Lower North Fork Fire Residents ask: Why no state help?

Linda, yet again, nails it perfectly. Thank you for sharing that article LNFF. To quote CG, I too am glad that you are still fighting, and I'm behind you 100%. Scott's right, they picked the wrong neighborhood!

Edit to add:
It strikes me that no one has pointed out that the only difference between the Waldo Fire, the High Park Fire, and the Lower North Fork Fire was how each was started and the state's response. It's a gross injustice that the High Park and Waldo fire victims have received assistance, yet you haven't. And as Linda says, insurance isn't the panacea that many think it is. High Park Fire insurance payouts 'a slap in the face'

What I want to impress on everyone else is that not a single one of you who lost your homes is back home yet. Nothing's been rebuilt, one year later you are living in temporary arrangements, you've had the usual life demands happen same as us - surgeries, cancer, lost loved ones, school issues, etc. in addition to having to deal with lawyers and insurance demands and this can happen to any one of us since the state is going full-steam ahead with continuing prescribed burns, not attending them properly, and by their loud and clear actions, shirking making amends for their obvious failure. We should all be very alarmed and angry at this travesty of justice. Our drought continues, our high risk fire continues, our fire departments' resources are stretched to the limit, our community continues to argue over whether we should increase funding for them when it's obvious that they are grossly underfunded compared to almost every other fire department district in this state, our federal government is reducing budgets for fighting forest fires, and our state's lack of adequately preparing and addressing that fact but instead allowing risky but profitable practices to continue is plain wrong. All of these factors point to incredible danger ahead for all of us - it's time to prepare and time to step up in activism.