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"content": "\u003cp>Before the Woolsey Fire raged near Malibu in November, hundreds of bikers gathered each weekend at the \u003ca href=\"http://rock-store.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Store\u003c/a> for pancakes or a cup of coffee before riding through the Santa Monica Mountains on the twisty road called \"The Snake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire swept through the area, not much was left standing – except, somewhat miraculously, the popular biker bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Woolsey Fire\u003c/a> was one of the largest fires in Los Angeles County history. It burned for two weeks, destroying 15,000 structures and decimating almost 100,000 acres. Three people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more than a month after it swept through the area, the air still smells like ash. The surrounding hills are an eerie blackened moonscape. Burnt rubble and twisted metal are all that's left of whole neighborhoods nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this destruction, the Rock Store became a makeshift community center — even without power or a working telephone. Dozens of people rolled through to check in, including actor Keanu Reeves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0049-highres_custom-46a3e94a1a1cc566c9bb739ed9368549d6c18e36-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Built from volcanic rock, the Rock Store building was formerly a stagecoach stop in the 1910s. At first, Ed and Vern Savko opened it as a small town grocery store.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0049-highres_custom-46a3e94a1a1cc566c9bb739ed9368549d6c18e36-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0049-highres_custom-46a3e94a1a1cc566c9bb739ed9368549d6c18e36-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Built from volcanic rock, the Rock Store building was formerly a stagecoach stop in the 1910s. At first, Ed and Vern Savko opened it as a small-town grocery store. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Savko and his mother, Vern, at the Rock Store.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Savko and his mother, Vern, at the Rock Store. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vern Savko and her husband, Ed, bought the Rock Store in 1961 and ran it together until Ed died in 2012. Vern is 90 now, and their son, Rich, runs the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich Savko set up barbecue pits to cook off all the food they had left and shared it with anyone still in the area. They used a generator to boil water to make coffee that they handed out. The American Red Cross set up shop in the parking lot. Rich hasn't let anyone pay for any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A mailbox across the street from the Rock Store. Right: Gary Jones' multi-acre property above the Rock Store once had five structures. Now all that's left is a towering chimney where the main house once stood, shells of burnt vehicles, and a trailer (bottom right) that managed to survive the flames where Jones is now living.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A mailbox across the street from the Rock Store. Right: Gary Jones' multi-acre property above the Rock Store once had five structures. Now all that's left is a towering chimney where the main house once stood, shells of burnt vehicles, and a trailer (bottom right) that managed to survive the flames where Jones is now living. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed really tough around Thanksgiving,\" Savko remembers, sitting outside on the patio. Tears well up in his eyes. \"People obviously lost all their homes and things like that, but they sat out here and had Thanksgiving dinner. The guy across the street cooked a huge turkey. People didn't know where they were going to go or what they were going to do, but fortunately we were able to light some battery-powered lanterns and celebrate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent day, even though the bar is officially closed, a group of firefighters gather in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0072-highres_custom-b507fe2b8e1ea1e02f91caec2d6a13aebd98ab6f-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles County firefighters, from left: Brian Knutson, Jay Colvin, Adam Young and Marcus Carballo. Knutson lives in the community and says this is the worst fire any of them can ever remember. "It's always hard to talk to someone that's lost their house," he says. "I wish we could have done more for them."\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0072-highres_custom-b507fe2b8e1ea1e02f91caec2d6a13aebd98ab6f-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0072-highres_custom-b507fe2b8e1ea1e02f91caec2d6a13aebd98ab6f-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County firefighters, from left: Brian Knutson, Jay Colvin, Adam Young and Marcus Carballo. Knutson lives in the community and says this is the worst fire any of them can ever remember. \"It's always hard to talk to someone that's lost their house,\" he says. \"I wish we could have done more for them.\" \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the people who lost everything is 76-year-old Gary Jones. He's lived on the ridge above the Rock Store for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones ignored the initial evacuation orders, and by the time he tried to leave, the fire had surrounded his house. He got trapped behind a big metal gate at his property line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I called my wife and said goodbye and asked her to pray for me,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0176-highres_custom-6d166eca2734513d257cf0a7131bf9320c29c872-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Holding a cigar, Gary Jones sits where his house once stood, in a wooden porch chair that somehow wasn't destroyed. Jones lost three of his five dogs in the flames and came back the next day to bury them. His horse was found alive up the hill and is recovering from burns.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0176-highres_custom-6d166eca2734513d257cf0a7131bf9320c29c872-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0176-highres_custom-6d166eca2734513d257cf0a7131bf9320c29c872-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holding a cigar, Gary Jones sits where his house once stood, in a wooden porch chair that somehow wasn't destroyed. Jones lost three of his five dogs in the flames and came back the next day to bury them. His horse was found alive up the hill and is recovering from burns. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Coins melted together on Jones' property. He had a pot of coins for his grandchildren to pull from when they visited.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coins melted together on Jones' property. He had a pot of coins for his grandchildren to pull from when they visited. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0164-highres_custom-9f487f0248bb35328a8dae9f98e0f29d2bf1783d-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"A few of the burned-out vehicles on Jones' property. The truck he used to escape during the fire is heavily blistered by fire, but still intact.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0164-highres_custom-9f487f0248bb35328a8dae9f98e0f29d2bf1783d-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0164-highres_custom-9f487f0248bb35328a8dae9f98e0f29d2bf1783d-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few of the burned-out vehicles on Jones' property. The truck he used to escape during the fire is heavily blistered by fire, but still intact. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After about 10 minutes, he managed to force the gate open and drive through the black smoke down the hill to safety. When he returned a few days later, the house was gone. He had to leave in such a hurry that he lost three of his five dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, a tall brick chimney looms over a stretch of blackened stone where he used to live. A bathtub is about the only recognizable object in the rubble. A shell of a car sits in a melted garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been doing some sifting,\" Jones says, pointing to piles of ash. \"I found my wife's wedding ring. Turns out rubies don't melt!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's not much Jones can do these days. He's waiting for a hazardous materials team to come inspect the mess and authorize him to take everything to the dump. He says he's actually excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Left: On Linda Rappoport's property, the glass liquefied and flowed like a river, before solidifying again. Right: Rappoport lives behind the Rock Store. The house she had just finished remodeling two days before the fire burned to the ground. Another smaller front house was left standing. She was sleeping when the evacuation orders were announced and awoke to the fire surrounding her property.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: On Linda Rappoport's property, the glass liquefied and flowed like a river, before solidifying again. Right: Rappoport lives behind the Rock Store. The house she had just finished remodeling two days before the fire burned to the ground. Another smaller front house was left standing. She was sleeping when the evacuation orders were announced and awoke to the fire surrounding her property. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"This is a blessing in disguise,\" he says. He had storage containers on the property, containers \"full of decisions that haven't been made yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And when you finally clear out the storage container it has a feeling of cleansing. That's kind of what I feel like. All the problems I had were gone,\" he says. \"I've got some new ones now. But you know, everyone talks about turning the pages of a book and it's true — I'm turning the pages of a book, but the book is getting more interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, the signs of progress are small. Residents are combing through property, hoping to find mementos that survived the inferno. Roads are opening and power is being restored. Shoots of grass are starting to poke out of the ashy soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last weekend, the Rock Store officially opened for business for the first time since the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smells of frying bacon, pancakes and coffee cover up the scent of ash in the air. Vern Savko, who bought the place more than 50 years ago, sits in a booth drinking tea, looking around at her grateful customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's so great to see everybody, you know? They were worried about us, so it's great. I cry every time I start ...