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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 1:40 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa voters are on their way to rejecting a widely-backed ballot measure that would have funded affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 1:40 a.m., with almost all precincts reporting, Measure N is short of the two-thirds majority required to pass, with less than 60 percent support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $124 million bond was introduced in response to a housing crisis made worse by last October’s wildfires. Santa Rosa lost five percent of its housing stock in the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Endorsements for Measure N ran the gamut from developers to environmental groups to the entire Santa Rosa City Council. But the North Bay Labor Council, which represents 70 unions, opposed it, arguing it didn’t include enough labor protections for construction workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa lost five percent of its housing in last October’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs fire\u003c/a>, putting a squeeze on an already tight housing market. One way the city is trying to fix that is with a bond on the November ballot to fund affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure N would tax Santa Rosa homeowners $29 per $100,000 of the assessed value of their home. The city estimates this would cost the “typical” homeowner there around $110 annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can build this kind of housing in Santa Rosa, but we need the money to help subsidize it,” said Mayor Chris Coursey. “Affordable housing doesn’t just appear out of the goodness of developers’ hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Endorsements for Measure N run the gamut from developers to hospitals to the entire City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the North Bay Labor Council, which has 70 member unions, has opposed the measure. Executive Director Jack Buckhorn said that’s because Measure N doesn’t provide enough worker protections, like requiring 30 percent of workers involved in the building projects to be skilled labor and part of a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was these wealthy developers that opposed our basic workforce protections and so it really is crisis capitalism at its worst,” said Buckhorn. “It needs to be stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Jack Tibbetts, who introduced Measure N, defended his choice not to include those protections during an August City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was made clear to me that its inclusion would trigger organized and funded opposition from a handful of groups and this was very unfortunate,” said Tibbetts. “When the opportunity to house upwards of 2,000 vulnerable families … hangs in the balance, I cannot gamble with gamesmanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for housing is so great members of Teamsters Local 665 actually voted to endorse Measure N — going against the stance of the North Bay Labor Council that they’re a part of. At least a dozen of their members lost their homes in last October’s wildfires, and the immediate need for housing relief simply outweighed concerns over labor protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Coursey said he chose to endorse it for largely the same reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I happened to support the labor side … but that side lost, and the city council then went ahead and voted unanimously to put this thing on the ballot, because we know what it’s going to do it in this city. It’s going to provide jobs to union members and others,” said Coursey. “To me that was a time to move on and do what is best for the city.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Embers falling on their heads, Venesa Rhodes and her husband had seconds to rush their two beloved cats into their SUV before a wildfire last summer would overtake them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One cat got in. But the other, named Bella, bolted and disappeared as the blaze bore down. The couple had no choice but to flee, and their home and much of the neighborhood in Redding, California, soon was reduced to ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes and her husband, Stephen Cobb, presumed Bella was dead. Devastated by their losses, they moved 1,800 miles to Rhodes' hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, to start over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly six weeks later, they got a call that left them gobsmacked: Bella was alive. Volunteers had put out a feeding station at Rhodes' burned-out property, staked it out after spotting the cat, and then trapped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started bawling,\" Rhodes said from Anchorage, where Bella was curled up in a corner sleeping. \"We were shocked. We were just so overjoyed and just hoping she was OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes and Cobb are among dozens of people who lost their homes in the deadly Carr Fire but had their lives brightened weeks or months later when their pets were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network of about 35 volunteers — called Carr Fire Pet Rescue and Reunification — is responsible for many of the happy endings, which continue more than two months after firefighters extinguished the blaze, which destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed six people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group formed with the help of another volunteer animal group born out of the devastating Tubbs Fire, which killed at least 22 people and destroyed thousands of homes last year in wine country north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Bray, a field coordinator for the Carr Fire group, said about 80 pets have been reunited with their families using social media and specially made kiosks in Redding where images of found pets are posted. Most are cats that have \"been through hell,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bray said each new reunion fuels her and