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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In an effort to provide housing to a handful of the roughly 200 people living in a sprawling homeless encampment along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the purchase of two multi-unit properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it’s a critical step in the right direction,” said Supervisor Lynda Hopkins, whose district includes the encampment. She noted, however, that it was just one step in a much larger effort. “I think it’s really important to recognize that two homes are not going to solve the crisis of homelessness that we’re currently experiencing in Sonoma County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is buying the two homes — located on Sonoma Avenue in Santa Rosa and Arthur Street in Cotati — for just over $2.1 million, including furniture, the board said. Both properties have two bedrooms and additional detached units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money comes from the roughly $5 million the county recently allocated from the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“No Place Like Home”\u003c/a> program, and an additional $1 million from its own general fund, which it plans to use to purchase up to five shared housing properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board on Monday announced that it will not purchase a third property it had been considering due to cost and time constraints that arose during the inspection process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said it will continue looking for more homes to purchase over a wide geographical area. “It’s not fair to sort of concentrate all of the homeless-serving facilities in just one neighborhood,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins said residents will move in “hopefully in a matter of months,” but noted that the county still has to furnish the homes and select its occupants. It is still unclear how many people the properties will accommodate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s interdepartmental multi-disciplinary team, part of the Department of Health Services, which provides wraparound supportive homeless services, will interview people living on the trail and provide housing recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, makeshift tents and tarps have filled a stretch of the paved Joe Rodota Trail that runs alongside Highway 12, a major commuter artery through Santa Rosa, the county seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A January \u003ca href=\"https://srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/24920/2019-Sonoma-County-Homeless-Census-Executive-Summary?bidId=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time homeless count\u003c/a> reported 2,951 homeless residents in the county, an increase of more than 100 since the 2017 count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escalating public concern over the trail’s unsanitary conditions, including vermin and discarded drug needles, was echoed during the meeting’s public comment period. For over an hour, county residents cited concerns over costs and safety, among other things, in a bid to convince supervisors not to purchase the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida Dates, a 30-year Santa Rosa resident and longtime landlord, objected to the purchase of the property in her city. During her time in the area, she’s lived in her car and given up a pet in order to find a place to rent, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all make decisions in our lives. These people have a long way to go before they deserve to get in a historic house, a beautiful home,” she said. “I just don’t see the economics of it — up-front cost and continued maintenance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this isn’t a new idea. The county has already purchased 60 shared housing units for people experiencing homelessness, a model Hopkins said has proven to be a “really effective” step in helping people become self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will help a lot more than just the initial folks who move in, because the goal is to actually get those folks to move out and into self-supported affordable housing from there,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition to these kinds of projects, Hopkins added, is also nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they cause a stir when they first go in, because people are concerned, but those concerns often wind up ameliorated by successful management,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board on Tuesday also voted to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim head of the Community Development Commission, which oversees homeless services. She will replace Geoffrey Ross, who announced his resignation last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has received praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for working alongside Ross to craft a plan to use\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> $12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> to help residents of the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Following intense public discussion, the board also selected the location for a new outdoor shelter on the northern end of Sonoma Valley, where some of the trail’s residents will camp alongside a navigation trailer with supportive services. It will equip people with “fundamental human needs,” such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101875281/tensions-mount-as-sonoma-county-begins-addressing-homeless-encampment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED’s Forum on Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day it’s about having a continuum of care. It’s about having a suite of different housing options,” Hopkins said. “Not everyone is ready to walk into a house.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community groups have also stepped up to support additional wraparound service for residents of the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, a co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SWBCSonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a>, one such volunteer group, said he supports the home purchases, but stressed that other options are needed, as the county can’t simply buy homes for all of its homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also remain skeptical, and rightfully so, that such an approach is not scalable,” Sarvis-Wilburn said. “It’s not a long-term viable solution for everyone, but we support it as a part of a larger more diverse solution.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa. He’s one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It’s a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren’t always listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need,” Gibson says. “They don’t want you hiding, but they don’t want you in their face, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\"]‘I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that’s the reality that we’re facing right now in Sonoma County.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California and other parts of the country, these growing homeless encampments evoke shantytown “Hoovervilles,” where hundreds of thousands of destitute Americans lived during the Great Depression. The encampments are frustrating residents, raising health and safety fears and fueling a debate over poverty and inequality in one of the nation’s wealthiest states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the encampment in Sonoma County’s Santa Rosa underscores the challenges of finding a lasting solution to the growing crisis. Amid a growing chorus of outrage at filthy, unsanitary conditions and the presence of rats and used drug needles, the camp has divided locals and even prompted an effort to recall a local politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought that I would drive past a mile-long shantytown on my way to work. And yet, that’s the reality that we’re facing right now in Sonoma County\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>” said county \u003ca href=\"http://lyndaforsupervisor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supervisor Lynda Hopkins\u003c/a>, whose district includes the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, makeshift tarp, tent and pallet “homes” have filled a stretch of the paved Joe Rodota bike trail that sides right next to Highway 12, a major commuter artery into Santa Rosa, the county seat. Now, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is considering purchasing three homes to house some of the people who live on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly challenging,” Hopkins said, noting she gets scores of emails each day from frustrated, alarmed and angry constituents. “I also get emails of people who are just heartbroken at seeing the level of suffering — people freezing cold, living in a tent in the rain with no access to running water or electricity or sewer services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11794599 label='expanded statewide efforts' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/newsom-1020x681.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\nWhile homelessness is a hard-to-fix national problem, it is particularly severe in California. The state’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped 16% in the last year\u003c/a>. California has the \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tent_City_USA_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of tent cities\u003c/a>, according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. And according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report \u003c/a>by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, California’s homeless population accounts for 53% of all unsheltered people in the country. Overall, the state has more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed more than $1.4 billion in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new budget \u003c/a>for expanded state and local efforts on immediate housing and services. Some $750 million of that would be placed in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special fund\u003c/a> to pay the rent of people facing homelessness and to jump-start the construction of more affordable housing. The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state’s expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. In Los Angeles County alone, the death rate for homeless has risen steadily for years and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 2018 topped 1,000\u003c/a> — about three deaths a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11795792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/img_0429_wide-8877d569f0e7e253f13298d445a54627274c2c58-e1578950118769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Gibson, who goes by the nickname “Cowboy,” lives at the tent city in Santa Rosa. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong,” he says. “I’m doing the best I can.” \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Living on the Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wiry, frenzied and with a ready smile through some missing teeth, Gibson says he prefers the nickname “Cowboy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, they call me cowboy,” Gibson says, “I always ‘cowboy up’ for other people because I take care of others when I have nothing and stretch myself thin. It’s very hard,” he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I’m doing the best I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have someone taking out the trash, it’s gonna pile up,” Gibson says. “Some people are elderly and can’t really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,” Gibson says. “A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to “cowboy up,” Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,” says commuter Vania Supulveda. “My daughter complains, ‘Oh, it’s so cold out today’ when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It’s depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I’ve never seen something like this so close to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED’s Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">“No Place Like Home” program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. Hopkins hopes an additional two homes will be purchased eventually, totaling a cost of $6 million that includes furnishings and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is actually a model that … already is actually working in a lot of areas in Sonoma County,” Hopkins told Forum. “They have been very, very successful at getting people off the street and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents in similar models have even transitioned into renting their own apartments, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always the goal, right? Is to get people back fully on their feet and able to be supporting themselves in a type of housing that is acceptable. What’s happening right now on the Joe Rodota Trail, we know is completely unacceptable,” Hopkins told Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Hopkins is exploring an outdoor shelter option that would still allow people to camp, but would provide a navigation trailer with supportive services. It would equip people with “fundamental human needs,” such as restrooms, electricity, water and, ideally, shower and laundry facilities, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about the encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail, it is actually very difficult to service because it’s actually spread out over about a mile and a half of linear trail,” Hopkins said. “So it’s tough for service workers to actually go out there … and actually provide people with a plan to get them off the trail and into housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Public Backlash in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“It just showcases the failure of government at all levels to meaningfully have a safety net for human beings,” Hopkins said. “There’s just no room for error now, there’s no safety net.