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"content": "\u003cp>Seventeen people killed in devastating mudslides were identified Thursday afternoon, as hundreds of rescue workers continued to search through mud and muck for any remaining victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara County released a list with the names of the dead, who ranged from ages 3 to 89. The cause of death was \"multiple traumatic injuries due to flash flood with mudslides due to recent wildfire,\" according to the Santa Barbara County Coroner's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday afternoon, 43 people were considered missing, according to Sheriff Bill Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first winter storm of the year brought a deluge that overwhelmed communities near recent burn areas, particularly the wealthy enclave of Montecito, home of celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain triggered flash flooding and mud and debris flows that killed 17 people and injured 28 more. Eight people are still missing — officials had earlier said the number missing was 48 but issued a correction, noting the mistake was due to a clerical error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former real estate broker Roy Rohter, 84, who founded St. Augustine Academy in Ventura, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/10/79697/victim-search-expands-in-santa-barbara-as-mudslide/\">was the first confirmed fatality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are the names of the others:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jonathan Benitez - 10 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kailly Benitez - 3 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Martin Cabrera-Munoz - 48 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>David Cantin - 49 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sawyer Corey - 12 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Peter Fleurat - 73 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Josephine Gower - 69 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>John McManigal - 61 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alice Mitchell - 78 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>James Mitchell - 89 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mark Montgomery - 54 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Caroline Montgomery - 22 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Marilyn Ramos - 27 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rebecca Riskin - 61 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Peerawat Sutthithepn - 6 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Richard Taylor - 67 years old\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>City and county fire officials told the AP that 64 homes were destroyed, down from an earlier estimate of 100 homes, and more than 400 damaged, though these numbers could vary as more information trickles in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"A Cal Fire inmate crew rests while looking for victims of a massive mudflow in Montecito on January 10, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-960x615.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-375x240.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateCrewSearches-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cal Fire inmate crew rests while looking for victims of a massive mudflow in Montecito on Jan. 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Work to clear several feet of mud on the 101 freeway in Montecito slowed on Thursday because of the possibility that mud may contain human remains, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need to find out if there’s any remains or any life potential that’s left in there,” Los Angeles County Fire Battalion Chief Anthony Buzzerio said. He was directing urban search-and-rescue teams and working on a plan to find and preserve human remains — while keeping his crew safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s inherently dangerous,” he said. “We don’t know what’s under there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mud could be toxic from busted sewage lines. It could contain sharp and dangerous objects. The crews will use feeler poles, small boats and skip loaders to carefully search the debris field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That search could take days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two days, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and other first responders have been rescuing people out of their mud-surrounded homes and ferrying them to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Barati, her husband Shawn Babaieamin and their children had been trapped in their home for three days before these deputies from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department rescued them from a second story window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Barati, her husband Shawn Babaieamin and their children had been trapped in their home for three days before these deputies from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department rescued them from a second-story window. \u003ccite>(Sharon McNary/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One family that escaped from their home were Sally Barati, Shawn Babaieamin and their two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been told that this was going to happen to us, but we got 3 feet of mud outside of our house — kind of blocked our gate and garage, so we couldn't do anything,\" Barati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They lost power Thursday and decided they couldn't stay at their home anymore, so a large military truck helped them to leave, taking the family out from the second-floor window. They were dropped off at the local shopping center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crew of 700 were on scene early Thursday helping with search, rescue and cleanup, hailing from a wide range of law enforcement, military and local organizations, including urban search and rescue, swift water rescue, sheriff and police personnel, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and utility company representatives, according to Amber Anderson with the Santa Barbara Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bulldozers plow through mud and muck on the 101 Freeway on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, following the devastating mudslides that killed at least 17 people and destroyed dozens of homes in Santa Barbara County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulldozers plow through mud and muck on the 101 freeway on Jan. 11, 2018, following the devastating mudslides that killed at least 17 people and destroyed dozens of homes in Santa Barbara County. \u003ccite>(Sharon McNary/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crews have worked day and night facing difficult conditions, digging through a thick sludge 15 feet deep or more, as well as downed trees, boulders, loose ground and even buried swimming pools, which can pose a threat to rescuers who can't see what's under their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unlike a flooding event or like where we have a river breach, where after the water leaves, we're able to search the area completely and thoroughly,\" Anderson told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search and cleanup efforts are expected to take days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7ByXeIxX8NT9XHItqmwDVhG8ozgBiTrZ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montecito resident David Brown lives near Olive Mill Road in a condo inundated by mud. 