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"content": "\u003cp>To Michelle Seifer, the timing was just a coincidence: after losing power in a summer storm, she came down with flu-like symptoms. It wasn't until two days later, when a carbon monoxide detector activated and a utility company worker tested levels in her home, that she learned she was being poisoned by the portable generator she had been running in her open garage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I went to the hospital and learned that my levels were high enough where they needed to admit me,\" said Seifer, a finance manager and mother of five in Hartland, Mich. \"Because if I didn't receive the proper treatment for the carbon monoxide poisoning, if I were to fall asleep I wouldn't wake up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two days of oxygen therapy for Seifer's levels to normalize, and several months for other aspects of her life to follow suit. She experienced confusion, dizziness, and vertigo, and missed days of work when her symptoms were bad. She said it is not uncommon for people to live with long-term effects from a single instance of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is like \"silently suffocating to death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain levels, just five minutes of carbon monoxide exposure is \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">enough to be fatal\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">colorless, odorless gas \u003c/a>is produced wherever fuel is burned, and can build to deadly levels especially quickly in enclosed spaces. Portable generators, whose engines each emit as much carbon monoxide as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/PresentationSAE_SETC.pdf\">approximately 450 cars\u003c/a>, are especially common culprits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" postID=news_11784435,news_11788115,news_11787221]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators differ from standby generators, which are permanently installed, weatherproof, and turn on automatically in the case of a power outage. \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> says portable generators\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/portable-vs-standy-generators-which-is-right-for-your-home/\"> range in price\u003c/a> from $400 to $1,500, while home standby generators run from $2,000 to $5,000 before installation costs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generators can provide life-saving power in emergency situations, especially for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784435/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign\">those who rely on medical devices\u003c/a> that require electricity. But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To Michelle Seifer, the timing was just a coincidence: after losing power in a summer storm, she came down with flu-like symptoms. It wasn't until two days later, when a carbon monoxide detector activated and a utility company worker tested levels in her home, that she learned she was being poisoned by the portable generator she had been running in her open garage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I went to the hospital and learned that my levels were high enough where they needed to admit me,\" said Seifer, a finance manager and mother of five in Hartland, Mich. \"Because if I didn't receive the proper treatment for the carbon monoxide poisoning, if I were to fall asleep I wouldn't wake up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two days of oxygen therapy for Seifer's levels to normalize, and several months for other aspects of her life to follow suit. She experienced confusion, dizziness, and vertigo, and missed days of work when her symptoms were bad. She said it is not uncommon for people to live with long-term effects from a single instance of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is like \"silently suffocating to death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain levels, just five minutes of carbon monoxide exposure is \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">enough to be fatal\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">colorless, odorless gas \u003c/a>is produced wherever fuel is burned, and can build to deadly levels especially quickly in enclosed spaces. Portable generators, whose engines each emit as much carbon monoxide as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/PresentationSAE_SETC.pdf\">approximately 450 cars\u003c/a>, are especially common culprits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators differ from standby generators, which are permanently installed, weatherproof, and turn on automatically in the case of a power outage. \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> says portable generators\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/portable-vs-standy-generators-which-is-right-for-your-home/\"> range in price\u003c/a> from $400 to $1,500, while home standby generators run from $2,000 to $5,000 before installation costs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generators can provide life-saving power in emergency situations, especially for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784435/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign\">those who rely on medical devices\u003c/a> that require electricity. But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chelsea and Noah Isaacs were busy new parents to twin daughters when they lost their home in the Camp Fire in Paradise. That same day — Nov. 8, 2018 — Chelsea discovered she was pregnant again; later she would learn it was with another set of twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of those things kind of created this perfect storm of appreciation for what I've got, but then at the same time this feeling of 'how is this all going to work?' that was really overwhelming initially,\" Chelsea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the canyon on Aug. 1 in Magalia. Only a handful of homes in nearby Paradise have been rebuilt since the Camp Fire in November 2018. