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Nearly a quarter of the population reported being homeless for the first time \u003cem>and\u003c/em> survivors of the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She added, “They’re no longer in their safe zone, so it’s very difficult for them to engage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire, which broke out in early November and quickly became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, wiped out a huge swath of housing stock in a county that was already facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706501/camp-fire-worsens-housing-crises-in-butte-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">housing crisis\u003c/a>, with a vacancy rate of just 1.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s even tighter housing situation has created a kind of hierarchy between those who were homeless before the fire and those who have since become homeless as a result of it, putting the former at an even greater disadvantage, Griggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chances are they don’t have the best credit,” she said. “Chances are they have some evictions. 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"content": "\u003cp>Seven months after a devastating wildfire leveled their town and shut down the high school, more than 200 high school seniors returned to the campus of Paradise High to hold graduation ceremonies Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun set over the football field, Paradise’s Class of 2019 observed a moment of silence for those who had died in the devastating Camp Fire, then turned to celebrating their accomplishments and their future hopes and plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753120 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker walks to her seat at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker walked to her seat at Paradise High School graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753122 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The daisy chain leads seniors at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The daisy chain led seniors onto the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753124\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753124 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Family, friends and community members attended Paradise High graduation ceremonies, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paradise High has remained closed since the fire. Coming back to the school grounds to celebrate graduation was bittersweet for many. “It’s very hard but also a very good experience. I feel very at home here,” said graduating senior Bailey Grover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753132 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors personalized their caps with messages of hope and inspiration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Seniors personalized their caps with messages of hope and inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753136 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker plans to attend UC Berkeley in the fall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker plans to attend UC Berkeley in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753134 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sofia DiBenedetto’s father decorated her cap with LED lights. She plans to attend Butte College for two years before transferring to another school later.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sofia DiBenedetto’s father decorated her cap with LED lights. She said she plans to attend Butte College for two years and then transferring to another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753133 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea speaking at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea speaking at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You as a group, perhaps more than any other, can give real meaning to the phrase ‘Paradise strong,’” said Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea, who spoke at the graduation. His remarks were received with a standing ovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753139 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Dailey, a valedictorian, Prom King and yo-yo champion at Paradise High School, recalled the Camp fire as "an absolute tragedy beyond anything anyone could have imagined." He praised the hard work and efforts of Paradise High teachers in the fire's aftermath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Dailey speaking at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nathan Dailey, a valedictorian, prom king and yo-yo champion at Paradise High School, recalled the Camp Fire as “an absolute tragedy beyond anything anyone could have imagined.” He praised the hard work and efforts of Paradise High teachers in the fire’s aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753135 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it’s hats off to Paradise High School’s Class of 2019!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jersiegel/status/1136833752686981121\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting contributed by KQED’s Jeremy Siegel and Monica Lam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Seven months after a devastating wildfire leveled their town and shut down the high school, more than 200 high school seniors returned to the campus of Paradise High to hold graduation ceremonies Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun set over the football field, Paradise’s Class of 2019 observed a moment of silence for those who had died in the devastating Camp Fire, then turned to celebrating their accomplishments and their future hopes and plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753120 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker walks to her seat at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37570__M6A1064-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker walked to her seat at Paradise High School graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753122 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The daisy chain leads seniors at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37569__M6A1052-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The daisy chain led seniors onto the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753124\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753124 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Family, friends and community members attended Paradise High graduation ceremonies, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37577__M6A1236.jpg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paradise High has remained closed since the fire. Coming back to the school grounds to celebrate graduation was bittersweet for many. “It’s very hard but also a very good experience. I feel very at home here,” said graduating senior Bailey Grover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753132 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors personalized their caps with messages of hope and inspiration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37580__M6A1277-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Seniors personalized their caps with messages of hope and inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753136 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker plans to attend UC Berkeley in the fall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37585__M6A1364-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valedictorian Kirsten-Grace Baker plans to attend UC Berkeley in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753134 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sofia DiBenedetto’s father decorated her cap with LED lights. She plans to attend Butte College for two years before transferring to another school later.