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"content": "\u003cp>Paradise had a population of about 25,000 until it was almost entirely wiped out by the Camp Fire nearly three months ago. It was the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in the U.S. in more than a century. Now, despite a massive effort to clean up, restore power and make plans to rebuild, the town remains largely uninhabitable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still burned out cars, pickups and school buses lining its roads. Neighborhoods remain unrecognizable to even longtime residents. There's ash and toxic debris everywhere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been staring at these same businesses and these same homes, burned down in our neighborhoods for over two months,\" says Duane Crowder, a volunteer who's coordinating disaster relief. \"Nothing has been done with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/img_8813_wide-31c4dcdd18485c2ec4bfaa7409e24e1f2b0e6a55-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"Duane Crowder is coordinating disaster relief at the Magalia Baptist Church, where 300-600 people show up each day for free meals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11722955\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duane Crowder is coordinating disaster relief at the Magalia Baptist Church, where 300-600 people show up each day for free meals. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, all around Paradise, utility crews are putting power lines back up on the windy one-way-in, one-way-out streets and cul-de-sacs where lot after lot is burned out. Gas lines and phone service are also being restored. But for whom? Some former residents and local leaders are starting to question whether anyone is really going to live here anytime soon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Paradise will probably not rebuild for a decade,\" Crowder says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monumental task of removing that debris is beginning this week in earnest, a job that could take well over a year. Disaster response officials say it's on a scale not seen in this country since the Sept. 11 attacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after that, rebuilding is no guarantee for a lot of people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowder's father is the pastor at the Magalia Baptist Church, which did not burn. After the fire, the family transformed the facility into an aid station, a lifeline for up to 600 people per day. They come for free meals, pick up donated clothes, shoes. Spend just a few minutes there, and it's remarkable how fast the cases of bottled water get distributed from large pallets that Crowder can't get enough of. Paradise's water isn't safe to drink. Benzenes from burning plastics, soot and ash seeped into the town's water supply. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"Homes leveled by the Camp Fire line the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park retirement community in Paradise seen last December.\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11722956\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-1920x1082.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes leveled by the Camp Fire line the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park retirement community in Paradise seen last December. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the people who are still here have few other options but to live in their cars or a camper on their burned out property. A lot of people who could leave have left. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People have just said you know what, nuts to it, we're out of here, there's not going to be anything here,\" Crowder says. \"As the time goes on people start to realize, how much time this is going to take.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No going back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda Oslin, 73, and her husband Bob, who's 85, lost their home in Paradise. They had lived there since 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been staying with friends in a little town down in the valley ever since. Just along one small country lane, there are at least three other families doubling up in homes, in similar states of limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple has already decided they won't rebuild. They don't want to go back. One of the biggest concerns is the toxicity. They were avid gardeners, and if it's going to take more than a year just to clear the lots, they say, it's anybody's guess when crews will get around to theirs. No one can even start planning to rebuild until the debris is removed, and the government has certified the sites are safe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then to get a contractor and they're going to be rebuilding, what, 14,000 homes,\" Bob says. \"At my age, I don't have years.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oslins watched as it went from a quiet, country town to a commuter city built out into the woods. It was cheaper — a haven for retirees on fixed incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Oslins, and a lot of other people, were traumatized by the fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just don't want to go back up there,\" Bob says. \"I don't know if I could sleep well if I woke up at two o'clock in the morning and heard the wind blowing, 40 miles and it's 80 degrees out, I'd lay there just wide awake thinking, 'oh boy.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They recently bought a new house in nearby Oroville. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding an entire city\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire has again exposed the high risk of living in overgrown forests now prone to even more severe wildfires due to climate change. The aftermath is leading some to wonder whether this country's immediate response to natural disasters, the rush to rebuild and put everything back how it was, is the right thing to do. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders like Ed Mayer, for instance, say they've been puzzled by the apparent rush by utility crews to reinstall a lot of the infrastructure in Paradise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their charge, given their funding streams, is to rebuild what was there, whether that makes sense or not,\" says Mayer, the executive director of the Housing Authority for Butte County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a chicken-and-egg dilemma, though: how do you begin to even recover from a disaster if there's no infrastructure to support it? For most, rebuilding is so far off in the future that Mayer is doing all he can to help people relocate, mostly out of state. There was already a severe housing shortage here before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/img_8811_wide-ded7acf4b11e3340be9979ceab0de511131f98d1-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"For many in Paradise, the reality is starting to sink in that it could take years to recover let alone rebuild.