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sonoma County’s chief homelessness official, Geoffrey Ross, announced his resignation. The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday to confirm Barbie Robinson, the county health services director, as interim executive director of the Community Development Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson has drawn praise from supervisors, including Hopkins, for stepping into a leadership position and working alongside Ross to craft a plan to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792903/sonoma-county-approves-12-million-urgent-plan-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$12 million in emergency funds\u003c/a> for the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins has also helped lead efforts to find solutions for the camp, including working on the emergency funding plan and setting up an emergency \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/society/sonoma-co-opens-eoc-for-first-time-in-response-to-homeless-crisis/5823059/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operations center\u003c/a> to better coordinate responses to a complex problem with no easy fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the first-term politician is facing blowback over the camp. A handful of angry constituents started \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10539186-181/recall-effort-targets-sonoma-county?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an effort to recall Hopkins\u003c/a>, even though she faces an election in March. Their petition accuses Hopkins of failing to act — “her watch, her failure” — and calls the homeless encampment a “public cesspool” that’s undermining businesses, homes and quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem cuts across complex issues, including rising housing costs and skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, poverty, addiction and mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating attempts to find a solution in Sonoma is \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CAO/Agreement-with-Homeless-Advocates-on-Preliminary-Injunction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a local injunction\u003c/a> that says the county can’t arrest or fine its way out of the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A federal court ruling\u003c/a> carries even more weight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that homeless people essentially have a Constitutional right to camp on public property if local governments can’t provide enough shelter beds and services. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Marcos Ramirez, co-founder of the Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition\"]‘We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We’ve just seen it recently with the Kincade fire.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are services Hopkins said the county simply can’t afford now on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can we provide alternatives when we don’t have enough money from the state or federal government to actually provide adequate mental health services, to actually provide adequate housing and shelter for these human beings?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has repeatedly criticized the state response \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to its homeless crisis\u003c/a>, painting it as a result of failed Democratic leadership. He has threatened federal intervention. “It’s a shame. The world is looking at it,” Trump said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899416/los-angeles-has-a-homeless-problem-now-the-trump-administration-is-weighing-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins and other politicians have also promised to relocate the camp within weeks – most likely to a parking lot area near the airport while they design a more permanent housing strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they conceded that a lasting fix could take at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Volunteers Begin to Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a new group of concerned citizens have said that the current situation is simply unacceptable. They’re asking: If the community can pull together during a wildfire crisis, why not a homeless crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do this; we know how to take care of people. We’ve just seen it recently with the Kincade Fire,” said artist and engineer Marcos Ramirez, one of the founders of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SWBCSonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squeaky Wheel Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a> The volunteer group is trying to break the familiar pattern of political outrage, hand wringing, wrangling and inaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can organize shelter support, huge amounts of response, emergency services and these kinds of things,” Ramirez said of the wildfires where thousands were temporarily displaced, “there’s no reason why we can’t do this for our unhoused neighbors. It’s the middle of winter and things are only getting colder. There’s no excuse for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the trail encampment decreased during the Kincade Fire, Hopkins told Forum, but residents of the trail returned once the fire was out and temporary shelters closed. The camp has continued to grow since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101875281,news_11792903,news_11679471\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition has drawn up a detailed proposal to retrofit an unused section of Sonoma County’s fairgrounds into a more permanent camp with onsite support, counseling and job services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key, coalition members said, has been spending time at the encampment to better understand the community living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend of mind said, ‘You don’t know what’s going on down there.’ And I said, ‘You’re right,’ ” Ramirez said. “And so I went down. And so we’ve spent months down there on the trail and actually getting to know our neighbors. It should seem like a no-brainer that you would need to go talk to the people and ask them what they would like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerned bicyclists for social change hope their ideas gain more traction. And they hope to inspire the formation of more “squeaky wheel coalitions” in cities across California — and other states — facing the same kind of homeless camp crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like to use the term that we are trying to humanize these people because they’re people and we shouldn’t have to humanize them,” said another Squeaky Wheel activist, Miles Sarvis-Wilburn. “And yet, we’re in a position where that kind of feels like what we have to do now. It seems like that should be more normalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Forum contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The first-term Democrat has also ordered state agencies to do more to help find temporary sites — including decommissioned hospitals or unused land — for the state’s expanding homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, residents are demanding robust coordinated action on what has now become a public health crisis. There are rising concerns about health and safety problems inside the encampments, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2016-18CAOutbreakAssociatedDrugUseHomelessness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disease\u003c/a>, open drug use, violence, crime and fire risks. 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It’s very hard,” he says of life among broken pallets and ripped tarps. “It’s a struggle for anybody to keep warm and keep your heart and head light and strong. I’m doing the best I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson, who has lived here for nearly a year, says the camp has a haphazard sense of community. People watch out for each other. But he concedes the camp has serious problems with garbage, vermin, inadequate toilets and some drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and city agencies have tried to offer some services, including adding portable toilets and trash control. But camp residents say it’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have someone taking out the trash, it’s gonna pile up,” Gibson says. “Some people are elderly and can’t really do a lot on their own. Some are young people that are very inexperienced with life. I try to a be a guiding light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a nearby tent, an older woman pops her head out shouting obscenities at no one in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to open up their eyes and realize they could end up like this,” Gibson says. “A lot of people are one [pay]check away. Show some humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon a pickup truck pulls up with donations. Time to “cowboy up,” Gibson says, as he moves to help unload used warm clothes from a local resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive by every morning and today I was just heartbroken,” says commuter Vania Supulveda. “My daughter complains, ‘Oh, it’s so cold out today’ when we see this. And we go back home to a nice warm home. It’s depressing. I grew up in Brazil, in a Third World country, and I’ve never seen something like this so close to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exploring Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the purchase of three large homes — two in central Santa Rosa and one in Cotati — that would provide housing for some of the people living on the trail. If approved, Hopkins told KQED’s Forum that the homes could be operational as early as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\">“No Place Like Home” program \u003c/a>would fund the purchase of the three homes. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:45 p.m. Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a 15-month investigation into the deadliest of the 2017 Northern California wildfires, Cal Fire on Thursday announced that PG&E equipment was not responsible for starting the Tubbs Fire — the catastrophic blaze that swept over the hills from just outside Calistoga into Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire killed 22 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and was responsible for as much as $10 billion in insured property losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire investigation found that \"a private electrical system adjacent to a residential structure\" caused the fire. The agency said that it had not found any violations of state law connected to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which has disputed suggestions that its power lines sparked the fire, is facing hundreds of lawsuits related to the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a federal court filing last month, the company argued that privately maintained power lines at a home at 1128 Bennett Lane, near Highway 128 outside Calistoga — the point where the Tubbs Fire began just before 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2017 — sparked the deadly blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715439/pge-says-unlicensed-electrical-work-may-have-sparked-tubbs-fire-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said that a caretaker on the property\u003c/a> had undertaken a series of unpermitted, unlicensed repairs on the lines and that there was evidence that equipment was involved in the start of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/17LNU010045_tubbs_le80_Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80-page investigative report\u003c/a> says it found no evidence that PG&E equipment ignited the blaze,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's investigator on the case, John Martinez, said determining the precise cause of the fire was difficult because the blaze consumed so much of the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez noted the presence of a privately owned power pole that may have been involved in the ignition. Martinez said the property's caretaker had described the pole as \"woodpeckered so damn bad\" that he intended to replace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator noted that the pole was nearly completely consumed in the fire, suggesting that it may have snapped and fallen onto the residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I eliminated all other causes for the Tubbs Fire,\" Martinez wrote in his conclusion, \"with the exception of an electrical-caused fire originating from an unknown event affecting privately owned conductor (power lines) or equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire had previously determined that PG&E equipment was responsible for 18 of the more than 170 wildfires that swept Northern California in October 2017. The fire agency said it had found evidence that the utility may have violated state law in 11 of those incidents and referred cases to local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Pitre, one of the attorneys involved in the Tubbs Fire litigation, said Thursday he was unconvinced by the Cal Fire findings on the blaze's origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have evidence that suggests that the origin of the fire is not the place that’s identified by Cal Fire,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evidence involves a pair of fuses that blew on a PG&E power pole along the road adjacent to 1128 Bennett Lane. The fuses, which melt and expel hot metal when they detect a fault on a power line, may have dropped hot metal into roadside vegetation that PG&E has acknowledged it failed to clear as required by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, plaintiffs' investigators found evidence of metal in the area where the fuses blew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitre added that he believes PG&E should have proactively turned off the power the night of the North Bay fires -- a precautionary step it didn't start taking until last fall's fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If PG&E had implemented a de-energization policy and been proactive, we never would have had the Tubbs Fire,\" Pitre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick McCallum, who lost his home in the Tubbs Fire and has been lobbying on behalf of fire victims in the state Capitol for the past year, agreed that the Cal Fire report isn't the last word in the fight between the utility and fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first thought was, 'Oh my God, what is this going to do for the victims [whose] ... ability to restore their lives and rebuild were dependent on this,' \" he said. \"Then my rational side came in -- and it's not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCallum noted that many of the people in Sonoma County were underinsured, because of the high property costs, and so are depending on being able to sue PG&E to make up the difference. He said Tubbs Fire victims should contact their lawyers and keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as Nov. 5, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/75488/000100498018000015/pge-093018x10q.htm#s3DC8A6F7961A529692A36201BF7CAE60\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a quarterly filing\u003c/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission, PG&E said the company had concluded it was \"probable\" it would incur losses due to claims arising from some of the October 2017 blazes -- including the Redwood Fire in Mendocino County, which killed nine people, and Nuns Fire in Sonoma County, which killed three. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on several other wildfires, including the Tubbs Fire, PG&E said in the same document it had \"not concluded that a loss arising from those fires is probable\" -- a judgment the company said could change as new facts emerged. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the utility earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718176/what-does-pges-bankruptcy-mean-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it faces at least $30 billion in potential liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those possible liabilities stem from other fires that started in October 2017 and from last November's Camp Fire in Butte County, which killed 86 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in and around the community of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Cal Fire's announcement on the Tubbs Fire, PG&E emphasized the legal and financial hurdles ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Regardless of today’s announcement, PG&E still faces extensive litigation, significant potential liabilities and a deteriorating financial situation,” the company said. \"Resolving the legal liabilities and financial challenges stemming from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires will be enormously complex and will require us to address multiple stakeholder interests, including thousands of wildfire victims and others who have already made claims and likely thousands of others we expect to make claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's declared intention to seek bankruptcy protection has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719917/pge-says-bankruptcy-could-take-3-years-as-shareholders-fight-filing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drawn criticism\u003c/a> from investors who say the company remains solvent and is failing in its duty to shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The news from Cal Fire that PG&E did not cause the devastating 2017 Tubbs Fire is yet another example of why the company shouldn't be rushing to file for bankruptcy, which would be totally unnecessary and bad for all stakeholders,” said a spokesperson for BlueMountain Capital Management, an investor critical of the bankruptcy plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims like McCallum are also skeptical that PG&E actually needs to file for Chapter 11 protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very strength of the lawsuits against PG&E helps the company argue for bankruptcy, said Stanford law professor Robert Rabin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A strong case can be made out that faulty maintenance and faulty attention to vegetation surrounding the power lines was negligent, perhaps grossly negligent, on the part of PG&E,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if a bankruptcy judge consolidates some of the hundreds of lawsuits against PG&E, fire victims could see smaller settlements. That's why Rabin expects to see fire plaintiffs, their lawyers and shareholders continue to fight the possible bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They would like to see their clients reimbursed for as close to complete recovery of the loss that they suffered as they could,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California Gov. Gavin Newsom said only PG&E leadership can answer the question of whether bankruptcy protection is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They will make that determination. The state of California cannot make that determination for them. They have the right to make that determination and we will respond accordingly,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PCG?p=PCG&.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E shares,\u003c/a> which have been battered since the company disclosed its equipment might have been involved in igniting the Camp Fire last Nov. 8, were up 75 percent in the hours after Cal Fire released its Tubbs Fire report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he remains in constant contact with PG&E leaders, and remains focused on supporting wildfire victims and ratepayers. But if the company's finances get handed over to a bankruptcy court next week, it's unclear how much power Newsom -- or any other state leaders -- will be able to exert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Marisa Lagos, Lily Jamali, Lisa Pickoff-White and Ted Goldberg contributed to this report. \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>Updated 5:45 p.m. Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a 15-month investigation into the deadliest of the 2017 Northern California wildfires, Cal Fire on Thursday announced that PG&E equipment was not responsible for starting the Tubbs Fire — the catastrophic blaze that swept over the hills from just outside Calistoga into Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire killed 22 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and was responsible for as much as $10 billion in insured property losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire investigation found that \"a private electrical system adjacent to a residential structure\" caused the fire. The agency said that it had not found any violations of state law connected to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which has disputed suggestions that its power lines sparked the fire, is facing hundreds of lawsuits related to the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a federal court filing last month, the company argued that privately maintained power lines at a home at 1128 Bennett Lane, near Highway 128 outside Calistoga — the point where the Tubbs Fire began just before 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2017 — sparked the deadly blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715439/pge-says-unlicensed-electrical-work-may-have-sparked-tubbs-fire-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said that a caretaker on the property\u003c/a> had undertaken a series of unpermitted, unlicensed repairs on the lines and that there was evidence that equipment was involved in the start of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/17LNU010045_tubbs_le80_Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80-page investigative report\u003c/a> says it found no evidence that PG&E equipment ignited the blaze,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's investigator on the case, John Martinez, said determining the precise cause of the fire was difficult because the blaze consumed so much of the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez noted the presence of a privately owned power pole that may have been involved in the ignition. Martinez said the property's caretaker had described the pole as \"woodpeckered so damn bad\" that he intended to replace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator noted that the pole was nearly completely consumed in the fire, suggesting that it may have snapped and fallen onto the residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I eliminated all other causes for the Tubbs Fire,\" Martinez wrote in his conclusion, \"with the exception of an electrical-caused fire originating from an unknown event affecting privately owned conductor (power lines) or equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire had previously determined that PG&E equipment was responsible for 18 of the more than 170 wildfires that swept Northern California in October 2017. The fire agency said it had found evidence that the utility may have violated state law in 11 of those incidents and referred cases to local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Pitre, one of the attorneys involved in the Tubbs Fire litigation, said Thursday he was unconvinced by the Cal Fire findings on the blaze's origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have evidence that suggests that the origin of the fire is not the place that’s identified by Cal Fire,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evidence involves a pair of fuses that blew on a PG&E power pole along the road adjacent to 1128 Bennett Lane. The fuses, which melt and expel hot metal when they detect a fault on a power line, may have dropped hot metal into roadside vegetation that PG&E has acknowledged it failed to clear as required by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, plaintiffs' investigators found evidence of metal in the area where the fuses blew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitre added that he believes PG&E should have proactively turned off the power the night of the North Bay fires -- a precautionary step it didn't start taking until last fall's fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If PG&E had implemented a de-energization policy and been proactive, we never would have had the Tubbs Fire,\" Pitre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick McCallum, who lost his home in the Tubbs Fire and has been lobbying on behalf of fire victims in the state Capitol for the past year, agreed that the Cal Fire report isn't the last word in the fight between the utility and fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first thought was, 'Oh my God, what is this going to do for the victims [whose] ... ability to restore their lives and rebuild were dependent on this,' \" he said. \"Then my rational side came in -- and it's not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCallum noted that many of the people in Sonoma County were underinsured, because of the high property costs, and so are depending on being able to sue PG&E to make up the difference. He said Tubbs Fire victims should contact their lawyers and keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as Nov. 5, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/75488/000100498018000015/pge-093018x10q.htm#s3DC8A6F7961A529692A36201BF7CAE60\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a quarterly filing\u003c/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission, PG&E said the company had concluded it was \"probable\" it would incur losses due to claims arising from some of the October 2017 blazes -- including the Redwood Fire in Mendocino County, which killed nine people, and Nuns Fire in Sonoma County, which killed three. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on several other wildfires, including the Tubbs Fire, PG&E said in the same document it had \"not concluded that a loss arising from those fires is probable\" -- a judgment the company said could change as new facts emerged. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the utility earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718176/what-does-pges-bankruptcy-mean-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it faces at least $30 billion in potential liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those possible liabilities stem from other fires that started in October 2017 and from last November's Camp Fire in Butte County, which killed 86 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in and around the community of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Cal Fire's announcement on the Tubbs Fire, PG&E emphasized the legal and financial hurdles ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Regardless of today’s announcement, PG&E still faces extensive litigation, significant potential liabilities and a deteriorating financial situation,” the company said. \"Resolving the legal liabilities and financial challenges stemming from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires will be enormously complex and will require us to address multiple stakeholder interests, including thousands of wildfire victims and others who have already made claims and likely thousands of others we expect to make claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's declared intention to seek bankruptcy protection has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719917/pge-says-bankruptcy-could-take-3-years-as-shareholders-fight-filing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drawn criticism\u003c/a> from investors who say the company remains solvent and is failing in its duty to shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The news from Cal Fire that PG&E did not cause the devastating 2017 Tubbs Fire is yet another example of why the company shouldn't be rushing to file for bankruptcy, which would be totally unnecessary and bad for all stakeholders,” said a spokesperson for BlueMountain Capital Management, an investor critical of the bankruptcy plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims like McCallum are also skeptical that PG&E actually needs to file for Chapter 11 protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very strength of the lawsuits against PG&E helps the company argue for bankruptcy, said Stanford law professor Robert Rabin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A strong case can be made out that faulty maintenance and faulty attention to vegetation surrounding the power lines was negligent, perhaps grossly negligent, on the part of PG&E,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if a bankruptcy judge consolidates some of the hundreds of lawsuits against PG&E, fire victims could see smaller settlements. 