内容摘要：Perhaps, as panic rose with the wind, Mohamed Kheir Issack and Issack Farow Hassan could even taste the

Perhaps, as panic rose with the wind, Mohamed Kheir Issack and Issack Farow Hassan could even taste the

Initially, the family wasn’t ready to give up on Paradise. All the children, now 4 to 15 years old, were born there, and Ellie Holden’s grandparents had lived there.Taking a “this fire is not going to destroy us” attitude, James Holden moved the trailer from the church parking lot back to the family’s two-thirds of an acre of charred land. Before the fire, they had fruit trees, a huge vegetable garden and chickens.

For three months, they relied on rain water — and when drought hit, bought a water tank and trucked in water for drinking, cooking and bathing. James Holden set up a solar power system for electricity. For internet, they used cell phone hot spots.“We were living in ashes. The kids were filthy constantly from that black ash,” Ellie Holden said. “We didn’t have any community left. All our friends had either moved to (nearby) Chico or ... somewhere across the country. There was nothing left that we loved. There were no trees, no forest.”Then, the couple started considering Vermont. They previously had toyed with farming in the East. But the idea really took hold after the fire.

James Holden’s research indicated Vermont wasn’t at great risk of tornadoes, wildfires or hurricanes and seemed more hospitable from a climate perspective. It was, according to alast year from University of Vermont scientists, getting hotter and wetter. But it was nothing like California.

Before buying the farm, the family watched YouTube videos of

devastation a decade ago. They talked to insurance agents and took solace that their home had not been flooded and that Proctor and nearby Rutland weren’t wiped out. The water only reached the two-lane road running alongside their property, not the house.World Central Kitchen had previously suspended operations in April of last year after

on their convoy, before resuming weeks later.The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Thursday the bodies of 106 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours.

Hospitals also received 367 wounded, the ministry said in its daily report.The overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war rose to at least 52,760 since Oct. 7, 2023, the ministry said. Another 119,264 have been wounded, it said.