Members of Congress are demanding answers after a recent CapRadio/California Newsroom investigation revealed how the U.S. Forest Service mishandled a plan that could have protected a California town from being destroyed in last year’s Caldor Fire.
The yearlong investigation revealed how the Forest Service warned for decades that a wildfire could wipe out the small town of Grizzly Flats, but the agency didn’t fulfill its plan to protect the town.
The yearlong investigation revealed how the Forest Service warned for decades that a wildfire could wipe out the small town of Grizzly Flats, but the agency didn’t fulfill its plan to protect the town.
“BURNED,” a yearlong investigation from the California Newsroom, reveals how the U.S. Forest Service is struggling to complete the work it knows it must do to keep Californians safe from wildfires. For decades, the agency has developed projects to thin and manage overgrown forests in an effort to reduce wildfire intensity. But those plans routinely stall out, and sometimes are abandoned completely.