Camp Fire

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.

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.

Tomorrow marks five years since the Camp Fire burned the town of Paradise and surrounding communities. As the area has rebuilt, community groups and youth programs have begun to return. Also, the city of Chico has filed an amicus curiae, or a “friend of the court” brief, with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a widespread effort to overturn a federal court ruling that makes it illegal for cities to penalize unhoused residents camping on city property if the city doesn't have shelter beds available, and the Environmental Protection Agency will discuss banning a chemical found in most tires and many other rubber products such as shoes, synthetic turf and playground equipment.

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.