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He was directing urban search-and-rescue teams and working on a plan to find and preserve human remains — while keeping his crew safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s inherently dangerous,” he said. “We don’t know what’s under there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mud could be toxic from busted sewage lines. It could contain sharp and dangerous objects. The crews will use feeler poles, small boats and skip loaders to carefully search the debris field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That search could take days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two days, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and other first responders have been rescuing people out of their mud-surrounded homes and ferrying them to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Barati, her husband Shawn Babaieamin and their children had been trapped in their home for three days before these deputies from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department rescued them from a second story window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RescuedFam-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Barati, her husband Shawn Babaieamin and their children had been trapped in their home for three days before these deputies from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department rescued them from a second-story window. \u003ccite>(Sharon McNary/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One family that escaped from their home were Sally Barati, Shawn Babaieamin and their two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been told that this was going to happen to us, but we got 3 feet of mud outside of our house — kind of blocked our gate and garage, so we couldn't do anything,\" Barati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They lost power Thursday and decided they couldn't stay at their home anymore, so a large military truck helped them to leave, taking the family out from the second-floor window. They were dropped off at the local shopping center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crew of 700 were on scene early Thursday helping with search, rescue and cleanup, hailing from a wide range of law enforcement, military and local organizations, including urban search and rescue, swift water rescue, sheriff and police personnel, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and utility company representatives, according to Amber Anderson with the Santa Barbara Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bulldozers plow through mud and muck on the 101 Freeway on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, following the devastating mudslides that killed at least 17 people and destroyed dozens of homes in Santa Barbara County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/101Bulldozers-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulldozers plow through mud and muck on the 101 freeway on Jan. 11, 2018, following the devastating mudslides that killed at least 17 people and destroyed dozens of homes in Santa Barbara County. \u003ccite>(Sharon McNary/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crews have worked day and night facing difficult conditions, digging through a thick sludge 15 feet deep or more, as well as downed trees, boulders, loose ground and even buried swimming pools, which can pose a threat to rescuers who can't see what's under their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unlike a flooding event or like where we have a river breach, where after the water leaves, we're able to search the area completely and thoroughly,\" Anderson told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search and cleanup efforts are expected to take days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montecito resident David Brown lives near Olive Mill Road in a condo inundated by mud. Luckily, he and his father live in units on the second and third floor, high enough to escape major damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that you would see in a disaster movie and never thought it would possibly happen in this area,” said Brown, who worried that any more rain might just send more mud tumbling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The possibility is a scary thought,” Brown added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther south in Los Angeles, crews managed to clear much of the debris from La Tuna Canyon Road, though 23 residences from the 8300 block to the 8800 block were still under evacuation to allow that work to continue. Fire officials said the road would remain closed to the 210 freeway until debris removal was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1bgiyMCEesv0HdHMXbL4ZlFc64wY&hl=en\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At least 13 people were killed and 25 were injured in Santa Barbara County as Southern California's first winter storm swept through the region on Tuesday. The heavy rains triggered mudslides that swept several homes from their foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara County Officials said at an afternoon news conference that about 7,000 people live in the mandatory evacuation zone, and about 23,000 people live in the voluntary evacuation zone. Officials could not confirm where in the county the deaths and injuries had occurred, nor how many people remained missing. However, at least six people were killed in the Montecito area, Santa Barbara County fire officials said earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first confirmed death was Roy Rohter, a former real estate broker who founded St. Augustine Academy in Ventura. The Catholic school's headmaster, Michael Van Hecke, announced the death and said Rohter's wife was injured by the mudslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First responders were aware of approximately 300 people trapped in Romero Canyon, according to officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents were unaccounted for in neighborhoods hard to reach because of downed trees and power lines, Santa Barbara County Fire Department Capt. Dave Zaniboni told the Associated Press, which reported that there was a \"backlog of scores of callers requesting help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, dispatchers received more than 600 calls for help, officials said at the afternoon news conference. Fifty people had been hoisted to safety, and \"dozens more\" were rescued from the ground, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Barbara County Fire Department's Mike Eliason tweeted that the 300 block of Hot Springs Road was badly hit by mudslides. That area was not under mandatory evacuation orders, but voluntary ones, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1MsfIfBPYO0JcSprEno-QPWR2-POpliv2&ll=34.42906340000005%2C-119.6383927&z=14\">map\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://countyofsb.org/asset.c/3629\">press release \u003c/a>circulated by the County of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/david_r_wagner/status/950850574743879680\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Burbank, the Deer Canyon basin overflowed, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://www.burbankca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/2533/25\">update\u003c/a> from city officials. The Upper Sunset Debris basin above Country Club Drive also overflowed Tuesday afternoon, Kerjon Lee with Los Angeles County Public Works said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC L.A. captured footage of the resulting mudslides:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNBCLA%2Fvideos%2F10155516648551028%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lee, the Upper Sunset Debris Basin is under construction, so part of it had not been built yet. Lee called the resulting flows of water, mud and debris an \"overflow,\" and not the result of a compromised structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank Police Department public information officer Derek Green said, because of the damage from the areas burned in recent fires, the runoff was more than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debris runoff in Burbank also caused damage to a gas line and broke a fire hydrant. The storms also caused a three-quarter-inch gas leak to a line on Country Club Drive. As a result, residents on that road do not have utilities, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://www.burbankca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/2533/25\">update\u003c/a> from Burbank city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescue crews used helicopters to lift people to safety because of blocked roads, and firefighters slogged through waist-high muck to pull a muddy 14-year-old girl out of the rubble of a home in Montecito. She was taken away on a stretcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EliasonMike/status/950784736422592512\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said they would declare a \"rescue zone,\" and if unauthorized people go to that zone \"willfully and knowingly,\" that they would be guilty of a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials were unable to provide a number of structures damaged in Santa Barbara County, saying they were focusing their efforts on search and rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the flash floods, the Montecito area is currently under \u003ca href=\"http://www.montecitowater.com/latest-news/boil-water-notice-01-09-2018/\">a boil water notice. \u003c/a>Residents are being advised to drink and cook with either bottled water or boiled tap water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around greater Los Angeles, crews worked to clear debris from roads, including a key stretch of U.S. 101 that was shut down along the border of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. That's where thousands of residents evacuated Monday over fears of destructive mudslides in areas where the Thomas Fire, the state's largest-ever, raged last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work crews also labored through the morning to clear mud from about a two-mile section of La Tuna Canyon Road west of the 210 freeway offramp at La Tuna. Though, by noon, rain resumed and much of the work was undone by new mudflows that blocked the road again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11:30 a.m. a city emergency alert was sent to the area to evacuate due to the flash flooding hazard, and just before noon — less than half an hour after the alert — a wave of water, mud and boulders barreled down the La Tuna Canyon Wash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/09/79674/california-storm-floods-roads-loosens-hillsides/#evacs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPCC's updated list of evacuations\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, about 200 people walked among rows of folding tables on an indoor basketball court in the South L.A. city of Lynwood. They shook hands with business owners wearing company-branded shirts. They asked about open positions, took brochures and wrote down contact information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all looked like a pretty normal job fair, but this one was hosted by the Lynwood Cannabis Association. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purpose of the event was to introduce ourselves as the licensed cannabis operators in the city,\" Cannabis Association Chairman Tony Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"M7il9M8K4RImwVGWhnACRZcGvsp5ih52\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 1, it will be legal to buy recreational marijuana in California. While many local governments are nowhere near ready for retail sales to begin and some are resisting the legal pot industry, a handful of Southern California cities decided early on to embrace it. Lynwood has been one of the most aggressive in courting cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven cannabis companies are currently setting up shop in Lynwood. The city has licensed them to grow marijuana, turn it into oils for vaping or ingredients for edibles and distribute it all to dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said with legal sales just around the corner, now is the right time for Lynwood residents to meet the people behind the businesses moving into their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are committed to owning who we are, to being public about who we are, and promoting the benefits of the industry we represent,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"A representative of the cannabis company Moxie prepares to meet Lynwood residents at a job fair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638697\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-1020x615.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-1180x711.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-960x579.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-240x145.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-375x226.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-520x313.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A representative of the cannabis company Moxie prepares to meet Lynwood residents at a job fair. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hector Rivera is the co-owner of Calimed, a company licensed to cultivate, manufacture and distribute cannabis in Lynwood. He sees a lot of his competitors still waiting for other cities to pass their pot regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point we're way ahead of everybody,\" Rivera said. \"If you want to get in early, this is the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calimed's owners initially considered basing their operations in Needles, one of the small desert towns trying to attract the cannabis industry. But Rivera said they chose Lynwood because it puts Calimed right in the middle of one of Southern California's biggest markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s actually a good opportunity for a lot of young people that didn’t go to college, where they can make a decent amount of money and take care of their families.'\u003ccite>Lynwood resident Marvin Criner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We're right in the center of the 105, the 710, the 110, the 5. So it's easy access throughout the whole city,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their development agreements with Lynwood, Calimed and other marijuana businesses have committed to hiring locals and starting them at 150 percent of the minimum wage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynwood resident Marvin Criner works as an armed security guard at medical dispensaries in the L.A. area. He came to the job fair hoping to drum up more contract work for his company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's actually a good opportunity for a lot of young people that didn't go to college, where they can make a decent amount of money and take care of their families,\" Criner said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Lynwood City Council members showed up to the job fair. One of them, Aide Castro, led the push to pass the city's pro-cannabis ordinance in late 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to make sure that you guys are successful,\" Castro told the crowd. \"I want to make sure that Lynwood is looked at as the Mecca of how to do it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MfVQtkTULuVWJQVRb55NRD5O1utftaTS\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in her office at City Hall, Castro said the working-class city has been financially struggling for most of her 10 years on the Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wanted to attract businesses that could create a range of jobs -- from delivery drivers to plant scientists -- and significantly boost local tax revenue. The city estimates that once all the local business are up and running, cannabis taxes will add at least $3 million to the city's $33 million annual budget each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By announcing early on that Lynwood was open for business, Castro said the city got to pick companies with a track record of success in other states. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me it was an opportunity to bring economic development into the community, and take a business that unfortunately has already been thriving in the black market in our communities and bring it out into the light,\" Castro said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Real Estate Gets a Boost\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lynwood’s move to welcome legal pot has also spurred a rush on old, neglected industrial real estate. Auto shops and tile stores in the city's manufacturing zone will soon have a cluster of marijuana-growing neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Aaron Herzberg, who has been involved in a number of property deals in Lynwood, said, \"It's really one of the first cities in which real marijuana businesses are being built.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herzberg's firm, the Puzzle Group, works with entrepreneurs trying to make it in L.A.'s competitive legal cannabis industry. He says those who passed on Lynwood now wish they hadn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told them all that they should've gotten into Lynwood,\" Herzberg said. \"They kind of thought I was crazy. I acquired real estate for a $103 per square foot, and now you can't acquire it for $300 a [square] foot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lynwood Urban Gardens owner Arthur Shvartsman stands in the warehouse where he plans to grow 240 pounds of marijuana per month.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638701\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Arthur-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynwood Urban Gardens owner Arthur Shvartsman stands in the warehouse where he plans to grow 240 pounds of marijuana per month. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the entrepreneurs who did manage to buy space is Arthur Shvartsman, owner of Lynwood Urban Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening the creaky door of his 12,300 square-foot warehouse on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., he said the property had been empty for some time. \"Over a year, I think,\" said Shvartsman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where we're standing right now, what you're looking at is going to be all grow facility, all blooming rooms,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the first floor will be dedicated to climate-controlled indoor farming, Shvartsman plans to add two more stories to make space for offices and extraction rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FVkINK1VwVEAJp756kA4k3JzYCAGkF5i\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he's excited about his venture, he's disappointed that — at least so far — Lynwood is not licensing dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be awesome,\" said Shvartsman. \"If we were fully integrated in one building, we [would] have cultivation ... manufacturing and dispensing. Ideally, that's what you want.