For many Pajaro residents who suffered through the 2023 flooding, it was nothing new—they had also experienced the same catastrophe in the 1990s.
Emergency planning and response services in Monterey County have evolved dramatically over the past 25 years. Wildfires and storms are more vo…
Gov. Gavin Newsom has become a familiar sight around Los Angeles since the firestorm that swept through the region in January. In the first da…
On the morning of Friday, March 17 – nearly a week after the people of Pajaro were forced to flee their homes as floodwaters swept through the…
At first light on Saturday, March 11, members of the SPCA Monterey County’s disaster response team were on the ground in Pajaro, wading into f…
When I first spoke to Luna Mohammad in June of 2020, we were still in the relatively early days of shelter-in-place, full-on disaster mode. At…