County: Butte, CA | Incident: Park Fire |

Resource Type: Legal Assistance, Mail Services, and Replacement and Recovery-Documents

Butte County – Park Fire – Document Replacement and Recovery

United States Postal Service (USPS)

USPS offers temporary mail forwarding services available to all: www.usps.com/manage/forward.htm

Legal Services of Northern California

Provides free legal assistance to low-income individuals and families affected by the Park Fire. LSNC can help with disaster related legal issues including:

  • Government assistance/disaster related benefits, 
  • Replacement of prescriptions or medical equipment, 
  • Housing & renter rights, job/employment impacts,
  • Mortgage lender disaster questions
  • Legal requirements during rebuilding
  • Replacing legal documents lost in the fire
  • Insurance claims
  • Homeowner remedies
  • And other issues

If you have legal questions as a result of the Park Fire, please call 1-800-660-3458, email disasterhelp@lsnc.net or submit a request for help online at: www.tfaforms.com/5061669

Franchise Tax Board

Will replace lost or damaged California tax returns at no cost to you:

Complete Request for Copy of Tax Return (FTB 3516)
Print the name of the disaster at the top of the form
We will send you copies of your most recently filed tax return
Mail form to:  
Data Storage Section
Franchise Tax Board
PO Box 1570
Rancho Cordova CA 95741-1570

Social Security Administration

1-866-964-7585

Visit one of the local Social Security Administration offices where they are providing replacement social security cards for those lost in the fire, verifying Social Security benefits, checking the status of ongoing social security claims and providing information about the claims appeal process. Any valid non-expired form of ID is acceptable to replace a SS card. They will also accept a printout from the DMV of an ID or CDL. For children, a school ID is accepted. Parents can also call the school to get a copy of the children’s student ID which can also be accepted.

Chico Office
1370 E Lassen Ave #150, Chico
Mon-Fri 9am-4pm

Oroville Office
115 Table Mountain Boulevard, Oroville
Mon-Fri 9am-4pm

California Department of Motor Vehicles

Working with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), DMV helps Californians affected by natural disasters at Local Assistance Centers (LACs). To search for LAC, visit https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/locations/field-offices/
At these centers, DMV helps Californians replace or re-apply for the following, all free of charge:

  • Driver’s licenses
  • Identification cards
  • Vehicle registration and titles
  • Disabled person parking placards
  • License plates and stickers

In addition, customers may:

  • Submit vehicle disposal paperwork
  • Request driver’s record printouts
  • Process a change of address
  • Title change for destroyed vehicles
  • Obtain salvage title
  • Replacement title to show insurer for claim

Butte County Clerk Recorder

155 Nelson Ave, Oroville

530-552-3400

Disaster Victims Assistance for Records during regular hours 8:30am-4:30pm or to re-register to vote

California Department of Housing and Community Development

If  your  mobile home  or  manufactured  home  was  destroyed  due  to  a  recent  California wildfire,  earthquake  or  storm  and  you  need  copies  of  your  title  and  registration  and/or salvage forms:

  • Call: 1-833-421-5990 (TDD: 1-800-735-2929)
  • Email: ContactRT@hcd.ca.gov (Please use Subject Line: Impacted by Natural Disaster)

If  your  mobile home  or  manufactured  home  was  damaged  due  to  a  recent  California wildfire,  earthquake  or  storm  and  you  need  to  obtain  permits  for  alterations/repairs:  

  • Call: 1-800-952-8356, Option 2 (TDD: 1-800-735-2929)
  • Visit: www.hcd.ca.gov

C&C Printing

6848 Skyway Suite F, Paradise, CA, United States, California

(530) 783-3092

  • Offering free printing services to people affected by the Park Fire.  They will print documents, forms and photos needed for insurance claims or other disaster related services, and replacing family photos for people who lost them in the fire. 
  • People will need to bring the digital files with them of the photos or documents they need to print
  • Services can be provided either in person at their Paradise shop, or entirely over email by emailing orders@candcprints.com OR c.c.spellings@gmail.com

Butte County Clerk Recorder Registrar of Voters

To request a copy of real estate records online, visit: https://buttevotes.net/191/Official-Record-Look-Up and continue to the Official Records Lookup. Be prepared to enter the party name and Document ID number for your order.

Note: The County Clerk-Recorder only sells complete documents, not individual pages of a document.