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There’s a lot of paperwork.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom: ‘Sickens me to my core’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom and his administration have pushed back with increasing vehemence against accusations from Trump and other prominent Republicans that a lack of available water, poor vegetation management and bureaucratic incompetence are to blame for Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a video call with Biden on Friday morning, Newsom lamented the “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation, lies, that people want to divide this country,” which he said were damaging California’s response efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation,” he said. “It infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, in an email to political supporters, Newsom explicitly called out Trump and his allies for their “politically motivated lies” about the fires, which “sickens me to my core,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His letter to Trump, released not long after, was far softer. 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His response will speak volumes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Roger Niello, a Roseville Republican, suggested that the California GOP could help Newsom navigate the complicated dynamics with the Trump administration — although he said the governor has yet to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we’re in the minority, we do have a number of Republican legislators who have relationships with Republicans in Washington, D.C.,” Niello said. “To the extent that there are any challenges there, to the extent that we have a common approach toward things, we could assist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That’s something he did in his first term, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. A 2021 federal report \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudoig.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/HUD%20OIG%20Final%20Report_2019SU008945I.pdf\">found that the Trump administration delayed $20 billion\u003c/a> in disaster aid to the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could definitely let FEMA know to drag their feet,” Farber said. “You say they are dragging their feet deliberately for political reasons, and they just say, ‘No, we are doing the best we can. There’s a lot of paperwork.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom: ‘Sickens me to my core’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom and his administration have pushed back with increasing vehemence against accusations from Trump and other prominent Republicans that a lack of available water, poor vegetation management and bureaucratic incompetence are to blame for Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a video call with Biden on Friday morning, Newsom lamented the “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation, lies, that people want to divide this country,” which he said were damaging California’s response efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation,” he said. “It infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, in an email to political supporters, Newsom explicitly called out Trump and his allies for their “politically motivated lies” about the fires, which “sickens me to my core,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His letter to Trump, released not long after, was far softer. Newsom invoked their joint visits to Paradise and Malibu in 2018 to tour the devastation from the deadly Camp and Woolsey fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly 200 aftershocks have rattled Northern California since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Humboldt County on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000nw7b/executive\">according to the U.S. Geological Survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And experts say more aftershocks are likely. But that’s par for the course — especially in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is we live in earthquake country,” said Robert de Groot, operations coordinator of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shakealert.org/\">ShakeAlert\u003c/a>, an earthquake early warning system operated by the U.S. Geological Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued aftershocks of 3.0 or 4.0 magnitude are more than 99% and 98% certain, respectively, for at least the next week, according to de Groot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The chances of earthquakes from this event begin to dwindle over time and they decrease in terms of number,” he said, noting that larger aftershocks are unlikely. There’s only about a 5% chance that anything nearing a 6.0 magnitude aftershock could happen, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The epicenter of the initial 7.0 temblor which struck at 10:44 a.m. about 40 miles off the Humboldt coast, is on the active Mendocino Fault, where the Pacific, Juan de Fuca and North American tectonic plates meet — and where the San Andreas Fault ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-8OXaW\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Northern California magnitude 7.0 earthquake intensity\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8OXaW/4/\" height=\"544\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Locator map\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earthquake prompted a tsunami warning that reached more than 5 million people, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1864746520924618813\">from Southern Oregon to Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>. The warning, which was canceled just over an hour later, prompted BART to temporarily stop service in the Transbay Tube and drove thousands of Northern California residents to temporarily evacuate in search of higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three minutes later, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Lake and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ShakeAlert system alerted around 4.5 million people, some as far as Salinas in Monterey County, de Groot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Groot said aftershocks are not likely to happen along the San Andreas Fault — which extends some 750 miles south through California — because they typically happen closer to the epicenter of the initial earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think of it as parts of that fault that didn't move quite as far as it should’ve, so it’s not like you’re going to have earthquakes in this region and all of a sudden have an earthquake that’s down in Hayward or in Berkeley,” he said. “That’s way too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12017174 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-800x485.png\" alt=\"A map of earthquakes and faultlines.\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-800x485.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-1020x618.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM-1536x931.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-8.07.16-AM.png 1746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aftershocks since a 7.0 magnitude 7.0 earthquake (orange) struck off the coast of Humboldt County at 10:44 a.m. Thursday. Fault lines are marked in red. Source: USGS \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Roland Bürgmann, a geophysics professor at UC Berkeley, says it’s still important to keep an eye on the San Andreas Fault right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Andreas Fault ends right where the aftershocks end from this last event,” said Bürgmann, emphasizing that the location of the earthquake's epicenter remains “very active.” “So that means the San Andreas Fault is feeling a lot of pressure right now. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the campaign trail, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">former President Donald Trump\u003c/a> repeatedly threatened to cut off financial disaster recovery aid to California, even as the state grapples with increasingly large and destructive fires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984200/climate-change-makes-wildfires-in-california-more-extreme\">due in part to climate change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not giving any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the fire, forest fires that you have,” Trump said at a pre-election \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009289/why-is-donald-trump-campaigning-in-california-a-state-hes-almost-certain-to-lose\">rally in California’s Coachella Valley\u003c/a>, directing the threat toward Democratic Gov. 