\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11722957\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many in Paradise, the reality is starting to sink in that it could take years to recover let alone rebuild. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We see these populations coming out of Paradise, they want to stay with their community, they've been here for decades,\" he says. \"But really, that's not an option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not an option right now for a place that is basically a skeleton — they're trucking in water to make coffee at Starbucks, the hospital is shuttered, the Safeway is rubble. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monumental task of removing that debris is beginning this week in earnest, a job that could take well over a year. Disaster response officials say it's on a scale not seen in this country since the Sept. 11 attacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after that, rebuilding is no guarantee for a lot of people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowder's father is the pastor at the Magalia Baptist Church, which did not burn. After the fire, the family transformed the facility into an aid station, a lifeline for up to 600 people per day. They come for free meals, pick up donated clothes, shoes. Spend just a few minutes there, and it's remarkable how fast the cases of bottled water get distributed from large pallets that Crowder can't get enough of. Paradise's water isn't safe to drink. Benzenes from burning plastics, soot and ash seeped into the town's water supply. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"Homes leveled by the Camp Fire line the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park retirement community in Paradise seen last December.\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11722956\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18337858678274_wide-37017178bf0d0820d80bcb7bf04e7246aa264415-1920x1082.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes leveled by the Camp Fire line the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park retirement community in Paradise seen last December. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the people who are still here have few other options but to live in their cars or a camper on their burned out property. A lot of people who could leave have left. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People have just said you know what, nuts to it, we're out of here, there's not going to be anything here,\" Crowder says. \"As the time goes on people start to realize, how much time this is going to take.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No going back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda Oslin, 73, and her husband Bob, who's 85, lost their home in Paradise. They had lived there since 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been staying with friends in a little town down in the valley ever since. Just along one small country lane, there are at least three other families doubling up in homes, in similar states of limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple has already decided they won't rebuild. They don't want to go back. One of the biggest concerns is the toxicity. They were avid gardeners, and if it's going to take more than a year just to clear the lots, they say, it's anybody's guess when crews will get around to theirs. No one can even start planning to rebuild until the debris is removed, and the government has certified the sites are safe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then to get a contractor and they're going to be rebuilding, what, 14,000 homes,\" Bob says. \"At my age, I don't have years.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oslins watched as it went from a quiet, country town to a commuter city built out into the woods. It was cheaper — a haven for retirees on fixed incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Oslins, and a lot of other people, were traumatized by the fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just don't want to go back up there,\" Bob says. \"I don't know if I could sleep well if I woke up at two o'clock in the morning and heard the wind blowing, 40 miles and it's 80 degrees out, I'd lay there just wide awake thinking, 'oh boy.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They recently bought a new house in nearby Oroville. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding an entire city\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire has again exposed the high risk of living in overgrown forests now prone to even more severe wildfires due to climate change. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of refugees from the Camp Fire will be spending Christmas with friends and family next week, many of them in Chico. The city has become a safe haven, not just for those burned-out individuals, but for several religious congregations, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last month, \u003ca href=\"http://paradise1st.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Assembly Paradise\u003c/a> and its sister in \u003ca href=\"http://chico1st.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chico, First Assembly,\u003c/a> have blended together. Leaders of both churches run the services, including youth pastor \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/kyle-bentley-and-brandy-restart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Smith\u003c/a> of Paradise and his family. They are currently living in a 26-foot trailer outside his brother-in-law’s house in Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just didn’t know where our help was going to come from. But when I opened up my eyes the next day, all the phone calls we received, the funds that came through, the blessings that came in, I saw rivers in a desert place,\" Smith said, referencing the Book of Isaiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isaiah 43:18-19 New International Version (NIV)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>19: See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Listen to First Assembly Paradise and its sister church, Chico First Assembly, sing \"The Stand\" by the Australian Christian band \u003ca href=\"https://hillsong.com/united/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillsong United\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/547877892\" params=\"color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pews in Chico are packed now every Sunday, but Smith says they’re all too aware of who’s not there — or who’s about to leave for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first couple of weeks we had more, but people have since had to move and relocate out of state, and the Bay Area, different places, just to have someplace safe to be and stay,\" Smith said. \"We have phones. We have social media and we can stay connected that way, but it is hard not to see them like we did in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $10,000 in gift cards and donations from other churches have rolled in, which the combo congregation intends to share widely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will First Assembly Paradise rebuild? That’s the hope, two or three years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don’t have plans. We don’t have a blueprint. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846730/love-song-to-paradise-goes-from-viral-hit-to-nashville-studio-single\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One of these days\u003c/a>! We don’t know when, but it’s coming,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'It Was Easy For Us'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The congregations of Second Baptist Church Chico and First Baptist Church of Paradise sing the classic African-American spiritual, \"Go Tell It on the Mountain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/547902651\" params=\"color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no time limit to the welcome coming from \u003ca href=\"http://www.secondbaptistchico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Baptist Church Chico\u003c/a>. For the last 12 years, Pastor Joseph Kiwovele has been good friends with Sam Walker, who leads two burned-out Paradise congregations: \u003ca href=\"http://www.hareiyeshua.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harei Yeshua\u003c/a>, a Messianic Jewish community, which meets on Saturdays, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbcparadise.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Baptist Church Paradise\u003c/a>, which meets on Sundays now in conjunction with Second Baptist Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an organic thing. I told Pastor Sam, this building is an open building. As long as there is a need of it, it will be open,\" Pastor Kiwovele said, adding a thought common among Chico’s faithful: They have an \u003ci>opportunity\u003c/i> this holiday season to practice the spiritual values they believe in most dearly in the most practical way possible — by taking in congregations made homeless by the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\">Walker writes the love keeps coming in remarkably thoughtful and directed ways. After finding out that he lost his home in the fire, Pastor Tim Rhul of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pvbaptist.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pleasant Valley Baptist Church\u003c/a> raised money to buy Walker and another pastor two suits apiece. \"This was very thoughtful, since we may be needing formal dress in the near future to preside over several memorials for church members that we have lost in the fire.\"\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\"We are in a warm place. We are in a place that is still standing. We thank the Lord for that,\" Walker said as he launched into a recent Saturday service that Harei Yeshua posted on Facebook:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhareiyeshua%2Fvideos%2F760560637623172%2F&show_text=0&width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Walker added, referencing \u003ca href=\"https://biblehub.com/psalms/37-25.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psalm 37:25\u003c/a>, \"I've been really blessed, and for me it's just reinforced the passage where it says 'I've never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.' 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an organic thing. I told Pastor Sam, this building is an open building. As long as there is a need of it, it will be open,\" Pastor Kiwovele said, adding a thought common among Chico’s faithful: They have an \u003ci>opportunity\u003c/i> this holiday season to practice the spiritual values they believe in most dearly in the most practical way possible — by taking in congregations made homeless by the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\">Walker writes the love keeps coming in remarkably thoughtful and directed ways. After finding out that he lost his home in the fire, Pastor Tim Rhul of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pvbaptist.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pleasant Valley Baptist Church\u003c/a> raised money to buy Walker and another pastor two suits apiece. \"This was very thoughtful, since we may be needing formal dress in the near future to preside over several memorials for church members that we have lost in the fire.\"\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\"We are in a warm place. We are in a place that is still standing. We thank the Lord for that,\" Walker said as he launched into a recent Saturday service that Harei Yeshua posted on Facebook:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhareiyeshua%2Fvideos%2F760560637623172%2F&show_text=0&width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Walker added, referencing \u003ca href=\"https://biblehub.com/psalms/37-25.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psalm 37:25\u003c/a>, \"I've been really blessed, and for me it's just reinforced the passage where it says 'I've never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.' Sometimes, our whole life gets rearranged, but He is still faithful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>All the evacuation orders for the\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)\"> Camp Fire\u003c/a> finally lifted in Paradise over the weekend, and many people drove back in to assess their burned homes. But the fire did spare the occasional house, which is hard for the owners in a different way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve and Kari Eurotas, ages 64 and 60, have the lone house standing in their immediate neighborhood on the south end of Paradise. Their nearly 3,000-square-foot home — with a vaulted ceiling, wood-burning stove and deck — sits on a 3-acre lot overlooking a valley of trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just do not understand how our house is still here,” says Steve, shaking his head, eyes watering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking inside their home, which has been empty for over a month, everything looks perfect, except for the strong smell. It smells burned, rotted, and has a hint of chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no water, no power, no gas,” says Kari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714171\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11714171 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cream-of-wheat-e1545348550930-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Steve's breakfast, left on the counter as he rushed to evacuate. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cream-of-wheat-e1545348550930-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cream-of-wheat-e1545348550930-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cream-of-wheat-e1545348550930-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cream-of-wheat-e1545348550930-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cream-of-wheat-e1545348550930.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve's breakfast, left on the counter as he rushed to evacuate. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The home is a time capsule to Nov. 8, when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicoer.com/tag/camp-fire/\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> forced them to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is the way it was when we left. There's a dried-up bowl of oatmeal,” says Kari. “It's cream of wheat with raspberries,” Steve says, remembering his last breakfast there. Their bed is unmade, covers turned back, like someone had just woken up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's bizarre, but the smell is about the only thing wrong with the home. While almost everything around them lies in ruins. Kari says she has mixed feelings about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not super-excited that it's standing. But, I just think; I’m going to start crying,” Kari says, her voice breaking. “It limits our choices. Most of our friends are leaving and not rebuilding.” Her mother lost her house, as did many people they knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because their house is still there, they won't get to claim a total loss on their insurance, likely just smoke damage. And because of that, they can’t decide to rebuild or move somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They feel bad saying this, because of all the people they know who lost everything. But when you look around their charred neighborhood, it’s hard to imagine living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they could leave, would they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now? Probably. It's really hard, because all of my family's lost their homes, our friends, too. So it's kind of like, our Paradise? It's gone,” says Kari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple can't move back yet, because of the smoke damage and lack of utilities. So, they're living in a single-wide mobile home with friends in Chico for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one thing Steve had to get from the house before they headed back to Chico. He points to a suitcase. \"It's very dear to me this time of year. It's my red-and-white suit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's his Santa suit,\" says Kari, laughing. \"He's been Santa every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, Steve would be all booked up for “celebrity appearances,” but he says, “you know, there's no parties in Paradise this year, no Christmas parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s a Santa without a gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve and Kari had planned to sell the house in a couple of years, so they could retire in Chico. But with the uncertainty in the real estate market and the future of Paradise, that's all on hold now. 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But there's more than enough to keep talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public radio host Tess Vigeland was between jobs when she spotted a Facebook post from NSPR’s general manager, Phil Wilke, saying, “Look, we have a teeny tiny staff. It’s been the most horrendous, tough couple weeks of our careers and we need help!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigeland then spent three weeks helping to launch \"After Paradise\" as a volunteer host, producer, reporter and editor. She saw the story evolve over that short time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is going to be a very long recovery process for the entire community, here in Chico and Paradise and beyond, and we’re here for that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After Paradise\" features interviews with government officials, insurance experts, psychotherapists and others living through the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in California history. At a time when most national reporters have decamped to cover new headlines, Butte County locals still need a place to talk about what's going on for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713663\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/programs/after-paradise#stream/0\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-800x384.jpg\" alt='\"After Paradise,\" a production of North State Public Radio, broadcasts weekly on Thursday nights.' width=\"800\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-160x77.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-240x115.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-375x180.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/After-Paradise-Logo-Color-Horizontal-R2-1_7-520x250.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"After Paradise,\" a production of North State Public Radio, broadcasts weekly on Thursday nights. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NSPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, you don’t need to live near Chico to hear more about the awful day the fire struck, from folks like the Rev. Ron Zimmer of \u003ca href=\"http://eastavechurch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Avenue Church\u003c/a> in Chico, who provided shelter for many fleeing in the early days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After Paradise\" also serves up forward-looking conversations with people like \u003ca href=\"https://www.townofparadise.com/index.php/our-government/town-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Jody Jones\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have an opportunity to do things better. To look at some of our streets so that we have better evacuation routes. To look at our building so we have more fireproof structures in town. Those sorts of things,\" Jones said on a recent show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigeland added, \"We are at the crossroads of human suffering and human resilience, and it is a fascinating place at which to stand and watch how people get through something like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilke was general manager at NSPR for less than three months before the Camp Fire broke out Nov. 8. He wrote in the public media industry publication \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2018/12/with-generous-help-from-volunteers-overextended-california-station-creates-local-show-about-wildfire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Current\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"I really hate to say this, but the experience of covering the Camp Fire has prepared us to respond to the next emergency. We know how to deploy reporters, board ops, volunteers and interns. We have a playbook — though it’s one you don’t want to use because it means your listeners and your community are in trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigeland headed home to Portland. She'll be helping out remotely, but she's leaving the show in the capable hands of the station's two-person newsroom, consisting of Marc Albert and Sarah Bohannon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New volunteers are welcome to join the effort.