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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.
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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.
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How do you tell if wildfire danger has passed where you live? Wolfy Rougle, founder of the Butte County Prescribed Burn Association, shares the signs she looks for. Also, local and state officials will gather at the California Capitol today to recognize the 5-year anniversary of the Camp Fire, and the California Faculty Association may soon join the numerous labor unions in the state that have declared strikes over pay increases and workplace inequities.
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Officials will gather at the California Capitol today to recognize the 5-year anniversary of the Camp Fire, which started on November 8, 2018.
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For years, wildfire survivors have asked the federal government to stop taxing settlement money from disastrous wildfires like the Camp and Dixie fires. A bill that would do just that is getting bipartisan support, but recent turmoil in Congress has delayed it.
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Recent events during wildfires on Maui raise questions about whether a new siren system in the North State will be effective. NSPR’s Jamie Jiang recently spoke with Colette Curtis, Paradise’s recovery and economic development director, who is in charge of the town’s siren system.
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A new early warning siren system in Paradise to help people evacuate during wildfires is scheduled to be completed next month. It was one of the town’s top priorities following the 2018 Camp Fire. But after officials in Hawaii decided not to sound their sirens during recent wildfires there, NSPR’s Jamie Jiang wondered how Paradise’s siren system will work in a future emergency.
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Many survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire have been watching the news of wildfires in Maui with a sense of disbelief.
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The future looks uncertain for a project that would bring more than 70 early warning evacuation sirens to fire-prone communities in Butte County.
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A new support group for Camp Fire survivors met last week as mental health counseling resources remain scarce in the burn scar. Also, Chico starts a ‘kiosk concierge’ program after complaints from downtown businesses and visitors about new smart meters, and lawmakers in California continue to struggle to regulate so-called crisis pregnancy centers that abortion advocates say mislead women seeking abortion care.