California Fires

  • Wildfire Cottages Rise with Volunteer Help

    Wildfire Cottages Rise with Volunteer Help

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    Share with Friends A small home community now taking shape in Santa Rosa’s Fountaingrove neighborhood is testing how new, innovative construction techniques can get affordable houses built cheaply, and efficiently. […]

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  • Rebirth for Coffey Neighborhood Park

    Rebirth for Coffey Neighborhood Park

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    Share with FriendsEighteen months after it was scorched in the October 2017 Firestorm, the community park that anchors Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood, is about to be reborn. Reporter Karl […]

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  • Sharing Lessons in Fire Recovery

    Sharing Lessons in Fire Recovery

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    Share with FriendsA unique gathering in Sonoma County brought the North Bay’s leaders in fire recovery together with recent victims from Paradise and Malibu, to share lessons for moving forward […]

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  • Fire Resiliency Town Hall

    Fire Resiliency Town Hall

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    Share with FriendsHundreds turned out as Congressmen Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson came to Santa Rosa to lead a Fire Resiliency Town Hall, discussing federal help for continuing recovery from […]

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  • Cal Fire: PG&E Not to Blame for Tubbs Fire

    Cal Fire: PG&E Not to Blame for Tubbs Fire

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    Share with Friends In a dramatic and long-awaited announcement, Cal Fire said today that the Tubbs Fire that roared through Sonoma County and the city of Santa Rosa in October […]

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  • Critical Fire Camera Goes Up

    Critical Fire Camera Goes Up

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    Share with FriendsSonoma County’s newest “eye in the sky” went up in on a mountaintop high in the Pepperwood Preserve, as technicians installed a new fire camera in a critical […]

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  • PG&E Announces Bankruptcy

    PG&E Announces Bankruptcy

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    Share with FriendsPG&E, the state’s largest utility, announces it will file for bankruptcy in the face of lawsuits and billions of dollars in liability claims.  As Karl Van Amburg reports, […]

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  • Celebrity Bingo for Coffey Park

    Celebrity Bingo for Coffey Park

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    Share with FriendsA big crowd of supporters joined cyclist Levi Leipheimer on Friday night, pitching in to raise badly needed funds to rebuild Coffey Park. As Karl Van Amburg reports, […]

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  • Habitat to Launch Homebuilding Factory

    Habitat to Launch Homebuilding Factory

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    Share with FriendsIn a bold move, Habitat for Humanity of Sonoma County plans to launch a Santa Rosa factory this spring to manufacture prefab components for homes. As Karl Van […]

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  • Rise Up Fence Project Kicks Off

    Rise Up Fence Project Kicks Off

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    Share with Friends More than 20 Sonoma County businesses are joining together to help two fire-scarred neighborhoods replace fencing lost in the Tubbs Fire.  Karl Van Amburg reports.

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  • Schools and Smoke

    Schools and Smoke

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    Share with FriendsWhen do you close Sonoma County’s schools due to bad air quality?  That’s the question being faced these days by dozens of Sonoma County school districts, and thousands […]

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  • 2018 California Economic Summit

    2018 California Economic Summit

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    Share with FriendsThe resilience of Sonoma County was on display this week, as some of the brightest minds in the state gathered in the North Bay for the annual California […]

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