the other volunteers, many of whom use their own money to trap and treat the animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen amazing things,\" Bray said. \"We're finding cats that were in a house and the owners presumed they had passed. The heat of fire breaks windows in houses and cats jump out and run and hide. They're survivalists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers go to elaborate lengths to catch the animals, which often are traumatized and injured. Equipped with night-vision cameras, traps and lots of food for bait, the volunteers stake out an area where a missing pet has been spotted, waiting for the right moment to drop a trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They won a hard-fought rescue of a dog nicknamed Buddy on Oct. 27 after he had eluded capture for weeks. They tried luring him with steak and french fries, another dog and a pickup truck like the one his owner drove before finally nabbing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a two-woman, two-hour operation. One woman crawled on the ground and placed food under a trap and the other waited in a truck and pulled a rope to complete the capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bray, a private pilot by day, once spent nearly seven hours trapping a cat. The wait was worth it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many of these people have lost everything,\" Bray said. \"The only thing they care about is finding their pet that they love. They want that hope back in their lives and we're trying to provide that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pierce, a Lyons, Colorado-based bioethicist who studies end-of-life issues involving humans and their pets, said losing a beloved animal and a home is a double whammy of grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To then be reunited with a pet you thought was gone, that would be like getting a piece of your home back,\" she said. \"For many people, pets are a sense of home, and they identify home with a sense of comfort and peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve and Susan Cortopassi were reunited with their cat, Big Ernie, on Oct. 3, more than two months after the fire started. Their other cat, Elsa, was found about three weeks after the fire, which destroyed their home of 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortopassis had to evacuate in the middle of the night. They grabbed their two dogs but weren't able to track down the cats. A friend showed Cortopassi cellphone video of her destroyed home a couple days after the fire and she figured the cats were gone forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just complete and utter devastation,\" she said. \"It's just a miracle they're alive. It's like, life finds a way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes got her call on Sept. 2, 41 days after the fire began. Bella, who is 2, had some burns on her belly, her long black hair was singed to medium length and she was underweight. Her formerly gray paws are now permanently pink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was found, Rhodes and Cobb drove to Redding over five days with their other cat, Mama, so the whole family could be reunited. After staying in a hotel for another five days to make sure Bella was OK, the whole family returned to Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have friends that don't even like cats thinking how crazy we were and we just said, 'They're part of our family,'\" Rhodes said. \"I lost a lot. Thank goodness we did get Bella back because our hearts were just sunken.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes and Cobb are among dozens of people who lost their homes in the deadly Carr Fire but had their lives brightened weeks or months later when their pets were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network of about 35 volunteers — called Carr Fire Pet Rescue and Reunification — is responsible for many of the happy endings, which continue more than two months after firefighters extinguished the blaze, which destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed six people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group formed with the help of another volunteer animal group born out of the devastating Tubbs Fire, which killed at least 22 people and destroyed thousands of homes last year in wine country north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Bray, a field coordinator for the Carr Fire group, said about 80 pets have been reunited with their families using social media and specially made kiosks in Redding where images of found pets are posted. Most are cats that have \"been through hell,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bray said each new reunion fuels her and the other volunteers, many of whom use their own money to trap and treat the animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen amazing things,\" Bray said. \"We're finding cats that were in a house and the owners presumed they had passed. The heat of fire breaks windows in houses and cats jump out and run and hide. They're survivalists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers go to elaborate lengths to catch the animals, which often are traumatized and injured. Equipped with night-vision cameras, traps and lots of food for bait, the volunteers stake out an area where a missing pet has been spotted, waiting for the right moment to drop a trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They won a hard-fought rescue of a dog nicknamed Buddy on Oct. 27 after he had eluded capture for weeks. They tried luring him with steak and french fries, another dog and a pickup truck like the one his owner drove before finally nabbing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a two-woman, two-hour operation. One woman crawled on the ground and placed food under a trap and the other waited in a truck and pulled a rope to complete the capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bray, a private pilot by day, once spent nearly seven hours trapping a cat. The wait was worth it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many of these people have lost everything,\" Bray said. \"The