Last summer, a wildfire destroyed much of the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in Weed, California. Residents’ access to state and federal assistance will determine whether this historically Black neighborhood will be able to stay together.
Two people have died and thousands of residents around Weed, Ca. were on evacuation orders over the weekend because of the Mill Fire in Siskiyou County. It’s just the latest in a string of disasters to test this community in far Northern California.