Four Butte County Library staff members have been evacuated from their homes in Paradise and Berry Creek and are staying with friends or family. Two more live less than a block away from immediate threat evacuation areas, but are remaining at home with their families as of this time. Several others live in precautionary evacuation areas. A volunteer bookmobile driver has likely lost her home in the Concow area, but as evacuation orders are still in place for the area that cannot be confirmed.
As of this moment, all of the evacuation orders issued Tuesday and Wednesday are still in place. No library branches are under immediate threat, but the Paradise Branch is still under a precautionary evacuation status. It remains open for business and is still serving the vital community information needs Rochelle so succinctly described yesterday.
As I learn more, I will pass it along.
~ Derek Wolfgram, Butte County Library Director