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The only picture she has left of her treasured home is a satellite image from Google Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there would never be home to go to. And not just my home. It's my whole area, my whole town, my region, my county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pool was once an affordable destination vacation spot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1920x1438.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg 1965w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pools was once an affordable destination vacation spot. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the disasters did not stop. The summer after the Valley Fire, an arsonist allegedly sparked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11052363/clayton-fire-how-to-help\">Clayton Fire,\u003c/a> destroying 300 more buildings and wiping out much of downtown Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2017, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49866:city-of-lakeport-issues-mandatory-evacuations-for-several-locations-due-to-rising-flood-waters&catid=1:latest&Itemid=197\">Willow Point Flood\u003c/a> forced more residents in Lakeport from their homes. Then in October the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1876\">Sulphur Fire\u003c/a> burned down 162 more structures along the waterfront of Clear Lake, California’s largest natural lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing in Lake County is being destroyed at an alarming rate. Recovery, meanwhile, is taking its time. Less than 200 homes have been rebuilt since 2015, according to the county administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Levenson’s house burned down, she says finding a stable place to live was nearly impossible. Three percent of all housing stock in the county had been destroyed, making the rental market highly competitive. On top of that she couldn’t afford to keep shelling out $35 to $65 for each rental application she filled out. And once she did find a place, her insurance company required that she keep house-hunting every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Into this widespread housing crisis stepped an unlikely savior. Levenson is now the longest-term resident of Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa, a place that has its own unique history in Lake County, and that has come to serve an entirely new purpose to survivors like Levenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Last Resort\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ualocal38.org/\">UA Local 38, Plumbers and Pipefitters Union\u003c/a> opened Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in the small town of Kelseyville in 1959 as a place for union members to vacation. Over the years it became a destination, complete with a 5,000-seat amphitheater that hosted bands like the Scorpions and Kiss. People would come to see live music, jet ski and stay at the 300-room resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a series of \u003ca href=\"https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/mazzola-is-slippery/Content?oid=2162968\">lawsuits\u003c/a> and financial troubles forced the union to close the resort in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years it sat empty, quietly sliding into disrepair. A number of sales were rumored, but ultimately fell through. Then, when disaster struck in 2015, the union stepped in and offered the resort to FEMA and county officials as a place to house fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson pays about $1,000 a month to stay in what’s essentially a one-bedroom apartment. It’s not without its quirks. Out the sliding glass door she’s got a beautiful view of the lake, and a hot tub that doesn’t work, all framed by rotting green trim. She has gone days without power, running water and heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she says, she's just grateful to have somewhere to be, and that the skeleton crew who managed the place treated her and other survivors like guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds mushy, but every county should be so lucky as to have an old defunct resort that could step in like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-e1524270544365.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she first moved in, Levenson says about 100 other people stayed there. As each new season brought a new disaster, it also brought her new neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after the flood is when we got the most children,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past fire season was no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9, 2017, Bart woke up because she thought the sun was rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like Mount Vesuvius had erupted,” she says. “The entire horizon was like more lava oozing down the hill toward the water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sulphur Fire sparked the same night as deadly wildfires ravaged eight counties, including Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino. It created another wave of refugees. Now a total of 18 families displaced by three years of disaster still live here at the resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who died here,” she says. “There have been people who've gotten born here. It's a whole little village. It really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resort-turned-refugee village still features signage from 2009, Olympic-sized swimming pools containing a few inches of brackish water, and a thatchless tiki bar overlooking the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where some see decay, others see opportunity. In March, Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa was bought by new owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8612-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Season?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our vision for the resort is to really make it a full-service quality resort that's good for people and families, that really emphasizes the waterfront,” says Russ Hamel, managing director of the new Konocti Harbor Resort project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says the Bay Area group he represents sees big potential profits in the sprawling property. And if it’s revitalized, Konocti could also bring jobs and opportunity to a local economy that has struggled for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is still a daunting amount of work to be done, and Hamel and his crew are just getting started on a renovation they estimate could take anywhere from two to five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally inherited a city,” Hamel says. “We have our own water treatment plant, we have our own sewage treatment plant, many buildings that have to be maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the new staff learn where the light switches are, they are also reaching out to the current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first things that we did when I got here was I started interviewing everybody,” Hamel says. “I put a note on everybody's door that said we're not the evil empire with the new owners. We're not going to evict anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says he will continue to rent to survivors who need somewhere to stay until they can find a more permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8960-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for its longest resident, Bart Levenson says she is finally checking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson says she had no idea it would take this long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm surprised,” she says. “If I wasn't leaving this, I never would believe it. I'd be judgmental. I just would not be able to understand how long it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The venerable Konocti Resort in Lake County has become an improbable village for survivors of disaster after disaster, and it might find new life with new owners.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1524411105,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1249},"headData":{"title":"Fire Survivors' Last Resort: How a Dilapidated Hotel Became a Haven for the Displaced | KQED","description":"The venerable Konocti Resort in Lake County has become an improbable village for survivors of disaster after disaster, and it might find new life with new owners.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11663565 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11663565","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/21/fire-survivors-last-resort-how-a-dilapidated-hotel-became-a-haven-for-the-displaced/","disqusTitle":"Fire Survivors' Last Resort: How a Dilapidated Hotel Became a Haven for the Displaced","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/04/LewisKonocti.mp3","path":"/news/11663565/fire-survivors-last-resort-how-a-dilapidated-hotel-became-a-haven-for-the-displaced","audioDuration":384000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n a hot Saturday afternoon in 2015, Bart Levenson left her house on six acres of forestland in Lake County to go into town and get her prescriptions filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left to do errands and I never got home,\" she says. \"Ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson's home burned down in the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10702539/the-valley-fire-what-it-burned-and-what-it-left-behind\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> that sparked on Sept. 12, 2015, killing four people and wiping out 1,280 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lost everything in the Valley Fire, including every photograph from her entire life. The only picture she has left of her treasured home is a satellite image from Google Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there would never be home to go to. And not just my home. It's my whole area, my whole town, my region, my county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pool was once an affordable destination vacation spot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1920x1438.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_0019.jpg 1965w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa with its two Olympic-sized swimming pools was once an affordable destination vacation spot. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the disasters did not stop. The summer after the Valley Fire, an arsonist allegedly sparked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11052363/clayton-fire-how-to-help\">Clayton Fire,\u003c/a> destroying 300 more buildings and wiping out much of downtown Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2017, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49866:city-of-lakeport-issues-mandatory-evacuations-for-several-locations-due-to-rising-flood-waters&catid=1:latest&Itemid=197\">Willow Point Flood\u003c/a> forced more residents in Lakeport from their homes. Then in October the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1876\">Sulphur Fire\u003c/a> burned down 162 more structures along the waterfront of Clear Lake, California’s largest natural lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing in Lake County is being destroyed at an alarming rate. Recovery, meanwhile, is taking its time. Less than 200 homes have been rebuilt since 2015, according to the county administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Levenson’s house burned down, she says finding a stable place to live was nearly impossible. Three percent of all housing stock in the county had been destroyed, making the rental market highly competitive. On top of that she couldn’t afford to keep shelling out $35 to $65 for each rental application she filled out. And once she did find a place, her insurance company required that she keep house-hunting every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Into this widespread housing crisis stepped an unlikely savior. Levenson is now the longest-term resident of Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa, a place that has its own unique history in Lake County, and that has come to serve an entirely new purpose to survivors like Levenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30500_IMG_0012-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The signage at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's front gate still advertises Summerfest 2009, the year the resort had to close. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Last Resort\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ualocal38.org/\">UA Local 38, Plumbers and Pipefitters Union\u003c/a> opened Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in the small town of Kelseyville in 1959 as a place for union members to vacation. Over the years it became a destination, complete with a 5,000-seat amphitheater that hosted bands like the Scorpions and Kiss. People would come to see live music, jet ski and stay at the 300-room resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a series of \u003ca href=\"https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/mazzola-is-slippery/Content?oid=2162968\">lawsuits\u003c/a> and financial troubles forced the union to close the resort in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years it sat empty, quietly sliding into disrepair. A number of sales were rumored, but ultimately fell through. Then, when disaster struck in 2015, the union stepped in and offered the resort to FEMA and county officials as a place to house fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson pays about $1,000 a month to stay in what’s essentially a one-bedroom apartment. It’s not without its quirks. Out the sliding glass door she’s got a beautiful view of the lake, and a hot tub that doesn’t work, all framed by rotting green trim. She has gone days without power, running water and heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she says, she's just grateful to have somewhere to be, and that the skeleton crew who managed the place treated her and other survivors like guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds mushy, but every county should be so lucky as to have an old defunct resort that could step in like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-e1524270544365.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_1882-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa's new owners say they want to breathe life back into the decaying property. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she first moved in, Levenson says about 100 other people stayed there. As each new season brought a new disaster, it also brought her new neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after the flood is when we got the most children,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past fire season was no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9, 2017, Bart woke up because she thought the sun was rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like Mount Vesuvius had erupted,” she says. “The entire horizon was like more lava oozing down the hill toward the water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sulphur Fire sparked the same night as deadly wildfires ravaged eight counties, including Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino. It created another wave of refugees. Now a total of 18 families displaced by three years of disaster still live here at the resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who died here,” she says. “There have been people who've gotten born here. It's a whole little village. It really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resort-turned-refugee village still features signage from 2009, Olympic-sized swimming pools containing a few inches of brackish water, and a thatchless tiki bar overlooking the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where some see decay, others see opportunity. In March, Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa was bought by new owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8612-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry McDaniel is helping get the resort back in working order. He stands in the old cafe at Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Season?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our vision for the resort is to really make it a full-service quality resort that's good for people and families, that really emphasizes the waterfront,” says Russ Hamel, managing director of the new Konocti Harbor Resort project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says the Bay Area group he represents sees big potential profits in the sprawling property. And if it’s revitalized, Konocti could also bring jobs and opportunity to a local economy that has struggled for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is still a daunting amount of work to be done, and Hamel and his crew are just getting started on a renovation they estimate could take anywhere from two to five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally inherited a city,” Hamel says. “We have our own water treatment plant, we have our own sewage treatment plant, many buildings that have to be maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the new staff learn where the light switches are, they are also reaching out to the current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first things that we did when I got here was I started interviewing everybody,” Hamel says. “I put a note on everybody's door that said we're not the evil empire with the new owners. We're not going to evict anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamel says he will continue to rent to survivors who need somewhere to stay until they can find a more permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG_8960-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bart Levenson's best friend brought her this sign after her home burned down in 2015. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for its longest resident, Bart Levenson says she is finally checking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson says she had no idea it would take this long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm surprised,” she says. “If I wasn't leaving this, I never would believe it. I'd be judgmental. I just would not be able to understand how long it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11663565/fire-survivors-last-resort-how-a-dilapidated-hotel-became-a-haven-for-the-displaced","authors":["8676"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_19542","news_18411","news_17041","news_18586","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11663575","label":"news_72"},"news_11624683":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11624683","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11624683","score":null,"sort":[1508523654000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"advice-from-one-wildfire-survivor-to-another","title":"Advice From One Wildfire Survivor to Another","publishDate":1508523654,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Curious | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As the survivors of the North Bay fires begin to rebuild their lives, here's advice -- both the practical and emotional -- from Californians who have been there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou are in shock, overwhelmed, wondering whose clothes you are wearing, focusing on random things that may or not be relevant. This is normal. This is a heartbreaking experience. But you will meet wonderful friends and neighbors, strangers who make small and large impacts. Resilient community spirit. It is a journey I wouldn't wish on anyone, but there will be moments of such encouragement, love and hope along the way. \u003cstrong>We call ourselves Survivors not Victims.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Please don't expect to have that feeling of home, know it will be a different feeling. Make sure you give yourself time to grieve. Even over your \"things.\" \u003cstrong>Most say \"they are just things\" but to us they were \u003cem>our\u003c/em> things, our life possessions.