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"content": "\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cspan class=\"\">\u003cem class=\"\">NOTE: \u003c/em>\u003ci class=\"\">One year ago I reported this retrospective of the deadly East Bay Hills Fire. Almost exactly one year later, a fire struck my home region which entirely eclipses the 1991 Bay Area fire for loss of life, structures and affected land. \u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci class=\"\">Reporting on the collection of North Bay Fires that blazed through Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino last week was nothing like covering the 25th anniversary of the East Bay Hills. While I walked around the embers of homes, I didn’t know if my own street and my own loved ones were safe. When I spoke to evacuees, I worried I was keeping them from whatever action they needed to take. I worried speaking to me would make them feel more distressed, rather than heard. As the death toll slowly and then steadily rose (and continues to rise) my stomach would drop with each uptick in the numbers. In reporting on the North Bay wildfires of 2017, there was no distance of years to offer perspective: neither lessons learned nor semi-nostalgic archival news footage. I was collecting, I realize now, what may become sound and images another reporter will use in a quarter of a century looking back.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the devastating East Bay Hills (or Tunnel) fire. The blistering firestorm reached 2,000 degrees and was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/17/oakland-firestorm-anniversary-video-photos-original-kqed-news-broadcast/\">hot enough to boil asphalt\u003c/a>, melt bronze and turn houses to ash almost instantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What had seemed like an easy-to-handle grass fire at first quickly overwhelmed fire crews and, in the end, destroyed 3,000 homes and took 25 lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass fire began around noon on Saturday, Oct. 19, in the backyard of a house at the end of Temescal Canyon, a steep residential area in the Oakland hills that’s surrounded by woods. The cause of ignition is still unknown. Soon after the fire was reported, however, fire crews arrived and quickly declared it under control. Then they worked in the steep canyon until dark to secure a perimeter around the burned area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289390131″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-060.pdf\">report on the fire\u003c/a>, a battalion chief checked the area for any visible signs of hot spots and told fighters to leave hose lines in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning the hot, dry seasonal winds known as Diablo Winds suddenly picked up. Fire crews returned to the site of the fire at 8:50 in the morning, when hot spots were already smoking. About an hour later, the fires crews thought the fire was under control. Yet the winds soon intensified, further drying the already drought-parched landscape. By 10:45 a.m. crews were battling several major flare-ups that sent smoke down the residential canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was about this time that Margaret Schaefer was going for a walk with her brother-in-law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At about 10 in the morning, and we walk and we do see the smoke in the background,” she recalls. “And I say, ‘Hey Ray, what’s going on here?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told her not to worry since wildfire was common in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we keep walking! And pretty soon I say, ‘Ray, this is not looking very good! And he says, ‘Maybe we should turn back.’ And then suddenly we saw people running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 11:30 a.m. the fire was completely out of control and residents were evacuating. It was in the next half hour, between 11:30 and 12:00, that the majority of lives were lost and homes burned as the fire swept down the face of Temescal Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer had only a few moments to grab the family pets and a handful of items. She, like so many others, lost her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Schaefer holds a news clipping saved from the day after the East Bay Hills Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Schaefer holds a news clipping saved from the day after the East Bay Hills Fire. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I actually didn’t think the house was going to burn down,” she says. “I thought, well, it won’t come this far, but we should still evacuate. You don’t believe this sort of thing when it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer and her husband were able to buy again in the area. Many people rebuilt on their lots. Oakland was generous with permits and encouraged the regrowth. Many houses now in the area are larger than the previous homes, though rules are tighter about building with fire-resistant materials and clearing dried brush around yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Fanning the Flames\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the dried vegetation in the hills that day certainly contributed to the fire, it was the hot seasonal Diablo winds that literally fanned the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fireweather.org/\">Fire Weather Research Laboratory\u003c/a> at San Jose State, fire science graduate student Carrie Bowers has made the Diablo Winds her specialty. Bowers is already a bit of a fire expert, having worked nine years as a wildlands firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowers’ project is studying these unique local winds and how they fueled the East Bay Hills fire. She hopes to develop a way to warn fire authorities when the winds are about to get dangerous. She has discovered that the winds that day in 1991 were not as strong as they could have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The East Bay Hills fire was actually not a severe event as far as Diablo events go,” says Bowers. “It was more a moderate-type event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through computer modeling Bowers is able to pinpoint the movement and effects of those Diablo Winds 25 years ago nearly down to the hour. Between 10 and 11 a.m., she says, there was a huge drop in moisture in the air. That’s when the Diablo Winds, coming down from the Central Valley — warming, drying and accelerating as they came — hit the East Bay Hills, sucking out the moisture of the already parched hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each October, when Diablo Winds whip through dried vegetation, neighborhood residents like Jon Kaufman grow watchful. His house came close to burning in 1991, but escaped with minor smoke damage. Kaufman is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.claremontcanyon.org/\">Claremont Canyon Conservancy,\u003c/a> a nonprofit that works to improve fire safety in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Kaufman took me for a drive through the area that burned, pointing out eucalyptus groves and dry brush undergrowth that make it more likely another serious fire will strike the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial to fire victims known as the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial to fire victims known as the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We drove along Hiller Drive where, by the side of the road, there’s a memorial. It’s built to look like a burned-out house where just a scorched wooden frame remains. It was built by neighbors, Kaufman says, to honor those who lost their lives and to educate those who visit about fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Winds might be out of our control, he says, but local residents can ensure that their homes are ready to be defended from fire by clearing away highly flammable trees and plants. As a model, the gardens of the memorial are planted with California native, fire-resistant plants.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass fire began around noon on Saturday, Oct. 19, in the backyard of a house at the end of Temescal Canyon, a steep residential area in the Oakland hills that’s surrounded by woods. The cause of ignition is still unknown. Soon after the fire was reported, however, fire crews arrived and quickly declared it under control. Then they worked in the steep canyon until dark to secure a perimeter around the burned area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289390131″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289390131″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-060.pdf\">report on the fire\u003c/a>, a battalion chief checked the area for any visible signs of hot spots and told fighters to leave hose lines in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning the hot, dry seasonal winds known as Diablo Winds suddenly picked up. Fire crews returned to the site of the fire at 8:50 in the morning, when hot spots were already smoking. About an hour later, the fires crews thought the fire was under control. Yet the winds soon intensified, further drying the already drought-parched landscape. By 10:45 a.m. crews were battling several major flare-ups that sent smoke down the residential canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was about this time that Margaret Schaefer was going for a walk with her brother-in-law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At about 10 in the morning, and we walk and we do see the smoke in the background,” she recalls. “And I say, ‘Hey Ray, what’s going on here?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told her not to worry since wildfire was common in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we keep walking! And pretty soon I say, ‘Ray, this is not looking very good! And he says, ‘Maybe we should turn back.’ And then suddenly we saw people running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 11:30 a.m. the fire was completely out of control and residents were evacuating. It was in the next half hour, between 11:30 and 12:00, that the majority of lives were lost and homes burned as the fire swept down the face of Temescal Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer had only a few moments to grab the family pets and a handful of items. She, like so many others, lost her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Schaefer holds a news clipping saved from the day after the East Bay Hills Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/margaret-schaefer-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Schaefer holds a news clipping saved from the day after the East Bay Hills Fire. