CALFIRE UPDATES 7:00 pm Size: 183,633 acres Containment: 53% Expected Full Containment: Unknown Fatalities: 3 STRUCTURAL SUMMARY Structures Threatened: 528 Residential Structures Destroyed: 1,077 Commercial Structures Destroyed: 22 Other Destroyed: 500 Residential Structures Damaged: 191 Commercial Structures Damaged: 26 Other Damaged:… Continue Reading
I live in Redding, Calif., where, along with a thousand of our neighbors, our home was rudely and suddenly consumed by a wall of fearless flame and summarily reduced to rambling heaps of sad ashes and shattered shards of her previous pride, scattered and strewn about carelessly in the solemn space that once comprised our ordered, routine and predictable life; Continue Reading
UPDATE Fri. Aug. 10, 9:55 p.m. Friday night Doni caught up with the young man, Anthony Vargas, who found the trailer. Click here to read that story.  Megan Bonnin posted this message on her Facebook page: Trailer was recovered, stuff missing!!!We just… Continue Reading
CALFIRE UPDATE 7:00 PM Size: 178,752 acres Containment: 49% Expected Full Containment: Unknown Firefighter Injuries/Fatalities: 3 STRUCTURAL SUMMARY Structures Threatened: 528 Residential Structures Destroyed: 1,077 Commercial Structures Destroyed: 22 Other Destroyed: 500 Residential Structures Damaged: 191 Commercial Structures Damaged: 26 Other… Continue Reading
Mechanics Bank (OTCBB: MCHB), who recently acquired Scott Valley Bank, has donated $25,000 to the Shasta Regional Community Foundation’s (SRCF) fire relief effort for victims of the Carr Fire. “The Carr Fire in Redding has had a devastating impact on the… Continue Reading
There once was a Christmas house on Harlan Drive in Redding. Santa greeted everyone in the evenings. Hot chocolate and cookies were handed out to all visitors. But that ended when the Carr Fire swept along Harlan Drive last week,… Continue Reading
CALFIRE UPDATES 7:00 pm Size: 176,069 acres Containment: 47% Expected Full Containment: Unknown Firefighter Injuries/Fatalities: 2 STRUCTURAL SUMMARY Structures Threatened: 528 Residential Structures Destroyed: 1,077 Commercial Structures Destroyed: 22 Other Destroyed: 500 Residential Structures Damaged: 191 Commercial Structures Damaged: 26 Other… Continue Reading
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 associate here in Redding with cops… Continue Reading
CALFIRE UPDATE 7:00 pm Size: 172,055 acres Containment: 47% Expected Full Containment: Unknown Firefighter Injuries/Fatalities: 2 STRUCTURAL SUMMARY Structures Threatened: 937 Residential Structures Destroyed: 1,077 Commercial Structures Destroyed: 22 Other Destroyed: 500 Residential Structures Damaged: 191 Commercial Structures Damaged: 26… Continue Reading
Information about everything from discarding inoperable vehicles to finding housing is available at the Local Assistance Center, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Wednesday, Aug. 8, at Shasta High School, 2500 Eureka Way in Redding.… Continue Reading
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