On July 22, 2019, the Record Searchlight ran an article on Carr Fire funding spending by reporter Jessica Skropanic. I read with interest. The bottom line? Per Skropanic, the major organizations surveyed had received...
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It’s been one year since my husband Bob and I lost our home and community in the Carr Fire. July 26, 2019 was the day when a small road-side fire that had started several...
A note from Doni: One year ago today, the Carr Fire began a reign of terror that torched the north state, and with it, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, including Jim and Donna Dowling’s...
Together, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and the Whiskeytown Environmental School Community (WESC), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, developed the concept of Redbud Recovery. The Redbud Recovery project invites community members and visitors to express...
REDDING REMEMBERS The City of Redding and the Shasta Regional Community Foundation are hosting a community gathering to acknowledge the impact of the Carr Fire and honor the community’s grit and generosity in the...
It was about two weeks after the Carr Fire. Maybe three. We met in a church. The room was full. We came – my wife and I – with the expectation that this would be a chance to heal from the mind-numbing horror that our daily life had become since the inferno had vaporized our home and all it contained and left a smoldering pile of ash, rack and ruin.
Well, we did it! Dinner for 8 is in the books. If you’re a local reader, you are all too aware of the Carr Fire that raged through the west side of our city six months...
For most of us in the North State, 2018 will be remembered as the year of multiple, devastating wildfires. First it was the Carr Fire, which destroyed over a thousand homes in Redding, killed...
Mobile Disaster Recovery Centers (MDRCs) will visit three locations in northern California beginning Thursday, Jan. 3. MDRCs are jointly operated by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the Federal Emergency...
2017 was by far the worst year of my life. At the end of 2017, I felt completely exhausted, drained both emotionally and spiritually. Over those twelve months, my friend Sandy ended her life...
