California Fires: One Mans Efforts

(LA Times) Jeff Evans steers his white Dodge Ram along a narrow dirt road scanning the blackened trees and ashen ground for two skittish dogs. They come running when they hear the truck and Evans offers them dog biscuits from the big red box of Milk-Bones he keeps on his floorboard. Good he said giving them a pat. Theyre doing OK. He can move along. Checking on the dogs is just one chore on Evans list. Hes one of a handful of people left in Concow Calif. a mountain hamlet tucked deep in the woods that has been under mandatory evacuation orders since the Camp fire tore through here Nov. 8. If he leaves he cant get back in. His neighbors stuck on the outside have been emailing him requests. Because the gas in the generator powering his electricity and his internet is limited he hops online for a few minutes each day answers their questions and gets going. Every single morning until the afternoon Im huffing it" Evans said. Im going and going and going. Theres pigs to feed and goats and ducks and chickens." Not to mention the eight dogs hes rescued. Were stuck here anyhow" he added. We may as well do something valuable." Read More