What lessons can Sisters Country learn from the 2018 Camp Fire?
As a follow-up to C4C’s spring 2025 Community Forums focused on wildfire preparedness and related insurance challenges, we are partnering with Sisters Festival of Books (SFOB) to dig deeper into one of our community’s greatest threats.
Join C4C and SFOB for a discussion of Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy. Set around one of the most destructive American wildfires in a century, it’s a gripping account of the tragedy that befell a community with many parallels to our own.
This event is an opportunity to examine these similarities, reflect on our own community’s preparedness for wildfire, and discuss what else Sisters Country might do to avoid becoming the “next” Paradise.
This event is free, but registration is required:
““This is the story of a town at the forefront of a devastating global shift...a story of a new kind of fire behavior that firefighters have never witnessed before and barely know how to handle. What happened in Paradise was unprecedented in America. Yet according to climate scientists and fire experts, it will surely happen again.”
How to participate:
REGISTER (click the button above).
READ THE BOOK!
Copies are available for sale at Paulina Springs Books and online.
Listen on Libro, Audible, or your favorite audiobook platform.
Borrow from Deschutes Public Library.
Short on time? Read this excerpt in The Guardian.
SHOW UP. Wednesday, May 28, 5:30-7 PM at Paulina Springs Books (252 W Hood Ave).
Complimentary light refreshments will be provided.
A reimbursement stipend is available for parents and caregivers.
Interpretation services are available upon request. Please email director@citizens4community.com at least one week before the event to request.
Need a ride to the event? Email us and we’ll help you find one.
Please contact Kellen Klein, C4C Executive Director, with any questions – director@citizens4community.com.
