We Can All Be Second Responders to Climate Disaster

park guthrie
Nov 3 · 4 min read

My name is Park Guthrie. I am a parent and a 6th-grade teacher in Sonoma County, California. Every student in my school was evacuated due to the Kincade Fire this past week. Some of my students were evacuated twice as the homes of friends where they had taken refuge were later included in an expanded evacuation zone. Thanks only to the heroic efforts of 1,000s of first responders, the cities of…

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