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YEAR 2-3 After the Fire Recovery Milestones: This Padlet started with input from the 2022 Wildfire Leadership Summit Milestones Workshop

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YEAR 2-3 After the Fire Recovery Milestones: This Padlet started with input from the 2022 Wildfire Leadership Summit Milestones Workshop

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You are invited to add your community milestones from the 2nd or 3rd years of wildfire recovery to this board.  Rules: Each board needs Wildfire Name, Location, Date of Fire, a Milestone description and what obstacle needed to be overcome to achieve it, and the resources that made it possible.  Make the 2nd year posts background white, and the 3rd year posts green.

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Wildfire: Almeda/Obenchain
Location: Southern Oregon, OR
Date of fire: 9/7/2020

Milestone: Rogue Food Unites formed days after the fires and has provided almost 1,400,000 meals to displaced + impacted people in the last 2 years – calculating more than $19M through communities in 5 Oregon communities
Obstacle to overcome: Time/getting coordinated, being overwhelmed
Resource to make it happen: People who had vision, action, connections, and motivation

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Wildfire: Beachie Creek
Location: Santiam Canyon, OR
Date of fire: 9/7/2020

Milestone: Recovery process hits new point as funding, capacity and information come together. We start to reimagine our community’s future and building
Obstacle to overcome: Service org contract timelines
Resource to make it happen: Knowledge/information, funding, capacity

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Wildfire: Almeda
Location: Southern Oregon, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Most, if not all, residents were able to successfully appeal FEMA rent. Over 75% of people were eligible for $50/month
Obstacle to overcome: The language of the confusing FEMA machine, people had no idea what to do
Resource to make it happen: Organizations coming together to tackle this problem: RAC, RC, Access, OCHS, CC, CBOS

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Wildfire: Almeda
Location: Jackson County, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone:
-Long-term recovery planning process
-Kicked off launching important collaboration to review what has been accomplished, what is happening, and where we want to go as a community
Obstacle to overcome: Egos, Hx garbage, coordinating multiple jurisdictions
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Camp Fire
Location: Paradise, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: Around 1000 certificate of occupancies Fall 2021
Obstacle to overcome: Contaminated water, dead trees, cost, codes, not everyone had a direct need for volunteers

Resource to make it happen: Town, Rebuild Paradise Foundation, tons of resources, Red Cross, private philanthropy, Marta T.

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Wildfire: Camp Fire
Location: Paradise, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: Schools reopen in Paradise
Obstacle to overcome: Destroyed facilities/water safety
Resource to make it happen: Insurance

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Wildfire: Almeda
Location: Talent, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Announcement of organization Coalición Fortaleza: to re-establish home equity because we want to see our Latinx & Indigenous communities thrive
Obstacle to overcome: Creating an equitable priority list for families
Resource to make it happen: Community collaboration

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Wildfire: Camp Fire
Location: Butte, CA
Date of fire: 11/2018

Milestone: Debris Removal: 12-24 months
Obstacle to overcome: Handling of privacy
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Holiday Farm Fire
Location: McKenzie, OR
Date of fire: 9/7/2020

Milestone:
-Homes being rebuilt (by both impacted homeowners & new buyers)
-River still beautiful, homes large (high incomes)
-Forming community land trust to build affordable housing
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen: Community rebuilding fund, State $

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Wildfire: Beachie Creek
Location: Santiam Canyon, OR
Date of fire: 9/7/2020

Milestone: LASO wildfire program expands, hires, and additional attorney in July 2022. Also expanded to be able to serve 2021 fire survivors
Obstacle to overcome: Learning curve for new staff
Resource to make it happen: New grants, a year's worth of knowledge

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Wildfire: Nuns
Location: Sonoma, CA
Date of fire: 10/8/2017

Milestone: 50% of dead trees and down trees removed and/or chipped
Obstacle to overcome: Neighbors, permits, regulations
Resource to make it happen: Ag Dept.

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Wildfire: Almeda
Location: Southern Oregon, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Majority of survivors are housed in transitional housing
Obstacle to overcome: Lack of affordable housing in the region prior to the fires
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Almeda
Location: Southern Oregon, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Rogue Action Center, Rogue Climate & So Health-E ran a mutual aid resource center for a full year and then shifted to coordinating resource pop-up events at FEMA housing sites
Obstacle to overcome: Lack of state org. outreach
Resource to make it happen: Resources: staff & volunteers, donations (in-kind, cash)

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Wildfire: Almeda Fire
Location: Rogue Valley, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone:
Manzanita Project - Student and school-led healing project incorporating Bear Creek Greenway signage, support for other fire-impacted schools, and kinesthetic experience w/ local makerspace also impacted.
-Documents the event and sets the stage for understanding of next steps.
-Highlights partners working on mitigating devastation from future fires – municipalities, nonprofits, federal + state stakeholders.
Obstacle to overcome: Displacement, pace of recovery
Resource to make it happen: Students

