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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jeff and Jodi Moreno took turns staying awake late into the night of Tuesday, Jan. 7; their eyes cemented to the Watch Duty app on their phones, which showed real-time updates and alerts for the fast-moving Eaton Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winds howled so strongly that the Morenos worried a tree might crash through the bedroom windows of their Altadena home they had just remodeled. So, their three daughters slept on makeshift beds in the living room, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 2:15 a.m., the couple heard people calling over a PA system from outside, instructing them to evacuate. The family of five loaded their cars and left the home they’ve lived in for the past 19 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they turned down their street the next afternoon, no houses came into view, just the stark, vertical lines of chimney after chimney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shock was almost too much to feel much of anything,” Jeff Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a kind of loss that’s hard to relate to unless you’ve been through it before. And given that extreme weather disasters are becoming more frequent due to climate change, a growing number of people are actually able to understand this feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one asks to join the club of extreme weather survivors, but being a member makes you uniquely suited to help others once you are out of an acute crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo.jpg\" alt=\"A before and after picture of a small, one-story, nicely kept home, and the remains of it after it was burned down.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo-768x380.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo-1536x760.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/IMG_5331_duo-1920x950.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moreno’s home in Altadena, California, before and after the Eaton Fire ravaged the community in January. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Moreno family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.extremeweathersurvivors.org/\">Extreme Weather Survivors\u003c/a> links these veteran survivors with the newest ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has put together a Slack community for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-fires\">Los Angeles wildfire victims\u003c/a>, with sections devoted to insurance, debris removal and mental health. Doctors and scientists are involved in answering questions about smoke damage and children’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 800 L.A. wildfire victims using the resource can also get advice from survivors of past wildfires who have walked this road before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right away from interacting with it, I was like, ‘Wow, there’s people on the other side of this,’” said Jodi Moreno, Jeff’s wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can emotionally connect with all of our friends who are surviving this,” Jeff said. “But none of us know what the next step is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996129\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1996129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a wife and husband and three daughters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/JodiEditBonus-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff and Jodi Moreno (center) and their daughters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Moreno family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While most L.A. wildfire survivors are connecting asynchronously online, which can work well in the unsteady early days after displacement, the Morenos recently connected to a former wildfire survivor in real time over Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Solove lost her home to Colorado’s \u003ca href=\"https://research.noaa.gov/looking-back-at-colorados-marshall-fire/\">Marshall Fire\u003c/a> in December 2021. The blaze moved so quickly that Solove’s husband was the only member of their family of four who had time to put shoes on before fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solove and her family rebuilt their home and moved back a year and a half later, a relatively quick timeline. She attributes that speed to a strong community and an outpouring of care and assistance from both friends and strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance, Solove met a woman who’d also lost a home in a wildfire. The two spoke for just a few minutes, but having “a person who had that shared human experience to reassure me meant everything,” Solove said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solove recently began working for Extreme Weather Survivors after volunteering with the group for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their call, Solove and the Morenos spoke about feelings: the surge of adrenaline in the first few days and then slowing down as a new reality sets in. They talked about kids: how to emotionally support them in the short and long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Morenos asked questions that only someone who’s been in their position could answer. Things like, if you do decide to move back, do you ever regain a sense of safety?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solove said she, too, had feared that she wouldn’t. But the night her family moved into their new home, she felt “the purest joy and pride,” she said. “The only other life experience I could compare it to was giving birth to my two children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solove does, at times, get nervous when there are strong winds, but overall, she is satisfied with her family’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the three spoke, Jodi Moreno held back tears. “There’s a knowingness in the way you’re talking that is deeply comforting,” she said. And while it’s likely too soon for survivors of the L.A. fires to feel this, Solove said she is actually grateful for the life experience of living through a catastrophic wildfire. She has learned how to comfort people during crises and that she, her family, and her community are stronger than she realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193.jpg\" alt=\"A two-story home, with snow covering the yard in front.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/PXL_20210315_182808193-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The former home of Erica and Jon Solove in Superior, Colorado, the winter before it burned down in the 2021 Marshall Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Solove family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The disaster also put things into focus. “I have forever changed my perspective on what is or isn’t important, what I value and what I hope to do and accomplish with my time here,” Solove said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solove wasn’t able to save anything from her home that burned down, except for one partially melted mug salvaged from the ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she moved into her rebuilt home, she planted a succulent in the damaged mug. She keeps it in the center of her family’s kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is scarred, yet fostering life. It represents resilience.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jeff Stanley watched in horror as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994218/after-lake-county-fire-burns-dozens-of-homes-and-vehicles-crews-will-search-for-potential-casualties\">the Boyles Fire\u003c/a> enveloped his hilly Clearlake neighborhood Sunday, consuming his friends’ homes and cars. Standing near the rubble, Stanley reached down to pick up a handful of golden, dry grass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you put a match to it, it’s almost like TNT,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews stopped the fire just blocks from his home in a Lake County neighborhood painted fluorescent pink with fire retardant and charred black with the short-term memory of flames. Thirty of his neighbors’ homes weren’t so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley worries that the community won’t be able to rebound quickly due to a lack of money to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us here are on government checks,” he said. “I’m on Social Security. When a house here burns to the ground, they’ve lost everything. There’s some sad stories here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after the fire scorched the southern edge of Clearlake, in a region that is no stranger to wildfires, authorities are strategizing how to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire retardant covers a home on 18th Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024, after the Boyles Fire swept through the area on Sept. 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is working with State Sen. Mike McGuire to fund temporary housing for the families who lost their homes. But the recovery won’t be easy — complicated by a potential lack of home insurance — and while the char isn’t visible from nearby Highway 53, the scar left on the community will be felt for decades, Clearlake Mayor David Claffey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every fire leaves a scar on the community, and a large part of that is because it’s so tough to rebuild here in California,” Claffey said. “Unfortunately, Lake County has experienced a lot of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No other county has felt \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994263/california-fire-season-wakes-up-again-with-major-wildfires-and-hot-dry-conditions\">California’s wildfire crisis\u003c/a> like Lake County, where over 60% of land has burned since the 2015 Valley Fire, according to Claffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The destruction from the Boyles Fire could have been worse, Claffey said, attributing brush thinning near the burned area as part of the reason the fire didn’t spread farther.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames can be seen inside a tree near Boyles Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024, after the Boyles Fire swept through the area on Sept. 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Only losing about 30 homes is a testament to all that work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other helpful break: a city police officer who lives nearby saw the plume of smoke and evacuated the first family out of a house that caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claffey said as many as 2,300 people are still under evacuation orders, staying with family and friends or at a Red Cross shelter in the nearby city of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Samantha Tarver and her 17-year-old son, Jeremy Cova, who stayed at a hotel Sunday night and visited the Red Cross shelter Monday to find out what aid might be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what we are going to do if our house burns. We just rented our place in May,” Tarver said, explaining that when the family evacuated, the fire was right across the street from their mobile home. As of Monday, she wasn’t sure if her home had burned. “I don’t want to live there anymore. I want to go somewhere that isn’t dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Cerrito Fire Department firefighter Henry Becker chainsaws a tree near Boyles Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s temporary housing plan in the works with McGuire would put people who lost their homes into local hotels free of charge, according to Claffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re committed to getting folks out of the shelter as soon as possible,” he said. “The temporary housing could last several months or a very long time. Our goal is to get them in a more comfortable environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another issue the blaze surfaces is a potential lack of home insurance in the neighborhood. Claffey said the city is calculating how many people have insurance, are underinsured or are uninsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11834132 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/FireMapCap.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirsten Priebe lives several streets away from where the fire burned. Her anxiety was heightened given that Social Security checks make up most of her monthly income, and she gave up her home insurance a few years ago when the price doubled from $900 to $1,900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s two of my two checks,” she said. “I had to let my insurance go because I couldn’t afford it. So, it makes it extra scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Priebe can’t afford home insurance, over the past few years she has prepared her home to withstand blazes like the Boyles Fire. She installed cement board siding on the home’s exterior, cut trees back, removed the grass in her yard and paved a lot of her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the question remains whether staying in such a highly fire-prone area is feasible. UC Santa Cruz professor Miriam Greenberg, who studies the effects of climate catastrophes like fires on housing in the wildland-urban interface, cautioned the city and its residents to think about whether rebuilding in Clearlake is a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a question that should be asked sensitively because a fire may have already displaced them from an affordable housing community,” she said. “We haven’t had these conversations about fire-prone areas, but it’s beginning to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all the issues that arise from living in a fire-vulnerable region like Lake County, Greenberg suggested considering the idea of managed retreat — choosing to leave because of the growing risk of wildfires fueled by human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea might sound simple in theory but, in reality, is complex and can change the makeup of a community, she said, adding that for it to work, authorities must develop equitable solutions for those who want to stay and “for those individuals or families or communities that are actually interested in leaving but just can’t afford to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us here are on government checks,” he said. “I’m on Social Security. When a house here burns to the ground, they’ve lost everything. There’s some sad stories here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after the fire scorched the southern edge of Clearlake, in a region that is no stranger to wildfires, authorities are strategizing how to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire retardant covers a home on 18th Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024, after the Boyles Fire swept through the area on Sept. 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is working with State Sen. 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We just rented our place in May,” Tarver said, explaining that when the family evacuated, the fire was right across the street from their mobile home. As of Monday, she wasn’t sure if her home had burned. “I don’t want to live there anymore. 