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilwoman Castro said it was a strategic decision to welcome most types of cannabis businesses, but not dispensaries. She wanted to emphasize blue-collar job creation while easing concerns about a proliferation of dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro said the goal with cannabis was to \"have the brewery and the distillery, just not the liquor store on every corner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shvartsman thinks the city may come around on allowing dispensaries. He's leaving space at the front of his building for retail sales, should Lynwood ever give him the green light. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven cannabis companies are currently setting up shop in Lynwood. The city has licensed them to grow marijuana, turn it into oils for vaping or ingredients for edibles and distribute it all to dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said with legal sales just around the corner, now is the right time for Lynwood residents to meet the people behind the businesses moving into their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are committed to owning who we are, to being public about who we are, and promoting the benefits of the industry we represent,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"A representative of the cannabis company Moxie prepares to meet Lynwood residents at a job fair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638697\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-1020x615.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-1180x711.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-960x579.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-240x145.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-375x226.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/MoxieLynwood-520x313.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A representative of the cannabis company Moxie prepares to meet Lynwood residents at a job fair. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hector Rivera is the co-owner of Calimed, a company licensed to cultivate, manufacture and distribute cannabis in Lynwood. He sees a lot of his competitors still waiting for other cities to pass their pot regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point we're way ahead of everybody,\" Rivera said. \"If you want to get in early, this is the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calimed's owners initially considered basing their operations in Needles, one of the small desert towns trying to attract the cannabis industry. But Rivera said they chose Lynwood because it puts Calimed right in the middle of one of Southern California's biggest markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s actually a good opportunity for a lot of young people that didn’t go to college, where they can make a decent amount of money and take care of their families.'\u003ccite>Lynwood resident Marvin Criner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We're right in the center of the 105, the 710, the 110, the 5. So it's easy access throughout the whole city,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their development agreements with Lynwood, Calimed and other marijuana businesses have committed to hiring locals and starting them at 150 percent of the minimum wage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynwood resident Marvin Criner works as an armed security guard at medical dispensaries in the L.A. area. He came to the job fair hoping to drum up more contract work for his company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's actually a good opportunity for a lot of young people that didn't go to college, where they can make a decent amount of money and take care of their families,\" Criner said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Lynwood City Council members showed up to the job fair. One of them, Aide Castro, led the push to pass the city's pro-cannabis ordinance in late 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to make sure that you guys are successful,\" Castro told the crowd. \"I want to make sure that Lynwood is looked at as the Mecca of how to do it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in her office at City Hall, Castro said the working-class city has been financially struggling for most of her 10 years on the Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wanted to attract businesses that could create a range of jobs -- from delivery drivers to plant scientists -- and significantly boost local tax revenue. The city estimates that once all the local business are up and running, cannabis taxes will add at least $3 million to the city's $33 million annual budget each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By announcing early on that Lynwood was open for business, Castro said the city got to pick companies with a track record of success in other states. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me it was an opportunity to bring economic development into the community, and take a business that unfortunately has already been thriving in the black market in our communities and bring it out into the light,\" Castro said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Real Estate Gets a Boost\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lynwood’s move to welcome legal pot has also spurred a rush on old, neglected industrial real estate. Auto shops and tile stores in the city's manufacturing zone will soon have a cluster of marijuana-growing neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Aaron Herzberg, who has been involved in a number of property deals in Lynwood, said, \"It's really one of the first cities in which real marijuana businesses are being built.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herzberg's firm, the Puzzle Group, works with entrepreneurs trying to make it in L.A.'s competitive legal cannabis industry. He says those who passed on Lynwood now wish they hadn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told them all that they should've gotten into Lynwood,\" Herzberg said. \"They kind of thought I was crazy. 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"content": "\u003cp>A lot of things about the Thomas Fire surprised veteran Ventura County firefighter Steve Kaufmann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that it burned 70 square miles in 12 hours. The fact that it nearly incinerated City Hall in downtown Ventura. But perhaps the most shocking to him was that by daybreak on the first full day of the fire, more than 150 homes had been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t normally see major structure devastation on our wildland fires,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura County has long been known for its strict enforcement of fire protection rules. So it's surprising to Kaufmann and other fire officials that most of the roughly thousand structures that have burned so far in the Thomas Fire have been within its borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, Ventura County has experienced just a single wildfire that burned more than 18 homes, according to data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (It was the Simi Fire, which burned during \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/2003FireStoryInternet.pdf\">the epic 2003 wildfire season.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WL5A8ZeLFCmX3Ltkp2kgzwdJwMA61elQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Bernardino counties all had multiple fires that were more destructive during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, residents in areas of high wildfire risk have to maintain 100 feet of clearing around their homes. It's what's known as \"defensible space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But counties have a lot of discretion on how to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, if you don’t clear your brush, officials will fine you $1,658 (it goes up to $1,800 in 2018). They’ll also do the yard work themselves and then bill you for the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Roper, the former fire chief of Ventura County who retired in 2012, said numerous fire officials have called to ask him what they can learn from Ventura’s approach. When he tells them about the high fines, “They say, thanks for the information, but if I tried that in my jurisdiction, we’d be shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Ventura County is much more aggressive than most of its neighbors. San Bernardino charges only $100 for failing to clear brush. And Orange County doesn’t have the authority to remove brush on private property at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the back of Roper’s mind, he always knew that one out of control, wind-blown wildfire could upend his county’s track record of success. Because in those situations, even people who have done everything right can lose their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To show me what he meant, he invited me up to Ojai for a drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Day 10 of the Thomas Fire, Dec. 13, and the Ojai Valley looked the way I imagine a smoggy Los Angeles did in the 1960s. The sun was a blood orange, and the mountains were a gradient of hazy pastels. The smoke got worse over the course of the day, and after a few hours of driving around, I felt nauseous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1020x598.