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny’s home is just the latest mega-fire in California — and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands — in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa — helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas — Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state’s WUI is made up of chaparral — dry shrubland — that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour — who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 — agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve taken a lot of land in [California] … that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages … and now you put homes in there,” Harbour said. “Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major concern,” Ting said. “We’ve had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever’s possible to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request — but insufficient. November’s Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington’s top fires. And the daily reports aren’t even complete– reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California’s costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state’s unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California’s most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon’s priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington’s fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California’s Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,” read the second of the Butte firefighters’ Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington’s most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon’s most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California’s 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are “always going to be more costly,” said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. “It costs more money when you’re bringing in more expensive resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million — 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it “took forever” to get into Placerville from the forest. “Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.”\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California’s WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a huge chess game,” Huang said. “We have fire engines … trying to put out the fire … a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don’t catch on fire, and at the same time we’re working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like that,” Harbour said of the smoke produced. “You don’t like it. The American public doesn’t like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts “a little bit more teeth” into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands — for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901’s changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we call a moral hazard … [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a “working group” to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor’s office. The appointee would be charged with “developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,” said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE’s climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month’s Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just like the mountains. We like the trees,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else’s: “Get the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not sure yet where he will land — Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how ridiculous it sounds,” he said. “But that’s the kind of country we like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny’s home is just the latest mega-fire in California — and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands — in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa — helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas — Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state’s WUI is made up of chaparral — dry shrubland — that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour — who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 — agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve taken a lot of land in [California] … that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages … and now you put homes in there,” Harbour said. “Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major concern,” Ting said. “We’ve had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever’s possible to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request — but insufficient. November’s Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington’s top fires. And the daily reports aren’t even complete– reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California’s costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state’s unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California’s most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon’s priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington’s fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California’s Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,” read the second of the Butte firefighters’ Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington’s most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon’s most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California’s 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are “always going to be more costly,” said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. “It costs more money when you’re bringing in more expensive resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million — 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it “took forever” to get into Placerville from the forest. “Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.”\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California’s WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a huge chess game,” Huang said. “We have fire engines … trying to put out the fire … a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don’t catch on fire, and at the same time we’re working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like that,” Harbour said of the smoke produced. “You don’t like it. The American public doesn’t like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts “a little bit more teeth” into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands — for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901’s changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we call a moral hazard … [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a “working group” to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor’s office. The appointee would be charged with “developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,” said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE’s climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month’s Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just like the mountains. We like the trees,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else’s: “Get the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not sure yet where he will land — Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how ridiculous it sounds,” he said. “But that’s the kind of country we like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric has dismissed a cleanup contractor after three of its employees shared photos of