\u003c/strong> There will be times you grab for something or go to walk a certain way and quickly realize that's not reality anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Jill Laine Vierra, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to get over something like this is to try to \u003cstrong>forget it as much as possible\u003c/strong>. I have a certain amnesia for what I did the following year. I think the only way you can put some of this behind you, particularly if you lost a family member, is to forget. When people want to talk to you about the fire who didn't go through it themselves, don't feel compelled to talk about it. Just say 'I really can't talk about it.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Randolph Langenbach, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624825\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Laine Vierra\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I love my new home but stepping outside is not the same. Please don't expect to have that same feeling of home. Know it will be a different feeling,\" says Jill Laine Vierra, pictured here with her daughters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jill Laine Vierra.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, sometimes out of nowhere, a thought enters my mind of a possession I lost. At least now, when this happens, I don't cry. I acknowledge, 'It's gone.' Even though two tears have passed, I have to remind myself to move forward. Starting over in my mid-60s hasn't been easy. \u003cstrong>My motto is ... the fire took everything, but it gave me a new life that I never dreamed of living\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Linda Melendez Crayne, Valley Fire survivor \u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no such thing as being too \"grown up\" to throw a fit on this stupid fire. If you want to talk about your terror, fear, confusion or pain -- talk about it. If you don't, that's your own way of dealing with it, and that's fine, too. \u003cstrong>Everyone deserves to handle this however they wish\u003c/strong>. Trust yourself to be yourself, not what you or others think you should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Linda Grisham Karp, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be present to your own grief and suffering, but \u003cstrong>try not to become lost in it\u003c/strong>. I spent a lot of time meditating on the plight of other homeless people around the world and through the ages, and I think this helped me maintain a more balanced perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Karl E. Parker, Valley Fire survivor \u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Constantly ask yourself, \"\u003cstrong>what's the opportunity here?\u003c/strong>\" How can I grow through this? How can I use this experience to benefit others?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Karl E. Parker, Valley Fire survivor \u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make art. Lots of it. \u003cstrong>Do things that bring you pleasure\u003c/strong>. Get a massage and acupuncture. Say yes when people offer you help. Let people know you would love it if they invited you to dinner at their home!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Lisa Kaplan, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the stories that has always helped me is that the day before my house caught on fire, I was going to stay home and clean my house, and decided to go have fun instead. So it always gave me a slight satisfaction that I didn't stay home cleaning my house all day before it burned. So \u003cstrong>choosing fun may be the best choice\u003c/strong> sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Allison Murphy, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to have this thing which I call the \"\u003cstrong>four-day week\u003c/strong>.\" I'd say for the first six months after the fire, I could make it through Thursday. I could focus. I could get it together. I could get things done. But with the accumulation of complexity, burden and troubles, by Thursday afternoon, I wanted to get in bed and not get out. I started actually taking Fridays off, and just saying 'I can do four days. I can't do five.' So pace yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other fire victims are usually great ears. Keep telling your story and listening to the stories of others. \u003cstrong>Just the blabbing is a good part of the healing.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Mel McMurrin, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first question is \u003cstrong>who is your support team?\u003c/strong> Historically I've always been the family caretaker and the family counselor. I had to realize that I was the one in need now, and so I had to learn a lot of different emotional skills for getting help. It's a very difficult situation, because some people come through, and others don't. And there will be disappointment in who doesn't come through for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624802\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-800x1048.jpg\" alt=\"Linda Karp\" width=\"250\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-800x1048.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-160x210.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-1020x1336.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-960x1258.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-240x314.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-375x491.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-520x681.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Yes, you have a lot to deal with but first: deal with yourself. Grieve, cry, scream, curse, sob uncontrollably,\" says Linda Grisham Karp, pictured here with her grandson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Linda Karp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Find a friend\u003c/strong> who will let you talk about it and not be frightened by your telling of it. That friend might be a life-long friend, a counselor or pastor. Sometimes it's someone you just met, and they want to hear your experience. Often, loved ones are tired of hearing about it or seeing your tears because they wish it had never happened. But it did. And it happened to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Linda Grisham Karp, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fire forces you into a job\u003c/strong> you never applied for and you may not be talented for it. Suddenly you're in the business of designing a house, or figuring out a utility connection or deciding how to deal with your tax returns. For a lot of people, these are not their skills, which means they need to find colleagues, neighbors, friends or professionals to hire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People were generous. Our house today is largely filled with things that friends gave us. People have an old antique and they don't use it, and they give it to a friend who lost everything -- \u003cstrong>it takes a special place in the house\u003c/strong>. It's not just going to the store and buying something new. It's got somebody's name attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Randolph Langenbach, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624797\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor.jpg\" alt=\"Terri Stewart Hackler\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I recommend taking whatever is offered whether you think you need it or not. When we finally got a chance to breathe and take stock, we were easily able to find another fire family eager to take what we didn’t need,\" says Terri Stewart Hackler, who survived the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terri Stewart Hackler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Survivor's Guilt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I know all the attention will be on those who lost everything, and it should be. But people who don't suffer the loss of their home will still suffer guilt, PTSD, alienation, the loss of their neighbors, their neighborhood, their vistas and parks. \u003cstrong>These are still losses\u003c/strong> and just as valid even if they are not as tragic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Renters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As an uninsured renter, I believe having our landlord meet at the site and be in contact with our FEMA person helped us to get funds quickly. As a renter, \u003cstrong>ask your landlord if they would be willing to stay involved with your FEMA rep\u003c/strong> to vouch for your lease, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Jocelyn Hoey, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My sister set up a \u003cstrong>donation page\u003c/strong> for us the day after the fire. It was a blessing when we were overwhelmed with people asking what we needed but we didn't know yet. I know it will feel awkward, but ask anyone you know on Facebook to share the link. Ours was a lifesaver for meeting immediate needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may set up one or more resource centers. Someone will need to \u003cstrong>check regularly\u003c/strong>, in person, to see what is being offered. We got things such as Visa gift cards from various charitable groups that were set up for a few days here and there ... and if we hadn’t checked frequently we would’ve missed some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624885\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-800x851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-800x851.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-160x170.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-240x255.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-375x399.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-520x553.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Hoey was an uninsured renter at the time of the Valley Fire and says the landlord's involvement with FEMA is key. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jocelyn Hoey.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Insurance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You want to ask for a “complete and certified copy of my homeowner’s insurance policy, including all declarations, endorsements, riders and/or changes to the policy which would affect coverage at the time of the loss.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.uphelp.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Policyholders\u003c/a> has a ton of useful information and they are on your side. Remember that \u003cstrong>your insurance company is the adversary\u003c/strong> in this. They may be all friendly and helpful, but they are not your friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You will remember more things lost [from inside your house] over time. Keep a spreadsheet and reference links to the same or similar items. \u003cstrong>Never feel guilty when making your list\u003c/strong> of contents. You lost everything and have been paying for years. You will never remember everything, so be nice to yourself and think large rather than small. Check Google Maps and any drawings or photos you might have. You will forget details and need cues and reminders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Lisa Kaplan, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \"Delay, Deny, Defend,\" by Jay M. Feinman. \u003cstrong>Arm yourself with knowledge\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ci>Nelda Street, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't sign with a public adjuster until you've spoken with several of their past clients\u003c/strong>. Unfortunately, in California, you only have three days to rescind a public adjuster contract, and it's impossible to assess a public adjuster's performance in three days' time. Some public adjusters just go for the low-hanging fruit, rather than abide by any fiduciary duty to advocate for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Nelda Street, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Temporary Housing and Rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Try to procure your own rental housing if you can. \u003cstrong>Don't be afraid of a yearlong lease\u003c/strong>, as it will take you at least that long to settle your claim fairly. Don't use your insurance company's housing vendor. They are making money off you, out of a part of your insurance benefits fund called either \"loss-of-use\" or \"ALE\" (additional living expenses). Get cash up front from that fund if you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Nelda Street, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People get very wrapped up in wanting to make decisions, and do the right thing. But often times you don't have enough information yet to know what to do. Do you buy? Do you build? We went through the whole planning process of rebuilding and ... when we finally went back to the site of the house, we both fell apart and immediately said 'I don't want to live there. There's too much pain there.' Within an hour we decided we wanted to buy a house somewhere else. That decision was absolutely the right decision for us. Had you asked me the day before, I wouldn't have known that was my decision. \u003cstrong>Sometimes you just have to say, \"I can't decide this week. I'll decide next week.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Staying Organized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Get a \u003cstrong>small notebook\u003c/strong> and keep it with you at all times to write down important info, names, ideas, reminders. Two things afflicted me, and I think many in the aftermath of a disaster: stress-induced cognitive impairment/amnesia and information overload. For a while, I thought I was losing it. The notebook really helped. At least, until my wife accidentally ran it through the washing machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Karl E. Parker, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parenting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Parenting children in a caring, responsive way while scrambling to survive is a steep mountain to climb. If you find yourself in a position of parenting in the midst of not just evacuation, but also losing your home and rebuilding your life in the wake of a wildfire, your task is even steeper. \u003cstrong>Perfection is not required\u003c/strong>, nor is it possible during this time. Instead, consider creating a mental list of three things you can do for your child each day to provide the container of love, stability and “being seen.” \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/19/parenting-through-disaster-advice-from-a-mom-who-did-it/\">Read Carolynn's guide to helping children after a wildfire.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Carolynn Spezza, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are you a wildfire survivor with advice to share? Leave a comment below.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some responses have been edited for length or clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Wise words on grief, insurance, money, moving forward, survivor guilt and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1508547119,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":2207},"headData":{"title":"Advice From One Wildfire Survivor to Another | KQED","description":"Wise words on grief, insurance, money, moving forward, survivor guilt and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11624683 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11624683","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/20/advice-from-one-wildfire-survivor-to-another/","disqusTitle":"Advice From One Wildfire Survivor to Another","path":"/news/11624683/advice-from-one-wildfire-survivor-to-another","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the survivors of the North Bay fires begin to rebuild their lives, here's advice -- both the practical and emotional -- from Californians who have been there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ou are in shock, overwhelmed, wondering whose clothes you are wearing, focusing on random things that may or not be relevant. This is normal. This is a heartbreaking experience. But you will meet wonderful friends and neighbors, strangers who make small and large impacts. Resilient community spirit. It is a journey I wouldn't wish on anyone, but there will be moments of such encouragement, love and hope along the way. \u003cstrong>We call ourselves Survivors not Victims.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Please don't expect to have that feeling of home, know it will be a different feeling. Make sure you give yourself time to grieve. Even over your \"things.\" \u003cstrong>Most say \"they are just things\" but to us they were \u003cem>our\u003c/em> things, our life possessions.\u003c/strong> There will be times you grab for something or go to walk a certain way and quickly realize that's not reality anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Jill Laine Vierra, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to get over something like this is to try to \u003cstrong>forget it as much as possible\u003c/strong>. I have a certain amnesia for what I did the following year. I think the only way you can put some of this behind you, particularly if you lost a family member, is to forget. When people want to talk to you about the fire who didn't go through it themselves, don't feel compelled to talk about it. Just say 'I really can't talk about it.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Randolph Langenbach, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624825\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Laine Vierra\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/JillVierawithdaughters-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I love my new home but stepping outside is not the same. Please don't expect to have that same feeling of home. Know it will be a different feeling,\" says Jill Laine Vierra, pictured here with her daughters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jill Laine Vierra.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, sometimes out of nowhere, a thought enters my mind of a possession I lost. At least now, when this happens, I don't cry. I acknowledge, 'It's gone.' Even though two tears have passed, I have to remind myself to move forward. Starting over in my mid-60s hasn't been easy. \u003cstrong>My motto is ... the fire took everything, but it gave me a new life that I never dreamed of living\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Linda Melendez Crayne, Valley Fire survivor \u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no such thing as being too \"grown up\" to throw a fit on this stupid fire. If you want to talk about your terror, fear, confusion or pain -- talk about it. If you don't, that's your own way of dealing with it, and that's fine, too. \u003cstrong>Everyone deserves to handle this however they wish\u003c/strong>. Trust yourself to be yourself, not what you or others think you should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Linda Grisham Karp, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be present to your own grief and suffering, but \u003cstrong>try not to become lost in it\u003c/strong>. I spent a lot of time meditating on the plight of other homeless people around the world and through the ages, and I think this helped me maintain a more balanced perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Karl E. Parker, Valley Fire survivor \u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Constantly ask yourself, \"\u003cstrong>what's the opportunity here?\u003c/strong>\" How can I grow through this? How can I use this experience to benefit others?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Karl E. Parker, Valley Fire survivor \u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make art. Lots of it. \u003cstrong>Do things that bring you pleasure\u003c/strong>. Get a massage and acupuncture. Say yes when people offer you help. Let people know you would love it if they invited you to dinner at their home!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Lisa Kaplan, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the stories that has always helped me is that the day before my house caught on fire, I was going to stay home and clean my house, and decided to go have fun instead. So it always gave me a slight satisfaction that I didn't stay home cleaning my house all day before it burned. So \u003cstrong>choosing fun may be the best choice\u003c/strong> sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Allison Murphy, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to have this thing which I call the \"\u003cstrong>four-day week\u003c/strong>.