Wildfires devastate California marijuana farmers, who don't have banks or insurance
REDWOOD VALLEY, Calif. - Cheryl Dumont knew just where she had buried the gold and silver coins: down a ravine from her home by a big Douglas fir.
After Dumont lost her entire marijuana crop, her income for the year, she was anxious to see whether that savings had survived the Redwood fire.
She hiked down to the tree with a shovel and started digging for the plastic box holding the coins. Two feet deep she found what a week before was worth $40,000. It was a melted mess of