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37564__M6A0888-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sofia DiBenedetto’s father decorated her cap with LED lights. She said she plans to attend Butte College for two years and then transferring to another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753133 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea speaking at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37582__M6A1301-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea speaking at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You as a group, perhaps more than any other, can give real meaning to the phrase ‘Paradise strong,’” said Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea, who spoke at the graduation. His remarks were received with a standing ovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753139 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Dailey, a valedictorian, Prom King and yo-yo champion at Paradise High School, recalled the Camp fire as "an absolute tragedy beyond anything anyone could have imagined." He praised the hard work and efforts of Paradise High teachers in the fire's aftermath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37579__M6A1248-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Dailey speaking at Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nathan Dailey, a valedictorian, prom king and yo-yo champion at Paradise High School, recalled the Camp Fire as “an absolute tragedy beyond anything anyone could have imagined.” He praised the hard work and efforts of Paradise High teachers in the fire’s aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11753135 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37583__M6A1324-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School graduation, June 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it’s hats off to Paradise High School’s Class of 2019!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dan Efseaff, the parks and recreation director for the devastated town of Paradise, Calif., looks out over Little Feather River Canyon in Butte County. The Camp Fire raced up this canyon like a blowtorch in a paper funnel on its way to Paradise, incinerating most everything in its path, including scores of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11750394,news_11743347,news_11746728\" label=\"After the Camp Fire\"]Efseaff is floating an idea that some may think radical: paying people not to rebuild in this slice of canyon: “The whole community needs some defensible space,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents would get expanded green space for recreation and a vital safety buffer to help protect Paradise from future fire calamities. “We would work with either landowners on easements,” he suggests, “or looking at them from a standpoint of some purchases in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are areas you just don’t build in,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now it’s merely a vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks drive by scorched trees near Paradise. It is estimated that removal of debris from the fire will cost upwards of $1.7 billion, which will mostly be paid for by federal taxpayers. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The disaster industrial complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is up against the two-centuries-old American ethos to build, build, build, no matter the costs or the wisdom. It’s an ethos baked into the federal disaster response system, what critics call the “disaster industrial complex” — a system constructed around responding to natural disasters, delivering immediate and long-term aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians vow to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal agencies swoop in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signs sprout: “Paradise Strong!” and “We Will Rebuild!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wildfire and recovery experts warn that this immediate impulse to re-create what was there before the disaster is misguided, expensive and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There need to be more areas where building is limited, they argue, especially with the extraordinary buildup of forest fuels after \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-wildfire-suppression-in-wilderness-a-decades-old-conundrum\">a century of suppressing wildfire\u003c/a> and a warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Pimlott, who headed Cal Fire for over 30 years, walks through a suburban neighborhood that sits right next to highly combustible land. He says we can’t keep rebuilding in fire zones: “We’re going to be spending months looking for people. Bodies of people in rubble. And we can’t keep doing that.” \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The career fire, over and over again\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many veteran wildland firefighters are saying the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, starting at about 2014, we thought we were seeing the career fire. We thought, ‘We can’t get much worse.’ And every year it was getting worse,” says Ken Pimlott, who fought wildfires and led men and women doing the same for more than three decades. Pimlott recently retired as the director of the state agency known as Cal Fire. “Firefighters are seeing and living climate change firsthand,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His last five or six seasons, Pimlott says, you could feel the difference in the winds: more intense gusts fueling blowtorch-fast blazes that were bigger and lasted longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The wildland urban interface represents an issue across many parts of the West, where homes sit next to land with flammable vegetation. (Right) Ken Pimlott retired last year following the Camp Fire. He says that beginning around 2014, fires began getting worse and more frequent. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’re recording 70- and 80-mile-an-hour gusts in many of the locations where these fires are occurring,” he says. In the 2017 Thomas Fire in Southern California, a red flag alert — the highest fire and wind warning — lasted for an unprecedented 13 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These aren’t random. These are truly weather pattern changes that are being fueled by a changing climate,” he warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two years California has seen its deadliest and most destructive wildfires on record, including the Camp Fire in Butte County, which killed 85 people in and around Paradise and torched more than 19,000 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildland urban interface\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met up with Pimlott in the Pine Hill Preserve in Cameron Park, a suburban community in the Sierra Nevada foothills 30-plus miles east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" citation=\"Ken Pimlott, former Cal Fire chief\"]“I worry about it every day. There are hundreds of communities like those just here in California. It’s just a matter of time.”[/pullquote]Cameron Park is a small example of a big problem across the West: Wooden backyard fences for comfortable homes mark a fragile, artificial line between wildland and suburbia. It’s the classic wildland urban interface. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314\">growth of these areas\u003c/a> where homes and forests mix is a fire challenge across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to change the conversation to \u003cem>ahead\u003c/em> of the fire occurring,” Pimlott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the West, as development expands into this interface, Pimlott says, it is a kind of ticking firebomb. The potential site of future Paradises. “I worry about it every day. There are hundreds of communities like those just here in California. It’s just a matter of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11750796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1424\" height=\"1140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM.png 1424w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-800x640.