The increasing magnitude of California wildfires has become more than an annual story. This year the story spread notably to Oregon, Washington, and Colorado, in unprecedented fashion, making it impossible to ignore that our environment is dramatically changing, whether or not we agree on cause.
With news reports of entire towns wiped off the map and large scale fatalities, we’re shocked to see the blackened skeletons of burned homes, schools, businesses, cars, and infrastructure, unable or unwilling to imagine what we’d do if it had happened to us, or perhaps to believe that it did, especially in this year of unrelenting social and emotional toil.
From an often overlooked perspective, this three-minute listen NPR story highlights what it’s like to experience homelessness and a wildfire at the same time, in one of California’s most famous tourist escapes, in 2020.
-Maude
October 12, 2020