Meet the Fresno folk singer proving California’s megafires can be stopped

This story was originally published by Fresnoland.

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…

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