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The healing arts

An uncle’s handmade suit of armor, a stand of beloved fruit trees, a 5-foot-long snake named Bob; the list of what was lost in the Camp Fire continues to grow. Like grief, it evolves as […]

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Indirect victims

Photo by Melissa Daugherty On the Skyway: Eighty-five crosses for 85 victims, but none for those whose deaths were indirectly related to the Camp Fire. Elinor Williams was a patient at Adventist Health Feather River […]

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Wide open spaces

Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Dan Efseaff, director of the Paradise Recreation and Park District, hopes to add acreage to create more parks that also can serve as community defensible space. Around 10:45 a.m. on the […]

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Post-fire blues

Photo by Ken Pordes Maurice “Big Mo” Huffman sings his heart out with his Full Moon Band at a Camp Fire benefit concert at the Sierra Nevada Big Room. The dinosaur survived the fire. How’s […]

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Collateral damage

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Bob Dickinson stands on the remains of a redwood on his girlfriend’s property in Paradise. He says the tree wasn’t slated for removal but was chopped anyway. When Bob Dickinson […]

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Collective trauma

Photo by Michelle Camy for Kaiser Health News Carol Holcomb, who lost her home in Paradise to the Camp Fire, says she relives the disaster in nightmares and flashbacks. One of the final memories Carol […]

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Mall musings

I haven’t felt much like shopping since the Camp Fire. I know I advocate in this space for supporting our local retailers, but I myself have struggled to find the motivation to go buy, for […]

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Cancer center to open

Adventist Health will unveil its new cancer center in Chico on Tuesday (April 9). The opening of the Cancer Care Center is significant, according to a news release, because cancer patients treated at Feather River […]

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Plan for the future

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Calli-Jane DeAnda, executive director of the Butte County Fire Safe Council, says creating a forest management plan is critical to avoiding future disasters like the Camp Fire. When it comes […]

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Drastic measures

Photo courtesy of Cal Fire Fire safety has suddenly become far more politically fraught and expensive. Here, firefighters respond to 2017 Ponderosa Fire, a 4,000-acre blaze that destroyed 32 homes and numerous outbuildings in the […]