The pickleball organizer who helped kill Newsom’s wildfire plan

With help from Alex Nieves and Marisa Guerra Echeverria Programming note: We’ll be off this Monday, but will be back in your inboxes on Tuesday, Sept. Eaton Fire survivors helped kill Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wildfire liability plan. | Noah Berger/AP WHAT’S AFTER FIRE: Joy Chen was organizing pickleball games in Altadena until the Eaton Fire turned her WhatsApp group into an emergency evacuation network and fire brigade. In the months that followed, Chen and her neighbors founded the nonprofit Every Fire Survivor’s Network. Then, Chen became one of the most visible advocates for wildfire survivors in Sacramento after Gov.

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