fire-damaged properties in Paradise on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Facebook photos included a dead cat posed next to a liquor bottle with insensitive captions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contractor, San Leandro-based Bigge Crane and Rigging Co., has fired the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Smith, a spokesman for the company says it learned of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/townofparadise/posts/2151670054895371\">postings\u003c/a> Friday night. By Saturday, the company started an investigation and came to the conclusion that the postings did not meet the company's standards, Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do take this very seriously and we feel terrible for everybody in Paradise and thought it was a completely insensitive posting,\" Smith says. \"We expect all of our employees to conduct themselves with utmost integrity and sensitivity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and multiple news stories identified one of the employees as Rob Freestone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11713225\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.56-PM.png 944w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.56-PM-160x86.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.56-PM-800x429.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11713226\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"934\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.45-PM.png 934w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.45-PM-160x84.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.45-PM-800x421.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.45-PM-240x126.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.45-PM-375x198.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-5.33.45-PM-520x274.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno calls the posts reprehensible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As soon as we learned of what was going on, we reacted immediately and reached out to the contractor,\" said Moreno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise police say they are still investigating whether any crimes were committed. Police spokesman Matt Gates told KQED that \"the penal code is a big book and I'm sure there's something that applies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contractor says it employed a dozen workers in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]anet and Don Clark are used to spending time apart. Janet's a big camper, and she used to leave their Paradise home for weeks at a time for camping trips. But that was before the deadliest wildfire in modern California history swept through and destroyed their town. And the two weeks they spent apart after the blaze were different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> broke out early Nov. 8, Janet and Don knew they needed to get out. They could see the flames from their home of more than 30 years, so they packed up some of their belongings in separate cars and left. But once they got on the road, traffic was gridlocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People just got out of their cars,\" Don said. \"[They] just left 'em right in the middle of the road and took off running.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We can’t afford to really move somewhere else ... We’re old, y’know, and that’s a lot of people. A lot of people are elderly. How do you start over and how long do you wait before you start over?'\u003ccite>Janet Clark\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So he turned his van around and went back to their property. The fire had already moved through the area, so he figured it was safe enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Janet stayed, stuck in traffic. The smoke made the skyline dark and hard to see. At one point, a bicycle seat sticking out of her window caught on fire and she had to pull over, with propane tanks exploding and new flames erupting all around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After several hours, she was finally able to make it off the hill and into Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Paradise, their home was gone. It burned down within 10 minutes. But Don Clark stayed — for 14 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was not allowed to leave the property,\" Don said. That's because of laws requiring people to shelter in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said that he did sneak away, \"but if I was caught off the property, they could force me to go to Chico. You can stay here as long as you don't leave. Once you leave, you're not allowed to come back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said he initially spent his time walking around the neighborhood, clearing brush and trying to put out spot fires he saw near vacant properties. Some of his neighbors even credit him with saving their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I served a purpose being here,\" he said. \"Because the firemen had to drive up and down the road, they didn't have time to go down these little roads and put out little fires that are still burning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the fires went out, Don still stayed. He took stock of their losses and organized some of the remnants of their old home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11712166 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"A few of the Clarks' Christmas ornaments, and Janet's SF Giants mug, were spared by the Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few of the Clarks' Christmas ornaments, and Janet's San Francisco Giants mug, were spared by the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Siegel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were also a number of animals left behind in the fire. Don took it upon himself to watch over and feed them. His neighbors have a cat, and he'd slide food under their door whenever he got a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just did things I thought might be good,\" Don said. \"There were horses and animals here for a while. I'd take them little things that I'd find, like an apple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don's a big blues fan and a seasoned musician. He and some other residents used to get together weekly for jam sessions. When the fire hit, Don was able to save a guitar, an amplifier and a generator. But he didn't have a cord to connect the instrument to the amp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So firefighters brought him one, free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The firemen were good to me,\" Don recalled. \"They brought me food. They brought me water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said he would spend his days sitting outside the rubble of his old home, playing guitar, watching first responders and PG&E crews drive by, all while coming to terms with his loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So this is my situation,\" he said. \"I could hate it — which I do — and I could be very mad, and I could get all uptight inside. Or I could just let it go. And I had two weeks to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Janet, who fled the fire zone, her experience was much different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11712159 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Clark holds a photograph of her husband Don and herself standing in front of their now-destroyed home, adorned with Christmas decorations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Clark holds a photograph of her husband, Don, and herself standing in front of their now-destroyed home, adorned with the Christmas decorations they were famous for. