Notes from an Environmentalist.

PTSD rages as Cohasset California residents relive the trauma they experienced during the Camp fire six years before.

The Guardian:

As the biggest fire of the season raged through northern California on Saturday, Stephen Murray wasn’t taking any chances.

The Paradise resident loaded up his vehicle and prepared to flee with his wife and children. Almost six years after the Camp fire destroyed his hometown and killed 85 people, the community was under an evacuation warning due to the Park fire, which had scorched nearly 350,000 acres.

“It’s got us all riled up,” said Murray, who became a local hero after he helped evacuate a mobile home park during the 2018 fire.

“Last night laying my head down, I remember people died the day of the fire because they went to bed and never woke up so I went to bed with nightmares. The PTSD is horrible.”

Officials put the entire town under an evacuation warning because of the threat of the Park fire. The blaze started on Wednesday in nearby Chico, a college town of 110,000 people, when a man who has since been arrested allegedly sent his burning car down down an embankment in the city’s Upper Bidwell Park.