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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next - Best of 2021 | When Your Town Burns Down

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in August 2021.


Last week, the northern California mountain town of Greenville was wiped out by the Dixie Fire, which lasted for two months and is now the second largest wildfire in California history. As Greenville residents assess the damage to their homes and businesses, is it safe to rebuild? Is it even ethical, when wildfires are expected to only get worse?  


Guest: Margaret Garcia, also known as Meg Upton, reporter at Plumas News. 


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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, Davis Land, and Carmel Delshad.


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Hey, everyone. Happy holidays. Over this break, the what-next feed is bringing you some

1:08.6

of our best episodes of 2021. We are taking you back to stories and people that helped

1:14.0

define our year. One of those stories was the Dixie Fire. This past summer, that fire

1:21.3

ravaged Northern California for over two months. And as a result, a record number of people

1:28.0

lost their homes. Whole communities were devastated. One of those people was Margaret Garcia. Her

1:34.0

whole town burned down in the Dixie Fire. At the time we spoke, the fire still hadn't

1:40.2

been fully contained. She was just beginning to process how to pick up the pieces, which

1:46.5

is hard to do when your whole town is gone. Stay tuned till the end of the show. We'll

1:51.6

have an update on how the town's doing.

1:59.0

Margaret Garcia has spent the last couple of decades living in a town that for all intents

2:04.0

and purposes no longer exists. That's because it got devoured last week by the Dixie Fire.

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