{"id":30187,"date":"2018-02-10T20:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/?p=30187"},"modified":"2018-02-18T18:43:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:43:04","slug":"calif-fire-chief-loses-home-while-battling-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/2018\/02\/10\/calif-fire-chief-loses-home-while-battling-wildfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Calif. fire chief loses home while battling wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Calif.<\/strong><strong> fire chief loses home while battling wildfire<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Chief Tom Welch lost his home, then went back and helped with the fire response in Napa and Sonoma counties after he was\u00a0helping to evacuate residents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SANTA ROSA, Calif. \u2014 As wildfires swept through and decimated neighborhoods in Northern California, some of the first responders lost their own homes as they were<\/p>\n<p>Welch, a Santa Rosa resident, lost his home, then went back and helped with the fire response in Napa and Sonoma counties after he and his family evacuated, Linn Walsh, assistant to the Mill Valley city manager, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chief is fine. His family is fine. Their home is completely gone,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh started a YouCaring page\u00a0once the city heard the news, and has already raised more than $50,000 for the chief and his family.<\/p>\n<p>About 25 other Mill Valley employees ranging from police officers to building inspectors who live in Napa and Sonoma counties are in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Jenna Lyons<br \/>\nSan Francisco Chronicle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of them was Mill Valley Fire Chief Tom Welch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>his family evacuated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calif. fire chief loses home while battling wildfire Chief Tom Welch lost his home, then went back and helped with the fire response in Napa and Sonoma counties after he was\u00a0helping to evacuate residents. SANTA ROSA, Calif. \u2014 As wildfires swept through and decimated neighborhoods in Northern California, some of the first responders lost their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-responders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30189,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187\/revisions\/30189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefireflyinnovations.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}