Articles by Evan Tuchinsky

Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Dr. Zeljka Chobanov practiced on the Ridge for years. She says she doesn’t like changes, but “whether it was Oroville, whether it was any other location, I couldn’t be spared.” Dr. […]

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 Evan Tuchinsky Joaquin and Nandi Crosby-Jordan don’t distinguish between people who became homeless before or after the Camp Fire. The first day Chico State classes resumed following the campus’ Camp Fire hiatus, a […]

Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Dr. Jamaal El-Khal sees patients in Ampla Health’s mobile unit at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds—shifts he’s taken on top of practicing primary care in Chico and Orland clinics. Dr. Jamaal El-Khal […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty Smoke remained dense in Butte Creek Canyon (viewed at Lookout Point) the day after the Camp Fire ravaged the Ridge. If Mother Nature sent a sentient message in 2018, surely it […]

Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Persistent smoke from the Camp Fire led to a rush on fine-particle masks in Chico. Access. In 2018, that proved the overarching theme for health care in the North State, the […]

Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Don Hankins, at the Butte Creek Ecological Reserve in the first rains after the Camp Fire, shows where prescribed burning affected wildfire’s spread. Don Hankins had Nov. 8 marked on his […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty Paradise and its environment will regrow from ashes whose chemical composition is not fully known. Since the outbreak of the Camp Fire two weeks ago, Keith Bein has crisscrossed smoke-choked Northern […]

Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Persistent poor air from the Camp Fire impacts Saturday farmers’ market patrons last weekend (Nov. 17). Dr. Matthew Fine recalls the mid-June days of 2008 when the Humboldt Fire spewed smoke […]

When I moved to Chico in 2006, it was an open secret that the Chico News & Review’s editor lived in Paradise. The first month stemmed from necessity, my in-laws opening their home to a […]

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Adventist Health Feather River suffered significant damage to lower portions of the hospital, including radiological services, but the main building remains standing. As the Camp Fire scorched its way across […]