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But that’s likely to be what we’re up against, and we’ve got a few strategies that we’re developing to deal with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman, whose district has been faced with historic wildfires in recent years, said he’s been in talks this week with Newsom and colleagues in California’s congressional delegation about disaster aid contingency plans for Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, how California can backfill and protect things that we care about and how we are going to navigate some of these likely confrontations going forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is looking to establish a fund he can draw from in the event of a natural disaster, he said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/22/trump-california-emergency-aid-newsom-00184799\">interview with \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He’s expected to introduce the funding as part of his budget proposal in January.[aside postID=news_12013395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/NewsomTrump2018AP.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump isn’t the only president to deny California wildfire aid, he stands apart in directly citing political reasons for doing so. Research shows that political factors \u003ca href=\"https://digitalscholarship.tsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=jpmsp\">do shade presidents’ decisions\u003c/a> to deny disaster relief, particularly during election years, but Sedlar said, “I can’t think of any other instances in which a president has said the quiet part out loud so many times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden denied individual assistance — a type of financial aid for affected individuals — to victims of the 2021 Caldor Fire after FEMA determined that enough of them were covered by insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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The package also expands tenant protections when there is no emergency, widening the pool of tenants eligible for “just cause” eviction protections, among other provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve learned from Sonoma County’s history of disasters that we can’t afford to wait until the next disaster hits, especially for our undocumented community members, who are among the most marginalized,” said Beatrice Camacho, director of local mutual aid organization UndocuFund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and tenant activists said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2017/10/8/tubbs-fire-central-lnu-complex/\">2017 Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, shaped their “first-in-the-nation” proposal. The fire scorched nearly 37,000 acres across Sonoma and Napa counties, destroyed nearly 5,700 homes and damaged more than 300 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules, a landlord wanting to evict their tenant during a declared disaster must permanently remove the property from the rental market or demonstrate the tenant poses a health or safety threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants also have more leeway if they can’t pay their rent on time. Landlords must wait at least 30 days before deeming it late, as long as tenants can demonstrate they experienced a substantial loss of income or had to pay out-of-pocket expenses associated with the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some landlords took issue with the new rules during the board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that does is that leaves the property owner subject to penalty fees and paying their mortgage late, especially if they depend on that rental income to support their mortgage,” said Jill DeProto, a member of local property management company D&G Equity. “There’s got to be a balance between tenant protection laws and for landlords and property owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12001666 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/RussianRiverTreesGetty-1020x687.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, renters make up almost 40% of households, according to tenants rights organization North Bay Organizing Project. Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-renters/#:~:text=Renters%20make%20up%20a%20much,according%20to%20the%20US%20Census.\">renters make up 44% of households\u003c/a>, a larger share than other states across the country. More cities, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.antiochca.gov/fc/administration/tenant-protection/tpo-notice-of-tenant-rights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antioch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930792/richmond-considers-stronger-rent-caps-as-inflation-soars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/new-tenant-protection-ordinance-approved/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petaluma\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001167/salinas-is-set-to-cap-rent-hikes-a-historic-step-for-monterey-county-and-farmworker-towns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salinas,\u003c/a> have passed renter protections in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the California Tenant Protection Act set statewide standards establishing certain “just-cause” eviction protections and limits on rent increases for most multifamily properties built more than 15 years ago, along with some single-family rentals. Those protections limit the reasons landlords can evict tenants, such as late rent payments, public health or safety reasons and violations of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Sonoma County’s new protections, every property rented out has to offer just cause eviction protections. If a landlord decides to evict a tenant without just cause, they have to pay one month’s fair-market rent to relocate the tenant. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly seven years after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> tore through Northern California wine country, displacing thousands of people, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved stronger tenant protections triggered during natural disasters as part of a wider package of rental laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new ordinances, when county officials declare a state of emergency, landlords must accept late rent payments and can only evict in a more limited set of circumstances. The package also expands tenant protections when there is no emergency, widening the pool of tenants eligible for “just cause” eviction protections, among other provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve learned from Sonoma County’s history of disasters that we can’t afford to wait until the next disaster hits, especially for our undocumented community members, who are among the most marginalized,” said Beatrice Camacho, director of local mutual aid organization UndocuFund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and tenant activists said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2017/10/8/tubbs-fire-central-lnu-complex/\">2017 Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, shaped their “first-in-the-nation” proposal. The fire scorched nearly 37,000 acres across Sonoma and Napa counties, destroyed nearly 5,700 homes and damaged more than 300 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules, a landlord wanting to evict their tenant during a declared disaster must permanently remove the property from the rental market or demonstrate the tenant poses a health or safety threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants also have more leeway if they can’t pay their rent on time. Landlords must wait at least 30 days before deeming it late, as long as tenants can demonstrate they experienced a substantial loss of income or had to pay out-of-pocket expenses associated with the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some landlords took issue with the new rules during the board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that does is that leaves the property owner subject to penalty fees and paying their mortgage late, especially if they depend on that rental income to support their mortgage,” said Jill DeProto, a member of local property management company D&G Equity. “There’s got to be a balance between tenant protection laws and for landlords and property owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, renters make up almost 40% of households, according to tenants rights organization North Bay Organizing Project. Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-renters/#:~:text=Renters%20make%20up%20a%20much,according%20to%20the%20US%20Census.