Photo courtesy of Ray Morgan Company Ray Morgan Co.’s Chico branch, including several Camp Fire survivors, pose in their Fifth Sun Apparel Butte Strong shirts. Executive Vice President and owner Chris Scarff purchased about 200 […]
Photo by Melissa Daugherty Dan Gonzales said crews worked day and night to get the RV park up to code as soon as possible. Sean McAndrew lights up when talking about Butte Creek Canyon. He […]
Photo by Michelle Camy Brian Von Tress, owner of Collision Pros, says all his Paradise employees continued work in other branches after the Camp Fire. He’s pictured here (third from left) at the Chico shop […]
It’s been three months since the Camp Fire was sparked in rural Butte County, but we all know it’s going to take years, perhaps even decades, for our region to heal from the most destructive […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Matthew Trumm shows a spot in Butte Creek Canyon where bamboo acted as a fire break. On a recent morning, the ground still wet from overnight rain and the air chilled […]
Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Dan Horvath, of FEMA, and Katrina Palomar, of CalOES, tell the council they have faced barriers with developers and environmental constraints while attempting to set up temporary homes for Camp Fire […]
Photo courtesy of Brian Kendall A lifelong resident of the Paradise/Magalia area, Brian Kendall returned to his home, post-Camp Fire, to find that while his house had survived, his consignment store business, This n That, […]
Photo by Charles finlay Residents will no longer be able to live on properties with burned structures until they are cleared. All the folks who’ve moved into trailers on their burned-out properties since the Camp […]
Photo by Robert Speer Potential workers learn the ropes for jobs in Camp Fire-scarred Butte County. For the approximately 50 men and women gathered in a large Butte College classroom on Monday (Jan. 28), the […]
Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Activists gather across the street from the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds to protest what they see as the unjust eviction of homeless people from the Red Cross shelter. When Matt Collins left […]
It seems just about everything these days revolves around the Camp Fire and recovery efforts. It is exciting to see progress being made, however slowly. This past week, I had a chance to talk with […]
A few weeks after the Camp Fire erupted, I began making predictions about the future. One was that it wouldn’t be long before the throng of reporters from large, out-of-town media outlets would begin an […]
It’s been nearly three months since the Camp Fire torched a significant portion of Butte County, destroying thousands of homes and displacing tens of thousands of residents, and yet the most significant commitment in terms […]
The former Koppers wood-treatment plant in Oroville is officially out of consideration as a Camp Fire debris site, after state and federal officials determined processing capacity sufficient to preclude the need for a temporary sorting […]
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