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family evacuated safely, but their home was destroyed. Noah said just two artifacts mysteriously survived unscathed: his 1956 Studebaker Commander, and the small patch of grass beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"camp-fire\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, had been living on the Isaacs' land in a tiny house before the fire and was displaced alongside them. Together, the family stayed with friends and relatives in the weeks after the fire as they assessed their options: Should they rebuild or relocate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah and Kim both work in Chico, a city about 15 miles away, and needed to stay in the area. Noah said he and Chelsea considered buying a home in a neighboring town, but it was costly and just didn't feel right. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/724407043/after-paradise-living-with-fire-means-redefining-resilience\">Rebuilding a new house\u003c/a> on the same property ultimately proved the better option for insurance purposes, as they could build a bigger structure from scratch at a reasonable rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really, as crappy as everything went ... when everything's said and done and we look back, we'll say that might have been one of the best things that's happened to us,\" Noah said. \"And I know a lot of people can't say that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11788835 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea holds her newborn twin boys, August and Bishop, while Noah watches Harper and Riley play outside their RV in August. Since the fire, Chelsea and Noah and Chelsea's mom decided to rebuild their home in Paradise, California, on their same piece of land. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year after the fire,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777801169/the-camp-fire-destroyed-11-000-homes-a-year-later-only-11-have-been-rebuilt\"> only 11 of the 11,000 homes destroyed\u003c/a> in Paradise have been rebuilt. Noah credited his cousin, a longtime general contractor, and Chelsea's grandfather, an architect, with respectively providing the industry knowledge and \"fair deal\" needed to jump-start the process efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Noah holds 4-month-old Bishop in the bedroom of their RV in November. Right: Riley looks out the window of their RV. Bottom: Harper and Riley, 2, wake up in their cribs. The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I know we couldn't leave this area too far because we have everybody here, all our family's here and that's really important to us,\" Chelsea said. \"Noah has ... people who babysat him when he was a child that he still talks to, and stuff like that. I want my kids to have that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea said thinking about her growing family helped her get through this period of uncertainty. The timing was \"kind of perfect,\" she said, because it gave her an opportunity to focus on something other than the fire. And it forced her to keep stress-induced habits, like eating junk food and smoking cigarettes, at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, holds Bishop. Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With construction underway, Kim, Chelsea, Noah and their girls — who were less than 2 years old at the time — moved into a temporary home. They bought an RV and parked it on a friend's vacant lot in nearby Magalia. Two newborns boys joined them in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Space in the trailer is limited but used efficiently. For example, Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, says there is just enough room for two pack-and-play cribs at the back of the RV, and she sleeps in the loft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea take their kids to look at their new house they're rebuilding in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwartz says her family is \"exceptional at this situation.\" They have always been close, and have adapted to their new routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/468172578/ready-for-a-road-trip-rvs-are-rolling-back-into-fashion\">life in the RV \u003c/a>has its challenges. Privacy is limited, the structure doesn't necessarily feel stable or safe, and it is parked in a relatively remote area surrounded by trees — a fire hazard that makes Chelsea nervous. Beyond that, when her daughters play inside, they shake the thin-walled structure and wake up their brothers, and Chelsea wishes she didn't have to tell them \"no\" so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea takes her kids to the grocery store. The family won't miss the RV when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At least we have something that's ours again, we're regaining something,\" Chelsea said. \"But then having to adapt to how different our lives had become overnight was ... intense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. And, as Noah says, it brought them literally and figuratively closer together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea watches her twin daughters, Harper and Riley, while her mom, Kim, plays with the twin boys, August and Bishop, in their RV. Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they won't miss it when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I'll ... take the things that I've learned here, and the patience that I've had to gain with my kids and with Noah and with my mom, and I'll take those things and use them in the future and credit this time in the trailer to it,\" Chelsea said. \"But I don't know that I'll be like, 'Man, I wish I was ... standing under that trickling shower.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea hug after taking their kids to look at their new house they are rebuilding in Paradise on Nov. 8. The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. Grocery stores in Paradise won't have everything they need, and as far as they know their kids won't have others to play with in the neighborhood. But returning to their old property feels right, and Chelsea says that if that changes, they will reevaluate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You wouldn't be able to pick our yard out of any other yard on the street because they're all the same, just dirt,\" she said. \"But that dirt felt like ours still. It still felt like we weren't done there yet, and it felt in a good way, like we need to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rachelbujalski.com/\">\u003cem>Rachel Bujalski\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a documentary photographer based in San Francisco and Los Angeles.