Water treatment plant operators are always on the job, so to speak, but this summer many of them went above and beyond in their efforts to help fight the devastating Carr Fire.
According to Cal Fire, the blaze ravaged the small communities of Shasta and Keswick before jumping the Sacramento River and burning houses on the outskirts of Redding — a city of 95,000 people 120 miles south of the California-Oregon border.
The late July fire, which impacted Shasta and Trinity counties, burned 229,651 acres, destroyed more than 1,600 homes and claimed the lives of eight people. Despite all
