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California’s Fire Insurance Crisis, Explained

09/23/2021
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Even as California’s wildfires grow more intense seemingly every year, insurers are cancelling policies for homeowners in the path of the fires.

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Public Safety Resilience

Forest Service Team Studies Burn Areas in Caldor Fire

09/21/2021
The Caldor Fire has dramatically changed the landscape on Highway 50, with blackened earth, scorched trees and burned homes from Echo Summit to Kyburz. The U.S. Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response Team recently surveyed the area to produce a soil burn severity map of the 220,548-acre blaze.

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Groups Prepare to Rebuild Trails in Wake of Caldor Fire

09/18/2021
The Caldor Fire spared many homes and buildings in the Tahoe basin, but several recreation areas were hit hard. Groups such as the Tahoe Area Mountain Bike Association and Tahoe Rim Trail Association are getting ready to repair damaged trails.

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Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation Launches Forest Futures

09/16/2021
The Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation has raised more than $1 million to launch Forest Futures, a multi-year campaign to stimulate the region’s economy, ensure a safer future for the Tahoe area, and create a path forward to healthy forests everywhere.

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Resilience Community Service & Support

Local Businesses Showed Courage Under Fire

09/16/2021
El Dorado County businesses in the evacuation zone kept their community in mind as they found ways to give back, even while impacted themselves by the Caldor Fire.

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South Lake Tahoe Rallies to Raise Funds at Caldor Community Festival

09/15/2021
An idea created by local business owner Luca Genasci and other community leaders, the festival begins at noon on Sept. 19. Proceeds will go to the Barton Foundation Emergency Response Fund.

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Resilience Neighborhoods

Grizzly Flats Residents Show Their Resilience

09/14/2021
Three out of four Grizzly Flat Community Services District employees lost their homes to the Caldor Fire. But like the rest of the community, they are working hard to get everything up and running.

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Resilience Community Service & Support

Firefighters’ Spouses Help Feed Those on the Front Line

09/11/2021
When a team of firefighters outstripped their supply lines while working the Caldor Fire, their spouses swung into action to get them food. Find out more about their work, and other groups helping fire victims.

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Pioneer to Hold Community Meeting in El Dorado Hills

09/09/2021
Pioneer Community Energy will hold several informational meetings for El Dorado County and Placerville residents to present information about the utility company and answer questions. The first meeting will take place at 6 p.m. on Sept. 14.

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Property Tax Relief Available to Wildfire Victims

09/06/2021
Board of Equalization member Ted Gaines says families and businesses impacted by disaster need to understand “the available resources and relief so they can begin to rebuild their lives.”

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Environment Resilience

Caldor Fire Leaves Deep Scars on Tahoe’s Landscape

09/04/2021
Though the Caldor Fire bypassed South Lake Tahoe, it left behind thousands of acres of charred trees and decimated vegetation.

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Tahoe Weekly Offers Detailed Fire Evacuation Guide

09/02/2021
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With the Caldor Fire bearing down on the Tahoe region, the Tahoe Weekly has published a detailed guide to evacuating safely and quickly.

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Mapping California

09/01/2021
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Author, poet and naturalist Obi Kaufmann talks about his latest work: a new book and a documentary film that screens online Sept. 9.

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Community Service & Support Resilience

Fund Launched to Support Rural Schools Hit by Wildfires

08/31/2021
Education leaders have launched CA Kids Fire Relief, a two-week, statewide effort encouraging students and school communities across California to provide financial and emotional support to students, families and schools impacted by catastrophic wildfires.

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Dixie Fire Threatening California’s Water and Power Supply

08/24/2021
The second largest wildfire in California’s history, the Dixie Fire also affects the California State Water Project, which provides water to over 25 million Californians and spins giant turbines that generate roughly 15 percent of the state’s hydropower.

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El Dorado Community Foundation Still Accepting Donations for Caldor Fire Relief Fund

08/21/2021
Due to the overwhelming response to the requests for the Caldor Fire Fund relief, the El Dorado Community Foundation updated the link for applications and the parameters for those needing assistance.

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Community Service & Support Resilience

Cameron Park Embraces Caldor Fire Evacuees

08/18/2021
The Cameron Park Community Services District gym became an emergency shelter for Caldor Fire evacuees, and the community responded with so many donations, the shelter filled up with people and goods.

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Water Resilience

El Dorado Irrigation District Expands Service Line Crew

08/12/2021
At its Aug. 9 meeting, the El Dorado Irrigation District board unanimously voted to add two more members to the service line replacement crew, which is replacing leaking polyethylene service lines with copper lines.

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Water Resilience

EID Board Addresses Outingdale Dam Breach

08/10/2021
The El Dorado Irrigation District Board of Directors has endorsed a plan to rehabilitate the Outingdale Dam. Water is leaking through the face of the dam, which was built in the 1920s, and its buttresses are deteriorating.

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Public Safety Resilience

South Tahoe Public Utility District Hit by Fire, Then Flood

08/03/2021
July was a rough month for the South Tahoe Public Utility District. First, its facilities were threatened by the Tamarack Fire; then, flash flooding damaged infrastructure. But the fire damage would have been worse if not pump station operator Buck McLelland.

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