FEMA houses coming to Lake Mendocino

The agency will provide up to 70 units for people displaced by wildfires.|
PAUL PAYNE
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials will provide up to 70 recreational vehicles at Lake Mendocino for people displaced by October’s wildfires, officials said Thursday.

The RVs will be installed in phases beginning in early December on about 75 acres at the north end of the lake in the Kyen campground, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.

The location near Highway 20 is close to many of the 545 homes destroyed in the Redwood Valley fire, which burned more than 36,500 acres and killed eight people.

Lake Mendocino will remain open and operating normally while the temporary housing is in place.

You can reach Staff Writer Paul Payne at 707-521-5250 or paul.payne@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @ppayne.

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