\" She trails off and her eyes fill with tears as she scans the blackened hills around the store. \"But we're here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Biker+Bar+In+The+Malibu+Hills+Serves+As+Bedrock+For+A+Fire-Ravaged+Community&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before the Woolsey Fire raged near Malibu in November, hundreds of bikers gathered each weekend at the \u003ca href=\"http://rock-store.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Store\u003c/a> for pancakes or a cup of coffee before riding through the Santa Monica Mountains on the twisty road called \"The Snake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire swept through the area, not much was left standing – except, somewhat miraculously, the popular biker bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Woolsey Fire\u003c/a> was one of the largest fires in Los Angeles County history. It burned for two weeks, destroying 15,000 structures and decimating almost 100,000 acres. Three people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more than a month after it swept through the area, the air still smells like ash. The surrounding hills are an eerie blackened moonscape. Burnt rubble and twisted metal are all that's left of whole neighborhoods nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this destruction, the Rock Store became a makeshift community center — even without power or a working telephone. Dozens of people rolled through to check in, including actor Keanu Reeves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0049-highres_custom-46a3e94a1a1cc566c9bb739ed9368549d6c18e36-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Built from volcanic rock, the Rock Store building was formerly a stagecoach stop in the 1910s. At first, Ed and Vern Savko opened it as a small town grocery store.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0049-highres_custom-46a3e94a1a1cc566c9bb739ed9368549d6c18e36-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0049-highres_custom-46a3e94a1a1cc566c9bb739ed9368549d6c18e36-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Built from volcanic rock, the Rock Store building was formerly a stagecoach stop in the 1910s. At first, Ed and Vern Savko opened it as a small-town grocery store. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Savko and his mother, Vern, at the Rock Store.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0070-highres_custom-e61e86399ed63e6083cdc981d53a9109d3efd35c-s700-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Savko and his mother, Vern, at the Rock Store. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vern Savko and her husband, Ed, bought the Rock Store in 1961 and ran it together until Ed died in 2012. Vern is 90 now, and their son, Rich, runs the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich Savko set up barbecue pits to cook off all the food they had left and shared it with anyone still in the area. They used a generator to boil water to make coffee that they handed out. The American Red Cross set up shop in the parking lot. Rich hasn't let anyone pay for any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A mailbox across the street from the Rock Store. Right: Gary Jones' multi-acre property above the Rock Store once had five structures. Now all that's left is a towering chimney where the main house once stood, shells of burnt vehicles, and a trailer (bottom right) that managed to survive the flames where Jones is now living.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuballbarmalibu_custom-0fdc9187433d162a60af9ebe7aa07b91914088d8-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A mailbox across the street from the Rock Store. Right: Gary Jones' multi-acre property above the Rock Store once had five structures. Now all that's left is a towering chimney where the main house once stood, shells of burnt vehicles, and a trailer (bottom right) that managed to survive the flames where Jones is now living. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed really tough around Thanksgiving,\" Savko remembers, sitting outside on the patio. Tears well up in his eyes. \"People obviously lost all their homes and things like that, but they sat out here and had Thanksgiving dinner. The guy across the street cooked a huge turkey. People didn't know where they were going to go or what they were going to do, but fortunately we were able to light some battery-powered lanterns and celebrate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent day, even though the bar is officially closed, a group of firefighters gather in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0072-highres_custom-b507fe2b8e1ea1e02f91caec2d6a13aebd98ab6f-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles County firefighters, from left: Brian Knutson, Jay Colvin, Adam Young and Marcus Carballo. Knutson lives in the community and says this is the worst fire any of them can ever remember. "It's always hard to talk to someone that's lost their house," he says. "I wish we could have done more for them."\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0072-highres_custom-b507fe2b8e1ea1e02f91caec2d6a13aebd98ab6f-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0072-highres_custom-b507fe2b8e1ea1e02f91caec2d6a13aebd98ab6f-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County firefighters, from left: Brian Knutson, Jay Colvin, Adam Young and Marcus Carballo. Knutson lives in the community and says this is the worst fire any of them can ever remember. \"It's always hard to talk to someone that's lost their house,\" he says. \"I wish we could have done more for them.\" \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the people who lost everything is 76-year-old Gary Jones. He's lived on the ridge above the Rock Store for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones ignored the initial evacuation orders, and by the time he tried to leave, the fire had surrounded his house. He got trapped behind a big metal gate at his property line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I called my wife and said goodbye and asked her to pray for me,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0176-highres_custom-6d166eca2734513d257cf0a7131bf9320c29c872-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Holding a cigar, Gary Jones sits where his house once stood, in a wooden porch chair that somehow wasn't destroyed. Jones lost three of his five dogs in the flames and came back the next day to bury them. His horse was found alive up the hill and is recovering from burns.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0176-highres_custom-6d166eca2734513d257cf0a7131bf9320c29c872-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0176-highres_custom-6d166eca2734513d257cf0a7131bf9320c29c872-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holding a cigar, Gary Jones sits where his house once stood, in a wooden porch chair that somehow wasn't destroyed. Jones lost three of his five dogs in the flames and came back the next day to bury them. His horse was found alive up the hill and is recovering from burns. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Coins melted together on Jones' property. He had a pot of coins for his grandchildren to pull from when they visited.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0218-highres_custom-9661aa12b0d00ffbbcf7f983a48cb94d22a0f04a-s700-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coins melted together on Jones' property. He had a pot of coins for his grandchildren to pull from when they visited. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11713699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0164-highres_custom-9f487f0248bb35328a8dae9f98e0f29d2bf1783d-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"A few of the burned-out vehicles on Jones' property. The truck he used to escape during the fire is heavily blistered by fire, but still intact.\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0164-highres_custom-9f487f0248bb35328a8dae9f98e0f29d2bf1783d-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-181207-0164-highres_custom-9f487f0248bb35328a8dae9f98e0f29d2bf1783d-s700-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few of the burned-out vehicles on Jones' property. The truck he used to escape during the fire is heavily blistered by fire, but still intact. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After about 10 minutes, he managed to force the gate open and drive through the black smoke down the hill to safety. When he returned a few days later, the house was gone. He had to leave in such a hurry that he lost three of his five dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, a tall brick chimney looms over a stretch of blackened stone where he used to live. A bathtub is about the only recognizable object in the rubble. A shell of a car sits in a melted garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been doing some sifting,\" Jones says, pointing to piles of ash. \"I found my wife's wedding ring. Turns out rubies don't melt!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's not much Jones can do these days. He's waiting for a hazardous materials team to come inspect the mess and authorize him to take everything to the dump. He says he's actually excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Left: On Linda Rappoport's property, the glass liquefied and flowed like a river, before solidifying again. Right: Rappoport lives behind the Rock Store. The house she had just finished remodeling two days before the fire burned to the ground. Another smaller front house was left standing. She was sleeping when the evacuation orders were announced and awoke to the fire surrounding her property.