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Christopher Thompson exited his Deer Park house at 3:50 a.m. on Sept. 27 and saw a fiery scene he had long imagined with dread — and had hoped to help prevent. “When I stepped out of my house on the porch and saw those flames leaping from Bell Canyon reservoir (area), I knew my worst nightmare had come to fruition,” Thompson said. The Deer Park firefighter and president of Napa Communities Firewise Foundation had worked unsuccessfully to obtain a $750,000 grant from Cal Fire for fuel management in Bell Canyon. He’d wanted to thin out vegetation and improve legacy roads the...

Napa County’s luxurious Meadowood Napa Valley resort is preparing for its rebirth following the devastation of the Glass Fire that caused an estimated $100 million worth of damage there. The southern part of the resort tucked into the hills east of St. Helena was largely undamaged by the fire. Meadowood has announced it hopes to reopen the cottages, pool, tennis courts and other amenities in that area after March 31. But the northern section is another story. Among other things, the Glass Fire reduced to rubble the clubhouse that was home to a three-star Michelin restaurant and destroyed...

Even as Napans flock to hike in local parks, the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District faces deep financial problems that could potentially threaten its existence. The Open Space District owns more than 5,000 acres and manages another 8,000 acres for other public agencies. It operates such parks as Bothe-Napa Valley and Robert Louis Stevenson state parks, Moore Creek Park and Suscol Headwaters. Use of its parks and trails has more than doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the district reports. But the pandemic and Glass and Hennessey fires have dealt a huge economic blow. â...

Napa County’s largest unincorporated community of Angwin in the mountains east of St. Helena might — just might — get a second wildfire escape route to Napa Valley, if volunteer labor helps create a stopgap solution. It wasn’t the ideal outcome that some residents sought, but it’s what the county was willing to offer amid various factors. Angwin is a forested community of about 3,000 that includes Pacific Union College. With a wildfire coming from the east, residents would evacuate to the west into Napa Valley on Deer Park Road. In a letter to the county, resident Ken...

Napa County's $64 million Soscol Junction project has the funding in place to start building in 2022.