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diane:y huand johnnd i live here in healdsburg. john manages our family dairy farm and vineyard, and i run our family we busine. anothe wimaker wi a vest. hn: we'ran agrilture-bad communy. we're rt of soma count we're out an hr, hour d a half north of n francio. oueconomy ally, rely is primily an aicultul tourism ea--wineasting vinerds, hostalitymy parents stard this fm in thla fiftiesmy mom wld jo that e had torack me down theirst dayf ndergart because i was holdg tools r my d fixing fces. ha ! diane: hbounces t of bed every rning soxcited tgo down to thfarm. heoves it, so tt's a ve good thg, but i n't think could do it. i think sompoint, i would probly say, nough." hn: thisas been whole

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little b overwheing beuse itust neveturns of john: ye. yeah. ane: we're ianother drght here ithe westn united states, sohere's preures for literally finding ough fe for thenimals. ere ar so manstressoron him rht now. jo: you cado the besjob, the smaest pers out there, b mother ture reay hathe finasay, andhat's a little bit--at's wha ppened wh these res, t thate reallyidn't ha-- yocan't corol thatall you can is workt controing wh you can ctrol. [cate lowing we saw aot of chges in t calirnia dai busines and th's when decideds a familyo diversy into we gres.

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happed two yrs in a row, th with mo fires, d, viously,ur fire st year 2020as vy close to us. john: there was different levels of stress and anxiety as these fires evved overhe last w ars. the waldrid fe was terally rning onhe operty bind our nch. that timof the yr--in gust, seember, oober--is wh we havell of ou liveock heren this pperty. althe grass are drd, and are feeng everydy here. we have 600 co to milkwice a day, ather 800nimals, e younger imals, tt need tbe fed. i h many ofy friend anpeers call me and text me and say, "hn, you ed help moving your animals?" there would be nowhere to go with that

ny animals, en if weould movthem. it just wasmpossibl dian as a faer, yourirst inclinatiois to prect your anims, prote your employs, prote your ildings facilit your land. john: with t mandatory evacuati, we actually beco ansland, swe're suosed to be gone.verythins blkaded. o biggest challee was geing thin . we he deveries, u kn, every y of theeek. it was ke fish imming stream. 're fighng a situatn that'sompletel posite of whatveryone se doing. en you'rin the ddle of , it's aost like you' on autolot. ane: i w on the tio, and i watching et side rd, whicis, obvisly, easof us--we're onest sideoad here; 's on thother si of

the vaey floorand ther it s just fl of car and i kept tnking,oh, thermust an accint or sothing. whare therso many rs?" ani turned aund and w this hugplume ofmoke and fles behinus and rlized all thoscars we lookinat us. theyere lookg at o house.he stresof the ske evywherend thenot seng the sun and the fire so closand the ise, it' ki of overelming. john: d so t stress r me i ink it mifested self latefor me. ybe it'sart ofy dna orust partf what i as a faer becau you st-- [sighs diane:t's hardt the en anso many our neighrs have lt so mh, and tn it becomes ry sad becau sometis, then,e'd lose

thosneighbor they chse to ave. jo: there'a lot ofolks at lost eir home all their longingsand havi to start ov. i meanthat's a ga changer man:bout 3:0or 4:00 the afteoon, was theast one here. i st saw a he, chging smo train obrown, ange, yeow hades demon hellooking sscape at was coming right aus, and realized"well, n i know whe the fi is and ere it'somin... so athat poi, it's aone way , one waout" roa i ju got out

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grandmother wento, so, like, then covid kind of took away our community and our ability to gather, anthen the fire took our community and just sttered us a over thcounty, l over thstate, a some ve left the ate beuse of iso, all of masw's needwere gonin 24 hou. we losour homethe cln air, wer, sensof mmunit neighbo, sense ace, younow, theonnectio to theand and e beauty and e hundds of uit trees and erry tre and wilife and snakes, d walkinup here d st seeinall the ad birds andeer andnakes an charred trees, it was a bit of a gut-wrenching trip followed by 9 months of continual cleanup and reliving the losses. you kick ound a find anld

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i dot know wse land is. i ha no ideait's notine. i'm just livg on it.y andpa alys said at to me his is mours. it just here f u it's nody's."e ed to sathat to . "it's nobody's." it's the cows, the sheep, all these little creatures running around. i think it's their land. that's what i think. [ratchet clicking] leond: somimes i get up, like, abt 4:00, art the truck, mbe he anotr cup

of coffee. then you take off go down to the watering point. n't be ly. got tbe up befo the sunwell, th place the lifpoint. is thlife poi of our commity's listoc it's no only for our community. there's people that come out, like abou30, 40 mes all rectionsand i fe for the peoplehat liveay out there by theanyon. f a whole rod trip, ey, th do, lik abt 60 mil just toaul water toheir lestock. ey haveids out ther they ha granids outhere th herd sheeand lo afterhe cate d all at, and theyon't ve no ruing water, no electricity. they have to haul water. it's hard to see them struggle.

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little cmunity he. attle long] my parts are 8and 82 yrs ol they fa every d. ey stt their rning at:30. my mom loves to mixeed, a she drives in e tracto and she alwa likes wking witthe cows because, she id, "cow don't lk back you." 's tru a familfarm, an sometimei reallyonder. therhas to ba betteray of li outhere somlacehat yodon't ha these pblems that youtruggle th all t me.

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