Inmates with Baseline Conservation Camp Crew #3 and Cal Fire Capt. Brent Seidel help Tuolumne Utilities District personnel clear Shaws Flat Ditch on Friday, two days after historic thunderstorms whalloped Sonora and nearby communities. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A Sonora City Public Works employee uses a fire hose to wash mud and debris out of Coffill Park Thursday.
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Despite closures of sections of the Stanislaus National Forest and Highway 108 during the destructive Donnell Fire, visitors were still able to go to places like Blue Canyon Lake in the Emigrant Wilderness in September 2018. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat Groveland CSD Fire has budget issues, and selling a new tax or assessment to voters will be a challenge for staff and elected leaders.
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Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat David Gonsalves, county Community Resources Agency director, speaks Thursday during a workshop intended to explain budget woes for Groveland Community Services District’s fire services.
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Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat A fire engine owned by the Groveland Community Services District.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Joel Clement and his son Luke, 10, walk through downtown Sonora Thursday. The Clement family moved to Sonora after losing their home in the Camp Fire that devastated the town of Paradise.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Dora Clement's eyes well with tears as she talks about her children, Luke, 10, and Raquelle, 16, missing their friends after moving to the area after their home was destroyed in the Camp Fire.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Joel Clement and his son Luke, 10, talks about losing their home and possessions in the Camp Fire and the adjustment to moving to Sonora.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Dora Clement and her family lost their home in the Camp Fire that devastated the town of Paradise. Having worked for Adventist Health Feather River in Paradise, Clement relocated to Adventist Health Sonora.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Joel Clement and his son Luke, 10, look through photos on a phone they took while trying to escape the Camp Fire in Paradise.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Joel Clement and his son Luke, 10, sit in Coffill Park in Sonora as they talk about evacuation their Paradise home during the Camp Fire.
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A Cal Fire sign on Highway 4 reminds residents of the fire-vulnerable forest corridor that 100 feet of defensible space around each dwelling can help firefighters save their homes. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A cabin on Sugarpine Road in Sugarpine was destroyed by fire during the storm Wednesday night.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A cabin on Sugarpine Road in Sugarpine was destroyed by fire during the storm Wednesday night.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A cabin on Sugarpine Road in Sugarpine was destroyed by fire during the storm Wednesday night.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A cabin on Sugarpine Road in Sugarpine was destroyed by fire during the storm Wednesday night.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters and emergency personnel help a woman get out of her truck after she swerved off Stockton Road, through a metal fence and into Sonora Creek Wednesday morning.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters and emergency personnel help a woman get out of her truck after she swerved off Stockton Road, through a metal fence and into Sonora Creek Wednesday morning.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat I chose the photo of a man carrying a cat away from a structure fire because the man appears calm, the firefighters appear calm and doing their jobs but there is obvious destruction in the background and intense fear on the cat’s face. (Oct. 23, 2018. Greg Beesley carries his friends cat out of harm's way as firefighters work on mopping up after two homes burned in Stent Monday afternoon.)
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat There’s a lot I like about the kids moving the arm of the hand-pump fire truck while on a fieldtrip of downtown Sonora. I like William Taylor’s small smile, the composition and the vivid colors. (Oct. 4, 2018. Summerville Elementary School fourth-grader William Taylor, 9, (center), smiles as he pushes down on the hand pump during a history tour of downtown Sonora Thursday.)
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A closure of about 140 square miles that includes the 57-square-mile Donnell Fire burn scar is now closed until May 31, the supervisor for the Stanislaus National Forest announced last week, before the partial federal government shutdown. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Jeff Sanders with Cal Fire (left) presents Craig Pedro with a plaque for his hard work through local disasters through his 34 years working for Tuolumne County.
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Giuseppe Ricapito / The Union Democrat Sandra Lattin and her daughter Delaynie, 12, surveyed the fire damage at their home on the 11000 block of Harrison Drive Thursday afternoon.
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