 I'm Monica Vargas, Cal OES Public Information Officer. We're here in Calaveras County as the final load of debris from last year's devastating butte fire is hauled off. Eight months after the butte fire and the valley fire in Lake County, these counties continue to move forward with making their communities whole again. The road to recovery is often difficult and faced with challenges. Cal OES staff have worked tirelessly to provide resources and support to local government and its residents in their time of need. The resources, financial, human, even emotional are just not resources that we have in our back pockets. So knowing that there is an agency like Cal OES who is there who can provide those services to the counties across the state of California, all 58 of them, it's a great security to know that there is someone like that that you can call on who can come in and help when things are just too big for us to handle on our own. Removing debris from more than 70,000 acres was no easy task. It took the coordination from agencies such as Cal OES and Cal Recycle working hand in hand with local government. Extreme terrain called for extreme engineering to pave the way home for survivors in rural mountainous areas. So the home site is returned back to the homeowner in such a manner that they can either rebuild or sell it. Lake County is also approaching a milestone. Their last haul of debris is within sight. It was a miracle and a lot of effort I'm sure on the part of the fire department. Cobb Mountain Elementary School Principal and fire survivor David Leonard is one of many ready to return home. This is my home or this is future site of my home and former site of my home. And we're here in Cobb. So this is almost nine months past the Valley Fire date of September 12th. And it's been a slow, slow rebuild process. With debris removal now complete, folks like the ones behind me can now move forward with rebuilding their homes and their lives. From the Butte Fire Burn Area, I'm Monica Vargas, OESNews.com.