{"id":2464,"date":"2021-11-06T21:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T04:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/11\/10\/they-moved-to-rural-california-for-affordable-homes-then-the-caldor-fire-destroyed-the-town\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T21:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T05:09:56","slug":"they-moved-to-rural-california-for-affordable-homes-then-the-caldor-fire-destroyed-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/11\/06\/they-moved-to-rural-california-for-affordable-homes-then-the-caldor-fire-destroyed-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"They Moved to Rural California for Affordable Homes. Then the Caldor Fire Destroyed the Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By Jim Carlton and Christine Mai-Duc | Photographs by Max Whittaker for The Wall Street Journal<\/pre>\n<div>\n<p>GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif.\u2014Don Lee and his wife, Amanda, moved to this small town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains last year for a simple reason: They found a four-bedroom house for $200,000, less than half what it would cost in nearby cities like Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Early last month, Mr. Lee picked through the ashen ruins of the home\u2014one of more than 600 destroyed here in August when the 222,000-acre Caldor Fire roared through the town of 1,195 residents. Most of the town\u2019s residences burned to the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>READ MORE from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/they-moved-to-rural-california-for-affordable-homes-then-the-caldor-fire-destroyed-the-town-11636207202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/they-moved-to-rural-california-for-affordable-homes-then-the-caldor-fire-destroyed-the-town-11636207202<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing populations of towns in \u2018wildland-urban interface\u2019 is a key reason for rising wildfire threat in the West, researchers say [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,1],"tags":[37],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332.jpg",1201,748,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332-600x374.jpg",600,374,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332-768x478.jpg",640,398,true],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332.jpg",640,399,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332.jpg",1201,748,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332.jpg",1201,748,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332-1201x720.jpg",1201,720,true],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332-1024x638.jpg",1024,638,true],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332-720x530.jpg",720,530,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/InEDC-1332-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/lifestyle\/\" rel=\"category tag\">LifeStyle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}