In November 2018, someone brutally murdered Greta Putnam, 86, in her home on the same day California’s deadliest wildfire, Camp Fire started.
Now under the enormous Lake Oroville, Bidwell Bar is memorialized by the Bidwell Bar Bridge, an original remnant from the area and the first suspension bridge in California (California Historical Landmark #314).
Although the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has not yet determined the cause of the Camp Fire, officials have focused their investigation on electrical equipment operated by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in a rural area near the tiny town of Pulga.
Around 9:00 a.m. on November 8, 2018, Oroville police officers went to a home at the Cottonwood Estates mobile home park off Fifth Avenue for a report of an unresponsive person.