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-1020x817.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-1200x961.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1424px) 100vw, 1424px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost half of new homes built in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://headwaterseconomics.org/dataviz/communities-wildfire-threat/\">are in this interface \u003c/a>where development meets highly combustible vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750797\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11750797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manzanita, a shrub found all over California, can be highly combustible. In determining fire risk throughout the year, Cal Fire measures the moisture content of different parts of various vegetation, including manzanita. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, the challenge is acute: About quarter of the state’s population — 11 million people — lives in high- or very high-fire-risk areas. One in three homes in the state is in this fire-prone area — from parts of Malibu to the Oakland hills to Paradise. \u003ca href=\"http://file///C:/Users/EWestervelt/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/2UJN38RI/Radeloff_etal_2018.pdf\">Research shows that\u003c/a> 75 percent of buildings destroyed by wildfire in California are in these WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1991 wildfire in the steep, densely populated Oakland and Berkeley hills killed 25 people and destroyed nearly 3,500 homes and apartments. That firestorm prompted the state to better map fire hazard zones and create tough new building codes for fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an April 2019 visit to those same East Bay hills that burned, Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case for better fire preparedness. “Over the last two years we’ve lost 139 lives; 2.8 million acres have been lost to wildfires,” Newsom said. “Ten of the most destructive fires have happened since just 2015. … I don’t know what more proof you need of the sense of urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defensible space is not enough\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encouraging people to have an evacuation plan and create a \u003ca href=\"http://www.readyforwildfire.org/Defensible-Space/\">100-foot buffer of “defensible space”\u003c/a> around their home — what firefighters have traditionally called basic wildfire preparation — are definitely important, Pimlott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not enough. He would like to see the Paradise tragedy spur broader discussions about where people can safely live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensible spaces, areas of cleared land around a home, act as a buffer between houses and potentially flammable vegetation. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Certainly I’m not advocating a ban on building in the urban interface. I think that obviously people are going to move and [there’s] landowner rights, all of that,” he says. “But at the end of the day we need to be looking at every development at every home and seeing if we can mitigate all aspects of [wildfire] before we build. And if we can’t, then maybe we have to make a decision that that’s not the right place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are not seriously debating new limits on where people build. Plans for new, large developments in fire-prone areas continue, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2019/tejon-ranch-california-condor-04-25-2019.php\">prompting lawsuits\u003c/a>. And some warn it’s not practical to relocate or buy out hundreds of thousands of people. But Paradise has changed the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Camp Fire leveled the town, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/03/22/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-on-wildfires-to-protect-states-most-vulnerable-communities/\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> — suspending some environmental regulations to fast-track tree removal, fuel reduction and firebreaks in \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_prevention/downloads/FuelReductionProjectList.pdf#_blank\">35 fire-vulnerable areas\u003c/a> around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also beefed up spending on firefighting, including new equipment and training, and has added funds to assess the effects of power line de-energizing by utilities in response to wildfires, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada City, Calif., is a former gold rush town that is populated with old wooden Victorian homes and buildings. To prepare for a wildfire emergency, the town is bringing back sirens as an alert system, a reaction to the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The next Paradise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many fire-exposed communities remain scared. They want bolder action. Post-Paradise, communities are “hardening” their towns against wildfire like never before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community is galvanizing itself like it’s galvanizing itself for a war,” says Reinette Senum, a vice mayor of Nevada City, Calif. It’s a gold rush mining town in the Sierra foothills packed with lots of lovely old Victorian homes — made of wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first we saw forest fires obliterate whole towns. That was a game-changer for us,” says Senum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11654027\"]Hardening this tourist-dependent town includes a mix of low- and high-tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is reinstalling old-school emergency alert sirens to warn residents of a coming firestorm. Senum says the last two fire seasons \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-paradise-evacuation-warnings-20181130-story.html\">exposed shocking flaws\u003c/a> in phone- and broadcast-based alert systems. In Paradise, only about a third of the few who had signed up for phone warnings actually received the alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And many of them perished waiting for that call or that text. We’re bringing back old-fashioned, hard-wired sirens with battery backup, a solar backup,” Senum explained. Nevada City hopes to have them up and running by early summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors, Senum says, are now talking about investing in full-body fire-resistant suits — like the ones NASCAR drivers use — in case they have to flee a fast-moving inferno like the one that hit Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All over town, lower branches on trees around homes are freshly trimmed so any wildfire can’t “ladder” up into the tree’s crowns and grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice mayor also started a successful \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/GoatFundMeNevadaCity\">“goat fund me” campaign \u003c/a>this spring to pay for brigades of hungry, brush-eating goats to munch away fuel on fire-prone hillsides and parks. The goats were helped by volunteer software engineers who aligned maps to direct the goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hired goat eats vegetation on a private landowner’s property in Auburn, Calif. Legacy Ranching hires out a mix of goats and sheep for fuel reduction jobs. The goats can climb trees and eat fuel high up while the sheep take care of the grasses. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-160x63.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-800x317.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-1020x404.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-1200x476.