Program is coming up on monday. Any who signed up are seeing results. The cleanup the first step in the long rebuilding ahead. Tom is at coffee part one of the areas hardest hit in santa rosa. Reporter throughout the coffee park area crews are at work cleaning up the slots so they can be returned to the owners for rebuilding unpolluted. Looking around and being honest, you have to conclude the real building will take a very very long time. Reporter today army corps of engineers and epa contractors moved into higher gear cleaning up debris. It is such a big job many lots are being covered with tarps and barriers that will keep toxic ashes from watching out of the lots and into drains the months of winter storms ahead. Rebuilding is another matter. It is going to be 3 to 5 years. Reporter keith woods of the north Coast Builders exchange will take a decade. Every contractor was busy before these devastating fires hit us. This is going to put a strain on capacity of local contractors. Repo
Gear cleaning lots of debris. Its such a big job, we noticed many lots are now being covered with plastic tarps and straw barriers to keep toxic ash from washes out of lots into drains during the months of winter storms ahead. Rebuilding is another matter. Its going to be three to five years for most of the rebuild. Reporter full recovery predicts keith woods of the north Coast Builders exchange will perhaps take a decade. Every contractor i know in the area was busy before these devastating fires hit us. And this is going to put a real strain on capacity of local contractors. Reporter making matters more complicated, theres a serious shortage of labor to work for those contractors. We do not have anywhere near the capacity, the number of contractors to even come close to rebuilding the homes that weve lost up here in the tragedy. Reporter licensed contractors from other parts of the state can work here as well as from a few neighboring states where we have reciprocal agreements. But i
"Today is a big day for Mendocino County and all of us here," said Sen. Mike McGuire. "And it is all about growing our own: growing the workforce, growing the economy, growing the pathway to the middle class right here in Mendocino County."
"Today is a big day for Mendocino County and all of us here," said Sen. Mike McGuire. "And it is all about growing our own: growing the workforce, growing the economy, growing the pathway to the middle class right here in Mendocino County."
"Today is a big day for Mendocino County and all of us here," said Sen. Mike McGuire. "And it is all about growing our own: growing the workforce, growing the economy, growing the pathway to the middle class right here in Mendocino County."