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Long’s firm, Urban Design Associates, was hired by the town council to develop a long-term recovery plan for Paradise. They’ve begun holding meetings — the latest scheduled for March 19 — discussing with residents how they think their town should be rebuilt. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people have had to leave Paradise after about 90 percent of the town — almost 19,000 structures — burned to the ground last November in the Camp Fire, which also claimed 85 lives. But for the few who do remain and are eager to begin rebuilding, Long sought to give them reassurances: you can’t just abandon a community that’s been a fixture in the Sierra Nevada foothills since the the 1800s, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took 140 years to build Paradise and obviously things did survive, like the church here,” Long said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban Design Associates also consulted for the state of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. And that’s what this still unfolding crisis is starting to be likened to: a rural Katrina. One big parallel emerging so far is anxiety over gentrification. Once Paradise is rebuilt, there’s resounding agreement it will have much tougher, fire-safe building codes. And that won’t be cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need affordable living and our home back,” said Cathe Wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/image-from-ios-7-ba10d2c97008e4f7315d853a2810731814e70c75-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paradise Mayor Jody Jones talks with anxious constituents at a recent town hall meeting at Paradise Alliance Church about rebuilding their town, destroyed in last fall's Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731317\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise Mayor Jody Jones talks with anxious constituents at a recent town hall meeting at Paradise Alliance Church about rebuilding their town, destroyed in last fall’s Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Anxiety Over Gentrification \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wood has lived in Paradise for 30 years. 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Mobile home parks, tract houses, fast food restaurants were packed into overgrown forests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Paradise, After the Camp Fire\" tag=\"paradise\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathe Wood hopes something good will come out of all this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a great opportunity up here for a complete reset,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Complete Reset, But Will it Be Affordable?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Paradise is not going to be the same as it was,” said Jody Jones, the town’s mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the recovery process moves forward, Jones and other town officials insist they’re trying to balance rebuilding smarter while also not mandating expensive changes. But they’ve never done this before and they’re learning as they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that I can give any assurances it’s not going to be gentrified,” Jones said. “Because in some sense of the word what people mean by that is new, and everything we build is going to be new, it’s going to be different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is Paradise has time to get it right. The scale of this disaster is enormous, even just cleaning it up and removing all the hazardous debris could take more than a year. So it’s not as if the town can just be repopulated and rebuilt immediately as it was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup only began in earnest a couple weeks ago. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Thinking Big\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At another forum in nearby Chico, a group of third-year architecture students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo may have some answers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve put up poster boards showing architectural renderings of energy efficient, and “fire-wise” municipal buildings. There are proposed, newly redesigned, wider street grids for safer evacuations. And neighborhoods are drawn with more cleared out, open space between smaller, modern and up to code homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/image-from-ios-8-_sq-a11d05925eea1aa5ee08ac1d67eb32f37e8e55dd-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Third-year architecture student Alessandro Zanghi is proposing a new vocational college in Paradise, to train carpenters, plumbers and other trades that will be in high demand as the foothills town looks to rebuild.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731318\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third-year architecture student Alessandro Zanghi is proposing a new vocational college in Paradise, to train carpenters, plumbers and other trades that will be in high demand as the foothills town looks to rebuild. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few curious members of the public mingled around the presentation talking to students who said their models were still a work in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to figure out a different way to rearrange the town so that it better suits the inhabitants and brings new people to Paradise” said Allessandro Zanghi. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re calling it a “re-imagined Paradise.” The class typically consults for underserved communities. And when the Camp Fire happened, the curriculum was re-designed to cater to Paradise and surrounding burnt-out towns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Zanghi, it’s been a challenge trying to redesign proposals that preserve Paradise’s rural character. But he said it’s a misnomer that rebuilding or redeveloping a mountain community like this will result in a more expensive town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important to have architecture be more than just luxury high rises,” Zanghi said. “It should be things that help a community grow and flourish.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordability and gentrification are some of the more heated topics emerging so far in the town’s preliminary discussions. At some cantankerous city council meetings, fire survivors have argued with officials over whether they could put campers on burnt-out properties and how FEMA resources will be allocated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students’ instructor, Stacey White, said those are tough conversations that have to happen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Even though the Bay Area is surrounded by water, a lot of people don’t know much about the nautical vessels that roam our waters, and many of you have asked Bay Curious about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we turned to the experts — the Coast Guard’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=vtsMain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vessel Traffic Services\u003c/a> (VTS) — to help us find the answers to your many questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s the difference between the various vessels on the bay?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most of the large boats on the bay are either \u003cstrong>barges\u003c/strong> or \u003cstrong>cargo ships\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731084 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-1200x764.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-1920x1223.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction barge next to the Bay Bridge took part in the last of the demolition work on the old bridge span. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003cstrong>barge\u003c/strong> is a floating platform. It doesn’t have a motor, like the trailer part of a tractor-trailer.\u003cbr>\n[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003cbr>\nThere are many kinds of barges. Spud barges, for example, use a big steel shaft or spud that goes down to the bay floor to stay anchored in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other barges are used for dredging and construction, which is constantly happening to keep certain channels in the bay deep enough for big vessels to get in and out of the ports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731086 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Treasure Island East Moorings. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of these dredging barges are anchored at the Treasure Island East Moorings, east of Treasure Island and north of the Bay Bridge. Empty barges are tied there to floating mooring balls, which are anchored to the bay floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When silt and rocks are dredged from the bay floor, they’re piled onto a barge. Once that barge is full, it’s towed away to be dumped, and then one of the empty barges parked at the mooring group is brought in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a big parking lot is what it is,” said Michael Roja, who leads VTS for the Coast Guard. “This is the biggest mooring group in the bay.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cargo ships\u003c/strong> have an engine and are designed to go long distances. They’re often designed to carry specific cargo — cars, fuel — but in theory they can carry anything. \u003cstrong>Container ships\u003c/strong> are a type of cargo ship designed to carry shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731081 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328-1020x720.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A container ship. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, there are a lot of container ships that come in from Asia and head to various ports (often the Port of Oakland), filled with all the stuff we buy from overseas. But before these ships can enter the bay, they have to go through a lengthy approval process:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Ship operators have to submit a notice of arrival with the Coast Guard and request pilotage.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ships are assigned a pilot and a spot in the bay — either a berth at a port or a spot at an anchorage. (An anchorage is a set place in the bay for ships to drop anchor and wait. There are anchorages all over. Anchorage 9, off Hunters Point, is the largest in the bay and the only place fueling is allowed. Anchorage 23, up by Benicia, is for ships to wait out the fog.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The pilot boards the ship out at the pilot station — about 11 miles into the ocean from the Golden Gate Bridge — and then brings the ship into the bay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The ship goes straight to the port it’s been assigned to unload or load (each port is designed for specific types of cargo) OR the ship goes to an anchorage to wait for a spot at port.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>VTS oversees all boat traffic within 38 nautical miles from the top of Mount Tamalpais, so after a big ship enters that circle, they have to notify Roja’s people — and they stay in constant communication about conditions and any obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It looks like some boats stay anchored in the bay for days at a time. Why?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731184 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A container ship being unloaded at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the time big ships are unloaded and reloaded all in a few days, sometimes even just in one day. But it can be a little complicated to line up everything — the staff to unload, and then the next shipment for a company to load up and take to the next port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 25 berths in Oakland, but it really can handle only about nine container ships at once, and that doesn’t count \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Biggest-cargo-ship-to-ever-grace-S-F-Bay-is-here-6730044.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ultralarge container ships, which can be over 1,300 feet long\u003c/a>. So when things back up, it slows down the whole process, like in 2016 when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10912162/labor-dispute-shuts-down-port-of-oaklands-largest-terminal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor dispute\u003c/a> at the Port of Oakland caused major slowdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time, though, if a boat sits around for more than a couple of days, it’s because the shipping company hasn’t given it new orders yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be based on their agent setting up their mooring inside the port,” Roja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes if a boat is anchored for an especially long time, the Coast Guard has to check in to make sure the crew has enough supplies and is being taken care of.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are the roles of the different ports?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731087 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075-1020x676.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Lord, our question asker, and Michael Roja, our question answerer. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only does each port have a specific role, but so do the docks at those different ports. For example:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Port of Oakland\u003c/strong> is designed to unload containers with those big \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629563/bay-curious-lightning-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars-esque cranes\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The ports in\u003cstrong> Richmond, Benicia and Martinez\u003c/strong> all have fuel docks, meaning they can load and unload oil and petroleum; Richmond also has a car dock and an aggregate dock.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong> has a car dock, designed to drive cars right off the boats. There are also two piers in San Francisco for cruise ships.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Which port and dock a ship is assigned to depends on what it’s carrying and what the requirements are. If you’re a little confused about where all this stuff is, here’s a map:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731194 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-800x592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-1200x888.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What happens to the sewage on the boats?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s collected, treated and processed, and then either pumped out when the ship is at dock or dumped as treated wastewater (not raw sewage) out at sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do the crews get on and off the boats that are anchored in the bay?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With a ladder! Smaller boats bring mail and supplies out to the big ships at the anchorages, and even ferry crew members on and off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now here is a bonus photo of sea lions playing on the hull of a container ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-289-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11731098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-289-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-289-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-289-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-289.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even though the Bay Area is surrounded by water, a lot of people don’t know much about the nautical vessels that roam our waters, and many of you have asked Bay Curious about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we turned to the experts — the Coast Guard’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=vtsMain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vessel Traffic Services\u003c/a> (VTS) — to help us find the answers to your many questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s the difference between the various vessels on the bay?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most of the large boats on the bay are either \u003cstrong>barges\u003c/strong> or \u003cstrong>cargo ships\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731084 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-1200x764.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6-1920x1223.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction barge next to the Bay Bridge took part in the last of the demolition work on the old bridge span. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003cstrong>barge\u003c/strong> is a floating platform. It doesn’t have a motor, like the trailer part of a tractor-trailer.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThere are many kinds of barges. Spud barges, for example, use a big steel shaft or spud that goes down to the bay floor to stay anchored in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other barges are used for dredging and construction, which is constantly happening to keep certain channels in the bay deep enough for big vessels to get in and out of the ports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731086 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BARGE_7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Treasure Island East Moorings. