Macy fire burning in Southern California
Aaron Barrera, 25, hoses catches a water hose to protect the family home on Laguna Avenue as a CAL FIRE firefighters battle the Macy Fire on the west side of …
camp fire
Nonprofit’s $500 ‘defensible space’ grants help cut residents’ insurance costs
PARADISE — The letter from the insurance company arrived just before Brian and Morgan Gobba finally finished construction on their new house: Their homeowner’s policy was being canceled. The Gobbas …
Six ways to create fireproof town after Paradise Camp Fire
Five years after California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire destroyed Paradise, the town’s leaders have launched three dozen projects to fortify this Northern California community about 180 miles northeast of …
How to build a fireproof town
PARADISE — As Jen Goodlin tends the snapdragons and squash in her fertile garden, she is surrounded by a town that is a charred skeleton of its former self. It …