McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County on the Oregon border
"When we lost the logging industry around this area, it was
devastating for us," Yreka Mayor Duane Kegg said. "We lost a lot of
our economy, and losing a lot of economy has a trickle-down effect on
a lot of different issues — homelessness, people going through drug
and alcohol problems. We've seen it over the years, and I attribute
all of this to back in the ’80s, losing our logging industry."
note - massachusetts has 6.5 drug OD deaths daily - no logging