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-1920x761.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legacy Ranching says it is swamped with calls for the goats. Fencing directs the goats and sheep from an area that has already been eaten to a grove of trees full of fuel. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“High-tech, state-of-the-art software telling us that we’re doing the right thing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senum insists this strategic goat modeling isn’t some flaky Northern California pipe dream. “We’re just kind of taking up the old ways our grandparents used and using a lot of common sense that I think we’ve lost over the decades,” she says. The goats have been so effective, she hopes to bring them and hand crews back for a second round of clearing this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who can afford to are doing more than brush clearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-6_enl-70d2daaeb1f1b4e86e1623443c64fadce2ecf333-10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-6_enl-70d2daaeb1f1b4e86e1623443c64fadce2ecf333-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Bottaro and her husband have hardened their 164-year-old house in Nevada City. When the house was renovated, they used cement composite siding and plastic composite materials for the wraparound deck instead of wood. They also installed a rock garden in the front in lieu of potentially flammable plants. The rocks help retain moisture in the yard and keep the ground cool, Bottaro says.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christine Bottaro and her husband own a spacious, 164-year-old home next to a park where the goats cleared hillsides. Bottaro’s gold rush relic looks lovely yet vulnerable these days, like some giant Victorian-era matchstick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet looks are deceiving. She and her husband have spent sweat and money hardening the home against fire. They have cleared brush, trimmed trees and put in a rock garden where flammable plants once grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they have done much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That deck wraps around the house and it’s made out of a plastic composite; at least [it] is retarded for flames and embers,” she says, touring me around the outside. The home’s vulnerable siding is actually made out of a cement composite. “It’s not wood,” she says, knocking on the hard material. “This part is far less flammable than wood is.” They’re planning to replace old wooden-framed windows, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of clearing and hardening and educating people here are doing, I’m really blown away,” Senum says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-b-1_enl-215d982bae70b63e005831afb4b20cab81555577-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-b-1_enl-215d982bae70b63e005831afb4b20cab81555577-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottaro recognizes that the trees around her house pose a potential fire risk. She says that maintaining the vegetation in the backyard and creating defensible space around the house is one more step toward fire mitigation. Next to her house, the city hired goats to clear away overgrown raspberry bushes in a park.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paying for wildfire resilience\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But retrofitting is expensive. “So many people just don’t have the dollars or the capacity physically to do that,” says Senum. “So we’re constantly talking about how we can help those who can’t help themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California currently does almost nothing to incentivize or help homeowners pay to prepare their homes for wildfire safety, as it does for earthquakes. State and local authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/Press-Room/Press-Releases/2018/Earthquake-Brace-Bolt-surpasses-5-000-retrofits\">offer up to $3,000\u003c/a> and insurance discounts to help homeowners retrofit for quakes. A bill to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/7bd3b28966e74fec96ef301e696b4221\">a $1 billion fund\u003c/a> to create a similar program for wildfire retrofits has stalled in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom says he supports the idea, but funding it is the question. “We’ll try to do our best,” Newsom told reporters recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need is enormous. California already has the nation’s strictest building standards for fire protection. But that’s only for homes built after 2008. Tens of thousands of homes in the state were not built to the newer, tougher standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a major problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chicoer.com/2019/04/11/when-will-a-house-burn-california-wildfire-it-may-depend-on-when-it-was-built/\">Reports by McClatchy, The Associated Press and partner papers \u003c/a>showed that more than half of the homes in the path of the Camp Fire built to those stricter codes were largely undamaged. But just 18% of homes built before 2008 survived the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-160x57.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-800x283.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-1020x361.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-1200x425.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-1920x680.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) To mitigate fire risk, the town is increasing tree clearances around power lines to 12 feet from 7 feet. (Right) Replacing wood shake roofing with metal or asphalt can help prevent the spread of wildfire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate scientist Shaye Wolf with the Center for Biological Diversity says that it is shortsighted not to invest in retrofits now: “In this era of climate change, with so many homes in fire-prone ecosystems, it’s absolutely essential that … state and local governments do a much better job of preparing homes and communities to make those homes as fire resistant as possible,” Wolf says. “That’s where the money needs to be invested.” She criticized the governor’s emergency declaration as misguided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cal Fire is thinning forests away from where most Californians live and far from areas with big risks of wind-driven fires,” Wolf says. “The governor should reject this doomed, destructive approach and direct funding toward proven fire-safety strategies like retrofitting homes and improving defensible space around them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retrofitting may be costly, but building new homes to be wildfire-resistant can significantly reduce loss, says Kelly Pohl with Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit land management research group. A study \u003ca href=\"https://headwaterseconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/building-costs-codes-report.pdf\">by the group shows the cost is not prohibitive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mindset change; personal responsibility\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-plus hours southeast of Paradise, the Lake Tahoe tourist town of Truckee is also “hardening” itself for wildfire in new ways. The town, surrounded by national forest land, has accelerated work to expand key firebreaks around the area by thinning forest to create a protective “halo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-12_enl-505694e30b6a07a8e2bc299ab8bc8293a74a1e6b-10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-12_enl-505694e30b6a07a8e2bc299ab8bc8293a74a1e6b-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an effort to reduce fire risk in Truckee, the fire department banned backyard campfires during fire season.