\" I'd say for the first six months after the fire, I could make it through Thursday. I could focus. I could get it together. I could get things done. But with the accumulation of complexity, burden and troubles, by Thursday afternoon, I wanted to get in bed and not get out. I started actually taking Fridays off, and just saying 'I can do four days. I can't do five.' So pace yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other fire victims are usually great ears. Keep telling your story and listening to the stories of others. \u003cstrong>Just the blabbing is a good part of the healing.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Mel McMurrin, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first question is \u003cstrong>who is your support team?\u003c/strong> Historically I've always been the family caretaker and the family counselor. I had to realize that I was the one in need now, and so I had to learn a lot of different emotional skills for getting help. It's a very difficult situation, because some people come through, and others don't. And there will be disappointment in who doesn't come through for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624802\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-800x1048.jpg\" alt=\"Linda Karp\" width=\"250\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-800x1048.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-160x210.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-1020x1336.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-960x1258.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-240x314.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-375x491.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960-520x681.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/LindaKarpwithgrandson-e1508457828960.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Yes, you have a lot to deal with but first: deal with yourself. Grieve, cry, scream, curse, sob uncontrollably,\" says Linda Grisham Karp, pictured here with her grandson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Linda Karp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Find a friend\u003c/strong> who will let you talk about it and not be frightened by your telling of it. That friend might be a life-long friend, a counselor or pastor. Sometimes it's someone you just met, and they want to hear your experience. Often, loved ones are tired of hearing about it or seeing your tears because they wish it had never happened. But it did. And it happened to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Linda Grisham Karp, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fire forces you into a job\u003c/strong> you never applied for and you may not be talented for it. Suddenly you're in the business of designing a house, or figuring out a utility connection or deciding how to deal with your tax returns. For a lot of people, these are not their skills, which means they need to find colleagues, neighbors, friends or professionals to hire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People were generous. Our house today is largely filled with things that friends gave us. People have an old antique and they don't use it, and they give it to a friend who lost everything -- \u003cstrong>it takes a special place in the house\u003c/strong>. It's not just going to the store and buying something new. It's got somebody's name attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Randolph Langenbach, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624797\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor.jpg\" alt=\"Terri Stewart Hackler\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/TerriHacklerVRsurvivor-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I recommend taking whatever is offered whether you think you need it or not. When we finally got a chance to breathe and take stock, we were easily able to find another fire family eager to take what we didn’t need,\" says Terri Stewart Hackler, who survived the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terri Stewart Hackler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Survivor's Guilt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I know all the attention will be on those who lost everything, and it should be. But people who don't suffer the loss of their home will still suffer guilt, PTSD, alienation, the loss of their neighbors, their neighborhood, their vistas and parks. \u003cstrong>These are still losses\u003c/strong> and just as valid even if they are not as tragic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Renters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As an uninsured renter, I believe having our landlord meet at the site and be in contact with our FEMA person helped us to get funds quickly. As a renter, \u003cstrong>ask your landlord if they would be willing to stay involved with your FEMA rep\u003c/strong> to vouch for your lease, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Jocelyn Hoey, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My sister set up a \u003cstrong>donation page\u003c/strong> for us the day after the fire. It was a blessing when we were overwhelmed with people asking what we needed but we didn't know yet. I know it will feel awkward, but ask anyone you know on Facebook to share the link. Ours was a lifesaver for meeting immediate needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may set up one or more resource centers. Someone will need to \u003cstrong>check regularly\u003c/strong>, in person, to see what is being offered. We got things such as Visa gift cards from various charitable groups that were set up for a few days here and there ... and if we hadn’t checked frequently we would’ve missed some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624885\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-800x851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-800x851.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-160x170.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-240x255.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-375x399.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey-520x553.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27603_JocelynHoey.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Hoey was an uninsured renter at the time of the Valley Fire and says the landlord's involvement with FEMA is key. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jocelyn Hoey.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Insurance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You want to ask for a “complete and certified copy of my homeowner’s insurance policy, including all declarations, endorsements, riders and/or changes to the policy which would affect coverage at the time of the loss.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.uphelp.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Policyholders\u003c/a> has a ton of useful information and they are on your side. Remember that \u003cstrong>your insurance company is the adversary\u003c/strong> in this. They may be all friendly and helpful, but they are not your friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Terri Stewart Hackler, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You will remember more things lost [from inside your house] over time. Keep a spreadsheet and reference links to the same or similar items. \u003cstrong>Never feel guilty when making your list\u003c/strong> of contents. You lost everything and have been paying for years. You will never remember everything, so be nice to yourself and think large rather than small. Check Google Maps and any drawings or photos you might have. You will forget details and need cues and reminders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Lisa Kaplan, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \"Delay, Deny, Defend,\" by Jay M. Feinman. \u003cstrong>Arm yourself with knowledge\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ci>Nelda Street, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't sign with a public adjuster until you've spoken with several of their past clients\u003c/strong>. Unfortunately, in California, you only have three days to rescind a public adjuster contract, and it's impossible to assess a public adjuster's performance in three days' time. Some public adjusters just go for the low-hanging fruit, rather than abide by any fiduciary duty to advocate for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Nelda Street, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Temporary Housing and Rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Try to procure your own rental housing if you can. \u003cstrong>Don't be afraid of a yearlong lease\u003c/strong>, as it will take you at least that long to settle your claim fairly. Don't use your insurance company's housing vendor. They are making money off you, out of a part of your insurance benefits fund called either \"loss-of-use\" or \"ALE\" (additional living expenses). Get cash up front from that fund if you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Nelda Street, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People get very wrapped up in wanting to make decisions, and do the right thing. But often times you don't have enough information yet to know what to do. Do you buy? Do you build? We went through the whole planning process of rebuilding and ... when we finally went back to the site of the house, we both fell apart and immediately said 'I don't want to live there. There's too much pain there.' Within an hour we decided we wanted to buy a house somewhere else. That decision was absolutely the right decision for us. Had you asked me the day before, I wouldn't have known that was my decision. \u003cstrong>Sometimes you just have to say, \"I can't decide this week. I'll decide next week.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Frederick Hertz, Oakland Hills Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Staying Organized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Get a \u003cstrong>small notebook\u003c/strong> and keep it with you at all times to write down important info, names, ideas, reminders. Two things afflicted me, and I think many in the aftermath of a disaster: stress-induced cognitive impairment/amnesia and information overload. For a while, I thought I was losing it. The notebook really helped. At least, until my wife accidentally ran it through the washing machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Karl E. Parker, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parenting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Parenting children in a caring, responsive way while scrambling to survive is a steep mountain to climb. If you find yourself in a position of parenting in the midst of not just evacuation, but also losing your home and rebuilding your life in the wake of a wildfire, your task is even steeper. \u003cstrong>Perfection is not required\u003c/strong>, nor is it possible during this time. Instead, consider creating a mental list of three things you can do for your child each day to provide the container of love, stability and “being seen.” \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/19/parenting-through-disaster-advice-from-a-mom-who-did-it/\">Read Carolynn's guide to helping children after a wildfire.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">— \u003ccite>Carolynn Spezza, Valley Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are you a wildfire survivor with advice to share? Leave a comment below.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some responses have been edited for length or clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11624683/advice-from-one-wildfire-survivor-to-another","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21773","news_21774","news_21681","news_18586"],"featImg":"news_11618297","label":"news_72"},"news_11624260":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11624260","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11624260","score":null,"sort":[1508361788000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-losing-everything-in-the-valley-fire-one-woman-forced-to-flee-again","title":"After Losing Everything in the Valley Fire, One Woman Forced to Flee Again","publishDate":1508361788,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally aired on \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KALW's\u003c/a> program \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/programs/crosscurrents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crosscurrents\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pamela Voyles got the knock on her door to leave, she already had a bag ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela ticks off the supplies she had packed: “I had copies of certain pictures in my bag. I had emergency water, energy bars. I was more prepared than most people because I had been through fire before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Pamela at an evacuation shelter at the Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa. She’s in her late 50s, with a slight limp and dark purple hair. She’s been staying there with her service dog, Blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Things Were Getting Better\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2015, Pamela was living on Cobb Mountain in Lake County. Things were looking up for her. After a few run-ins with the law, she left an abusive relationship and got sober. She went through a rehabilitation program and cleared her record. She was managing some of her health issues; lung disease and chronic pain from an incident in 2000 in which she says someone attacked and robbed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've been in pain ever since,” Pamela tells me. “I had to teach myself how to walk all over. They wanted to put me in a wheelchair. And I was like, ‘nuh-uh, I'm not going.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I don't know exactly what they're going through, but I know what I went through. So I help wherever I can help.\" \u003ccite>Pamela Voyles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pamela was just starting to get back on her feet. But then, one September afternoon, \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/Valley/J_Damage%20Assessment%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fire broke out\u003c/a> nearby. She had 20 minutes to gather her things and leave. By the time the Valley Fire was contained, almost 2,000 buildings were gone, including her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no place to go back to,” she explains. “There just wasn't anything that I could afford up there at the time, or housing. There wasn't enough housing for people. And so that's why I came down to Santa Rosa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homeless in Santa Rosa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pamela spent most of two years in and out of Santa Rosa homeless shelters. She’s now bracing herself for the psychological aftermath of having to flee from flames yet again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just brought all those feelings and those flashbacks of the Valley Fire,” she says sadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela also knows how hard it is to find housing after a fire, especially without a job -- she's on disability. Shelter workers helped her save money and rent an apartment in Santa Rosa. She says she must have put in 30 applications to different places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long wait, she got a federal Section 8 voucher and found a one-bedroom apartment. She’s so grateful for all the support that she now volunteers with shelters, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelivingroomsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Living Room\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/redwoodgospelmission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rose\u003c/a>. Her favorite place to help out is \u003ca href=\"http://www.homelesswithpets.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeless With Pets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela moved into her new place about seven months ago. It was an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to get used to being back in your home again,” she tells me. “It's like, oh, I can walk around the corner and go to the bathroom. I don't have to drive to a certain building and go. Or, I can take a shower whenever I want to. I can change my clothes whenever I want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Waiting for News\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When I talk to Pamela at the shelter, she’s waiting for news about her home. It’s just across the highway from the Fountaingrove neighborhood where the fire consumed hundreds of buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, she calls me and tells me that she’s allowed to visit her place during the day as long as she’s out by the sunset curfew. So, the next morning we head over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Visiting Pamela’s Home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pamela’s apartment complex is in good shape. Her place is cozy, and filled with knickknacks. There are boxes piled in corners -- she says she hadn’t had time to fully unpack yet. We walk around, inspecting her bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has water, but still no electricity. Pamela shows me her jewelry table, which takes up most of one wall of her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do a lot of crafts,” she says, gesturing to the table. “I make owls out of pinecones. Before the Valley Fire I had picked up a lot of the pinecones before all the trees burnt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fire Victims Face Tough Times Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two years after the Valley Fire, Lake County is still trying to rebuild. There was an estimated $1.5 billion in losses. Like Pamela, people left the area for better housing, though \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6041674-181/a-year-later-valley-fires?gallery=6044366&artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it’s not clear exactly how many\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Santa Rosa will likely face the same problems. The fire destroyed \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/infernos-could-worsen-bay-areas-already-brutal-housing-market/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 percent of the city’s housing stock\u003c/a> in the midst of a regional housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thousands of people will be looking for a new place to call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know exactly what they're going through, but I know what I went through,” Pamela says. “So, I help wherever I can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is back in her apartment now. She’s still waiting for the gas to be hooked up again. She’s grateful that her place and all her things are still here. And she empathizes with those who lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for them,” Pamela says, hand to her chest. “When I first went through the fire, it was confusing, devastating, mentally, emotionally and physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is one of the lucky ones -- this time. But for anybody who struggles to pay the rent, anybody who’s more vulnerable because they don’t have family support or have lost their job, and for the \u003ca href=\"https://sonoma-county-continuum-of-care.wikispaces.com/file/view/ExecutiveSummary_Sonoma.pdf/615371337/ExecutiveSummary_Sonoma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost 3,000 homeless living in Sonoma County\u003c/a>, life will likely be harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These fires have long-lasting ramifications for the people who had homes -- but also for the ones who didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"By the time the Valley Fire was contained in 2015, almost 2,000 buildings were gone, including her apartment.