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I actually didn’t think the house was going to burn down,” she says. “I thought, well, it won’t come this far, but we should still evacuate. You don’t believe this sort of thing when it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer and her husband were able to buy again in the area. Many people rebuilt on their lots. Oakland was generous with permits and encouraged the regrowth. Many houses now in the area are larger than the previous homes, though rules are tighter about building with fire-resistant materials and clearing dried brush around yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Fanning the Flames\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the dried vegetation in the hills that day certainly contributed to the fire, it was the hot seasonal Diablo winds that literally fanned the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fireweather.org/\">Fire Weather Research Laboratory\u003c/a> at San Jose State, fire science graduate student Carrie Bowers has made the Diablo Winds her specialty. Bowers is already a bit of a fire expert, having worked nine years as a wildlands firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowers’ project is studying these unique local winds and how they fueled the East Bay Hills fire. She hopes to develop a way to warn fire authorities when the winds are about to get dangerous. She has discovered that the winds that day in 1991 were not as strong as they could have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The East Bay Hills fire was actually not a severe event as far as Diablo events go,” says Bowers. “It was more a moderate-type event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through computer modeling Bowers is able to pinpoint the movement and effects of those Diablo Winds 25 years ago nearly down to the hour. Between 10 and 11 a.m., she says, there was a huge drop in moisture in the air. That’s when the Diablo Winds, coming down from the Central Valley — warming, drying and accelerating as they came — hit the East Bay Hills, sucking out the moisture of the already parched hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each October, when Diablo Winds whip through dried vegetation, neighborhood residents like Jon Kaufman grow watchful. His house came close to burning in 1991, but escaped with minor smoke damage. Kaufman is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.claremontcanyon.org/\">Claremont Canyon Conservancy,\u003c/a> a nonprofit that works to improve fire safety in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Kaufman took me for a drive through the area that burned, pointing out eucalyptus groves and dry brush undergrowth that make it more likely another serious fire will strike the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial to fire victims known as the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Memorial-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial to fire victims known as the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We drove along Hiller Drive where, by the side of the road, there’s a memorial. It’s built to look like a burned-out house where just a scorched wooden frame remains. It was built by neighbors, Kaufman says, to honor those who lost their lives and to educate those who visit about fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PETALUMA — As firefighters \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/18/lighter-winds-help-crews-gain-on-california-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gain on wildfires\u003c/a> burning in Northern California’s wine country, the many thousands who lost their houses, condos and apartments in those fires will have to find a new place to live in one of the toughest housing markets in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, an average one-bedroom apartment rents for more than $3,000 a month and the median home price is about $1.5 million — and the climbing cost of living has extended to the greater Bay Area, including northward into areas decimated by the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires that swept through seven counties — the deadliest and most destructive series of blazes in California history — have killed at least 42 people. In addition to the human toll, the fires have destroyed 6,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, which was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/29/governor-signs-15-good-bills-aimed-at-californias-housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grappling with a housing shortage before the wildfires\u003c/a> broke out, now faces a massive logistical issue, with entire neighborhoods destroyed and so many seeking to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/558477268/558477269\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a tremendous event for an urban area,” Brock Long, an administrator with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Tuesday. “We’ve got a lot of thinking to do about how you mitigate this from happening in communities down the road and becoming more resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 100,000 people were evacuated at the height of the fires, and about 34,000 remain under evacuation. Many have yet to find out if their homes are still standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping positive is hard when facing the reality of starting from scratch, said John De Groot, whose home in Santa Rosa burned down, along with a lifetime of memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”H4EnugY9ruGia10cGiDe7J2Pr2vnUehK”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve worked our whole lives,” De Groot said. “We’ve had this house for 23 years. So there are a lot of memories there. Grandkids have been there. They love it. And it’s not there. So now what?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good thing is we have each other,” said Ramona Lancu, whose family home in Larkfield was destroyed. “We were able to escape. Now we just start a new life. It’s hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lancu was among tens of thousands who have drifted home to find their lives and their communities dramatically altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Red Cross shelter in Petaluma, 69-year-old Sue Wortman recalled the words that raced through her mind when she fled the flames near her home in Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all going up in smoke,” she thought at the time. Since then, she’s been walking around in a daze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624335\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Red Cross volunteers assist people displaced by wildfires at an evacuation center in Santa Rosa on Oct. 11, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-960x647.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SREvac-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Cross volunteers assist people displaced by wildfires at an evacuation center in Santa Rosa on Oct. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Firefighters gained more control Tuesday of the massive wine country wildfires, even as other blazes erupted in mountains near Los Angeles and Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, officials and trauma experts worried about the emotional toll taken by the grueling week of blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wortman has been living in her RV outside the Petaluma shelter, while hundreds of other evacuees sought refuge in tents and trailers and on cots inside the fairground facility. She has sought comfort among friends and with her dogs, but knows that feeling won’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really going to hit when we go home and see the destruction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QGT0nXHkQZQBl3JaPqVm4tDXqfyGIAOt”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlighting the concerns of mental health professionals, the California Psychological Association has emailed an urgent request calling for volunteers to help wildfire evacuees cope with the trauma they have faced and its aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is tremendous acute and long-term impact and we are needed right now to help,” Dr. Chip Shreiber, the association’s disaster resource coordinator, said in the email sent Monday to a distribution list of 13,000 licensed psychologists across California. “Please get the word out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s common for survivors to feel a range of emotions — sadness, anger, irritability — and to suffer flashbacks or nightmares while having trouble sleeping, especially in a shelter surrounded by strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees were advised to pace their exposure to news and media, which provide information that can reduce anxiety but also become overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated as new developments become available. It was last updated on Oct. 18, 2:05 p.m. There is an updating post of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/12/map-north-bay-fire-evacuation-zones/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation notices\u003c/a> in the area and a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/14/napa-sonoma-county-fires-find-evacuation-centers-school-closures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of shelters and school closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California fire officials have reported significant progress on containing wildfires that have ravaged parts of Northern California and have killed at least 42 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Chief Bret Gouvea told a news conference Wednesday that firefighters were getting “good containment” around the blazes and have “stopped the forward progress and movement of all these fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in a news briefing Tuesday afternoon Cal Fire Director Kim Pimlott said that the