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"content": "\u003cp>Cockroaches are the houseguests that Tim Price and his wife, Diane, never wanted. Residents of Pasadena for 43 years, they thought they'd seen everything they were going to see on their property and in their house from the insect kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, until they encountered what Price calls the \"king of all roaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't know if it was a cricket or some other type of varmint,\" admits Price. \"It was brown in color. It kind of looked like it had wings. And then we discovered it was a roach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to a small opening underneath his bathroom sink, he shows evidence of the intruder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"See that black mark there,\" he says. \"That's what's made by them. Those are their droppings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most unwanted of insects in anyone's home, Price had not received a visit from any ordinary cockroach. This was the American cockroach -- a squeamishly unattractive bug that can grow more than 3 inches long and turn any normal night in front of the TV into Roach Watch. And these guys don't always show up alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've caught a total of seven of them altogether,\" Price says, with a serious look on his face. \"Two, we were humanely responsible for them living. The others went to the happy bug ground in the sky.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why now? 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Our history-making drought strikes again. As California's front lawns brown, dry tree limbs fall on city streets and neighbors scramble to water their yards by the light of the moon during a state-mandated Phase 2 water restriction, these cockroaches are now cruising residential streets for their next meal and a drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could be feeding from crumbs that you drop while you're cooking dinner, from the trashcan or as simple as water leaking from a drainpipe,\" says Rivera. \"But they find a source, and they make a home in your home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says exterminators up and down the state are seeing the largest influx of the bigger roaches that they've seen in decades. And it's keeping them busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All true, according to Dr. Richard Kaae, an entomologist who has been teaching at Cal Poly Pomona for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In California, we have four major roaches,\" says Kaae. \"You have the German roach and the brown-banded roach. Then there's the Oriental cockroach and the American cockroach -- both which are bigger roaches and they're mainly outdoor species.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10703849\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10703849\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Price says this is the first time he's seen American roaches in his home in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Price says this is the first time he's seen American roaches in his home in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The American roach is found mostly in water pipes and sewers -- sometimes in numbers that would boggle the mind, says Kaae -- unlike the German cockroach, its smaller but more worrisome buggy brethren, which can infest restaurants, hotels or aging residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some of the sewers of L.A., they've opened them up and found the American roaches -- almost looked like the walls were moving,\" Kaae says with a wry smile. \"Nobody ever counted them, but you can get big numbers of them if the conditions are right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since the conditions below ground are not right after four years of drought, up come the usually outdoorsy American roaches into the world above, and straight toward homes -- like the Prices'. It's a matter of nature and survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Half of insects eat other insects. Half of them are predators. So with dry conditions, the plant feeders aren't going to have plants and the predators aren't going to have anything to eat,\" Kaae says. \"So it affects everything. Affects the whole ecosystem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says not to worry too much about what he calls \"the poor, poor roaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both the Oriental and the American roaches aren't home dwellers. 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Our history-making drought strikes again. As California's front lawns brown, dry tree limbs fall on city streets and neighbors scramble to water their yards by the light of the moon during a state-mandated Phase 2 water restriction, these cockroaches are now cruising residential streets for their next meal and a drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could be feeding from crumbs that you drop while you're cooking dinner, from the trashcan or as simple as water leaking from a drainpipe,\" says Rivera. \"But they find a source, and they make a home in your home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says exterminators up and down the state are seeing the largest influx of the bigger roaches that they've seen in decades. And it's keeping them busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All true, according to Dr. Richard Kaae, an entomologist who has been teaching at Cal Poly Pomona for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In California, we have four major roaches,\" says Kaae. \"You have the German roach and the brown-banded roach. Then there's the Oriental cockroach and the American cockroach -- both which are bigger roaches and they're mainly outdoor species.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10703849\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10703849\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Price says this is the first time he's seen American roaches in his home in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Price says this is the first time he's seen American roaches in his home in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The American roach is found mostly in water pipes and sewers -- sometimes in numbers that would boggle the mind, says Kaae -- unlike the German cockroach, its smaller but more worrisome buggy brethren, which can infest restaurants, hotels or aging residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some of the sewers of L.A., they've opened them up and found the American roaches -- almost looked like the walls were moving,\" Kaae says with a wry smile. \"Nobody ever counted them, but you can get big numbers of them if the conditions are right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since the conditions below ground are not right after four years of drought, up come the usually outdoorsy American roaches into the world above, and straight toward homes -- like the Prices'. It's a matter of nature and survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Half of insects eat other insects. Half of them are predators. So with dry conditions, the plant feeders aren't going to have plants and the predators aren't going to have anything to eat,\" Kaae says. \"So it affects everything. Affects the whole ecosystem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says not to worry too much about what he calls \"the poor, poor roaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both the Oriental and the American roaches aren't home dwellers. They don't want to be inside your home,\" he says. \"You might get a stray in there, but it's not a big deal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10703853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10703853\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-800x793.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Tena Rubio was greeted by this not-so-little fella stuck in her car in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-800x793.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-400x396.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-1440x1427.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-1180x1170.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-960x952.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachCar-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Tena Rubio was greeted by this not-so-little fella stuck in her car in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Steve Masar/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not a big deal for some. But Kaae admits that roaches are not on most people's list of acceptable house bugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people don't appreciate roaches,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exterminator Rivera agrees. And it's not just the fear factor of an ugly 3-inch insect darting across the kitchen floor. There's a potential health consideration, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the sewer systems, they're picking up disease and bacteria on their body,\" says Rivera. \"And when they come in and around your structure -- it's spreading 'em.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought once again is forcing Californians to do something they may never have had to do before, Tim Price included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I captured them by the quickest of methods, called a tissue paper,\" Price confirms. \"And then I send them to a watery grave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Niño, we -- and the roaches -- are ready when you are.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Legislature may have scuttled the centerpiece of Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate change plans, but it still approved ambitious new environmental policies that will impact the economy and life of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a long trek forward to change the very basis of our industrial economy,” Brown said last week. “And I think we’re making tremendous progress.”In coming years, the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_350_bill_20150911_enrolled.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> means California’s homes and buildings are expected to use dramatically less electricity and the \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/california-pushes-forward-on-renewable-power/\">power grid will increase its share of renewable energy\u003c/a>. Brown also hopes to achieve much of what the Legislature rejected through \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/california-climate-change-policy-overview/\">executive orders and regulations\u003c/a>. That will mean more electric cars on the road and increased use of biofuels, as part of a far-reaching effort to slash greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the legislative session that ended on Sept. 11, lawmakers halted a bill that would have mandated deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts by the year 2050. They also failed to extend the state’s carbon-limiting \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/cap-and-trade-is-california-a-leader-or-a-loner/\">cap-and-trade program\u003c/a>, which may otherwise expire in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most contentious of all was a bid to \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/can-california-cut-gasoline-use-in-half-in-15-years-probably-not/\">slash petroleum use in motor vehicles in half by 2030\u003c/a>. That idea got dropped after the oil industry launched a \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/ad-blitz-heats-up-climate-change-fight/\">vigorous advertising campaign in opposition\u003c/a>, and some Democrats in the state Assembly shied away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landmark Measure Passed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Brown and Senate President pro Tem \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">Kevin de León\u003c/a> (D-Los Angeles) will bring almost unparalleled accomplishments to a major international climate-change conference in Paris this December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers passed and sent to the governor a landmark measure, carried by de León, to require electric power providers to get half of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030 (currently they are required to get 33 percent by 2020). It’s