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Camp+Fire+Burned+Their+Home%2C+But+Strong+Family+Ties+Kept+Them+In+Paradise&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chelsea and Noah Isaacs were busy new parents to twin daughters when they lost their home in the Camp Fire in Paradise. That same day — Nov. 8, 2018 — Chelsea discovered she was pregnant again; later she would learn it was with another set of twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of those things kind of created this perfect storm of appreciation for what I've got, but then at the same time this feeling of 'how is this all going to work?' that was really overwhelming initially,\" Chelsea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the canyon on Aug. 1 in Magalia. Only a handful of homes in nearby Paradise have been rebuilt since the Camp Fire in November 2018. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family evacuated safely, but their home was destroyed. Noah said just two artifacts mysteriously survived unscathed: his 1956 Studebaker Commander, and the small patch of grass beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, had been living on the Isaacs' land in a tiny house before the fire and was displaced alongside them. Together, the family stayed with friends and relatives in the weeks after the fire as they assessed their options: Should they rebuild or relocate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah and Kim both work in Chico, a city about 15 miles away, and needed to stay in the area. Noah said he and Chelsea considered buying a home in a neighboring town, but it was costly and just didn't feel right. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/724407043/after-paradise-living-with-fire-means-redefining-resilience\">Rebuilding a new house\u003c/a> on the same property ultimately proved the better option for insurance purposes, as they could build a bigger structure from scratch at a reasonable rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really, as crappy as everything went ... when everything's said and done and we look back, we'll say that might have been one of the best things that's happened to us,\" Noah said. \"And I know a lot of people can't say that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11788835 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea holds her newborn twin boys, August and Bishop, while Noah watches Harper and Riley play outside their RV in August. Since the fire, Chelsea and Noah and Chelsea's mom decided to rebuild their home in Paradise, California, on their same piece of land. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year after the fire,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777801169/the-camp-fire-destroyed-11-000-homes-a-year-later-only-11-have-been-rebuilt\"> only 11 of the 11,000 homes destroyed\u003c/a> in Paradise have been rebuilt. Noah credited his cousin, a longtime general contractor, and Chelsea's grandfather, an architect, with respectively providing the industry knowledge and \"fair deal\" needed to jump-start the process efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Noah holds 4-month-old Bishop in the bedroom of their RV in November. Right: Riley looks out the window of their RV. Bottom: Harper and Riley, 2, wake up in their cribs. The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I know we couldn't leave this area too far because we have everybody here, all our family's here and that's really important to us,\" Chelsea said. \"Noah has ... people who babysat him when he was a child that he still talks to, and stuff like that. I want my kids to have that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea said thinking about her growing family helped her get through this period of uncertainty. The timing was \"kind of perfect,\" she said, because it gave her an opportunity to focus on something other than the fire. And it forced her to keep stress-induced habits, like eating junk food and smoking cigarettes, at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, holds Bishop. Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With construction underway, Kim, Chelsea, Noah and their girls — who were less than 2 years old at the time — moved into a temporary home. They bought an RV and parked it on a friend's vacant lot in nearby Magalia. Two newborns boys joined them in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Space in the trailer is limited but used efficiently. For example, Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, says there is just enough room for two pack-and-play cribs at the back of the RV, and she sleeps in the loft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea take their kids to look at their new house they're rebuilding in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwartz says her family is \"exceptional at this situation.\" They have always been close, and have adapted to their new routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/468172578/ready-for-a-road-trip-rvs-are-rolling-back-into-fashion\">life in the RV \u003c/a>has its challenges. Privacy is limited, the structure doesn't necessarily feel stable or safe, and it is parked in a relatively remote area surrounded by trees — a fire hazard that makes Chelsea nervous. Beyond that, when her daughters play inside, they shake the thin-walled structure and wake up their brothers, and Chelsea wishes she didn't have to tell them \"no\" so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea takes her kids to the grocery store. The family won't miss the RV when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At least we have something that's ours again, we're regaining something,\" Chelsea said. \"But then having to adapt to how different our lives had become overnight was ... intense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. And, as Noah says, it brought them literally and figuratively closer together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea watches her twin daughters, Harper and Riley, while her mom, Kim, plays with the twin boys, August and Bishop, in their RV. Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they won't miss it when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I'll ... take the things that I've learned here, and the patience that I've had to gain with my kids and with Noah and with my mom, and I'll take those things and use them in the future and credit this time in the trailer to it,\" Chelsea said. \"But I don't know that I'll be like, 'Man, I wish I was ... standing under that trickling shower.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea hug after taking their kids to look at their new house they are rebuilding in Paradise on Nov. 8. The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. Grocery stores in Paradise won't have everything they need, and as far as they know their kids won't have others to play with in the neighborhood. But returning to their old property feels right, and Chelsea says that if that changes, they will reevaluate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You wouldn't be able to pick our yard out of any other yard on the street because they're all the same, just dirt,\" she said. \"But that dirt felt like ours still. It still felt like we weren't done there yet, and it felt in a good way, like we need to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk showed off his company's all-electric \"Cybertruck\" on Thursday, touting its versatility and toughness. But the truck's unique design — it follows one angle from the front bumper to the top of the windshield, for instance — threw some Tesla fans for a loop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And during a demonstration to show off the truck's \"armor glass,\" the windows smashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Tesla style, the unveiling in Los Angeles included a countdown clock and an auditorium full of fans and journalists. The truck drove onto the stage through wafts of artificial smoke, and music drummed through loudspeakers. 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Others followed, such as Lamborghini's angular Countach and the Lotus Esprit, one of which was made into an amphibious vehicle for Roger Moore's James Bond — a car that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/18/tesla-elon-musk-james-bond-lotus-submarine-car\">Musk bought in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The front of the Cybertruck angles up to a point just above the front-seat headrests, where it meets an even longer slope down to the rear — a continuous plane that includes both a transparent roof panel and the truck's rolltop bed cover, which retracts behind the back seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk seems to have expected the wedge-shaped design to split some potential customers, saying months before the truck's long-awaited unveiling that \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2019/03/15/tesla-cyberpunk-electric-pickup-truck-teaser-elon-musk/\">its look\u003c/a> \"may be too futuristic for most people.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"Tesla unveiled its Cybertruck electric vehicle Thursday night. 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He asked what effect she thought it might have on witnesses’ willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very intimidating,” she said, although Yovanovitch said she couldn’t address what Trump’s intentions might have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responded Schiff: “Well, I want to let you know, Ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/DbW-A96UIm8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman repeated his warning to reporters during a break in the hearing. Afterward, Schiff linked what he called the intimidation with an “incriminating” pattern of conduct by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an unrelated event at the White House on health care prices, Trump told reporters that he had been exercising his “freedom of speech” and did not feel that he had been intimidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the right to speak,” Trump said. “I have freedom of speech just as other people do. But they’ve taken away the Republicans’ rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Witness about early phase of saga\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch was a key witness about the earliest phase of the Ukraine affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lost her post in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, earlier this year after what has been described as a smear campaign by Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and associates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/771849041/how-a-complicated-web-connects-2-soviet-born-businessmen-with-the-impeachment-in\">Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman\u003c/a>, witnesses have told House investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those three worked with Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko to spread what Yovanovitch called lies about her, including that she was disloyal to Trump and that she had given Lutsenko a list of Ukrainians she didn’t want prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parnas and Fruman have been arrested and charged with violating U.S. campaign finance law; \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772650522/giuliani-associates-plead-not-guilty-to-charges-of-making-illegal-campaign-donat\">they have pleaded not guilty\u003c/a>. An attorney for Parnas has told NPR he’s open to working with congressional impeachment investigators, but the outlines of that aren’t clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors may be investigating whether Giuliani stood to profit from a natural gas business linked with Parnas and Fruman, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-prosecutors-probe-giulianis-links-to-ukrainian-energy-projects-11573837576?mod=hp_lead_pos6\">The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile at the Capitol, Schiff said that Yovanovitch’s ouster was a necessary prologue to the main story about Ukraine — that Trump and Giuliani had to push her out of the way to put in place the shadow lane for communication they wanted outside of officialdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting rid of Ambassador Yovanovitch helped set the stage for an irregular channel that could pursue the two investigations that mattered so much to the president: the 2016 conspiracy theory, and most important, an investigation into the 2020 political opponent he apparently feared most, Joe Biden,” Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Military assistance for Ukraine was frozen by the White House for a period of weeks this summer, then released. 