced in Devastating Lake County Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Update, 1:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> The Clayton Fire in Lake County has engulfed over 4,000 acres and is 5 percent contained. More than 175 structures have been destroyed and another 1,500 are threatened. Over 1,600 firefighters have been deployed to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Sukey Lewis checked in with her impressions of the badly damaged section of the town of Lower Lake. \"The air is really heavy with smoke. There's ash drifting down. There's burned out cars and burned out lots that are very reminiscent of last year's Valley Fire. The hills behind the shops are bright red with flame retardant. There are fire crews pulling through, they're assessing the damage and trying to contain the fire,\" Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AT&T spokesman Leland Kim says that some customers in Lake County may be experiencing issues with their wireline services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our network technicians are investigating the issue and will work to resolve it as soon as fire officials determine the location is safe to perform repairs,\" Kim said. \"We apologize for this inconvenience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Emergency Management Agency has also authorized the use of federal funds to assist the state to combat the Clayton Fire. The Fire Management Assistance Grant Program (FMAG) will provide federal funding for up to 75 percent of eligible firefighting costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eligible costs covered by FMAGs can include expenses for field camps, equipment use, repair and replacement, tools, materials, supplies and mobilization, and demobilization activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated, 11:30 a.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reported Monday morning that the Clayton Fire destroyed at least 175 structures in the town of Lower Lake, in Lake County 80 miles north of San Francisco. That toll is expected to rise as the damage assessment continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency still reports the blaze at 3,000 acres and 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main challenges for firefighters on Monday -- stopping the fire from spreading into the town of Clearlake, where thousands of people have been evacuated on the town's east side, and building containment lines in 100-degree temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather conditions late Sunday and early Monday, which featured gusty winds from the southwest, helped push the fire to the northeast and toward the burn scar from last year's Rocky Fire\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters have been deployed in and near Lower Lake and Clearlake. Bay Area departments that have sent units include San Francisco, Oakland, Albany, Piedmont, Fremont, Crockett, Moraga-Orinda, San Ramon Valley and Contra Costa and Alameda counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://danbrekke.carto.com/viz/4b006886-6307-11e6-9cfe-0ecd1babdde5/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> For the fourth time in little more than a year, a wildfire is raging out of control in Lake County, with a blaze destroying numerous homes in Lower Lake on Sunday along with much of the town's business district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11050923\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11050923\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-400x301.jpg\" alt=\"A Cal Fire map showing areas burned by last summer's Rocky, Jerusalem and Valley fires along with location of the Clayton Fire that started Saturday evening (click for larger image). \" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-400x301.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cal Fire map showing areas burned by last summer's Rocky, Jerusalem and Valley fires along with location of the Clayton Fire that started Saturday evening (click for larger image).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1390\" target=\"_blank\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a> started Saturday evening. The blaze intensified at midday Sunday as the temperature hit 100 and gusty winds sprang up. Soon, flames were racing to the outskirts of Lower Lake and Clearlake, forcing residents out of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire estimated at 8 p.m. Sunday the blaze has burned 3,000 acres and is only 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said during a Sunday evening news conference that the fire had devastated Lower Lake, a town of 1,300 near the southeast end of Clear Lake. Martin added there was no formal count yet of the number of structures destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle reporter Evan Sernoffsky supplied a running account Sunday afternoon of the fire's progress through the Lower Lake. Just after 4 p.m. Sunday, he reported having witnessed scores of homes destroyed along and near Riverview Drive and Quarterhorse Lane:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EvanSernoffsky/status/764961580748410880\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters' radio traffic monitored on \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildlandfire.com/\" target=\"_blank\">WildlandFire.com\u003c/a> indicated that the conflagration had reached the Main Street business district in Lower Lake, with multiple buildings reported on fire. Commanders ordered helicopter water drops to try to protect surviving structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's Sernoffsky's video of the Main Street scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EvanSernoffsky/status/764973194818101248\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radio traffic suggested that an effort to contain the fire along Cache Creek and Dam Road, on the north end of Lower Lake, had failed. The fire was reportedly continuing to expand toward the southeast corner of Clearlake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reports came after Sheriff Martin, in his role as the county's emergency services director, declared a local public emergency \"due to the disastrous conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday evening, the sheriff's office ordered areas south and east of Lower Lake to evacuate. As the blaze gathered momentum midday Sunday, mandatory evacuation orders were abruptly expanded to include all of Lower Lake and the Avenues area of Clearlake, a sprawling tract east of Highway 53.