a target that’s stricter than all but a few states. Brown is expected to sign the legislation by the Oct. 11 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewable energy goal means that electricity providers must invest in more wind farms and large-scale solar plants as well as new transmission infrastructure. Currently, the three major utilities in the state – Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — each get more than 20 percent of their electricity from renewables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Utilities Commission has not yet studied how the 50 percent target might affect consumers’ electric rates. Terrie Prosper, a commission spokeswoman, said the marginal cost should be minimal “if new technologies like storage and electric vehicles can be effectively used to integrate renewable resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewable energy bill also calls for new and existing buildings across the state to become, collectively, twice as energy efficient by 2030. This \u003ca href=\"http://docketpublic.energy.ca.gov/PublicDocuments/15-IEPR-05/TN205919_20150828T153953_Existing_Buildings_Energy_Efficiency_Action_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">means\u003c/a> that Californians can expect to get more information about their homes’ energy usage, a helpful tool for homebuyers among others. It is also likely to be easier to find and use incentives like rebates to make homes more efficient. Energy-use standards for electronic appliances may also continue to tighten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a very big goal,” said Dennis Murphy of the US Green Building Council’s California branch, who noted that the state already was far more energy-efficient than most of the nation. Churches, schools and office buildings will be affected as well as homes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third leg of de León’s bill, known as Senate Bill 350, would have required the state to cut petroleum usage in motor vehicles in half by 2030. That portion got removed from the final bill. But Brown said last week that the California Air Resources Board, which would have taken charge of the petroleum mandate had it passed, would work toward a lower-petroleum future anyhow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing we don’t have is a formal statement in law of a 50 percent goal,” Brown said. “But the ARB is committed to that 50 percent goal, and I am committed to backing them up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the air board readopted a major rule known as the low-carbon fuel standard that requires producers of transportation fuels such as gasoline and diesel to make their products 10 percent less carbon-intensive by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Executive Orders\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air board is already planning for long-term greenhouse gas emissions cuts to comply with executive orders issued by Brown and his predecessor, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The executive orders \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/how-hard-will-it-be-to-meet-2030-and-2050-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goals/\">require emissions reductions of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050\u003c/a>. These cuts will have impacts for many sectors, prompting industrial plants and even perhaps farms to cut their greenhouse gas output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill would have codified those goals into law, which would preserve the goal in statute no matter who succeeds Brown as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not really set in stone. It’s an executive order,” said Ethan Elkind, a climate expert affiliated with the laws schools of the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. He added that some groups may not follow those orders the way they would legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But assuming the air board crafts policies to comply with the executive orders, that should effectively mean a close to 50 percent cut in petroleum use, said Simon Mui of the Natural Resources Defense Council — on the order, in other words, of what de León and Brown originally outlined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, despite Brown’s fury at the oil companies, the air board may not be able to enact petroleum cuts directly, in the absence of legislative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Resources Board “has pretty broad authority over air emissions, but I don’t think that translates into a direct ability to reduce petroleum,” said Brian Cragg, an attorney with the San Francisco firm Goodin, MacBride, Squeri & Day. “They would have to try to find some tie to air emissions…that would result in a reduction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air board spokesman Dave Clegern said in an e-mail that the agency does not comment on legislation. However, “broadly we would note that Senate Bill 350 did not expand ARB’s authority, nor was it a directive to create new regulations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major programs needed to meet the decarbonizing goals announced this year by the governor are already in place, Clegern said. The air board has crafted policies that include reducing the carbon content of fuels, regulating the emissions from cars and trucks, and rewarding automakers that sell electric vehicles to Californians. The board also runs the cap-and-trade program, which limits carbon across nearly the entire California economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air board operates some of its key programs under a landmark piece of legislation passed in 2006, which sought to slash California’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 — a \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/will-california-meet-its-2020-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goal/\">goal that state officials expect to meet in time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the air board, which is overseen by a panel of gubernatorial appointees, is also likely to face increased scrutiny from both businesses and lawmakers as it embarks on more ambitious policies whose costs have yet to be determined, including those that affect petroleum. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Brown and Senate President pro Tem \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">Kevin de León\u003c/a> (D-Los Angeles) will bring almost unparalleled accomplishments to a major international climate-change conference in Paris this December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers passed and sent to the governor a landmark measure, carried by de León, to require electric power providers to get half of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030 (currently they are required to get 33 percent by 2020). It’s a target that’s stricter than all but a few states. Brown is expected to sign the legislation by the Oct. 11 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewable energy goal means that electricity providers must invest in more wind farms and large-scale solar plants as well as new transmission infrastructure. Currently, the three major utilities in the state – Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — each get more than 20 percent of their electricity from renewables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Utilities Commission has not yet studied how the 50 percent target might affect consumers’ electric rates. Terrie Prosper, a commission spokeswoman, said the marginal cost should be minimal “if new technologies like storage and electric vehicles can be effectively used to integrate renewable resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewable energy bill also calls for new and existing buildings across the state to become, collectively, twice as energy efficient by 2030. 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He added that some groups may not follow those orders the way they would legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But assuming the air board crafts policies to comply with the executive orders, that should effectively mean a close to 50 percent cut in petroleum use, said Simon Mui of the Natural Resources Defense Council — on the order, in other words, of what de León and Brown originally outlined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, despite Brown’s fury at the oil companies, the air board may not be able to enact petroleum cuts directly, in the absence of legislative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Resources Board “has pretty broad authority over air emissions, but I don’t think that translates into a direct ability to reduce petroleum,” said Brian Cragg, an attorney with the San Francisco firm Goodin, MacBride, Squeri & Day. “They would have to try to find some tie to air emissions…that would result in a reduction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air board spokesman Dave Clegern said in an e-mail that the agency does not comment on legislation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Twelve people were arrested and 200 marched through the streets of San Francisco’s Financial District, in a Monday morning protest targeting the banking industry’s ties to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 9 a.m., four people locked themselves together in the lobby of Bank of the West on Bush Street, forcing police to shut the building’s main entrance for almost two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, demonstrators chanted “The waters are rising! No more compromising!” as they painted the intersection of Bush and Montgomery streets with the words “\u003ca href=\"https://floodthesystem.net/\" target=\"_blank\">#floodthesystem\u003c/a> Stop Climate Chaos Profiteers.” More than 100 people occupied the intersection for over an hour, waving flags and banners. When police ordered them to move to the sidewalk, seven people remained seated with locked arms, awaiting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10700461\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10700461 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/marchers-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">#floodthesystem marchers snake through San Francisco's Financial District. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Parkin, with \u003ca href=\"http://floodwallstwest.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Flood Wall Street West\u003c/a>, says the French company \u003ca href=\"http://usa.bnpparibas/en/\" target=\"_blank\">BNP Paribas\u003c/a>, which owns Bank of the West, is an investor in coal, and is sponsoring \u003ca href=\"http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en\" target=\"_blank\">COP 21\u003c/a>, the latest round of U.N. climate talks to be held in Paris. He called BNP Paribas a “climate criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re a company significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, global warming. But then also they’re \u003ca href=\"http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/27/meet-corporate-villains-sponsoring-cop21-climate-talks\" target=\"_blank\">using the COP to kind of greenwash that image\u003c/a> -- as PR spin to make them look good, even though they are a climate perpetrator,” said Parkin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Serrante spent the morning inside Bank of the West’s lobby holding a sign that said “Capitalism = Climate Chaos.” Because she was not locked to anyone, police let her leave before arresting four protesters and a legal observer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The statement that we’re making is that current business as usual, there’s no place for it anymore,” said Serrante. “We have to create a change if we are going to stop climate chaos, and Bank of the West is contributing to that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of the West did not respond to a request for comment. But one of the bank’s employees was sitting on the sidewalk in front of the building, looking distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my worst nightmare right now,” explained Beverly Pitzer, the bank’s Community Reinvestment Act operations officer. She said she previously “dropped out of the corporate world because of the atrocities for the climate and for social justice.” But this protest had her allegiances torn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in dire straits with the planet, and at the same time I know that the group I work in has the community’s best interest,\" she said. \"We are here to make sure that low-income people are getting loans and getting access to grants, and so that group is doing the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitzer said she was on her way to work Monday morning when she received an alert on her phone about the protest. She didn’t want to enter the building through the side door, as that would have felt like “crossing a picket line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Low-income communities are going to be the hardest hit, and they already are the hardest hit in climate change. So the work that my team is doing is going to have a direct positive impact,” said Pitzer. “I feel good about my work here, I feel good about the team I work for. So I’m in the middle holding both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10700464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10700464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters locked to each other in the Bank of the West lobby\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters are locked to each other in the Bank of the West lobby. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The demonstration also targeted Wells Fargo and Chevron, in an attempt to link the financial and fossil fuel industries. San Francisco’s Financial District has become known as “Wall Street West” to many activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parkin said the focus is also practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you gonna actually ask an oil company to stop drilling for oil? Whereas you can ask a bank to stop financing that oil company,” Parkin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace Martinez, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calorganize.org/\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, said investment in coal is affecting regular Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got unseasonal heat waves, a lot of flooding in different parts of the world,\" Martinez said. \"And a lot of what these corporations have been investing in or lobbying against in order to continue to build their profit is impacting everyday people and their environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tayla Elom acknowledged the general public may not have made the links between financial capital and dirty energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully it does ignite a conversation of ‘How is Wells Fargo actually related to the climate? I don’t understand?’… If people start that conversation, that’s a huge thing. That’s bringing awareness to something that people are unaware of in the first place,” said Elom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 11 a.m., the intersection was clear. Five protesters had been arrested for trespassing, and seven more for failing to obey a traffic officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parkin says he doesn’t expect much from the U.N. talks in Paris. But there will be more demonstrations in the lead-up to U.N. climate negotiations in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of a bigger series, which is going after these corporations for destroying our communities,” said Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many reasons to be out here today,” Elom said. “This is not just about stopping one form of oppression, but really looking at the global system we’ve created here in the U.S. and seeing how it’s not working, and how it’s dysfunctional and trying to find ways to communicate that dysfunction.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Serrante spent the morning inside Bank of the West’s lobby holding a sign that said “Capitalism = Climate Chaos.” Because she was not locked to anyone, police let her leave before arresting four protesters and a legal observer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The statement that we’re making is that current business as usual, there’s no place for it anymore,” said Serrante. “We have to create a change if we are going to stop climate chaos, and Bank of the West is contributing to that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of the West did not respond to a request for comment. But one of the bank’s employees was sitting on the sidewalk in front of the building, looking distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my worst nightmare right now,” explained Beverly Pitzer, the bank’s Community Reinvestment Act operations officer. She said she previously “dropped out of the corporate world because of the atrocities for the climate and for social justice.” But this protest had her allegiances torn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in dire straits with the planet, and at the same time I know that the group I work in has the community’s best interest,\" she said. \"We are here to make sure that low-income people are getting loans and getting access to grants, and so that group is doing the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitzer said she was on her way to work Monday morning when she received an alert on her phone about the protest. She didn’t want to enter the building through the side door, as that would have felt like “crossing a picket line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Low-income communities are going to be the hardest hit, and they already are the hardest hit in climate change. So the work that my team is doing is going to have a direct positive impact,” said Pitzer. “I feel good about my work here, I feel good about the team I work for. So I’m in the middle holding both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10700464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10700464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters locked to each other in the Bank of the West lobby\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/locked-down-in-lobby-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters are locked to each other in the Bank of the West lobby. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The demonstration also targeted Wells Fargo and Chevron, in an attempt to link the financial and fossil fuel industries. San Francisco’s Financial District has become known as “Wall Street West” to many activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parkin said the focus is also practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you gonna actually ask an oil company to stop drilling for oil? Whereas you can ask a bank to stop financing that oil company,” Parkin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace Martinez, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calorganize.org/\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, said investment in coal is affecting regular Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got unseasonal heat waves, a lot of flooding in different parts of the world,\" Martinez said. \"And a lot of what these corporations have been investing in or lobbying against in order to continue to build their profit is impacting everyday people and their environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tayla Elom acknowledged the general public may not have made the links between financial capital and dirty energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully it does ignite a conversation of ‘How is Wells Fargo actually related to the climate? I don’t understand?’… If people start that conversation, that’s a huge thing. 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"content": "\u003cp>The endangered San Joaquin kit fox has an unlikely home in California’s country music capital. No, these bushy-tailed creatures don’t hang out in the honky-tonks in Bakersfield, but they do find plenty of other places to make their dens. Every golf course in town has a family of kit foxes. Industrial parks and school campuses are also popular spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, they’re all over Bakersfield,” says Alan Paradise, principal of North High School. He’s seen many a fox family peering out of dens near the school’s baseball field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225594796\" 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>“You’ll know that it’s an active den when you see bones and wrappings around the outside,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food wrappings, that is. These small nocturnal foxes will eat junk food and they’ve been known to dumpster-dive. But they also find plenty of marmots, ground squirrels and insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise says he sees them everywhere. “They seem to do pretty well in Bakersfield,” he says. “They like it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, they’ve been around for decades. As Bakersfield grew and encroached on their natural habitat, they adapted. Biologists estimate there could be as many as 400 foxes living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697084\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10697084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-400x238.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1440x856.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-960x571.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange. \u003ccite>(Tory Westall/Endangered Species Recovery Program, CSU Stanislaus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And since the drought, the Bakersfield kit foxes make up the most stable population of this endangered animal. The numbers are declining in wilder areas like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/nlcs/Carrizo_Plain_NM.html\">Carrizo Plain National Monument\u003c/a>, where kit foxes are having trouble finding enough food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals take pride in the kit foxes, but sometimes there are conflicts, says California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Victoria Monroe. She educates people on how to coexist with a protected species that is curious and playful, but skittish around humans. 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And they can change their behaviors in response to human activity to exploit new environments and to really thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now these urban foxes are facing a problem they can’t outwit -- a deadly and highly infectious skin disease called mange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this is such a high-density population, the disease is spreading pretty rapidly,” says Brian Cypher, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://esrp.csustan.edu/\">Endangered Species Recovery Program \u003c/a>at CSU Stanislaus. “It could spread throughout the entire [urban] population and potentially kill them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the drought has already caused a precipitous drop in the numbers of San Joaquin kit foxes out in the wild, this is especially bad news for an endangered animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher says mange, which is caused by mites, has never been seen in kit foxes. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/09/28/the-best-supermoon-eclipse-videos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>See the best supermoon eclipse videos here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"what\">\u003c/a>You’ve been waiting for this since 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, not the re-release of “Rocky III.” We’re talking about the last time a particular astronomical two-fer occurred: a simultaneous supermoon and lunar eclipse. On Sunday night, that concurrence will take place again, for the last time until 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#what\">What’s happening\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#when\">When to see it\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#where\">Where to see it\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#how\">How to see it\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#see\">What you will see\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#local\">Local events\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#online\">Where to watch online\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Both a full moon and lunar eclipse occur when the Earth is between the moon and the sun. In the case of the lunar eclipse, there’s the additional factor that the moon, Earth and sun are precisely lined up, so that the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow. A lunar eclipse always occurs during a full moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunar perigee means the moon’s orbit will take it as close to the Earth during this \u003ca href=\"http://www.universetoday.com/20053/lunar-month/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lunar month\u003c/a> as it’s going to get (we hope) — a mere 222,000 miles away. When a full moon coincides with lunar perigee, it’s called a supermoon, because the moon should appear slightly larger than average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"when\">\u003c/a>“Supermoon is not an astronomical term, but was invented by the media to make things more exciting sounding,” says Andrew Fraknoi, chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, and one of our go-to guys on things astronomical. “The average person can’t really tell the difference between a supermoon and an ordinary moon, so it’s not quite as super a phenomenon as the term makes it sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All right, sir. But throw in that eclipse — now you’re talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can you see it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"where\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fraknoi recommends that you start watching when the moon rises, around 7 p.m. Pacific Time. The total eclipse starts at 7:11 p.m. and ends at 8:23 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"where\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Where is the best location to see it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look to the east! The moon will appear low on the eastern horizon as it rises. Which could be a problem for some would-be observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us don’t have a view of the eastern horizon — a building or a hill might be in the way,” Fraknoi notes. But by the time the eclipse ends, he says, the moon will have risen considerably in the sky, and it will be be easier to glimpse. If you want to see the entire eclipse, though, you should get to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"how\">\u003c/a>Fraknoi also recommends checking the weather in advance, so you can get to a spot without clouds or fog should those be in the forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re in San Francisco, especially, the further east, south or north you go, the more likely you are to hit clear skies, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can you see it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"see\">\u003c/a>Your own peepers will do the trick — you don’t need a telescope or binoculars. Unless you’re a werewolf, there’s no danger in looking at the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will you see?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Earth’s shadow is cast on the moon, it will slowly darken, until the moon is completely covered: a total eclipse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"local\">\u003c/a>“The full moon doesn’t go completely dark,” says Fraknoi. “It will become a little bit reddish. That’s because the earth has an atmosphere and the atmosphere acts a bit like a lens, and so the red colors, particularly from the sunlight, will be bent inward toward the moon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can I go to watch this with other people, in case the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/01/living/blood-moon-biblical-prophecy-feat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world is coming to an end\u003c/a>?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as we know, the world is not coming to an end — at least this Sept. 27. The dinosaurs notwithstanding, an association between astronomical phenomena and ill-fated earthly events has yet to be proven. (Though the simultaneous super moon-lunar eclipse year of 1928 did see the election of Herbert Hoover.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, you can still have some communal fun at the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://14884.blackbaudhosting.com/14884/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=0f14d907-2734-4a8b-a372-f627ce5f3e17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chabot Space & Science Center\u003c/a> – 7 to 9:30 pm; $10. Children two and under free. After 7 p.m. tickets available at the door only.\u003cbr>\n10000 Skyline Blvd, Oakland, CA 94619\u003cbr>\n(510) 336-7300\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Chabot Space & Science Center’s observatory deck will host a view to a rare and beautiful astronomical event, a Total Lunar Eclipse. Enjoy the spectacle in good company as the fully eclipsed Moon rises above the tree line of the East Bay Hills.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.collegeofsanmateo.edu/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=15595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College of San Mateo\u003c/a>, 6:30-9:30 pm, Free\u003cbr>\nCollege Center Terrace and Building 36 Observatory\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In addition to the telescopes in our rooftop observatory, a telescope will be set up on theCollege Center Terrace from 6:30~7:30 pm, and will be staffed by our astronomy faculty, for viewing and photographing the moon as it rises above the horizon. Also, courtesy of the CSM Astronomy Department, astronomy student volunteers will have binoculars available to view the supermoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dress warmly and remember that this event is weather dependent. So, before coming to the campus, check our website for any changes in the venue due to weather conditions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"online\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaa-astronomy.org/total-lunar-eclipse-viewing-party-on-september-27/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Amateur Astronomers\u003c/a>, 6 to 9 p.m., Free\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pier+15/@37.8015286,-122.397422,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x8085805ec2002869:0x40df3504d4f6cf20!4m2!3m1!1s0x8085805f2089dcb1:0xa7b58658c772d7c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pier 15, San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Join the SFAA for a public viewing party on Sunday evening September 27th of the Harvest Moon Lunar Eclipse. We will gather at Pier 15 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco with a spectacular view of the San Francisco Bay and the magical sight of the Harvest Moon rising in the east in total eclipse. Plan to arrive between 6:00 and 7:00 pm. Subject to cancellation if there is cloudy or inclement weather.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I can’t get out or just prefer to experience the majesty of this event the way I do everything – on the Web?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fear not. You can watch online:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/mega-harvest-moon-eclipse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slooh.com webcast\u003c/a> – begins 5 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 27\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://livestream.com/GriffithObservatoryTV\">Griffith Observatory live stream\u003c/a> – begins 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 27\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The University of Arizona’s Mt. 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Enjoy the spectacle in good company as the fully eclipsed Moon rises above the tree line of the East Bay Hills.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.collegeofsanmateo.edu/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=15595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College of San Mateo\u003c/a>, 6:30-9:30 pm, Free\u003cbr>\nCollege Center Terrace and Building 36 Observatory\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In addition to the telescopes in our rooftop observatory, a telescope will be set up on theCollege Center Terrace from 6:30~7:30 pm, and will be staffed by our astronomy faculty, for viewing and photographing the moon as it rises above the horizon. Also, courtesy of the CSM Astronomy Department, astronomy student volunteers will have binoculars available to view the supermoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dress warmly and remember that this event is weather dependent. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23:\u003c/strong> Federal emergency responders are on the ground in Lake County assessing damage from one of the most destructive wildfires in California’s recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, joined state and local officials for an update from the Valley Fire Wednesday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can provide some financial assistance based upon need,” he said. “The first part is getting registered to determine that need, but the longer-term need is going to be housing. And we’re going to work with the state and locals on how we get the housing needs met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fugate encouraged people who suffered uninsured losses in the fire to \u003ca href=\"http://www.disasterassistance.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register with FEMA\u003c/a> as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials estimate the fire left roughly 3,000 people homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no silver bullet to this particular issue,” state Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said. “There is a patchwork of capability that we’re looking at. We’re looking at everything from hotels to what rental properties may be available, to opening an old resort — the Konocti Harbor [Resort], to also putting manufactured housing on the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s confirmed \u003ca href=\"#jump\">death toll\u003c/a> rose Wednesday morning when the Lake County Sheriff’s Department announced the discovery of a fourth body in ruins left by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts and minds and prayers go out to all of them,” Lake County Supervisor Jim Comstock said, “but we are very encouraged there are not more of them at this time. Our communities will rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county expects to lose $2.1 million in property tax revenue per year. The total cost of the fire is, of course, much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s conceivable and realistic that the cost overall when you take in loss of revenue, response cost and everything, clearly is in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Ghilarducci said. “We don’t have an exact figure yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials candidly described a fire that moved too quickly to control, with initial firefighters and other first responders on the scene quickly shifting from fighting the flames to attempting to evacuate communities in blaze’s path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re past the preparing for fire now,” Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott said. “It’s now being ready to go. People have to have evacuation plans in place. This fire spread miles just within a few hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents likely didn’t know they should evacuate until the fire was upon them, officials said, despite notifications sent via reverse-911 calls, among other methods.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"jump\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n“I don’t think people understand how rapid and how violent this fire was,” Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said. “In some cases those phone lines were burned down before the messages were delivered to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23:\u003c/strong> Officials in Lake County say they’ve found an apparent fourth victim of the Valley Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/5497628/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Wednesday\u003c/a> that searchers had discovered human remains in the community of Cobb, one of the areas the fire roared through shortly after it started the afternoon of Sept. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office said the victim is presumed to be Robert Taylor Fletcher, 66, who was last seen the day the fire started and was reported missing several days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies are still trying to locate another missing man, identified as Rob Litchman, 61, a resident of the Siegler Springs area near the town of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reported Wednesday that the 76,000-acre blaze is 80 percent contained. The firefighting agency also gave its latest report on the number of structures destroyed in the blaze: 1,238 homes and 672 outbuildings. With a total of 1,910 structures destroyed, the Valley Fire now ranks \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 3 on the agency’s list\u003c/a> of most damaging fires since 1923.