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How is it that foreign corrupt interests could manipulate our government?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch acknowledged that Trump has the power to appoint and remove diplomats as he pleases, but she argued that if an American representative can be “kneecapped” for political reasons, it dilutes U.S. power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to remove an American ambassador who does not give them what they want,” Yovanovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch already has talked with investigators; read her \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6538626-Marie-Yovanovitch-Testimony\">closed-door deposition here\u003c/a>. Her opening statement Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779674990/read-former-ukraine-ambassador-yovanovitchs-opening-statement-to-congress\">is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I saw it as a threat”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some State Department officials have said they objected to what they saw happening, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed to end Yovanovitch’s tenure early and spurned requests to defend her in public, witnesses have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pompeo’s adviser, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776075712/read-ex-state-department-adviser-michael-mckinleys-testimony-to-congress\">Michael McKinley\u003c/a>, faulted what he called Pompeo’s willingness to sell out a career diplomat and resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch said Friday that she lamented that Pompeo has declined to acknowledge that attacks on the foreign service are “dangerously wrong” and impair America’s ability to work its will overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also was asked what she made of the account released by the White House in which Trump is described as telling Ukraine’s president that “things were going to happen to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw it as a threat,” Yovanovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Case for the defense\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans emphasized Yovanovitch’s tangential involvement in the central narrative and repeated that Trump has broad powers to replace any ambassador — and many other officials — within the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. 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These impeachment proceedings are about pure political animus toward Trump, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes mocked Democrats’ desire to “fulfill their Watergate fantasies” and called the first hearing, on Wednesday, a “farce” based on hearsay and “rumors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulvaney earlier argued that the impeachment case boils down to complaints by the foreign policy establishment about Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the administration works for the president, foreign policy is necessarily political, and, Mulvaney said, critics need to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770979659/watch-white-house-holds-now-rare-press-briefing-amid-impeachment-syria-conflicts\">get over it\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican counsel Steve Castor also underscored with Yovanovitch, as he did with earlier witnesses, that corruption in Ukraine remains a real problem and that at least one big case involving the gas company Burisma hadn’t been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That company added to its board the son of then-Vice President Biden; Trump sought an investigation into the Biden family, and his defenders have sought to draw attention to that aspect of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bidens haven’t been accused of breaking the law, but Trump and others continue to raise questions about Hunter Biden’s payments by the Ukrainian company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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The company lets advertisers select who can and cannot see ads, based on a range of different categories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,” in violation of the Fair Housing Act, HUD Secretary Ben Carson said when the suit was filed in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has also been accused of allowing age and gender discrimination in job ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nicol Turner Lee, fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation\"]‘We have to ask ourselves, are companies like Facebook clear about the guardrails that are protecting human and civil rights, and the extent to which they’re building products and services that comply with those laws?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704831866/after-lawsuits-facebook-announces-changes-to-alleged-discriminatory-ad-targeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has stopped\u003c/a> letting advertisers target ads for housing, jobs and credit to people based on their ethnic group, gender, age or zip code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, it pledged \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1 billion\u003c/a> toward affordable housing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg told the committee that “people shouldn’t be discriminated against on any of our services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicol Turner Lee, a fellow at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/center/center-for-technology-innovation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation\u003c/a> who studies access to technology, said Facebook may not have intended its advertising tools to be used this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Internet platforms need to take more care to consider the consequences of the technologies they build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to ask ourselves, are companies like Facebook clear about the guardrails that are protecting human and civil rights, and the extent to which they’re building products and services that comply with those laws?