Shortly after the Carr Fire destroyed more than 1,000 north state homes, Wendy Hill and her fiance Sam Van Kirk took a walk one evening in their downtown Redding neighborhood. They’d just returned from...
Author: Doni Chamberlain
I didn’t lose my home, but I know many people who did. And I’ve noticed a few delicate things that have come up, things that perhaps those who’ve lost their homes don’t quite know...
You know how sometimes an opening movie scene will abruptly show some graphic, what-the-hell moment with zero context, such as a dazed, sunburned person floating on a hunk of ship-wreckage in the middle of...
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,...
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...