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the number of structures incinerated in the Valley blaze, which has crossed into Sonoma and Napa counties, is likely to rise by several hundred when damage assessment teams are finally able to tour the entire fire area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has raised its estimate of homes destroyed in the Valley Fire to 1,050 — and warns the number could rise further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said that damage assessment teams have covered about 80 percent of the 76,000 acres — nearly 120 square miles — that have burned since Sept. 12. The number of residences destroyed makes the Valley Fire the state’s fourth-most-damaging fire on \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Cal Fire list\u003c/a> that goes back to the 1923 Berkeley Hills disaster, which destroyed 584 homes in a neighborhood just north of the University of California campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is now 70 percent contained with a huge force, more than 4,200 personnel, working to build lines around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the firefighting agency also issued a revised report on the number of homes burned in the Butte Fire, which has burned nearly 71,000 acres, or 111 square miles, in the foothills of Calaveras and Amador counties. With damage assessment continuing, the agency has documented 545 residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have confirmed three deaths so far in the Valley Fire and two in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, property losses in the two fires are the worst the state has seen since October 2003, when nearly 4,000 homes were lost in conflagrations that swept hundreds of square miles in San Diego and San Bernardino counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters advanced containment of the Valley Fire burning in Lake, Sonoma and Napa counties to 40 percent overnight, and one of two people still missing since the fire’s start was found safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reports that 56-year-old Edwin Null was discovered at a friend’s home Thursday night. Family members thought he was in the fire zone near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people are confirmed killed in the fast-moving, 115-square-mile fire that destroyed parts of Middletown, Cobb and other Lake County communities. Two people were found dead in the 110-square-mile Butte Fire burning in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire was 60 percent contained Friday morning. More than 8,000 firefighters are battling the two blazes. Cal Fire says temperatures expected to break 90 degrees this weekend, with very low humidity, could present challenges to the firefighting effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Causes of the fires are under investigation. Cal Fire is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigating a PG&E power line\u003c/a> and conductor as a potential source of the Butte Fire. PG&E says a live tree, which was inspected six times in the past two years, may have contacted the power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From the Associated Press\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more bodies were found in the burned ruins of homes in California, bringing the death toll to five from two of the most destructive wildfires in the state in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both fires continued burning Thursday, but cooler weather and rain helped firefighters gain ground on the blazes that have destroyed more than 700 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official identifications have not yet been made, but the sheriff’s office said the two bodies found in Lake County were presumed to be those of Bruce Beven Burns and former San Jose Mercury News police reporter Leonard Neft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman was found dead Sunday in the blaze burning about 100 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Burns said her 65-year-old brother-in-law might have been sleeping in his trailer and didn’t realize the fire was speeding toward him on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It came in very fast, it was a monster,” she said from her home in Lodi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled Burns as a laid-back guy who sold items at a Clear Lake flea market and lived in a trailer at the family’s metal recycling yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He reminded me of a big teddy bear,” Shirley Burns said. “He was a real kind and gentle person. He had a beard and looked like a mountain man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s wife and daughter were not immediately available for comment on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He last spoke with his family on Saturday before authorities found his burned-out car on a route he would have used to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His daughter, Joselyn Neft, previously said Adela Neft repeatedly called her husband Saturday to tell him to leave the house, but he told her he didn’t think the fire was coming toward him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s house was in the same area where Barbara McWilliams, 72, was found dead. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown and would be fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cadaver dogs found the latest bodies on Wednesday in the Hidden Valley and Anderson Springs areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other bodies were found inside homes destroyed in a separate wildfire about 170 miles away in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was identified as Mark McCloud, 65, who was found Tuesday in the Mountain Ranch area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raggio wouldn’t release the name of the other victim because the family had not been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disclosures came as firefighters gained ground on the massive blazes amid cooler weather and rain on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Lake County had charred 115 square miles and was 35 percent contained. An estimated 585 homes and hundreds of other structures have burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Amador and Calaveras counties has burned 110 square miles. It was 49 percent contained after destroying 252 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that two people have died in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark McCloud, 67, was found near his home in Calaveras County. The second victim was a 65-year-old man who refused to heed a mandatory evacuation order, says Raggio. He declined to identify the second man, saying the family hasn’t been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say they are now using dogs to search for several other people who may have been killed in that fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> this morning that the fire now stands at 73,700 acres, with 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-power-line-may-have-sparked-deadly-Sierra-6509980.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that a power line coming into contact with a tree may have sparked the Butte Fire, which has now burned more than 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we don’t have all the facts yet, a live tree may have contacted a PG&E line in the vicinity of the ignition point,” Barry Anderson, PG&E vice president of emergency preparedness and operations, said Wednesday to the Chronicle. “We are cooperating fully with Cal Fire in an investigation of whether this could have been a source of ignition for the Butte Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> A second life has been claimed by massive wildfires that swept through Northern California this week. The Calaveras County Sheriff has confirmed a fatality resulting from the Butte Fire, according to an update posted on Twitter by Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant. More information is expected soon. The Butte Fire has predominantly impacted Calaveras County, and was 45 percent contained as of the most recent update. So far, the Butte Fire has destroyed just over 400 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are currently 14,000 firefighters across the state of California battling 10 active blazes, Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said in a Wednesday update. But crews are making progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire, which has already been designated as the most destructive wildfire in 2015, has caused one known fatality and scorched about 100 square miles, with more than 600 structures damaged in the blaze. That property toll doesn’t include barns or sheds that went up in flames along with homes burnt to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When all the other outbuildings are assessed and a full damage assessment is complete, it is likely that this fire will be in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/16/valley-and-butte-fires-are-among-californias-most-destructive-blazes\">the top five most destructive fires\u003c/a> that we have seen in our history,” Berlant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are making progress, thanks in part to cooler temperatures — the Valley Fire was 30 percent contained as of Wednesday morning. At the same time, another weather-related factor was working against their efforts. A number of hot spots continue to smolder throughout the fire zone, and these small fiery patches can be reignited by gusty winds. Those powerful gusts can spur flare-ups and threaten to reverse firefighters’ progress in bringing blazes under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther to the east, in Calaveras and Amador counties, firefighters were also making progress in gaining control of the Butte Fire, which has scorched 71,780 acres and already ranks as the state’s 14th most damaging blaze. The Butte Fire now stands at 45 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the affected areas, thousands of people who have been put up for days at evacuation centers are still waiting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still thousands of residents who have been evacuated from this fire,” Berlant said of the Valley Fire. “Many are asking when can they get back home, and we are hoping to get them back just as soon as possible. But you’ve got to remember, there are a lot of hazards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has caused at least $1 million in damage to California’s largest geothermal energy complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire disabled five cooling towers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.geysers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Geysers\u003c/a> network of power plants, northwest of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brett Kerr, a spokesman for Calpine, which runs the plant, said the fire may have also left it isolated from the power grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the non-Calpine-owned transmission lines that deliver the power that is produced to the Geysers to the actual market were also damaged, so while there might be the ability to generate capacity and energy at the Geysers, it may not be able to make it to the grid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials who manage the grid say damage at The Geysers will not have a significant impact on the state’s energy supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Valley-Fire-apparently-started-near-home-in-Cobb-6506658.