only thing they care about is finding their pet that they love. They want that hope back in their lives and we're trying to provide that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pierce, a Lyons, Colorado-based bioethicist who studies end-of-life issues involving humans and their pets, said losing a beloved animal and a home is a double whammy of grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To then be reunited with a pet you thought was gone, that would be like getting a piece of your home back,\" she said. \"For many people, pets are a sense of home, and they identify home with a sense of comfort and peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve and Susan Cortopassi were reunited with their cat, Big Ernie, on Oct. 3, more than two months after the fire started. Their other cat, Elsa, was found about three weeks after the fire, which destroyed their home of 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortopassis had to evacuate in the middle of the night. They grabbed their two dogs but weren't able to track down the cats. A friend showed Cortopassi cellphone video of her destroyed home a couple days after the fire and she figured the cats were gone forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just complete and utter devastation,\" she said. \"It's just a miracle they're alive. It's like, life finds a way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes got her call on Sept. 2, 41 days after the fire began. Bella, who is 2, had some burns on her belly, her long black hair was singed to medium length and she was underweight. Her formerly gray paws are now permanently pink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was found, Rhodes and Cobb drove to Redding over five days with their other cat, Mama, so the whole family could be reunited. After staying in a hotel for another five days to make sure Bella was OK, the whole family returned to Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have friends that don't even like cats thinking how crazy we were and we just said, 'They're part of our family,'\" Rhodes said. \"I lost a lot. Thank goodness we did get Bella back because our hearts were just sunken.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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(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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"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>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s been a year since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/north-bay-fires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly North Bay Fires\u003c/a>, but head to any burned down neighborhood in Santa Rosa, and you might not think so. Most people haven’t even started rebuilding their homes yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as those survivors are in the thick of their own insurance claims, they’re helping survivors of this summer’s wildfires navigate their recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vita Iskandar lost her Santa Rosa home in last year’s Tubbs Fire — the most destructive fire in California history. Her fire story is long from over, but it begins with teamwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were all evacuating, we were all out on the street,” Iskandar said. “We all put eyes on each other to make sure that we all accounted for everybody and we would get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, only one house in her neighborhood has been rebuilt. 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. 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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E equipment was implicated in two of the biggest, deadliest fires that swept through Northern California last October, Cal Fire said Friday: The Redwood Fire in Mendocino County, which killed nine people, and the Atlas Fire in Napa County, which killed six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Atlas Fire, as well as seven others, the state fire agency said that PG&E may have violated state law and referred the case to local prosecutors for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Cal Fire released its findings Friday on 12 of the more than 170 fires starting last Oct. 8 as hot, dry winds roared through much of Northern California. The agency’s investigators found that all but one were connected to PG&E electrical lines, power poles or other equipment. In the lone case where PG&E was not cited, a power line was also the cause, but Cal Fire did not immediately say who owns that line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause has not yet been announced for the blaze that caused the greatest loss of life and the most extensive property damage — the Tubbs Fire, which ignited near Calistoga and raced across the hills into Santa Rosa. That blaze killed 22 people and destroyed more than 5,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, said the findings — combined with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670763/cal-fire-says-pge-power-lines-caused-fires-in-butte-nevada-counties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigations released\u003c/a> two weeks ago blaming PG&E for four other fires — refutes the utility’s recent arguments that a “new normal” created by climate change is to blame for such devastating disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t come as a big surprise, but I think we have to be clear … these fires are not started by a new normal. They are caused by negligence by PG&E,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire findings raise questions about the future of PG&E, the state’s largest utility. But in a statement, PG&E repeated its assertion that “years of drought, extreme heat and 129 million dead trees have created a ‘new normal’ for our state that requires comprehensive new solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extreme weather is increasing the number of large wildfires and the length of the wildfire season in California,” the statement said. “The loss of life, homes and businesses in these extraordinary wildfires is simply heartbreaking, and we remain focused on