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Wildfire: Camp Fire
Location: Butte, CA
Date of fire: 11/2018

Milestone: Finally ready for volunteering orgs to start rebuilding after 18 months derailed by COVID.
-Took ~3 months to get started
Obstacle to overcome: Lack of resources, PTSD, trauma, mass people
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Holiday Farm Fire
Location: OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Establishment of LTRG
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Beachie Creek Fire
Location: Santiam Canyon, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Winter 2021: Legal aid wildfire disaster relief program involvement
Obstacle to overcome: No prior program
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Thomas Fire
Location: Ventura City, CA
Date of fire: 12/2017

Milestone: Aggregate database of impacted households
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Almeda Fire
Location: Southern Oregon, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Small brush fire was propelled forward by wind, burning through 3 cities. Most, if not all, made it into transitional housing
Obstacle to overcome: FEMA, loss of identifying documentation, lack of available units
Resource to make it happen: Community collaboration, FEMA trailers finally showing up, RCH filling up property, Gateway coming online

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Wildfire: Almeda Fire
Location: Southern Oregon, OR
Date of fire: 9/8/2020

Milestone: Organizations in recovery have begun to organize and collaborate
Obstacle to overcome: Traditional services orgs not prepared for affected population
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Dixie Fire
Location: Town of Greenville, CA
Date of fire: 8/4/2021

Milestone: 13 months after, when the major news media stopped covering Greenville
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it home: Laughing at the absurdity of life

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Wildfire: Nuns Fire
Location: Town of Sonoma, CA
Date of fire: 10/8/2017

Milestone: EPA Clearance, debris Removal: March 2018
Obstacle to overcome: Conflicting info about ag properties
Resource to make it happen: EPA team - yay!

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Wildfire: Valley Fire
Location: Cobb, CA
Date of fire: 9/12/2015

Milestone: first significant grant from CALFIRE in 2018 for community based mitigating organization
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen: experienced local grant writer

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Wildfire: Camp
Location: Butte County, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: CDBG-DR for multifamily released in 2021
Obstacle to overcome: Getting FEMA to agree to have this program as part of disaster recovery, too many regs
Resource to make it happen: CAL OES, Blue Flamingo

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Wildfire: Tubbs Fire
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Date of fire: 10/9/2017

Milestone: a major milestone we experienced was realizing that we couldn't wait for a recovery phase to be over before planning for the next disaster. Our disaster planning truly began to speed up when we accepted that. We planned immediately and constantly, this took two plus years to figure out and accept
Obstacle to overcome: Business, fragmentation of attention
Resource to make it happen: Deliberate thought, stepping back

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Wildfire: Camp
Location: Butte County, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: relocation of Campfire Collaborative Long Term Recovery Group to Paradise at 3.5 years
Obstacle to overcome: Internal capacity
Resource to make it happen: Bodies, community, support/donors

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Wildfire: Camp
Location: Butte County, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: Paradise Community Village multifamily rebuild-- 36 months completed

(Rebuild notes: debris removal was 9 months, permits 15 months, start construction 18 months,

48 months for affordable insurance)

Obstacle to overcome: costs, water, federal regulations about tax credits, COVID, insurance

Resource to make it happen: insurance, private donations, FEMA grants and partners

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Wildfire: Camp
Location: Paradise, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: school facilities begin to get rebuilt bigger and better school enrollment grows in year 3
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen: growing population, insurance, PG&E litigation, passed bond, funding

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Wildfire: Camp
Location: Butte County, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: First Habitat for Humanity rebuild in paradise completed at three and half years
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen: Volunteers, grant funding

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Wildfire: Valley
Location: Cobb, CA
Date of fire: 9/12/2015

Milestone: year 3 being invited to advise Butte County campfire survivors, exchange visits, invited them to see and meet with us, gave us perspective and how far we'd actually come and inspired us to keep going
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Camp
Location: Paradise, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: roads being rebuilt, underground utilities increased, lanes completely rebuilt
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen: PG&E and grants

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Wildfire: Camp
Location: Paradise, CA
Date of fire: 11/8/2018

Milestone: Fall 2021 tree removal program complete removing over 60,000 dead and dying trees that could hit the public right of way. Dead trees were very hazardous and dangerous huge win for the town to get FEMA to include tree removal in disaster recovery
Obstacle to overcome:
Resource to make it happen:

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Wildfire: Nuns
Location: Glen Ellen, CA
Date of fire: 10/9/2017

Milestone: Rebuilding 2.5 years
Obstacle to overcome: Permits, available Contractors, prices, reimbursement insurance, scammers
Resource to make it happen: PRMD, Fire District, Contractors