It’s difficult to find a silver lining in the wildfires that swept through Sonoma County, California, last fall. Some 250 fires burned 245,000 acres. Including the devastating Tubbs and Atlas fires that caused a reported $9.4 billion in insured damage, the fires killed 44 people and destroyed nearly 9,000 structures.
As the popular Northern California wine country faces a huge recovery and repopulation challenge, local lawmakers are looking for ways to rebuild more efficiently, and some of the ideas should be of interest to onsite installers and their customers.
The first challenge is getting residents who lost their homes back on