helping communities recover and rebuild. We look forward to the opportunity to carefully review the Cal Fire reports to understand the agency’s perspectives. Based on the information we have so far, we continue to believe our overall programs met our state’s high standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Fiske, a lawyer for the counties of Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma in their litigation against PG&E, said Friday’s findings prove the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, Cal Fire confirmed what we’ve known, that PG&E has systemic management deficiencies that fail to recognize the serious nature of wildfire prevention,” he said in a statement. “So far, 16 of 16 North Bay fires have been found caused by PG&E, 11 of which have been referred to District Attorneys. It is time for the executives at PG&E to get serious about rebuilding these communities and preventing further disasters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiske blamed PG&E for all 16 fires investigated so far, but in one case — the Nuns Fire — Cal Fire said it was a power line, but didn¹t specify who owns that line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the fire agency’s summary of the dozen determinations announced Friday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Redwood Fire,\u003c/strong> in Mendocino County, started the evening of Oct. 8 and burned a total of 36,523 acres, destroying 543 structures. There were nine civilian fatalities and no injuries to firefighters. Cal Fire has determined the fire started in two locations and was caused by trees or parts of trees falling onto PG&E power lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Atlas Fire,\u003c/strong> in Napa County, started the evening of Oct. 8 and burned a total of 51,624 acres, destroying 783 structures. There were six civilian fatalities. Cal Fire investigators determined the fire started in two locations. At one location, it was determined a large limb broke from a tree and came into contact with a PG&E power line. At the second location, investigators determined a tree fell into the same line.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Norrbom, Adobe, Partrick, Pythian\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Nuns\u003c/strong> fires were part of a series of fires that merged in Sonoma and Napa counties. These fires started in the late-night hours of Oct. 8 and burned a combined total of 56,556 acres, destroying 1,355 structures. There were three civilian fatalities. Cal Fire said four of five of those fires were connected to PG&E equipment. The Nuns Fire was said to have been caused by the broken top of a tree coming into contact with a power line, but PG&E was not named.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Sulphur Fire,\u003c/strong> in Lake County, started the evening of Oct. 8 and burned a total of 2,207 acres, destroying 162 structures. There were no injuries. Cal Fire investigators determined the fire was caused by the failure of a PG&E-owned power pole, resulting in power lines and equipment coming in contact with the ground.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Cherokee Fire,\u003c/strong> in Butte County, started the evening of Oct. 8 and burned a total of 8,417 acres, destroying six structures. There were no injuries. Cal Fire investigators have determined the cause of the fire was a result of tree limbs coming into contact with PG&E power lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The 37 Fire,\u003c/strong> in Sonoma County, started the evening of Oct. 9 and burned a total of 1,660 acres, destroying three structures. There were no injuries. Cal Fire investigators have determined the cause of the fire was electrical and was associated with the PG&E distribution lines in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Blue Fire,\u003c/strong> in Humboldt County, started the afternoon of Oct. 8 and burned a total of 20 acres. There were no injuries. Cal Fire investigators have determined a PG&E power line conductor separated from a connector, causing the conductor to fall to the ground, starting the fire.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Pocket Fire,\u003c/strong> in Sonoma County, started the early morning hours of Oct. 9 and burned a total of 17,357 acres, destroying 6 structures. There were no injuries. Cal Fire has determined the fire was caused by the top of an oak tree breaking and coming into contact with PG&E power lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire will hand over its findings to the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates electric and gas utilities in California. The CPUC will be charged with determining if PG&E was out of compliance with CPUC rules and regulations and should be subject to fines and other action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be criminal investigations into the company’s actions before the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Brockley, an assistant district attorney in Sonoma County, said the criminal investigations into the fires are sprawling, and Sonoma County prosecutors are coordinating with Napa and Lake counties and the state Attorney General’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first fire that I’ve ever had an experience with that’s this size,” Brockley said. “Some of the fires started and ended in different counties, so that’s why we’re all working together and coordinating our efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC said its investigations into PG&E’s role in the fires is ongoing and could result in extensive penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of future determinations by the CPUC and law enforcement, civil lawsuits, insurance claims and political fallout all also pose major financial threats to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility is facing more than 100 suits from fire survivors and government agencies blaming it for the blazes. Insurance claims for the fire are around $10 billion, more than 10 times the amount of liability insurance that PG&E carries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the attorneys litigating the cases against the utility says monetary penalties are just part of the remedy he seeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Pitre, co-counsel in 150 lawsuits, said Cal Fire’s report is “an indictment of the failure of PG&E’s risk management practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need a team of experts to go in and make recommendations on how to change the culture at PG&E so the same thing doesn’t happen again,” Pitre said. “That’s what I want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a battle going on in Sacramento over whether lawmakers should change a long-standing state law that allows a utility to be held financially responsible for damage it causes — even if it complied with state regulations. 