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"content": "\u003cp>Naxheli Zuniga Contreras first came to the Integrated Wellness Center in Santa Rosa to get her kids some tutoring help. She liked that it was a place open after school and work, that she didn't need any documentation and the services were free. There was even a nurse and mental health counseling. But it wasn't until the smoke from the Butte County Camp Fire some 150 miles away drifted over Santa Rosa that she found herself there asking for the first time for mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried for myself, the safety for my family. We haven't been able to sleep,\" Zuniga said, through a translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoke took them back to that horrifying night of the Tubbs Fire a year ago when they smelled smoke and heard the flames coming and had to race from their home. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Whether it was the photo of the man jumping off his home or the sign reading “The love in the air is thicker than the smoke,” many images from the North Bay Fires have stuck with people even one year later.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getty Images photojournalist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sullyfoto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Sullivan\u003c/a> covered the fires last year and took some of the most memorable images of the event. A year later, he went back and photographed the same locations to see how they had changed over the course of a year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED talked to Sullivan about what it was like to cover the devastating fires, how fires have changed since he started covering them and what it’s been like covering ones so close to home. You can hear the interview by clicking the play button above, or you can read a transcript below, which has been lightly edited for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Going back to those first days covering the fires in the North Bay, are there any impressions or feelings that have stuck with you over the year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the overall scale of the fire was the thing that stuck with me the most. I’ve been covering fires for nearly 20 years, and the fact that a fire grew that fast and devastated a community that wasn’t in the middle of a forest or in the middle of a field of dry brush or typical places where you do see destruction from a fire. The Coffey Park community, in specific, that lost the most homes wasn’t anywhere near that stuff. The weather and the winds just pushed it right into that area, and I’m sure those people never expected that. It never stopped coming. That’s the crazy thing about how these fires are continuing to grow bigger and bigger each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698756 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-800x1063.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Smoke can be seen rising from the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) The Hilton sign remains at the site of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-800x1063.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-1020x1355.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-904x1200.jpg 904w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-1180x1567.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-960x1275.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-240x319.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-375x498.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-520x691.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Smoke can be seen rising from the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) The Hilton sign remains at the site of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa. (bottom image) The Hilton sign remains at the site of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In your photos last year, you captured a lot. You captured the destruction—I remember images of the Hilton Hotel in Santa Rosa being in flames, totally destroyed. Also images of people consoling each other, images of firefighters. I’m wondering if there are any particular photos that you remember capturing that have stuck with you since last year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one. I met a guy named Mike. This was near Glen Ellen, and he lived in a small little house that was, it was kind this little cul-de-sac, and it wasn’t like a traditional street, and it was just like this little development that had maybe three or four houses on it. Three other houses around it had been burned down, and he was trying to save his little house—running around, the fence was on fire. He’s trying to do all he can to keep it away from his house. And at one point he climbed up on top of the roof so he could just sort of get an overview and to see what he was dealing with. And there’s a picture I took of him jumping off the roof back down on the ground as he was like frantically, you know, trying to rush around and extinguish all the flames that were encroaching on his little house. I think at the end of the day, he managed to save his house, and it was the only one that was saved in the area. The immediate area around his house, everything else burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698754 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A resident rushes to save his home as an out of control wildfire moves through the area on October 9, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident rushes to save his home as an out of control wildfire moves through the area on October 9, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you kept in touch with him in any way? Or do you keep in touch with any of the people that you photographed last year? Are there people or personalities who you met who have stuck with you or who you’ve continued to photograph and speak with?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with him for probably a month or so after the fire, and then we lost touch. There was another guy that reached out to me because he saw a picture that I had taken of his house while it was on fire. He had just moved into the house probably six months prior, or maybe a year prior, and we ended up meeting. I gave him some photos of his house. At first when I got that email from him, I thought, “He’s going to be upset that I took a picture of his home on fire.” But at the end of the day, I think he was just more interested in saying, “Look this is what happened, and I’d like to have something that shows, you know, where I once lived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698773 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Burned out cars sit next to a building on fire in a fire ravaged neighborhood on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A light pole stands in a parking lot of a store that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-160x214.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-1020x1366.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-896x1200.jpg 896w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-960x1286.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-240x321.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-375x502.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-520x696.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Burned out cars sit next to a building on fire in a fire ravaged neighborhood on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A light pole stands in a parking lot of a store that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there any difficulty in deciding what to photograph during such a tragic event?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think in the case of that particular fire—or fires, because there are three or four that were going on at the same time—is the amount of stimulus that was happening. I mean, there were things happening everywhere. There were moments with people. There were moments not with people— and landscapes of whole ridges on fire. I honestly started my day, the day that the fires started, in Napa County, and then I slowly started to move toward Sonoma. I didn’t even get to Santa Rosa until probably the afternoon. I didn’t even know about the Coffey Park neighborhood until maybe two days later when I went over in a helicopter, and that was the first time I had seen that widespread devastation and was completely blown away. There was just so much going on. I think on that very first day, I drove from Marin County, where I live, to Sonoma, all the way up to Calistoga, down in Napa, all the way to Santa Rosa and back. And it was just—the area was so huge that there was just so much to see and do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Firefighters spray water on fire damaged mobile home at the Journey's End Mobile Home Park on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A burned mobile home stands at the Journey's End Mobile Home Park that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-960x1294.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-240x324.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-375x505.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-520x701.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Firefighters spray water on fire damaged mobile home at the Journey’s End Mobile Home Park on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A burned mobile home stands at the Journey’s End Mobile Home Park that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living in Marin County, being so close to where this tragedy struck—did that make it different from the other events you’ve covered? Did this feel different at all because this massive destruction was so close to where you live? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It did in many ways. For the start, I woke up in the middle of the night, and my girlfriend woke me up and said, “Hey, I think there’s a fire in our building.” And sure enough, I woke up and it smelled like smoke. I looked outside, and there was smoke everywhere. And this was probably maybe two or three hours after the fire started—that’s how strong the winds were blowing. It just blew. Marin County was just socked in with smoke. And then, in the days to come after the fact, I got more phone calls and emails from people that I know in the area saying, “Hey, can you go take a look and see my cousin’s house and my brother’s house, or my house? We can’t get in. If you’re in that area, can you take a look?” And I’ve never really had that on fires. A lot of the fires I cover are in remote areas or in Southern California, and I don’t necessarily know many people in the area in Southern California or rural California. So it kind of hit home that people, you know, identified with me being there and just wanted peace of mind to know, “Hey, is my property OK, or is my brother’s property OK?” And I ended up going and looking at maybe six or seven people’s homes that I’ve known for many years just to make sure it was still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698758 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"In this composite image a comparison has been made between the days of the 2017 Tubbs Fire and what those areas look like on the one year anniversary of California's most destructive wildfire complex. (top image) A view of homes in the Coffey Park neighborhood that were destroyed by the Tubbs Fire on October 23, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (bottom image) A newly constructed home stands on the site that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-1020x1374.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-891x1200.jpg 891w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-1180x1589.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-960x1293.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-240x323.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-375x505.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-520x700.