\">renters make up 44% of households\u003c/a>, a larger share than other states across the country. More cities, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.antiochca.gov/fc/administration/tenant-protection/tpo-notice-of-tenant-rights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antioch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930792/richmond-considers-stronger-rent-caps-as-inflation-soars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/new-tenant-protection-ordinance-approved/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petaluma\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001167/salinas-is-set-to-cap-rent-hikes-a-historic-step-for-monterey-county-and-farmworker-towns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salinas,\u003c/a> have passed renter protections in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the California Tenant Protection Act set statewide standards establishing certain “just-cause” eviction protections and limits on rent increases for most multifamily properties built more than 15 years ago, along with some single-family rentals. Those protections limit the reasons landlords can evict tenants, such as late rent payments, public health or safety reasons and violations of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Sonoma County’s new protections, every property rented out has to offer just cause eviction protections. If a landlord decides to evict a tenant without just cause, they have to pay one month’s fair-market rent to relocate the tenant. And renters are also allowed to pay their rent late twice in a year before facing the threat of eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, if a landlord wants to evict a renter during an emergency or otherwise, they have to provide tenants information in both English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These strong eviction protections transform the immediate crises Sonoma County’s undocumented neighbors face into forward-thinking policies that ensure our government takes responsibility for everyone’s dignity and self-determination in future disasters,” Camacho said. “Because we refuse to let those most impacted be left behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules will take effect 30 days after the supervisors’ Tuesday vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Sarah Letts went to renew the property insurance for her organization’s 32 apartment buildings last year, she got a sticker shock: a 33% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year? Her carrier, Great American Insurance Group, dropped the policy entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letts said she might have understood if the nonprofit she helms, Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, was based in a forested area, but the affordable housing properties are all on urban infill sites within Los Angeles County and have been upgraded with sprinklers and seismic reinforcements where needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not abutting a fire hazard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with less than a month to go before the current policy runs out, she’s scrambling. “We will get [property insurance] because we’re obligated to get it,” Letts said. “But the frightening part is, how much will we pay?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, affordable housing providers report massive increases in insurance premiums — often regardless of where their buildings are located. And for nonprofits in rural areas with a more pronounced wildfire risk, it’s an “existential” crisis, according to Seana O’Shaughnessy, the president and CEO of Community Housing Improvement Program, which manages nearly 3,000 homes and apartments across seven counties in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the state’s volatile insurance market calls into question the state’s ability to meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930679/newsom-campaigned-on-building-3-5-million-homes-he-hasnt-gotten-even-close\">Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious goal of building 2.5 million new homes by 2031\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a stable insurance market, we aren’t able to build and meet the affordable housing needs of our state, and we aren’t able to operate effectively,” O’Shaughnessy said. “So this cannot be overstated, how important figuring out and fixing and stabilizing insurance is for our industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office declined to comment for this story, deferring instead to the California Department of Insurance, which has recently held hearings to address rising premiums, as well as carriers leaving California, an issue that’s impacting all property owners. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Seana O’Shaughnessy, president and CEO, Community Housing Improvement Program\"]‘Without a stable insurance market, we aren’t able to build and meet the affordable housing needs of our state, and we aren’t able to operate effectively.’[/pullquote] Affordable housing providers, however, say they are at a particular disadvantage. Unlike for-profit apartment owners, who can raise rents to offset increased costs, the very nature of affordable housing means rents are restricted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our margins in the affordable housing industry are very thin,” O’Shaughnessy said. “So, that means the nonprofit has to subsidize [increased costs].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups that track the number of carriers and spending on premiums don’t separate affordable housing from other forms of commercial property. That means apartment buildings are lumped into the same category as gas stations and grocery stores. But according to the analytics firm CoreLogic, commercial property insurance premiums increased 45% since 2018, though the increases were not uniform across sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letts said she is girding for a 100% increase in premiums when she eventually does find a carrier, if not a 150% increase. Such an increase would raise the annual cost of insuring her organization’s properties from $500,000 to somewhere between $1 million to $1.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Community Housing Improvement Program’s 17 apartment buildings, property insurance premiums have more than tripled since 2017, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, nonprofit Burbank Housing’s Director of Asset Management, Julie Heredia, said premiums doubled since 2018 across its portfolio of more than 70 properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Northern California, Ryan LaRue, the executive director of Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation, said property insurance premiums for its portfolio of 33 properties doubled between 2021 and 2022 alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a disaster,” LaRue said. “It’s a lose-lose for anyone in our part of the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising premiums\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Driving the premium increases are inflation, rising interest rates and the ballooning cost of reinsurance, the insurance that carriers get to cover their losses, said Sheri Scott, a principal and consulting actuary at Milliman, an actuarial firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other states, California doesn’t allow insurance companies to include the cost of reinsurance in determining its fire insurance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A new condo building is seen through the overgrown grasses of the lot across the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel at Perennial Park, an affordable apartment complex for seniors, can be seen behind flowers from Journey’s End mobile home park in Santa Rosa on July 28, 2023, which burned almost entirely during the Tubbs Fire in October 2017. Across the state, affordable housing providers report massive increases in insurance premiums — often regardless of where their buildings are located. And for nonprofits in rural areas with a more pronounced wildfire risk, it’s an ‘existential’ crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And if insurance companies aren’t able to include that cost of doing business in their insurance rates, that could create an issue where insurance companies don’t feel they’re able to get the appropriate rate for the risk,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Great American Insurance Group, the carrier that declined to continue providing coverage to Hollywood Community Housing Group, did not respond to requests for comment about its decision to discontinue the nonprofit’s policy. In the single-family home market, large carriers, including Allstate, State Farm, Farmers and AIG, cited economic conditions and the increasing frequency and severity of weather events such as floods and wildfires as reasons for declining to sell new policies in the state. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ryan LaRue, executive director, Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation\"]‘It’s a disaster. It’s a lose-lose for anyone in our part of the industry.’[/pullquote] According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, since 1980 there has been an average of 8.1 weather events nationally that amounted to $1 billion or more in damage. Over the past five years, the average was 18. And, as of July 11 this year, 12 events cost $1 billion or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a higher frequency of events and a higher severity of these events when they occur than we ever historically have had,” said Justin Dove, a broker specializing in real estate with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a risk management services firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven of California’s 10 most destructive wildfires occurred within the past decade, according to Cal Fire. But, insurance carriers in the state are barred from using catastrophe models to estimate their expected future losses to develop insurance rates. Instead, they must look at the previous 20 years of losses, a practice other states have long abandoned, Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no other states that use that methodology anymore,” she said. “They have since modernized their procedures in what insurance companies use so that they can use catastrophe models.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Insurance Commissioner Tony Cignarale said the Department of Insurance is currently looking at allowing insurers to use catastrophe modeling, as well as to include the cost of reinsurance in setting rates. Allowing the latter change might improve the availability of insurance, but not necessarily affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large empty lot with overgrown grasses surrounded by houses.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty plot of land in Coffey Park in Santa Rosa on July 28, 2023. Seven of California’s 10 most destructive wildfires occurred within the past 10 years, according to Cal Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“With reinsurance, it is an additional cost. So, in theory [premiums] would rise,” Cignarale said. “The question is, how much would be allowable to add on to an individual policyholder’s premium? That’s another area that the [insurance] commissioner is looking at to ensure that it’s not excessive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while insurance groups say allowing catastrophe modeling won’t necessarily raise rates — it may lower rates for some property owners — Cignarale said more information is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to take a deeper dive into these catastrophe models and see, are there good models? Are there bad models? Is there a way to make sure that there’s transparency, so that the public, as well as the insurance commissioner, can see what’s under the hood and make sure that there aren’t any negative algorithms there that may be unfair to policyholders just for the sake of increasing rates and premiums?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no timeline for when the Department of Insurance will finalize or implement any proposed changes, Cignarale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the department in March announced the FAIR Plan — California’s insurance coverage of last resort. The plan is available to property owners who can’t secure fire insurance, though it doesn’t cover other hazards, such as floods or general liability — and it would raise its coverage cap to $20 million for commercial property owners. The FAIR Plan is expected to begin offering the new coverage by the end of the year. [aside label='More on Affordable Housing' tag='affordable-housing'] In October of 2022, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara began enforcing new regulations requiring insurance carriers to provide discounts to property owners who mitigate their own risk of wildfires. The companies are now in the process of getting those proposed discounts approved by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really the goal,” Cignarale said. “If you can reduce the risk, then you can reduce the insurance companies’ need to either restrict writing or increase premiums on consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with all these changes, it isn’t clear whether it would translate into lower premiums for property owners, or if the changing climate and increasing risk from wildfires and other extreme weather will discourage carriers from returning to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, affordable housing providers say they aren’t going out of business — at least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always figure it out, but I don’t know that we should have to figure it out,” O’Shaughnessy said. “This is something that the state has to help figure out so that we can continue to provide essential housing for folks. We’ll do it as long as we have to, but we do need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But according to the analytics firm CoreLogic, commercial property insurance premiums increased 45% since 2018, though the increases were not uniform across sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letts said she is girding for a 100% increase in premiums when she eventually does find a carrier, if not a 150% increase. Such an increase would raise the annual cost of insuring her organization’s properties from $500,000 to somewhere between $1 million to $1.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Community Housing Improvement Program’s 17 apartment buildings, property insurance premiums have more than tripled since 2017, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, nonprofit Burbank Housing’s Director of Asset Management, Julie Heredia, said premiums doubled since 2018 across its portfolio of more than 70 properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Northern California, Ryan LaRue, the executive director of Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation, said property insurance premiums for its portfolio of 33 properties doubled between 2021 and 2022 alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a disaster,” LaRue said. “It’s a lose-lose for anyone in our part of the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising premiums\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Driving the premium increases are inflation, rising interest rates and the ballooning cost of reinsurance, the insurance that carriers get to cover their losses, said Sheri Scott, a principal and consulting actuary at Milliman, an actuarial firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other states, California doesn’t allow insurance companies to include the cost of reinsurance in determining its fire insurance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A new condo building is seen through the overgrown grasses of the lot across the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67574_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-37-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel at Perennial Park, an affordable apartment complex for seniors, can be seen behind flowers from Journey’s End mobile home park in Santa Rosa on July 28, 2023, which burned almost entirely during the Tubbs Fire in October 2017. Across the state, affordable housing providers report massive increases in insurance premiums — often regardless of where their buildings are located. And for nonprofits in rural areas with a more pronounced wildfire risk, it’s an ‘existential’ crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And if insurance companies aren’t able to include that cost of doing business in their insurance rates, that could create an issue where insurance companies don’t feel they’re able to get the appropriate rate for the risk,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Great American Insurance Group, the carrier that declined to continue providing coverage to Hollywood Community Housing Group, did not respond to requests for comment about its decision to discontinue the nonprofit’s policy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, since 1980 there has been an average of 8.1 weather events nationally that amounted to $1 billion or more in damage. Over the past five years, the average was 18. And, as of July 11 this year, 12 events cost $1 billion or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a higher frequency of events and a higher severity of these events when they occur than we ever historically have had,” said Justin Dove, a broker specializing in real estate with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a risk management services firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven of California’s 10 most destructive wildfires occurred within the past decade, according to Cal Fire. But, insurance carriers in the state are barred from using catastrophe models to estimate their expected future losses to develop insurance rates. Instead, they must look at the previous 20 years of losses, a practice other states have long abandoned, Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no other states that use that methodology anymore,” she said. “They have since modernized their procedures in what insurance companies use so that they can use catastrophe models.