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in a major move for a tourist-dependent area that will soon crowd with summer renters, Truckee has banned the use of charcoal BBQs and wood-burning campfires this summer, except in designated campgrounds with metal fire pits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the wrong day with high winds, that’s a recipe for disaster,” says Truckee Fire Protection District Chief Bill Seline. Sometimes careless renters dump coals into a grassy or wooded area behind their rental home, “and next day the winds pick up, the temperatures heat up and next thing you know we’re chasing a wildfire through a neighborhood,” Seline says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Seline, the fire chief in Truckee, stands on a road between land that has been cleared of overgrown vegetation (left) and land that hasn’t (right). The Truckee Fire Department is involved in an effort to reduce fuel risk on 9.6 acres of land in this area. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a first for the area, Truckee has added a safety check to every real estate deal: Every home sold has to pass a wildfire defensible space inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seline says those moves are all important. But they’re not effective without homeowners taking action themselves, especially when it comes to planning and evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire and police, of course, will have a robust wildfire and evacuation response, Seline says. “But the third leg of the stool is personal responsibility … having your own personal plan: How are you going to get out of the neighborhood? Have you thought about evacuation? What you are going to take? Are you familiar with what critical fire weather is? Are you connected to the communication systems that we have in place so that when we and law enforcement agencies communicate with you to get out of the neighborhood, you have a plan and you’re ready to go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11750805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond defensible space and evacuation plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Cal Fire Director Pimlott believes a big lesson out of the Paradise tragedy has yet to sink in: There needs to be wholesale mindset change about wildfire in the West, he says, by everyone — homeowners, planners, builders and policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes tough choices and decisions about where people can build or rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-14_enl-a1be4321ff0ad0649aa2928f05e1489070616bab-9.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11750776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-14_enl-a1be4321ff0ad0649aa2928f05e1489070616bab-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seline examines a map of historic fires that have burned over 10 acres of land (yellow) in the Truckee area since 1908.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are hard decisions. They cost money. They may mean land use changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes should include embracing more prescribed burns to reduce fuels; expanding fire buffer zones and escape routes for the most susceptible towns; and incentivizing retrofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Pimlott says, being smarter and tougher about construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t look at [wildfire] differently and start making some hard decisions collectively we’re going to be back in these communities time and time again rebuilding. We’re going to be spending months looking for people. Bodies of people in rubble,” he warns. “And we can’t keep doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Efseaff is floating an idea that some may think radical: paying people not to rebuild in this slice of canyon: “The whole community needs some defensible space,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents would get expanded green space for recreation and a vital safety buffer to help protect Paradise from future fire calamities. “We would work with either landowners on easements,” he suggests, “or looking at them from a standpoint of some purchases in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are areas you just don’t build in,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now it’s merely a vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-img_3241-edit_custom-12b8a612a3eee8f04db1e1356997ea96a8142de2-s2400-c85-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks drive by scorched trees near Paradise. It is estimated that removal of debris from the fire will cost upwards of $1.7 billion, which will mostly be paid for by federal taxpayers. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The disaster industrial complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is up against the two-centuries-old American ethos to build, build, build, no matter the costs or the wisdom. It’s an ethos baked into the federal disaster response system, what critics call the “disaster industrial complex” — a system constructed around responding to natural disasters, delivering immediate and long-term aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians vow to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal agencies swoop in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signs sprout: “Paradise Strong!” and “We Will Rebuild!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wildfire and recovery experts warn that this immediate impulse to re-create what was there before the disaster is misguided, expensive and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There need to be more areas where building is limited, they argue, especially with the extraordinary buildup of forest fuels after \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-wildfire-suppression-in-wilderness-a-decades-old-conundrum\">a century of suppressing wildfire\u003c/a> and a warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-4_custom-985cc1b55fc8aa7856954ce490b85fd25d55cfc8-s2400-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Pimlott, who headed Cal Fire for over 30 years, walks through a suburban neighborhood that sits right next to highly combustible land. He says we can’t keep rebuilding in fire zones: “We’re going to be spending months looking for people. Bodies of people in rubble. And we can’t keep doing that.” \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The career fire, over and over again\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many veteran wildland firefighters are saying the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, starting at about 2014, we thought we were seeing the career fire. We thought, ‘We can’t get much worse.’ And every year it was getting worse,” says Ken Pimlott, who fought wildfires and led men and women doing the same for more than three decades. Pimlott recently retired as the director of the state agency known as Cal Fire. “Firefighters are seeing and living climate change firsthand,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His last five or six seasons, Pimlott says, you could feel the difference in the winds: more intense gusts fueling blowtorch-fast blazes that were bigger and lasted longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-duo-271df1bf5efbe1f2bce9bab942cf1612a7a4224f-s2400-c85-1-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The wildland urban interface represents an issue across many parts of the West, where homes sit next to land with flammable vegetation. (Right) Ken Pimlott retired last year following the Camp Fire. He says that beginning around 2014, fires began getting worse and more frequent. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’re recording 70- and 80-mile-an-hour gusts in many of the locations where these fires are occurring,” he says. In the 2017 Thomas Fire in Southern California, a red flag alert — the highest fire and wind warning — lasted for an unprecedented 13 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These aren’t random. These are truly weather pattern changes that are being fueled by a changing climate,” he warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two years California has seen its deadliest and most destructive wildfires on record, including the Camp Fire in Butte County, which killed 85 people in and around Paradise and torched more than 19,000 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildland urban interface\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met up with Pimlott in the Pine Hill Preserve in Cameron Park, a suburban community in the Sierra Nevada foothills 30-plus miles east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cameron Park is a small example of a big problem across the West: Wooden backyard fences for comfortable homes mark a fragile, artificial line between wildland and suburbia. It’s the classic wildland urban interface. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314\">growth of these areas\u003c/a> where homes and forests mix is a fire challenge across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to change the conversation to \u003cem>ahead\u003c/em> of the fire occurring,” Pimlott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the West, as development expands into this interface, Pimlott says, it is a kind of ticking firebomb. The potential site of future Paradises. “I worry about it every day. There are hundreds of communities like those just here in California. It’s just a matter of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11750796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1424\" height=\"1140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM.png 1424w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-800x640.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-1020x817.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.13.34-AM-1200x961.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1424px) 100vw, 1424px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost half of new homes built in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://headwaterseconomics.org/dataviz/communities-wildfire-threat/\">are in this interface \u003c/a>where development meets highly combustible vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750797\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11750797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-5_custom-5a9fa7740f92922a79e33a208bf3815c0d72e7e7-s2400-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manzanita, a shrub found all over California, can be highly combustible. In determining fire risk throughout the year, Cal Fire measures the moisture content of different parts of various vegetation, including manzanita. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, the challenge is acute: About quarter of the state’s population — 11 million people — lives in high- or very high-fire-risk areas. One in three homes in the state is in this fire-prone area — from parts of Malibu to the Oakland hills to Paradise. \u003ca href=\"http://file///C:/Users/EWestervelt/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/2UJN38RI/Radeloff_etal_2018.pdf\">Research shows that\u003c/a> 75 percent of buildings destroyed by wildfire in California are in these WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1991 wildfire in the steep, densely populated Oakland and Berkeley hills killed 25 people and destroyed nearly 3,500 homes and apartments. That firestorm prompted the state to better map fire hazard zones and create tough new building codes for fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an April 2019 visit to those same East Bay hills that burned, Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case for better fire preparedness. “Over the last two years we’ve lost 139 lives; 2.8 million acres have been lost to wildfires,” Newsom said. “Ten of the most destructive fires have happened since just 2015. … I don’t know what more proof you need of the sense of urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defensible space is not enough\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encouraging people to have an evacuation plan and create a \u003ca href=\"http://www.readyforwildfire.org/Defensible-Space/\">100-foot buffer of “defensible space”\u003c/a> around their home — what firefighters have traditionally called basic wildfire preparation — are definitely important, Pimlott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not enough. He would like to see the Paradise tragedy spur broader discussions about where people can safely live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-3_custom-3a756b0059e2344c78bd7449121e02448fd6251f-s2400-c85-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensible spaces, areas of cleared land around a home, act as a buffer between houses and potentially flammable vegetation. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Certainly I’m not advocating a ban on building in the urban interface. I think that obviously people are going to move and [there’s] landowner rights, all of that,” he says. “But at the end of the day we need to be looking at every development at every home and seeing if we can mitigate all aspects of [wildfire] before we build. And if we can’t, then maybe we have to make a decision that that’s not the right place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are not seriously debating new limits on where people build. Plans for new, large developments in fire-prone areas continue, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2019/tejon-ranch-california-condor-04-25-2019.php\">prompting lawsuits\u003c/a>. And some warn it’s not practical to relocate or buy out hundreds of thousands of people. But Paradise has changed the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Camp Fire leveled the town, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/03/22/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-on-wildfires-to-protect-states-most-vulnerable-communities/\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> — suspending some environmental regulations to fast-track tree removal, fuel reduction and firebreaks in \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_prevention/downloads/FuelReductionProjectList.pdf#_blank\">35 fire-vulnerable areas\u003c/a> around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also beefed up spending on firefighting, including new equipment and training, and has added funds to assess the effects of power line de-energizing by utilities in response to wildfires, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-17_custom-827421f9b54fca331a77ecd8f6ace2ac2eccfcbb-s2400-c85-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada City, Calif., is a former gold rush town that is populated with old wooden Victorian homes and buildings. To prepare for a wildfire emergency, the town is bringing back sirens as an alert system, a reaction to the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The next Paradise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many fire-exposed communities remain scared. They want bolder action. Post-Paradise, communities are “hardening” their towns against wildfire like never before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community is galvanizing itself like it’s galvanizing itself for a war,” says Reinette Senum, a vice mayor of Nevada City, Calif. It’s a gold rush mining town in the Sierra foothills packed with lots of lovely old Victorian homes — made of wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first we saw forest fires obliterate whole towns. That was a game-changer for us,” says Senum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hardening this tourist-dependent town includes a mix of low- and high-tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is reinstalling old-school emergency alert sirens to warn residents of a coming firestorm. Senum says the last two fire seasons \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-paradise-evacuation-warnings-20181130-story.html\">exposed shocking flaws\u003c/a> in phone- and broadcast-based alert systems. In Paradise, only