2023 Wildfire Season

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.

Fire survivors in Butte County must pay permit fees up front, but many say it’s an obstacle to rebuilding. The county is looking to change that by creating a new payment plan system for survivors that could start by the beginning of next year.

The California Public Utilities Commission will decide this week on PG&E’s proposal to further increase rates. A UC Berkeley economist says that the question isn’t whether costs will continue to rise, but “to what extent.”

This technique, which involves the intentional and controlled burning of fuels on the forest floor, is a necessary tool to reduce fire risks in California.

Around 200 people gathered yesterday in Paradise Community Park to remember those they lost in the 2018 Camp Fire and to reflect five years after the fire.

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.

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.

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.

Youth in the Paradise region have lived through both a pandemic and the Camp Fire, California's deadliest wildfire. Community organizations are mobilizing to help give them spaces to thrive.

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.