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Insurance Commissioner Tony Cignarale said the Department of Insurance is currently looking at allowing insurers to use catastrophe modeling, as well as to include the cost of reinsurance in setting rates. Allowing the latter change might improve the availability of insurance, but not necessarily affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large empty lot with overgrown grasses surrounded by houses.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67584_230728-WildfireSantaRosaHousing-55-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty plot of land in Coffey Park in Santa Rosa on July 28, 2023. Seven of California’s 10 most destructive wildfires occurred within the past 10 years, according to Cal Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“With reinsurance, it is an additional cost. So, in theory [premiums] would rise,” Cignarale said. “The question is, how much would be allowable to add on to an individual policyholder’s premium? That’s another area that the [insurance] commissioner is looking at to ensure that it’s not excessive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while insurance groups say allowing catastrophe modeling won’t necessarily raise rates — it may lower rates for some property owners — Cignarale said more information is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to take a deeper dive into these catastrophe models and see, are there good models? Are there bad models? Is there a way to make sure that there’s transparency, so that the public, as well as the insurance commissioner, can see what’s under the hood and make sure that there aren’t any negative algorithms there that may be unfair to policyholders just for the sake of increasing rates and premiums?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no timeline for when the Department of Insurance will finalize or implement any proposed changes, Cignarale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the department in March announced the FAIR Plan — California’s insurance coverage of last resort. The plan is available to property owners who can’t secure fire insurance, though it doesn’t cover other hazards, such as floods or general liability — and it would raise its coverage cap to $20 million for commercial property owners. The FAIR Plan is expected to begin offering the new coverage by the end of the year. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> In October of 2022, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara began enforcing new regulations requiring insurance carriers to provide discounts to property owners who mitigate their own risk of wildfires. The companies are now in the process of getting those proposed discounts approved by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really the goal,” Cignarale said. “If you can reduce the risk, then you can reduce the insurance companies’ need to either restrict writing or increase premiums on consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with all these changes, it isn’t clear whether it would translate into lower premiums for property owners, or if the changing climate and increasing risk from wildfires and other extreme weather will discourage carriers from returning to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, affordable housing providers say they aren’t going out of business — at least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always figure it out, but I don’t know that we should have to figure it out,” O’Shaughnessy said. “This is something that the state has to help figure out so that we can continue to provide essential housing for folks. We’ll do it as long as we have to, but we do need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescue teams near the Turkish and Syrian border are continuing to search for people trapped under rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region early Monday. At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/08/world/turkey-syria-earthquake\">12,000 people had been confirmed dead as of Wednesday\u003c/a> and many are still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents and community groups are now rallying to help relief efforts from afar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an emergency within an emergency. In Syria, people were already suffering as it is with a severely weakened infrastructure, depleted health care system, shortage of resources like water, electricity, you name it,” said Maya Fallaha, a Syrian American who lives in the Bay Area. “Now with the earthquake, it’s an additional blow for thousands of civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#earthquakedamage\">How to help families affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Fallaha received a text while she was at the gym from her father, who was visiting the south of Turkey, about the earthquake while he was being evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He texted me saying ‘big earthquake, very strong,’” Fallaha told KQED. “Immediately I’m concerned about my aunt who lives in the North of Syria and extended family and relatives. My initial reaction was just shock and trying to account for all my friends and family living in that area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings collapsed in both countries, scattering streets with heavy piles of concrete and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Başak Altan, founder, Berkeley Turkish School\"]‘We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-map-magnitude-7-8-scale-quake-tremor-death-toll-gaziantep-kahramanmaras\">death toll could rise to over 20,000\u003c/a>, according to Catherine Smallwood, the World Health Organization’s senior emergency officer for Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Turkish School founder Başak Altan felt a mix of frustration and sadness when she heard about the catastrophic quake, which comes amid an extreme winter and freezing temperatures for the affected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my family is in Turkey. Everyone knows someone who has been impacted, who is missing or died, friends or family they haven’t heard from. There are uncounted people in Turkey, refugees and immigrants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altan lives in Berkeley, and remembers waking up nearly 23 years ago when another major earthquake flattened buildings near Istanbul and killed an estimated 18,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was devastating to wake up to this again. I don’t think a lot has changed in the last two decades in Turkey in terms of making the necessary changes for safety in an earthquake. We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening,” said Altan. “People can’t be taken to the hospital because the hospital is in shambles. When you have this much devastation on top of devastation, it’s impossible to fathom how you help these poor souls that are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaidaa Mousabacha was born and raised in Syria, and now works as a behavioral counselor in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stressed that one of the most powerful things people in the U.S. can do to help is donate to organizations that are providing support on the ground to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep them in your thoughts and prayers, but also make sure you speak to your government representatives about sending immediate rescue and aid,” Mousabacha said. “There is a lot of need for personnel and equipment and immediate shelter for the people without homes, especially in difficult winter conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple sources who spoke to KQED shared concerns over relief funds going through the Syrian and Turkish governments, and recommended that people who wish to donate do so through a vetted humanitarian aid group.