Month: October 2019

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper As a pyrogeographer, Zeke Lunder is an expert at mapping fires. Forest management has made a lot of headlines of late, what with wildfires growing in intensity and frequency, particularly […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Debra Lucero asks county staff for information about a proposed pipeline from Paradise to Chico. Supervisor Debra Lucero was on the receiving end of public outcry near the end of a […]

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper The Camp Fire memorial crosses, erected last December, were taken down last week. At sunset last Tuesday (Oct. 15), volunteers began removing and preserving the Camp Fire memorial crosses along […]

Image from frontline courtesy of REUTERS/Stephen Lam Burning sign outside Paradise Skilled Nursing during 2018 Camp Fire. Films of the fire For many Butte County residents, the coming weeks leading up to the one-year anniversary […]

On Tuesday (Oct. 22), the Butte County Board of Supervisors affirmed that rebuilding the Honey Run Covered Bridge, which was destroyed in the Camp Fire, is not in the county’s best interest. The decision sets […]

The Paradise Town Council and Butte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Oct. 22) each adopted urgency ordinances establishing guidelines for removing hazardous trees on private property that threaten to fall on public rights-of-way. The […]

Photo by Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters A worker douses potentially contaminated soil in Paradise, 11 months after the Camp Fire. As California braces for peak fire season, the most extensive post-fire cleanup it has ever taken on […]

Wildfire victims who believe they have a claim against PG&E for property damage, personal injury, wrongful death or other losses stemming from Northern California fires—including the Camp Fire—that happened before the company’s Jan. 29 bankruptcy […]

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office revised the number of people killed in the Camp Fire from 86 to 85 after concluding that a previously unidentified bone fragment belonged to an already identified victim. The fragment […]