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1180x691.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-960x563.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-520x305.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we climbed into the Upper Ojai Valley, most of the houses we saw along Highway 150 had burned. I saw the charred skeletons of stationary bicycles and the rims of cars melted into silvery puddles. As we pulled into the ash-speckled driveway of another destroyed home, Roper told me the residents had done a great job clearing brush from around their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happened to be when the wind blows hard enough, you end up with what we call a firestorm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the face of the Thomas Fire, and it has raised a question across Ventura County: Are its policies actually doing enough to protect homes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Moritz says no. He's a wildfire expert with the UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defensible space has a very specific use. It’s to provide a place for firefighters to do their work. It doesn’t actually necessarily in and of itself protect the home from ignition,” he said. “We also have to think of the structure itself. What if nobody is there to defend it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1180x726.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-960x591.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-240x148.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-375x231.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-520x320.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most houses that burn in a wildfire ignite not from a wall of fire, but\u003ca href=\"http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8393.pdf\"> from windblown embers that can travel up to 4 miles.\u003c/a> That means fireproofing a home really depends on how it's built. If a hot ember lands on the roof or deck, will it catch? Can embers blow into attic vents or crawl spaces? Are gutters cleared out, or full of pine needles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_protection/fire_protection_wildland\">requires all new houses in the highest-risk wildfire zones\u003c/a> to be built using fire-resistant materials. But there are many older homes in these areas that aren’t required to meet the code unless they're renovated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"pkyBq5rmkJkTtRIZbl40liU6j8JjzFoa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Modern building codes are great for new construction,” said Roper. “But the majority of the homes in the wildfire-prone area are already built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Richard Halsey, director of the Chaparral Institute, the problem isn’t just \u003cem>what\u003c/em> the houses are made of, but \u003cem>where\u003c/em> they’re built. He believes elected officials who permit construction in fire-prone areas should be held liable when they burn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot keep putting people out in dangerous conditions, like we’re doing, we just can’t,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/12/12/60649/three-ways-housing-can-be-better-developed-to-mini/\">he told KPCC’s Take Two\u003c/a>. “I know there’s a housing crisis, but we’re going to have a mortality crisis if we keep doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roper thinks even the strictest policies in the world won’t stop every firestorm. In 70 mph winds, the most fireproof homes can burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes Mother Nature is more powerful than us,” he said, as we drove down from the Upper Ojai Valley in thickening smoke. “We can’t win every fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When he tells them about the high fines, “They say, thanks for the information, but if I tried that in my jurisdiction, we’d be shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Ventura County is much more aggressive than most of its neighbors. San Bernardino charges only $100 for failing to clear brush. And Orange County doesn’t have the authority to remove brush on private property at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the back of Roper’s mind, he always knew that one out of control, wind-blown wildfire could upend his county’s track record of success. Because in those situations, even people who have done everything right can lose their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To show me what he meant, he invited me up to Ojai for a drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Day 10 of the Thomas Fire, Dec. 13, and the Ojai Valley looked the way I imagine a smoggy Los Angeles did in the 1960s. The sun was a blood orange, and the mountains were a gradient of hazy pastels. The smoke got worse over the course of the day, and after a few hours of driving around, I felt nauseous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1020x598.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1180x691.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-960x563.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-520x305.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we climbed into the Upper Ojai Valley, most of the houses we saw along Highway 150 had burned. I saw the charred skeletons of stationary bicycles and the rims of cars melted into silvery puddles. As we pulled into the ash-speckled driveway of another destroyed home, Roper told me the residents had done a great job clearing brush from around their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happened to be when the wind blows hard enough, you end up with what we call a firestorm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the face of the Thomas Fire, and it has raised a question across Ventura County: Are its policies actually doing enough to protect homes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Moritz says no. He's a wildfire expert with the UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defensible space has a very specific use. It’s to provide a place for firefighters to do their work. It doesn’t actually necessarily in and of itself protect the home from ignition,” he said. “We also have to think of the structure itself. What if nobody is there to defend it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1180x726.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-960x591.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-240x148.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-375x231.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-520x320.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most houses that burn in a wildfire ignite not from a wall of fire, but\u003ca href=\"http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8393.pdf\"> from windblown embers that can travel up to 4 miles.