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"earthquakedamage\">\u003c/a>Groups raising funds to provide direct aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>The Syrian American Medical Society\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>(SAMS)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>Foundation\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is providing on-the-ground medical aid in Northwest Syria at hospitals and other medical facilities. The agency reported that four of their medical clinics were damaged by the earthquake and three of those are no longer operational due to such severe damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bridgetoturkiye.org/\">\u003cb>Bridge to Turkiye Fund\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is raising money to provide food, water and shelter to displaced families in southern Turkey as well as emotional support and well-being for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://srd.ngo/\">\u003cb>Syria Relief and Development (SRD)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> has deployed around 20 ambulances to respond to injuries and is raising $75,000 to continue providing medical care, gas for ambulances, shelter and food for survivors and responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-us.org/\">\u003cb>Syrian Forum USA\u003c/b>\u003c/a> provides education, job training and other economic services focused on women and young people. 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Many say that reactive response has to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1975\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Camp Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California’s history. The fire leveled homes in the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park, (top and bottom right), leaving behind debris as seen in these photos taken six months later. The Safeway at Old Town Plaza in Paradise (bottom left) was destroyed. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thus far, the federal government — through FEMA — has paid out more than $85 million in emergency aid for survivors. An additional $370 million in loans has been distributed by the Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One estimate put the Camp Fire as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-wildfire-was-world-s-costliest-natural-disaster-2018-insurer-n956376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the most expensive disaster in the world \u003c/a>in 2018, racking up more than $16 billion in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1398\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png 1398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-800x663.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1020x845.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1200x994.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reactionary mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As disasters like wildfires, floods and hurricanes increase in size, severity and frequency, experts who study our response to them are warning that events like the Camp Fire should be a wake-up call. One of the early lessons from Paradise is that we need to radically overhaul how to prepare for and respond to disasters in the era of climate change, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been very reactionary,” says Josh Sawislak, a climate resiliency adviser in the Obama administration. “The problem is that we’ve kind of gotten away with it for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew clears hazardous material from a property that burned in the fire. Household products like cleaning solutions, paint or batteries must be specially handled and disposed of following a fire, according to the EPA. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FEMA will typically respond to a disaster, arriving immediately on the ground, and then spend the next 18 months or so cleaning up, aiding communities and making the recovery process as easy as possible for disaster victims who want to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paradise, that mission started with cleaning up the rubble from destroyed homes, strip malls, gas stations, and the torched frames of cars being scooped up and hauled away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-03-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-03-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debris removal alone is estimated to cost upwards of $1.7 billion, again mostly paid for by federal taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The quicker we remove the debris, the faster reconstruction can start,” says Bob Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, overseeing the California wildfire recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clean up the debris and rebuild — this has been the mindset for disaster recovery in the U.S. for decades, according to experts like Sawislak, who has worked in disaster relief and now studies the industry. We wait until something happens and then come in and fix it. This model is outdated and broken, Sawislak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews cut down burned trees off Clark Road in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending more and more money and it’s going to get even worse,” he says. “Climate change is going to force our hand to be smarter about how we do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak says it is standard operating procedure to cut checks after a disaster declaration. Just last week the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726237046/senate-reaches-deal-on-disaster-aid-package-as-trump-pivots-to-support-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate passed a $19.1 billion dollar disaster relief package\u003c/a> to aid farmers and communities as they recover from floods, hurricanes and wildfires. But every year the U.S. seems to be experiencing the biggest hurricane, the deadliest flood and the most catastrophic wildfires — like the Camp Fire — burning into whole cities that are built in and around overgrown, dry forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png 1368w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1200x925.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral scientist Kathleen Tierney says a lesson from Paradise is that staying the current course will bankrupt the federal Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be able to slow down the losses, but we can’t stop them,” she says. “This is the legacy; this is the bill that has come due.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Optimism bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-02-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-02-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tierney spent her career advising communities after disasters as the former director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. She says it’s a basic human instinct to want to rebuild, to return to normal after a traumatic event, even if it’s going home to an area we know is risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tendency that a lot of people have is to say, ‘We’ve had our disaster. We’re not going to have another one; all we have to do is go back,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenton, the FEMA administrator, has been thinking a lot about this, especially after Paradise. During the Obama administration, he led a committee to overhaul the way communities plan for catastrophes. He has been trying to move the needle toward persuading communities and states to do more before the inevitable disasters strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a lot of work over the years to help people respond or rebuild,” Fenton says. “But how do we get them to plan better, prepare better and mitigate against future disasters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1200x893.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: One home that survived the fire and one home (right) at the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park in Paradise that did not. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is not an easy task to turn this system around; there’s the ungainly federal budgeting process, political divisiveness and human nature, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disaster recovery reforms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, last fall, amid a record wildfire season in California, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/10/05/disaster-recovery-reform-act-2018-transforms-field-emergency-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disaster Recovery Reform Act\u003c/a>. It’s part of a sprawling set of disaster spending reforms that will, among other things, allow FEMA to send a portion of its disaster relief budget to states to use for pre-disaster mitigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak, who also served on the Hurricane Sandy recovery task force, says it’s a start toward avoiding massive rebuilding costs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t think it goes far enough,” he says. “We should be spending billions on protecting our infrastructure and communities, not millions or even hundreds of millions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1200x802.