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this composite image a comparison has been made between the days of the 2017 Tubbs Fire and what those areas look like on the one year anniversary of California’s most destructive wildfire complex. (top image) A view of homes in the Coffey Park neighborhood that were destroyed by the Tubbs Fire on October 23, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (bottom image) A newly constructed home stands on the site that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeing some of your photographs a year later of new construction in these burns zones, it’s pretty striking to see new homes in areas surrounded by destruction from the fires. I’m wondering, what are your thoughts, one year later, on how the community is rebuilding, from the perspective of an observer, somebody who’s capturing images of it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I was sort of struck by that as well because I’ve never gone back to an area that I photographed in a fire because typically areas don’t have such a wide area that burned down. That Coffey Park area in particular, where literally hundreds of homes were just gone. To go back and see, you know, a fraction of them popping up, but there’s still a lot that’s not being built. There are “for sale” signs on some of the pieces of land. There’s just pieces of land that are just empty. You know, they’ve taken everything out, they’ve cleared all the toxic debris out, and it’s just an empty lot now. But there are some neighborhoods that I went to that there were probably maybe 50 or 60 homes in there, and now there are only two that have come back. It’s a slow progression, and hopefully it does come back to the vibrant community that once was. But I think at this point, it has a long way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698759 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on October 13, 2017 in Sonoma.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on October 13, 2017 in Sonoma. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There’s one image that we’ve published here at KQED, and I’ve seen in a number of other publications of a sign that some residents of the North Bay had made that said, “The love in the air is thicker than the smoke.” I’m wondering if you remember when you first saw that sign and how the motto it’s sort of become for the Sonoma and Napa areas, whether it rung true to you and whether you’ve thought about it at all over the past year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It definitely rung true at the moment. I remember seeing it maybe like on the third day, driving back up to Napa just to continue the fire coverage, and passing by in the morning and completely doing a U-turn, just going back, because I think it spoke for that region. And you did see people, and you still to this day see people, coming out for each other regardless of who you are, what you do, what color you are. The community really came together. Almost immediately, you could see it, and I thought that was a perfect motto for the situation at hand there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-800x1060.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Smoke billows from a neighborhood that was destroyed by a fast moving wildfire on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A newly constructed home stands in a neighborhood that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-800x1060.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-1020x1352.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-905x1200.jpg 905w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-1180x1564.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-960x1273.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-240x318.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-375x497.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-520x689.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Smoke billows from a neighborhood that was destroyed by a fast moving wildfire on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A newly constructed home stands in a neighborhood that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned that you’ve been covering fires for a long time, and one thing that keeps coming up here in California is that there is no more fire season and that now we’re seeing fire years. And it’s taking a toll on people who are constantly exposed to fires, people who are losing their homes. Is it taking a toll on you at all, as somebody who is going out to these fire zones and photographing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. It’s an exhausting task to go to cover these fires. A lot of the times, like I said before, they’re in areas that are rural. You know, it will take you hours to get there. Once you’re there, there are no resources available anymore. You’re kind of self-sufficient for as long as you’re up there sometimes. You’ll cover one of these fires between three and seven days, and you’ve been sleeping in your car, or you do camping when it’s available, and it’s exhausting. The size of these fires has grown tenfold in the past ten years. I mean, they grow so fast now. I was talking to a friend recently about fires that we covered 10 years ago and how we thought at the time, “Wow! That was a huge fire. It was 35,000 acres!” Now, 35,000 acres happens in a matter of hours. And then they explode into these 400,000, 500,000 acre fires. I don’t know that I ever thought I would see that. And it’s exhausting that in months like December, where you don’t expect this thing to happen here, you’re out there still covering fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Whether it was the photo of the man jumping off his home or the sign reading “The love in the air is thicker than the smoke,” many images from the North Bay Fires have stuck with people even one year later.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getty Images photojournalist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sullyfoto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Sullivan\u003c/a> covered the fires last year and took some of the most memorable images of the event. A year later, he went back and photographed the same locations to see how they had changed over the course of a year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED talked to Sullivan about what it was like to cover the devastating fires, how fires have changed since he started covering them and what it’s been like covering ones so close to home. You can hear the interview by clicking the play button above, or you can read a transcript below, which has been lightly edited for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Going back to those first days covering the fires in the North Bay, are there any impressions or feelings that have stuck with you over the year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the overall scale of the fire was the thing that stuck with me the most. I’ve been covering fires for nearly 20 years, and the fact that a fire grew that fast and devastated a community that wasn’t in the middle of a forest or in the middle of a field of dry brush or typical places where you do see destruction from a fire. The Coffey Park community, in specific, that lost the most homes wasn’t anywhere near that stuff. The weather and the winds just pushed it right into that area, and I’m sure those people never expected that. It never stopped coming. That’s the crazy thing about how these fires are continuing to grow bigger and bigger each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698756 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-800x1063.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Smoke can be seen rising from the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) The Hilton sign remains at the site of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-800x1063.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-1020x1355.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-904x1200.jpg 904w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-1180x1567.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-960x1275.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-240x319.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-375x498.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33162_GettyImages-1047758214-qut-520x691.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Smoke can be seen rising from the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) The Hilton sign remains at the site of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa. (bottom image) The Hilton sign remains at the site of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In your photos last year, you captured a lot. You captured the destruction—I remember images of the Hilton Hotel in Santa Rosa being in flames, totally destroyed. Also images of people consoling each other, images of firefighters. I’m wondering if there are any particular photos that you remember capturing that have stuck with you since last year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one. I met a guy named Mike. This was near Glen Ellen, and he lived in a small little house that was, it was kind this little cul-de-sac, and it wasn’t like a traditional street, and it was just like this little development that had maybe three or four houses on it. Three other houses around it had been burned down, and he was trying to save his little house—running around, the fence was on fire. He’s trying to do all he can to keep it away from his house. And at one point he climbed up on top of the roof so he could just sort of get an overview and to see what he was dealing with. And there’s a picture I took of him jumping off the roof back down on the ground as he was like frantically, you know, trying to rush around and extinguish all the flames that were encroaching on his little house. I think at the end of the day, he managed to save his house, and it was the only one that was saved in the area. The immediate area around his house, everything else burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698754 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A resident rushes to save his home as an out of control wildfire moves through the area on October 9, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident rushes to save his home as an out of control wildfire moves through the area on October 9, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you kept in touch with him in any way? Or do you keep in touch with any of the people that you photographed last year? Are there people or personalities who you met who have stuck with you or who you’ve continued to photograph and speak with?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with him for probably a month or so after the fire, and then we lost touch. There was another guy that reached out to me because he saw a picture that I had taken of his house while it was on fire. He had just moved into the house probably six months prior, or maybe a year prior, and we ended up meeting. I gave him some photos of his house. At first when I got that email from him, I thought, “He’s going to be upset that I took a picture of his home on fire.” But at the end of the day, I think he was just more interested in saying, “Look this is what happened, and I’d like to have something that shows, you know, where I once lived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698773 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Burned out cars sit next to a building on fire in a fire ravaged neighborhood on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A light pole stands in a parking lot of a store that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-160x214.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-1020x1366.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-896x1200.jpg 896w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-960x1286.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-240x321.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-375x502.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33164_GettyImages-1047758260-qut-520x696.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Burned out cars sit next to a building on fire in a fire ravaged neighborhood on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A light pole stands in a parking lot of a store that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there any difficulty in deciding what to photograph during such a tragic event?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think in the case of that particular fire—or fires, because there are three or four that were going on at the same time—is the amount of stimulus that was happening. I mean, there were things happening everywhere. There were moments with people. There were moments not with people— and landscapes of whole ridges on fire. I honestly started my day, the day that the fires started, in Napa County, and then I slowly started to move toward Sonoma. I didn’t even get to Santa Rosa until probably the afternoon. I didn’t even know about the Coffey Park neighborhood until maybe two days later when I went over in a helicopter, and that was the first time I had seen that widespread devastation and was completely blown away. There was just so much going on. I think on that very first day, I drove from Marin County, where I live, to Sonoma, all the way up to Calistoga, down in Napa, all the way to Santa Rosa and back. And it was just—the area was so huge that there was just so much to see and do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Firefighters spray water on fire damaged mobile home at the Journey's End Mobile Home Park on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A burned mobile home stands at the Journey's End Mobile Home Park that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-960x1294.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-240x324.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-375x505.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33160_GettyImages-1047758152-qut-520x701.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Firefighters spray water on fire damaged mobile home at the Journey’s End Mobile Home Park on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A burned mobile home stands at the Journey’s End Mobile Home Park that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living in Marin County, being so close to where this tragedy struck—did that make it different from the other events you’ve covered? Did this feel different at all because this massive destruction was so close to where you live? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It did in many ways. For the start, I woke up in the middle of the night, and my girlfriend woke me up and said, “Hey, I think there’s a fire in our building.” And sure enough, I woke up and it smelled like smoke. I looked outside, and there was smoke everywhere. And this was probably maybe two or three hours after the fire started—that’s how strong the winds were blowing. It just blew. Marin County was just socked in with smoke. And then, in the days to come after the fact, I got more phone calls and emails from people that I know in the area saying, “Hey, can you go take a look and see my cousin’s house and my brother’s house, or my house? We can’t get in. If you’re in that area, can you take a look?” And I’ve never really had that on fires. A lot of the fires I cover are in remote areas or in Southern California, and I don’t necessarily know many people in the area in Southern California or rural California. So it kind of hit home that people, you know, identified with me being there and just wanted peace of mind to know, “Hey, is my property OK, or is my brother’s property OK?” And I ended up going and looking at maybe six or seven people’s homes that I’ve known for many years just to make sure it was still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698758 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"In this composite image a comparison has been made between the days of the 2017 Tubbs Fire and what those areas look like on the one year anniversary of California's most destructive wildfire complex. (top image) A view of homes in the Coffey Park neighborhood that were destroyed by the Tubbs Fire on October 23, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (bottom image) A newly constructed home stands on the site that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-1020x1374.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-891x1200.jpg 891w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-1180x1589.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-960x1293.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-240x323.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-375x505.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33157_GettyImages-1047746632-qut-520x700.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this composite image a comparison has been made between the days of the 2017 Tubbs Fire and what those areas look like on the one year anniversary of California’s most destructive wildfire complex. (top image) A view of homes in the Coffey Park neighborhood that were destroyed by the Tubbs Fire on October 23, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (bottom image) A newly constructed home stands on the site that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018 in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeing some of your photographs a year later of new construction in these burns zones, it’s pretty striking to see new homes in areas surrounded by destruction from the fires. I’m wondering, what are your thoughts, one year later, on how the community is rebuilding, from the perspective of an observer, somebody who’s capturing images of it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I was sort of struck by that as well because I’ve never gone back to an area that I photographed in a fire because typically areas don’t have such a wide area that burned down. That Coffey Park area in particular, where literally hundreds of homes were just gone. To go back and see, you know, a fraction of them popping up, but there’s still a lot that’s not being built. There are “for sale” signs on some of the pieces of land. There’s just pieces of land that are just empty. You know, they’ve taken everything out, they’ve cleared all the toxic debris out, and it’s just an empty lot now. But there are some neighborhoods that I went to that there were probably maybe 50 or 60 homes in there, and now there are only two that have come back. It’s a slow progression, and hopefully it does come back to the vibrant community that once was. But I think at this point, it has a long way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698759 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on October 13, 2017 in Sonoma.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27543_GettyImages-861028680-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on October 13, 2017 in Sonoma. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There’s one image that we’ve published here at KQED, and I’ve seen in a number of other publications of a sign that some residents of the North Bay had made that said, “The love in the air is thicker than the smoke.” I’m wondering if you remember when you first saw that sign and how the motto it’s sort of become for the Sonoma and Napa areas, whether it rung true to you and whether you’ve thought about it at all over the past year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It definitely rung true at the moment. I remember seeing it maybe like on the third day, driving back up to Napa just to continue the fire coverage, and passing by in the morning and completely doing a U-turn, just going back, because I think it spoke for that region. And you did see people, and you still to this day see people, coming out for each other regardless of who you are, what you do, what color you are. The community really came together. Almost immediately, you could see it, and I thought that was a perfect motto for the situation at hand there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-800x1060.jpg\" alt=\"(Top image) Smoke billows from a neighborhood that was destroyed by a fast moving wildfire on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. (Bottom image) A newly constructed home stands in a neighborhood that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire one year earlier on October 8, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-800x1060.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-1020x1352.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-905x1200.jpg 905w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-1180x1564.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-960x1273.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-240x318.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-375x497.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33159_GettyImages-1047746746-qut-520x689.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top image) Smoke billows from a neighborhood that was destroyed by a fast moving wildfire on October 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa. 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You’ll cover one of these fires between three and seven days, and you’ve been sleeping in your car, or you do camping when it’s available, and it’s exhausting. The size of these fires has grown tenfold in the past ten years. I mean, they grow so fast now. I was talking to a friend recently about fires that we covered 10 years ago and how we thought at the time, “Wow! That was a huge fire. It was 35,000 acres!” Now, 35,000 acres happens in a matter of hours. And then they explode into these 400,000, 500,000 acre fires. I don’t know that I ever thought I would see that. And it’s exhausting that in months like December, where you don’t expect this thing to happen here, you’re out there still covering fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>All the elderly residents were asleep in their beds, dinner long over, the dishes done. But the Robles family couldn’t sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was windy and dark the night of Oct. 8, 2017. The power went out, twice. Then, around 1 a.m., the phone at the Golden Villa assisted living home in Santa Rosa started ringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Robles answered it. He heard only the word “evacuate,” but he couldn’t understand why. Then he and his wife Cristalyn looked outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw the bright mountain, and we knew it was fire approaching,” recalls Charlie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The care home was a tiny facility, just four residents sharing a duplex on a residential street in Santa Rosa. The Robles family lived at the home, too: Charlie, Cristalyn, their 7-year-old son, Yoehan, and his grandmother, Alicia Tanael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to wake up everybody one by one and put them in the wheelchair,” Charlie remembers thinking. He loaded up each resident, and each family member pushed a wheelchair out to the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoehan was terrified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was yelling telling me, ‘Mom, I’m scared,’ ” remembers Cristalyn. “I told him, ‘No, Yoehan, go. Don’t look back. Just push the wheelchair.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It never occurred to the Robles’ to just save their own family. The elderly residents were just as important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to save lives together,” Cristalyn says. “We would go together, alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>He Fought So Hard to Fight Fires. Would a Fire Take Him?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Embers were flying everywhere, the wind whipping fast, the flames edging just feet from the assisted living home. There was still one more resident left inside: retired Cal Fire Captain Ferrol Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had worked supervising inmate crews on the fire lines for years, and his job was so physically demanding that he became disabled and had to retire. At 76, he was bedridden, and he’d never seen a fire like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698236\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-800x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-800x727.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-160x145.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-960x873.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-520x473.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 76, retired Fire Captain Ferrol Mead was bedridden. He needed help getting into a wheelchair to evacuate the assisted living home where he lived. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Holly Mead)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Charlie Robles, a skinny man half the captain’s size, hoisted him into his wheelchair. Then he wheeled him out to the side of the road next to the three other elderly residents lined up in their wheelchairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Robles’ car was trapped in the garage, so Alicia and her grandson Yoehan desperately waved down passing cars. One passed but didn’t stop. Then, a mother and teenage son pulled over. They squeezed all four of the elderly residents, and all four of the Robles family, into their two cars and drove them to nearby Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two hours later, the hospital had to be evacuated too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Mead’s family — his wife, adult kids, and grandkids — were all evacuating to safety too. Holly Mead, his daughter-in-law, was in a panic, watching the bright reflection of the flames in the windows of nearby houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember saying, ‘Oh my God. I just can’t believe what’s going on.’ And then the explosions. It just really felt like war,” Mead recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember standing on my front yard and thinking, ‘Fire, you can have all of our possessions. I don’t care. But you’re not going to take us.’ It was almost like I was looking at it in the eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Meads all took shelter in different places, but a day later, it hit them: Where was Ferrol? Why hadn’t they heard from him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had an old flip phone he never used, so the only way they knew to contact him was to call the landline of the care home in Santa Rosa. But the phone rang and rang. Holly Mead called hospitals and Red Cross shelters. No one had any record of Ferrol Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, they learned his care home had burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember when it was dawning on us that here’s this sweet man that worked so hard to fight fires. [The idea that he could] be taken by a fire was just overwhelming for all of us,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the family turned on the local TV news and saw the street where the care home used to be. They saw wheelchairs sitting by side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698238\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holly Mead took a picture of her TV screen when KRON-4 showed an image of wheelchairs on the street where her father-in-law’s care home used to be. She and her family recognized his wheelchair. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Holly Mead)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They took a picture of the screen and looked closer at the image. They recognized Ferrol’s wheelchair. It wasn’t burned or melted. Maybe he had escaped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department sent out cadaver dogs to sniff the ruins of the care home. Nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the family started going to shelters and evacuation centers. At one of them, they found Charlie Robles, who recognized the Meads. He had been trying to contact them for days, but he only had landline numbers for their homes, which had been evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told them Ferrol Mead was OK staying at a rehabilitation center in nearby Sebastopol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we heard there were four [elderly residents], and there were four family members in Charlie’s family, it just felt like it was their mission, and it was just meant to be,” Holly Mead says. “And when we heard that their little son even had to push a wheelchair down the road with embers and smoke, that they rescued these four residents, we realized they would have perished in this fire if it weren’t for the Robles family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Charlie’s] telling the story, and he has tears in his eyes,” she says. “It dawned on me. They lost their house, their employment, their car. They lost everything except for the clothes on their backs. And here they saved these people’s lives. That is a true hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Right Time, Right People, Right Place. They Were Heroes.