about a third of the few who had signed up for phone warnings actually received the alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And many of them perished waiting for that call or that text. We’re bringing back old-fashioned, hard-wired sirens with battery backup, a solar backup,” Senum explained. Nevada City hopes to have them up and running by early summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors, Senum says, are now talking about investing in full-body fire-resistant suits — like the ones NASCAR drivers use — in case they have to flee a fast-moving inferno like the one that hit Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All over town, lower branches on trees around homes are freshly trimmed so any wildfire can’t “ladder” up into the tree’s crowns and grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice mayor also started a successful \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/GoatFundMeNevadaCity\">“goat fund me” campaign \u003c/a>this spring to pay for brigades of hungry, brush-eating goats to munch away fuel on fire-prone hillsides and parks. The goats were helped by volunteer software engineers who aligned maps to direct the goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-8_custom-b418dd09d2a23715bfd44ff75e34a136a15b8088-s2400-c85-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hired goat eats vegetation on a private landowner’s property in Auburn, Calif. Legacy Ranching hires out a mix of goats and sheep for fuel reduction jobs. The goats can climb trees and eat fuel high up while the sheep take care of the grasses. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-160x63.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-800x317.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-1020x404.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-1200x476.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-10-duo_custom-b4e8ebd1900b73e2a186e4767cedb4ca296f1770-s2400-c85-1920x761.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legacy Ranching says it is swamped with calls for the goats. Fencing directs the goats and sheep from an area that has already been eaten to a grove of trees full of fuel. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“High-tech, state-of-the-art software telling us that we’re doing the right thing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senum insists this strategic goat modeling isn’t some flaky Northern California pipe dream. “We’re just kind of taking up the old ways our grandparents used and using a lot of common sense that I think we’ve lost over the decades,” she says. The goats have been so effective, she hopes to bring them and hand crews back for a second round of clearing this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who can afford to are doing more than brush clearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-6_enl-70d2daaeb1f1b4e86e1623443c64fadce2ecf333-10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-6_enl-70d2daaeb1f1b4e86e1623443c64fadce2ecf333-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Bottaro and her husband have hardened their 164-year-old house in Nevada City. When the house was renovated, they used cement composite siding and plastic composite materials for the wraparound deck instead of wood. They also installed a rock garden in the front in lieu of potentially flammable plants. The rocks help retain moisture in the yard and keep the ground cool, Bottaro says.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christine Bottaro and her husband own a spacious, 164-year-old home next to a park where the goats cleared hillsides. Bottaro’s gold rush relic looks lovely yet vulnerable these days, like some giant Victorian-era matchstick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet looks are deceiving. She and her husband have spent sweat and money hardening the home against fire. They have cleared brush, trimmed trees and put in a rock garden where flammable plants once grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they have done much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That deck wraps around the house and it’s made out of a plastic composite; at least [it] is retarded for flames and embers,” she says, touring me around the outside. The home’s vulnerable siding is actually made out of a cement composite. “It’s not wood,” she says, knocking on the hard material. “This part is far less flammable than wood is.” They’re planning to replace old wooden-framed windows, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of clearing and hardening and educating people here are doing, I’m really blown away,” Senum says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-b-1_enl-215d982bae70b63e005831afb4b20cab81555577-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-b-1_enl-215d982bae70b63e005831afb4b20cab81555577-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottaro recognizes that the trees around her house pose a potential fire risk. She says that maintaining the vegetation in the backyard and creating defensible space around the house is one more step toward fire mitigation. Next to her house, the city hired goats to clear away overgrown raspberry bushes in a park.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paying for wildfire resilience\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But retrofitting is expensive. “So many people just don’t have the dollars or the capacity physically to do that,” says Senum. “So we’re constantly talking about how we can help those who can’t help themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California currently does almost nothing to incentivize or help homeowners pay to prepare their homes for wildfire safety, as it does for earthquakes. State and local authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/Press-Room/Press-Releases/2018/Earthquake-Brace-Bolt-surpasses-5-000-retrofits\">offer up to $3,000\u003c/a> and insurance discounts to help homeowners retrofit for quakes. A bill to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/7bd3b28966e74fec96ef301e696b4221\">a $1 billion fund\u003c/a> to create a similar program for wildfire retrofits has stalled in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom says he supports the idea, but funding it is the question. “We’ll try to do our best,” Newsom told reporters recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need is enormous. California already has the nation’s strictest building standards for fire protection. But that’s only for homes built after 2008. Tens of thousands of homes in the state were not built to the newer, tougher standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a major problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chicoer.com/2019/04/11/when-will-a-house-burn-california-wildfire-it-may-depend-on-when-it-was-built/\">Reports by McClatchy, The Associated Press and partner papers \u003c/a>showed that more than half of the homes in the path of the Camp Fire built to those stricter codes were largely undamaged. But just 18% of homes built before 2008 survived the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-160x57.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-800x283.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-1020x361.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-1200x425.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-diptych_custom-978f9a667db774d107189aca31e8e9406362d50b-s2400-c85-1920x680.