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1508361788,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1032},"headData":{"title":"After Losing Everything in the Valley Fire, One Woman Forced to Flee Again | KQED","description":"By the time the Valley Fire was contained in 2015, almost 2,000 buildings were gone, including her apartment.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11624260 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11624260","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/18/after-losing-everything-in-the-valley-fire-one-woman-forced-to-flee-again/","disqusTitle":"After Losing Everything in the Valley Fire, One Woman Forced to Flee Again","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/10/GaenslerTwiceEvac.mp3","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/people/ninna-gaensler-debs\">Ninna Gaensler-Debs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11624260/after-losing-everything-in-the-valley-fire-one-woman-forced-to-flee-again","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally aired on \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KALW's\u003c/a> program \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/programs/crosscurrents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crosscurrents\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pamela Voyles got the knock on her door to leave, she already had a bag ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela ticks off the supplies she had packed: “I had copies of certain pictures in my bag. I had emergency water, energy bars. I was more prepared than most people because I had been through fire before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Pamela at an evacuation shelter at the Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa. She’s in her late 50s, with a slight limp and dark purple hair. She’s been staying there with her service dog, Blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Things Were Getting Better\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2015, Pamela was living on Cobb Mountain in Lake County. Things were looking up for her. After a few run-ins with the law, she left an abusive relationship and got sober. She went through a rehabilitation program and cleared her record. She was managing some of her health issues; lung disease and chronic pain from an incident in 2000 in which she says someone attacked and robbed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've been in pain ever since,” Pamela tells me. “I had to teach myself how to walk all over. They wanted to put me in a wheelchair. And I was like, ‘nuh-uh, I'm not going.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I don't know exactly what they're going through, but I know what I went through. So I help wherever I can help.\" \u003ccite>Pamela Voyles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pamela was just starting to get back on her feet. But then, one September afternoon, \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/Valley/J_Damage%20Assessment%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fire broke out\u003c/a> nearby. She had 20 minutes to gather her things and leave. By the time the Valley Fire was contained, almost 2,000 buildings were gone, including her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no place to go back to,” she explains. “There just wasn't anything that I could afford up there at the time, or housing. There wasn't enough housing for people. And so that's why I came down to Santa Rosa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homeless in Santa Rosa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pamela spent most of two years in and out of Santa Rosa homeless shelters. She’s now bracing herself for the psychological aftermath of having to flee from flames yet again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just brought all those feelings and those flashbacks of the Valley Fire,” she says sadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela also knows how hard it is to find housing after a fire, especially without a job -- she's on disability. Shelter workers helped her save money and rent an apartment in Santa Rosa. She says she must have put in 30 applications to different places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long wait, she got a federal Section 8 voucher and found a one-bedroom apartment. She’s so grateful for all the support that she now volunteers with shelters, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelivingroomsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Living Room\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/redwoodgospelmission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rose\u003c/a>. Her favorite place to help out is \u003ca href=\"http://www.homelesswithpets.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeless With Pets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela moved into her new place about seven months ago. It was an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to get used to being back in your home again,” she tells me. “It's like, oh, I can walk around the corner and go to the bathroom. I don't have to drive to a certain building and go. Or, I can take a shower whenever I want to. I can change my clothes whenever I want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Waiting for News\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When I talk to Pamela at the shelter, she’s waiting for news about her home. It’s just across the highway from the Fountaingrove neighborhood where the fire consumed hundreds of buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, she calls me and tells me that she’s allowed to visit her place during the day as long as she’s out by the sunset curfew. So, the next morning we head over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Visiting Pamela’s Home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pamela’s apartment complex is in good shape. Her place is cozy, and filled with knickknacks. There are boxes piled in corners -- she says she hadn’t had time to fully unpack yet. We walk around, inspecting her bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has water, but still no electricity. Pamela shows me her jewelry table, which takes up most of one wall of her apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do a lot of crafts,” she says, gesturing to the table. “I make owls out of pinecones. Before the Valley Fire I had picked up a lot of the pinecones before all the trees burnt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fire Victims Face Tough Times Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two years after the Valley Fire, Lake County is still trying to rebuild. There was an estimated $1.5 billion in losses. Like Pamela, people left the area for better housing, though \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6041674-181/a-year-later-valley-fires?gallery=6044366&artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it’s not clear exactly how many\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Santa Rosa will likely face the same problems. The fire destroyed \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/infernos-could-worsen-bay-areas-already-brutal-housing-market/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 percent of the city’s housing stock\u003c/a> in the midst of a regional housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thousands of people will be looking for a new place to call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know exactly what they're going through, but I know what I went through,” Pamela says. “So, I help wherever I can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is back in her apartment now. She’s still waiting for the gas to be hooked up again. She’s grateful that her place and all her things are still here. And she empathizes with those who lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for them,” Pamela says, hand to her chest. “When I first went through the fire, it was confusing, devastating, mentally, emotionally and physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela is one of the lucky ones -- this time. But for anybody who struggles to pay the rent, anybody who’s more vulnerable because they don’t have family support or have lost their job, and for the \u003ca href=\"https://sonoma-county-continuum-of-care.wikispaces.com/file/view/ExecutiveSummary_Sonoma.pdf/615371337/ExecutiveSummary_Sonoma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost 3,000 homeless living in Sonoma County\u003c/a>, life will likely be harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These fires have long-lasting ramifications for the people who had homes -- but also for the ones who didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11624260/after-losing-everything-in-the-valley-fire-one-woman-forced-to-flee-again","authors":["byline_news_11624260"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_18411","news_21773","news_474","news_4981","news_18586","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11624271","label":"news_72"},"news_11617750":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11617750","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11617750","score":null,"sort":[1506121238000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"2-years-after-destructive-valley-fire-lake-county-rebuilds-and-readjusts","title":"2 Years After Destructive Valley Fire, Lake County Rebuilds and Readjusts","publishDate":1506121238,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Puffs of red Lake County dust coat my feet as I walk to the edge of a wide vista. If I unfocus my eyes and look straight out over the valley toward the distant town of Calistoga, I can almost imagine the view as it used to be -- a deep-green bowl of pine forest. Almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing my eyes again, the hillsides black with dead trees stand out in sharp relief. To my left, weeds hide what remains of a burned home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"0Hr43RzO67wEZvrK6keKQHP47UPY3Z8o\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where I grew up, and where the destructive \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/the-valley-fire-what-it-burned-and-what-it-left-behind/\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> did some of its worst damage. The fire started on Sept. 12, 2015, burned for weeks, decimated 70,000 acres and 1,280, homes and killed four people. Two years after the fire, the signs of devastation are still conspicuous, but so are the signs of recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have birds now,\" my friend Deb Helleren tells me. \"This is great. After the fire ... that was the worst thing for me. There was no birds for months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deb shows me, along the edge of the property, where blackened tree stumps sprout 20-foot shoots of new growth. And to my right sits a cement foundation -- the beginnings of her new house.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We lost literally everything'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the Valley Fire first hit the small mountain community in Cobb Mountain, Deb and her partner, Mel McMurrin, weren't that worried. There are fires all the time up here, and they usually don't amount to much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't ever believe it's going to happen,\" Deb tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on September 13, 2015 in Middletown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on Sept. 13, 2015 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they did grab their cat and their computers before jumping in the car and driving away from their home. Within hours it was ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we literally lost everything,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, Deb and Mel have felt as if they've been caught in quicksand, moving six times in two years and trying to keep a job, on top of dealing with the nearly endless task of cataloging their former life for their insurance adjuster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The process is overwhelming,\" Deb says. \"You have to remember everything in your house. How many rolls of toilet paper? How many notepads? How many? It’s like really? You’re kidding me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mel says what's hard is not just the drudgery of having to remember everything, \"but the dredging up the loss you're just constantly going through. I don't have that, I don't have that. Forgot about that. Oh wait. And then you go down a whole nother [sic] vein of loss because you can't think of everything you've lost all at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they didn’t just lose clothing, books, photographs, precious objects and a roof over their heads. They lost time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes so much time to redo everything,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10702549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of people up here, Deb and Mel made the decision to stay here just in the past few months. After a federal disaster like this, insurance companies usually give you about two years to sort out your claim. Now, as that two-year window comes to a close, many people are finally getting started on a rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But builders are facing a new crisis. All these new homes going up at the same time means a big increase in demand for building permits. At the same time, three of the county's building inspectors just quit, leaving many contractors stuck waiting weeks to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're short-staffed,\" Lake County Supervisor Rob Brown says. \"We don't have staff on a good day, let alone with all the building that's going on for the rebuild and just normal stuff that’s going on in the county.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown has come up with a solution to the inspection crisis that \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pretty well describes \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the kind of people who live here: If you want something done right, do it yourself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I've just completed 12 inspections,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right, Brown is doing it himself. He jumped in to help the building \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">department catch up with the backlog. He says the wait time for an inspection has now dropped from weeks to days.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their nw home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-960x586.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-375x229.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-520x317.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their new home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even with the uptick in building, 75 to 80 percent of the homes that were destroyed aren't being rebuilt at all yet. And Brown says he has no idea how many ever will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Valley Fire's 1,280 homes would be the same as nearly 500,000 homes being lost in Los Angeles County,\" he says. \"That's the perspective that I can offer, so you can imagine losing half a million homes in Los Angeles would take decades to recover. And so that's where we're at. It's going to take a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Living With Fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The landscape will take time to recover, and so will the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, you can feel how warm it is,\" Brown says, lifting his head as the 110-degree heat beats down on us. \"In the afternoon when that wind picks up, I guarantee you there's not a person on that hill that won’t stop and notice that wind and notice the heat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A perfect storm of record temperatures, drought and high winds made the Valley Fire intensely destructive, but fire has always been a fact of life up here. Already this summer, there have been a half-dozen small fires in Lake County. One was just a half-mile up the road from Deb and Mel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/IMG_1207-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I lost it,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know we got the cat carrier out, we got our suitcases out,\" Mel adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters put that fire out before it became a threat, but I had to ask Deb and Mel why they chose to stay here, living with fire. They told me there were many practical reasons, such as limited finances, but even more important emotional ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels like home,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other thing is, when you come close to a disaster like that, you know your mortality is really, really clear,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In fact, you realize there's always a fire chasing you. And so you're going to have everything taken. So it really kind of focuses you not only where you want to live where you are going to die. Where, where, where do I want to be?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Deb and Mel that place is here in the mountains, with their loved ones and their community that is slowly coming back.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For some survivors, it has been like living in quicksand since the fire consumed all they had. But many are finally starting to rebuild.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1506399500,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1215},"headData":{"title":"2 Years After Destructive Valley Fire, Lake County Rebuilds and Readjusts | KQED","description":"For some survivors, it has been like living in quicksand since the fire consumed all they had. But many are finally starting to rebuild.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11617750 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11617750","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/22/2-years-after-destructive-valley-fire-lake-county-rebuilds-and-readjusts/","disqusTitle":"2 Years After Destructive Valley Fire, Lake County Rebuilds and Readjusts","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/09/2017-09-22b-tcrmag.mp3","path":"/news/11617750/2-years-after-destructive-valley-fire-lake-county-rebuilds-and-readjusts","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Puffs of red Lake County dust coat my feet as I walk to the edge of a wide vista. If I unfocus my eyes and look straight out over the valley toward the distant town of Calistoga, I can almost imagine the view as it used to be -- a deep-green bowl of pine forest. Almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing my eyes again, the hillsides black with dead trees stand out in sharp relief. To my left, weeds hide what remains of a burned home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where I grew up, and where the destructive \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/the-valley-fire-what-it-burned-and-what-it-left-behind/\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> did some of its worst damage. The fire started on Sept. 12, 2015, burned for weeks, decimated 70,000 acres and 1,280, homes and killed four people. Two years after the fire, the signs of devastation are still conspicuous, but so are the signs of recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have birds now,\" my friend Deb Helleren tells me. \"This is great. After the fire ... that was the worst thing for me. There was no birds for months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deb shows me, along the edge of the property, where blackened tree stumps sprout 20-foot shoots of new growth. And to my right sits a cement foundation -- the beginnings of her new house.