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But the Robles family didn’t feel like heroes. They were left homeless and unemployed. They had lived at their job site, so they had no renter’s insurance, and now, no paycheck. They were sleeping on a relative’s living room floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698251 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-1200x928.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-960x742.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-375x290.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-520x402.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoehan Robles, 7, in his Halloween costume in front of the assisted living home where his family lived and worked. It burned to the ground in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cristalyn Robles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Mead family set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/charlie-robles-family-fire-relief\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account for the Robles. It raised more than $25,000. Cristalyn Robles says it’s what helped them rebuild their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People brought clothes and toys for Yoehan. Someone offered them cheap rent on a backyard trailer. A fitness instructor in Dublin put on a “Zumbathon” fundraiser and invited a fire truck to the dance party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698241 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-800x1065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-800x1065.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-902x1200.jpg 902w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-960x1278.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-240x319.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-375x499.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-520x692.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, nearly 10 months after the fire, the Robles family found a new care home to move into in Sonoma. They’re back to emptying bedpans, spoon-feeding meals and changing diapers — treating the residents with the same loving attention they’ve always given the people they care for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always keep an eye on them, for their safety,” Cristalyn says. “We need to treat them like family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Robles family visited the other residents they helped escape in the weeks following the fire to make sure they each found a new place to live. A year later, Ferrol Mead, the fire captain they rescued, is living in another care home although he’s frail and in hospice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so thankful to Charlie,” says Holly Mead of her dad. “He even said, ‘If it weren’t for Charlie, I’d be gone. I wouldn’t be here.’ It was the right time, right place, right people. They were heroes, and we’re just so thankful to them for what they did.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoehan, now 8, has been in therapy, working through the trauma from the fires. But things are getting better: the Robles family has a place to live at the care home where they now work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698237\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33192_IMG_5695-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mead and Robles families visit Ferrol Mead in the days following the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Holly Mead)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their biggest concern now? They still don’t know the names of the people who picked them up by the side of the road, rescuing them and the four elderly people in their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t say thank you for everything,” Charlie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you happen to know that mother and teenage son who were driving near Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa the night the fire broke out last October, drop us a note: calreport@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to wake up everybody one by one and put them in the wheelchair,” Charlie remembers thinking. He loaded up each resident, and each family member pushed a wheelchair out to the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoehan was terrified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was yelling telling me, ‘Mom, I’m scared,’ ” remembers Cristalyn. “I told him, ‘No, Yoehan, go. Don’t look back. Just push the wheelchair.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It never occurred to the Robles’ to just save their own family. The elderly residents were just as important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to save lives together,” Cristalyn says. “We would go together, alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>He Fought So Hard to Fight Fires. Would a Fire Take Him?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Embers were flying everywhere, the wind whipping fast, the flames edging just feet from the assisted living home. There was still one more resident left inside: retired Cal Fire Captain Ferrol Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had worked supervising inmate crews on the fire lines for years, and his job was so physically demanding that he became disabled and had to retire. At 76, he was bedridden, and he’d never seen a fire like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698236\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-800x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-800x727.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-160x145.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-960x873.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693-520x473.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_5693.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 76, retired Fire Captain Ferrol Mead was bedridden. He needed help getting into a wheelchair to evacuate the assisted living home where he lived. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Holly Mead)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Charlie Robles, a skinny man half the captain’s size, hoisted him into his wheelchair. Then he wheeled him out to the side of the road next to the three other elderly residents lined up in their wheelchairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Robles’ car was trapped in the garage, so Alicia and her grandson Yoehan desperately waved down passing cars. One passed but didn’t stop. Then, a mother and teenage son pulled over. They squeezed all four of the elderly residents, and all four of the Robles family, into their two cars and drove them to nearby Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two hours later, the hospital had to be evacuated too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Mead’s family — his wife, adult kids, and grandkids — were all evacuating to safety too. Holly Mead, his daughter-in-law, was in a panic, watching the bright reflection of the flames in the windows of nearby houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember saying, ‘Oh my God. I just can’t believe what’s going on.’ And then the explosions. It just really felt like war,” Mead recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember standing on my front yard and thinking, ‘Fire, you can have all of our possessions. I don’t care. But you’re not going to take us.’ It was almost like I was looking at it in the eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Meads all took shelter in different places, but a day later, it hit them: Where was Ferrol? Why hadn’t they heard from him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had an old flip phone he never used, so the only way they knew to contact him was to call the landline of the care home in Santa Rosa. But the phone rang and rang. Holly Mead called hospitals and Red Cross shelters. No one had any record of Ferrol Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, they learned his care home had burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember when it was dawning on us that here’s this sweet man that worked so hard to fight fires. [The idea that he could] be taken by a fire was just overwhelming for all of us,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the family turned on the local TV news and saw the street where the care home used to be. They saw wheelchairs sitting by side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698238\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33191_IMG_5694-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holly Mead took a picture of her TV screen when KRON-4 showed an image of wheelchairs on the street where her father-in-law’s care home used to be. She and her family recognized his wheelchair. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Holly Mead)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They took a picture of the screen and looked closer at the image. They recognized Ferrol’s wheelchair. It wasn’t burned or melted. Maybe he had escaped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department sent out cadaver dogs to sniff the ruins of the care home. Nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the family started going to shelters and evacuation centers. At one of them, they found Charlie Robles, who recognized the Meads. He had been trying to contact them for days, but he only had landline numbers for their homes, which had been evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told them Ferrol Mead was OK staying at a rehabilitation center in nearby Sebastopol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we heard there were four [elderly residents], and there were four family members in Charlie’s family, it just felt like it was their mission, and it was just meant to be,” Holly Mead says. “And when we heard that their little son even had to push a wheelchair down the road with embers and smoke, that they rescued these four residents, we realized they would have perished in this fire if it weren’t for the Robles family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Charlie’s] telling the story, and he has tears in his eyes,” she says. “It dawned on me. They lost their house, their employment, their car. They lost everything except for the clothes on their backs. And here they saved these people’s lives. That is a true hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Right Time, Right People, Right Place. They Were Heroes.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But the Robles family didn’t feel like heroes. They were left homeless and unemployed. They had lived at their job site, so they had no renter’s insurance, and now, no paycheck. They were sleeping on a relative’s living room floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11698251 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-1200x928.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-960x742.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-375x290.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103-520x402.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33201_IMG_5787-qut-e1539382251103.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoehan Robles, 7, in his Halloween costume in front of the assisted living home where his family lived and worked. It burned to the ground in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cristalyn Robles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Mead family set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/charlie-robles-family-fire-relief\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account for the Robles. It raised more than $25,000. Cristalyn Robles says it’s what helped them rebuild their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People brought clothes and toys for Yoehan. Someone offered them cheap rent on a backyard trailer. A fitness instructor in Dublin put on a “Zumbathon” fundraiser and invited a fire truck to the dance party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698241 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-800x1065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-800x1065.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-902x1200.jpg 902w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-960x1278.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-240x319.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-375x499.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut-520x692.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33205_IMG_5843-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, nearly 10 months after the fire, the Robles family found a new care home to move into in Sonoma. They’re back to emptying bedpans, spoon-feeding meals and changing diapers — treating the residents with the same loving attention they’ve always given the people they care for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always keep an eye on them, for their safety,” Cristalyn says. “We need to treat them like family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Robles family visited the other residents they helped escape in the weeks following the fire to make sure they each found a new place to live. A year later, Ferrol Mead, the fire captain they rescued, is living in another care home although he’s frail and in hospice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so thankful to Charlie,” says Holly Mead of her dad. “He even said, ‘If it weren’t for Charlie, I’d be gone. I wouldn’t be here.’ It was the right time, right place, right people. They were heroes, and we’re just so thankful to them for what they did.