Monday, December 03, 2018

CALIFORNIA - Wildfires' Aftermath

"Trauma, loss and logistics plague communities hit by wildfire" PBS NewsHour 11/27/2018

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SUMMARY:  California’s deadliest wildfire, the Camp Fire, is now fully contained, but its death toll has climbed to 88, and more than 200 people are still missing.  How are the people still searching for loved ones, and the thousands of residents displaced from their homes, coping in the disaster's aftermath?  Amna Nawaz talks to William Brangham, reporting from Gridley, California.




"After wildfire, Calif.  authorities struggle to find the missing and the dead" PBS NewsHour 11/29/2018

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SUMMARY:  It’s been three weeks since the devastating Camp Fire swept through California, leaving at least 88 people dead.  In its aftermath, forensic anthropologists comb through mountains of ash in search of human remains.  At the same time, law enforcement and other officials struggle to understand the whereabouts of the 190 people still missing.  William Brangham reports from Paradise.

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