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We lost literally everything'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the Valley Fire first hit the small mountain community in Cobb Mountain, Deb and her partner, Mel McMurrin, weren't that worried. There are fires all the time up here, and they usually don't amount to much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't ever believe it's going to happen,\" Deb tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on September 13, 2015 in Middletown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ValleyFireBurns-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car and home burn during the Valley Fire on Sept. 13, 2015 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they did grab their cat and their computers before jumping in the car and driving away from their home. Within hours it was ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we literally lost everything,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, Deb and Mel have felt as if they've been caught in quicksand, moving six times in two years and trying to keep a job, on top of dealing with the nearly endless task of cataloging their former life for their insurance adjuster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The process is overwhelming,\" Deb says. \"You have to remember everything in your house. How many rolls of toilet paper? How many notepads? How many? It’s like really? You’re kidding me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mel says what's hard is not just the drudgery of having to remember everything, \"but the dredging up the loss you're just constantly going through. I don't have that, I don't have that. Forgot about that. Oh wait. And then you go down a whole nother [sic] vein of loss because you can't think of everything you've lost all at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they didn’t just lose clothing, books, photographs, precious objects and a roof over their heads. They lost time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes so much time to redo everything,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10702549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of people up here, Deb and Mel made the decision to stay here just in the past few months. After a federal disaster like this, insurance companies usually give you about two years to sort out your claim. Now, as that two-year window comes to a close, many people are finally getting started on a rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But builders are facing a new crisis. All these new homes going up at the same time means a big increase in demand for building permits. At the same time, three of the county's building inspectors just quit, leaving many contractors stuck waiting weeks to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're short-staffed,\" Lake County Supervisor Rob Brown says. \"We don't have staff on a good day, let alone with all the building that's going on for the rebuild and just normal stuff that’s going on in the county.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown has come up with a solution to the inspection crisis that \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pretty well describes \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the kind of people who live here: If you want something done right, do it yourself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I've just completed 12 inspections,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right, Brown is doing it himself. He jumped in to help the building \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">department catch up with the backlog. He says the wait time for an inspection has now dropped from weeks to days.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their nw home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-960x586.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-375x229.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/NewFoundation-520x317.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake County residents Deb Helleren and Mel McMurrin have just poured the foundation for their new home. They lost their previous house in the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even with the uptick in building, 75 to 80 percent of the homes that were destroyed aren't being rebuilt at all yet. And Brown says he has no idea how many ever will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Valley Fire's 1,280 homes would be the same as nearly 500,000 homes being lost in Los Angeles County,\" he says. \"That's the perspective that I can offer, so you can imagine losing half a million homes in Los Angeles would take decades to recover. And so that's where we're at. It's going to take a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Living With Fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The landscape will take time to recover, and so will the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, you can feel how warm it is,\" Brown says, lifting his head as the 110-degree heat beats down on us. \"In the afternoon when that wind picks up, I guarantee you there's not a person on that hill that won’t stop and notice that wind and notice the heat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A perfect storm of record temperatures, drought and high winds made the Valley Fire intensely destructive, but fire has always been a fact of life up here. Already this summer, there have been a half-dozen small fires in Lake County. One was just a half-mile up the road from Deb and Mel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/IMG_1207-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel McMurrin and Deb Helleren say in the two years since they lost their home to the Valley Fire, they've felt like they're living in quicksand. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I lost it,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know we got the cat carrier out, we got our suitcases out,\" Mel adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters put that fire out before it became a threat, but I had to ask Deb and Mel why they chose to stay here, living with fire. They told me there were many practical reasons, such as limited finances, but even more important emotional ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels like home,\" Deb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other thing is, when you come close to a disaster like that, you know your mortality is really, really clear,\" Mel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In fact, you realize there's always a fire chasing you. And so you're going to have everything taken. So it really kind of focuses you not only where you want to live where you are going to die. Where, where, where do I want to be?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Deb and Mel that place is here in the mountains, with their loved ones and their community that is slowly coming back.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11617750/2-years-after-destructive-valley-fire-lake-county-rebuilds-and-readjusts","authors":["8676"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18411","news_17286","news_17041","news_18586"],"featImg":"news_11618579","label":"news_72"},"news_11089302":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11089302","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11089302","score":null,"sort":[1474138806000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-year-after-the-valley-fire-lake-county-residents-rise-from-the-ashes","title":"A Year After the Valley Fire, Lake County Residents Rise From the Ashes","publishDate":1474138806,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Just last year a massive wildfire was ripping through my \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/the-valley-fire-what-it-burned-and-what-it-left-behind/\">hometown\u003c/a> in Lake County, a small rural county in the mountains above Napa Valley. The Valley Fire ended up being the third most \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">destructive\u003c/a> fire in California history, burning 76,067 acres and razing 1,955 structures to the ground. Four people were killed and four firefighters were seriously injured in the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"columns\" columns=\"2\" size=\"full\" ids=\"11089308,11089373\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, I made the road trip back up to Cobb Mountain -- a small township hit hard by the fire -- to see how residents were recovering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283269036\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s gotten easier ... sorry to say, but you cope with it,” local resident Dean Nicolaides said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11089388 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides runs the small corner store in Loch Lomond. He lost his home in the Valley Fire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides runs the small corner store in Loch Lomond. He lost his home in the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire experts I spoke to said the Valley Fire was unprecedented. Drought, extreme temperatures, high winds and hillsides of densely packed fuel all made it uniquely devastating. But then just last month \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1390\">another fire\u003c/a> hit the small town of Lower Lake a few miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was as if a monster was reappearing, literally, and nobody knew what to do about it,” Nicolaides said. “Like is this the way life is now? There’s always a terror over your shoulder like something else is going to burn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11089442 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August 2016. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to officials, an arsonist who’s now in custody set the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>, which destroyed almost 200 homes. Residents were somewhat relieved by this, Nicolaides said, but the fear of fire is still pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that have suitcases by the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I drove through Cobb Mountain’s neighborhood, I saw evidence of the Valley Fire and its aftermath everywhere. Trucks drove past me hauling out dead trees, and contractor advertisements dotted the roadside. And while I saw a few houses going up, many of the lots I passed remained empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"columns\" size=\"full\" ids=\"11089438,11089385\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Karl Parker says he and his wife, Linda Liang, are planning to rebuild, but they told me it’s a long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to remove over 80 tall trees,” Parker explained. And removing those trees was just one of a million details they’ve had to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to constantly deal and communicate with insurance,” Liang said. “And then there are the permits, and then there are the town meetings, and then there’s the water company, and the PG&E company, and the manufactured home, and replacement of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11089444 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of work to lose a house,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work has stalled rebuilding efforts for many residents. County supervisor and Valley Fire recovery coordinator Rob Brown said only about 20 homes have been completed in the past year. That’s out of 1,281 homes that burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"full\" type=\"columns\" ids=\"11089439,11089389\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup so far has cost over $1 billion, according to Brown. And this is in a county of just over \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/06033\">60,000 residents\u003c/a> that was already among the\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/01/10/247-wall-st-poorest-county-each-state/21388095/\"> poorest\u003c/a> in the state. Now the fire has gutted revenue from property taxes, and the recovery is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where government agencies and even nonprofits have fallen short, another kind of safety net has sprung from the ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stopped in at what’s always been called the Little Red Schoolhouse, where I once performed in a talent show as a kid. Now out back are three shipping containers and a small community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past year, retired schoolteacher Dave Geck, along with six other retirees, has been running this makeshift donation and distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t say 'go do it, you have to do it,' ” Geck said. “You just have to feel it in your heart that it’s the thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geck and his team took Facebook requests from local residents and did their best to connect them with the things they needed, like tools, shoes, winter clothes and even housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had somebody who was living in a tent,” Geck said. “And I said, 'Can we help this person?' Somebody that weekend donated a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started off my trip with a question: How’s my hometown recovering? And by the end I realized there are so many answers to that question. Four people died. Seven million trees were killed. It’s never going to be the same. But unlike last year, there is a sense of possibility. As my friend Dean Nicolaides said to me, \"What was once forest will become a meadow.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For one radio reporter, this was more than a story. Her hometown's recovery was personal.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474074554,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":true,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":933},"headData":{"title":"A Year After the Valley Fire, Lake County Residents Rise From the Ashes | KQED","description":"For one radio reporter, this was more than a story. 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The Valley Fire ended up being the third most \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">destructive\u003c/a> fire in California history, burning 76,067 acres and razing 1,955 structures to the ground. Four people were killed and four firefighters were seriously injured in the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"type":"columns","columns":"2","size":"full","ids":"11089308,11089373","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, I made the road trip back up to Cobb Mountain -- a small township hit hard by the fire -- to see how residents were recovering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283269036&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283269036'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s gotten easier ... sorry to say, but you cope with it,” local resident Dean Nicolaides said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11089388 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides runs the small corner store in Loch Lomond. He lost his home in the Valley Fire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0316-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides runs the small corner store in Loch Lomond. He lost his home in the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire experts I spoke to said the Valley Fire was unprecedented. Drought, extreme temperatures, high winds and hillsides of densely packed fuel all made it uniquely devastating. But then just last month \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1390\">another fire\u003c/a> hit the small town of Lower Lake a few miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was as if a monster was reappearing, literally, and nobody knew what to do about it,” Nicolaides said. “Like is this the way life is now? There’s always a terror over your shoulder like something else is going to burn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11089442 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_5820-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters battling the Clayton Fire in Lower Lake. The blaze destroyed 300 structures in August 2016. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to officials, an arsonist who’s now in custody set the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>, which destroyed almost 200 homes. Residents were somewhat relieved by this, Nicolaides said, but the fear of fire is still pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that have suitcases by the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I drove through Cobb Mountain’s neighborhood, I saw evidence of the Valley Fire and its aftermath everywhere. Trucks drove past me hauling out dead trees, and contractor advertisements dotted the roadside. And while I saw a few houses going up, many of the lots I passed remained empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"type":"columns","size":"full","ids":"11089438,11089385","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Karl Parker says he and his wife, Linda Liang, are planning to rebuild, but they told me it’s a long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to remove over 80 tall trees,” Parker explained. And removing those trees was just one of a million details they’ve had to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to constantly deal and communicate with insurance,” Liang said. “And then there are the permits, and then there are the town meetings, and then there’s the water company, and the PG&E company, and the manufactured home, and replacement of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11089444 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0403-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cobb resident Linda Liang points out the site where her house used to be along with more than 80 tall trees. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of work to lose a house,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work has stalled rebuilding efforts for many residents. County supervisor and Valley Fire recovery coordinator Rob Brown said only about 20 homes have been completed in the past year. That’s out of 1,281 homes that burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"size":"full","type":"columns","ids":"11089439,11089389","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup so far has cost over $1 billion, according to Brown. And this is in a county of just over \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/06033\">60,000 residents\u003c/a> that was already among the\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/01/10/247-wall-st-poorest-county-each-state/21388095/\"> poorest\u003c/a> in the state. Now the fire has gutted revenue from property taxes, and the recovery is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where government agencies and even nonprofits have fallen short, another kind of safety net has sprung from the ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stopped in at what’s always been called the Little Red Schoolhouse, where I once performed in a talent show as a kid. Now out back are three shipping containers and a small community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0353-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seven retired schoolteachers set up this community garden and unofficial donation site in Cobb to connect Valley Fire victims with the items they most needed. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past year, retired schoolteacher Dave Geck, along with six other retirees, has been running this makeshift donation and distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t say 'go do it, you have to do it,' ” Geck said. “You just have to feel it in your heart that it’s the thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geck and his team took Facebook requests from local residents and did their best to connect them with the things they needed, like tools, shoes, winter clothes and even housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had somebody who was living in a tent,” Geck said. “And I said, 'Can we help this person?' Somebody that weekend donated a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0358-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the past year retired schoolteacher Dave Geck volunteered to help victims of the Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started off my trip with a question: How’s my hometown recovering? And by the end I realized there are so many answers to that question. Four people died. Seven million trees were killed. It’s never going to be the same. But unlike last year, there is a sense of possibility. As my friend Dean Nicolaides said to me, \"What was once forest will become a meadow.