Four months after the Dixie fire wiped away more than a century of history in a town of 1,100 in just half an hour, the majority of residents are still displaced
At least once a week April Wielputz jogs down Main Street in Greenville, California, as she has for years. But now the exercise takes her past piles of charred brick and warped metal that once constituted the 19th-century-era buildings of the historic downtown.
Sometimes, depending on her route, she runs by the still-standing but empty high school where her eldest son was supposed to start his senior year this fall. The blackened trees, crumpled buildings and even the cleared lots, are a reminder of the Gold Rush town’s staggering loss.
