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Fire season already underway, state homelessness funding could get slashed

KAZU | By Elena Neale-Sacks
Published June 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM PDT
The remains of the Grizzly Flats Community Church after the Caldor Fire, September 2021. (Courtesy Bill Brown)
Courtesy of Bill Brown
The remains of the Grizzly Flats Community Church are shown here after the Caldor Fire in September 2021.

In today's newscast, a local fire official urges Monterey Bay communities to become more fire-safe as the season takes off this summer. And, California's biggest source of state homelessness funding faces cuts.

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Elena Neale-Sacks
Elena is an Emmy award-winning researcher, reporter, and producer. Before joining KAZU, they worked as a podcast producer at The Oregonian. Their reporting and research has been featured on NPR, KQED, Netflix, Reveal, CalMatters, and more. Elena is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and UC Santa Cruz. You can reach them at elena@kazu.org.
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