A folk singer from the hills above Fresno has an answer to a set of questions shaking California to its core.
Standing on a ridgeline that was Ground Zero for one of the most intense wildfires in American history, Jemmy Bluestein, standing all of 5 ‘8, 160 pounds, didn’t flinch. He and his friends stopped the 2020 Creek Fire near Shaver Lake in its tracks — an achievement made all the more miraculous because he was smack-dead in the path of a 50,000-acre patch of fire which burned so hot it sterilized the forest soil.
“It was coming in through here like a fire hurricane. It scorched us in minutes,” says Bluestein, a Shaver Lake-area folk singer, about the 2020 Creek Fire. “But then it slowed down and halfway across the property, we stopped the Creek Fire. Basically, this didn’t happen virtually any place else.”…