“Do you want a fatboy?!” Kim Dady yelled to her husband Chris for the second time, as she climbed into their trailer to grab some money to buy lunch. Chris was busy working hard on their property, situated on a tall hill overlooking a ravine in Concow, California. Concow is an unincorporated community situated in […]
A Disaster of Historic Proportion
“On the night of October 8, 1871, Peshtigo, a booming town of 1700 people, was wiped out of existence in the greatest forest fire disaster in American history,” a plaque at the Peshtigo Fire Cemetery reads. “Loss of life and even property in the great fire occurring the same night in Chicago did not match […]
Faces of the Fire
The Camp Fire was reported at 6:33 a.m. on November 8, 2018. That morning, Kim looked out a window and could see the blaze burning toward their home. Suddenly, the wind shifted. While Kim and Chris’ trailer and partially constructed tiny home were spared, their storage container went up in flames. Kim thought their belongings […]