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total number of residents under evacuation orders wasn't clear, but it includes all of Lower Lake's 1,300 people and perhaps one-third of the 15,000 inhabitants of neighboring Clearlake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Sunday night's press conference, Sheriff Martin pleaded for residents to heed the orders to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There have been several occasions today where we've had to go in and rescue people who refused to evacuate and later required assistance from first responders,\" Martin said. \"I've said it before and I'll say it again -- that takes away from their primary mission, it unnecessarily puts our first responders at risk when people ignore evacuation orders, and I implore you to please comply with those evacuation orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers were opened at the Highlands Senior Center in Clearlake, the Twin Pine Casino in Middletown, Kelseyville High School and the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Lakeport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the evacuees were patients at St. Helena Hospital Clear Lake, who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sthelenahospitalclearlake/posts/1118440858250842\" target=\"_blank\">moved to a facility\u003c/a> in Lakeport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle's Sernoffsky said via Twitter he witnessed numerous homes burning in the Bonham Road and Mustang Court area on the east side of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EvanSernoffsky/status/764957577000030208\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who readily complied with evacuation orders was Susan Smith, a resident of Mustang Court. Interviewed at the Highlands Senior Center, she said she left her home Saturday evening shortly after the fire started just to be safe. After a night at a motel, she was heading back home when mandatory evacuation orders were issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had two big worries on Sunday. First, the whereabouts of her disabled 35-year-old son, whom she said has medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had him sent to St. Helena Hospital,\" she said. But then the facility was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now I'm really worried about where my son is,\" Smith said. \"I have no way to contact the hospital, because I'm sure they're very busy. It's going to take a while to track him down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith's other concern: the fate of her home and her neighborhood of 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people here I know,\" she said of the crowd at the evacuation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You lose your home, it's devastating, you lose something of yourself,\" Smith said, crying. \"It's your roots. And right now my roots are not there. I feel displaced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,000 firefighters were on the scene Sunday evening, with units rushing to the scene from all over Northern California. Among the Bay Area departments responding to calls for help were the San Francisco Fire Department, which dispatched five engines and a strike team, and the Contra Costa County Fire Department, which sent two engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearlake and Lower Lake adjoin each other at the southeast end of Clear Lake and were threatened in August 2015 by the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/01/pictures-of-rocky-fire-lake-county/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires. Those two blazes burned scores of homes but were largely overshadowed by September's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/13/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Fire\u003c/a>, which destroyed 1,200 homes in Middletown and nearby communities further south in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sernoffsky and Chron colleague Vivian Ho \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lake-County-wildfire-grows-to-1-400-acres-four-9141748.php\" target=\"_blank\">talked to residents\u003c/a> in the outskirts of Lower Lake as the fire approached early Sunday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rick Davis, 40, stood on a rooftop in the Morgan Valley area with his garden hose as flames surrounded him on three sides and huge walls of smoke wafted up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “I’m just trying to keep the roof wet so if an ember hits, it won’t all go up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis had gone to lunch in Lower Lake when the fire was calm and the threat of his home burning was low. When he heard the flames had started up again, he rushed home to try to do what he could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just scared,” he said. “The wind can just change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short distance east of Davis’ home, Garrett Reed, 43, watched the flames grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I see embers and ash rain down, I will turn the sprinklers on the roof and get out,” he said. “But this is my grandfather’s house and I’m not going to lose it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clayton Fire is eating up the dry brush and trees left behind by major fires that recently tore through Lake County. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Among those who readily complied with evacuation orders was Susan Smith, a resident of Mustang Court. Interviewed at the Highlands Senior Center, she said she left her home Saturday evening shortly after the fire started just to be safe. After a night at a motel, she was heading back home when mandatory evacuation orders were issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had two big worries on Sunday. First, the whereabouts of her disabled 35-year-old son, whom she said has medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had him sent to St. Helena Hospital,\" she said. But then the facility was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now I'm really worried about where my son is,\" Smith said. \"I have no way to contact the hospital, because I'm sure they're very busy. It's going to take a while to track him down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith's other concern: the fate of her home and her neighborhood of 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people here I know,\" she said of the crowd at the