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle is reporting\u003c/a> investigators are focusing on a burned-out shed in Cobb, where the fire started, in trying to pinpoint the cause of the conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update: 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this morning’s fire briefing, medical officials cautioned firefighters to watch out for signs of stress. A lot of firefighters are local, officials said, and they know plenty of fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”wVblom1dlwWUwMUv7AAvsEg0LzApJrtg”]Of course, the worst anxiety is being experienced by those who have had to leave their homes and belongings behind. From KQED health reporter April Dembosky’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/15/anxiety-taking-toll-on-fire-evacuees-and-exacerbating-other-health-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on our State of Health blog\u003c/a> today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For a lot of other people here, the anxiety of not knowing [the fate of their homes] is getting to them. Dr. Colleen Townsend, a family practice doctor in Napa, is helping to staff the makeshift medical center inside one of the buildings on the fairgrounds. She says anxiety is one of the main complaints. And that is making other health conditions worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many folks in this area are really affected by chronic illness,” Townsend says, especially diabetes and high blood pressure. Because people were evacuated so quickly, many didn’t have time to grab medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly in these settings their blood sugar and blood pressure are already rising just from the stress of the occasion,” Townsend said. “Without adequate supplies of their medicines, that can cause acute symptoms like feeling shaky, nausea, sometimes dehydration.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>People have also been worried about their pets. Some residents are being escorted back into evacuation zones to retrieve them. It’s dangerous out there for animals, as can be seen in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Wasson-Memorial-Veterinary-Clinic-121404277937611/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post\u003c/a> by a veterinary clinic in Lakeport. The clinic is treating a burned black cat that was rescued by firefighters near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" width=\"347\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s disturbing, yes, but fear not, the cat is doing much better. “Eyes are improving fast!! He’s purring and rubbing his head for kitty kisses!! Thanks for all the inquiries!!” the clinic wrote. If you know who the owner is, call 707-263-5380.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\" alt=\"cat2\" width=\"339\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:40 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa County, near Pope Valley and Angwin, advisory evacuations have been lifted for Summit Lake Drive, Howell Mountain Road North, North White Cottage Road and Ink Grade Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:40 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emotional \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4479072-181/valley-fire-lake-county-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to his colleagues\u003c/a> on Monday, Santa Rosa Press Democrat staff photographer Kent Porter captured the havoc caused by the fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am floored by the amount of devastation I’ve seen. Whole communities were wiped off the map in a matter of minutes. We all have friends up there, families and people we’ve met in passing. What struck me the most is the utter completeness of this disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually nothing is left above the proper of Cobb. The houses are down to foundations, even some chimneys are gone. Driving through the area is like looking at a ghost community. So much gone, so many ways of life disrupted, so much hardship remains for the people affected. In Middletown, you can draw a line where firefighters stopped the fire. They saved downtown. Anderson Springs is nearly 80% wiped out, same goes for the homes along Highway 175 in the canyon to Cobb. Hidden Valley suffered losses too, as did Hobergs and Adams Springs. I didn’t make it to Siegler Canyon, it was way too dangerous (but I did try).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re all journalists, we’ve all seen catastrophes and witnessed amazing, great things. If there is anything you can donate, especially for the children and seniors, now would be a good time. Overwhelmed is pretty good word to use when you think of what an uphill climb it will be for them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>: In this morning’s update from Cal Fire, the agency said more resources have been arriving to fight the Valley Fire. Firefighting aircraft are now in operation, and lower temperatures and higher humidity are aiding efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”xTaAGl4mar5Cp2knnBEelxGzW7oQ1TPL”]The toll of homes destroyed now stands at 585, and hundreds of other structures have also been destroyed. Nine thousand other structures are still threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has now scorched 67,000 acres — about 100 square miles — and is 15 percent contained. The hope is containment can be increased before the weather shifts again. About 13,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas surrounding the town of Cobb were hit hard yesterday, with about 100 homes burned. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/friendsofcobbmountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page\u003c/a> has been posting local reports of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the latest map of the Valley Fire from Cal Fire. You can see the small communities that have been swallowed up in red — places like Adams, Howard Springs, Whispering Pines, Hidden Valley Lake. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Click on the map\u003c/a> and you’ll be able to zoom in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10683549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg\" alt=\"firemap\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap-400x277.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in parts of Napa County have been made advisory instead of mandatory. From the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/fire-evacuations-eased-in-napa-county/article_603dcf63-69c3-5cec-bff2-35c9285061ad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The advisory evacuations cover Pope Valley Road between Aetna Springs Road and Howell Mountain Road, Ink Grade, Summit Lake Drive and North White Cottage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations remain in effect in Napa County along Butts Canyon Road, Berryessa Estates, Snell Valley Road and Pope Valley Road from Aetna Springs North to Lake County.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuation orders still remain in effect for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hwy 29 x Hwy 53, South on Hwy 29 to Tubbs Lane in Napa County, all of Hwy 175 in the Cobb area, Point Lakeview to Soda Bay on Hwy 281, all of Bottle Rock Road and High Valley Road. Butts Canyon Road from Hwy 29 to Napa County line (including all of Berryessa Estates). The communities of Twin Lakes, Hidden Valley Lake, Middletown, Aetna Springs, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, and the Riviera Areas.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said today some people are being allowed back into their homes to get pets and medication. A high school near Lower Lake is being used as a staging area to bring people to their homes, reports KQED’s Scott Shafer. Residents will have 15 minutes to check, feed and water animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VivianHo/status/643833151513489408\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday night in the Kelseyville High School cafeteria, now being used as an evacuation center, hundreds of people lined up for a dinner prepared and donated by celebrity chef Guy Fieri, who owns property nearby. The feast was small consolation for evacuees like Lela Prather, who lives in Loch Lomond, another Lake County community now threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t heard recently about our houses,” she told Scott Shafer, her voice cracking with emotion. “We don’t know if our houses are there right now. Because the wind has picked up and … I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people were similarly emotional as they waited and wondered what they’ll go home to — including the condition of pets, in some cases — when Cal Fire finally gives them the green light to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the severe stress and loss of property caused by the fire, some Lake County residents saw a silver lining, in that it has brought the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt Frazier Jr., vice president of the local Vietnam Veterans chapter, sheltered at Kelseyville High School last night. He said he was impressed by how people have united across cultural and economic barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had helicopters coming in, helping out, aircraft coming out,” he said. “But what I’m seeing are the citizens, the residents, including the ones who’ve been displaced, helping out with one another, calming each other down emotionally. Because this is an emotional impact on the whole county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also yesterday: Barbara McWilliams was identified as the lone fire-related fatality. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown, despite the nearby blaze. Her body was found late Sunday in her burned-out home after flames kept Lake County sheriff’s officials from reaching her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Hittson, McWilliams’ caregiver, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that she left McWilliams’ home around 3 p.m. Saturday, unaware of the fire’s seriousness or how quickly it would grow, even though officers were at that point turning drivers away from Highway 175, which leads to the Cobb Mountain area where McWilliams lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson said she called the sheriff’s office twice Saturday and Cal Fire on Sunday, only to be told by dispatchers, “We will get out there when we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson saiid McWilliams could walk slowly and that her hands were weak. “That I left her there, it haunts me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:45 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>According to the latest report from authorities stationed in Lakeport, the Valley Fire had grown to 62,000 acres as of Monday evening, 1,000 acres larger than its previous size, and was at 10 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-valley-fire-victim-20150914-story.html\">report\u003c/a> in the Los Angeles Times identified the woman who was killed in the Valley Fire as 72-year old Barbara McWilliams, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. The report includes an account from McWilliams’ caretaker, Jennifer Hittson, who said she’d phoned authorities more than once to alert them that McWilliams needed evacuation assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:35 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has released more information about the first victim killed in the Valley Fire. First responders received a phone call at 7:12 p.m. on Sept. 12 to help an elderly, disabled woman evacuate a subdivision on Hot Springs Road. Officers and deputies arrived to the area at 7:29 p.m., but were unable to make it to her home before the structure was engulfed in flames, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Valley Fire has damaged The Geysers, a network of 14 power plants run by Calpine and one of the largest geothermal complexes in the world. Calpine has confirmed that the blaze damaged five of its cooling towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">See more photos of the Valley Fire and the aftermath\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of the employees who would typically be working today were notified not to try to come to the site,” spokesman Brett Kerr told KQED’s Ted Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sells electricity produced in the area to PG&E and other utilities. Calpine reduced its operations in response to the damage, impacting roughly a third of its energy output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at a medical tent set up at an evacuation center in Calistoga, Red Cross volunteers and staff from a nearby clinic were working to treat evacuees experiencing health problems. While smoke inhalation was a more immediate medical concern yesterday, evacuees are now grappling with symptoms associated with chronic health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents who fled their homes left too quickly to take