SACRAMENTO – Individuals and households with losses due to the wildfires in Fresno, Los Angeles, Madera, Mendocino, Napa, San Bernardino, San Diego, Shasta, Siskiyou and Sonoma counties have one month left to register for assistance from FEMA. The deadline is Dec. 16, 2020. FEMA monetary awards help eligible survivors pay for rent, home repair/replacement and many other serious disaster-related needs, ...

MADERA COUNTY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES – Supervisor Tom Wheeler will be holding another virtual Town Hall Meeting via Zoom Nov. 19, 2020 at 6 pm. Supervisor Wheeler has some great speakers on deck, including Britta Dyer with the American Forest, California Dept. of Insurance, Madera County Veteran Affairs, Madera County Public Health, Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau, and Sierra National Forest. The ...

SACRAMENTO – A FEMA Mobile Registration Intake Center opens in Madera County Tuesday, Nov. 17, for five days to serve wildfire survivors. The intake center is part of the ongoing response and recovery mission for FEMA and the state of California to assist survivors with disaster information. It is located at Mountain Christian Center Church, 40299 Highway 49, Oakhurst, CA ...

Editor, As the Alaska Type 2 Incident Management Team departs California after two weeks managing the Creek Fire, we would like to extend our thanks to the residents of Fresno, Madera and Mono counties who were impacted by the fire and our presence managing it. Your support, cooperation, patience and resilience has been appreciated and inspiring. We would like to ...

MARIPOSA – In acknowledgment of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week the Mariposa Heritage House is hosting a fundraiser/food drive. As this year has stretched us all thin, we could certainly use any help. Starting Nov 15th through Nov 22, 2020 the Mariposa Heritage House will be collecting donations of food and or monetary donations to aid the hungry and ...

NORTH FORK – Nov 13, 2020 – Road conditions are gradually improving as snow melts off, but driving is still sketchy in many areas due to the overnight freeze-thaw cycle that creates icy conditions, most notably in the Shaver Lake area. Equipment operators are clearing roads to create access for equipment and crews to work. Scouts continue searching for safe ...

SACRAMENTO – Nov 13, 2020 – Free help with disaster-related legal concerns is available to eligible wildfire survivors in Fresno, Los Angeles, Madera, Mendocino, Napa, San Bernardino, San Diego, Shasta, Siskiyou and Sonoma counties. These counties are covered in federal disaster DR-4569 for fires beginning Sept 4. This includes the Bobcat, Creek, El Dorado, Oak, Slater and Valley fires. The ...

NORTH FORK – Nov 6, 2020 – Fire managers are bracing for a drastic weather change today and continuing through the weekend that will severely impact firefighting and suppression repair efforts. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch for the Sierra Nevadas, including the San Joaquin Valley, starting at noon today through 10 p.m. Sunday. Total snow ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies non-renewing or cancelling residential property insurance policies—helping 2.1 million policyholders, or 18 percent of California’s residential insurance market, affected by the record 2020 wildfire season. The Commissioner’s action implements a California law that he authored in 2018 while serving as state senator in order ...

SACRAMENTO – FEMA reminds wildfire survivors in Fresno and Madera counties that your application for assistance cannot be processed until FEMA has a report of the fire damage to your home and personal property. You may not have been able to make a report because you were or still are under an evacuation order. When permitted to return home, speed ...