agency is digging in for the long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re making great progress there are still portions of the fires that are active,” he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimlott was also not optimistic that predicted rainfall for Thursday or Friday could end the fires. He noted that fires are springing up in areas close to the coast that are normally wet, such as the fire that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/17/santa-cruz-mountains-wildfire-leads-to-evacuations-injures-firefighters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">erupted overnight in Santa Cruz\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”UKidH90JABoLwQkRxvKwDqs9zBrYkHoE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-three people have died in Sonoma County, eight in Mendocino County, six in Napa County and four in Yuba County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 people remain unaccounted for in Sonoma and Napa counties as of Tuesday. Authorities say they are conducting targeted searches for victims and the work is slow-going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa’s Sutter Hospital re-opened Tuesday after evacuating nearly 80 patients a week ago within a frantic six hours as one of the wine country wildfires crept closer to the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of two hospitals to evacuate patients on Oct. 9. The other facility was Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Rosa Medical Center, which evacuated 130 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After days of gusts that constantly fanned the fires, better weather offered a chance for crews to get the upper hand on Monday, more than a week after the blazes started chewing through the state’s celebrated wine country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weather has not been in our favor over the past week in general, but we are still marching forward with our progress,” said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”8sObxb3UQN4aliBLDxE70ntEGJVJHvSj”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Monday, a water truck driver died when his vehicle rolled over near one of the fires, which happened shortly before daybreak. Napa County authorities identified the driver as 38-year-old Garret Paiz of Missouri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz, who had been delivering water to the fire lines, crashed before dawn in Napa County on a road that climbs from vineyards into the mountains. No other details were available about the accident, which was under investigation, said Mike Wilson, a fire spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoky skies started to clear in some places, and thousands of people got the all-clear to return home. About 22,000 people were still under evacuation orders Wednesday, down from a high of 100,000 on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my home. I’m going to come back without question,” said Howard Lasker, 56, who returned Sunday with his daughter to their torched house in Santa Rosa. “I have to rebuild. I want to rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the weather was still hot and dry, the calmer winds and the possibility of rain later in the week should help crews tamp down the deadliest, most destructive cluster of blazes in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any sort of moisture is welcome at this point,” said Scott Rowe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “In terms of fire, the weather outlook is looking to be improving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He predicted a quarter-inch would fall late Thursday in Sonoma and Napa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11623620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-861028680-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on October 13, 2017 in Sonoma, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on Oct. 13, 2017, in Sonoma, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people remained unaccounted for, although authorities said many of them are probably safe but have not let anyone know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hard-hit Sonoma County, Sheriff Rob Giordano said authorities have located 1,560 of the more than 1,700 people once listed as missing. Many of those names were put on the list after people called from out of state to say they could not reach a friend or relative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities said they will not let people return home until it is safe and utilities are restored. Pacific Gas and Electric Company said it expects to restore power and gas to the area by late Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many evacuees grew increasingly impatient to go home — or at least find out whether their homes were still standing. Others were reluctant to go back or to look for another place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Hernandez, who escaped with his family from his apartment Oct. 9 before it burned down, still had his car packed and ready to go in case the fires flared up again and threatened his sister’s house, where they have been staying in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day we keep hearing sirens at night, alarms,” Hernandez said. “We’re scared. When you see the fire close to your house, you’re scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Sonoma County Fairgrounds Sunday, evacuees watched the San Francisco 49ers play the Redskins on television, received treatment from a chiropractor and got free haircuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Estrada, who owns a barbershop in neighboring Marin County but grew up in one of the Santa Rosa neighborhoods hit hard by the blazes, brought his combs, clippers and scissors and displayed his barbering license in case anyone doubted his credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saving lives,” he said. “I’m just here to make somebody’s day feel better, make them feel normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lois Krier, 86, said it was hard to sleep on a cot in the shelter with people snoring and dogs barking through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband, William Krier, 89, were eager to get home, but after being evacuated for a second time in a week Saturday, they didn’t want to risk having to leave again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re cautious,” she said. “We want to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 11,000 firefighters were still battling 15 fires burning across a 100-mile swath of the state. The blazes have destroyed at least 6,000 homes and other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who were allowed back into gutted neighborhoods returned to assess the damage and perhaps see if anything was salvageable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Daniels recently completed a yearlong remodel of his Napa house near the Silverado Country Club and watched it go up in flames last week as he, his wife, 7-year-old grandson and two pugs backed out of the driveway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His neighbors, Charles Rippey, 100, and his wife, Sara, 98, were the oldest victims identified so far in the wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels, 74, a wine importer and exporter, said he lost everything left behind, including his wife’s jewelry and 3,000 bottles of wine in his cellar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s heartbreaking,” the 74-year-old said. “This was going to be our last house. I guess we’ve got one more move. But we’re fortunate. We got away. Most things can be replaced. The bank didn’t burn down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Melley reported from San Francisco. Associated Press writers Ellen Knickmeyer in Santa Rosa and Janie Har and Daisy Nguyen in San Francisco contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Below:\u003c/strong> A sortable list of the 44 people identified as having died as a result of the October fires in Northern California . 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Authorities say they are conducting targeted searches for victims and the work is slow-going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa’s Sutter Hospital re-opened Tuesday after evacuating nearly 80 patients a week ago within a frantic six hours as one of the wine country wildfires crept closer to the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of two hospitals to evacuate patients on Oct. 9. The other facility was Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Rosa Medical Center, which evacuated 130 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After days of gusts that constantly fanned the fires, better weather offered a chance for crews to get the upper hand on Monday, more than a week after the blazes started chewing through the state’s celebrated wine country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weather has not been in our favor over the past week in general, but we are still marching forward with our progress,” said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Monday, a water truck driver died when his vehicle rolled over near one of the fires, which happened shortly before daybreak. Napa County authorities identified the driver as 38-year-old Garret Paiz of Missouri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz, who had been delivering water to the fire lines, crashed before dawn in Napa County on a road that climbs from vineyards into the mountains. No other details were available about the accident, which was under investigation, said Mike Wilson, a fire spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoky skies started to clear in some places, and thousands of people got the all-clear to return home. About 22,000 people were still under evacuation orders Wednesday, down from a high of 100,000 on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my home. I’m going to come back without question,” said Howard Lasker, 56, who returned Sunday with his daughter to their torched house in Santa Rosa. “I have to rebuild. I want to rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the weather was still hot and dry, the calmer winds and the possibility of rain later in the week should help crews tamp down the deadliest, most destructive cluster of blazes