\u003c/a> That means fireproofing a home really depends on how it's built. If a hot ember lands on the roof or deck, will it catch? Can embers blow into attic vents or crawl spaces? Are gutters cleared out, or full of pine needles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_protection/fire_protection_wildland\">requires all new houses in the highest-risk wildfire zones\u003c/a> to be built using fire-resistant materials. But there are many older homes in these areas that aren’t required to meet the code unless they're renovated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Modern building codes are great for new construction,” said Roper. “But the majority of the homes in the wildfire-prone area are already built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Richard Halsey, director of the Chaparral Institute, the problem isn’t just \u003cem>what\u003c/em> the houses are made of, but \u003cem>where\u003c/em> they’re built. He believes elected officials who permit construction in fire-prone areas should be held liable when they burn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot keep putting people out in dangerous conditions, like we’re doing, we just can’t,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/12/12/60649/three-ways-housing-can-be-better-developed-to-mini/\">he told KPCC’s Take Two\u003c/a>. “I know there’s a housing crisis, but we’re going to have a mortality crisis if we keep doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roper thinks even the strictest policies in the world won’t stop every firestorm. In 70 mph winds, the most fireproof homes can burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes Mother Nature is more powerful than us,” he said, as we drove down from the Upper Ojai Valley in thickening smoke. “We can’t win every fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s midmorning at the headquarters of a medical marijuana delivery service in south Orange County, and employees are gearing up for orders to start flowing in. A skinny, clean-cut millennial named Ben packs a smell-proof duffel bag with plastic medicine vials full of dried marijuana buds, packages of cannabis-laced sweets and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other delivery drivers do the same, while a phone operator sets up to start taking orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin, 40, runs this 6-year-old business out of a converted bedroom in his two-story suburban home just off Interstate 5. He serves medical marijuana patients from Huntington Beach to San Clemente. His client list includes around 5,000 names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin pays California taxes and has a seller’s permit from the state. But his business operates in a legal gray area or, some believe, fully in the illegal black market, which is why he asked us not to print his full name or that of his company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"NgWpA4w9AwclMF8nRCN7ddi5fH5hHXD8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana is still illegal under the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/csa.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Controlled Substances Act\u003c/a>. Plus, almost every city in Orange County — including the one from which Justin runs his company — prohibits marijuana businesses, including delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California prepares to open the doors to the recreational cannabis industry in 2018, only one of Orange County’s 34 cities, Santa Ana, plans to allow for retail cannabis shops. And no marijuana-related businesses are allowed on unincorporated county land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may seem to fit OC's conservative reputation, but it’s typical of cities and counties across the state, experts say. Jacqueline McGowan, a consultant who has been tracking local cannabis regulations, said 73 percent of cities and counties in California currently ban commercial cannabis businesses. But McGowan said she expects more jurisdictions to approve regulations allowing for them in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Bags of cannabis await packaging for retail sale through a medical marijuana delivery service in Orange County on Nov. 29, 2018. Advocates for pot regulation say a black market will likely continue to flourish if California cities and counties refuse to provide local business permits.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-960x648.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bags of cannabis await packaging for retail sale through a medical marijuana delivery service in Orange County on Nov. 29, 2018. Advocates for pot regulation say a black market will likely continue to flourish if California cities and counties refuse to provide local business permits. \u003ccite>(Jill Replogle/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dustin McDonald, vice president of government relations for Irvine-based \u003ca href=\"https://weedmaps.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weedmaps\u003c/a>, considered the Yelp of the marijuana industry, said many city and county leaders are adopting a “wait and see approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've been reluctant to move forward aggressively with organizing any kind of policy reforms out of concerns about how they might impact public health and public safety and what political ramifications there might be for them as elected officials,” McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Enforcement itself is not an effective tool, ultimately, in combating the illegal market,” McDonald said. \"You really need policy solutions, which is why the state went down this road to begin with.” Still, he thinks local governments should ultimately follow the state’s lead and embrace legal, regulated marijuana. Otherwise, businesses like Justin’s delivery service might just go farther underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens disagrees. She was against legalizing marijuana in California, and she has advised OC cities not to open themselves up to the legal cannabis industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our biggest concerns are two things: the youth using marijuana more and people getting injured in traffic collisions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yv7RLTASHDAZoq72IO7RZAdtRRS7exeG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than one-third of OC cities pay the sheriff’s department to provide local policing. And Hutchens has warned some of those cities that their law enforcement costs could rise if more marijuana is legally available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that’s because, for one thing, sheriff’s deputies might have to spend time going to court to testify in DUI cases since there’s no simple DUI test for marijuana. And the department may need to hire more crime analysts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't actively go out and go to the city and say, 'I think you should not allow it,’ ” Hutchens said. \"I think it's their decision to make, but when asked, I will tell them the reasons why I don't think they should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rutan.com/Patrick-Munoz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Muñoz\u003c/a>, a partner at the law firm Rutan & Tucker who represents various Orange County cities on marijuana and other issues, said most of his clients don’t seem interested in permitting marijuana businesses, despite the potential tax income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're worried that it's a gateway drug,\" he said. \"They're worried about, you know, what's the reality of being able to regulate it, how do you really keep it out of kids’ hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz has prosecuted about a dozen cases against rogue marijuana businesses in California. He anticipates that enforcing local laws will continue to be difficult once recreational cannabis is fully legal next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he hopes the state’s new, more \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/regulations-legislation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robust regulations\u003c/a> on cannabis will help. “Come January, presumably we can go to the state and say, ‘Hey, we've got someone illegally operating here, and we want the state to help us.' Whether they will or not will be a whole new question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vials of medical marijuana line a desk at the headquarters of a delivery service in south Orange County on Nov. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vials of medical marijuana line a desk at the headquarters of a delivery service in south Orange County on Nov. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Jill Replogle/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, the gray and black markets for cannabis appear to be thriving, despite years of attempts to shut down illegal operators in OC. Weedmaps currently lists 186 delivery services in the county, the vast majority of them operating in violation of local municipal codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin’s delivery business fills 30 to 40 orders a day, with a minimum order of $50, and he’s open almost every day of the year. He’s baffled by what he sees as a disconnect between the obvious demand for marijuana and people’s willingness to have an open marketplace for the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty-two percent of OC voters cast their ballot in favor of Proposition 64 to tax and regulate pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, it's strange that people want to use it, they want other people to have the freedom to use it, but they don't want anybody to see it,” the pot entrepreneur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also frustrated that the era of legalized marijuana in California doesn’t seem to have a place for his Orange County business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're a city council member or you're an official and you're elected, I think it would be in your best interest to listen to [the voters],” he said. \"You know, I think that's the way the system's supposed to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, most Orange County residents and cannabis consumers have stayed quiet on the issue. City councils across OC have passed moratoriums with little public input, either for or against, and none of Justin’s customers on the morning I visited would consent to an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin said he plans to continue to operate his delivery business for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've all gotten very comfortable with the risks you have to take in this business,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But McGowan said she expects more jurisdictions to approve regulations allowing for them in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Bags of cannabis await packaging for retail sale through a medical marijuana delivery service in Orange County on Nov. 29, 2018. Advocates for pot regulation say a black market will likely continue to flourish if California cities and counties refuse to provide local business permits.