California Wildfires Leave Seasonal Agricultural Workers In Limbo
The devastating wildfires in Northern California and killed scores of people and left thousands homeless. They've also left many seasonal agricultural workers without jobs or income.
by Farida Jhabvala Romero
Oct 19, 2017
2 minutes
For more than a week, Marisol Paniagua has been living at an evacuation center. She had been scheduled to pick grapes at a vineyard near the city of Santa Rosa, Calif. But that work was canceled because of the wildfires ravaging Northern California.
"It's very difficult right now because we just have a little bit of gas left in our car. That's how we
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