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of these dredging barges are anchored at the Treasure Island East Moorings, east of Treasure Island and north of the Bay Bridge. Empty barges are tied there to floating mooring balls, which are anchored to the bay floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When silt and rocks are dredged from the bay floor, they’re piled onto a barge. Once that barge is full, it’s towed away to be dumped, and then one of the empty barges parked at the mooring group is brought in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a big parking lot is what it is,” said Michael Roja, who leads VTS for the Coast Guard. “This is the biggest mooring group in the bay.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cargo ships\u003c/strong> have an engine and are designed to go long distances. They’re often designed to carry specific cargo — cars, fuel — but in theory they can carry anything. \u003cstrong>Container ships\u003c/strong> are a type of cargo ship designed to carry shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731081 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-328-1020x720.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A container ship. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, there are a lot of container ships that come in from Asia and head to various ports (often the Port of Oakland), filled with all the stuff we buy from overseas. But before these ships can enter the bay, they have to go through a lengthy approval process:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Ship operators have to submit a notice of arrival with the Coast Guard and request pilotage.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ships are assigned a pilot and a spot in the bay — either a berth at a port or a spot at an anchorage. (An anchorage is a set place in the bay for ships to drop anchor and wait. There are anchorages all over. Anchorage 9, off Hunters Point, is the largest in the bay and the only place fueling is allowed. Anchorage 23, up by Benicia, is for ships to wait out the fog.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The pilot boards the ship out at the pilot station — about 11 miles into the ocean from the Golden Gate Bridge — and then brings the ship into the bay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The ship goes straight to the port it’s been assigned to unload or load (each port is designed for specific types of cargo) OR the ship goes to an anchorage to wait for a spot at port.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>VTS oversees all boat traffic within 38 nautical miles from the top of Mount Tamalpais, so after a big ship enters that circle, they have to notify Roja’s people — and they stay in constant communication about conditions and any obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It looks like some boats stay anchored in the bay for days at a time. Why?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731184 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-444-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A container ship being unloaded at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the time big ships are unloaded and reloaded all in a few days, sometimes even just in one day. But it can be a little complicated to line up everything — the staff to unload, and then the next shipment for a company to load up and take to the next port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 25 berths in Oakland, but it really can handle only about nine container ships at once, and that doesn’t count \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Biggest-cargo-ship-to-ever-grace-S-F-Bay-is-here-6730044.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ultralarge container ships, which can be over 1,300 feet long\u003c/a>. So when things back up, it slows down the whole process, like in 2016 when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10912162/labor-dispute-shuts-down-port-of-oaklands-largest-terminal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor dispute\u003c/a> at the Port of Oakland caused major slowdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time, though, if a boat sits around for more than a couple of days, it’s because the shipping company hasn’t given it new orders yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be based on their agent setting up their mooring inside the port,” Roja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes if a boat is anchored for an especially long time, the Coast Guard has to check in to make sure the crew has enough supplies and is being taken care of.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are the roles of the different ports?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731087 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/BayCuriousBarges-075-1020x676.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Lord, our question asker, and Michael Roja, our question answerer. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only does each port have a specific role, but so do the docks at those different ports. For example:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Port of Oakland\u003c/strong> is designed to unload containers with those big \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629563/bay-curious-lightning-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars-esque cranes\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The ports in\u003cstrong> Richmond, Benicia and Martinez\u003c/strong> all have fuel docks, meaning they can load and unload oil and petroleum; Richmond also has a car dock and an aggregate dock.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong> has a car dock, designed to drive cars right off the boats. There are also two piers in San Francisco for cruise ships.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Which port and dock a ship is assigned to depends on what it’s carrying and what the requirements are. If you’re a little confused about where all this stuff is, here’s a map:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11731194 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-800x592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01-1200x888.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/bayarea_ships_final01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What happens to the sewage on the boats?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s collected, treated and processed, and then either pumped out when the ship is at dock or dumped as treated wastewater (not raw sewage) out at sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do the crews get on and off the boats that are anchored in the bay?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With a ladder! 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"content": "\u003cp>Wildlife officials plan to lift protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, re-igniting the legal battle over a predator that’s run into conflicts with farmers and ranchers after rebounding in some regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the proposal during a Wednesday speech at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Denver, a weeklong conservation forum for researchers, government officials and others, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Spokesman Gavin Shire in an interview with the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WolfPupCorrected-1180x636.jpg\" label=\"Gray Wolves in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1925619/california-comeback-for-gray-wolf-hits-farthest-point-south,California Comeback for Gray Wolf Hits Farthest Point South\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/204165/gray-wolf-pups-found-in-california-first-in-nearly-a-century,Gray Wolf Pups Found in California -- First in Nearly a Century\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11551637/rare-gray-wolf-pups-born-in-california,Rare Gray Wolf Pups Born in California\"]The decision was based on gray wolves successfully recovering from widespread extermination last century, Shire said. Further details were expected during a formal announcement planned in coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife advocates reacted with outrage and promised to challenge in court any attempt to lift protections. Agriculture groups and lawmakers from Western states are likely to support the administration’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the country by the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They received endangered species protections in 1975, when there were about 1,000 left, only in northern Minnesota. Now more than 5,000 of the animals live in the contiguous U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are in the Western Great Lakes and Northern Rockies regions. Since being reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the mid-1990s, the population has expanded to parts of Oregon, Washington and California. In 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/204165/gray-wolf-pups-found-in-california-first-in-nearly-a-century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first gray wolf pups\u003c/a> were found in California in nearly a century. In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11551637/rare-gray-wolf-pups-born-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a second pack of pups\u003c/a> was spotted in Lassen County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protections for the Northern Rockies population were lifted in 2011 and hundreds of wolves are killed annually by hunters in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11731066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service may remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species list. \u003ccite>(U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Midwest Region / Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State officials and government biologists have said wolves continue to thrive despite pressure from hunting. The animals are prolific breeders and can adapt to a variety of habitats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wildlife advocates have fought to keep federal protections in place until wolves repopulate more of their historic range that stretched across most of North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1937360\"]The Fish and Wildlife Service has argued for years that gray wolves have recovered in the lower 48 states, despite experts who contend they occupy about 15 percent of the territory they once roamed. Agency officials insist that recovery of wolves everywhere is not required for the species to no longer to be in danger of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Vucetich, a wildlife biologist at Michigan Technological University, said most wolf experts probably would agree the species is not at imminent risk, but he said he considers dropping federal protections a premature move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he could not pinpoint a threshold at which he would consider the wolves to be recovered but that “it’s nowhere near as small as 15 percent” of the far-flung regions where they once lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people “still find it difficult to live with wolves,” primarily because they kill livestock, as well as the deer and elk that people like to hunt, Vucetich said. If wolves are returned to state management, he said, “I do worry that some of the states could be overly aggressive and that wolves could fare worse than their current condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/118901/reviled-revered-is-the-gray-wolf-still-an-endangered-species\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The government first proposed revoking the wolf’s protected status in 2013\u003c/a>, but backed off after federal courts struck down its plan for “delisting” the species in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_118901\"]Fish and Wildlife Service officials disclosed to the Associated Press last year that another scientific review of the animal’s status had been launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shire declined to disclose the agency’s rationale for determining the species had recovered, but said members of the public would have a chance to comment before a final decision was reached in coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recovery of the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act is one of our nation’s great conservation successes, with the wolf joining other cherished species, such as the bald eagle, that have been brought back from the brink,” Shire later added in an email statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Clark, a former director of the Fish and Wildlife Service now with the Defenders of Wildlife group, said endangered species protections were need to prevent “an all-out war on wolves” in states that would allow hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any confidence that wolves will be managed like other wildlife,” she said. “We’re going to fight this in any way possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Yates, director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation, applauded the federal agency’s plan and said many farmers and ranchers have lost livestock to wolf kills since the species was granted legal protections. The farmers and ranchers will respect state regulations aimed at managing wolf populations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people like them, some people don’t, but the law’s the law,” said Yates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Congress frustrated with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1937360/judge-rules-gray-wolves-can-stay-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court rulings maintaining protections\u003c/a> for wolves have backed legislation to forcibly strip protections in the Great Lakes region and beyond. It was a similar effort by lawmakers that succeeded in 2011 for Northern Rockies wolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The decision was based on gray wolves successfully recovering from widespread extermination last century, Shire said. Further details were expected during a formal announcement planned in coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife advocates reacted with outrage and promised to challenge in court any attempt to lift protections. Agriculture groups and lawmakers from Western states are likely to support the administration’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the country by the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They received endangered species protections in 1975, when there were about 1,000 left, only in northern Minnesota. Now more than 5,000 of the animals live in the contiguous U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are in the Western Great Lakes and Northern Rockies regions. Since being reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the mid-1990s, the population has expanded to parts of Oregon, Washington and California. In 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/204165/gray-wolf-pups-found-in-california-first-in-nearly-a-century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first gray wolf pups\u003c/a> were found in California in nearly a century. In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11551637/rare-gray-wolf-pups-born-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a second pack of pups\u003c/a> was spotted in Lassen County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protections for the Northern Rockies population were lifted in 2011 and hundreds of wolves are killed annually by hunters in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11731066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service may remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species list. \u003ccite>(U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Midwest Region / Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State officials and government biologists have said wolves continue to thrive despite pressure from hunting. The animals are prolific breeders and can adapt to a variety of habitats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wildlife advocates have fought to keep federal protections in place until wolves repopulate more of their historic range that stretched across most of North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The balm of winter rain is already coaxing carpets of green to sprout in wide swaths of Northern and Southern California that were scorched by deadly \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/fire-acresupdates-1h8j4xxgo5rp4mv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfires\u003c/a> just a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To most of us, the vigorous grass sprays and dazzling wildflower bloom are a welcome sight, coloring over the dark remnant of fire. 