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/lizkuball-rock-storebar_custom-b8e4177c050128b49dab7a4db5b7fe39019e5acc-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: On Linda Rappoport's property, the glass liquefied and flowed like a river, before solidifying again. Right: Rappoport lives behind the Rock Store. The house she had just finished remodeling two days before the fire burned to the ground. Another smaller front house was left standing. She was sleeping when the evacuation orders were announced and awoke to the fire surrounding her property. \u003ccite>(Liz Kuball for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"This is a blessing in disguise,\" he says. He had storage containers on the property, containers \"full of decisions that haven't been made yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And when you finally clear out the storage container it has a feeling of cleansing. That's kind of what I feel like. All the problems I had were gone,\" he says. \"I've got some new ones now. But you know, everyone talks about turning the pages of a book and it's true — I'm turning the pages of a book, but the book is getting more interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, the signs of progress are small. Residents are combing through property, hoping to find mementos that survived the inferno. Roads are opening and power is being restored. Shoots of grass are starting to poke out of the ashy soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last weekend, the Rock Store officially opened for business for the first time since the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smells of frying bacon, pancakes and coffee cover up the scent of ash in the air. Vern Savko, who bought the place more than 50 years ago, sits in a booth drinking tea, looking around at her grateful customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Camp Fire Caused Nearly 2 Straight Weeks of Bay Area's Worst Air Quality on Record",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ast month's Camp Fire was a record-breaker: the deadliest and most destructive wildfire California has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze killed 86 people in and around the town of Paradise in Butte County and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroyed almost 14,000 homes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But data from Bay Area air regulators confirms that the smoke from the 153,000-acre fire made history, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Map: Current Air Quality Report for the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934660/no-the-coming-rain-wont-be-toxic-heres-what-to-do-when-the-smoke-clears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What to Do When Smoke Clears\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For nearly two weeks straight, much of the Bay Area, which sits about 150 miles southwest of Paradise, was blanketed in a thick layer of smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Nov. 8 to Nov. 20, the region was choked by dangerously high levels of fine particulate matter, ranking among the worst periods of hazardous smoke since the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Air Quality Management District\u003c/a> began keeping such records in 1999. All of the district's 17 monitoring stations — spread through eight Bay Area counties — detected high concentrations of the pollutant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, six of its 10 worst days for fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5, occurred during that span. PM2.5 includes inhalable bits of soot, metal and organic compounds no more than 2.5 microns in diameter, or about 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three others days included in the \"worst 10\" for PM2.5 happened during last year's Tubbs Fire in the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every site was impacted with high concentrations, and those sites were all impacted for several days,\" said Charles Knoderer, an air quality forecaster at the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/xK12s/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1250\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Each of the district's 17 monitoring stations recorded 24-hour average PM2.5 concentrations that significantly exceeded the federal standard of 35 micrograms per cubic meter, the agency's data shows. The PM2.5 level in the Bay Area is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/planning-and-research/research-and-modeling/trends-in-bay-area-pm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">usually under\u003c/a> 9 micrograms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these numbers are way, way, way above that,\" Knoderer said, noting he had never seen such high levels for so many days in a row in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the district's station in Vallejo detected a 24-hour PM2.5 average concentration of 197 micrograms per cubic meter on Nov. 16, the day the smoke was the worst this year. The Air Quality Index for PM2.5 in Vallejo that day — calculated using the concentration — was 247.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This data, you'd see more commonly in a place like India or in China,\" said Knoderer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo reading was the highest among 11 Bay Area sites that recorded daily PM2.5 AQIs above 200 on Nov. 16 — in the EPA's \"very unhealthy\" category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the PM2.5 AQI on \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data?DataViewFormat=daily&DataView=aqi&StartDate=12/17/2018&ParameterId=316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday\u003c/a> ranged from 10 in Concord to 40 in San Pablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials say they hope to learn more about what was in the air during that period by conducting a detailed analysis in the coming months, including lab tests on filters that captured some of the air to see exactly what was in the smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those two weeks of foul air quality in November, health officials warned people to stay indoors, school district canceled classes and residents flocked to stores to buy air masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a repeat of October 2017, during the North Bay fires. That's when the air district recorded its highest daily PM2.5 level ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record: The daily AQI for a monitoring station in Napa on Oct. 13, 2017, was 249.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knoderer points out that the the smoke's effect on the region during the North Bay fires was more isolated than last month's occurrence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This year it was hitting every site,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason that smoke from the Camp Fire was especially bad was because of the time of year. In November, the shorter days don't allow for cold and warm air to mix, like they would earlier in the season, Knoderer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the blaze got trapped in a layer of cold air close to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any AQI over 200 is considered harmful to everyone — not just people with compromised respiratory systems, according to John Balmes, a professor of medicine and environmental health at UCSF and UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The index surpassed 200 for at least one Bay Area location on five separate days during the Camp Fire, compared with two days in October 2017 during the North Bay fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a polluted city like Delhi, it's like that all the time,\" said Balmes, who reviewed the air district data for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chronic exposure to that level of poor air quality is harmful to everyone's health, he said, noting that while healthy people may have experienced eye and nose irritation, scratchy throats and coughs, they most likely won't have long-term effects from the smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people with asthma and heart disease, among other respiratory ailments, Balmes noted, can experience exacerbated conditions if they are exposed to such high levels of particulate matter over shorter amounts of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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All of the district's 17 monitoring stations — spread through eight Bay Area counties — detected high concentrations of the pollutant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, six of its 10 worst days for fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5, occurred during that span. PM2.5 includes inhalable bits of soot, metal and organic compounds no more than 2.5 microns in diameter, or about 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three others days included in the \"worst 10\" for PM2.5 happened during last year's Tubbs Fire in the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every site was impacted with high concentrations, and those sites were all impacted for several days,\" said Charles Knoderer, an air quality forecaster at the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/xK12s/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1250\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Each of the district's 17 monitoring stations recorded 24-hour average PM2.5 concentrations that significantly exceeded the federal standard of 35 micrograms per cubic meter, the agency's data shows. The PM2.5 level in the Bay Area is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/planning-and-research/research-and-modeling/trends-in-bay-area-pm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">usually under\u003c/a> 9 micrograms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these numbers are way, way, way above that,\" Knoderer said, noting he had never seen such high levels for so many days in a row in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the district's station in Vallejo detected a 24-hour PM2.5 average concentration of 197 micrograms per cubic meter on Nov. 16, the day the smoke was the worst this year. The Air Quality Index for PM2.5 in Vallejo that day — calculated using the concentration — was 247.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This data, you'd see more commonly in a place like India or in China,\" said Knoderer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo reading was the highest among 11 Bay Area sites that recorded daily PM2.5 AQIs above 200 on Nov. 16 — in the EPA's \"very unhealthy\" category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the PM2.5 AQI on \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data?DataViewFormat=daily&DataView=aqi&StartDate=12/17/2018&ParameterId=316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday\u003c/a> ranged from 10 in Concord to 40 in San Pablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials say they hope to learn more about what was in the air during that period by conducting a detailed analysis in the coming months, including lab tests on filters that captured some of the air to see exactly what was in the smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those two weeks of foul air quality in November, health officials warned people to stay indoors, school district canceled classes and residents flocked to stores to buy air masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a repeat of October 2017, during the North Bay fires. That's when the air district recorded its highest daily PM2.5 level ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record: The daily AQI for a monitoring station in Napa on Oct. 13, 2017, was 249.