Monday, August 10, 2020

The consequences of permitting homeless encampments


https://www.pressdemocrat.com



Santa Rosa focuses on fire threat from homeless camps




Santa Rosa police officers inspect the area of a brush fire, started by a warming fire in a homeless encampment in Fountaingrove , Saturday, July 11, 2020.  (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat) 2020

At least 85 fires in Santa Rosa this year have been connected to homeless camps. They include cooking or warming fires in a field that didn’t spread — and vegetation and structure fires that put lives and livelihoods at risk.

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