CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Lake County Library and StoryCenter invite Lake County residents to sign up to share their 30-minute reflections and stories about their experiences of the fires last year, or in years before, on Wednesday, Sept. 26.

The StoryCenter will be available from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Redbud Library 14785 Burns Valley Rd in Clearlake.

The 2017-18 fires wrote a new chapter in the lives of millions of California residents.

The scope, spread and fierceness of these numerous fires for the residents of Lake County have sharpened our attention to the need to be and stay aware of ways to prepare for, and respond to, the threat of wildfires and other disasters that will surely come in the future.

To apply for interview participation, visit https://www.storycenter.org/lake-county-wildfire-stories.

You can come to be interviewed or bring a friend, family member or colleague to have a conversation about your experiences and the lessons learned from those events.

The interviews will be conducted using the Listening Station recording kit developed by StoryCenter organization based in Berkeley. Library staff and StoryCenter representatives will assist with the interviews.

Your recording will be stored as part of the California State Library collections.

The Lake County Library is on the internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary.

Jan Cook is a library technician at the Lakeport Library.