prescription medication along, volunteers working in the medical tent told KQED’s April Dembosky. Evacuees suffering from diabetes are more vulnerable to health impacts because stress and anxiety can exacerbate the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early Monday morning, the Valley Fire had scorched some 61,000 acres since Saturday and was only 5 percent contained. The Butte Fire, which has been burning for more than five days, was 30 percent contained with more than 71,000 acres scarred by flames. At a press conference held Monday morning, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/gov-sees-damn-serious-fire-situation-costs-top-212-million\">pegged the total cost of California wildfires at $212.6 million\u003c/a> through early last week, before factoring in the costs of this weekend’s devastating blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:06 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong> A total of 23,000 people had been displaced by the Valley and Butte fires as of Monday morning, according to the Associated Press. That includes 13,000 who were forced to leave their homes due to the Valley Fire and another 10,000 from the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:10 a.m., Monday, Sept 14: \u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has devastated Harbin Hot Springs, a popular nonprofit retreat and workshop center established in 1972 that has long attracted Bay Area residents seeking holistic health therapies. Michael Hardy of Posterity Productions \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PosterityProductions/photos/a.891054524322216.1073741881.137782922982717/891055514322117/?type=3&theater\">posted seven photographs on Facebook\u003c/a> showing a number of structures reduced to rubble, including gathering spaces where guests would practice yoga and walkways that led to soaking pools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An update posted to the retreat center’s Facebook page Sunday at 10 p.m. indicated that staff and residents were staying with friends, or being temporarily housed at evacuation centers. “As soon as we know specifics about damages on the property, we will post news here and on the Harbin website,” the message noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, about 800 people spent last night at the Red Cross evacuation center in Calistoga in campers, tents or just under tarps. Many of those who had to evacuate are still trying to get over the shock of leaving their homes as the flames encroached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could see it on the mountain. It just came, it came with a vengeance, it came so fast,” said Theresa DeGroat. “And then we knew. Winds came, it was strong winds, and we had to get out fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGroat says the only thing left of her Middletown home is the chimney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:15 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morning update\u003c/a> says the fire continues to grow and has now scorched 61,000 acres. The blaze is 5 percent contained. Still no word on the one fatality reported — Cal Fire says only that it’s being investigated by “law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-one-reported-dead?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> puts the evacuation count at 20,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:00 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire is raging through parts of Lake and Napa counties. It has burned through 50,000 acres and destroyed 400 homes, two apartment complexes, 1,000 outbuildings and 10 businesses, by last count. It has also taken the life of at least one person, Cal Fire says, and injured at least four firefighters. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a \u003ca href=\"http://cert1.mail-west.com/RyjkE/c7rmx/myuzjanm/rnev20t31xRgt/1hl/qvnqxRglb/31xR/v919u60t/uiilfxqv?_c=d%7Cze7pzanwmhlzgt%7C13g06h919isyvvh&_ce=1442157652.735aaa0b9af354ab236232be04d35747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state of emergency\u003c/a> in the two counties. About 17,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, KXTV-Sacramento is \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc10.com/story/news/local/2015/09/13/valley-fire-update-state--emergency-declared-mandatory-evacuations--napa-county--40000-acre-blaze/72203574/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a>, and containment is thus far zero percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin called the fire “the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen,” the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-hellish-blaze-grows?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two evacuation centers that have been established, officials estimated about 800 evacuees had been taken in tonight, sleeping in tents and trailers. Officials are warning those who have left their homes not to give their addresses online, as potential burglars are posing as members of the media who are offering to check on the status of abandoned residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are using the Internet to better ends: Here’s a \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=807293669388482&id=560613960723122\">damage report\u003c/a>, posted on the Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page, detailing the condition of various areas in Cobb — population under 2,000. “There are simply no words to express the terrible fullness of our loss,” reads a post from Saturday. “Many of us in the community have lost our homes, pets, property, and so much more. But let’s remember that a community is, at its heart, people. We will return, we will rebuild …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7831493,-122.7221946,11z/data=!4m2!6m1!1szp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for a map of the fire’s perimeter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10681340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png\" alt=\"perimeter\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-400x218.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-1180x643.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-960x523.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News accounts have also captured the sudden devastation that has swept through victims’ lives. “I’m standing in the middle of a bombed-out town,” a Cal Fire battalion chief told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/northern-california-wildfires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a>, speaking of 1,300-resident Middletown in Lake County, roughly 90 miles north of San Francisco. “I’m on a block of burned-down structures. There’s the frame of a mobile home — that’s all that’s left. The cars are burned-out hulks. The trees look like skeletons. There’s a porch swing, a bathtub. I’m seeing the remnants of somebody’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/F5ZI3\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/13/valleyfiremap.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Get the latest details directly from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Cal Fire Web Site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\">#Valleyfire on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/resources-valley-fire-evacuation-centers-school-closures/982676/\">Donations, school closures, shelters\u003c/a> (ABC7)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelakecounty.org/\">Donation centers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My house burned down. Everything burned down,” 33-year-old Justin Olson told the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/wildfire-scorches-lake-county-towns-forces-evacuations-to-calistoga/article_c036c27b-2071-588c-a0d0-d73dc4a6e1a0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>. “All I have is just what I had on me. Didn’t even have a car — I hitchhiked down here; someone stopped and I jumped into the back of his pickup truck. All you could see was this big wall of fire coming toward us …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have posted devastating photos using the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ValleyFire hashtag \u003c/a>on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is one of the fastest-burning in decades. It took just 12 hours to burn through 40,000 acres, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-wildfire-spread-with-mind-boggling-speed-20150913-story.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t very many fires in California’s history that have done that. I don’t know if there really is a precedent for it,” climate scientist Daniel Swain told the paper. “This fire sort of broke the rules even relative to this incredible season that’s already occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t even a fire. It was like fluorescent evil,” Whispering Pines resident Bill Gavin told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4474770-181/valley-fire-evacuees-tell-of?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Democrat\u003c/a>. “I saw sections like football fields go up in four seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a hair-raising video posted by someone who said he was fleeing Anderson Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVPB3HI9Wg&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=mulletFive\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a Press Democrat video of the devastation in Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=X9mv9dJQoL4&ab_channel=ThePressDemocrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map of all the active fires in California\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>, burning in Amador & Calaveras Counties, is now at 65,300 acres, or about 102 square miles. That’s slightly larger than the city of Sacramento. The fire is 25 percent contained. So far, 135 residences and 79 outbuildings have been destroyed, Cal Fire says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAt a 5 p.m. briefing at the Napa Fairgrounds, Cal Fire officials said that most of the commercial business in Middletown and the high school remain intact, but many homes off the main drag have been impacted. Chris Childs of the Napa CHP said it will be at least two days before residents can return to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE\">@CAL_FIRE\u003c/a> firefighters rest in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/HiddenValley?src=hash\">#HiddenValley\u003c/a> after defending homes from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ValleyFire?src=hash\">#ValleyFire\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NorthBayNews\">@NorthBayNews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CDF_firefighter\">@CDF_firefighter\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/hIjf1MZAUm\">pic.twitter.com/hIjf1MZAUm\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kent Porter (@kentphotos) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/643225271802290176\">September 14, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:45 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nState fire officials are reporting the Valley Fire has increased to 50,000 acres, with containment remaining at zero percent. The Associated Press has called the Valley Fire one of the “fastest-burning wildfires in decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">have been ordered\u003c/a> for the following locations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Point Lakeview Hwy and Hwy 281, Rivera West and Clearlake Rivera, Hwy 29 (Kelseyville) at Hwy 175 south on Hwy 175 towards Cobb, Red Hills Road to Hwy 29, Hwy 29 X Hwy 175 south to Seigler Canyon Road (south side of Hwy 29), Hwy 29 Tubbs Lane (Calistoga, Napa County) to Hwy 29/Hwy 53(Lower Lake, Lake County) Butts Canyon Road to Napa County Line, including Berreyssa Estates, Butts Canyon Road to Pope Valley. Communities of Cobb, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, Middletown and Hidden Valley Lakes, Livermore Road, Summit Lake Road and north of the community of Angwin.