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vickie Brock (left) and Peggy Hunnings (center) serve lunch to people at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Since the fire, the church has been helping distribute free food and water. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Cuypers hands out free water to residents at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Private citizens and groups have been volunteering and providing food and water since the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, it is a small portion — about 6% — netting an estimated $300 million a year for pre-disaster mitigation programs. And it is unlikely any of those funds will be allocated in time for this year’s fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, federal officials like Fenton say the conversation is finally beginning in earnest around the West, where he says communities need to build — and rebuild — smarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities need to be aware of those risks when doing community planning and not build in very high hazard areas,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-04-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-04-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after Paradise, local governments in the West are continuing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tejon-ranch-decision-20181211-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approve development \u003c/a>in high-fire-risk places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise’s town council has pledged it will rebuild, while also insisting its new town will have a redesigned street grid and homes built with more fire-resistant materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to rebuild and our constituents all want to rebuild,” says Jody Jones, the mayor. “But we want to rebuild a more resilient, safe community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1989px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1989\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg 1989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1989px) 100vw, 1989px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April, trucks carry tree debris down Clark Road in Paradise, which was heavily forested before the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, federal money is continuing to keep the recovery here going. The cleanup and debris removal alone is a monumental task, a fraction of which had been completed even six months after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s time to rethink what the new Paradise will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living with fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Efseaff of the Paradise Recreation and Park District points to where the fire came over the ridge and into Paradise. Cal Fire determined that the fire started near the rural community of Pulga, east of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One morning at dawn, Paradise Recreation and Parks Director Dan Efseaff walks along a ridge on the eastern edge of town. To his right, a steep drop into the Little Feather River Canyon. To his left is a narrow road, full of houses, all leveled by the fire, built right up along the ridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efseaff is floating an idea to buy out these properties and turn the land into open space. The land could be a park but also managed as a firebreak, a place where crews could safely park engines and take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1664\" height=\"1109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg 1664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1664px) 100vw, 1664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efseaff stands at the edge of the Drendel Circle neighborhood, which burned in the fire. Vegetation has begun to grow back in the area (right) that he wants to turn into defensible space. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The amount of resources that we spend during a disaster — it’s a million dollars a day, or it’s $10 million a day,” Efseaff says. “Yet I wish I had a million dollars for this next year to do vegetation work in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a provision — and money — in that new disaster reform bill for states to buy out private property in high-risk zones and turn it into green space. This has never been done before in high-fire-risk areas in the United States. But it could be the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California needs to figure out, how do we live with fire, how do we adapt to fire,” Efseaff says. “What we do in Paradise has huge implications for not only the state but the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-15_custom-35ff1865b3bedc8ca8d1734aaf9b3aa091b5b7ab-s2500-c85-e1559085203255.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-15_custom-35ff1865b3bedc8ca8d1734aaf9b3aa091b5b7ab-s2500-c85-e1559085203255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efseaff says this area of land could serve the community in the future as a park and a firebreak. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Camp Fire raced into the Northern California town of Paradise on Nov. 8, destroying nearly 19,000 structures and claiming 85 lives, Chris Beaudis narrowly escaped. He drove out of the Sierra foothills in his Ford Bronco with only his pit bull. He lost everything and has no insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really stressful at times,” he says. “You think that it’s the end of the world, especially when everything you have is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Beaudis has for now is a 300-square-foot FEMA camper trailer. It is wedged into a corner of the fairgrounds in Yuba City, in the valley about 50 miles south of what’s left of Paradise. His is one of about 7,200 Camp Fire survivor households relying on direct federal aid, according to FEMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank God that I was finally able to get on the help list and receive help,” Beaudis says. “Since then it’s just been the biggest stress reliever of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With nowhere else to go, Beaudis is likely to stay in this trailer for another year before he can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750512\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-1_custom-2365c91b47c19485d8e6ab6ddd68be42da3dcb1d-s2500-c85-e1559082969314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11750512 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-1_custom-2365c91b47c19485d8e6ab6ddd68be42da3dcb1d-s2500-c85-e1559082969314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Beaudis had been living in his Ford Bronco with his pit bull, Wall-E, after the Camp Fire destroyed his home last November. At the end of March, he moved into a FEMA trailer (right) camped in Yuba City. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that help list that Beaudis was able to get on is emblematic of a bigger problem in the way we respond to natural disasters: Disaster strikes, emergency help is deployed, checks are cut, communities are rebuilt — even in high-risk places. Many say that reactive response has to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1975\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Camp Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California’s history. The fire leveled homes in the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park, (top and bottom right), leaving behind debris as seen in these photos taken six months later. The Safeway at Old Town Plaza in Paradise (bottom left) was destroyed. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thus far, the federal government — through FEMA — has paid out more than $85 million in emergency aid for survivors. An additional $370 million in loans has been distributed by the Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One estimate put the Camp Fire as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-wildfire-was-world-s-costliest-natural-disaster-2018-insurer-n956376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the most expensive disaster in the world \u003c/a>in 2018, racking up more than $16 billion in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1398\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png 1398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-800x663.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1020x845.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1200x994.