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why Won’t Facebook Stop Politicians From Lying?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s latest firestorm is also about advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics are furious about the social network’s policy of allowing politicians to publish misleading or downright untrue posts and ads on its platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How does this new policy benefit you?” Waters asked Zuckerberg. “It seems that a policy that allows politicians to lie, mislead and deceive would allow Facebook to sell more ads, thus making the company more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook says its policy flows from its commitment to free speech. It says it does not want to judge whether political speech is true or not, and that users should be free to hear from politicians and make up their own minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that has not satisfied critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of this will be a massive voter suppression effort that will move at the speed of a click,” Waters said. “Your claim to promote free speech does not ring true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts ran her own \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769946841/troll-watch-elizabeth-warrens-facebook-ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliberately false Facebook ad\u003c/a> to protest the policy. In it, she incorrectly claimed Facebook and Zuckerberg had endorsed President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg said he had considered dropping political advertising altogether — noting that it contributes just a tiny fraction of Facebook’s billions of dollars in annual sales. But he argued that could have the effect of favoring incumbents and candidates favored by the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What is Facebook Doing to Prevent the 2020 Election From Being a Repeat of 2016?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With U.S. intelligence agencies warning that foreign governments may try to influence American politics leading up to next year’s election, lawmakers want to know how Facebook is defending its platform from manipulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook has been found at the scene of the crime” when it comes to false information spreading in many places around the world, said Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11770683,news_11750792,news_11619331\" label=\"Facebook and Election Security\"]Zuckerberg gave an update about Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/21/772035601/we-have-a-big-responsibility-facebook-rolls-out-new-election-security-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">election security\u003c/a> efforts on Monday. That included a number of new features and updates to existing policies to provide more transparency about who is posting on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the site will now be labeling content from media outlets it considers to be “state-controlled,” which Facebook defines as “wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the scope of the problem Facebook must confront was also highlighted on Monday when the company said it had taken down four more networks of fake accounts. Facebook said it has removed more than 50 such networks, which could attempt to manipulate its users, in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of the newly disabled networks were tied to Iran, while the fourth originated in Russia and showed some links to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll farm involved in political interference in 2016, Facebook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg told reporters on Monday that election security “is one of my top priorities for the company” and that Facebook is no longer “on our back foot” when it comes to identifying fake accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Is Facebook too Powerful?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Congress is not the only branch of government asking tough questions about Facebook. The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and a group of 47 state attorneys general are all investigating Facebook for potential antitrust violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have opened up a serious discussion about whether Facebook should be broken up,” Waters told Zuckerberg on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"mark-zuckerberg\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The state prosecutors are “concerned that Facebook may have put consumer data at risk, reduced the quality of consumers’ choices, and increased the price of advertising,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics are calling for the company to be broken up, or for its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to be unwound. Warren has made the breakup of Facebook — along with Google and Amazon — a key part of her campaign platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some tech veterans agree. Marc Benioff, the CEO of software company Salesforce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/tech/salesforce-marc-benioff-break-up-facebook-boss-files/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a> that Facebook is “addictive” and has too much control of users’ data — and therefore should be broken up. “They’re having an undue influence as the largest social media platform on the planet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even a Facebook co-founder has turned on the company. Chris Hughes, who was one of Zuckerberg’s roommates at Harvard, launched a $10 million anti-monopoly fund to support policy, academic research and organizing to take on corporate power in tech and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg bristles at the idea of breaking up his company. 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