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FEMA disaster relief trailers in storage.
A new staging area for wildfire disaster trailers has rumors flying and has attracted visitors armed with guns.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has about a hundred trailers set aside for wildfire survivors from Jackson County.
It originally had those trailers staged at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, known as the Expo, as officials looked for potential housing sites nearby. But they recently had to relocate them three hours away to an old mill in Gardiner, which is on the coast north of Reedsport.
Since then, FEMA officials say they’ve been fielding phone calls from locals concerned about the trailers’ sudden appearance.
Sept. 8, 2020.
Marcelino Rocha, 66, was picking cucumbers at Fry Family Farm, where heâs employed.
His son, Hector Rocha, 24, was delivering the farmâs produce to customers when he heard the news. A fire that started that morning in Ashland was tearing north toward his familyâs home in Talent.
Hector rushed home. He grabbed his phone charger, thinking heâd be able to go back. Hectorâs mom, Dora Negrete, saved their dog.
But when the family returned, their mobile home was char.
âIt was just â traumatizing,â said Hector Rocha.
His father, Marcelino, described how he felt standing in the rubble:
Sept. 8, 2020.
Marcelino Rocha, 66, was picking cucumbers at Fry Family Farm, where heâs employed.
His son, Hector Rocha, 24, was delivering the farmâs produce to customers when he heard the news. A fire that started that morning in Ashland was tearing north toward his familyâs home in Talent.
Hector rushed home. He grabbed his phone charger, thinking heâd be able to go back. Hectorâs mom, Dora Negrete, saved their dog.
But when the family returned, their mobile home was char.
âIt was just â traumatizing,â said Hector Rocha.
His father, Marcelino, described how he felt standing in the rubble: