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cargill philanthropy and the orange county community foundation. fema announcer: ha is a proud onsor ofearth fos." [cattllowing man: we' awoken a lightng stm, and wrarely g that here. [thund] saw tse vein ghtning bolts all through e sky, a it was-- i'd actually never en anythinlike thabefore the oneshat laed actually stted firewithin aisual distan of our nch. [rumbling]

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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 mily wine busine. anothe winemar with aest. hn: we'ran agricuure-basecommunit we're pa of sono county. we're out an hr, hour d a half north osan fransco. our econy reallyreally i primary an agrultura urism ar--wine tting vineyas, hospility. parents stard this fm in thlate fifes. my m would joke tt she hato tracke wn the fst day o kinderrten becse i w ldg tools r my d fing fens. ha ha diane: hbounces t of bed evy morninso excit to go down tthe farmhe lovest, so that'a very gd thing, but don't think could do it. i ink at some int, i wod probab say, "eugh." hn: thisas been whole fe, livi on

this farm. thranch itlf is 36acres. weave 40 aes planted i pinot noir and chardonnay grape vines, a then threst is e farm bldings a organic paure for our day animal diane:gricultu is not sy. anal agricture is en rder. it a 24/7 ing... diane:nd at mes, it n be

little b overwheing beuse itust neveturns of john: ye. yeah. diane: we'ren anothedroughhere ithe westn unitedstates, there's preures for literally finding ough feedor the amals. the are soany streors on h right no jo: you cado the besjob, the smaest pers out there, b mother ture reay has e final y, and tt's a little bit--at's wha haened witthese fires, too thate reallyidn't ha-- yocan't corol thatall you can dos work acontrollg what yan contr. [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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came unstling beuse itad happed two yrs in a w, th with mo fires, d, viously,ur fire st year 2020asery close to us. jo: there s diffent leve of strs and anety as tse fires evold over t last fe yes. the waldridge firwas lirally buing on t proper behind r ranch. that te of t year--i gust, seember, oober--is wh we havell of ou liveock heren this pperty. althe grass are drd, and are feeng everydyere. we have 600 co to milkwice da another00 anima, the yoger anims, that ed to be d. i hadany of mfriends 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 we cld move em. it st was iossible. dian as a faer, yourirst inination to prott your anals, proct your emoyees, ptect you buildis or facity, you nd. jo: withhe mandary acuationwe actually become an iand, so 're suppedo be gone.verythins blocded. ouriggest chalnge was tting thgs . we have deliries, you kn, every y of theeek. it was ke fish imming stream. 're fighng a situatn that'sompletel posite of what eryone else doing. en youe in the middle oit, it'slmost li you' on autolot. diane: ias on thpatio,nd i was wahing easside roa ich is, viously,ast of us--we're onest sideoad

here; it on the her sidef the vall floor--d there,t wajust fulof cars,nd i kept thinking, ", there st ben accide or someing. y are the so mancars?" ani turned aund and w th huge ple of smo and fles behinus and rlized l those rs were oking at . they we lookinat our hous the strs of the smoke everywre and tn not eing e sun and the fire so closand the ise, it' kindf overwhming. john: d so t stress r me i thk it manested itlf latefor memaybe it part of mdna or jt part owhat i do as farmer bause you just [sighs] diane: it'hard at e end, and so my of our nghbors ve lost much, a then it comes ve sad becau sometis, then,e'd lose

ose neigors. thechoose t leave. jo: there'a lot ofolks that lt their mes, all theibelongin, and hang to start ov. i meanthat's a ga changer man:bout 3:0or 4:00 the afternn, ias the lt one here. i st saw a he, chging smo train obrown, ange, yeow hades demon hellooking sscape at was comi rightt us, ani realiz, "well,ow i kno wherthe fires and whe it'somin... so at at pointit's a "e way , one waout" roa i ju got out

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grandmother went to, so, like, then covid kind of took away our community and our ability to gather, and en the fire took our community and just sttered us a over thcounty, l over the ate, and some ve left the ste beuse of iso, all of masw's needwere gonin 24 hourswe lost r home, e cln air, wer, sensof mmunit neighbo, sense ple, younow, theonnectio to theand and e beauty and e hundds of uit trees and erry tre and wilife and snakes, d walkinup here and ju seeing l the de birds andeer andnakes an charred trees, it was a bit of a gut-wrenching trip followed by 9 months of coinual cleanup and reliving the losses. you kick ound a find anld

chred trint remindg you of another thing. "oh, yeah. we st that,oo." [caking] [bir chirpinand squaing] woma what myrandpa ud to sawas, ourair reprented the thunrstorm.. d we weralways td to neveever cutur hair,nd a lot of theavajos, nes cut their ha. that'shy we go

no rai what doou mean,hat dirty, r one? rl: oh, ah. ybelle: en i w a littl gi, it wou rain fo like, 5 da straigh d we hado climb r way ou of theud just get to me supplies anthe grass were atall as a hoe's bell that's w tall they were. you couldn't see me walking after the sheep when i was, like, 5 years old. we dn't haveo go to wn to get war. in the wter, we ly haule wate lik once week. in the suer, 's reallbad. we haveo haul waterlike, twe

a dato our sep camp. ma everythg revolv arou water. just surval. thas it. ople calus the forgottepeople. girl: yes. ybelle: . n: [instinct thisommunitys callededar ridg we're uer the najo nation. e navajoation ge. it'sigger th some statesbeing najo is ve ve importa to uswe have

