Where There’s Smoke
On July 23, the T-S’s John Driscoll reported that the Trinity County Sheriff’s Department issued mandatory evacuation notices for the Hidden Valley area off State Route 36 in Southern Trinity County near Mad River. Who were the people evacuated, how many went or stayed put, and where the heck did these people go?
On July 29, John Osborn of the Eureka Reporter went out to Hoopa and tried to address some of the health issues. He noted that the community had been “under siege” from smoke for five weeks and that the smoke at times had reached a “hazardous” level. Hundreds of people had sought medical treatment for smoke related problems. He raised the concern that the smoke would continue through the fire season, which lasts through October. So what are the long-term health effects on children and old people and why are these people being left out there?
We saw during Hurricane Katrina how even with unwavering press attention the national and state governments could abandon people in need. What do you think the government will do when the press treats a problem as less of an emergency?
Meanwhile, how much will these fires ultimately cost, and come the rains, will the federal, state and national governments all start passing the buck and leave the people in Humboldt and Trinity counties to deal with the long term damage themselves? These are the questions I wish someone would focus on.
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