The warm, family-run accommodations were homey and well appointed with supple brown leather couches, a long, hand carved wood dining table and a rugged stone fire place.
In an interview this week, Jonathan Pangburn, a fire behavior analyst for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said the Camp fire started in a rugged hillside area of the Plumas National Forest but quickly became an urban fire, burning blocks of homes in the town of Paradise at a time.
The deadly Thirty Mile fire in a rugged canyon south of Winthrop, Wash., had grown to 8,700 acres by Wednesday afternoon, and a highly trained, multi-agency firefighting team flew in to begin devising a strategy to control it.
Firefighters battled a wind-swept fire today that has charred more than 5,370 acres in a rugged stretch of the Tonto National Forest, fire officials said.
Bouncing back from a devastating fire, of course, can impose a rugged optimism.
After arriving in town, we met up with Stephanie Gaines, the End-of-Life Project's founder, and Paul Kloppenburg, a rugged Dutch expatriate who holds the title of fire-master.
The Rocky fire started July 29 near Clearlake, Calif., in a rugged region north of Napa.
A fire burned about 100 acres Tuesday in a rugged area about 20 miles from Yosemite National Park, authorities said.
But by Saturday, the San Gabriel Wilderness Area, a rugged, 56-mile part of the forest, was the only area where the fire was still burning, according to the United States Forest Service, which is leading the effort to extinguish the fire.
Within the half hour, I had caught three trout, and we set up on a nearby beach amid a rugged beauty straight from a Jack London novel: red sand, log cabin and fish baking over a crackling fire.