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That’s certainly true in Malibu Creek State Park, three-quarters of which burned in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Goode, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, has been based there for nearly 30 years, with wildfires a constant threat. “Driving in after the fire I was shocked, taken aback by the extent of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she looks out on the green, rolling hills teeming with vegetation—and to her it’s an awful sight. “When I see a hillside full of mustard or milk thistle, I can’t think of that as beautiful,” she said, “because I know that it’s an invasive weed, it keeps other plants from growing and it’s dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent rains have accelerated regrowth. A mix of weeds, wildflowers and highly combustible non-native grasses blanket a slope. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dangerous because when fire wipes out native chaparral and scrub, they can be replaced by the non-native plants that accelerate fires and may serve no useful purpose, providing neither sustenance or habitat to wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shallow-rooted plants don’t hold soils well, adding to the threat of erosion in burned areas. The parks necklacing the Santa Monica Mountains have burned countless times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But November’s Woolsey Fire was particularly damaging, burning 99 percent of Leo Carrillo State Park in addition to the damage at Malibu Creek. Oaks and sycamores vaporized where they stood. Some trees tipped over and turned to white powder on the\u003cbr>\nblackened ground, their limbs reduced to chalky outlines reminiscent of crime scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire burned 150 square miles in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, killed three people and destroyed 1,500 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire that leveled the Northern California town of Paradise was the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/fire-fatalitiesupdates-1h984w8dj7784p3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadliest\u003c/a>, although it burned at a lower \u003ca href=\"http://192.168.1.1:8181/http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/cdf/images/incidentfile2277_4330.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intensity\u003c/a> than in Malibu and topography, vegetation and ownership in the Northern fire area are vastly different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-forest-management-fires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfires\u003c/a>, a fierce battle for survival begins, pitting native plants against the aggressive newcomers. Part of the problem for state land custodians is biology: Native plants tend to grow slowly, sometimes requiring precise conditions of soil, water and sun to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some plants thrive in soils enriched by nitrogen released by wildfires. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some take two to five years to come back. While these slow pokes are gathering to re-establish themselves, weeds—the unwanted plants—are not particularly choosy, adaptable wherever they might root and able to outlast all else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mustard plants, for example, which are now blanketing many charred hillsides and putting out cheerful yellow flowers, are masters of survival: Even the weed’s dead stalks produce a chemical that inhibits the ability of other plants to grow around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in some cases, the heat of a wildfire stimulates growth in invasive plants’ underground seed banks. When their sprouts come up, they draw nutrients from a nitrogen-rich soil left by fire. That pulse of fertilizer gives invasive plants a boost, and their head start is difficult to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just out-compete natives,” said Craig Sap, a state parks district superintendent in the Los Angeles area, singling out a giant reed, Arundo, for its prolific growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They become such an onerous plant to get out.” Grasses, in particular, are volatile fire-starters, burning quickly and spreading the flames. They produce embers that winds can carry a mile or more, igniting new blazes far from a main fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carla D’Antonio, a professor of ecology at UC Santa Barbara, has been \u003ca href=\"https://labs.eemb.ucsb.edu/dantonio/carla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researching\u003c/a> how forests and other areas recover from fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s most concerned about non-native plants, which may look pretty but could ultimately spell the end of native California species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730355\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Already this slope is covered with wildflowers. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I see grass surrounding remnant chaparral shrub and I just think, ‘Oh shoot, if another fire comes through here, those guys are toast,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several state universities, especially \u003ca href=\"https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/51071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Riverside\u003c/a>, are keenly studying how to maintain \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiachaparral.org/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chaparral\u003c/a>, a complex mixture of plants that represent what parts of California looked like before humans altered the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Antonio’s work, in particular, has shown how difficult it is to reseed chaparral. Naturally occurring wildfires can be beneficial by removing weak growth and dead plant material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their increasing frequency has contributed to “type conversion,” a wholesale change from chaparral to invasive weeds and grasses, signifying the loss of an iconic California landscape filled with manzanita, sage and toyon, a native shrub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Goode and her team focus on removing invasives and replanting natives. Under most circumstances, park personnel would replenish lost plants by taking trees and shrubs from Malibu Creek’s native plant nursery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the nursery was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730356\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildfires are devastating, but burned landscapes can come back. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The population of coastal live oaks that survived the Woolsey Fire would have been bolstered by hundreds of saplings planted in previous months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of those young \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/what-is-killing-californias-trees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trees\u003c/a> did not survive the blaze. The absence of trees causes concerns about the slopes’ ability to store water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team from Cal Fire, the state’s firefighting agency, was on the ground in Malibu two weeks after the Woolsey Fire, assessing risks to watersheds and structures from sediment and rocks cascading down denuded hillsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team issued a \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/cdf/images/incidentfile2282_4328.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> estimating that more than 60 percent of the burned area was at high or extreme risk for erosion in winter rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire does not perform fire rehab work—remove grasses or replant trees—but does have crews laboring most of the year to reduce highly combustible vegetation, said Kevin Conway, who manages a 70,000-acre forest research project for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has received nearly $27 million for six forest-clearing crews and has requested funds for four more in the next state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and local authorities also have crews across the state removing dead trees and clearing flammable brush, already \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-fights-wildfires-aggressively-but-prevention-takes-a-back-seat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preparing\u003c/a> for the next fire cycle. The triage falls mostly to the local managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not all of the regrowth is welcome. Some, such as this invasive milk thistle plant crowd out native species. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goode said she’d need a staff of 25-30 people to keep up. She has four. Decades of progress in eradicating fire-prone plants can be undone with a single fire, “years of work going up in smoke,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she has to prioritize which weeds to attack, ranking them according to their fire potential and ignoring plants that were formerly on the park’s most-unwanted list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I look at is to hold the progress I’ve already made, and then look at what can we reasonably get to,” she said. “It’s a battle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CALmatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The balm of winter rain is already coaxing carpets of green to sprout in wide swaths of Northern and Southern California that were scorched by deadly \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/fire-acresupdates-1h8j4xxgo5rp4mv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfires\u003c/a> just a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To most of us, the vigorous grass sprays and dazzling wildflower bloom are a welcome sight, coloring over the dark remnant of fire. But not to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/58ea6821-d1e7-46d0-9210-4629548a4d5b?src=embed\" title=\"Fire Acres/updates\" width=\"595\" height=\"842\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fast-growing plants are non-native and fire-prone, making it likely that the hills will be charred black again sooner rather than later. That’s certainly true in Malibu Creek State Park, three-quarters of which burned in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Goode, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, has been based there for nearly 30 years, with wildfires a constant threat. “Driving in after the fire I was shocked, taken aback by the extent of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she looks out on the green, rolling hills teeming with vegetation—and to her it’s an awful sight. “When I see a hillside full of mustard or milk thistle, I can’t think of that as beautiful,” she said, “because I know that it’s an invasive weed, it keeps other plants from growing and it’s dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/hills.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent rains have accelerated regrowth. A mix of weeds, wildflowers and highly combustible non-native grasses blanket a slope. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dangerous because when fire wipes out native chaparral and scrub, they can be replaced by the non-native plants that accelerate fires and may serve no useful purpose, providing neither sustenance or habitat to wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shallow-rooted plants don’t hold soils well, adding to the threat of erosion in burned areas. The parks necklacing the Santa Monica Mountains have burned countless times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But November’s Woolsey Fire was particularly damaging, burning 99 percent of Leo Carrillo State Park in addition to the damage at Malibu Creek. Oaks and sycamores vaporized where they stood. Some trees tipped over and turned to white powder on the\u003cbr>\nblackened ground, their limbs reduced to chalky outlines reminiscent of crime scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire burned 150 square miles in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, killed three people and destroyed 1,500 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire that leveled the Northern California town of Paradise was the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/fire-fatalitiesupdates-1h984w8dj7784p3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadliest\u003c/a>, although it burned at a lower \u003ca href=\"http://192.168.1.1:8181/http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/cdf/images/incidentfile2277_4330.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intensity\u003c/a> than in Malibu and topography, vegetation and ownership in the Northern fire area are vastly different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-forest-management-fires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfires\u003c/a>, a fierce battle for survival begins, pitting native plants against the aggressive newcomers. Part of the problem for state land custodians is biology: Native plants tend to grow slowly, sometimes requiring precise conditions of soil, water and sun to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/plants1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some plants thrive in soils enriched by nitrogen released by wildfires. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some take two to five years to come back. While these slow pokes are gathering to re-establish themselves, weeds—the unwanted plants—are not particularly choosy, adaptable wherever they might root and able to outlast all else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mustard plants, for example, which are now blanketing many charred hillsides and putting out cheerful yellow flowers, are masters of survival: Even the weed’s dead stalks produce a chemical that inhibits the ability of other plants to grow around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in some cases, the heat of a wildfire stimulates growth in invasive plants’ underground seed banks. When their sprouts come up, they draw nutrients from a nitrogen-rich soil left by fire. That pulse of fertilizer gives invasive plants a boost, and their head start is difficult to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just out-compete natives,” said Craig Sap, a state parks district superintendent in the Los Angeles area, singling out a giant reed, Arundo, for its prolific growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They become such an onerous plant to get out.” Grasses, in particular, are volatile fire-starters, burning quickly and spreading the flames. They produce embers that winds can carry a mile or more, igniting new blazes far from a main fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carla D’Antonio, a professor of ecology at UC Santa Barbara, has been \u003ca href=\"https://labs.eemb.ucsb.edu/dantonio/carla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researching\u003c/a> how forests and other areas recover from fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s most concerned about non-native plants, which may look pretty but could ultimately spell the end of native California species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730355\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/flowers.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Already this slope is covered with wildflowers. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I see grass surrounding remnant chaparral shrub and I just think, ‘Oh shoot, if another fire comes through here, those guys are toast,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several state universities, especially \u003ca href=\"https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/51071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Riverside\u003c/a>, are keenly studying how to maintain \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiachaparral.org/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chaparral\u003c/a>, a complex mixture of plants that represent what parts of California looked like before humans altered the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Antonio’s work, in particular, has shown how difficult it is to reseed chaparral. Naturally occurring wildfires can be beneficial by removing weak growth and dead plant material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their increasing frequency has contributed to “type conversion,” a wholesale change from chaparral to invasive weeds and grasses, signifying the loss of an iconic California landscape filled with manzanita, sage and toyon, a native shrub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Goode and her team focus on removing invasives and replanting natives. Under most circumstances, park personnel would replenish lost plants by taking trees and shrubs from Malibu Creek’s native plant nursery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the nursery was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730356\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/trees.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildfires are devastating, but burned landscapes can come back. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The population of coastal live oaks that survived the Woolsey Fire would have been bolstered by hundreds of saplings planted in previous months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of those young \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/what-is-killing-californias-trees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trees\u003c/a> did not survive the blaze. The absence of trees causes concerns about the slopes’ ability to store water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team from Cal Fire, the state’s firefighting agency, was on the ground in Malibu two weeks after the Woolsey Fire, assessing risks to watersheds and structures from sediment and rocks cascading down denuded hillsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team issued a \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/cdf/images/incidentfile2282_4328.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> estimating that more than 60 percent of the burned area was at high or extreme risk for erosion in winter rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire does not perform fire rehab work—remove grasses or replant trees—but does have crews laboring most of the year to reduce highly combustible vegetation, said Kevin Conway, who manages a 70,000-acre forest research project for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has received nearly $27 million for six forest-clearing crews and has requested funds for four more in the next state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and local authorities also have crews across the state removing dead trees and clearing flammable brush, already \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-fights-wildfires-aggressively-but-prevention-takes-a-back-seat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preparing\u003c/a> for the next fire cycle. The triage falls mostly to the local managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/invasive.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not all of the regrowth is welcome. Some, such as this invasive milk thistle plant crowd out native species. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goode said she’d need a staff of 25-30 people to keep up. She has four. Decades of progress in eradicating fire-prone plants can be undone with a single fire, “years of work going up in smoke,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she has to prioritize which weeds to attack, ranking them according to their fire potential and ignoring plants that were formerly on the park’s most-unwanted list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I look at is to hold the progress I’ve already made, and then look at what can we reasonably get to,” she said. “It’s a battle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early hours of Sept. 22, 2006, P.J. Phillips was awakened by a phone call from his parents. Phillips’ sheep ranch in the Capay Valley — a rural stretch of walnut orchards northwest of Sacramento — was on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could hear the grass burning,” Phillips said. “The snap, crackle, pop.” By the next morning, everything had burned. Phillips lost 270 sheep. The fire cost the Yolo County ranch thousands of dollars, and about a week later, a local sheriff discovered a second fire in almost the exact same spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"P.J. Phillips\"]‘Who would do something so demented as to set something on fire?’[/pullquote]Phillips was raised with wildfires. When the winter rains stop in California the state becomes a tinderbox and, as climate change accelerates, the resulting wildfires are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934533/the-new-abnormal-climate-effects-on-the-fire-season-are-just-beginning\">getting worse\u003c/a>. Most of them are started \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/us/california-wildfires-human-causes-arson.html\">by accident\u003c/a>, but there was something different about the way the fires on Phillips’ ranch started. A few weeks after his sheep burned, Phillips received a call from the local district attorney, who told him that both fires had been started on purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was shocked. “Who would do something so demented as to set something on fire?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Valley With A Fire Problem\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nobody really knows how many wildfires are started by arsonists, in California or anywhere else. Cal Fire says arsonists set around 7 percent of the state’s wildfires. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-shows-84-wildfires-caused-humans-180962315/\">Other studies\u003c/a> suggest they set about 20 percent. According to multiple arson investigators and profilers, many wildland arsonists feel frustrated by their lives or shortchanged. Setting fires can be a way for them to regain control or exert control over others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildland arsonists also tend to set a lot of fires, operating for years before they’re caught. “I would say that at some points in time, I was probably working over 20 arson cases,” said Alan Carlson, a former Cal Fire investigator who has helped solve wildland arson cases around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson oversaw Operation High Desert, the team of investigators that eventually tracked down the arsonist who burned P.J. Phillips’ sheep in 2006. That case is now considered one of California’s exemplary wildland arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1514px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11730003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1514\" height=\"1126\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut.jpg 1514w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-1200x892.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1514px) 100vw, 1514px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial footage of P.J. Phillips’ ranch in the Capay Valley, shortly after a wildfire burned through it. Phillips lost 270 sheep in that fire, and he was shocked to discover that someone had started it on purpose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alan Carlson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before they caught the man who burned Phillips’ sheep, most people in the Capay Valley didn’t think they had a fire problem. In the ’90s, the majority of the fires in the area were small. But as the years went by, there were more and more of them. By 2004, there were about 10 times more fires in the Capay Valley than there used to be. Then later that year, a fire outside town engulfed an area bigger than San Francisco. The cause was undetermined, but many suspected arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Alan Carlson and his team, Operation High Desert, got involved in the case. Their first step was figuring out how the Capay Valley arsonist liked to set his fires. Many serial wildland arsonists jerry-rig household items into incendiary devices, and in some cases, they’re built with a time-delay, so that the fire doesn’t start until after the arsonist is far away. It’s one of the reasons serial arsonists are so hard to catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730033\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35601_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-3-qut-e1551481985238.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11730033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35601_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-3-qut-e1551481985238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire investigator Alan Carlson’s truck at the scene of a fire in Rumsey Canyon in 2006. By the time his team responded to this fire, Cal Fire had been investigating wildland arson fires in the Capay Valley region for almost two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alan Carlson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire investigators combed through the Capay Valley’s burn sites looking for any evidence the arsonist may have left behind. And in 2005, local investigators found a brittle piece of material that curved in the shape of a “C.” It was part of a small, flat coil — every fire investigator interviewed for this story requested that KQED not describe it in further detail. Carlson said it’s one of the most dangerous arsonist’s devices he’s ever found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coil burns, it rarely leaves any trace of itself behind. “As they smolder down,” Carlson explained, “the ash drops off the coil like a cigarette ash and mixes in with what will become burned later on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coil can also take up to four hours to actually start a fire, giving the arsonist plenty of time to get away. It’s like a murder weapon where the trigger isn’t pulled until the killer is in another state. Then in most cases, it erases itself, deleting any evidence that it was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coil confirmed a suspicion that Carlson and the High Desert Team had from the very beginning. Whoever designed it had a feel for fire and how it works. That meant the Capay Valley arsonist could be a local firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1450px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11730001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1450\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut.jpg 1450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-1200x897.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of just some of the fires that Cal Fire investigator Alan Carlson suspects Bob Eason Jr. of setting. By the time they arrested Eason, Carlson and his team believe he had set 152 fires over the course of 18 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alan Carlson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Dedicated Fire Captain\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it comes to wildfires, firefighter arsonists are more common than you might think. According to multiple retired arson investigators, roughly one-third of the wildland arsonists they arrested worked in emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of 2005, a full year in to the Cal Fire team’s investigation, Carlson started combing through two decades of reports from the Capay Valley’s fires. He was looking for firefighters who responded to the fires a little too quickly, the cars that always seemed to pass by a hillside a few hours before it caught fire. And one name kept popping up: Bob Eason Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eason joined the Capay Valley’s volunteer Fire Department when he was 18 and he loved it. If there was a car accident, chances are it was Eason’s voice that the volunteers heard over the radio, directing paramedics to the crash scene. By the time Carlson and the High Desert investigation team started closing in on him as a suspect, Eason had been promoted to fire captain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730038\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11730038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fields in the Capay Valley, California. Cal Fire investigators suspect that a serial arsonist set over a hundred fires in the area. \u003ccite>(Teresa Cotsirilos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Carlson, the fires in the Capay Valley started burning right after Eason and his family moved to the area, and they tended to happen whenever Eason’s life took a turn for the worse. There was a flurry of fires after Eason lost his job at the ambulance company and an uptick in fires when his son was colicky. Eason used to drive through the Capay Valley’s back roads in the middle of the night, until his baby fell asleep. Carlson suspects he lit fires as he went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in June 2006, Carlson and his team of investigators began conducting surveillance of the Capay Valley area. They staked out a dozen different locations for months. Their investigation also relied on roadside cameras, and one of them caught Robert Eason driving suspiciously close to several fire scenes. In August 2006, the team received clearance from a judge to sneak a tracker onto Eason’s car. It showed Eason driving suspiciously close to a fire scene later that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 21, 2006, at around midnight, the tracker showed Eason driving past a large hill, then turning around and driving by it again. The hillside started to burn a few hours later. This was the fire that killed P.J. Phillips’ sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of the most damaging fires that Eason is accused of starting and it was also one of the last. A few weeks after the fire, Carlson’s team arrested Eason and searched his house and car. They didn’t find anything at first. Then in the trash, beneath a pile of dirty diapers, they found two coils ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eason was accused of lighting 16 fires in three months and he was suspected of starting a lot more than that. During the investigation, Carlson produced a detailed map of the Valley’s suspicious fires over the past two decades. He now believes that Eason set 152 fires over the course of 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“In His Mind, He Was The Hero Every Time”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eason’s arrest shocked many of the volunteer firefighters in his department. That included members of his family. Eason’s father, Bob Eason Sr., was once a fire captain in the San Francisco Bay Area. When the family moved to the Capay Valley, he and his son had joined the local volunteer fire department together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Bob Eason Sr.\"]‘If you listen to his stories, I like to say that the stories are always different but the hero’s always the same.’[/pullquote]Eason Sr. remembers the day his son was arrested. He received a call from an agitated neighbor. “‘Bob, there must be 15 [police] cars around your house!'” he remembers her saying. When Eason Sr. arrived at their family’s home, three or four officers approached him. They were friendly enough and asked if he was aware of his son’s activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Of course I wasn’t aware of it,’ ” Eason Sr. recalled saying. “And you know, I think [if] anything like that was going on, I would know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for him to admit this now, but Eason Sr.’s first thought was that his son might be guilty. He and his son are close and always have been, but their relationship is complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Eason Jr. was born, Eason Sr. thought it was a given that he would become a firefighter like him. “We bought him firetrucks, and he would play firetrucks with his little hat,” he said. But it quickly became clear Eason Jr. was different. He may have had learning disabilities — his father recalls that he couldn’t pay attention in school — and his hands tend to shake when he feels stressed or emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Eason Sr. steered his son away from the fire academy, which requires focus and test-taking skills. His son ignored him and tried to do any firefighting work he could. He bounced from job to job, working as an ambulance driver and an EMT — jobs that involve saving lives.\u003cbr>\nEason Sr. suspects his son wanted to be a hero. “If you listen to his stories, I like to say that the stories are always different but the hero’s always the same,” he said. “I think in his mind he was a hero, every time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘It Makes No Sense’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eason Sr. doesn’t think his son is the hero of this story, but he doesn’t think he’s the villain either. He now believes his son is innocent. There are still a few lingering questions in this case, he said, and investigators were too single-minded to notice them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Read More on California's Destructive Fires\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1928992/half-of-californias-10-largest-fires-occurred-in-the-last-5-years, California's Largest, Deadliest and Most Destructive Fires\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694261/causes-for-californias-worst-fires-are-often-undetermined, Causes for California's Worst Fires Are Often 'Undetermined'\"]Take the coils, for instance. Local investigators found evidence of them at multiple fire scenes, but Cal Fire investigator Alan Carlson and his team never found evidence of them at any of the fires that Eason Jr. was actually convicted of starting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Carlson and his team, of course, this makes sense: The whole reason the coil is so dangerous is that it often erases itself. But this lack of evidence at some of the fire scenes drives Eason Sr. crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying, ‘Well, because we couldn’t find any evidence that he did it, therefore he had to have done it,’ ” he says. “It makes no sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t bother the jury at Eason Jr.’s trial. He was found guilty in October 2008 of 12 counts of arson. The judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison, which Eason Sr. argues is a disproportionate punishment for what his son is accused of. The 12 fires Eason Jr. was actually convicted of starting didn’t really hurt anyone beyond farmer Phillips’ sheep. Some of the fires were as small as your average bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California’s ‘Frequent Flyers’ Who Ignite Fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eason Sr. left the Capay Valley after the trial. He gave up his walnut orchard years ago and traded it in for a house in a quiet town north of Chico: Paradise, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire there killed 85 people in November 2018. Tens of thousands were displaced, and Eason Sr. was one of them. He said he plans to move back to Paradise as soon as he can.