Nearly Scorched Off The Map, Northern California Residents Erect Mobile Homes

The lack of homeowners insurance for recently burned out residents in the Mountain Ranch area of California (a Gold Rush-era town formerly known as El Dorado), has convinced many residents to turn to the fiscally responsible option of erecting manufactured homes on their property, in the hopes of helping to rebuild their town sooner rather than later.

Mountain Ranch, California, has long been known for its fierce independence, a community where distrust of the federal government is a way of life. Many of the town’s senior citizens would rather exercise self-reliance, and take matters into their own hands, rather than wait for help from the federal government.

Nearly Scorched Off The Map, Northern California Residents Erect Mobile Homes

Nearly Scorched Off The Map, Northern California Residents Erect Mobile Homes

According to the Sacramento Bee, the charred but plucky unincorporated town in California’s Gold country took a direct hit from the destructive Northern California wildfires that ignited in early September. In an attempt to recover from the gluttonous blaze that nearly scorched the town off the map, leaving in ashes more than 350 homes in the tiny municipality of just 1,800.

Once such victim of the recent California Inferno is Jacki Malvini, 48. Jacki and her husband weren’t about to take being burnt out of house and home lying down. Instead, the couple placed a modest manufactured home on a ridge top with commanding views of the nearby mountaintops and woodlands. While she and her husband are determined to rebuild their house, the manufactured home will be “Home Sweet Home” for the foreseeable future.

Unfortunately for many, the Malvinis’ lack of fire insurance on their primary residence is an unsettling common occurrence. Now staying at the home of a son, Jacki says the family soon will park a mobile home on the property and start rebuilding.

“It is going to all come back,” Jacki said determinedly of her town. “I haven’t heard one person say for sure, ‘I’m getting the hell out of here.’ People are going to be staying.”

Once again, manufactured homes come to the rescue.