Originally published in The Reporter on October 12, 2017 by Richard Bammer. The Reporter As a gesture of appreciation for people on the front lines of the ongoing North Bay firestorms, Christina Baird, a Vacaville businesswoman and Santa Rosa native (at left), serves hot dogs, chips and water Thursday to…
“…the white in the rainy darkness finally jolts me into the severity of what is rapidly unfolding in front of me.”
“A sense of floating comes over our now gliding shelter from the rain storm outside, and it feels like the banana is building momentum. The back of my car starts to skid sideways, backandforth, sidetoside.”
“Highway 12, a two lane highway with free grave sites plotted along its sidelines, is strewn with hand-made crosses and fake flowers tied to trees.”