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"content": "\u003cp>The series of 31 atmospheric rivers that drenched California this past winter has wildfire officials and scientists breathing sighs of relief — for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a coalition of state and federal fire directors, which puts out regular \u003ca href=\"https://gacc.nifc.gov/oncc/predictive/outlooks/Outlook_NOps.pdf\">predictions about wildfire season in Northern California (PDF)\u003c/a>, the potential for significant fires this year is normal to below normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Northern California Geographic Area Coordination Center’s prediction comes from a compilation of factors, chief among them weather (past, present and future) and fuel moisture (how much water trees and plants are holding onto). Given the wet, cool winter and spring months, this year’s fire season is off to a slow start. The ground is still wet and grasses, shrubs and trees are holding onto that moisture, making them less likely to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same thing as when you try to start a campfire: You don’t use wet wood. It’s very hard to get wet wood to ignite,” said Craig Clements, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsu.edu/wildfire/team/faculty.php\">director\u003c/a> of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center at San José State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Statewide Rainfall/Acres Burned (2000-2022) \" aria-label=\"Scatter Plot\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-61l7B\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/61l7B/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But what about all that extra vegetation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Maybe you’ve heard that all that rain means more vegetation, and that more vegetation means more fuel for wildfires. 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In other words, because grasses, shrubs and trees are holding onto their moisture longer than usual, the window for them to cure — and for severe wildfire risk — is narrower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Clements added, grass fires are among the least concerning to firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re dangerous, they spread rapidly, but aircraft suppression works really well on grass fires,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire ramped up its flight suppression last year, which the agency said helped prevent wildfires from blazing out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So where will fires be worst this year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short: likely in the coastal grasslands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do get significant heat waves or wind events in August, September and October, there could be a high level of fire activity in [the grasslands],” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said in a recent live YouTube \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E45I9YeO0ek\">video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the Bay Area is considered coastal grassland and, depending on the late summer weather — particularly heat waves followed by gusty, dry offshore winds — the region could see increased fire activity later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, forest and mountain ecosystems like the Sierra Nevada are still blanketed in snow, which could mean they’ll be spared this fire season. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/03/30/california-snowpack-record-sierra/\">record-breaking snowpack in the mountains is lingering into the summer months\u003c/a>, thereby decreasing fire danger. Even when it all melts later this summer, the fuel moisture will likely stay high enough to ward off any severe burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will this summer’s weather factor in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course all of these predictions are contingent upon the weather, which in California is notoriously fickle. June has already been cooler and wetter than usual, and with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982822/6-common-misconceptions-about-el-nino-and-its-impact-on-california-weather\">El\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982822/6-common-misconceptions-about-el-nino-and-its-impact-on-california-weather\">Niño\u003c/a> conditions here, that trend is likely to continue later on this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thousands of people remain under mandatory evacuation orders in Northern California. Some have endured wildfires, smoke, floods, blackouts and evacuations many times. Now, even though the state’s population is predicted to top 40 million this year, some are wondering whether California is the dream they’d hoped for. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few weeks ago, Philip Van Gelder’s biggest chore was clearing crusty mud and debris from his land. He and his wife live on an idyllic property nestled among vineyards and rolling hills in the tiny town of Geyserville, a few hours north of San Francisco. 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Wildfire raged through the surrounding hills. Firefighters warned his family that flames could level the town. Authorities ordered a mandatory evacuation for his neighborhood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Van Gelder refused to abandon his property, though he told officials he would remain vigilant. He and his wife weathered a few smoky days without electricity or gas, before ferocious winds picked up again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The hills exploded in flames,” Van Gelder said. “The house was surrounded by soot and ash blowing everywhere.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They raced to their car with their cat, a few guitars and some key documents. The husband and wife are now staying with their daughter a few hours south, in Oakland. Van Gelder says he can’t relax. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He questions his future in California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think the climate is definitely becoming extreme,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change did not, by itself, cause the Kincade Fire or the winds that propelled it. But it has increased the risk of wildfire in California and throughout the nation, along with the rapid spread of those fires when they do start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still Running\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two years after wildfires in Santa Rosa chased her from her home, Danielle Bryant feels as if she’s still running for her life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fire, which killed 44 people, consumed her neighborhood, including her house. The next year, a few hours away, the Camp Fire killed more than 80 people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last weekend at dawn, sirens woke Bryant and her husband again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My heart was racing. I couldn’t think. I felt very on guard,” Bryant recalled. “I tried to put myself into action but also I felt frozen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They hit a fog bank of smoke as they drove from their temporary apartment, less than a mile from their old house. “It looked like we were driving through hell.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, Bryant has lost her appetite. Bad dreams keep her up at night. She and her husband are talking about selling the house they’re rebuilding. Construction is way behind schedule. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Everyone is stretched and stressed because our builder took on too many homes,” she said. “There are so many stories about people folding and leaving.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says a sense of humor has helped her cope. But at the same time, she said, “It feels very scary. \u003c/span>I just don’t know where home is right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day she thinks about relocating. The stress and trauma have taxed her marriage, her work and her health. But leaving would not be \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">simple. Bryant grew up here. Her aging mother lives nearby. And moving is no guarantee of safety. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “What place doesn’t have fire?” she said. “Iceland? Vast wide open spaces like the Mojave desert?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it possible, she wonders, to outrun climate change?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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