You didn’t know the names of the streets, you’d tell them ‘where Dick Hamblin lives, three doors down’,” Crouch recalled.
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“That’s how you’d tell someone how to get somewhere.
Greenville was so small and close-knit that many residents got around not by street names, but by houses and who lived there. Because I didn’t want to go through Greenville.”Īctually navigating within the town can be difficult with all the familiar landmarks burned away. “That whole piece of highway is just destroyed. Traveling to the valley for an appointment, Crouch and her husband were taken aback by the stumps of dead trees along the highway, part of a massive tree removal project. She longs to return to the community she treasures, but it’s difficult to see the town in its current state and the other parts of the region badly damaged.
Since the fire destroyed her home, Crouch and her husband have moved into a trailer outside her son’s house in nearby Quincy. Marilyn Crouch, 69, spent most of her life in Greenville her parents graduated from the local high school, as did she and her husband, high school sweethearts, and later their children. Theresa became upset when thinking about her community not being in one place like it used to be. Theresa Hatch hugs her friend Georgia, who she has known since she was a baby in their town.
“It’s so depressing to drive through here, to see all the trees that are gone,” said Jerry Thrall, a 23-year resident whose home in Greenville survived. “It’s sad, but I’m gonna get used to it.”įor some residents the sight of the destruction is still too painful. “Everyone’s like, ‘ Oh my God, how are you handling it?’” she said while showing her mother the ruins of downtown. “It’s still beautiful to me,” she said, pointing to the trees and the mountains. This town, with its sweeping mountain vistas, community spirit and soundtrack of passing trains, is home, she says, which is why she was eager to return, even with the rubble still piled up around town. She came back to Greenville as soon as officials allowed residents to return and bought a house, spared by the flames, on a hill overlooking downtown, just next to the home she lost. The immediate Lake Almanor area has been repopulated, as have the Feather River Canyon and the Bucks Lake area.Wielputz, who lost her home in the fire, is one of a few hundred people who have been able to return to the area – the majority of Greenville’s 1,100 residents are still displaced. Containment was 55%.Įvacuation orders are gradually being lifted on the fire’s western side. The report Thursday morning from the Forest Service fire managers put Dixie at 859,457 acres (1,343 square miles), an increase of 15,000 acres since the previous morning. The Crater Mountain area, north of the highway, is now under an evacuation order. On Tuesday, that evacuation area was expanded to the east - encompassing Dixie Valley and Frenchman Lake, which were evacuated in July for the Beckwourth Complex fires (perimeter in purple on map above).įifty miles away, strong winds increased activity in the northern part of the Dixie Fire, near Silver Lake, and flames came within three miles of Highway 44. Residents and campers have been ordered to leave an area of Plumas County including Lake Davis as the southeastern flank of the fire burns along the Red Clover Creek watershed. Seven weeks after it ignited, the Dixie Fire is still forcing new evacuations in the northern Sierra Nevada.
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