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Three Fire Mountains - by Katie Simmons (Hardcover)

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  • About the Author: Katie Simmons is a wildfire recovery professional working in local government in Butte County.
  • 194 Pages
  • Nature, Natural Disasters

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This book explores the varying effects of wildfire on individuals, families, communities, and governments as local and State agencies in California grapple with the realities of recovery. The field of wildfire recovery is an "industry in design." Policies, procedures, and funding rules and regulations for recovery change with each disaster, which means there is no predictability, capacity-building, nor system/design being built in California as communities are destroyed/impacted by fire. Even in Butte County, impacted by 12 federally declared disasters in the past 10 years and home to the deadliest and most destructive fire in State history, each recovery process requires the application of different requirements which prolongs recovery and, as a result, suffering.

Because of this, recovery adds hardship to the trauma of fire which erodes the ability of professionals and agencies to be effective. This book offers insights and examples of these hardships for the purpose of exposing the inconsistencies and misalignments within State and federal policy that suppress recovery, and recommendations to adopt new definitions and approaches that cut down on complexity and begin to frame up industry design. There is a better way!

The book outlines the ways in which State and federal agencies can codify and localize their approaches to wildfire recovery, beginning to parse out the differences between recovering from an urban fire and rural wildland fire, and key recovery pace and scale indicators such as ownership versus renting, municipal infrastructure versus wells/septic, insurability/underinsurance. There are highly defined and practiced approaches to response and early recovery, and this book proposes to use a similar approach for long-term recovery design so professionals enter a known, defined, but adaptive-in-the-moment field.

What makes this book distinctive is acknowledging the thread of trauma throughout fire, aftermath, and recovery. Trauma is the "inconvenient truth" of wildfire, unavoidable and destructive in its own right. Recovery professionals are subject to secondary trauma through working directly with survivors through the hardship of recovery programs. Wildfire trauma complicates family and friend relationships in a myriad of ways because, community wide, the source of trauma is the same but the impacts are different. Trauma can be the single reason an individual fails to recover when, time after time, resources and support are offered and refused. By not acknowledging trauma in the workplace after disaster, burnout and resentment are difficult to name and address. Using a trauma-informed approach, or just building awareness about what trauma looks like after wildfire, consultants and recovery professionals can reduce or at least neutralize the hardship individuals and communities experience during long-term recovery.



About the Author



Katie Simmons is a wildfire recovery professional working in local government in Butte County. She oversees long-term recovery for the 2018 Camp Fire, 2020 North Complex Fire, and 2024 Park Fire, as well as emergency management, hazard mitigation, economic development, and community development. Katie spent 20 years working in community-based non-profits prior to joining the public sector, and has a degree in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego. Katie lives with her family in Chico, California.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.07 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 194
Genre: Nature
Sub-Genre: Natural Disasters
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover
Author: Katie Simmons
Language: English
Street Date: April 25, 2026
TCIN: 1009225487
UPC: 9783032173423
Item Number (DPCI): 247-18-3324
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: What unique perspective does the book offer?

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  • A: It acknowledges the trauma associated with wildfires and its impact on recovery efforts for individuals and communities.

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Q: How many pages does the book contain?

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  • A: The book contains a total of 194 pages, providing in-depth insights into wildfire recovery.

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Q: Who is the author of this book?

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  • A: The author is Katie Simmons, a wildfire recovery professional with extensive experience in local government.

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  • A: The book explores the effects of wildfire on communities and the complexities of recovery processes in California.

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