"Our lines are flooded with calls" from people trying to figure out if they're in an evacuation zone or a safe haven, the Lassen County Sheriff's Office says. Those alerts have been changing rapidly, reflecting the large fire's erratic behavior. The list of evacuation orders for the area and its communities is eight pages long, covering parts of four counties: Plumas, Butte, Lassen and Tehama. New evacuation orders issued over the weekend It will make rebuilding a challenge, she said, adding that many residents lost their fire insurance after the horrific Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise three years ago. "And so where normally you would lean on, you know, the one person in your family whose house was saved, like, there's no one to lean on." We're talking about one family, their grandfather's house, their grandmother's house, their cousin's house. "We're not talking about one family losing a house. "I talked a lot to people over the last couple of days," Garcia said. Margaret Elysia Garcia, who wrote a eulogy for her hometown of Greenville, told NPR over the weekend that the scale of the loss extends far beyond individual homes. The sheriff's office is also telling residents not to try to return to their homes before evacuation orders are lifted.
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