MENDOCINO CO., 5/3/26 — Nearly ten years after Tomki Road served as a major escape route from the Redwood Complex firestorm, a new Neighborhood Fire Safe Council is hard at work, clearing fuel from the roadside. “We’ve gotta make sure these escape routes are nice and open,” said Eric Patino, a member of the Mendocino County Fire Safe Council’s fuel-reduction crew. “We want the people and the community to be safe.” It was Saturday, April 14, and …
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