CZU Fire Evacuees Worried About What’s Lost, But ‘Optimistic’

Greg Oropeza stands outside the Milpitas Library, which is acting as a resource center for wildfire evacuees, in Milpitas, Calif., on Aug. 24, 2020. Ilene Eng/The Epoch Times

MILIPITAS, Calif.—Greg Oropeza climbed out of his white pickup in front of an evacuation resource center in Milipitas, California, on Aug. 24. The truck’s door says “Hwy 9 Plumbing.” 

But there won’t be any plumbing jobs on Oropeza’s usual stretch of Highway 9 for some time, since it runs through the area evacuated amid the CZU Lightning Complex fires.