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'People Are Rebuilding Their Lives': Wildfire Recovery Continues In Northern California

NPR
Published January 1, 2018 at 12:40 PM EST
A worker secures burned-out cars onto a truck in the Coffey Park neighborhood on Nov. 13, 2017 in Santa Rosa, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
A worker secures burned-out cars onto a truck in the Coffey Park neighborhood on Nov. 13, 2017 in Santa Rosa, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Wildfires burned more than 9.5 million acres of U.S. land in 2017. Much of the destruction was concentrated in California.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young checks in with Shirlee Zane (@ShirleeZane), Sonoma County supervisor, about how her county is recovering months after deadly fires ravaged the area.

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