\u003cbr>\nHe wasn’t home when the Camp Fire started, but in a crazy coincidence, the man who put his son in prison was close enough to smell the smoke. Fire investigator Alan Carlson lives in Chico now and he awoke to a volcanic black cloud spreading through the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/PGELineDown-1180x787.jpg\" label=\"Pacific Gas and Electric\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729842/pge-says-its-equipment-likely-caused-camp-fire-as-investigation-continues, Utility Says Its Equipment Likely Caused Camp Fire, as Investigation Continues\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727130/what-could-be-worse-than-the-next-big-fire-the-next-big-fire-caused-by-pge, What Could Be Worse Than the Next Big Fire?\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11720738/cal-fire-pge-not-at-fault-in-fire-that-destroyed-parts-of-santa-rosa, Cal Fire: Power Lines Did Not Start Fire That Destroyed Parts of Santa Rosa\"]\u003cbr>\n“I went down to the end of the street to get a better look,” he recalled. “I figured at some point in the process, I’d probably be investigating the fire.” He was right. Carlson retired from Cal Fire and has now been hired by one of the many potential plaintiffs who may sue PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E experienced an unexplained power outage right before the Camp Fire started, and some survivors say their homes burned down because of the company’s neglected and faulty equipment. Like the arsonists that Carlson spent years tracking, he said, some of the corporations that start fires also tend to start a lot of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain industries out there that seem to be inherently frequent flyers when it comes to igniting fires,” Carlson said. While many of those fires aren’t due to criminal negligence, plenty of them could be. Cal Fire investigators found evidence that PG&E had broken state laws in 11 wildfires in 2017. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11039339/pge-found-guilty-of-obstruction-of-justice-in-deadly-san-bruno-blast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E was also convicted for the deadly 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether a fire is set by a person or a corporation, the work that goes into investigating it stays more or less the same. Carlson and his team learned a lot from the two long years it took them to catch one troubled fire captain in the Capay Valley. Their investigation was exhaustive, and Carlson said it relied on a range of surveillance and forensic techniques that Cal Fire had not combined to that extent before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of many cases that helped set a new investigative standard at the agency, which Carlson and other investigators said Cal Fire will bring with it as it looks into the Camp Fire and other disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson has spent weeks in the Camp Fire wreckage, trudging uphill through the mud with his gear bag. “It was just miserable,” he said. “The winds were blowing almost constantly, dust flying, ash flying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he learned one thing from the Capay Valley case, he said, it’s that this kind of meticulous work pays off. The Capay Valley burned last year and it burned the year before that, but according to Cal Fire the actual number of wildfires in the region has dropped since Bob Eason Jr. went to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Phillips was raised with wildfires. When the winter rains stop in California the state becomes a tinderbox and, as climate change accelerates, the resulting wildfires are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934533/the-new-abnormal-climate-effects-on-the-fire-season-are-just-beginning\">getting worse\u003c/a>. Most of them are started \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/us/california-wildfires-human-causes-arson.html\">by accident\u003c/a>, but there was something different about the way the fires on Phillips’ ranch started. A few weeks after his sheep burned, Phillips received a call from the local district attorney, who told him that both fires had been started on purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was shocked. “Who would do something so demented as to set something on fire?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Valley With A Fire Problem\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nobody really knows how many wildfires are started by arsonists, in California or anywhere else. Cal Fire says arsonists set around 7 percent of the state’s wildfires. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-shows-84-wildfires-caused-humans-180962315/\">Other studies\u003c/a> suggest they set about 20 percent. According to multiple arson investigators and profilers, many wildland arsonists feel frustrated by their lives or shortchanged. Setting fires can be a way for them to regain control or exert control over others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildland arsonists also tend to set a lot of fires, operating for years before they’re caught. “I would say that at some points in time, I was probably working over 20 arson cases,” said Alan Carlson, a former Cal Fire investigator who has helped solve wildland arson cases around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson oversaw Operation High Desert, the team of investigators that eventually tracked down the arsonist who burned P.J. Phillips’ sheep in 2006. That case is now considered one of California’s exemplary wildland arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1514px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11730003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1514\" height=\"1126\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut.jpg 1514w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35600_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-2-qut-1200x892.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1514px) 100vw, 1514px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial footage of P.J. Phillips’ ranch in the Capay Valley, shortly after a wildfire burned through it. Phillips lost 270 sheep in that fire, and he was shocked to discover that someone had started it on purpose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alan Carlson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before they caught the man who burned Phillips’ sheep, most people in the Capay Valley didn’t think they had a fire problem. In the ’90s, the majority of the fires in the area were small. But as the years went by, there were more and more of them. By 2004, there were about 10 times more fires in the Capay Valley than there used to be. Then later that year, a fire outside town engulfed an area bigger than San Francisco. The cause was undetermined, but many suspected arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Alan Carlson and his team, Operation High Desert, got involved in the case. Their first step was figuring out how the Capay Valley arsonist liked to set his fires. Many serial wildland arsonists jerry-rig household items into incendiary devices, and in some cases, they’re built with a time-delay, so that the fire doesn’t start until after the arsonist is far away. It’s one of the reasons serial arsonists are so hard to catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730033\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35601_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-3-qut-e1551481985238.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11730033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35601_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-3-qut-e1551481985238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire investigator Alan Carlson’s truck at the scene of a fire in Rumsey Canyon in 2006. By the time his team responded to this fire, Cal Fire had been investigating wildland arson fires in the Capay Valley region for almost two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alan Carlson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire investigators combed through the Capay Valley’s burn sites looking for any evidence the arsonist may have left behind. And in 2005, local investigators found a brittle piece of material that curved in the shape of a “C.” It was part of a small, flat coil — every fire investigator interviewed for this story requested that KQED not describe it in further detail. Carlson said it’s one of the most dangerous arsonist’s devices he’s ever found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coil burns, it rarely leaves any trace of itself behind. “As they smolder down,” Carlson explained, “the ash drops off the coil like a cigarette ash and mixes in with what will become burned later on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coil can also take up to four hours to actually start a fire, giving the arsonist plenty of time to get away. It’s like a murder weapon where the trigger isn’t pulled until the killer is in another state. Then in most cases, it erases itself, deleting any evidence that it was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coil confirmed a suspicion that Carlson and the High Desert Team had from the very beginning. Whoever designed it had a feel for fire and how it works. That meant the Capay Valley arsonist could be a local firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1450px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11730001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1450\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut.jpg 1450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35602_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-4-qut-1200x897.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of just some of the fires that Cal Fire investigator Alan Carlson suspects Bob Eason Jr. of setting. By the time they arrested Eason, Carlson and his team believe he had set 152 fires over the course of 18 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alan Carlson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Dedicated Fire Captain\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it comes to wildfires, firefighter arsonists are more common than you might think. According to multiple retired arson investigators, roughly one-third of the wildland arsonists they arrested worked in emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of 2005, a full year in to the Cal Fire team’s investigation, Carlson started combing through two decades of reports from the Capay Valley’s fires. He was looking for firefighters who responded to the fires a little too quickly, the cars that always seemed to pass by a hillside a few hours before it caught fire. And one name kept popping up: Bob Eason Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eason joined the Capay Valley’s volunteer Fire Department when he was 18 and he loved it. If there was a car accident, chances are it was Eason’s voice that the volunteers heard over the radio, directing paramedics to the crash scene. By the time Carlson and the High Desert investigation team started closing in on him as a suspect, Eason had been promoted to fire captain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730038\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11730038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35599_190228-ARSON-COTSIRILOS-picture-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fields in the Capay Valley, California. 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In August 2006, the team received clearance from a judge to sneak a tracker onto Eason’s car. It showed Eason driving suspiciously close to a fire scene later that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 21, 2006, at around midnight, the tracker showed Eason driving past a large hill, then turning around and driving by it again. The hillside started to burn a few hours later. This was the fire that killed P.J. Phillips’ sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of the most damaging fires that Eason is accused of starting and it was also one of the last. A few weeks after the fire, Carlson’s team arrested Eason and searched his house and car. They didn’t find anything at first. Then in the trash, beneath a pile of dirty diapers, they found two coils ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eason was accused of lighting 16 fires in three months and he was suspected of starting a lot more than that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Take the coils, for instance. Local investigators found evidence of them at multiple fire scenes, but Cal Fire investigator Alan Carlson and his team never found evidence of them at any of the fires that Eason Jr. was actually convicted of starting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Carlson and his team, of course, this makes sense: The whole reason the coil is so dangerous is that it often erases itself. But this lack of evidence at some of the fire scenes drives Eason Sr. crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying, ‘Well, because we couldn’t find any evidence that he did it, therefore he had to have done it,’ ” he says. “It makes no sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t bother the jury at Eason Jr.’s trial. He was found guilty in October 2008 of 12 counts of arson. The judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison, which Eason Sr. argues is a disproportionate punishment for what his son is accused of. The 12 fires Eason Jr. was actually convicted of starting didn’t really hurt anyone beyond farmer Phillips’ sheep. Some of the fires were as small as your average bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California’s ‘Frequent Flyers’ Who Ignite Fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eason Sr. left the Capay Valley after the trial. He gave up his walnut orchard years ago and traded it in for a house in a quiet town north of Chico: Paradise, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire there killed 85 people in November 2018. Tens of thousands were displaced, and Eason Sr. was one of them. He said he plans to move back to Paradise as soon as he can.\u003cbr>\nHe wasn’t home when the Camp Fire started, but in a crazy coincidence, the man who put his son in prison was close enough to smell the smoke. Fire investigator Alan Carlson lives in Chico now and he awoke to a volcanic black cloud spreading through the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Golden Gate Transit leased a new ferry and, yes, it has fired torpedoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first saw the ferry with \"Rhode Island Fast Ferry\" painted on the side, I knew there must be a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 01 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's no small feat getting a ferry that can carry over 400 passengers from one side of the United States to the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 02 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Transit needed a boat that could fill in while other boats were out for maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 03 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ferry's trip to San Francisco Bay was only a small part of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730136\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry04-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 04 by Mark Fiore\" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Golden Gate Transit leased a new ferry and, yes, it has fired torpedoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first saw the ferry with \"Rhode Island Fast Ferry\" painted on the side, I knew there must be a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 01 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry01.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's no small feat getting a ferry that can carry over 400 passengers from one side of the United States to the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 02 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry02.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Transit needed a boat that could fill in while other boats were out for maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 03 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry03.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ferry's trip to San Francisco Bay was only a small part of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730136\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry04-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 04 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry04-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry04-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry04-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry04-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry04.