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Cal Fire investigators determined the fire started in two locations. At one location, it was determined a large limb broke from a tree and came into contact with a PG&E power line. At the second location, investigators determined a tree fell into the same line.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Norrbom, Adobe, Partrick, Pythian\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Nuns\u003c/strong> fires were part of a series of fires that merged in Sonoma and Napa counties. These fires started in the late-night hours of Oct. 8 and burned a combined total of 56,556 acres, destroying 1,355 structures. There were three civilian fatalities. Cal Fire said four of five of those fires were connected to PG&E equipment. 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"content": "\u003cp>First it was Anna Solano, then it was Fran Bengtsson, telling how a young man knocked on their doors and woke them the night of the Tubbs Fire. There are others he saved, people who would like to thank him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were asleep in their homes in Coffey Park in Santa Rosa the night the Tubbs Fire whipped down from the hills and jumped Highway 101 into the densely populated neighborhood. Both Solano and Bengtsson are certain they made it out that night only because of one very determined young man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/921143629292249088\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don Riveras, I think is his name,” Fran Bengtsson said as she stood next to her burnt-out home on Dogwood Drive in Coffey Park. “He moved in just a couple of weeks ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bengtsson had come back to sift through the wreckage for what she could salvage. She pointed down the block as she recalled what Riveras did that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went across the street to this area, and he went down the street all the way over to Mocha Lane,” Bengtsson said. “He was just incredible. If he hadn’t knocked on my door, you would not be holding a microphone to my mouth right now. So a hero. Just a tremendous hero. And so blessings on him, he saved my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/10/FireHeroMcEvoy.mp3\" title=\"Man Who Alerted Neighbors to Wildfire Hailed as 'Tremendous Hero'\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/10/24/RS27673DonRiveras.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/19/unknown-fire-hero-santa-rosa-teacher-wants-to-thank-man-who-saved-her-life/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we told you about Anna Solano\u003c/a>, a Santa Rosa high school teacher who wanted to find the person who saved her to thank him for getting her out in time. We posted his photo, captured by the security camera on Solano’s front landing. In the video, he can be seen knocking on her door as people fled in cars under a dark, reddish sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several readers helped identify the man as Donny Riveras. On Saturday, Solano met Riveras to deliver that thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Solano and Donny Riveras meet after fire swept through their Coffey Park neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-1020x851.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-1180x985.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-960x801.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-240x200.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-375x313.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-520x434.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1.jpg 1452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Solano and Donny Riveras meet after fire swept through their Coffey Park neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Solano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was happy to see she was OK,” Riveras said of their meeting. “She’s taking everything pretty well. She’s a very strong woman and everything’s going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is a caring, humble, mature and respectful young man,” Solano said after meeting with Riveras. “He has a good head on his shoulders. He felt that it was his duty to knock on door to door to make sure people were safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano learned Riveras lost everything he owned in the fire and that the front of his red Ford truck was melted in the blaze. So she took him to a sheriff’s station Saturday to get clothes and essentials. Riveras said he was able to pick up a few shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two weeks after the disaster that has transformed this town, Riveras says he’s trying to put the night of the fire behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kind of see it all as a bad dream. It isn’t real, so I just keep moving forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-800x705.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-800x705.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-160x141.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-1020x899.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-1920x1693.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-1180x1040.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-960x846.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-240x212.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-375x331.