in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any sort of moisture is welcome at this point,” said Scott Rowe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “In terms of fire, the weather outlook is looking to be improving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He predicted a quarter-inch would fall late Thursday in Sonoma and Napa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11623620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-861028680-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on October 13, 2017 in Sonoma, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted outside Cline Cellars on Oct. 13, 2017, in Sonoma, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people remained unaccounted for, although authorities said many of them are probably safe but have not let anyone know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hard-hit Sonoma County, Sheriff Rob Giordano said authorities have located 1,560 of the more than 1,700 people once listed as missing. Many of those names were put on the list after people called from out of state to say they could not reach a friend or relative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities said they will not let people return home until it is safe and utilities are restored. Pacific Gas and Electric Company said it expects to restore power and gas to the area by late Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many evacuees grew increasingly impatient to go home — or at least find out whether their homes were still standing. Others were reluctant to go back or to look for another place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Hernandez, who escaped with his family from his apartment Oct. 9 before it burned down, still had his car packed and ready to go in case the fires flared up again and threatened his sister’s house, where they have been staying in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day we keep hearing sirens at night, alarms,” Hernandez said. “We’re scared. When you see the fire close to your house, you’re scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Sonoma County Fairgrounds Sunday, evacuees watched the San Francisco 49ers play the Redskins on television, received treatment from a chiropractor and got free haircuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Estrada, who owns a barbershop in neighboring Marin County but grew up in one of the Santa Rosa neighborhoods hit hard by the blazes, brought his combs, clippers and scissors and displayed his barbering license in case anyone doubted his credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saving lives,” he said. “I’m just here to make somebody’s day feel better, make them feel normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lois Krier, 86, said it was hard to sleep on a cot in the shelter with people snoring and dogs barking through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband, William Krier, 89, were eager to get home, but after being evacuated for a second time in a week Saturday, they didn’t want to risk having to leave again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re cautious,” she said. “We want to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 11,000 firefighters were still battling 15 fires burning across a 100-mile swath of the state. 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"content": "\u003cp>The toll from the Northern California wildfires continues to mount. More than 40 people have perished. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed. Farms, cars, livelihoods, artifacts of lives lived. In times like these, sometimes the only thing people have to hold onto are the little stories of survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one is about goats and one very loyal dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1 o’clock in the morning on Oct. 9 when Claire Mollard’s husband called and told her to pack up some valuables and think about evacuating their home in the Santa Rosa hills in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”PPJDZFfgoVGZ6f1v7VwAGvcFNjA6Cagx”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband, Josh Weil, is an emergency room doctor and operations chief at a nearby hospital and was working the night shift. He’d heard chatter on the paramedics’ radio that the massive Tubbs Fire was heading toward their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mollard woke her 15-year old daughter, Sophie, and told her to get dressed. Then she took some belongings out to the car and saw the glow in the sky — it was the color of merlot. A few minutes later, she knew they were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image8-7606286760e94d6654e2d8ecee8f7da22e89305e-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624207\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole sky was red now and the wind was blowing like crazy,” Mollard recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the noise that struck her most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so loud, just roaring, howling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She raced inside, yelled for Sophie, and grabbed the family’s two dogs. They could see the flames just 100 yards away. Mollard made one last dash into the house to find their cat, but it was too dark and smoky. The power was out. She opened doors and windows, hoping he’d escape. By then, the fire was “raining down on us,” Mollard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they sped away, she saw their goats, Lucy and Ethel. They were standing solemn in the pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”R1aaOekIHT9gXUw8GzpJSbYwd52WmKCE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little farther north, in the mountains of Sonoma County near Calistoga, Roland Hendel and his 14-year old daughter, Ariel, were also in trouble. The smell of smoke had been thick in the air all evening. Around 11 o’clock, Hendel went to a small deck on the roof of his house. He watched the sky glow orange, and then he saw the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just stood there and watched as the flames got bigger and bigger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he ran. He and his daughter managed to get Tessa, one of their two Great Pyrenees herding dogs, into the car, but the other one, Odin, wouldn’t leave the goats. The Hendels have eight pet goats that they rescued from slaughter as newborns. His daughter bottle-fed them all. They were part of the family, and it was Odin’s job to watch over and protect them from predators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Odin is sitting there and he’s looking at me and he’s not going anywhere,” Hendel said. “So I said, ‘OK, take care of them.’ Then we got the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-800x599.jpe\" alt=\"Lucy and Ethel stand next to the charred ruins of Josh Weil and Claire Mollard's home in Santa Rosa, Calif. Someone, likely firefighters, gave the goats a bowl of water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624206\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-800x599.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-160x120.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-1020x764.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-1920x1439.jpe 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-1180x884.jpe 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-960x719.jpe 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-240x180.jpe 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-375x281.jpe 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-520x390.jpe 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucy and Ethel stand next to the charred ruins of Josh Weil and Claire Mollard’s home in Santa Rosa, Calif. Someone, likely firefighters, gave the goats a bowl of water. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two days after Hendel and his daughter fled for their lives, they went back to their land in the redwoods. It was dangerous — the main roads were blocked and fires were still burning. But they were desperate to check on Odin and the goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected either that the entire property would be decimated and Odin and the goats would be dead or that the fire would have missed us, and the house, the land and the animals would be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they discovered was both the worst and the best of outcomes. The house was gone, the trucks were gone, everything was ash and gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight of them had survived. Odin did, too, limping, with singed fur and melted whiskers. But his tail still wagged. Hendel thinks he knows what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”inLXhJSq1dK6Z7C8iYflZcPpJQt3QhjP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is Odin herded the goats into the middle of the pasture where there are a bunch of large rocks and kept them there. That’s what saved them, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of his goats, Hendel said, “They are magical beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another few days of anxious waiting, the entire herd and the dogs, Odin and Tessa, were taken to safety. They are now being cared for at a temporary farm-animal shelter at the Sonoma County fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Weil was finally able to get back to his home late Tuesday afternoon. When he approached the long drive leading up to his house, he was hopeful. The mailbox was still standing, with a letter his wife had put in the day the fire struck perfectly intact. The house itself was up around a bend. When he made the turn, there was nothing left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image21-82d47994f312ccd99a05b35b1415e998cffbac4b-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"Claire Mollard managed to get her 15-year-old daughter, Sophie, and the family's two dogs out before wildfire consumed their home in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624209\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claire Mollard managed to get her 15-year-old daughter, Sophie, and the family’s two dogs out before wildfire consumed their home in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a gut punch,” Weil said. “Everything was just ash and total destruction. I was trying to figure out where the entry way was and the garage. I could make out only an axle and wheel of my wife’s car. And the landscape around the house as far as you could see was just gone. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he shuffled through some things — watching objects disintegrate into ash as he poked at them — he heard the noise. It was unmistakable: a bleat that could only come from a goat. There, standing in the drive were Lucy and Ethel, singed and hungry and fine. Somebody, probably the firefighters, had even left them a bowl of water. He has no real idea how they survived, only a theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can think is the pasture was just low grass and so the fire couldn’t sustain itself there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was saying, the goats are here, the goats are here!” Mollard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one little wonder amid the loss. 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A few minutes later, she knew they were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image8-7606286760e94d6654e2d8ecee8f7da22e89305e-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624207\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole sky was red now and the wind was blowing like crazy,” Mollard recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the noise that struck her most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so loud, just roaring, howling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She raced inside, yelled for Sophie, and grabbed the family’s two dogs. They could see the flames just 100 yards away. Mollard made one last dash into the house to find their cat, but it was too dark and smoky. The power was out. She opened doors and windows, hoping he’d escape. By then, the fire was “raining down on us,” Mollard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they sped away, she saw their goats, Lucy and Ethel. They were standing solemn in the pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little farther north, in the mountains of Sonoma County near Calistoga, Roland Hendel and his 14-year old daughter, Ariel, were also in trouble. The smell of smoke had been thick in the air all evening. Around 11 o’clock, Hendel went to a small deck on the roof of his house. He watched the sky glow orange, and then he saw the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just stood there and watched as the flames got bigger and bigger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he ran. He and his daughter managed to get Tessa, one of their two Great Pyrenees herding dogs, into the car, but the other one, Odin, wouldn’t leave the goats. The Hendels have eight pet goats that they rescued from slaughter as newborns. His daughter bottle-fed them all. They were part of the family, and it was Odin’s job to watch over and protect them from predators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Odin is sitting there and he’s looking at me and he’s not going anywhere,” Hendel said. “So I said, ‘OK, take care of them.’ Then we got the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-800x599.jpe\" alt=\"Lucy and Ethel stand next to the charred ruins of Josh Weil and Claire Mollard's home in Santa Rosa, Calif. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fussell owns about 20 farms in Northern California, but he’s been able to access only a few of them. The others are in fire zones, still burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As bad as this looks, others are a lot worse,” Fussell says on Monday morning. “A lot of them are just totally incinerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association, says many smaller farmers lost not only their farms, but also their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This all comes at about the worst timing,” Allen says. “October is harvest season, and many of these farmers have poured their life savings into this business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11623896\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/FormerDryingBarn-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of a 10,000-square-foot curing barn, used to dry out marijuana plants for production. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Fussell’s farm in Santa Rosa, smoke still rises from what once was a 10,000-square-foot curing barn, where CannaCraft stored and dried marijuana before pressing it for oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fussell points into the only thing left standing, a 40,000-square-foot greenhouse with hundreds of marijuana plants inside. There are dozens of heavy industrial fans blowing, and Fussell says there’s a 50/50 chance that even this crop has been ruined by the smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just concerned about what contaminants might be in the air. We’ll have to test for all those things now,” Fussell says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"CannaCraft CEO Ned Fussell examines one of the plants in a surviving greenhouse.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-960x693.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/CheckingBuds-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CannaCraft CEO Ned Fussell examines one of the plants in a surviving greenhouse. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fussell is using a gas generator to pump the wells for water to preserve what little crop is left. He says that while it is devastating, pot farmers are resilient, and they’ve already gone through a lot to get this far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been kicked down many times before, and I’ve always found it’s really important to just kind of keep a level head through it all and just try to like see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Fussell says. “And I look all around us, and see so many people have lost so much more. It’s sobering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fussell’s company is now doing what it can to assist other farmers affected by the fires. They’re forming a nonprofit to collect donations for smaller farmers who were completely wiped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone will survive this,” he says. “These fires will have profound effect on the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his fall, the number of chinook salmon making their way from the ocean up the Klamath River in the far northwest corner of California is the lowest on record. That’s devastating news for the Yurok tribe, which has lived along and fished the Klamath for centuries. Salmon is integral to their entire culture and way of life, essential to Yurok ceremonies, for food, and for income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousins Erika Chavez and Jerome Nick Jr. both work for the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, and they’re patrolling the Klamath where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4032px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11622284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010.jpg 4032w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8010-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Nick Jr. checks a net set a couple of hours earlier. “No fish.” \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick perches in the front of the boat, with Chavez at the helm as we head to the mouth of the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just checking to see if there’s any tribal members fishing,” Chavez says. “Gonna head up to the bridge to see if anyone’s there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Last year we thought our fishing season was really, really low. And this year is a record one -- unfortunately on the wrong end.'\u003ccite>Joe James,\u003cbr>\nYurok tribal council member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Yurok use gillnets. In good years and bad, the cousins do net counts, stopping by boats, measuring and weighing any fish caught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Chavez and Nick are also volunteering, catching salmon for tribal elders. It’s the only fishing allowed this year. Chavez slows the boat so Nick can pull up a net they set a couple of hours ago. The verdict?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No fish,” Nick tells us, shaking his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/10/YurokTribe.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KlamathSalmon.jpg\" Title=\"Fish Blood in Their Veins -- But Few Salmon in Their River\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A Ghost Town'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The cousins are alone on the water. Nick says it’s a whole different story in a normal year, especially during commercial fishing season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Practically this whole area is nets, all the way up to the bridge,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cousins Erika Chavez and Jerome Nick Jr., who work for the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, untangle nets at the mouth of the Klamath River. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a ghost town,” Chavez says, “because there’s nobody out. It’s pretty sad, but then again just knowing there’s not a lot of people out here catching them, those fish have a chance to travel up there. At least that’s my hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we get off the water, Nick says that, unlike a lot of Yurok, he didn’t grow up fishing. He moved here six years ago to get away from family drama in Oregon. Now, when he’s not working the overnight shift at Walmart, he’s on the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work here with my cousin and she keeps me sane,” he says. “She’s my rock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says learning to fish as an adult was hard at first. Then he turns to Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What year did I pull in that 50-pound salmon?” he asks. \"2011,\" she answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dGQVMYLA0x3DIozsDbNkpvjV0Gedn5ku\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says she grew up with her family camping right here for the summer. Her grandma would make fry bread, and she and her great-grandmother would watch everyone fish. Chavez started fishing when she was 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner was my auntie,\" Chavez recalls. \"She’s the one that taught me, and our whole bottom of our boat was filled with fish. Everyone was catching plenty for their families. It was beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rich salmon harvest means covering the basics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feeds our family,” Chavez says. “When commercial’s here, we use that money to buy our kids school clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez usually fishes for her grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get her 10 to 15 fish every year, so it’s in her freezer for the whole year,” Chavez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, Chavez says, “she’ll have to deal with deer meat or elk meat or something”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Tribal Celebration of Salmon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About five minutes away in the town of Klamath, thousands of Yurok and friends gather every August for the tribe’s Salmon Festival. There’s a parade and a stick game that looks to my untrained eye like a cross between wrestling and field hockey. Yurok men sing songs for good luck around a card game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to the festival’s name, there’s salmon cooked in the traditional Yurok way. Around the edge of a long, narrow fire pit, salmon skewered on redwood sticks form a kind of crown. Oscar Gensaw monitors the scene, wearing a T-shirt that reads: Fish Boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the 55th Annual Yurok Salmon Festival, Oscar Gensaw cooks salmon the traditional way, on redwood skewers around a fire pit. This year, though, the tribe had to purchase salmon from Alaska. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is how we’ve always done it, generation to generation,” Gensaw says, trying to avoid getting smoke in his eye. “When you first start cooking, you get those fat rings around the fish like a ring on a tree. When the fat starts dripping out of each of those rings, I know that side is done,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gensaw grew up in Klamath and has three sons and a baby daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main goal is to pass this on to my boys so one day I can be the ultimate fish boss, and be on the side when they cook,” he says with a laugh. But he wants to teach them with salmon caught in the Klamath -- not the fish he’s cooking with today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These come from Alaska,” he says. The tribe had to buy this salmon, the first time in festival history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal council member Joe James is hanging out by the fire pit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"G5j6gB11NCWXqqVhXtx27Jovpr52TpTv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we thought our fishing season was really, really low,” he says. “And this year is a record one -- unfortunately on the wrong end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the tribe works with federal agencies every year to estimate the fall run and to decide how many salmon can be caught. So few chinook were expected to return to spawn this year that commercial fishing was shut down to protect them. The Yurok, a tribe of 6,000, were allowed to catch just over 600 salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those low numbers are the end result of drought, disease and a long history of habitat destruction. Yurok place much of the blame on upstream dams that have blocked salmon from ancient spawning grounds for over a century. After years of debate and struggle, four dams are set to be removed by 2020, says James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward for those dams to come down to start the process of healing our rivers” -- and with it the return of the salmon and other native species, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parade, Annelia Hillman commands the megaphone for the Klamath Justice Coalition, which chants “Undam the Klamath! Bring the salmon home!” She says tribes along the Klamath have had to fight logging, gold mining, the dams and now a proposed natural gas pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Justice Coalition in the parade at the Yurok Salmon Festival. Low numbers of chinook salmon this year are the end result of drought, disease and a long history of habitat destruction. Yurok place much of the blame on upstream dams that have blocked salmon from ancient spawning grounds for over a century. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we’re putting our water at risk like that, we’re putting life on Earth at risk,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Our People Feel the Effects'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She says the river’s poor health and the low salmon run impacts the entire Yurok way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were created in this place to help bring balance in this river,\" she says. \"Our people are part of this system and when that balance is off, our people feel the effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she sees that in her work as a youth social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we can’t be in our river, can’t eat our fish, it kind of takes our purpose away,\" Hillman says. \"We have one of the highest suicide rates, state of emergency for suicide, and I think that’s directly correlated to our lack of salmon and our inability to continue our way of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yurok have fought for years to maintain their ties to the Klamath and its salmon. In the 1960s, game wardens frequently arrested members of the tribe for gillnet fishing on the river, a practice banned by the state. One young man, Raymond Mattz, challenged the arrests. His fight went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which reaffirmed the tribe’s fishing rights -- and reservation status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His nephew, Paul Mattz Van Mechelen, runs Paul’s Famous Smoked Salmon on U.S. 101. Customers know he’s open if there’s smoke coming from the traditional fire pit in front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s my Weber, my Yurok Weber!” he jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Van Mechelen at Paul’s Famous Smoked Salmon. The last two years, he’s had to purchase fish from native fishermen hundreds of miles away, in Oregon, instead of fishing the fall chinook run in the Klamath, 50 feet away from his shop. He says for a fishing people, the losses from not fishing are more than just financial. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fish Blood in His Veins -- But No Salmon in the River\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He started this shop 16 years ago after his grandmother came to him in a dream. A steady stream of customers come in to sample and buy the wild chinook salmon he prepares with flavors like garlic, lemon pepper and teriyaki. Usually, he gets his stock from the Klamath River.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So who am I? I had my grandma at a young age tell me I had fish blood. I didn’t understand it. I didn’t know why. But we’re all fishing people. You got to look down where we’re from.'\u003ccite>Paul Mattz Van Mechelen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Not the last two years, though,” he says. “I had to go to the Columbia River,” hundreds of miles away in Oregon, where he makes purchases from native fishermen there. Gas, and payment for fish, those are big expenses for a business owner who usually fishes about 50 feet from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The losses from not fishing, they go deeper than just finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a great niece -- she’s only 2 -- but she helped start up the boat and smiled and did all that last year,” he says. “Her auntie was 5 when she pulled in a fish. So that whole part of learning and teaching them who they are and what this river gives to them is kind of life in one way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Van Mechelen to tell me more about that one point, that fishing is who Yurok are. He gets emotional, even stepping out of the store for a minute before answering:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So who am I? I had my grandma at a young age tell me I had fish blood,\" Van Mechelen says. \"I didn’t understand it. I didn’t know why. But we’re all fishing people. You got to look down where we’re from,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when you have fish blood but you have to stay away from fishing in hopes of keeping salmon here in the future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad to stay next to a river and wake up and not see fish go by,\" he says. \"That’s the saddest part. It’s bad enough you dream about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Mechelen says all he can do is pray the salmon come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting network, a non-profit, investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A Ghost Town'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The cousins are alone on the water. Nick says it’s a whole different story in a normal year, especially during commercial fishing season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Practically this whole area is nets, all the way up to the bridge,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27396_IMG_7979-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cousins Erika Chavez and Jerome Nick Jr., who work for the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, untangle nets at the mouth of the Klamath River. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a ghost town,” Chavez says, “because there’s nobody out. It’s pretty sad, but then again just knowing there’s not a lot of people out here catching them, those fish have a chance to travel up there. At least that’s my hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we get off the water, Nick says that, unlike a lot of Yurok, he didn’t grow up fishing. He moved here six years ago to get away from family drama in Oregon. Now, when he’s not working the overnight shift at Walmart, he’s on the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work here with my cousin and she keeps me sane,” he says. “She’s my rock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says learning to fish as an adult was hard at first. Then he turns to Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What year did I pull in that 50-pound salmon?” he asks. \"2011,\" she answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says she grew up with her family camping right here for the summer. Her grandma would make fry bread, and she and her great-grandmother would watch everyone fish. Chavez started fishing when she was 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner was my auntie,\" Chavez recalls. \"She’s the one that taught me, and our whole bottom of our boat was filled with fish. Everyone was catching plenty for their families. It was beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rich salmon harvest means covering the basics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feeds our family,” Chavez says. “When commercial’s here, we use that money to buy our kids school clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez usually fishes for her grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get her 10 to 15 fish every year, so it’s in her freezer for the whole year,” Chavez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, Chavez says, “she’ll have to deal with deer meat or elk meat or something”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Tribal Celebration of Salmon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About five minutes away in the town of Klamath, thousands of Yurok and friends gather every August for the tribe’s Salmon Festival. There’s a parade and a stick game that looks to my untrained eye like a cross between wrestling and field hockey. Yurok men sing songs for good luck around a card game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to the festival’s name, there’s salmon cooked in the traditional Yurok way. Around the edge of a long, narrow fire pit, salmon skewered on redwood sticks form a kind of crown. Oscar Gensaw monitors the scene, wearing a T-shirt that reads: Fish Boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27404_IMG_7664-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the 55th Annual Yurok Salmon Festival, Oscar Gensaw cooks salmon the traditional way, on redwood skewers around a fire pit. This year, though, the tribe had to purchase salmon from Alaska. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is how we’ve always done it, generation to generation,” Gensaw says, trying to avoid getting smoke in his eye. “When you first start cooking, you get those fat rings around the fish like a ring on a tree. When the fat starts dripping out of each of those rings, I know that side is done,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gensaw grew up in Klamath and has three sons and a baby daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main goal is to pass this on to my boys so one day I can be the ultimate fish boss, and be on the side when they cook,” he says with a laugh. But he wants to teach them with salmon caught in the Klamath -- not the fish he’s cooking with today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These come from Alaska,” he says. The tribe had to buy this salmon, the first time in festival history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal council member Joe James is hanging out by the fire pit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we thought our fishing season was really, really low,” he says. “And this year is a record one -- unfortunately on the wrong end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the tribe works with federal agencies every year to estimate the fall run and to decide how many salmon can be caught. So few chinook were expected to return to spawn this year that commercial fishing was shut down to protect them. The Yurok, a tribe of 6,000, were allowed to catch just over 600 salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those low numbers are the end result of drought, disease and a long history of habitat destruction. Yurok place much of the blame on upstream dams that have blocked salmon from ancient spawning grounds for over a century. After years of debate and struggle, four dams are set to be removed by 2020, says James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward for those dams to come down to start the process of healing our rivers” -- and with it the return of the salmon and other native species, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parade, Annelia Hillman commands the megaphone for the Klamath Justice Coalition, which chants “Undam the Klamath! Bring the salmon home!” She says tribes along the Klamath have had to fight logging, gold mining, the dams and now a proposed natural gas pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27406_IMG_7682-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Justice Coalition in the parade at the Yurok Salmon Festival. Low numbers of chinook salmon this year are the end result of drought, disease and a long history of habitat destruction. Yurok place much of the blame on upstream dams that have blocked salmon from ancient spawning grounds for over a century. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we’re putting our water at risk like that, we’re putting life on Earth at risk,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Our People Feel the Effects'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She says the river’s poor health and the low salmon run impacts the entire Yurok way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were created in this place to help bring balance in this river,\" she says. \"Our people are part of this system and when that balance is off, our people feel the effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she sees that in her work as a youth social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we can’t be in our river, can’t eat our fish, it kind of takes our purpose away,\" Hillman says. \"We have one of the highest suicide rates, state of emergency for suicide, and I think that’s directly correlated to our lack of salmon and our inability to continue our way of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yurok have fought for years to maintain their ties to the Klamath and its salmon. In the 1960s, game wardens frequently arrested members of the tribe for gillnet fishing on the river, a practice banned by the state. One young man, Raymond Mattz, challenged the arrests. His fight went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which reaffirmed the tribe’s fishing rights -- and reservation status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His nephew, Paul Mattz Van Mechelen, runs Paul’s Famous Smoked Salmon on U.S. 101. Customers know he’s open if there’s smoke coming from the traditional fire pit in front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s my Weber, my Yurok Weber!” he jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27408_IMG_7976-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Van Mechelen at Paul’s Famous Smoked Salmon. The last two years, he’s had to purchase fish from native fishermen hundreds of miles away, in Oregon, instead of fishing the fall chinook run in the Klamath, 50 feet away from his shop. He says for a fishing people, the losses from not fishing are more than just financial. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fish Blood in His Veins -- But No Salmon in the River\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He started this shop 16 years ago after his grandmother came to him in a dream. A steady stream of customers come in to sample and buy the wild chinook salmon he prepares with flavors like garlic, lemon pepper and teriyaki. Usually, he gets his stock from the Klamath River.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So who am I? I had my grandma at a young age tell me I had fish blood. I didn’t understand it. I didn’t know why. But we’re all fishing people. You got to look down where we’re from.'\u003ccite>Paul Mattz Van Mechelen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Not the last two years, though,” he says. “I had to go to the Columbia River,” hundreds of miles away in Oregon, where he makes purchases from native fishermen there. Gas, and payment for fish, those are big expenses for a business owner who usually fishes about 50 feet from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The losses from not fishing, they go deeper than just finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a great niece -- she’s only 2 -- but she helped start up the boat and smiled and did all that last year,” he says. “Her auntie was 5 when she pulled in a fish. So that whole part of learning and teaching them who they are and what this river gives to them is kind of life in one way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Van Mechelen to tell me more about that one point, that fishing is who Yurok are. He gets emotional, even stepping out of the store for a minute before answering:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So who am I? I had my grandma at a young age tell me I had fish blood,\" Van Mechelen says. \"I didn’t understand it. I didn’t know why. But we’re all fishing people. You got to look down where we’re from,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when you have fish blood but you have to stay away from fishing in hopes of keeping salmon here in the future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad to stay next to a river and wake up and not see fish go by,\" he says. \"That’s the saddest part. It’s bad enough you dream about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Mechelen says all he can do is pray the salmon come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The speed and ferocity of the wildfires raging through Northern California’s wine country have caught many residents off guard and left state officials scrambling to contain the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for fire researchers, these devastating blazes are part of a much larger pattern unfolding across the western United States. So far this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm\">fires in the U.S. have consumed more than 8.5 million acres\u003c/a> — an area bigger than the state of Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re definitely pushing