Lizzie Johnson is a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who covers wildfires in California. She joins us on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Wine Country Wildfires of 2017 to reflect on what happened, how the community has rallied, and the challenges still facing the recovery.
Key Learnings
* Becoming the “Fire Girl”
* Arriving in Santa Rosa after the fires started
* Reporting from the ruins of Coffey Park
* How this wildfire impacted the sense of safety for people across the world
* Being a reporter and allowing people speak their truth about their experience
* How communities respond to a disaster and how it evolves over time
* Impressions of the recovery in Sonoma County at one year
* Global perceptions of the wildfire, climate change and an international “voyeuristic sense of horror”
* The one-year anniversary coverage