Jamie Jiang
ReporterJamie is NSPR’s wildfire reporter and Report For America corps member. She covers all things fire, but her main focus is wildfire recovery in the North State. Before NSPR, Jamie was at UCLA, where she dabbled in college radio and briefly worked as podcast editor at the Daily Bruin.
She also worked as a news intern at KCUR — Kansas City’s NPR affiliate station — where she reported on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Jamie uses community engagement journalism to tell the stories of real people actually living with wildfires. She asks listeners to please send pitches, feedback, and suggestions her way.
Email: jamie.jiang@mynspr.org
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Disaster case managers say scores of elderly and disabled people in Butte County haven’t gotten what they need to recover from winter storms last January and February. -
Safe Space Winter Shelter in Chico will begin sheltering unhoused individuals from the cold starting Dec. 17. The nonprofit recently secured an intake center location for the season. Also, as winter begins, hundreds of Butte County residents whose homes were damaged in last year’s storms are not back in them, and new walk-in clinics are now available in Yuba City that offer assessments to receive mental health or addiction treatment.
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Several unhoused people have been cleared from encampments in Chico in recent months. Another sweep is planned in recent weeks. Campers at sites that were enforced last week told NSPR they have nowhere else to go.
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Flooding is becoming more intense in Paradise due to climate change and vegetation loss after the Camp Fire. While officials say flooding can’t be prevented entirely, they say major projects could mitigate future catastrophes.
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The town of Paradise is working to mitigate future flooding as climate change makes storm events more common and there’s less vegetation after the 2018 Camp Fire which makes flash floods more likely. Also, Redding, Oroville and Weaverville were recently found by the Environmental Protection Agency to have harmful chemicals in their water distribution systems, and nearly 50 maternity wards in California have shut down in the last decade including in Plumas and Shasta counties.
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Yesterday marked five years since that deadly Camp Fire. One group hit particularly hard by trauma from the fire are those that work in palliative care, or care for the elderly and the seriously ill.
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Around 200 people gathered yesterday in Paradise to remember those they lost in the 2018 Camp Fire. Also, we’ll hear from Bruce Yerman, Director of Operations for the Camp Fire Collaborative about his work and thoughts on what’s still needed in the burn scar, and officials say precipitation and fewer massive wildfires this year have paved the way for more prescribed burning in California forests.
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In the last three years, the PG&E Fire Victims Trust has paid out more than $10 billion dollars. But it dispenses settlement money in small payments because it isn’t fully funded.
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Today marks exactly five years since the Camp Fire killed 85 people and leveled Paradise and surrounding communities. Three years ago, PG&E created the Fire Victim Trust to pay out settlements to fire survivors, but some say they’ve lost hope they’ll ever get their full payments. Also, today a moment of silence will be held at 11:08 a.m. to honor survivors and the 85 people who lost their lives in the fire, and we’ll hear from Kate Scowsmith, fire survivor and Disaster Case Management Systems Facilitator for the Camp Fire Collaborative about her work and her own recovery.
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Wednesday marks five years since the Camp Fire; one group of fire survivors that sometimes gets overlooked is patients of end-of-life care. Also, a federal court ruling makes it illegal for cities to penalize unhoused residents camping on city property if the city doesn't have shelter beds available; now California Assembly Republicans are calling for the decision to be overturned, and more than 10 million recipients have lost Medicaid coverage and millions more will in the coming months after federal protections ended this spring.