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knoderer points out that the the smoke's effect on the region during the North Bay fires was more isolated than last month's occurrence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This year it was hitting every site,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason that smoke from the Camp Fire was especially bad was because of the time of year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny’s home is just the latest mega-fire in California — and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands — in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa — helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas — Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state’s WUI is made up of chaparral — dry shrubland — that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour — who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 — agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve taken a lot of land in [California] … that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages … and now you put homes in there,” Harbour said. “Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major concern,” Ting said. “We’ve had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever’s possible to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request — but insufficient. November’s Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington’s top fires. And the daily reports aren’t even complete– reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California’s costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state’s unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California’s most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon’s priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington’s fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California’s Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,” read the second of the Butte firefighters’ Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington’s most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon’s most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California’s 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are “always going to be more costly,” said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. “It costs more money when you’re bringing in more expensive resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million — 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it “took forever” to get into Placerville from the forest. “Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.”\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California’s WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a huge chess game,” Huang said. “We have fire engines … trying to put out the fire … a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don’t catch on fire, and at the same time we’re working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like that,” Harbour said of the smoke produced. “You don’t like it. The American public doesn’t like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts “a little bit more teeth” into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands — for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901’s changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we call a moral hazard … [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a “working group” to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor’s office. The appointee would be charged with “developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,” said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE’s climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month’s Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just like the mountains. We like the trees,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else’s: “Get the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not sure yet where he will land — Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how ridiculous it sounds,” he said. “But that’s the kind of country we like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny’s home is just the latest mega-fire in California — and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands — in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa — helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas — Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state’s WUI is made up of chaparral — dry shrubland — that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour — who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 — agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve taken a lot of land in [California] … that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages … and now you put homes in there,” Harbour said. “Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major concern,” Ting said. “We’ve had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever’s possible to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request — but insufficient. November’s Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington’s top fires. And the daily reports aren’t even complete– reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California’s costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state’s unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California’s most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon’s priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington’s fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California’s Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,” read the second of the Butte firefighters’ Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington’s most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon’s most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California’s 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are “always going to be more costly,” said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. “It costs more money when you’re bringing in more expensive resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million — 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it “took forever” to get into Placerville from the forest. “Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.”\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California’s WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a huge chess game,” Huang said. “We have fire engines … trying to put out the fire … a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don’t catch on fire, and at the same time we’re working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like that,” Harbour said of the smoke produced. “You don’t like it. The American public doesn’t like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts “a little bit more teeth” into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands — for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901’s changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we call a moral hazard … [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a “working group” to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor’s office. The appointee would be charged with “developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,” said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE’s climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month’s Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just like the mountains. We like the trees,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else’s: “Get the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not sure yet where he will land — Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how ridiculous it sounds,” he said. “But that’s the kind of country we like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste, but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyan Slat, 24, who launched the Pacific Ocean cleanup project, said the speed of the solar-powered barrier isn’t allowing it to hold onto the plastic it catches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the system actually moves slightly slower than the plastic, which of course you don’t want because then you have a chance of losing the plastic again,” Slat said in an interview with The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crew of engineers is expected to reach the U-shaped boom Tuesday and will work for the next few weeks to widen its span so that it catches more wind and waves to help it go faster, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ship towed the 2,000-foot-long barrier \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691328/massive-barrier-sets-out-from-san-francisco-to-collect-the-pacific-oceans-plastic-trash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in September from San Francisco\u003c/a> to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of trash twice the size of Texas. It has been in place since the end of October, Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plastic barrier with a tapered 10-foot-deep screen is intended to act like a coastline, trapping some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that scientists estimate are swirling in the patch while allowing marine life to safely swim beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat said he is not deterred by the setback because engineers expected to make tweaks to the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to do has never been done before. So, of course we were expecting to still need to fix a few things before it becomes fully operational,” he said of the system created by the Ocean Cleanup, an organization he founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitted with solar-powered lights, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas, the device intends to communicate its position at all times, allowing a support vessel to fish out the collected plastic every few months and transport it to dry land for recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat said he expects shipping containers filled with fishing nets, plastic bottles, laundry baskets and other plastic trash scooped up by the system to be back on land within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve given ourselves a year after launch to get this thing working,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those skeptical of the project is George Leonard, chief scientist of the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group. Leonard says that even if plastic trash can be taken out of the ocean, a lot more is pouring in each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard said a solution must include a multipronged approach, including stopping plastic from reaching the ocean and educating people to reduce consumption of single-use plastic containers and bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat agreed that preventing more plastic from entering the ocean is part of the solution but said something needs to be done about what’s already there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This plastic doesn’t go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to be fragmented into these small and dangerous microplastics to me seems like an unacceptable scenario,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was the most expensive wildfire in U.S. history, costing $262 million to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Widow Of Bulldozer Operator Killed In Soberanes Fire Struggles To Get By\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SoberanesNight-800x468.