In the Camp fire evacuation zone, caring for animals and checking properties keep good neighbor busy
CONCOW, Calif. - Jeff Evans steers his white Dodge Ram along a narrow dirt road, scanning the blackened trees and ashen ground for two skittish dogs.
They come running when they hear the truck, and Evans offers them dog biscuits from the big box of Milk-Bones he keeps on his floorboard. Good, he said giving them a pat. They're doing OK. He can move along.
Checking on the dogs is just one chore on Evans' list. He's one of a few people left in Concow, a mountain hamlet tucked deep in the woods that has been under mandatory evacuation orders since the Camp fire tore through here Nov. 8. If he leaves, he can't get back in.
His neighbors stuck on the outside have been emailing him requests. Because the gas in the generator powering his electricity - and his