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-520x458.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Solano and Donny Riveras at the Sheriff’s Center near Solano county airport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Solano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now, he’s focused on getting a new apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finding a place to live will be really hard right now with the prices in this county,” said Riveras, 21, who is trying to get a job as a correctional officer. “And at my age with not as much experience as most, it will be tough to get back on my feet … but there’s nothing I can’t do if I put my mind to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras grew up here. His family lives a few minutes north of Coffey Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625335\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11625335 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Donny Riveras' mother Kelli, sister Jessica and father at their home in Santa Rosa, CA on October 22, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donny Riveras’ mother Kelli, sister Jessica and father Matt at their home in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2017. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the night of the firestorm, his mom, Kelli Riveras, was driving her horse trailer to a nearby ranch to try to rescue some horses from the fire. No one knew Coffey Park was in danger at this point, but then she got a call from her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donny called and he sounded panicked,” Kelli said. “He said, ‘Mom, things are not good here,’ and he hung up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the horse hauler with her mom was Donny’s 19-year-old sister, Jessica. She was monitoring Snapchat for information on the fire, her friends and her brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole way coming down from Chalk Hill and I’m seeing Snapchats and I’m seeing my brother’s and there is just glow in Coffey Park,” Jessica said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras said he and his roommate, Jon Edmunds, knocked on many doors that night, but he remembers Anna Solano’s. 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This photo helped Solano and Riveras connect. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Solano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every house before had opened the door and hers was the first where someone didn’t, so I was worried. So I pounded a little extra hard and waited until I got that little yell from upstairs, and that was good,” Riveras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2 a.m., Jessica said her brother posted a Snapchat video, “And he says, ‘If anyone wants to know, this is what Coffey Park looks like right now.’ So I called him and told him I was really worried right now, and he said, ‘Yeah, I’m OK. I gotta go, I gotta go.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all on fire,” Riveras said. “It all happened so fast. The whole park was gone in about a half-hour. I was knocking on as many doors as I could. The fire marshal said we had five minutes, we were done evacuating. That’s when I did the video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras believes firefighters did everything they could that night. But there was a moment when he wondered why was it just him and his roommate out there trying to get people out. He recalled stopping one homeowner trying to put out a gas fire with his garden hose and telling him to head out before it was too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Don Riveras lived on Dogwood Drive in the Coffey Park neighborhood that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Riveras lived on Dogwood Drive in the Coffey Park neighborhood that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was furious in the middle of it that no one else was doing it,” Riveras said. “I’m not blaming anyone or trying to make people feel bad, but people should play out some scenarios in their head: ‘What am I going to do when this happens?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras said he wasn’t thinking about his possessions or immediate needs, but of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have died, and I don’t think I could have gone to sleep at night knowing I could have knocked on a door or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For those interested in helping Riveras recover from his own loss, there is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/donny-riveras-fire-victim-fund\">GoFundMe\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/19/unknown-fire-hero-santa-rosa-teacher-wants-to-thank-man-who-saved-her-life/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we told you about Anna Solano\u003c/a>, a Santa Rosa high school teacher who wanted to find the person who saved her to thank him for getting her out in time. We posted his photo, captured by the security camera on Solano’s front landing. In the video, he can be seen knocking on her door as people fled in cars under a dark, reddish sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several readers helped identify the man as Donny Riveras. On Saturday, Solano met Riveras to deliver that thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Solano and Donny Riveras meet after fire swept through their Coffey Park neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-1020x851.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-1180x985.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-960x801.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-240x200.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-375x313.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1-520x434.