Twenty-one-year-old Anthony Vargas was in the Shingletown woods late Friday afternoon scouting turkeys for the upcoming fall hunting season. But he wound up finding something completely unrelated to turkeys that, by the day’s end,...
Author: Doni Chamberlain
I’ve not been myself since Thurs., July 26. I blame the Carr Fire and its smoky straitjacket. As I type, I pause to listen intently to a helicopter overhead, a sound I used to...
In my new Carr-Fire reality, I wake up each morning and peer outside to see if my world is still standing. So far, it is, but I’m seeing my world through Carr-Fire smoke-colored glasses...
As key leadership players were introduced during a recent Carr Fire press conference, there was a brief murmur among some local media at the mention of a familiar name. “… Paoletti, in command of...
The Carr Fire is a violent monster. It shows no mercy. It goes where it wants and takes what it wishes. By day it crouches like a coward behind its ugly smokescreen where we can’t...
At Cal Fire press conferences Thursday and Friday a half a dozen law enforcement and fire-fighting professionals – people not known for hyperbole – didn’t mince words when they described the Carr Fire. Out...
This is a view of the Carr fire from the Market Street Bridge near downtown Redding Wednesday evening captured by Jonathan Harris, who said he took this time-lapse video over a 15-minute period of...
Folks, we’re building a wall… … a paywall, that is. Yes, The PayWall, which I foreswore in those heady launch days of 2007, is a necessary action I believe we must now take to...