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-960x648.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BagsOfWeed-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bags of cannabis await packaging for retail sale through a medical marijuana delivery service in Orange County on Nov. 29, 2018. Advocates for pot regulation say a black market will likely continue to flourish if California cities and counties refuse to provide local business permits. \u003ccite>(Jill Replogle/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dustin McDonald, vice president of government relations for Irvine-based \u003ca href=\"https://weedmaps.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weedmaps\u003c/a>, considered the Yelp of the marijuana industry, said many city and county leaders are adopting a “wait and see approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've been reluctant to move forward aggressively with organizing any kind of policy reforms out of concerns about how they might impact public health and public safety and what political ramifications there might be for them as elected officials,” McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Enforcement itself is not an effective tool, ultimately, in combating the illegal market,” McDonald said. \"You really need policy solutions, which is why the state went down this road to begin with.” Still, he thinks local governments should ultimately follow the state’s lead and embrace legal, regulated marijuana. Otherwise, businesses like Justin’s delivery service might just go farther underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens disagrees. She was against legalizing marijuana in California, and she has advised OC cities not to open themselves up to the legal cannabis industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our biggest concerns are two things: the youth using marijuana more and people getting injured in traffic collisions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than one-third of OC cities pay the sheriff’s department to provide local policing. And Hutchens has warned some of those cities that their law enforcement costs could rise if more marijuana is legally available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that’s because, for one thing, sheriff’s deputies might have to spend time going to court to testify in DUI cases since there’s no simple DUI test for marijuana. And the department may need to hire more crime analysts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't actively go out and go to the city and say, 'I think you should not allow it,’ ” Hutchens said. \"I think it's their decision to make, but when asked, I will tell them the reasons why I don't think they should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rutan.com/Patrick-Munoz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Muñoz\u003c/a>, a partner at the law firm Rutan & Tucker who represents various Orange County cities on marijuana and other issues, said most of his clients don’t seem interested in permitting marijuana businesses, despite the potential tax income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're worried that it's a gateway drug,\" he said. \"They're worried about, you know, what's the reality of being able to regulate it, how do you really keep it out of kids’ hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz has prosecuted about a dozen cases against rogue marijuana businesses in California. He anticipates that enforcing local laws will continue to be difficult once recreational cannabis is fully legal next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he hopes the state’s new, more \u003ca href=\"https://cannabis.ca.gov/regulations-legislation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robust regulations\u003c/a> on cannabis will help. “Come January, presumably we can go to the state and say, ‘Hey, we've got someone illegally operating here, and we want the state to help us.' Whether they will or not will be a whole new question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vials of medical marijuana line a desk at the headquarters of a delivery service in south Orange County on Nov. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ReplogleWeed.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vials of medical marijuana line a desk at the headquarters of a delivery service in south Orange County on Nov. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Jill Replogle/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, the gray and black markets for cannabis appear to be thriving, despite years of attempts to shut down illegal operators in OC. Weedmaps currently lists 186 delivery services in the county, the vast majority of them operating in violation of local municipal codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin’s delivery business fills 30 to 40 orders a day, with a minimum order of $50, and he’s open almost every day of the year. He’s baffled by what he sees as a disconnect between the obvious demand for marijuana and people’s willingness to have an open marketplace for the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty-two percent of OC voters cast their ballot in favor of Proposition 64 to tax and regulate pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, it's strange that people want to use it, they want other people to have the freedom to use it, but they don't want anybody to see it,” the pot entrepreneur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also frustrated that the era of legalized marijuana in California doesn’t seem to have a place for his Orange County business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're a city council member or you're an official and you're elected, I think it would be in your best interest to listen to [the voters],” he said. \"You know, I think that's the way the system's supposed to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, most Orange County residents and cannabis consumers have stayed quiet on the issue. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s official: 2017 is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/06/78582/2017-california-s-worst-year-for-wildfires-on-reco/\">deadliest and most destructive\u003c/a> year on record for wildfires in California. Dry conditions, high temperatures, roaring winds and bone-dry trees and brush are all factors responsible for the devastation. But one underlying question is how much of a role has climate change played?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no singular cause for any real significant event,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s usually a confluence of factors that are important. And in a lot of cases, global warming definitely plays a role and is one of those factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown certainly seems to think climate change is a major contributor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the new normal,” Brown warned Saturday. “We’re about ready to have firefighting at Christmas. This is very odd and unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s break down each of the factors that have contributed to this year’s destructive wildfire season to assess whether climate change looms in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/12/FireClimateChangeMargolis171211.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/ThomasFirePlumeISS-1920x1235.jpg\" Title=\"Southern California Is Burning -- Is Climate Change to Blame?