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reactionary mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As disasters like wildfires, floods and hurricanes increase in size, severity and frequency, experts who study our response to them are warning that events like the Camp Fire should be a wake-up call. One of the early lessons from Paradise is that we need to radically overhaul how to prepare for and respond to disasters in the era of climate change, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been very reactionary,” says Josh Sawislak, a climate resiliency adviser in the Obama administration. “The problem is that we’ve kind of gotten away with it for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew clears hazardous material from a property that burned in the fire. Household products like cleaning solutions, paint or batteries must be specially handled and disposed of following a fire, according to the EPA. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FEMA will typically respond to a disaster, arriving immediately on the ground, and then spend the next 18 months or so cleaning up, aiding communities and making the recovery process as easy as possible for disaster victims who want to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paradise, that mission started with cleaning up the rubble from destroyed homes, strip malls, gas stations, and the torched frames of cars being scooped up and hauled away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-03-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-03-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debris removal alone is estimated to cost upwards of $1.7 billion, again mostly paid for by federal taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The quicker we remove the debris, the faster reconstruction can start,” says Bob Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, overseeing the California wildfire recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clean up the debris and rebuild — this has been the mindset for disaster recovery in the U.S. for decades, according to experts like Sawislak, who has worked in disaster relief and now studies the industry. We wait until something happens and then come in and fix it. This model is outdated and broken, Sawislak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews cut down burned trees off Clark Road in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending more and more money and it’s going to get even worse,” he says. “Climate change is going to force our hand to be smarter about how we do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak says it is standard operating procedure to cut checks after a disaster declaration. Just last week the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726237046/senate-reaches-deal-on-disaster-aid-package-as-trump-pivots-to-support-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate passed a $19.1 billion dollar disaster relief package\u003c/a> to aid farmers and communities as they recover from floods, hurricanes and wildfires. But every year the U.S. seems to be experiencing the biggest hurricane, the deadliest flood and the most catastrophic wildfires — like the Camp Fire — burning into whole cities that are built in and around overgrown, dry forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png 1368w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1200x925.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral scientist Kathleen Tierney says a lesson from Paradise is that staying the current course will bankrupt the federal Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be able to slow down the losses, but we can’t stop them,” she says. “This is the legacy; this is the bill that has come due.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Optimism bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-02-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-02-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tierney spent her career advising communities after disasters as the former director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. She says it’s a basic human instinct to want to rebuild, to return to normal after a traumatic event, even if it’s going home to an area we know is risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tendency that a lot of people have is to say, ‘We’ve had our disaster. We’re not going to have another one; all we have to do is go back,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenton, the FEMA administrator, has been thinking a lot about this, especially after Paradise. During the Obama administration, he led a committee to overhaul the way communities plan for catastrophes. He has been trying to move the needle toward persuading communities and states to do more before the inevitable disasters strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a lot of work over the years to help people respond or rebuild,” Fenton says. “But how do we get them to plan better, prepare better and mitigate against future disasters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1200x893.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: One home that survived the fire and one home (right) at the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park in Paradise that did not. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is not an easy task to turn this system around; there’s the ungainly federal budgeting process, political divisiveness and human nature, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disaster recovery reforms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, last fall, amid a record wildfire season in California, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/10/05/disaster-recovery-reform-act-2018-transforms-field-emergency-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disaster Recovery Reform Act\u003c/a>. It’s part of a sprawling set of disaster spending reforms that will, among other things, allow FEMA to send a portion of its disaster relief budget to states to use for pre-disaster mitigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak, who also served on the Hurricane Sandy recovery task force, says it’s a start toward avoiding massive rebuilding costs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t think it goes far enough,” he says. “We should be spending billions on protecting our infrastructure and communities, not millions or even hundreds of millions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1200x802.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vickie Brock (left) and Peggy Hunnings (center) serve lunch to people at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Since the fire, the church has been helping distribute free food and water. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Cuypers hands out free water to residents at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Private citizens and groups have been volunteering and providing food and water since the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, it is a small portion — about 6% — netting an estimated $300 million a year for pre-disaster mitigation programs. And it is unlikely any of those funds will be allocated in time for this year’s fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, federal officials like Fenton say the conversation is finally beginning in earnest around the West, where he says communities need to build — and rebuild — smarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities need to be aware of those risks when doing community planning and not build in very high hazard areas,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-04-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-04-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after Paradise, local governments in the West are continuing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tejon-ranch-decision-20181211-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approve development \u003c/a>in high-fire-risk places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise’s town council has pledged it will rebuild, while also insisting its new town will have a redesigned street grid and homes built with more fire-resistant materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to rebuild and our constituents all want to rebuild,” says Jody Jones, the mayor. “But we want to rebuild a more resilient, safe community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1989px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1989\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg 1989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1989px) 100vw, 1989px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April, trucks carry tree debris down Clark Road in Paradise, which was heavily forested before the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, federal money is continuing to keep the recovery here going. 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