When Snook heard the fire was coming, he and his friends loaded up trucks in case they had to evacuate, packing the special belongings they didn’t want to lose, including the till from the bar and guns. Steven, like Cowboy Girl, asked not to be fully identified. Snook bears more than a passing resemblance, in temperament and looks, to the Dude, the louche character portrayed by Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski.” His floppy hair swoops back off his forehead with the same dip and curl, his eyes have the same savvy directness.ĭespite being squarely in the center of a tragedy, he seemed amiable and calm while eating a bowl of tri-tip and broccoli.īut he was “crying inside,” said his friend Steven - another Oakland refugee, who was once a dancer in a punk rock drumline - from behind the bar where he was serving drinks. Her father, Michael “Flash” Hopkins, is a Burning Man legend and one of its earliest participants, sometimes credited as a founder. Others in his artistic circle followed, including Cowboy Girl, who was consoling Snook at the bar in self-made black platform boots, short shorts and a felt hat with a feather. Meanwhile the River fire balloons in size south of Yosemite National Park.
The Sugar fire has burned homes north of Lake Tahoe. It was behind the evacuation line, and he couldn’t get in to check.Ĭalifornia California wildfires destroy homes in Northern California
The rest of his possessions were diminished to ash and trash.īut Snook was more anxious about what he couldn’t see: the condition of his 12-acre ranch less than a mile away, where about 50 shipping containers held the bulk of his ambitions. There was little left to salvage - a makeshift goldfish pond had somehow survived with its lilies unscathed, a blackened sculpture of a torso guarded what was once the front door. One of them was Snook’s main house, an old cafe called the Modern with sea-foam green walls. On Tuesday, several of those buildings still smoldered. Some 45 miles northwest of Reno in Lassen County, Doyle is an unincorporated town of nearly 700 people that once was anchored by a row of historical buildings made from long white bricks manufactured nearby. Although now 70% contained, this blaze could be a harbinger of bigger ones in coming months, especially if California endures more intense heat waves, like the recent one that pushed temperatures to triple digits. Ignited by lightning that struck bone-dry tinder in the Plumas National Forest, the Beckwourth Complex remains California’s largest wildfire this year, having grown to more than 95,000 acres in less than two weeks.
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