\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Winds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“In terms of these really fast-moving and destructive wildfires that tend to be a threat to life and property, there’s almost always some sort of strong winds involved,” Swain said. “Those winds can cause fires to move quickly, to jump over barriers over freeways and jump from house to house and move out of the forest, and out of the dry brush into regions where people actually live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the destructive \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/north-bay-fires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern California fires\u003c/a> earlier this fall nor the massive Thomas Fire currently rampaging through Ventura County would’ve spread as quickly without the help of strong, dry winds. Southern California has Santa Ana Winds to blame — and the current wind event is both stronger and longer than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the National Weather Service, Santa Ana winds gusted up to 60 to 70 miles per hour on Thursday. Usually, the winds gust between 40 to 50 miles per hour. Santa Ana events generally last two to three days — the current event has lasted for more than five. And this time, they’re also especially dry, with humidity levels around 1 to 2 percent in some places of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/938604129059876865\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stronger and longer-lasting winds are a result of a particularly strong, particularly cold high pressure ridge sitting east of the rockies. As the wind travels from that area of high pressure across the Great Basin towards areas of low pressure along California’s coast, the wind speeds up, compresses and slams into Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of whether the intensity and duration of the current Santa Ana winds have been impacted by climate change is still up for debate, according to Alex Hall, director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall said there’s research supporting both the idea that the Santa Anas will increase in strength and frequency, as well as decrease, as the climate warms. Part of the difficulty of anticipating what’ll happen to the Santa Anas is that the modeling scientists use to anticipate changes around the world struggles to simulate regional circulation patterns, Hall said. That includes the Santa Anas and ridges of high pressure off the coast of California that are associated with a lack of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hall’s confident that the relative humidity of the Santa Anas will fall as things get warmer due to climate change, which doesn’t bode well for fire risk as the dryness of the winds is a major contributing factor to the spreading of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Precipitation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lack of rain is another reason these major wildfires have spread so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a warmer climate, you have a greater contrast between wet and dry,” said Hall. “In the future, we anticipate increased variability in precipitation. So, more precipitation in wet years and less in dry years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2012 – 2016 California was riddled with extreme drought. Droughts in and of themselves aren’t uncommon, but the our most recent one was likely made worse by human caused climate change, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL064924/full\">paper\u003c/a> written by A. Park Williams, a climate scientist at Columbia University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although this past winter felt particularly wet, that was likely because it followed years of drought. In reality, we experienced an average to slightly above-average amount of rain, mostly in January and February. For most of California, drought conditions were alleviated. However for Ventura County, the location of the Thomas Fire, a moderate drought remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11636514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-960x742.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-240x185.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-375x290.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full-520x402.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/181996-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s widely accepted that along with climate change we’ll experience extreme dry periods, punctuated by short, extreme periods of precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following our deluge of rain and snow earlier this year, things have since been hot and dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the last six months say, we’re running both above average temperature-wise and below average precipitation-wise here in Southern California,” said Swain. “In the short term there has been a trend towards a lot more dry years in Southern California. The question is how sustained is that going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been no rain in Los Angeles so far this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/938928108652187649\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current lack of rain can be blamed on a ridge of high pressure sitting off the west coast of North America, blocking storms from passing over our state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully this’ll be a temporary feature, maybe it’ll stick around for just a couple of weeks,” said Brad Rippey, agriculture meteorologist with the USDA. “But man, I sure hope it’s not going to stick around for the entire winter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ridge is similar to the one responsible for the recent drought, which was coined the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/tag/ridiculously-resilient-ridge/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ridiculously Resilient Ridge\u003c/a> by Swain. That weather pattern was an anomaly, in part, because of the length of time it stuck around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s ample research to support the theory that warming in the western tropical Pacific is associated with the arrival of rain-blocking ridges, an area seems to be warming faster than the other parts of the ocean. However, why that’s occurring is up for debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/939255557915119617\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ocean isn’t warming at the same rate everywhere,” said Swain. “And whether that differential rate of warming from one place to another is itself an expression of global warming, or if that’s just sort of a little bit of random noise superimposed on top of the long term warming trend I think remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01907-4\">study\u003c/a> out of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory theorizes that the melting of Arctic sea-ice could also contribute to the formation of ridges off the West Coast. Exacerbated by global warming, it’s thought that the Arctic could be ice-free during the summer months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the study, “low Arctic sea-ice increases the likelihood of drier California, but does not result in drier conditions over California every single year. On average, when considering the 20-year mean, there is a 10 to 15 [percent] decrease in California’s rainfall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should trust that sea ice is inducing the ridge,” said Ivana Cvijanovic, author of the study. “The question is, what are other factors too? Do they increase impact of sea ice or offset it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That part is really compelling, but it’s still going to be debated for a bit,” said Williams when asked about the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fuel Load\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>None of these fires would’ve happened if there wasn’t anything to burn — and this year Southern California is flush with fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was enough rain to promote some grass and brush growth last winter,” Rippey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/peedublya/status/939261659616563201\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That grass has dried out since then, not only from a lack of rain, but also because of the heat during our record setting summer and fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As temperatures rise, so does the speed at which moisture evaporates from the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combine the higher temperatures and a lack of rain with hillsides covered in brush and you’ve got the perfect recipe for rapidly spreading fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, this confluence of factors, of the really strong wind event this week, of these really hot, record hot conditions in the autumn and parts of the summer months as well, and then this lack of rain this fall,” said Swain. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those three things right now would’ve contributed to the fires in Southern California being as bad as they are.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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