Sonoma County firefighters and aid workers rally to help Los Angeles in its time of need

It’s been seven years and three months since Annie Barbour lost her Coffey Park house in the Tubbs Fire. On Tuesday afternoon, as fierce winds fed similarly destructive wildfires in Southern California, her phone started blowing up.

“You know how close Coffey Park is,” said Barbour, referring to the northwest Santa Rosa neighborhood where over 1,440 homes were lost in the 2017 Tubbs Fire.

“Everybody’s feeling it, and everybody wants to help in some way,” she said of the tight-knit neighborhood that became a model of grassroots postfire recovery. “They want these people to not be struggling like we struggled.”

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