evacuation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You lose your home, it's devastating, you lose something of yourself,\" Smith said, crying. \"It's your roots. And right now my roots are not there. I feel displaced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,000 firefighters were on the scene Sunday evening, with units rushing to the scene from all over Northern California. Among the Bay Area departments responding to calls for help were the San Francisco Fire Department, which dispatched five engines and a strike team, and the Contra Costa County Fire Department, which sent two engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearlake and Lower Lake adjoin each other at the southeast end of Clear Lake and were threatened in August 2015 by the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/01/pictures-of-rocky-fire-lake-county/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires. Those two blazes burned scores of homes but were largely overshadowed by September's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/13/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Fire\u003c/a>, which destroyed 1,200 homes in Middletown and nearby communities further south in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sernoffsky and Chron colleague Vivian Ho \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lake-County-wildfire-grows-to-1-400-acres-four-9141748.php\" target=\"_blank\">talked to residents\u003c/a> in the outskirts of Lower Lake as the fire approached early Sunday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rick Davis, 40, stood on a rooftop in the Morgan Valley area with his garden hose as flames surrounded him on three sides and huge walls of smoke wafted up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “I’m just trying to keep the roof wet so if an ember hits, it won’t all go up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis had gone to lunch in Lower Lake when the fire was calm and the threat of his home burning was low. When he heard the flames had started up again, he rushed home to try to do what he could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just scared,” he said. “The wind can just change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short distance east of Davis’ home, Garrett Reed, 43, watched the flames grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I see embers and ash rain down, I will turn the sprinklers on the roof and get out,” he said. “But this is my grandfather’s house and I’m not going to lose it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clayton Fire is eating up the dry brush and trees left behind by major fires that recently tore through Lake County. The Rocky and Jerusalem fires scorched the region northeast of Davis’ and Reed’s homes, while the Valley Fire claimed the area to the southwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up here,” Reed said. “These are all my friends’ houses that are burning, All you can do is pray for the best.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>LOWER LAKE -- A Lake County man was arrested Monday on arson charges for allegedly starting a wildfire that exploded over the weekend, destroying more than 175 homes, businesses and other structures here, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11052005\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 362px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screenshot-2016-08-15-21.40.10.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screenshot-2016-08-15-21.40.10.png\" alt=\"Authorities announced Monday night that Damin Pashilk, 40, of Clearlake, faces 17 counts of arson in connection with the Clayton Fire and several other blazes in Lake County.\" width=\"362\" height=\"379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11052005\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Authorities announced Monday night that Damin Pashilk, 40, of Clearlake, faces 17 counts of arson in connection with the Clayton Fire and several other blazes in Lake County. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said Damin Anthony Pashilk, 40, of Clearlake was arrested Monday on 17 counts of arson and is in jail. He is suspected in numerous fires in Lake County over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott said the blaze in the town of Lower Lake, dubbed the Clayton Fire, has caused over $10 million in damages and left dozens of families homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/278539933\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Pashilk committed a horrific crime, and we will seek prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. My thoughts continue to be with the people of Lake County during this difficult time,\" Pimlott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind-whipped fire had spread to 4,000 acres -- about six and a half square miles -- in the Lower Lake area about 80 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is just 5 percent contained, though late Monday fire officials said no other structures were under direct threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tough Conditions for Fire Crews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat topping 100 degrees and occasional gusty winds bedeviled firefighters Monday, and the forecast called for continued heat in the rugged country at the southeast end of Clear Lake. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clayton Fire started Saturday evening and moved slowly until midday Sunday. Rapidly rising temperatures and gusty winds whipped it into an inferno that roared into Lower Lake and wiped out whole blocks, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower Lake is home to about 1,300 mostly working-class people and retirees who are drawn by its rustic charm and housing prices that are lower than the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters couldn't protect all of historic Main Street, and flames burned a winery, an antiques store, an old firehouse and the Habitat for Humanity office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization was raising money to help rebuild homes in nearby communities torched last year. Between them, the four blazes have destroyed more than 1,400 of the 36,000 housing units in all Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Lower Lake reduced businesses to little more than charred foundations that were still smoldering on Monday. All that remained of many homes was burnt patio furniture and appliances, and burned out cars in the driveways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11052007\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"The warehouse for a candlemaking business, reduced to charred rubble after the Clayton Fire swept through downtown Lower Lake. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11052007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The warehouse for a candlemaking business, reduced to charred rubble after the Clayton Fire swept through downtown Lower Lake. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11052008\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-400x323.jpg\" alt=\"Cal Fire map shows location of Clayton Fire relative to areas burned by three big Lake County fires of 2015.\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11052008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-400x323.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-800x645.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-960x775.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1.jpg 1144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire map shows location of Clayton Fire relative to areas burned by three big Lake County fires of 2015. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No injuries have been reported and the cause of the fire that broke out Saturday was unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, three major wildfires swept the countryside around Lower Lake. Those blazes climaxed in September when the Valley Fire ravaged Middletown and communities on Cobb Mountain. The fire killed four people, left a fifth missing and destroyed more than 1,300 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite getting some rain last winter and spring, Lake County is tinder dry. Lawns in front of Lower Lake's modest, one-story homes are brown, matching the wildland grasses on the mountains outside town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In wetter times, the region was not visited by the kind of wildfires that it's seen over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than a pair of large blazes in the 1960s, which destroyed far fewer homes in a county that had just one-quarter its current 64,000 residents, lifelong resident and county Supervisor Jim Comstock can't remember anything approaching the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Everybody on Edge'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have a new view of the wild beauty they've always admired. Comstock said when his wife sees tall grass, she wonders aloud when the property owner will cut it. After 1,500 acres burned last year on the 1,700-acre ranch where Comstock grew up and still lives, he has cleared out brush to make fire breaks -- a ritual familiar to other Californians who live in areas traditionally associated with wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody is just on edge,\" he said. \"The trees are beautiful, but when they catch fire, they carry fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retirees Denis and Carolyn Quinn evacuated once last year and again this weekend, when they grabbed family photos and fled the house they share just off Main Street with their adult daughter and granddaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last time, their property was spared. On Sunday, they were let back in briefly to see that only their home and the one next door still stood among the 15 or so homes on the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Denis Quinn, it was a sign from God that the couple should not succumb to thoughts of leaving due to the wildfire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a poor community,\" he said at a high school opened to evacuees about 20 miles from town. \"There are a lot of people who are down here, down on their luck. I really feel for people and think that we can stay and help them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP writers Kristin J. Bender in San Francisco and Justin Pritchard in Los Angeles contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Rapidly rising temperatures and gusty winds whipped it into an inferno that roared into Lower Lake and wiped out whole blocks, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower Lake is home to about 1,300 mostly working-class people and retirees who are drawn by its rustic charm and housing prices that are lower than the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters couldn't protect all of historic Main Street, and flames burned a winery, an antiques store, an old firehouse and the Habitat for Humanity office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization was raising money to help rebuild homes in nearby communities torched last year. Between them, the four blazes have destroyed more than 1,400 of the 36,000 housing units in all Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Lower Lake reduced businesses to little more than charred foundations that were still smoldering on Monday. All that remained of many homes was burnt patio furniture and appliances, and burned out cars in the driveways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11052007\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"The warehouse for a candlemaking business, reduced to charred rubble after the Clayton Fire swept through downtown Lower Lake. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11052007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lowerlake160815.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The warehouse for a candlemaking business, reduced to charred rubble after the Clayton Fire swept through downtown Lower Lake. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11052008\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-400x323.jpg\" alt=\"Cal Fire map shows location of Clayton Fire relative to areas burned by three big Lake County fires of 2015.\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11052008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-400x323.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-800x645.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1-960x775.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/lakecountyfires-1.jpg 1144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire map shows location of Clayton Fire relative to areas burned by three big Lake County fires of 2015. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No injuries have been reported and the cause of the fire that broke out Saturday was unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, three major wildfires swept the countryside around Lower Lake. 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