
Explore The Space Lizzie Johnson On The Wine Country Wildfires One Year Later
Oct 5, 2018
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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