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her hours-long trip out of Paradise, Janet started sleeping off and on outside the Walmart parking lot. While Don had weeks stuck at the site coming to terms with his situation, Janet was seeing it for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't even recognize my own house,\" said Janet. \"I can't even \u003cem>recognize\u003c/em> my own house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their lot were the remnants of what used to be a small house, several cars and a motor home that Janet would use for camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had five tents, five canopies, six heaters, seven lanterns,\" said Janet. All of it was destroyed in the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old cars had Christmas presents hidden in them. All of them burned in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything, I just keep going over it,\" said Janet. \"Everything. And you'll think of something you haven't even thought about and just... boom. Gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711341/with-help-from-strangers-on-airbnb-paradise-family-lands-on-its-feet\">With Help From Strangers on Airbnb, Paradise Family Lands on Its Feet\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711341/with-help-from-strangers-on-airbnb-paradise-family-lands-on-its-feet\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34403_Photo-Dec-09-12-29-02-PM-qut-1180x841.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Clarks are famous for their yearly Christmas display. Colorful strings of lights and decorations, given to them by friends and family, would blanket the yard. When the fire hit, they'd already started putting up the first of their decorations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remnants of the display still circle the yard. Charred icicle lights and burned plastic Christmas trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had so many beautiful things,\" said Janet. \"My house was such shit, but I had a lot of beautiful, beautiful things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what's next for the Clarks. The lot they live on is paid for, but they don't have insurance and Janet doesn't have a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can’t afford to really move somewhere else,\" said Janet. \"Y’know, the land’s paid for. We gotta figure out ... we’re old, y’know, and that’s a lot of people. A lot of people are elderly. How do you start over and how long do you wait before you start over?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if you start over, there are some things you can't rebuild. Like Janet's baseball memorabilia, which she'd been collecting for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, sifting through the debris, Janet did find one thing that made her smile. Her San Francisco Giants mug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said that he did sneak away, \"but if I was caught off the property, they could force me to go to Chico. You can stay here as long as you don't leave. Once you leave, you're not allowed to come back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said he initially spent his time walking around the neighborhood, clearing brush and trying to put out spot fires he saw near vacant properties. Some of his neighbors even credit him with saving their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I served a purpose being here,\" he said. \"Because the firemen had to drive up and down the road, they didn't have time to go down these little roads and put out little fires that are still burning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the fires went out, Don still stayed. He took stock of their losses and organized some of the remnants of their old home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11712166 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"A few of the Clarks' Christmas ornaments, and Janet's SF Giants mug, were spared by the Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksBelongings.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few of the Clarks' Christmas ornaments, and Janet's San Francisco Giants mug, were spared by the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Siegel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were also a number of animals left behind in the fire. Don took it upon himself to watch over and feed them. His neighbors have a cat, and he'd slide food under their door whenever he got a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just did things I thought might be good,\" Don said. \"There were horses and animals here for a while. I'd take them little things that I'd find, like an apple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don's a big blues fan and a seasoned musician. He and some other residents used to get together weekly for jam sessions. When the fire hit, Don was able to save a guitar, an amplifier and a generator. But he didn't have a cord to connect the instrument to the amp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So firefighters brought him one, free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The firemen were good to me,\" Don recalled. \"They brought me food. They brought me water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said he would spend his days sitting outside the rubble of his old home, playing guitar, watching first responders and PG&E crews drive by, all while coming to terms with his loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So this is my situation,\" he said. \"I could hate it — which I do — and I could be very mad, and I could get all uptight inside. Or I could just let it go. And I had two weeks to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Janet, who fled the fire zone, her experience was much different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11712159 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Clark holds a photograph of her husband Don and herself standing in front of their now-destroyed home, adorned with Christmas decorations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ClarksChristmas.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Clark holds a photograph of her husband, Don, and herself standing in front of their now-destroyed home, adorned with the Christmas decorations they were famous for. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her hours-long trip out of Paradise, Janet started sleeping off and on outside the Walmart parking lot. 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