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11730142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry05-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Millennium 05 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry05-800x1422.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry05-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry05-1020x1813.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry05-675x1200.png 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/millennium_ferry05.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still bolts on the top deck where the ferry, fitted with an \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.vineyardfastferry.com/charter_fast_ferry.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced Surface Launcher\u003c/a>,\" fired the torpedo into Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't think Golden Gate Transit is planning on deploying torpedoes on the Millennium when it starts carrying passengers but the \u003ca href=\"https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2005/umv_auv/wednesday/lussier.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ferry boat's past\u003c/a> sure makes for some\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinelink.com/news/torpedoes-modified-launch322742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> interesting reading\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have reopened the roads into Guerneville and Monte Rio and the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said \u003ca href=\"http://nixle.us/ASLFL\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement\u003c/a> it has lifted evacuation orders for about 3,500 people. Residents of the two towns are now starting to return home and work crews are beginning to clean up after the flooding from the Russian River. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Sheriff's Office is urging residents to be careful because crews are still in the processing of clearing the roads of debris. Although the roads have been reopened to the general public as well, officials also requested that only those with businesses in the area enter right now. \"If you do not have legitimate business in the flood areas, please do not go out there,\" said the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river broke its banks Wednesday and reached a high of nearly 46 feet that night — the highest in more than 20 years — filling the stores and homes in downtown Guerneville with muddy water. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomanews.com/news/9339686-181/russian-river-residents-will-need?sba=AAS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Press Democrat\u003c/a> spoke with Sonoma County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Crum:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Among the organizations making inspections in the flooded areas along the Russian River include PG&E, the Sonoma County Department of Health Services and the county’s road maintenance team, Crum said. Each group will be on the look out of hazards caused by the atmospheric river that began on Monday, which include downed power lines and blocked roadways, he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nEmployees from Permit Sonoma will also enter the communities along the Russian River, when the roads become passable, to check flood-affected buildings, Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Sonoma County, which Supervisor Hopkins welcomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a critical step in allowing us to access additional resources that will help us to fund hopefully some of the major repairs,\" Hopkins said. \"Unfortunately, in addition to the direct impacts to the flooding, we've had a number of road slides and anticipate extensive road damage to our rural road network.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins expected to survey the area Friday morning and help put together preliminary damage estimates to present to the state on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Guerneville School District, Monte Rio School District, Montgomery School District and West Sonoma County Union High School District all remained closed Friday due to flooding, according to the Sonoma County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The Russian River crested late Wednesday and has begun the long, slow process of receding. Residents, businesses and Sonoma County officials are bracing for the first view of what the flood left behind -- and for the big cleanup to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=GVB&d=27-Feb-2019+23:22&span=25hours\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a U.S. Geological Survey gauge\u003c/a> at Guerneville Bridge, the river hit 45.38 feet at 9 p.m. Wednesday and fluctuated within an inch or two of that level until midnight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 8 a.m. Thursday, the river had fallen to about 44 feet. It's expected to fall below flood stage about midnight Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Russian-River-flooding-3.jpg\" label=\"Bay Area Storms\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729368/photos-rains-bring-floods-to-north-bay-communites,Photos: Deluge Triggers Flooding on Russian, Napa Rivers\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County emergency officials are asking those who remained in the flood zone to continue to shelter in place. Those who left homes along the river before the area was cut off will be allowed to return Friday or Saturday, officials said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both those who left and those who stayed face a big job: Assessing damage to communities along the river inundated by the flood and to roads and other infrastructure that took a beating from the prolonged intense rain earlier this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Porter\u003c/a>, a photographer for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat who has been in Guerneville during the flooding, give some idea of the task facing the river towns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1101004731239944192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, communities across the county are still dealing with the effects of this week's storm, which dumped more than 21 inches of rain in the hills of western Sonoma County and huge amounts in the valleys as well:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Although water has retreated from many flooded roads, dozens of other remain closed, with some suffering major damage. See the county's \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road closure list\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More than a dozen school districts, many in the heart of the Russian River flood zone, canceled classes again Thursday. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/storm-update.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">county school closure list\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E reports about 3,100 customers in western Sonoma County communities were without power early Thursday.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Danielle Venton contributed to this update.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:55 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The worst of the storm is over. But the worst of its impacts, with communities along the lower reaches of the Russian River cut off by still-rising floodwaters, may still be ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm system that had been pumping a nonstop river of moisture into the North Bay moved south and east of the Bay Area early Wednesday, leaving showery weather behind across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, however, the Russian River continues to rise to a level predicted to be the highest since flooding on New Year's Day 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River at Guerneville is on track to reach a crest of 45.6 feet Wednesday night-- 13.6 feet over flood stage and a level high enough to prompt mandatory evacuation orders for an estimated 4,000 residents along the waterway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daylight Wednesday morning showed a wide area of Sonoma County inundated by water rising in both the Russian River and creeks draining into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Guerneville was awash:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1100779726346510337\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa Press Democrat photographer Kent Porter, who stayed in Guerneville overnight, captured one rescue early Wednesday as the river rose:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1100790459046158338\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Guerneville, the town of Monte Rio, a couple of miles downstream, was also cut off by flooded roads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sonomasheriff/status/1100844549243432961\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major storm impacts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sonoma County says dozens of roads have been closed by flooding. See \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sonomamap.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=20e120cba30b4e39a343b858475eb8f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interactive map\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E reports about 4,400 North Bay customers without power -- and about 6,000 in all throughout the Bay Area in the wake of the storm.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More than 20 Sonoma County school districts, mostly along the Russian River, canceled classes Wednesday. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/storm-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full list\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> With the Russian River rising rapidly past flood stage, Sonoma County officials ordered mandatory evacuations for residents and businesses on a long stretch of the waterway from just below Cloverdale, through the Healdsburg and Guerneville areas, and all the way to the coastal community of Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/goes17-190212b.jpg\" label=\"Bay Area Storms\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729094/keeping-tabs-on-the-storm-a-brief-list-of-our-go-to-weather-information-sites,Keeping Tabs on the Storm: A Brief List of Our Go-To Weather Information Sites\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice was issued as a rich stream of atmospheric moisture remained nearly stationary, pointing a steady stream of heavy precipitation into the North Bay counties. The deluge, which has continued with only brief breaks since early Monday, is expected to continue into early Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in an evacuation area, we want you to leave now,\" Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick said at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sonoma.sheriff/videos/1313693102106662/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5:30 p.m. media briefing\u003c/a>. \"Please don't wait until 10 o'clock tomorrow night\" — when the river is expected to crest 14 feet above flood stage at Guerneville — \"please evacuate now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warning affects 25 communities in all, listed \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has set up evacuation centers at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and at the Sonoma County fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. Free shuttle buses began running from the Guerneville Veterans Memorial Building to the centers Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff said 25 extra deputies and two boats were being deployed to the lower Russian River area to help people leave an area where many roads were already inundated by Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Misti Harris said that despite Essick's plea, compliance with the evacuation order was \"a mixed bag\" Tuesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're getting mixed results from the public,\" Harris said. \"Some people are flat-out refusing to leave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evacuation order was issued as the National Weather Service forecast the worst flooding along the river in a generation — exceeding a storm crest of 45 feet reached in 1997 but below catastrophic surges seen during February onslaughts in 1986 and 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service's California-Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predicted\u003c/a> the Russian River would exceed flood stage at Guerneville at 6 p.m. Tuesday and crest at 46.1 feet late Wednesday night before receding below flood level on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding — which has closed \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of roads\u003c/a> across Sonoma County — is the result of the storm stalling and unleashing nearly nonstop downpours north of the Golden Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pummeling is expected to continue past midnight Tuesday before the storm shifts to the south and east. The National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, in College Park, Maryland, issued an advisory late Tuesday forecasting heavy rain across the entire region before the system passes. The center said rain rates as high as three-quarters of an inch per hour may occur in the Santa Cruz Mountains early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, pointed to one factor above all for the soaking the North Bay has gotten from the second atmospheric river to come ashore in the North Bay this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's interesting about this one is that it's not an extreme atmospheric river from an intensity perspective,\" Swain said. \"It's certainly wet, but if we had only a few hours of this in any one place it really wouldn't be any problem at all. But the main issue is that it's an atmospheric river of moderate intensity that's lasting for many, many hours in the same place, and the accumulation of water over that period is really quite substantial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rainiest locations in the Russian River watershed have received more than a foot of rain since the storm's onset early Monday, with the rain gauge at Venado, west of Healdsburg, recording a total of 16.16 inches through 7 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly impressive amounts have been recorded throughout the area. Warm Springs Dam, on Dry Creek northwest of Healdsburg, has reported 7.94 inches during the storm. Santa Rosa has received 5.73 inches; Mount Veeder, west of the city of Napa, has recorded 10.12 inches; and Yountville, on the floor of the Napa Valley, has gotten 6.69 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rainfall started rapid rises on the Napa River, which is forecast to reach flood stage at St. Helena and the city of Napa, though not to the potentially disastrous levels forecast for the Russian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river forecast center said the Napa would crest late tonight \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at St. Helena\u003c/a> at about 3 feet above flood stage. In the city of Napa, the river is expected \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to reach its peak\u003c/a> about dawn Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rising water led to some road closures across the Napa Valley on Tuesday, but even with the river exceeding flood levels, major damage is not anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have seen these river levels in Napa before and we generally know what to expect,\" said Rick Thomasser, flood control operations manager for Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rainiest locations in the Russian River watershed have received more than a foot of rain since the storm's onset early Monday, with the rain gauge at Venado, west of Healdsburg, recording a total of 15.36 inches through 6 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine school districts in Sonoma County have canceled classes Wednesday due to the high water: Alexander Valley Union School District, Forestville Union School, Guerneville School District, Geyserville Unified School District, Harmony Union School District, Monte Rio School District, Montgomery Elementary School District, Oak Grove Union School District and El Molino High School and West County Charter Middle School, both in West Sonoma County Union High School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:40 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The deluge that has targeted Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties for more than a full day is now threatening to trigger a disaster along the lower reaches of the Russian River in western Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sustained downpours have led to a sharp rise on the river, which is expected to begin inundating low-lying areas around Guerneville by early Tuesday evening. The river is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forecast to crest\u003c/a> at 45.9 feet — nearly 14 feet above flood stage — late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that outlook\u003c/a> from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center is accurate — and it's driven by the expectation of continued heavy rain north of the Golden Gate — much of Guerneville and the nearby communities of Rio Nido and Monte Rio will flood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sonomasheriff/status/1100466091539628032\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County emergency officials issued an evacuation warning late Tuesday morning recommending those living near the river to evacuate. The county Sheriff's Office advised those who don't leave that they will be isolated as River Road — the main route into and out of the area — is expected to be flooded and impassable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county set up sandbag stations at the Forestville Fire Station, the Guerneville Safeway and at Main Street and Fir Road in Monte Rio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm flooded roads across the North Bay — with Sonoma County reporting \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than two dozen closures\u003c/a> since midmorning Monday (see \u003ca href=\"http://sonomamap.