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11089302/a-year-after-the-valley-fire-lake-county-residents-rise-from-the-ashes","authors":["8676"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_19800","news_19542","news_18411","news_17286","news_17041","news_18586","news_4337"],"featImg":"news_11089463","label":"news_72"},"news_11048400":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11048400","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11048400","score":null,"sort":[1470986156000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"devastating-valley-fire-caused-by-wiring-on-hot-tub-investigators-find","title":"Devastating Valley Fire Caused by Wiring on Hot Tub, Investigators Find","publishDate":1470986156,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Faulty wiring on a hot tub caused California's third-most-destructive\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\"> wildfire\u003c/a>, which left four people dead and destroyed more than 1,300 homes last year, California fire authorities say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire burned 76,067 acres in the state's northern Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties last September. On Wednesday, investigators with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection revealed that a hot tub installed on a residential property in Cobb was the likely cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/Valley/15CALNU0008670_Valley_Redacted.pdf\">the agency's report\u003c/a>, a copper wire overheated and sparked nearby brush. Investigators found that wiring on the hot tub was not up to building codes, and a permit for a structure housing the hot tub made no mention of any electrical work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"sb4NAxHvOzaqNPM7iqKkpgFL5NISRsw1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeowner John Pinch reportedly admitted to investigators that he installed the circuit. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Hot-tub-wiring-identified-as-cause-of-devastating-9135005.php\">The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> says investigators concluded Pinch's actions \"amounted to a misdemeanor, negligently starting a fire, and a building code violation for not having proper permits.\" The Chronicle further reports it's now up to prosecutors whether to file charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lake County District Attorney Don Anderson, who learned only Wednesday of the state's findings, said he'll now look into whether a crime was committed and whether arrests would be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First thing in the morning, I'll be turning this over to my investigative staff,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday, before the results of the probe were made public, one owner of the home with the alleged electrical problem told The Chronicle that his property was not the cause of the fire, but that his two-story house had suffered minor damage — and that a toolshed near the alleged origin had burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'That shed was the victim of the fire,' said Parker Mills, who noted that when the blaze started no one was at the property on High Valley Road, a rural area marked by grassy hills and oak forest.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Last year’s massive Valley Fire killed four people and destroyed more than 1,300 homes in Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1471037923,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":335},"headData":{"title":"Devastating Valley Fire Caused by Wiring on Hot Tub, Investigators Find | KQED","description":"Last year’s massive Valley Fire killed four people and destroyed more than 1,300 homes in Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11048400 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11048400","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/12/devastating-valley-fire-caused-by-wiring-on-hot-tub-investigators-find/","disqusTitle":"Devastating Valley Fire Caused by Wiring on Hot Tub, Investigators Find","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Jeff Chiu","nprByline":"Jason Slotkin","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"489660575","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=489660575&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/11/489660575/record-california-wildfire-caused-by-wiring-on-hot-tub-investigators-find?ft=nprml&f=489660575","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:52:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:56:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:52:21 -0400","path":"/news/11048400/devastating-valley-fire-caused-by-wiring-on-hot-tub-investigators-find","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Faulty wiring on a hot tub caused California's third-most-destructive\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\"> wildfire\u003c/a>, which left four people dead and destroyed more than 1,300 homes last year, California fire authorities say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire burned 76,067 acres in the state's northern Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties last September. On Wednesday, investigators with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection revealed that a hot tub installed on a residential property in Cobb was the likely cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/Valley/15CALNU0008670_Valley_Redacted.pdf\">the agency's report\u003c/a>, a copper wire overheated and sparked nearby brush. Investigators found that wiring on the hot tub was not up to building codes, and a permit for a structure housing the hot tub made no mention of any electrical work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeowner John Pinch reportedly admitted to investigators that he installed the circuit. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Hot-tub-wiring-identified-as-cause-of-devastating-9135005.php\">The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> says investigators concluded Pinch's actions \"amounted to a misdemeanor, negligently starting a fire, and a building code violation for not having proper permits.\" The Chronicle further reports it's now up to prosecutors whether to file charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lake County District Attorney Don Anderson, who learned only Wednesday of the state's findings, said he'll now look into whether a crime was committed and whether arrests would be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First thing in the morning, I'll be turning this over to my investigative staff,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday, before the results of the probe were made public, one owner of the home with the alleged electrical problem told The Chronicle that his property was not the cause of the fire, but that his two-story house had suffered minor damage — and that a toolshed near the alleged origin had burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'That shed was the victim of the fire,' said Parker Mills, who noted that when the blaze started no one was at the property on High Valley Road, a rural area marked by grassy hills and oak forest.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11048400/devastating-valley-fire-caused-by-wiring-on-hot-tub-investigators-find","authors":["byline_news_11048400"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_17286","news_18586","news_4463"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11048404","label":"source_news_11048400"},"news_10929296":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10929296","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10929296","score":null,"sort":[1460790322000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chasing-the-burn-for-morel-mushrooms-in-lake-county","title":"'Chasing the Burn' for Morel Mushrooms in Lake County","publishDate":1460790322,"format":"image","headTitle":"California Foodways | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There are the facts: The Valley Fire that hit Lake County last September was one of the most destructive in California history. The reality becomes really clear when I drive through what once was a neighborhood in the town of Cobb. I see stone chimneys standing alone, foundations that outline former houses. The hills above had been thick with pine and fir trees. Now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a moonscape with trees. The trees have been burned so badly there are no needles left,” Kevin Sadlier says. It’s actually because of this fire that Sadlier drove two hours from his home in Marin to explore Lake County this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we call it ‘chasing the burns,’ ” he says, in search of the black morel mushrooms that grow in the springtime after a forest fire. Joining Sadlier is fellow wild mushroom enthusiast Connie Green, who says morels are opportunists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317385\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spring following a summer or autumn fire is a golden opportunity for morels,” Green says. “It’s as if fire is taking a gigantic eraser, and wiped life out. Where there’s a void, where cleansing fire has made this rather sad, with black sticks in their landscape, morels love this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadlier runs a garden center in Marin and co-founded the Mycological Society of Marin County. He doesn’t sell most of the wild mushrooms he finds, but instead gives them to chefs -- in exchange for meals. He scouted here, where the Valley Fire hit, a couple weeks back, measuring soil temperature and waiting for the perfect conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930201 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg\" alt=\"Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-400x462.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-1180x1364.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-960x1110.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, 'Morels make fools of all of us.' \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It rained, it warmed up, we have a bit of canopy left, and we have some needleleaf litter on the ground keeping moisture in the soil. Now all we need is morels,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.” Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for morels. Their textured caps are long and cone-shaped, like dark honeycomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of their charm. We find maybe it’s like a bad boyfriend or girlfriend that you keep going out and being shamed by. It’s a bit like that with morels,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is not just a forager. For decades she’s run a business supplying wild mushrooms to high-end Bay Area restaurants, and she co-authored the book \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.thewildtable.net/\">The Wild Table\u003c/a>.\" She says there’s a long history and appreciation of different types of morels in Europe and in the Midwest. Here, before morels became a fine-dining staple, long before European settlers came, Native Americans collected them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re absolutely delicious and ultimately terribly frustrating, and immensely scream-worthy to find,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, commercial and amateur hunters will chase the burns from Northern California through the Pacific Northwest, Canada and Alaska. Some say that because of the large number of acres burned in the West last summer, this may be a huge “burn” morel season. Lake County’s just the first stop on a morel trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-960x634.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three of us walk through the forest, heads down, when suddenly Kevin Sadlier spots a black SUV covertly parked off the road and says, “We’ve got company,” likely a fellow mushroom hunter. Sadlier and Green both laugh, knowingly, and plan to head off in a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we move to another spot, and come across two other foragers he knows, that’s when we find a cluster of morels poking out of needles covering the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gasp, and Sadlier says, “We’re in the promised land. They’re everywhere!” I see grown men chase each other to a morel cluster, and we spend hours scanning the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We fill a paper grocery bag with morels: a respectable haul but really just for home eating. So, what’s the allure? Adventure, for one. Sadlier says he’s come across rattlesnakes, mountain lions, even bears while hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do really enjoy eating the wild mushrooms, but I enjoy the hunt more,” he says. “There’s something about how it brings out the hunter/gatherer instinct. It’s almost a magical feeling: You go into a wilderness area, you interpret your environment, and you try your luck. If you find wild mushrooms, there’s no better feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These foragers believe the real mother lode would be higher up, inside the boundaries of \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateparks.com/boggs_mountain_state_forest_in_california.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boggs Mountain State Forest\u003c/a>, which has been closed to the public since the fire. They’re pretty frustrated that they’re restricted from this public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Tr1Td6XwDgec8uaDVElM3VjIluxYWL4q\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Arbitrary and capricious,” Sadlier calls that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Idiocy,” Green says. “Now, it’ll be fine to go in there and do salvage logging, but to allow outdoors people, taxpaying Americans who pay for the parks, to walk in the woods looking for mushrooms, that’s not OK with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Jim Wright, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/departments/natural-resources-agency/department_of_forestry_and_fire_protection?agencyid=149\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection\u003c/a>, disagrees. He’s co-managing Boggs Mountain State Forest and asks, “How do you protect people across 3,000 acres of dead trees? It’s almost impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says 80 percent of the forest's trees burned, and his top priority is removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he drives me around the black and brown hills of the forest, it looks like something out of a dystopic science fiction film. On an active logging site, equipment with mechanized arms and saws fells dead trees, strips off burnt bark and moves as much as 100 truckloads a day out to mills. Even where logging isn’t happening, Wright says, the forest is dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of trees are in danger of coming down,” he says. “The tops will start breaking out of these trees, the limbs will start breaking off and coming down with just the slightest breeze,” and burned-out stumps and roots create holes in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wright knows many morel hunters are familiar with forests and are eager to get on the land, he says, “We can’t interview each person to find out if they’re qualified, see if they have a hardhat, if they're familiar with hazards of forest. We’d have to do a site safety plan with each one of them. It’s just not practical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the forest is closed to all recreational activity, and Wright hopes to have at least some portions of the forest open in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been to many morel fire-burned areas,” says local Joe Guardado, “and there’s areas in Boggs that are beyond anything I ever saw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930277 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"'Mushroom' Joe Guardado\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-400x272.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Mushroom Joe' Guardado \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the fire, Guardado hiked Boggs Forest every day. He’s spent many winters foraging pounds and pounds of porcini mushrooms in the forest and around the town of Loch Lomond, where he lives. It’s a weekend getaway for Northern Californian Italian families, with resorts like Biggi’s Family Club and Italian Village swelling the population in the summer. They revere mushrooms here. Guardado introduces me to a friend, Mike Giusti, who built a shrine in his front yard that, from a distance, looks like it honors the Virgin Mary. Up close, it’s clear that it’s a porcini made of stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardado says he doesn’t forage mushrooms for money. He swaps jars of dried porcinis for hunted pheasant or duck, or wine made by the families who vacation here. Guardado is a caretaker, and he knows them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Flora and Romano Marcucci. He points to Guardado and says, “They call him the King for Mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep. In these parts, Guardado is called the King, or Mushroom Joe. He’s showing the Marcuccis where edible wild mushrooms pop out of little mounds of leaves in a yard. They’re coccolis, white mushrooms as big as my hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930285\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg\" alt=\"Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-400x416.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-1180x1227.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-960x998.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Marcuccis ran an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, and know what to do with their haul. Flora says she’ll slice the mushrooms and cook them simply in olive oil with garlic, pepper and salt. “Let it fry, get nice and crunch. Delicious!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also unearth one deadly mushroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, that’s a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\">death cap\u003c/a>,” says Mushroom Joe, looking at its pimply skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romano Marcucci draws his finger across his neck, ominously, saying, “No doctor will save you from that.” But all three are lifelong mushroom hunters who know what to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mushroom Joe and I spend the afternoon in a couple burn areas hunting for morels: no luck today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elusive Morchella, that’s what they call them. They’re elusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ll be here only after this fire. So, he’ll keep looking. But he skipped porcini season last winter ... his heart just wasn’t in it. He says he feels a tension between his mushroom-hunting passion and his love of these now-scorched hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what you loved and now it’s all black,” he says. “It’s not so bad because right now we’re looking for mushrooms, so I don’t have to look up that often. I’m looking down at the ground, like you’re blocking it out of your mind that it’s not there. It’s sad. It’s just real sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, Mushroom Joe Guardado says, chasing the burn for morels hurts a little, if it’s in your own backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-foodways\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported, in part, by a grant from \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">California Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"These prized and elusive fungi have proliferated this spring after last fall's devastating Valley Fire.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1461375067,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1787},"headData":{"title":"'Chasing the Burn' for Morel Mushrooms in Lake County | KQED","description":"These prized and elusive fungi have proliferated this spring after last fall's devastating Valley Fire.