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/donandsolanhorizontal-cut2-1.jpg 1452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Solano and Donny Riveras meet after fire swept through their Coffey Park neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Solano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was happy to see she was OK,” Riveras said of their meeting. “She’s taking everything pretty well. She’s a very strong woman and everything’s going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is a caring, humble, mature and respectful young man,” Solano said after meeting with Riveras. “He has a good head on his shoulders. He felt that it was his duty to knock on door to door to make sure people were safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano learned Riveras lost everything he owned in the fire and that the front of his red Ford truck was melted in the blaze. So she took him to a sheriff’s station Saturday to get clothes and essentials. Riveras said he was able to pick up a few shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two weeks after the disaster that has transformed this town, Riveras says he’s trying to put the night of the fire behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kind of see it all as a bad dream. It isn’t real, so I just keep moving forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-800x705.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-800x705.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-160x141.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-1020x899.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-1920x1693.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-1180x1040.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-960x846.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-240x212.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-375x331.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Resized_20171021_222556-1-1-520x458.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Solano and Donny Riveras at the Sheriff’s Center near Solano county airport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Solano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now, he’s focused on getting a new apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finding a place to live will be really hard right now with the prices in this county,” said Riveras, 21, who is trying to get a job as a correctional officer. “And at my age with not as much experience as most, it will be tough to get back on my feet … but there’s nothing I can’t do if I put my mind to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras grew up here. His family lives a few minutes north of Coffey Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625335\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11625335 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Donny Riveras' mother Kelli, sister Jessica and father at their home in Santa Rosa, CA on October 22, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27670_DonRiveras-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donny Riveras’ mother Kelli, sister Jessica and father Matt at their home in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2017. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the night of the firestorm, his mom, Kelli Riveras, was driving her horse trailer to a nearby ranch to try to rescue some horses from the fire. No one knew Coffey Park was in danger at this point, but then she got a call from her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donny called and he sounded panicked,” Kelli said. “He said, ‘Mom, things are not good here,’ and he hung up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the horse hauler with her mom was Donny’s 19-year-old sister, Jessica. She was monitoring Snapchat for information on the fire, her friends and her brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole way coming down from Chalk Hill and I’m seeing Snapchats and I’m seeing my brother’s and there is just glow in Coffey Park,” Jessica said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras said he and his roommate, Jon Edmunds, knocked on many doors that night, but he remembers Anna Solano’s. 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This photo helped Solano and Riveras connect. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Solano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every house before had opened the door and hers was the first where someone didn’t, so I was worried. So I pounded a little extra hard and waited until I got that little yell from upstairs, and that was good,” Riveras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2 a.m., Jessica said her brother posted a Snapchat video, “And he says, ‘If anyone wants to know, this is what Coffey Park looks like right now.’ So I called him and told him I was really worried right now, and he said, ‘Yeah, I’m OK. I gotta go, I gotta go.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all on fire,” Riveras said. “It all happened so fast. The whole park was gone in about a half-hour. I was knocking on as many doors as I could. The fire marshal said we had five minutes, we were done evacuating. That’s when I did the video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras believes firefighters did everything they could that night. But there was a moment when he wondered why was it just him and his roommate out there trying to get people out. He recalled stopping one homeowner trying to put out a gas fire with his garden hose and telling him to head out before it was too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Don Riveras lived on Dogwood Drive in the Coffey Park neighborhood that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27674_DonRiveras-6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Riveras lived on Dogwood Drive in the Coffey Park neighborhood that was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was furious in the middle of it that no one else was doing it,” Riveras said. “I’m not blaming anyone or trying to make people feel bad, but people should play out some scenarios in their head: ‘What am I going to do when this happens?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riveras said he wasn’t thinking about his possessions or immediate needs, but of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have died, and I don’t think I could have gone to sleep at night knowing I could have knocked on a door or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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