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The blaze was started by an illegal campfire in Garrapata State Park outside Carmel on July 22, 2016, and quickly spread, destroying 57 homes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11453905/employer-of-contractor-killed-in-soberanes-fire-pleads-not-guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing a dozer operator\u003c/a> in the first week. It then continued to burn for months in Los Padres National Forest and the Ventana Wilderness, away from any homes or residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report argues the aggressive firefighting tactics used in the remote, uninhabited areas were not only unnecessary, but they were also executed poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was conventional firefighting actions but conducted in or adjacent to … very rugged remote uninhabited wildland,” lead author Timothy Ingalsbee said. “The agency should shift its priorities from these backcountry firefighting boondoggles into really concentrating suppression resources on protecting homes and communities that cannot burn. Many of these backcountry wildlands must burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire is part of the natural ecology of wildlands. It is necessary for the life cycle of certain trees, allows growth on the forest floor, reduces fuel for future fires and increases water supply, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/live_w_fire.pdf\">Cal Fire.\u003c/a> And because of that, Ingalsbee says, it’s excessive to spend so much money fighting fires that don’t threaten buildings or human life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FUSEE report also argues that the unnecessarily aggressive tactics used to fight the Soberanes Fire were ineffective. According to the report, firefighters dropped retardant away from flames and fire lines and built dozer lines outside areas where the fire had stopped spreading on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These techniques failed to stop the spread of fire, cost taxpayers millions of dollars and left long-lasting scars on the land,” Ingalsbee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire retardant cannot stop fire spread on its own without the support of ground crews clearing vegetation on containment lines. During the Soberanes Fire, 110 miles of continuous lines of retardant were dropped in “looping patterns” in remote areas, some of which no firefighters were sent to due to safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retardant was sometimes dropped several miles from active flames in places the wildfire never reached, or it was dropped outside of containment lines where firefighters could reasonably expect the fire would not spread to.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why California’s Best Strategy Against Wildfire Is Hardly Ever Used\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/IMG_0118.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report also took issue with the 60 miles of dozer lines firefighters cut into the wilderness during the Soberanes firefight. According to the report, the dozer lines did help stop the fire spread in some instances but was ineffective in others. Some dozer lines were cut miles away from the fire’s edge and existing fire lines dug by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dozer lines left lasting scenic impacts on the land, not only from denuding vegetation and damaging soils, but also introducing potential for the spread of invasive weeds and illegal use by off-road vehicles,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service spent roughly $1 million per day for weeks after the fire was contained to repair hiking trails and other areas damaged by dozer lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingalsbee also says limited congressional oversight of the Forest Service’s budget allowed the agency to use expensive tactics, like air tankers and dozers, even when they were ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is kind of a blank check program,” Ingalsbee said. “It’s all framed under this state of emergency and put all fires out at all times, all places, at all costs. And that’s simply not sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An internal Forest Service review of its response to the fire obtained by the Associated Press raised \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/f92cc1767c33459c9312d6fa408cdd50?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APWestRegion&utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar concerns\u003c/a>, finding a firefighting culture overly concerned with aggressive suppression that leads to waste:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For example, the department’s review found that from Aug. 9 to Sept. 29, 2016, the number of threatened structures remained at 400 even as the fire grew by more than 90 square miles, which indicated the risk to property had abated as the flames burned into the wilderness. During that period, firefighting costs grew by $140 million.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service did not respond to a KQED request for comment, but said in a statement to the Associated Press, “Protection of people first and then resources are our primary considerations. Every fire is evaluated to determine the appropriate strategy. We continually look for opportunities to improve outcomes and accountability and to find more cost-efficient and effective methods of managing wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s 3:30 p.m. on a Monday at Castlemont High School in East Oakland. Teenagers sporting backpacks and colorful sneakers spill out into the yard and the street. They laugh and yell in groups, chase friends down the sidewalk and stand in line to buy ice cream and chips from the vendors who wait for them each day. The vibrant, noisy scene is a sharp contrast to the otherwise quiet sidewalk of MacArthur Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is packing up to go home. At the end of the long driveway, past the colorful murals and speed bumps, a crew of about a dozen students from Castlemont High and Leadership Public Schools, a local charter school network, are getting ready to get their hands dirty. Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students are part of \u003ca href=\"https://lcsoakland.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards\u003c/a>, a garden internship program that gives teens the opportunity to earn a stipend while learning about food cultivation and ecology. Organized by Oakland Leaf, a nonprofit that supports after-school programming for local students, the program employs more than 30 interns at six sites across Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students prepare the soil in a garden outside Castlemont High School before planting new crops. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, students gather at the East Oakland garden to weed, plant, harvest and mix soil. They work on two different plots: the garden, run by Oakland Leaf, and the farm, primarily run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phat Beets\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based youth farming and food justice program. Together, the two plots make up over an acre of land hidden behind school walls, where students work together to grow fresh produce and build community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a dominant narrative of Oakland being a really dangerous place, where, you know, nothing really good happens,\" said LCS director Matthew Linzner. \"And here we are, working after school with our young folks, taking care of the green spaces on campus and helping beautify the school, helping provide more healthy food for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program director Matthew Linzner explains each of the day's tasks before participants choose their jobs for the afternoon. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students chat in English and Spanish as they change their shoes and wait for Linzner to assign daily tasks. Each day, the group begins by passing around a shell filled with lit frankincense while the students answer a prompt meant to set the tone for the day and encourage conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is that people are comfortable. Comfortable to share, comfortable to explore, comfortable to take risks,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program welcomes students from every background, though it has a particularly high number of Latinx and newcomer participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alejandro Meteas, 16, gardening gives him the opportunity to relax and connect with other students. “We have to help those who are new and don’t know how to plant,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Linzner, working in the garden gives many newcomer students a way to find community and stay connected to agricultural traditions back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of their opening activity, program participants pass an abalone shell with burning frankincense around a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Learning to garden is also a way for many of the students to prepare for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 15-year-old Quynhri Pham Nguyen, working in the garden is a way to spend time outside while boosting her college resume. “I did this program to get some credit for college,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711408\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adan Urvina, 18, transplants seedlings in the greenhouse. Urvina, who hopes to study marine biology, says he has always had an interest in animals and plants and uses the internship program as an opportunity to learn about growing seasons and help his mom in their garden at home. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711411 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner holds a hose while his students work in the garden. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to running the LCS internship, Linzner also teaches a gardening class through Castlemont’s Sustainable Urban Design Academy, a program geared toward helping students gain real-world skills and college credit before graduating from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland Leaf and Phat Beets, we’re like partnering organizations with SUDA, which is the school-based program,\" he said. \"We’re trying to integrate everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711416\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards participants work with Oakland Eats to run a pop-up food stand behind Castlemont High School, where local residents can purchase one bunch of greens for a dollar, or take unlimited apples for free. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students also see learning to garden as way to connect with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giovanna Mora, 14, said that learning about plants and gardening has allowed her to become closer to her father, a landscaper. “We used to not get along that much, so now we have something to agree on and talk about,” she said. “This knowledge can bring us together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond skill-building, LCS aspires to instill fiscal responsibility and community engagement among its students. The interns earn a base pay of $500 per school year through incremental paychecks, and for each additional year they do the program they can earn a bit more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It benefits both me and the school garden,” said Giovanna. “If I’m not going to take care of it, who is?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711415\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Martinez Aquino, 16, changes into old sneakers before beginning work. Many of the participants keep old pairs of shoes in the shed to avoid ruining the ones they wear to school. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711413\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711413 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1200x757.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner sits with his students at the end of the day to discuss the day's work. The program always begins and ends with everyone sitting together in a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This fall, Oakland Leaf began a partnership with Hope Collaborative, a local food-centered youth and community equity organization, to purchase and distribute the produce grown in the garden. According to Linzner, despite having a bounty of high-quality produce, LCS has often struggled to get the food out to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that it was \"a really strange phenomenon where we had all this really high-quality produce and didn’t necessarily have a good way of getting it to the community.” Through the partnership, LCS began selling their produce at cost to local corner stores, as well as to Hope Collaborative’s own nutrition and cooking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corner store initiative wasn’t a complete success — the store they partnered with shut down — but they’ve since begun selling their produce to 7 Flavours Food For The Soul, a nearby restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our food is still being distributed in the community, which is ultimately the goal,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students transplant newly sprouted seedlings into a planter. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on food has trickled down to the students as well. Working in the garden and learning about new plants has helped Mariah Alvarez, 16, understand that food isn’t just something to make you feel full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like a medicine,\" she said, noting that the experience has made her “think differently through knowing what we put in our body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student pushes a wheelbarrow past the pool at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of each day, the students sit on benches in a circle with the sun setting behind them. Linzner makes announcements before closing with a game, chant or word of the day. The students then collect their backpacks, change back into their clean sneakers and walk together through campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, Linzner said, is to build an “army of young folks, earth warriors, almost.” He’d like to see his students become a team “trying to create change in their community, more green space, more urban ecology, more native habitats, and reclaiming the brown and gray spaces in our city and in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s 3:30 p.m. on a Monday at Castlemont High School in East Oakland. Teenagers sporting backpacks and colorful sneakers spill out into the yard and the street. They laugh and yell in groups, chase friends down the sidewalk and stand in line to buy ice cream and chips from the vendors who wait for them each day. The vibrant, noisy scene is a sharp contrast to the otherwise quiet sidewalk of MacArthur Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is packing up to go home. At the end of the long driveway, past the colorful murals and speed bumps, a crew of about a dozen students from Castlemont High and Leadership Public Schools, a local charter school network, are getting ready to get their hands dirty. Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students are part of \u003ca href=\"https://lcsoakland.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards\u003c/a>, a garden internship program that gives teens the opportunity to earn a stipend while learning about food cultivation and ecology. Organized by Oakland Leaf, a nonprofit that supports after-school programming for local students, the program employs more than 30 interns at six sites across Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students prepare the soil in a garden outside Castlemont High School before planting new crops. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, students gather at the East Oakland garden to weed, plant, harvest and mix soil. They work on two different plots: the garden, run by Oakland Leaf, and the farm, primarily run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phat Beets\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based youth farming and food justice program. Together, the two plots make up over an acre of land hidden behind school walls, where students work together to grow fresh produce and build community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a dominant narrative of Oakland being a really dangerous place, where, you know, nothing really good happens,\" said LCS director Matthew Linzner. \"And here we are, working after school with our young folks, taking care of the green spaces on campus and helping beautify the school, helping provide more healthy food for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program director Matthew Linzner explains each of the day's tasks before participants choose their jobs for the afternoon. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students chat in English and Spanish as they change their shoes and wait for Linzner to assign daily tasks. Each day, the group begins by passing around a shell filled with lit frankincense while the students answer a prompt meant to set the tone for the day and encourage conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Comfortable to share, comfortable to explore, comfortable to take risks,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program welcomes students from every background, though it has a particularly high number of Latinx and newcomer participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alejandro Meteas, 16, gardening gives him the opportunity to relax and connect with other students. “We have to help those who are new and don’t know how to plant,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Linzner, working in the garden gives many newcomer students a way to find community and stay connected to agricultural traditions back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of their opening activity, program participants pass an abalone shell with burning frankincense around a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Learning to garden is also a way for many of the students to prepare for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 15-year-old Quynhri Pham Nguyen, working in the garden is a way to spend time outside while boosting her college resume. “I did this program to get some credit for college,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711408\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adan Urvina, 18, transplants seedlings in the greenhouse. Urvina, who hopes to study marine biology, says he has always had an interest in animals and plants and uses the internship program as an opportunity to learn about growing seasons and help his mom in their garden at home. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711411 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner holds a hose while his students work in the garden. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to running the LCS internship, Linzner also teaches a gardening class through Castlemont’s Sustainable Urban Design Academy, a program geared toward helping students gain real-world skills and college credit before graduating from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland Leaf and Phat Beets, we’re like partnering organizations with SUDA, which is the school-based program,\" he said. \"We’re trying to integrate everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711416\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards participants work with Oakland Eats to run a pop-up food stand behind Castlemont High School, where local residents can purchase one bunch of greens for a dollar, or take unlimited apples for free. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students also see learning to garden as way to connect with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giovanna Mora, 14, said that learning about plants and gardening has allowed her to become closer to her father, a landscaper. “We used to not get along that much, so now we have something to agree on and talk about,” she said. “This knowledge can bring us together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond skill-building, LCS aspires to instill fiscal responsibility and community engagement among its students. The interns earn a base pay of $500 per school year through incremental paychecks, and for each additional year they do the program they can earn a bit more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It benefits both me and the school garden,” said Giovanna. “If I’m not going to take care of it, who is?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711415\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Martinez Aquino, 16, changes into old sneakers before beginning work. Many of the participants keep old pairs of shoes in the shed to avoid ruining the ones they wear to school. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711413\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711413 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1200x757.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner sits with his students at the end of the day to discuss the day's work. The program always begins and ends with everyone sitting together in a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This fall, Oakland Leaf began a partnership with Hope Collaborative, a local food-centered youth and community equity organization, to purchase and distribute the produce grown in the garden. According to Linzner, despite having a bounty of high-quality produce, LCS has often struggled to get the food out to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that it was \"a really strange phenomenon where we had all this really high-quality produce and didn’t necessarily have a good way of getting it to the community.” Through the partnership, LCS began selling their produce at cost to local corner stores, as well as to Hope Collaborative’s own nutrition and cooking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corner store initiative wasn’t a complete success — the store they partnered with shut down — but they’ve since begun selling their produce to 7 Flavours Food For The Soul, a nearby restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our food is still being distributed in the community, which is ultimately the goal,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students transplant newly sprouted seedlings into a planter. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on food has trickled down to the students as well. Working in the garden and learning about new plants has helped Mariah Alvarez, 16, understand that food isn’t just something to make you feel full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like a medicine,\" she said, noting that the experience has made her “think differently through knowing what we put in our body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student pushes a wheelbarrow past the pool at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of each day, the students sit on benches in a circle with the sun setting behind them. Linzner makes announcements before closing with a game, chant or word of the day. The students then collect their backpacks, change back into their clean sneakers and walk together through campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State utility regulators announced Friday they're launching an investigation into whether PG&E has falsified records related to requests from construction crews and homeowners to mark the location of its natural gas lines. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal California Public Utilities Commission probe follows an exhaustive review of PG&E's \"locate and mark\" practices by the agency's Safety and Enforcement Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The locate and mark program, best known through a national publicity campaign that urges people to \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/yard-safety/digging/call-811-before-you-dig.page\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call Before You Dig\u003c/a>,\" is designed to lessen the threat to life and property caused by breaches of natural gas lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5629155/246120841.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an order issued Thursday\u003c/a> and made public Friday, the CPUC said its safety division is alleging the company violated state law requiring utilities to promptly respond to excavators' requests to find and mark underground utilities so that they would not be damaged during construction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety division says PG&E then created records that falsely reported that the company had responded within the legally specified timeframe to the \"locate and mark\" requests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, the CPUC reports says, utilities are generally obligated to locate and mark underground utilities between two and 14 days after an excavator's request. The companies file \"late tickets\" when they fail to carry out the location and marking on time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In PG&E's case, the safety division found that the company's failure to ensure records were kept accurately resulted in undercounting \"tens of thousands of late tickets\" each year between 2012 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Safety Enforcement Division's conclusions are outlined in a massive report that relied on its own investigation and studies done by consultants hired by PG&E. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">PG&E Asks for Billions of Dollars From Ratepayers for Fire Safety, Plant Decommissioning\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11953_transform-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the consultant's reports concluded that PG&E didn't have enough personnel to locate and mark utilities in a timely manner, that the company \"placed inherent pressure\" on employees to complete the work, and that \"it was common knowledge among supervisors that locators entered false notes to avoid tickets from going late.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's order emphasized it has not yet determined that PG&E broke the law. But the document noted that the time frame targeted in the safety division's investigation was one during which the utility was under especially close scrutiny for its safety practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the period immediately following the 2010 San Bruno gas explosion and fire that resulted in eight fatalities, numerous injuries and damage to property,\" the order said. \"This commission would expect that after such a tragedy, caused by multiple proven violations of law, PG&E would have sought to vigorously enhance and increase its effectiveness in all aspects of its gas safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company seemed to acknowledge missteps in a statement issued late Friday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"At PG&E, our most important responsibility is public and employee safety. We’re committed to accurate and thorough reporting and record-keeping, and we didn’t live up to that commitment in this case. Once that became apparent, we took and continue to take additional actions to meet the regulatory standards related to our Locate and Mark record-keeping. Among those actions are: improvements to our system that tracks 811 tickets; an upgraded review and audit protocol; hiring more employees, and enhanced training for employees, to perform this work. We are aware of and cooperating with the CPUC’s investigation. We are fully committed to keeping our customers, communities and co-workers safe every single day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The utility was convicted in 2016 of violating federal pipeline safety laws before the San Bruno disaster and is currently serving five years of probation. A CPUC finding that PG&E falsified records and violated state statues would violate the first condition of the company's probation, which is that it shall not break federal, state, or local laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's possible role in starting the catastrophic Camp Fire in Butte County has already been raised in connection with the utility's probation in the San Bruno case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, currently overseeing utility's probation, recently ordered the company, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco and court-appointed monitor Christopher Keegan to report on what role, if any, PG&E had in causing the Camp Fire and all other fires since its probation began early last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an order issued late last month, Alsup also asked for an assessment of whether \"any inaccurate, slow, or failed reporting of information about any wildfire\" by PG&E might violate its probation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He followed those requests with an invitation to the office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to weigh in on whether \"reckless operation or maintenance\" of PG&E power lines would in itself break state law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answers are due to Alsup by Dec. 31. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, the CPUC reports says, utilities are generally obligated to locate and mark underground utilities between two and 14 days after an excavator's request. The companies file \"late tickets\" when they fail to carry out the location and marking on time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In PG&E's case, the safety division found that the company's failure to ensure records were kept accurately resulted in undercounting \"tens of thousands of late tickets\" each year between 2012 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Safety Enforcement Division's conclusions are outlined in a massive report that relied on its own investigation and studies done by consultants hired by PG&E. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">PG&E Asks for Billions of Dollars From Ratepayers for Fire Safety, Plant Decommissioning\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11953_transform-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the consultant's reports concluded that PG&E didn't have enough personnel to locate and mark utilities in a timely manner, that the company \"placed inherent pressure\" on employees to complete the work, and that \"it was common knowledge among supervisors that locators entered false notes to avoid tickets from going late.