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoehan, now 8, has been in therapy, working through the trauma from the fires. But things are getting better: the Robles family has a place to live at the care home where they now work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698237\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33192_IMG_5695-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mead and Robles families visit Ferrol Mead in the days following the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Holly Mead)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their biggest concern now? They still don’t know the names of the people who picked them up by the side of the road, rescuing them and the four elderly people in their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t say thank you for everything,” Charlie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Florida-based company accused of botching the clean-up after last year’s devastating fires in Santa Rosa has jumped into California politics, writing big checks to Gavin Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign and the California Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AshBritt, which contracted with the federal government to clean up the disaster, and another company owned by AshBritt chairman Randal Perkins together \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2303065\">donated\u003c/a> $250,000 to the state Democratic Party on Oct. 4, campaign filings show. Two weeks earlier, AshBritt CEO Brittany Perkins donated $29,200 to Newsom’s campaign, the maximum allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The donations come as Santa Rosa homeowners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681280/cleaning-up-inside-the-wildfire-debris-removal-job-that-cost-taxpayers-1-3-billion\">complain\u003c/a> their fire-ravaged properties were further damaged by federal contractors, and as California emergency officials blast the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for lax oversight, leading to “negligent and potentially fraudulent acts” by the contracted companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An AshBritt spokesman said the company followed all laws and regulations during the clean-up and that criticism from state leaders has nothing to do with its foray into California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We contribute throughout the country in areas where we work,” said Gerardo Castillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our donations are made as good corporate citizens by our employees and our owners, and there is no connection with any political issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recent events indicate some reasons to anticipate political problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Mark Ghilarducci, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688776/in-scathing-letter-state-criticizes-army-corps-poor-oversight-in-north-bay-wildfire-cleanup\">wrote a scathing letter\u003c/a> to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, saying that contractors hired to remove debris from burned areas in Santa Rosa excavated so much extra material that they damaged driveways, septic systems, wells and other features on hundreds of properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insufficient oversight allowed contractors to “take far more soil than was necessary,” Ghilarducci wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given these subcontractors were paid per ton of soil removed, it is probable this over-excavation was an intentional effort to capitalize on this tragedy by defrauding the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter does not name specific companies, but Castillo said AshBritt played a lead role in removing debris after the fire and a KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681280/cleaning-up-inside-the-wildfire-debris-removal-job-that-cost-taxpayers-1-3-billion\">investigation\u003c/a> says it was one of three prime contractors awarded the $1.3 billion clean-up job by the Army Corps of Engineers. The KQED investigation also says the state licensing board fined AshBritt and five subcontractors for contracting without a license. One subcontractor was found to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8237518-181/sonoma-county-fire-debris-subcontractor?sba=AAS\">violated\u003c/a> several safety laws, leading to the death of a worker. Castillo said the investigation of the death did not lead to any negative findings about AshBritt, and that the contract to be paid by the ton for hauling debris was structured to promote efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681280/cleaning-up-inside-the-wildfire-debris-removal-job-that-cost-taxpayers-1-3-billion\">Inside the Wildfire Debris Removal Job That Cost Taxpayers $1.3 Billion\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681280/cleaning-up-inside-the-wildfire-debris-removal-job-that-cost-taxpayers-1-3-billion\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/fire_debris_featured_fin005-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Formed in 1992, AshBritt is now a major player in the business of disaster recovery. It has worked on more than 200 disaster sites, including the clean-up from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. The New Jersey Star Ledger described AshBritt as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/01/politically_connected_florida.html\">politically connected\u003c/a>” firm that has made billions from government contracts. Its work following Hurricane Irma in Florida last year prompted that state’s attorney general to \u003ca href=\"http://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsreleases/A6085634275D6A35852581AD0074405D\">open\u003c/a> an investigation into potential price-gouging, which a spokesman said remains ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom campaign and the Democratic Party did not return calls seeking comment for this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats aren’t the only ones benefiting from AshBritt’s political spending this year. The \u003ca href=\"http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201805249113352235\">company\u003c/a> also donated $500,000 to a pro-Trump super-PAC in April. That led to a complaint by the Campaign Legal Center, alleging that federal contractors are prohibited from making federal campaign contributions and that the donation was made the day after AshBritt received a payment of almost the same amount from a Department of Defense contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AshBritt founder and chairman Randy Perkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/federal-contractors-made-illegal-pro-trump-super-pac-contributions-complaint-says\">told Roll Call\u003c/a> it was just a paperwork error — the donation was from him personally, not his company, which is allowed under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AshBritt’s political activity in California has largely been dormant for the last decade. Between 2005 and 2008 the company and its founder gave more than $300,000 to Republican Gov. 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It’s hard to visualize anything other than flat earth and scorched trees, but Iskandar remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The front of our yard was sort of an English countryside theme,” she said. “It was very verdant with rosemary and lavender and a recently planted peach tree. Lots and lots of poppies every summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iskandar and her partner don’t even know if they’ll rebuild their home of 15 years. It all depends on how much money they get from their insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to move on,” Iskandar said. “We’re just stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of their neighbors are in the same position. Many, especially older residents, have given up and sold their lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They couldn’t imagine spending their twilight years rebuilding,” Iskandar explained. “And that’s really sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"Vita Iskandar stands where her home used to be before it was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in October 2017. She doesn't know if she'll rebuild.\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-1020x778.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-1200x915.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-1180x900.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-960x732.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-240x183.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-375x286.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-520x397.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vita Iskandar stands where her home used to be before it was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in October, 2017. She doesn’t know if she’ll rebuild. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She and her neighbors who are sticking around are looking out for each other, just like they did the first night of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iskandar put together a \u003ca href=\"https://neighborstogethersr.com/\">website\u003c/a> and email lists to share insurance information, and helps run \u003ca href=\"https://neighborstogethersr.com/event/free-financial-planning-for-fire-survivors-10-20-18/\">workshops\u003c/a> throughout Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helping other people became my coping strategy,” Iskandar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That help has extended 3 1/2 hours north to the community room of the Redding Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Helping other people became my coping strategy.’\u003ccite>Vita Iskandar, Tubbs Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Iskandar recently led a workshop there for survivors of the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689687/deadly-carr-fire-fully-contained-but-work-is-far-from-over\">Carr Fire\u003c/a> that broke out in late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’re trying to accomplish is to inspire the people who would do the same things in this community,” Iskandar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iskandar says sharing information and working together to contact insurance companies helps fire survivors better advocate for more money to rebuild their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Dowling was really excited by that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wouldn’t it be neat though if we could find out who the other Farmers [Insurance] people are?” he asked a small group of fellow Carr Fire survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-800x586.jpg\" alt=\"Jim and Donna Dowling stand in front of the rubble that used to be the home they built from scratch 25 years ago outside Redding. It burned down in the Carr Fire in late July.\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-800x586.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1020x747.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1200x879.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1180x864.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-960x703.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-240x176.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-375x275.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Donna Dowling stand in front of the rubble that used to be the home they built from scratch 25 years ago outside Redding. It burned down in the Carr Fire in late July. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim and his wife Donna sat in a small circle with those fellow survivors, and started brainstorming how they could get people with Farmers Insurance together to send a letter to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fellow Farmers are up against the exact same issues,” Jim Dowling said. “Sixty percent on the contents, and you gotta itemize if you want a farthing more than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the Dowlings can only get 60 percent of the value of their belongings — unless they take an inventory of everything in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially hard to do when there’s nothing left of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their home, which they built from scratch more than 25 years ago, was in a rural neighborhood outside Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a one-story, painted forest green,” Jim Dowling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big 50-foot-long deck in the back,” Donna Dowling added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had lush flower and vegetable gardens, overlooking several acres of undeveloped land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jim and Donna Dowling look at pictures of the lush gardens they maintained outside their home, before it was all destroyed in the Carr Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Donna Dowling look at pictures of the lush gardens they maintained outside their home, before it was all destroyed in the Carr Fire. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m done with the sad stage, I really am. I’m hopeful,” Jim Dowling said. “Can you say that honey?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say,” Donna Dowling said. “I mean the sadness, the stuff is in our hearts and photos that we can look at, the memories, and you can’t get it back and if you just wallow in that, it’s not healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, they’re moving on. Trying to settle an insurance claim that could take more than a year — and at Vita Iskandar’s suggestion, banding together with their neighbors to share information and advocate for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dowlings want to enjoy that 50-foot deck again, even if it’s overlooking a charred landscape.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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