Camp Fire

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga The “replacement cycle is exploding” at the wastewater treatment plant post-Camp Fire, according to Erik Gustafson, public works director of operations and maintenance. As Travis Elliott walked around the Chico Water […]

Before the Camp Fire hit on Nov. 8, Chico already was experiencing a shortage of housing options, particularly for those in the lower income brackets. A vacancy rate of 1 percent to 2 percent, as […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga City Manager Mark Orme, pictured outside of the City Council chambers about a week after the Camp Fire, across the street from smoke-shrouded City Plaza, where the flag flew at half-staff […]

Illustration by Mark Ricketts A lot has transpired in the six months since the Camp Fire ravaged Butte County’s foothills communities. As residents from those regions face the daunting task of rebuilding—or starting over elsewhere—nearby […]

I’ve had a pretty bad bout of insomnia since the Camp Fire. Actually, to be precise, the trouble sleeping began on Nov. 9, the day after the state’s deadliest wildfire began in remote Butte County. […]

A team from Purdue University and Manhattan College, working on solutions for the water contamination issue following the Camp Fire, has launched an online survey for anyone with a standing home within the burn area. […]

Sixty-day notice. Feels inadequate for eight years and $90,000 in rent. Every memory my son has is lodged somewhere in this house, and the happiest years of my own life framed within its walls. However, […]

Eighty-five people died as a direct result of the Camp Fire. But that’s not the end of the story—far from it. The wildfire also is indirectly responsible for the deaths of many others, including frail […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper “This used to be lush forest,” says Calli-Jane DeAnda, executive director of the Butte County Fire Safe Council. She’d assembled a group of stakeholders to discuss the region’s future. From […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]