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's order emphasized it has not yet determined that PG&E broke the law. But the document noted that the time frame targeted in the safety division's investigation was one during which the utility was under especially close scrutiny for its safety practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the period immediately following the 2010 San Bruno gas explosion and fire that resulted in eight fatalities, numerous injuries and damage to property,\" the order said. \"This commission would expect that after such a tragedy, caused by multiple proven violations of law, PG&E would have sought to vigorously enhance and increase its effectiveness in all aspects of its gas safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company seemed to acknowledge missteps in a statement issued late Friday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"At PG&E, our most important responsibility is public and employee safety. We’re committed to accurate and thorough reporting and record-keeping, and we didn’t live up to that commitment in this case. Once that became apparent, we took and continue to take additional actions to meet the regulatory standards related to our Locate and Mark record-keeping. Among those actions are: improvements to our system that tracks 811 tickets; an upgraded review and audit protocol; hiring more employees, and enhanced training for employees, to perform this work. We are aware of and cooperating with the CPUC’s investigation. We are fully committed to keeping our customers, communities and co-workers safe every single day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The utility was convicted in 2016 of violating federal pipeline safety laws before the San Bruno disaster and is currently serving five years of probation. A CPUC finding that PG&E falsified records and violated state statues would violate the first condition of the company's probation, which is that it shall not break federal, state, or local laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's possible role in starting the catastrophic Camp Fire in Butte County has already been raised in connection with the utility's probation in the San Bruno case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, currently overseeing utility's probation, recently ordered the company, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco and court-appointed monitor Christopher Keegan to report on what role, if any, PG&E had in causing the Camp Fire and all other fires since its probation began early last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an order issued late last month, Alsup also asked for an assessment of whether \"any inaccurate, slow, or failed reporting of information about any wildfire\" by PG&E might violate its probation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He followed those requests with an invitation to the office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to weigh in on whether \"reckless operation or maintenance\" of PG&E power lines would in itself break state law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answers are due to Alsup by Dec. 31. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After three decades of firefighting and managing some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Destruction.pdf\">worst blazes in California history\u003c/a>, Ken Pimlott, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, is retiring today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Pimlott reflects on his 30 years of fire management, he says California currently finds itself with the “dubious distinction of breaking records” in terms of wildfire prevalence, intensity and deadliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, 1.2 million acres of land were destroyed by almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/california-wildfires-comparison/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ef8dcc086de2\">9,000 wildfires\u003c/a>, including the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/thomas-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs\u003c/a> infernos. By the time the Thomas Fire was 100 percent contained, it had set the record for the largest wildfire in modern California history. It took less than a year for another fire to break that record.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The reality of it is these fires are beyond the intensities of anything we have experienced.’\u003ccite>Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This year saw the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/woolsey-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woolsey Fire\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a>. The deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California’s history, the Camp Fire destroyed almost 14,000 homes and claimed at least 86 lives. Between those two blazes alone, plus the Hill Fire, insurance claims \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712264/insurance-claims-at-9-billion-from-recent-california-fires\">have risen to $9 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage — physically and psychologically — is staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal Fire explains that there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/TheBenefitsofFire.pdf\">marked ecological benefits\u003c/a> to forest fires such as soil nourishment, the creation of new habitats for animals, the elimination of disease and seed regeneration, Pimlott says that in the past three of four years, the fires have far exceeded their natural cycles and are damaging, “not just the wildlife in the watershed, but are having significant impact on communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712677\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov.-elect Gavin Newson and President Donald Trump listen to Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott during Trump's visit to the Camp Fire in Chico on Nov. 17, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom and President Trump listen to Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott during Trump’s visit to the Camp Fire in Chico on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Paul Kitagaki Jr.-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite President Trump’s accusations that California’s vulnerability to recent fire decimation is due to botched forest management, Pimlott says California has invested more as a state than any other over the next five years, committing $1 billion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.c2es.org/content/california-cap-and-trade/\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> funding specifically slated for forest health, fire prevention, fuels treatment and public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1061168803218948096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been ramping up the state’s capabilities — along with our local government partners and the federal firefighting agencies — to respond,” says Pimlott. “We have been continuing to invest in [fire prevention], but understanding that just every year the intensities continue to increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite rainfall and weather patterns in the past two years that have given California a respite of moisture, the vegetation remains “critically dry.” Cal Fire’s herculean financial and infrastructural efforts remain no match for the unprecedented fires caused by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters are facing the impacts of climate change every day, literally,” Pimlott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They’re the indicators, they’re the ones that are deployed for months at a time. They’re the ones that are experiencing these increased fire conditions and you can go out and talk to any experienced firefighter and they will tell you…things have significantly changed over the last several decades.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As the ubiquity of these blazes isn’t likely to change, he says we have to learn from past fires and continue to take a hard look at determining where houses can be built in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimlott says that the state will absolutely continue to build — there are, after all, 40 million people in California who need places to call home — and there is a commitment to rebuild Paradise. In the wake of these fires, newfound focus is being put on land use planning, identifying high fire hazard severity zones, building codes, construction, placement in the urban interface and even cluster development to maximize protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just may be areas in drainage or that are critical fire corridors that intensify winds that it will make it impossible to protect a structure,” he continues. “How do we build smartly to make sure we’re not putting people in harm’s way? There’s a lot to look at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimlott explains that the state is not interested in dictating ordinances or legislation down to local government, but “we’re going to be bringing everyone along and having those hard conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gavin Newsom, governor-elect of California, has yet to name Pimlott’s successor, but whoever takes over will have a daunting task as California scrambles to combat our new normal amid threats of depleted federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality of it is these fires are beyond the intensities of anything we have experienced,” Pimlott says. “We have to learn to live with fire in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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By the time the Thomas Fire was 100 percent contained, it had set the record for the largest wildfire in modern California history. It took less than a year for another fire to break that record.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The reality of it is these fires are beyond the intensities of anything we have experienced.’\u003ccite>Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This year saw the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/woolsey-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woolsey Fire\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a>. The deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California’s history, the Camp Fire destroyed almost 14,000 homes and claimed at least 86 lives. Between those two blazes alone, plus the Hill Fire, insurance claims \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712264/insurance-claims-at-9-billion-from-recent-california-fires\">have risen to $9 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage — physically and psychologically — is staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal Fire explains that there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/TheBenefitsofFire.pdf\">marked ecological benefits\u003c/a> to forest fires such as soil nourishment, the creation of new habitats for animals, the elimination of disease and seed regeneration, Pimlott says that in the past three of four years, the fires have far exceeded their natural cycles and are damaging, “not just the wildlife in the watershed, but are having significant impact on communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712677\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov.-elect Gavin Newson and President Donald Trump listen to Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott during Trump's visit to the Camp Fire in Chico on Nov. 17, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. 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Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. 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