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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

When Your Town Burns Down

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Last week, the northern California mountain town of Greenville was wiped out by the Dixie Fire, which has lasted for nearly a month and is now the largest wildfire in California history. Greenville residents have just begun to assess the damage to their homes and businesses. Is it safe to rebuild? Is it even ethical, when wildfires are only expected to get worse?  Guest: Margaret Garcia, also known as Meg Upton, reporter at Plumas News.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We spent the last couple of decades living in a town that for all intents and purposes,

1:17.3

no longer exists.

1:27.6

Margaret says our little town of Greenville.

1:38.8

We've been on edge all summer because this is an area where when I moved here almost 20 years ago,

1:46.6

it never got over like 90-some odd degrees, 93 degrees maybe twice in the summer.

1:52.6

It got that hot and we had just experienced 105 degree heat as the median temperature for three weeks was 105 degrees.

2:01.9

So it's like you're living global warming.

2:04.9

We're living global warming, we didn't anticipate the winds being so strong and entirely pushing the

2:13.1

fire around the lake into downtown.

2:21.4

Margaret cleared out for the summer with her kids and her husband, but her mom was still there.

2:27.8

Last week, her mother had just gotten the all clear to return to her home when the fire

2:33.7

started pushing closer.

2:35.4

And I'm calling her as saying, Mom, you have to evacuate again.

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