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=20e120cba30b4e39a343b858475eb8f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closure map\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrendanNWeber/status/1100431198130597889\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the West Marin communities of Point Reyes Station and Inverness were advised to stay off the roads until floodwaters recede from local highways. The Bolinas-Stinson Union School District canceled classes at its two schools due to roads closed by flooding and downed trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Storm Coverage\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/ARstormcurrent-800x376.gif\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms,Rivers in the Sky: What You Need to Know About Atmospheric River Storms\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluge was causing problems for sewer systems in the North Bay. One area of concern is the Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District, which experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11720294/sonoma-spills-spewed-nearly-3-million-gallons-of-sewage-into-creeks-and-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sewage overflow problems\u003c/a> after heavy rains in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our crews were out all night responding to issues from the rain,\" said Ann DuBay of the Sonoma County Water Agency, which runs the sanitation district. \"It’s unbelievable how much water we're seeing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district reported late Tuesday morning it was contending with four ongoing wastewater overflows, with a total of about 159,000 gallons of sewage and stormwater released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin, the Ross Valley Sanitation District said it had contingency plans in place as the storm challenged its system's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This evening’s cloudbursts could push our ability to keep the wastewater in the sewers, and our crews are showing signs of fatigue,\" said Steve Moore, the district's general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa River is also expected to flood late Tuesday into Wednesday — though not to the disastrous extent predicted for the Russian River. Moderate flooding is forecast for areas along the river from St. Helena to the city of Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forecast flooding on the North Bay rivers is the result of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">atmospheric river\u003c/a>-fed storm that has remained focused on a narrow area of the North Bay counties since early Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rich flow of moisture-laden air, coupled with a slow-moving cold front draped across the coast just to the north, has resulted in spectacular rainfall totals in the Russian River drainage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rainfall total in the current storm: 11.03 inches, recorded through 10 a.m. Tuesday at the northern Sonoma County rain gauge in Venado, west of Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notable totals include Mount Veeder, west of Napa, 7.83; Olema, 5.47; Kentfield, 4.93; Mount Tamalpais, 4.68; and Santa Rosa, 3.97.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More modest amounts fell to the south, including Richmond, 1.50; Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills), 1.32; San Francisco, .40; and Oakland, .34. Most Peninsula and East Bay locations have gotten just a few hundredths of an inch of rain from the storm. A rain gauge near Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains — a dependably soggy spot — has gotten a scant .63 of an inch since the storm began. San Jose International Airport had recorded zero rainfall as of 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gusty winds accompanying the storm have led to power outages around the region, with PG&E saying early Tuesday it was working to restore electricity to about 12,000 customers. The biggest outage, by far, was for a stretch of the San Mateo County coast outside the heavy rain zone, where the lights were out for about 9,400 customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters and weather models suggest that will change by Wednesday morning as the approaching cold front finally moves through the region and rainfall — heavy at times — is more evenly distributed. Showery weather is expected to continue into Thursday before a brief break on Friday. More rain is expected over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:50 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Rain has returned to the Bay Area — or part of it anyway, as our latest atmospheric river-fed storm pours most of its abundant supply of moisture on the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rainfall total in the current storm: 4.08 inches, recorded through 5 p.m. at the northern Sonoma County rain gauge in Venado, west of Healdsburg. Rainfall amounts fall off dramatically to the south, and include Mount Veeder, west of the Napa Valley, 1.50; Santa Rosa, 1.08; San Rafael (Marin Civic Center), .91; Mount Tamalpais, .78; Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills), .29; Richmond, .18; San Francisco, .11; and Oakland, .05.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually no rain had been recorded by midafternoon Monday in bayside and valley locations south of a line from Daly City to Livermore, except for a few hundredths of an inch recorded at several stations in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says that through late Monday, heavy rainfall will be confined almost exclusively to the North Bay before moving slowly south early Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The copious rainfall in Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties is forecast to cause a new round of flooding on the lower reaches of the Russian River. The normally sluggish stream is expected to reach flood stage at Guerneville before dawn Wednesday and to crest Wednesday evening at about 6.5 feet above flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa River, too, is expected to overflow early Wednesday, reaching 2 feet above flood stage and inundating areas adjacent to the river on the northern and southern ends of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post (last updated 8:40 a.m. Monday):\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet another winter storm fed by an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> is expected to bring 9 inches of rain or more to the wettest locations of the North Bay, triggering another round of flooding on the lower reaches of the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Nevada, which has already received an epic snowfall this season, could see another 10 feet at the highest elevations and 5 to 7 feet at pass levels by Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the storm crawling south along the coast, the National Weather Service issued flood watches for most of the Bay Area. Those include \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a flash flood watch\u003c/a> for the central Bay Area and South Bay through late Tuesday night and \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a flood watch\u003c/a> for Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1099648930965569542\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The next few days are going to be rather hectic up in the North Bay,\" said National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Anderson. He says the rain will start in the North Bay Monday morning, with heavy rains showing up by the evening commute and continuing overnight into Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> the Russian River will go above flood levels at Guerneville on Wednesday morning, before hitting its peak about 5 feet above flood stage late Wednesday evening. The Napa River on the north side of the city of Napa is predicted to top flood levels by just \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over a foot\u003c/a> before dawn on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both rivers flooded during storms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725582/a-double-barreled-storm-gets-ready-to-blast-bay-area-northern-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this month\u003c/a>, leading to school closures. With the soil already saturated from those earlier storms, this week's deluge could also flood creeks and smaller rivers throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Napa and Marin counties say they are monitoring the storm. A Marin spokesman said the county will consider increasing staff for both public works and fire departments around midday on Monday based on updated forecast information. The county will also be monitoring the levees around Highway 37 — which breached during the last wave of storms — and the levels of Corte Madera Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728623\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1129696417-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of a levee that was breached during a storm on Feb. 14, 2019, in Novato, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anderson said the rest of the Bay Area will also likely see some heavy rains, with 2 to 3 inches forecast for the central Bay Area and up to an inch in the South Bay. He said winds will also surge during the storm, starting Monday night and peaking on Tuesday between 30 and 40 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We expect more trees to come down during those winds,\" Anderson said. A PG&E spokeswoman said the storm \"could cause trees and other debris to bring down power lines, damage equipment and interrupt electric service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Storm to Add Even More Snow to State's Snowpack\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite view of the Sierra Nevada and western Nevada from Yosemite National Park, at lower left, to Walker Lake, at the top of the images toward the right. The 'before' image was taken Feb. 16, 2018; the 'after' image on Feb. 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Planet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The storm is also expected to bring several inches of rain to the Sacramento Valley and 5 to 7 feet of snow to pass levels in the Sierra Nevada, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Cory Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be a pretty impactful storm system,\" Mueller said. \"We're also going to see some flooding concerns.\" He said both creeks and rivers are expected to rise with the potential for street flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Bay Area, heavy precipitation is expected to start Monday night and continue through Wednesday morning, \"but snow will continue in the mountains, and mountain travel will continue to be quite terrible into Thursday,\" Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller said snow is expected starting at 5,500 feet, and rain at lower elevations could melt some of the snow that fell there during earlier storms. The additional snow at high elevations should add onto a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1938157/before-and-after-check-out-californias-monster-snow-year-by-satellite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snowpack\u003c/a> that is currently 127 percent of average in the northern Sierra and 152 percent in the central Sierra, according to Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main takeaway is our snowpack is well above average,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ted Goldberg and Marisol Medina contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have reopened the roads into Guerneville and Monte Rio and the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said \u003ca href=\"http://nixle.us/ASLFL\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement\u003c/a> it has lifted evacuation orders for about 3,500 people. Residents of the two towns are now starting to return home and work crews are beginning to clean up after the flooding from the Russian River. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Sheriff's Office is urging residents to be careful because crews are still in the processing of clearing the roads of debris. Although the roads have been reopened to the general public as well, officials also requested that only those with businesses in the area enter right now. \"If you do not have legitimate business in the flood areas, please do not go out there,\" said the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river broke its banks Wednesday and reached a high of nearly 46 feet that night — the highest in more than 20 years — filling the stores and homes in downtown Guerneville with muddy water. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomanews.com/news/9339686-181/russian-river-residents-will-need?sba=AAS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Press Democrat\u003c/a> spoke with Sonoma County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Crum:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Among the organizations making inspections in the flooded areas along the Russian River include PG&E, the Sonoma County Department of Health Services and the county’s road maintenance team, Crum said. Each group will be on the look out of hazards caused by the atmospheric river that began on Monday, which include downed power lines and blocked roadways, he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nEmployees from Permit Sonoma will also enter the communities along the Russian River, when the roads become passable, to check flood-affected buildings, Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Sonoma County, which Supervisor Hopkins welcomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a critical step in allowing us to access additional resources that will help us to fund hopefully some of the major repairs,\" Hopkins said. \"Unfortunately, in addition to the direct impacts to the flooding, we've had a number of road slides and anticipate extensive road damage to our rural road network.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins expected to survey the area Friday morning and help put together preliminary damage estimates to present to the state on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Guerneville School District, Monte Rio School District, Montgomery School District and West Sonoma County Union High School District all remained closed Friday due to flooding, according to the Sonoma County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The Russian River crested late Wednesday and has begun the long, slow process of receding. Residents, businesses and Sonoma County officials are bracing for the first view of what the flood left behind -- and for the big cleanup to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=GVB&d=27-Feb-2019+23:22&span=25hours\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a U.S. Geological Survey gauge\u003c/a> at Guerneville Bridge, the river hit 45.38 feet at 9 p.m. Wednesday and fluctuated within an inch or two of that level until midnight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 8 a.m. Thursday, the river had fallen to about 44 feet. It's expected to fall below flood stage about midnight Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Other major storm impacts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sonoma County says dozens of roads have been closed by flooding. See \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sonomamap.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=20e120cba30b4e39a343b858475eb8f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interactive map\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E reports about 4,400 North Bay customers without power -- and about 6,000 in all throughout the Bay Area in the wake of the storm.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More than 20 Sonoma County school districts, mostly along the Russian River, canceled classes Wednesday. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/storm-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full list\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> With the Russian River rising rapidly past flood stage, Sonoma County officials ordered mandatory evacuations for residents and businesses on a long stretch of the waterway from just below Cloverdale, through the Healdsburg and Guerneville areas, and all the way to the coastal community of Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The deluge, which has continued with only brief breaks since early Monday, is expected to continue into early Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in an evacuation area, we want you to leave now,\" Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick said at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sonoma.sheriff/videos/1313693102106662/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5:30 p.m. media briefing\u003c/a>. \"Please don't wait until 10 o'clock tomorrow night\" — when the river is expected to crest 14 feet above flood stage at Guerneville — \"please evacuate now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warning affects 25 communities in all, listed \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has set up evacuation centers at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and at the Sonoma County fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. Free shuttle buses began running from the Guerneville Veterans Memorial Building to the centers Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff said 25 extra deputies and two boats were being deployed to the lower Russian River area to help people leave an area where many roads were already inundated by Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Misti Harris said that despite Essick's plea, compliance with the evacuation order was \"a mixed bag\" Tuesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're getting mixed results from the public,\" Harris said. \"Some people are flat-out refusing to leave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evacuation order was issued as the National Weather Service forecast the worst flooding along the river in a generation — exceeding a storm crest of 45 feet reached in 1997 but below catastrophic surges seen during February onslaughts in 1986 and 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service's California-Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predicted\u003c/a> the Russian River would exceed flood stage at Guerneville at 6 p.m. Tuesday and crest at 46.1 feet late Wednesday night before receding below flood level on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding — which has closed \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of roads\u003c/a> across Sonoma County — is the result of the storm stalling and unleashing nearly nonstop downpours north of the Golden Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pummeling is expected to continue past midnight Tuesday before the storm shifts to the south and east. The National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, in College Park, Maryland, issued an advisory late Tuesday forecasting heavy rain across the entire region before the system passes. The center said rain rates as high as three-quarters of an inch per hour may occur in the Santa Cruz Mountains early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, pointed to one factor above all for the soaking the North Bay has gotten from the second atmospheric river to come ashore in the North Bay this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's interesting about this one is that it's not an extreme atmospheric river from an intensity perspective,\" Swain said. \"It's certainly wet, but if we had only a few hours of this in any one place it really wouldn't be any problem at all. But the main issue is that it's an atmospheric river of moderate intensity that's lasting for many, many hours in the same place, and the accumulation of water over that period is really quite substantial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rainiest locations in the Russian River watershed have received more than a foot of rain since the storm's onset early Monday, with the rain gauge at Venado, west of Healdsburg, recording a total of 16.16 inches through 7 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly impressive amounts have been recorded throughout the area. Warm Springs Dam, on Dry Creek northwest of Healdsburg, has reported 7.94 inches during the storm. Santa Rosa has received 5.73 inches; Mount Veeder, west of the city of Napa, has recorded 10.12 inches; and Yountville, on the floor of the Napa Valley, has gotten 6.69 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rainfall started rapid rises on the Napa River, which is forecast to reach flood stage at St. Helena and the city of Napa, though not to the potentially disastrous levels forecast for the Russian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river forecast center said the Napa would crest late tonight \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at St. Helena\u003c/a> at about 3 feet above flood stage. In the city of Napa, the river is expected \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to reach its peak\u003c/a> about dawn Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rising water led to some road closures across the Napa Valley on Tuesday, but even with the river exceeding flood levels, major damage is not anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have seen these river levels in Napa before and we generally know what to expect,\" said Rick Thomasser, flood control operations manager for Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rainiest locations in the Russian River watershed have received more than a foot of rain since the storm's onset early Monday, with the rain gauge at Venado, west of Healdsburg, recording a total of 15.36 inches through 6 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine school districts in Sonoma County have canceled classes Wednesday due to the high water: Alexander Valley Union School District, Forestville Union School, Guerneville School District, Geyserville Unified School District, Harmony Union School District, Monte Rio School District, Montgomery Elementary School District, Oak Grove Union School District and El Molino High School and West County Charter Middle School, both in West Sonoma County Union High School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:40 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The deluge that has targeted Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties for more than a full day is now threatening to trigger a disaster along the lower reaches of the Russian River in western Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sustained downpours have led to a sharp rise on the river, which is expected to begin inundating low-lying areas around Guerneville by early Tuesday evening. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>People in the West Marin communities of Point Reyes Station and Inverness were advised to stay off the roads until floodwaters recede from local highways. The Bolinas-Stinson Union School District canceled classes at its two schools due to roads closed by flooding and downed trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluge was causing problems for sewer systems in the North Bay. One area of concern is the Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District, which experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11720294/sonoma-spills-spewed-nearly-3-million-gallons-of-sewage-into-creeks-and-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sewage overflow problems\u003c/a> after heavy rains in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our crews were out all night responding to issues from the rain,\" said Ann DuBay of the Sonoma County Water Agency, which runs the sanitation district. \"It’s unbelievable how much water we're seeing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district reported late Tuesday morning it was contending with four ongoing wastewater overflows, with a total of about 159,000 gallons of sewage and stormwater released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin, the Ross Valley Sanitation District said it had contingency plans in place as the storm challenged its system's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This evening’s cloudbursts could push our ability to keep the wastewater in the sewers, and our crews are showing signs of fatigue,\" said Steve Moore, the district's general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa River is also expected to flood late Tuesday into Wednesday — though not to the disastrous extent predicted for the Russian River. Moderate flooding is forecast for areas along the river from St. Helena to the city of Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forecast flooding on the North Bay rivers is the result of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">atmospheric river\u003c/a>-fed storm that has remained focused on a narrow area of the North Bay counties since early Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rich flow of moisture-laden air, coupled with a slow-moving cold front draped across the coast just to the north, has resulted in spectacular rainfall totals in the Russian River drainage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rainfall total in the current storm: 11.03 inches, recorded through 10 a.m. Tuesday at the northern Sonoma County rain gauge in Venado, west of Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notable totals include Mount Veeder, west of Napa, 7.83; Olema, 5.47; Kentfield, 4.93; Mount Tamalpais, 4.68; and Santa Rosa, 3.97.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More modest amounts fell to the south, including Richmond, 1.50; Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills), 1.32; San Francisco, .40; and Oakland, .34. Most Peninsula and East Bay locations have gotten just a few hundredths of an inch of rain from the storm. A rain gauge near Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains — a dependably soggy spot — has gotten a scant .63 of an inch since the storm began. San Jose International Airport had recorded zero rainfall as of 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gusty winds accompanying the storm have led to power outages around the region, with PG&E saying early Tuesday it was working to restore electricity to about 12,000 customers. The biggest outage, by far, was for a stretch of the San Mateo County coast outside the heavy rain zone, where the lights were out for about 9,400 customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters and weather models suggest that will change by Wednesday morning as the approaching cold front finally moves through the region and rainfall — heavy at times — is more evenly distributed. Showery weather is expected to continue into Thursday before a brief break on Friday. More rain is expected over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:50 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Rain has returned to the Bay Area — or part of it anyway, as our latest atmospheric river-fed storm pours most of its abundant supply of moisture on the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rainfall total in the current storm: 4.08 inches, recorded through 5 p.m. at the northern Sonoma County rain gauge in Venado, west of Healdsburg. Rainfall amounts fall off dramatically to the south, and include Mount Veeder, west of the Napa Valley, 1.50; Santa Rosa, 1.08; San Rafael (Marin Civic Center), .91; Mount Tamalpais, .78; Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills), .29; Richmond, .18; San Francisco, .11; and Oakland, .05.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually no rain had been recorded by midafternoon Monday in bayside and valley locations south of a line from Daly City to Livermore, except for a few hundredths of an inch recorded at several stations in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says that through late Monday, heavy rainfall will be confined almost exclusively to the North Bay before moving slowly south early Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The copious rainfall in Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties is forecast to cause a new round of flooding on the lower reaches of the Russian River. The normally sluggish stream is expected to reach flood stage at Guerneville before dawn Wednesday and to crest Wednesday evening at about 6.5 feet above flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa River, too, is expected to overflow early Wednesday, reaching 2 feet above flood stage and inundating areas adjacent to the river on the northern and southern ends of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post (last updated 8:40 a.m. Monday):\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet another winter storm fed by an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> is expected to bring 9 inches of rain or more to the wettest locations of the North Bay, triggering another round of flooding on the lower reaches of the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Nevada, which has already received an epic snowfall this season, could see another 10 feet at the highest elevations and 5 to 7 feet at pass levels by Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the storm crawling south along the coast, the National Weather Service issued flood watches for most of the Bay Area. Those include \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a flash flood watch\u003c/a> for the central Bay Area and South Bay through late Tuesday night and \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a flood watch\u003c/a> for Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"The next few days are going to be rather hectic up in the North Bay,\" said National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Anderson. He says the rain will start in the North Bay Monday morning, with heavy rains showing up by the evening commute and continuing overnight into Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> the Russian River will go above flood levels at Guerneville on Wednesday morning, before hitting its peak about 5 feet above flood stage late Wednesday evening. The Napa River on the north side of the city of Napa is predicted to top flood levels by just \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over a foot\u003c/a> before dawn on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both rivers flooded during storms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725582/a-double-barreled-storm-gets-ready-to-blast-bay-area-northern-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this month\u003c/a>, leading to school closures. With the soil already saturated from those earlier storms, this week's deluge could also flood creeks and smaller rivers throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Napa and Marin counties say they are monitoring the storm. A Marin spokesman said the county will consider increasing staff for both public works and fire departments around midday on Monday based on updated forecast information. The county will also be monitoring the levees around Highway 37 — which breached during the last wave of storms — and the levels of Corte Madera Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728623\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1129696417-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of a levee that was breached during a storm on Feb. 14, 2019, in Novato, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anderson said the rest of the Bay Area will also likely see some heavy rains, with 2 to 3 inches forecast for the central Bay Area and up to an inch in the South Bay. He said winds will also surge during the storm, starting Monday night and peaking on Tuesday between 30 and 40 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We expect more trees to come down during those winds,\" Anderson said. A PG&E spokeswoman said the storm \"could cause trees and other debris to bring down power lines, damage equipment and interrupt electric service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Storm to Add Even More Snow to State's Snowpack\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Snowpack.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite view of the Sierra Nevada and western Nevada from Yosemite National Park, at lower left, to Walker Lake, at the top of the images toward the right. The 'before' image was taken Feb. 16, 2018; the 'after' image on Feb. 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Planet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The storm is also expected to bring several inches of rain to the Sacramento Valley and 5 to 7 feet of snow to pass levels in the Sierra Nevada, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Cory Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be a pretty impactful storm system,\" Mueller said. \"We're also going to see some flooding concerns.\" He said both creeks and rivers are expected to rise with the potential for street flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Bay Area, heavy precipitation is expected to start Monday night and continue through Wednesday morning, \"but snow will continue in the mountains, and mountain travel will continue to be quite terrible into Thursday,\" Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller said snow is expected starting at 5,500 feet, and rain at lower elevations could melt some of the snow that fell there during earlier storms. 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