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10929296 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10929296","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/16/chasing-the-burn-for-morel-mushrooms-in-lake-county/","disqusTitle":"'Chasing the Burn' for Morel Mushrooms in Lake County","sourceUrl":"http://www.californiafoodways.com/","path":"/news/10929296/chasing-the-burn-for-morel-mushrooms-in-lake-county","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are the facts: The Valley Fire that hit Lake County last September was one of the most destructive in California history. The reality becomes really clear when I drive through what once was a neighborhood in the town of Cobb. I see stone chimneys standing alone, foundations that outline former houses. The hills above had been thick with pine and fir trees. Now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a moonscape with trees. The trees have been burned so badly there are no needles left,” Kevin Sadlier says. It’s actually because of this fire that Sadlier drove two hours from his home in Marin to explore Lake County this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we call it ‘chasing the burns,’ ” he says, in search of the black morel mushrooms that grow in the springtime after a forest fire. Joining Sadlier is fellow wild mushroom enthusiast Connie Green, who says morels are opportunists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317385&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317385'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spring following a summer or autumn fire is a golden opportunity for morels,” Green says. “It’s as if fire is taking a gigantic eraser, and wiped life out. Where there’s a void, where cleansing fire has made this rather sad, with black sticks in their landscape, morels love this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadlier runs a garden center in Marin and co-founded the Mycological Society of Marin County. He doesn’t sell most of the wild mushrooms he finds, but instead gives them to chefs -- in exchange for meals. He scouted here, where the Valley Fire hit, a couple weeks back, measuring soil temperature and waiting for the perfect conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930201 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg\" alt=\"Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-400x462.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-1180x1364.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-960x1110.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, 'Morels make fools of all of us.' \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It rained, it warmed up, we have a bit of canopy left, and we have some needleleaf litter on the ground keeping moisture in the soil. Now all we need is morels,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.” Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for morels. Their textured caps are long and cone-shaped, like dark honeycomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of their charm. We find maybe it’s like a bad boyfriend or girlfriend that you keep going out and being shamed by. It’s a bit like that with morels,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is not just a forager. For decades she’s run a business supplying wild mushrooms to high-end Bay Area restaurants, and she co-authored the book \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.thewildtable.net/\">The Wild Table\u003c/a>.\" She says there’s a long history and appreciation of different types of morels in Europe and in the Midwest. Here, before morels became a fine-dining staple, long before European settlers came, Native Americans collected them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re absolutely delicious and ultimately terribly frustrating, and immensely scream-worthy to find,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, commercial and amateur hunters will chase the burns from Northern California through the Pacific Northwest, Canada and Alaska. Some say that because of the large number of acres burned in the West last summer, this may be a huge “burn” morel season. Lake County’s just the first stop on a morel trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-960x634.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three of us walk through the forest, heads down, when suddenly Kevin Sadlier spots a black SUV covertly parked off the road and says, “We’ve got company,” likely a fellow mushroom hunter. Sadlier and Green both laugh, knowingly, and plan to head off in a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we move to another spot, and come across two other foragers he knows, that’s when we find a cluster of morels poking out of needles covering the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gasp, and Sadlier says, “We’re in the promised land. They’re everywhere!” I see grown men chase each other to a morel cluster, and we spend hours scanning the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We fill a paper grocery bag with morels: a respectable haul but really just for home eating. So, what’s the allure? Adventure, for one. Sadlier says he’s come across rattlesnakes, mountain lions, even bears while hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do really enjoy eating the wild mushrooms, but I enjoy the hunt more,” he says. “There’s something about how it brings out the hunter/gatherer instinct. It’s almost a magical feeling: You go into a wilderness area, you interpret your environment, and you try your luck. If you find wild mushrooms, there’s no better feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These foragers believe the real mother lode would be higher up, inside the boundaries of \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateparks.com/boggs_mountain_state_forest_in_california.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boggs Mountain State Forest\u003c/a>, which has been closed to the public since the fire. They’re pretty frustrated that they’re restricted from this public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Arbitrary and capricious,” Sadlier calls that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Idiocy,” Green says. “Now, it’ll be fine to go in there and do salvage logging, but to allow outdoors people, taxpaying Americans who pay for the parks, to walk in the woods looking for mushrooms, that’s not OK with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Jim Wright, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/departments/natural-resources-agency/department_of_forestry_and_fire_protection?agencyid=149\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection\u003c/a>, disagrees. He’s co-managing Boggs Mountain State Forest and asks, “How do you protect people across 3,000 acres of dead trees? It’s almost impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says 80 percent of the forest's trees burned, and his top priority is removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he drives me around the black and brown hills of the forest, it looks like something out of a dystopic science fiction film. On an active logging site, equipment with mechanized arms and saws fells dead trees, strips off burnt bark and moves as much as 100 truckloads a day out to mills. Even where logging isn’t happening, Wright says, the forest is dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of trees are in danger of coming down,” he says. “The tops will start breaking out of these trees, the limbs will start breaking off and coming down with just the slightest breeze,” and burned-out stumps and roots create holes in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wright knows many morel hunters are familiar with forests and are eager to get on the land, he says, “We can’t interview each person to find out if they’re qualified, see if they have a hardhat, if they're familiar with hazards of forest. We’d have to do a site safety plan with each one of them. It’s just not practical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the forest is closed to all recreational activity, and Wright hopes to have at least some portions of the forest open in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been to many morel fire-burned areas,” says local Joe Guardado, “and there’s areas in Boggs that are beyond anything I ever saw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930277 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"'Mushroom' Joe Guardado\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-400x272.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Mushroom Joe' Guardado \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the fire, Guardado hiked Boggs Forest every day. He’s spent many winters foraging pounds and pounds of porcini mushrooms in the forest and around the town of Loch Lomond, where he lives. It’s a weekend getaway for Northern Californian Italian families, with resorts like Biggi’s Family Club and Italian Village swelling the population in the summer. They revere mushrooms here. Guardado introduces me to a friend, Mike Giusti, who built a shrine in his front yard that, from a distance, looks like it honors the Virgin Mary. Up close, it’s clear that it’s a porcini made of stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardado says he doesn’t forage mushrooms for money. He swaps jars of dried porcinis for hunted pheasant or duck, or wine made by the families who vacation here. Guardado is a caretaker, and he knows them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Flora and Romano Marcucci. He points to Guardado and says, “They call him the King for Mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep. In these parts, Guardado is called the King, or Mushroom Joe. He’s showing the Marcuccis where edible wild mushrooms pop out of little mounds of leaves in a yard. They’re coccolis, white mushrooms as big as my hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930285\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg\" alt=\"Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-400x416.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-1180x1227.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-960x998.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Marcuccis ran an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, and know what to do with their haul. Flora says she’ll slice the mushrooms and cook them simply in olive oil with garlic, pepper and salt. “Let it fry, get nice and crunch. Delicious!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also unearth one deadly mushroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, that’s a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\">death cap\u003c/a>,” says Mushroom Joe, looking at its pimply skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romano Marcucci draws his finger across his neck, ominously, saying, “No doctor will save you from that.” But all three are lifelong mushroom hunters who know what to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mushroom Joe and I spend the afternoon in a couple burn areas hunting for morels: no luck today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elusive Morchella, that’s what they call them. They’re elusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ll be here only after this fire. So, he’ll keep looking. But he skipped porcini season last winter ... his heart just wasn’t in it. He says he feels a tension between his mushroom-hunting passion and his love of these now-scorched hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what you loved and now it’s all black,” he says. “It’s not so bad because right now we’re looking for mushrooms, so I don’t have to look up that often. I’m looking down at the ground, like you’re blocking it out of your mind that it’s not there. It’s sad. It’s just real sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, Mushroom Joe Guardado says, chasing the burn for morels hurts a little, if it’s in your own backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-foodways\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported, in part, by a grant from \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">California Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10929296/chasing-the-burn-for-morel-mushrooms-in-lake-county","authors":["3229"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_17045"],"categories":["news_19906","news_356"],"tags":["news_333","news_18411","news_17286","news_17041","news_18586"],"featImg":"news_10930161","label":"news_72"},"news_10829493":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10829493","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10829493","score":null,"sort":[1452611554000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lake-county-fire-postmortem-cautionary-tale-for-rest-of-california","title":"Lake County Fire Postmortem: 'Cautionary Tale' for Rest of California","publishDate":1452611554,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Every summer and fall, some corner of California suffers the sorrowful distinction of becoming the scene of a terrible wildfire, a blaze so vast or frightening in its speed and destructive power that it inspires equal parts awe and horror. Those disasters have been more visible during four years of drought that have dried out California's countryside and created explosive conditions from one end of the state to the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"n9lLxyDhKRRHqwH0WS65CX0hUrVul1Ta\"]In 2013, that most terrible conflagration was called the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rim-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rim Fire\u003c/a>, which burned more than 257,000 acres -- 400 square miles -- in the dense woodlands in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and the adjacent national forest. In 2014, the sprawling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/26/happy-camp-complex-photos-kari-greer\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Camp Fire\u003c/a> burned 134,000 acres along the Klamath River and its tributaries in Northern California's Siskiyou County. Elsewhere in the county, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/15/wildfire-in-weed-destroys-scores-of-homes-shuts-down-interstate-5/\" target=\"_blank\">Boles Fire\u003c/a> raced through the town of Weed, burning more than 150 homes in a single afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the heart of Lake County, 75 miles north of San Francisco, was the scene of not one but three major fires. The Rocky Fire burned nearly 70,000 acres in late July and early August; as it neared containment, the 25,000-acre Jerusalem Fire broke out. Those blazes burned a total of about 50 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Sept. 12, a fire near a residence on Cobb Mountain, north of Middletown, ignited. The incident rapidly metamorphosed into a wind-driven firestorm that forced as many as 20,000 people to flee their homes. The blaze, dubbed the Valley Fire, incinerated 1,200 homes and 800 other structures and became one of the costliest fires in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/how-fire-feeds/\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal has taken a second look \u003c/a>at the Lake County fires, using data and imagery from firefighting and meteorological agencies, the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations to assess how the fires progressed. Reveal's takeaway: California is afflicted with a wide range of conditions beyond the drought, including forest lands overloaded with fuel, that serve as \"a cautionary tale of what is in store for many living near wildlands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A visual analysis by Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, examines factors that fed three devastating fires in 2015. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1452644049,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":350},"headData":{"title":"Lake County Fire Postmortem: 'Cautionary Tale' for Rest of California | KQED","description":"A visual analysis by Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, examines factors that fed three devastating fires in 2015. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10829493 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10829493","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/12/lake-county-fire-postmortem-cautionary-tale-for-rest-of-california/","disqusTitle":"Lake County Fire Postmortem: 'Cautionary Tale' for Rest of California","nprStoryId":"462779416","path":"/news/10829493/lake-county-fire-postmortem-cautionary-tale-for-rest-of-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every summer and fall, some corner of California suffers the sorrowful distinction of becoming the scene of a terrible wildfire, a blaze so vast or frightening in its speed and destructive power that it inspires equal parts awe and horror. Those disasters have been more visible during four years of drought that have dried out California's countryside and created explosive conditions from one end of the state to the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In 2013, that most terrible conflagration was called the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rim-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rim Fire\u003c/a>, which burned more than 257,000 acres -- 400 square miles -- in the dense woodlands in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and the adjacent national forest. In 2014, the sprawling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/26/happy-camp-complex-photos-kari-greer\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Camp Fire\u003c/a> burned 134,000 acres along the Klamath River and its tributaries in Northern California's Siskiyou County. Elsewhere in the county, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/15/wildfire-in-weed-destroys-scores-of-homes-shuts-down-interstate-5/\" target=\"_blank\">Boles Fire\u003c/a> raced through the town of Weed, burning more than 150 homes in a single afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the heart of Lake County, 75 miles north of San Francisco, was the scene of not one but three major fires. The Rocky Fire burned nearly 70,000 acres in late July and early August; as it neared containment, the 25,000-acre Jerusalem Fire broke out. Those blazes burned a total of about 50 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Sept. 12, a fire near a residence on Cobb Mountain, north of Middletown, ignited. The incident rapidly metamorphosed into a wind-driven firestorm that forced as many as 20,000 people to flee their homes. The blaze, dubbed the Valley Fire, incinerated 1,200 homes and 800 other structures and became one of the costliest fires in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/how-fire-feeds/\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal has taken a second look \u003c/a>at the Lake County fires, using data and imagery from firefighting and meteorological agencies, the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations to assess how the fires progressed. Reveal's takeaway: California is afflicted with a wide range of conditions beyond the drought, including forest lands overloaded with fuel, that serve as \"a cautionary tale of what is in store for many living near wildlands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10829493/lake-county-fire-postmortem-cautionary-tale-for-rest-of-california","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_356"],"tags":["news_18411","news_17286","news_17041","news_18586"],"featImg":"news_10829531","label":"news_72"},"news_10804696":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10804696","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10804696","score":null,"sort":[1451052040000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"free-shoes-and-christmas-trees-valley-fire-victims-touched-by-unexpected-generosity","title":"Free Shoes and Christmas Trees: Valley Fire Victims Touched by Unexpected Generosity","publishDate":1451052040,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>About a month ago, I met Andrew Vance, a teacher at a small charter school in Middletown. I was up in Lake County reporting on the cleanup efforts after September’s Valley Fire. In his 30s with light brown hair, Vance smiled a little even as he told me how everything he owned (besides the clothes on his back and his car) burned in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the loss of his Buddhist texts, his hiking gear, and, most of all, his home, rocked Vance, he said what struck him almost immediately was the generosity and help that arrived to lift him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like FEMA and the Red Cross offered aid that was crucial for him and other residents to rebuild, but he said it was a different kind of gift that knocked him off his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My ex-in-laws from like 20 years ago randomly out of the blue sent me a $1,000 check,” he said. “It was like oh my god ... I thought you guys hated me—they’re my ex-in-laws, I never even see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since the third most destructive fire in California’s history burned \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">1,200 homes\u003c/a>, many \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/valley-fire-devastation-far-from-over-lake-county-faces-long-recovery\">stories\u003c/a> have come out—both of devastation and resilience. Having grown up in Lake County, after the fire I spent long hours on the phone comforting friends and days helping comb through the ashes, looking for anything worth saving. So, I know that both these types of narratives are true. But I also heard this third kind of story told by many I spoke to—stories of unexpected gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"It Hits You More Deeply\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The smallest act of thoughtfulness and kindness, the tiniest gesture, it hits you more deeply,” my friend Meg McDonnell told me in a recent call. “It matters more; I guess it’s because we need people more at a time like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the homes lost by people I know, Meg's was the one I knew the best and mourned the most. She’s one of those people whose house is—or rather was—truly more than building. Her home was the product of a life full of family treasures, mementos from trips, gifts from friends still here and those who’ve passed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10804748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10804748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1200 people lost their homes in the Valley Fire. This is the remains of Meg McDonnell's house. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1200 people lost their homes in the Valley Fire. This is the remains of Meg McDonnell's house. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was out of town up in Washington State visiting her sister when it all burned. It was also her birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were still in the worst part of reeling from the loss,” she said. She had a birthday celebration planned with friends, many of whom were now as homeless and scattered as she was. So, she told me, laughing, that she did the only thing that made any sense: went shoe shopping online. A few days later the shoes arrived, but they were damaged. So Meg called customer service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A guy named Sam apologized for the damage and asked her where to send the replacement. Meg gave him her sister’s address in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sam from Zappos said, ‘Well I hope you’re safe from the fires in Washington.’ Cause Washington has had a lot of fire through the summer also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meg told him, well actually \u003cem>my\u003c/em> home burned down in the \u003cem>California\u003c/em> wild fires, which is why I’m staying with my sister. When Meg got off the phone, she still felt touched by the concern and sympathy in Sam’s voice, and he told her how sorry he was to hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the next day she got a call back from Sam. He told her he’d been thinking of her and that he wanted to give her the shoes from Zappos for free, but also made another offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’If you need anybody to talk to—just to, you know, to talk about what you’re feeling or to vent to process your loss if you just need someone to lend an ear or have a shoulder to cry on, just call up our customer service line, we’re here 24/7 and we really want to be here for you.’ It took me aback,” Meg told me. “It was such a touching offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it didn’t end there. A couple of days later—she got a free pair of shoes in the mail along with a card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just really affected me in the most positive way,” Meg said. As she read from the card, her voice broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10804697\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10804697\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Lake County resident Meg McDonnell lost her beloved home in the Valley Fire. But she received some support from an unexpected source. \" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-768x575.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake County resident Meg McDonnell lost her beloved home in the Valley Fire. But she received some support from an unexpected source. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Meg McDonnell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There has to be about 20 names and little personal messages. It goes on and on. It was so over the top—it was so far beyond any marketing strategy they could have had that (it) still touches me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Meg’s told this story a lot in the months since her home burned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a good laugh with my friends who know exactly what an addicted shoe-aholic I am, that I got my grief counseling for the loss of my treasured home and all the treasured memorabilia and precious things that we had in that home,\" she said. \"I’m getting grief counseling from my shoe store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s funny and heartwarming, she said this gesture from people she didn’t even know has done more to give her strength than she ever could have guessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really do actually get carried forward and start to trust the future again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meg hasn’t been back to Lake County yet, but she says she will eventually return and start to rebuild. She told me she’s waiting until spring when the hills will be a little greener. And there are already people working on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10804698\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10804698\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Meg McDonnell in her new Zappos shoes next to her Christmas tree in Washington. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg McDonnell in her new Zappos shoes next to her Christmas tree in Washington. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Meg McDonnell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Christmas Tree Project\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Blair lives up in Cobb Mountain where the fire started. Her home survived the fire, but 4 out of 5 of her best girlfriends all lost their homes in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted selfishly to have my one good friend come back to the mountain,” Blair said. “She’s concerned about the area being hot in the summer and being so ugly because all the trees are gone. So I decided that I would purchase her a live Christmas tree as her present and then when I told my sister she said, ‘Oh I want to do that!’ And then we kind of started thinking, ‘Why don’t we see how many trees we can get?’ So that’s how it started and it turned into this big huge project, which is awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4868002-181/new-way-to-help-valley?artslide=0\">project\u003c/a>—inviting people to buy living Christmas trees, then after the holiday, go plant them in Lake County—started small and took off. At the time of writing this, 12 nurseries from Cloverdale to Petaluma have participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently visited one of these, \u003ca href=\"http://www.harmonyfarm.com/\">Harmony Farm Supply\u003c/a>, in Sebastopol. Co-owner Leah Taylor walked me around the grounds. The air was crisp and her large outdoor nursery was fairly sparse—bare root blueberry bushes and other hardy trees that can survive the night’s frosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t really have any idea how it was going to be received,” Taylor said. “The magic and beauty of it is that it’s been so well-received and that was a surprise to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me a few weeks ago the whole nursery was full of 100 or so live potted trees. She said she’s also gotten calls from people who bought trees at other nurseries, but wanted to donate them to Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1000 or so Christmas trees Blair hopes to get from this project, which will be given to Lake County residents by a lottery, won’t come near to replacing the 7 million trees that burned. But Taylor says maybe it’s about more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The process of giving is such a gift to yourself because it feels so good to see other people happy and to bring joy to other people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This holiday Lake County families are dealing with loss, but many also gained in small, unexpected ways.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1450981196,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1471},"headData":{"title":"Free Shoes and Christmas Trees: Valley Fire Victims Touched by Unexpected Generosity | KQED","description":"This holiday Lake County families are dealing with loss, but many also gained in small, unexpected ways.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10804696 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10804696","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/25/free-shoes-and-christmas-trees-valley-fire-victims-touched-by-unexpected-generosity/","disqusTitle":"Free Shoes and Christmas Trees: Valley Fire Victims Touched by Unexpected Generosity","path":"/news/10804696/free-shoes-and-christmas-trees-valley-fire-victims-touched-by-unexpected-generosity","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>About a month ago, I met Andrew Vance, a teacher at a small charter school in Middletown. I was up in Lake County reporting on the cleanup efforts after September’s Valley Fire. In his 30s with light brown hair, Vance smiled a little even as he told me how everything he owned (besides the clothes on his back and his car) burned in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the loss of his Buddhist texts, his hiking gear, and, most of all, his home, rocked Vance, he said what struck him almost immediately was the generosity and help that arrived to lift him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like FEMA and the Red Cross offered aid that was crucial for him and other residents to rebuild, but he said it was a different kind of gift that knocked him off his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My ex-in-laws from like 20 years ago randomly out of the blue sent me a $1,000 check,” he said. “It was like oh my god ... I thought you guys hated me—they’re my ex-in-laws, I never even see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since the third most destructive fire in California’s history burned \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">1,200 homes\u003c/a>, many \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/valley-fire-devastation-far-from-over-lake-county-faces-long-recovery\">stories\u003c/a> have come out—both of devastation and resilience. Having grown up in Lake County, after the fire I spent long hours on the phone comforting friends and days helping comb through the ashes, looking for anything worth saving. So, I know that both these types of narratives are true. But I also heard this third kind of story told by many I spoke to—stories of unexpected gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"It Hits You More Deeply\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The smallest act of thoughtfulness and kindness, the tiniest gesture, it hits you more deeply,” my friend Meg McDonnell told me in a recent call. “It matters more; I guess it’s because we need people more at a time like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the homes lost by people I know, Meg's was the one I knew the best and mourned the most. She’s one of those people whose house is—or rather was—truly more than building. Her home was the product of a life full of family treasures, mementos from trips, gifts from friends still here and those who’ve passed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10804748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10804748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1200 people lost their homes in the Valley Fire. This is the remains of Meg McDonnell's house. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17887_Card-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1200 people lost their homes in the Valley Fire. This is the remains of Meg McDonnell's house. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was out of town up in Washington State visiting her sister when it all burned. It was also her birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were still in the worst part of reeling from the loss,” she said. She had a birthday celebration planned with friends, many of whom were now as homeless and scattered as she was. So, she told me, laughing, that she did the only thing that made any sense: went shoe shopping online. A few days later the shoes arrived, but they were damaged. So Meg called customer service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A guy named Sam apologized for the damage and asked her where to send the replacement. Meg gave him her sister’s address in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sam from Zappos said, ‘Well I hope you’re safe from the fires in Washington.’ Cause Washington has had a lot of fire through the summer also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meg told him, well actually \u003cem>my\u003c/em> home burned down in the \u003cem>California\u003c/em> wild fires, which is why I’m staying with my sister. When Meg got off the phone, she still felt touched by the concern and sympathy in Sam’s voice, and he told her how sorry he was to hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the next day she got a call back from Sam. He told her he’d been thinking of her and that he wanted to give her the shoes from Zappos for free, but also made another offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’If you need anybody to talk to—just to, you know, to talk about what you’re feeling or to vent to process your loss if you just need someone to lend an ear or have a shoulder to cry on, just call up our customer service line, we’re here 24/7 and we really want to be here for you.’ It took me aback,” Meg told me. “It was such a touching offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it didn’t end there. A couple of days later—she got a free pair of shoes in the mail along with a card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just really affected me in the most positive way,” Meg said. As she read from the card, her voice broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10804697\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10804697\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Lake County resident Meg McDonnell lost her beloved home in the Valley Fire. But she received some support from an unexpected source. \" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-768x575.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17884_transform-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake County resident Meg McDonnell lost her beloved home in the Valley Fire. But she received some support from an unexpected source. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Meg McDonnell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There has to be about 20 names and little personal messages. It goes on and on. It was so over the top—it was so far beyond any marketing strategy they could have had that (it) still touches me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Meg’s told this story a lot in the months since her home burned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a good laugh with my friends who know exactly what an addicted shoe-aholic I am, that I got my grief counseling for the loss of my treasured home and all the treasured memorabilia and precious things that we had in that home,\" she said. \"I’m getting grief counseling from my shoe store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s funny and heartwarming, she said this gesture from people she didn’t even know has done more to give her strength than she ever could have guessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really do actually get carried forward and start to trust the future again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meg hasn’t been back to Lake County yet, but she says she will eventually return and start to rebuild. She told me she’s waiting until spring when the hills will be a little greener. And there are already people working on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10804698\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10804698\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Meg McDonnell in her new Zappos shoes next to her Christmas tree in Washington. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/17886_transform-1-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg McDonnell in her new Zappos shoes next to her Christmas tree in Washington. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Meg McDonnell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Christmas Tree Project\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Blair lives up in Cobb Mountain where the fire started. Her home survived the fire, but 4 out of 5 of her best girlfriends all lost their homes in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted selfishly to have my one good friend come back to the mountain,” Blair said. “She’s concerned about the area being hot in the summer and being so ugly because all the trees are gone. So I decided that I would purchase her a live Christmas tree as her present and then when I told my sister she said, ‘Oh I want to do that!’ And then we kind of started thinking, ‘Why don’t we see how many trees we can get?’ So that’s how it started and it turned into this big huge project, which is awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4868002-181/new-way-to-help-valley?artslide=0\">project\u003c/a>—inviting people to buy living Christmas trees, then after the holiday, go plant them in Lake County—started small and took off. At the time of writing this, 12 nurseries from Cloverdale to Petaluma have participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently visited one of these, \u003ca href=\"http://www.harmonyfarm.com/\">Harmony Farm Supply\u003c/a>, in Sebastopol. Co-owner Leah Taylor walked me around the grounds. The air was crisp and her large outdoor nursery was fairly sparse—bare root blueberry bushes and other hardy trees that can survive the night’s frosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t really have any idea how it was going to be received,” Taylor said. “The magic and beauty of it is that it’s been so well-received and that was a surprise to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me a few weeks ago the whole nursery was full of 100 or so live potted trees. She said she’s also gotten calls from people who bought trees at other nurseries, but wanted to donate them to Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1000 or so Christmas trees Blair hopes to get from this project, which will be given to Lake County residents by a lottery, won’t come near to replacing the 7 million trees that burned. But Taylor says maybe it’s about more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The process of giving is such a gift to yourself because it feels so good to see other people happy and to bring joy to other people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10804696/free-shoes-and-christmas-trees-valley-fire-victims-touched-by-unexpected-generosity","authors":["8676"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18909","news_18586"],"featImg":"news_10804751","label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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