one of the largest fire years this decade,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorado.edu/geography/jkbalch/jkbprofile/Welcome.html\">Jennifer Balch\u003c/a>, a fire ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause is hot, dry conditions nationwide. Heat records have been broken this year in California, Oregon and Montana. Globally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2017/08/supplemental/page-1\">2017 is among the hottest years on record\u003c/a>, thanks in part to human-induced climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires are natural phenomena, and linking any one fire to climate change is difficult if not impossible. Nevertheless, “there is a link between a warmer, drier climate and wildfires,” Balch says. For example, today’s fire season is three months longer than it was in the 1970s, she says. Annually, there are far more large fires nationwide than there used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that forests burn when it’s warm and dry, and we’ve seen more of those years recently,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.uidaho.edu/sci/geography/people/faculty/jabatzoglou\">John Abatzoglou\u003c/a> of the University of Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year has been “pretty impressive,” he says. “I’m in Northern Idaho, and we had smoke coming from British Columbia and Oregon and California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the wine country blazes in Napa and Sonoma, Abatzoglou says a sequence of events set up the wildfires. A wet spring caused the hills to grow thick with grasses and shrubs. That foliage then died and dried out over the hottest summer in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came unusually strong fall winds, which were not climate-related. The winds caused small fires to grow extremely quickly. “Everybody from firefighters down to homeowners has commented on just how incredibly fast the fires were moving,” says \u003ca href=\"https://nature.berkeley.edu/moritzlab/\">Max Moritz\u003c/a>, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “That’s really a wind-related phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are things that can be done to reduce the fire threat. Earlier this year, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-directs-interior-bureaus-take-aggressive-action-prevent-wildfires\">issued a call for more aggressive actions to suppress fires\u003c/a>. He encouraged land managers nationwide to clear potential fuel sources, such as dead trees, and expand the clearings along roads to create stronger firebreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Balch and others say these actions are only part of the solution. As fires become more common — and humans build farther into natural landscapes prone to fire — more must be done to protect communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been leading the way in developing regulations to protect against fires, Moritz says. The state fire agency, Cal Fire, has produced \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_prevention/fire_prevention_wildland_zones_maps\">fire hazard maps\u003c/a>. In high-risk zones, there are \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_prevention/fire_prevention_wildland_codes\">building requirements\u003c/a> such as fire-resistant roofs and window screens that can block embers from floating into a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Moritz points out that the hazard maps exclude urban areas. There, local municipalities have their own building codes, which can be less stringent than Cal Fire’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that more urban areas might need to incorporate fire planning into their communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>East of Santa Rosa in a small valley surrounded by blackened hills, about a dozen firetrucks and engines were pulled over at the Bennett Valley Fire Station in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer firefighter Steve Balich, of Occidental, was brushing his teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three days we’ve been sleeping in the front of the truck — no showers yet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balich’s face was smeared with dirt. He and the three other members of his team had been out all night using hand tools to cut away brush along the front lines of the Adobe Fire, just one of the wildfires burning in his home county. Once they cut down to bare earth, they start smaller fires that burn back toward the larger wildfire to keep it from getting nearer to houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s the best we can do with a fire this big, is to hold it, because you can’t cover everything,” he said. “But we’re burning it down so there’s nothing left to burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of firefighters — from local volunteer crews like Balich’s to US Forest Service firefighters to inmate firefighters — have been working nonstop to battle the blazes consuming Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11623328\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fire trucks and engines park along Bennett Valley Road in Sonoma County where firefighters take a moment to re-group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_1702-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firetrucks and engines park along Bennett Valley Road in Sonoma County, where firefighters take a moment to regroup. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Balich and his other crew members — Rachel Lunardi, Rhylind McAuliffe and Kyle Calvi — are between the Nuns Fire and the Adobe Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just been working our way around,” McAuliffe said. “It’s all about fighting these little fingers of fire that kind of poke out here and there” — before they spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re used to being one of the “resources” called in to help fight fires in another county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the ones waiting for the resources this time,” Balich said. “We have never really seen this in our lifetime here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balich said he volunteered for a simple reason: “It’s always been very gratifying to help people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunardi, who works as an electrician, said she became a volunteer firefighter to help people — but also because of family: She’s been around fire stations her whole life; her father is the Occidental Fire Department’s chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this was a new experience for her, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my first strike team, so I’ve never seen anything like this before,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From here, the four volunteers were headed to the Napa County Fairgrounds next to get their first break after three days and a much-needed shower. Calvi said he’d gotten only about eight hours sleep during the three days of battling the fire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further down the road, at the Glen Ellen Fire Station, Battalion Chief Kirk Van Wormer and a clutch of other firefighters surveyed maps of the active fires in the area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“We’re sitting in the middle of the Nuns Fire,” he said, pointing to the charred landscape around him. “This is where our fire station is, and the Nuns Fire burned all the way around the firehouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11623310 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A group of firefighters discuss an attack plan for the Nuns fire at the Glen Ellen fire station. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of firefighters discuss an attack plan for the Nuns Fire at the Glen Ellen Fire Station. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Van Wormer said part of how they are fighting this current fire is by looking to the past. This same area burned in the 1964 Nuns Canyon Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Exact same name of the fire we’re standing in right now,” he said. “And we study those, and we learn from those past fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example of learning from the ’64 fire: “We used a lot of the same control lines, or the location of those control lines from what we learned from past fires, and it proved very beneficial to help stop this fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Wormer said that despite little containment for days, they are making progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big turning point came three days ago. He said a fire in Annadel State Park near Santa Rosa was threatening to come down into another populated area. Working with multiple agencies, firefighters came up with a plan: They cut a bulldozer line through the park and stopped the fire’s progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the first big victory that we had in this whole craziness of fires,” he said. “So that was kind of the turning point of seeing our plan actually work the way we wanted. 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Calvi said he’d gotten only about eight hours sleep during the three days of battling the fire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further down the road, at the Glen Ellen Fire Station, Battalion Chief Kirk Van Wormer and a clutch of other firefighters surveyed maps of the active fires in the area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“We’re sitting in the middle of the Nuns Fire,” he said, pointing to the charred landscape around him. “This is where our fire station is, and the Nuns Fire burned all the way around the firehouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11623310 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A group of firefighters discuss an attack plan for the Nuns fire at the Glen Ellen fire station. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_8888-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of firefighters discuss an attack plan for the Nuns Fire at the Glen Ellen Fire Station. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Van Wormer said part of how they are fighting this current fire is by looking to the past. 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