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) To mitigate fire risk, the town is increasing tree clearances around power lines to 12 feet from 7 feet. (Right) Replacing wood shake roofing with metal or asphalt can help prevent the spread of wildfire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate scientist Shaye Wolf with the Center for Biological Diversity says that it is shortsighted not to invest in retrofits now: “In this era of climate change, with so many homes in fire-prone ecosystems, it’s absolutely essential that … state and local governments do a much better job of preparing homes and communities to make those homes as fire resistant as possible,” Wolf says. “That’s where the money needs to be invested.” She criticized the governor’s emergency declaration as misguided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cal Fire is thinning forests away from where most Californians live and far from areas with big risks of wind-driven fires,” Wolf says. “The governor should reject this doomed, destructive approach and direct funding toward proven fire-safety strategies like retrofitting homes and improving defensible space around them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retrofitting may be costly, but building new homes to be wildfire-resistant can significantly reduce loss, says Kelly Pohl with Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit land management research group. A study \u003ca href=\"https://headwaterseconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/building-costs-codes-report.pdf\">by the group shows the cost is not prohibitive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mindset change; personal responsibility\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-plus hours southeast of Paradise, the Lake Tahoe tourist town of Truckee is also “hardening” itself for wildfire in new ways. The town, surrounded by national forest land, has accelerated work to expand key firebreaks around the area by thinning forest to create a protective “halo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-12_enl-505694e30b6a07a8e2bc299ab8bc8293a74a1e6b-10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-12_enl-505694e30b6a07a8e2bc299ab8bc8293a74a1e6b-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an effort to reduce fire risk in Truckee, the fire department banned backyard campfires during fire season.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in a major move for a tourist-dependent area that will soon crowd with summer renters, Truckee has banned the use of charcoal BBQs and wood-burning campfires this summer, except in designated campgrounds with metal fire pits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the wrong day with high winds, that’s a recipe for disaster,” says Truckee Fire Protection District Chief Bill Seline. Sometimes careless renters dump coals into a grassy or wooded area behind their rental home, “and next day the winds pick up, the temperatures heat up and next thing you know we’re chasing a wildfire through a neighborhood,” Seline says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-13_custom-31638eb337df5c96c01dc0f5434f1c2f8704b7a8-s2400-c85-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Seline, the fire chief in Truckee, stands on a road between land that has been cleared of overgrown vegetation (left) and land that hasn’t (right). The Truckee Fire Department is involved in an effort to reduce fuel risk on 9.6 acres of land in this area. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a first for the area, Truckee has added a safety check to every real estate deal: Every home sold has to pass a wildfire defensible space inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seline says those moves are all important. But they’re not effective without homeowners taking action themselves, especially when it comes to planning and evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire and police, of course, will have a robust wildfire and evacuation response, Seline says. “But the third leg of the stool is personal responsibility … having your own personal plan: How are you going to get out of the neighborhood? Have you thought about evacuation? What you are going to take? Are you familiar with what critical fire weather is? Are you connected to the communication systems that we have in place so that when we and law enforcement agencies communicate with you to get out of the neighborhood, you have a plan and you’re ready to go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11750805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-11_custom-c38bb87dfa4bde16e91e3b224defa26231cd080b-s2400-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond defensible space and evacuation plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Cal Fire Director Pimlott believes a big lesson out of the Paradise tragedy has yet to sink in: There needs to be wholesale mindset change about wildfire in the West, he says, by everyone — homeowners, planners, builders and policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes tough choices and decisions about where people can build or rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-14_enl-a1be4321ff0ad0649aa2928f05e1489070616bab-9.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11750776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-resilience-14_enl-a1be4321ff0ad0649aa2928f05e1489070616bab-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seline examines a map of historic fires that have burned over 10 acres of land (yellow) in the Truckee area since 1908.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are hard decisions. They cost money. They may mean land use changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes should include embracing more prescribed burns to reduce fuels; expanding fire buffer zones and escape routes for the most susceptible towns; and incentivizing retrofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Pimlott says, being smarter and tougher about construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t look at [wildfire] differently and start making some hard decisions collectively we’re going to be back in these communities time and time again rebuilding. We’re going to be spending months looking for people. Bodies of people in rubble,” he warns. “And we can’t keep doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The fact that Attaway’s home was still standing was an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But six months later, Attaway — who grew up in Paradise and has lived there for decades — thinks differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish it would’ve burned,” she said. “And I hate to say that, but the nightmare and the stress and the agony that my insurance has caused me these last six months, I’m reliving the trauma every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home next to Attaway’s did burn, and the adjacent flames, she said, caused “terrible” damage to her home, outside and in, making it uninhabitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have smoke and ash all the way through my home, broken glass everywhere and my utilities burned,” she said. “My windows were blown out, and I was looted, so my doors are broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the physical damage, there’s also the smell — a rotting refrigerator compounded with lingering smoke — that’s ruined the clothing Attaway and her family left behind when they fled from the fire.[pullquote align='right' citation='Misty Attaway']‘The nightmare and the stress and the agony that my insurance has caused me these last six months, I’m reliving the trauma every day.’[/pullquote]When she reached out to her insurance provider — Los Angeles-based Mercury Insurance — for help, Attaway said, she got almost nothing: “Without power, [without] water, my insurance company told me to live there with an outhouse and a generator with my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurance company responded after this story was initially published and disputed Attaway’s characterization of their responsiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercury, Attaway said, did give her a $10,000 check right after the fire as a portion of the Additional Living Expenses (ALE) coverage of her homeowners policy, but she said the company told her not to cash the check because her structure was still standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not cash that check because I was told not to,” she said. 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