strong htory. i'proud toe dine, kes me song on w i amnd what i and for. peop my age w, when ey wereoung, the was rely no drought. [eine star] [sheep bing] therwould , likeabout 0 sheein one aa, and pple to care ofhem. girlgrandma ys, "go me." [cattle wing] onard: mwife her she raisedbout 4 cves. there

that agwhere th're having bies now.hat was woh it... [cattle wing] and thatakes her little t proude stronge and theill to gahead anca for her anims. she wts to carry on e traditn that h mom and dad did, h grandpaher andma. tt's how rong of la she is. maybellewe use ifor food we don'trofit ofof it. wn get togher, we' butcher eep, andhe cows, take some tthe mark, but don't ofit offf that, ther. i ha to go bk and y whever theneed--prein, salthay. thas where goesit's ourustom th we ve livesck. taki care of

em, looking aftethem, to me, it very imrtant beuse it w from geration to genetion likthis. wee in no close t gate. is my responbility n. i loveeing around amals, anit hes me in many wa because times, i' struggle. miwise, i' struggl d it hel me pull throh day toay.

i dot know wse land is. i haveo idea. 's not me. i'm just ling on i my andpa alys said at to me his is mours. it just hereor us. it's body's."e us to sathat to us"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 iet up, like, abt 4:00, art the

truck, mbe he anotr cup of coffee. then you take off go down to the watering point. don't beazy. goto be up beforehe sun. ll, this ple is theife poin it's thlife poi of our counity's vestock.t's not only for our community. there's people that come out, like abou30, 40 mes all rectionsand i fe for the peoplehat liveay out therby the cyon. for whole rod trip, ey, they do, lik out 60 mes just haul ter to tir lestock. ey haveids out ther they ha granids t there at herd sheep and ok after the ctle anall thatand they d't ve no ruing water, no electricity. they have to haul water. it's hard to see them struggle.

in my days, we used to go to earth dams to load up water in wagons puld by mul or horsesthis is ere wate coects. yocan tellhere it sits witall thesdrainage fromittle, ltle valls or little gorges. from way out there, they come and sit here. itsed to be full. maybelle: the last time we had water was back, oh, about 5, 4 arago, jusdrizzle, few drops, you know. you get all happy getting little drops of racall ally deceased mily anday, "helus!" but still rain.

[birdsquawking] hunder] won: everying in your crping schule revoes arou the weaer. ifou have very wetpring, yon't get the fies till le. you c't get sds anted inhe grod. the lar you get in, the ler haest is gna be, a then you n into sw. irds chiing] it just soifferentrom

wh we wereids. theummer wasn overly t. you dn't have tse torreial rain on a rm, you know, the weather, it predicts everything for you. n: we'reonstantly baling the ather. is eitheroo wet oroo dry, too rm or to coldwe were dry ande nt rain,nd now iwon't it raini, so ts is wha we're dealinwithworking around tse windo that we have tgrow theeed for r co. my namis randyoecker, d i'm third-geration fmer from logville, wconsinwe have aut

300 pple iny little cmunity he. [ctle lowi] my parts are 8and 82 yrs ol they fa every d. ey stt their rning at:30. my mom loveto mix feed, andhe drives in the tracr, and s alwa likes wking witthe cows becau, she sa, "cows don't lk back you." 's truly family rm, and sometimei reallyonder. therhas to ba betteray of fe o thereomeplace that yodon't ha these pblems at you suggle wi all the time. [cattllowing]

statz: my name is brenda statz. well, my farming was my main thing. istill is lot of life, t i do wk full-time off my farm, also, so i probably lked her -plus yes i milk in this barn ani milkedor my dabefore at. i wa like, 1when i started lking co at his rn, so ie mied cs a lo time, s- [ctle long] ansome othem, ah, yoget special ws. you t pets, d me of th, you'reust like "no. ion't wt nothin do wi her," a you waifor her to gon the tck, you ow to sl them o, but r the most par i mean,armings--

od girl. keep wahing. it a go life. iwas a go life. i see u, carn. ha ha ha! leon and i, weet actual, in reeburg at boing alle i was n a personho went t much, d i we out witmy sister to wah her bo, and th's when we met, and he h gone to scho with siste who e's, le, 3 yea older tn me, and just stted dati and we both ca from farm backound and we th co from bifamiliesso ev our wding wasig. we d everhing togher. fm the ti you gotp in theorning tillhe time u went tbed, you rked togher. thas just the y farminis. he had hichores. did my cres. we neveracationemuch. if we did, was a wkend. on a year, we go sowhere, but it ally wast far away becse he sd, "can'go too f." le wld say, "you kno can't

too farut far eugh that th can't calus back do choresonight."t was ju more memories it thanou thk. you kw, y aays thought of that time, it was just a lot of work, but then when you look back now, you know, it was probably some of the better times becse we spenso much me together en d just wking, miing cows d raisinyour famy. that what fa life is [cattle lowing] ecker: ian rememr my mom alwa had aittle bo for yoknow, ery yearhat i wa school,nd it alys said onhere, yoknow, "wt would yolikeo be?" a it alwa said, like, "firan policeman, dtor," yoknow anyou wereupposed check what y wanted,nd then ere was a ank lineand th she would alys write i armer," d i justelt that my who life wakind of, likelaid outefore meso