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>According to KQED reporter Danielle Venton at the Napa Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two current evacuation centers, evacuees have begun arriving and are numbering in the hundreds. However, the evacuee team anticipates closer to 1,000 at the fairgrounds by dinner time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venton says that, for the most part, spirits are up among evacuees and a sense of community is noticeable throughout. Some have started pickup football and soccer games, while others have picked up instruments and started jamming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 12:15 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire and Lake County officials are surveying what’s believed to be a massive amount of destruction caused by the Valley Fire that’s prompted some 15,000 residents to flee their homes and sent smoke into nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be pretty devastating,” said Jill Ruzicka, spokeswoman for the Lake County Office of Emergency Services. “All of us know people who have lost their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is the third large wildfire to burn in Lake County in the last few months. Ruzicka said it is already, by far, the most destructive to people’s livelihoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult for us to come to full staff right now because so many of our people are either under evacuation notices or have lost their homes,” Ruzicka said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has yet to publish any official data on the number of structures damaged or destroyed by the blaze, but reports are coming in and it looks bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen some destruction in and around the Middletown area,” said Amy Head, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parts that I couldn’t even make into myself,” Head said from Hidden Valley, another community under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who fled from Middletown told the Associated Press the cars they were driving dodged smoldering telephone poles and billowing smoke as they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is believed to have started on Cobb Mountain, an area that normally gets lots of rain. The drought has obviously changed that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a fire to spread from there all the way to where it is now is very unprecedented,” Head said. The lack of rain, Saturday’s strong winds, and the area’s low humidity and hot temperatures were all factors that helped the fire spread so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are battling the blaze. Cal Fire says getting more of them to the scene is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re having to place orders for additional resources,” Head said. “We are spread pretty thin throughout Northern California with the other fires, so we’re having to pull resources from wherever we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has sent ash and smoke miles away. “It almost looks like Bay Area fog, we are so socked in with this smoke,” Ruzicka said from Lakeport, about 25 miles northwest of Middletown. “This morning when I woke up, my car was covered in ash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross has set up two shelters: one at Kelseyville High School at 5480 Main St. in Kelseyville and another at the Napa County Fairgrounds at 1435 N. Oak St. in Calistoga. According to the Red Cross, a community meeting is planned at the Kelseyville site at 2 p.m. and at the Calistoga one at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:40 a.m.:\u003c/strong> From the Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Lake and Napa counties after a wildfire charred more than 60 square miles within 12 hours, prompting \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4470252-181/thousands-under-order-to-flee?page=2?gallery=4470892\">thousands to flee\u003c/a> their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Sunday the declaration will expedite debris removal and waive fees to people who need to replace official documents lost in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, has destroyed an unconfirmed number of homes and other buildings and damaged highways and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown had earlier declared a state of emergency for a separate 101-square-mile wildfire about 70 miles southeast of Sacramento that has destroyed 86 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://instagram.com/p/7k0pZJsQ2d/\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Original Post: Bay City News Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> that started in \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/\">Lake County\u003c/a> Saturday has now burned an estimated 40,000 acres and is zero percent contained as of this morning, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional mandatory evacuations have been ordered in Lake County from state Highway 29 and state Highway 175 to Seigler Canyon Road, and for state Highway 29 at state Highway 175 toward Cobb, and Red Hills Road to state Highway 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are fighting the fire and getting people evacuated from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas of Napa County are under advisory and could be under mandatory evacuations later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire injured four firefighters who were part of a helicopter crew Saturday. The firefighters suffered burn injuries and were transported to an area burn center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire is reporting there have been an unconfirmed number of structures destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently more than 5,000 residents without power.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nDavid Weir, Don Clyde, Ted Goldberg, Alex Emslie, Danielle Venton and Sheri Quinn contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23:\u003c/strong> Federal emergency responders are on the ground in Lake County assessing damage from one of the most destructive wildfires in California’s recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, joined state and local officials for an update from the Valley Fire Wednesday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can provide some financial assistance based upon need,” he said. “The first part is getting registered to determine that need, but the longer-term need is going to be housing. And we’re going to work with the state and locals on how we get the housing needs met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fugate encouraged people who suffered uninsured losses in the fire to \u003ca href=\"http://www.disasterassistance.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register with FEMA\u003c/a> as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials estimate the fire left roughly 3,000 people homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no silver bullet to this particular issue,” state Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said. “There is a patchwork of capability that we’re looking at. We’re looking at everything from hotels to what rental properties may be available, to opening an old resort — the Konocti Harbor [Resort], to also putting manufactured housing on the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s confirmed \u003ca href=\"#jump\">death toll\u003c/a> rose Wednesday morning when the Lake County Sheriff’s Department announced the discovery of a fourth body in ruins left by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts and minds and prayers go out to all of them,” Lake County Supervisor Jim Comstock said, “but we are very encouraged there are not more of them at this time. Our communities will rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county expects to lose $2.1 million in property tax revenue per year. The total cost of the fire is, of course, much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s conceivable and realistic that the cost overall when you take in loss of revenue, response cost and everything, clearly is in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Ghilarducci said. “We don’t have an exact figure yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials candidly described a fire that moved too quickly to control, with initial firefighters and other first responders on the scene quickly shifting from fighting the flames to attempting to evacuate communities in blaze’s path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re past the preparing for fire now,” Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott said. “It’s now being ready to go. People have to have evacuation plans in place. This fire spread miles just within a few hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents likely didn’t know they should evacuate until the fire was upon them, officials said, despite notifications sent via reverse-911 calls, among other methods.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"jump\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n“I don’t think people understand how rapid and how violent this fire was,” Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said. “In some cases those phone lines were burned down before the messages were delivered to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23:\u003c/strong> Officials in Lake County say they’ve found an apparent fourth victim of the Valley Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/5497628/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Wednesday\u003c/a> that searchers had discovered human remains in the community of Cobb, one of the areas the fire roared through shortly after it started the afternoon of Sept. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office said the victim is presumed to be Robert Taylor Fletcher, 66, who was last seen the day the fire started and was reported missing several days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies are still trying to locate another missing man, identified as Rob Litchman, 61, a resident of the Siegler Springs area near the town of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reported Wednesday that the 76,000-acre blaze is 80 percent contained. The firefighting agency also gave its latest report on the number of structures destroyed in the blaze: 1,238 homes and 672 outbuildings. With a total of 1,910 structures destroyed, the Valley Fire now ranks \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 3 on the agency’s list\u003c/a> of most damaging fires since 1923.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the number of structures incinerated in the Valley blaze, which has crossed into Sonoma and Napa counties, is likely to rise by several hundred when damage assessment teams are finally able to tour the entire fire area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has raised its estimate of homes destroyed in the Valley Fire to 1,050 — and warns the number could rise further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said that damage assessment teams have covered about 80 percent of the 76,000 acres — nearly 120 square miles — that have burned since Sept. 12. The number of residences destroyed makes the Valley Fire the state’s fourth-most-damaging fire on \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Cal Fire list\u003c/a> that goes back to the 1923 Berkeley Hills disaster, which destroyed 584 homes in a neighborhood just north of the University of California campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is now 70 percent contained with a huge force, more than 4,200 personnel, working to build lines around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the firefighting agency also issued a revised report on the number of homes burned in the Butte Fire, which has burned nearly 71,000 acres, or 111 square miles, in the foothills of Calaveras and Amador counties. With damage assessment continuing, the agency has documented 545 residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have confirmed three deaths so far in the Valley Fire and two in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, property losses in the two fires are the worst the state has seen since October 2003, when nearly 4,000 homes were lost in conflagrations that swept hundreds of square miles in San Diego and San Bernardino counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters advanced containment of the Valley Fire burning in Lake, Sonoma and Napa counties to 40 percent overnight, and one of two people still missing since the fire’s start was found safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reports that 56-year-old Edwin Null was discovered at a friend’s home Thursday night. Family members thought he was in the fire zone near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people are confirmed killed in the fast-moving, 115-square-mile fire that destroyed parts of Middletown, Cobb and other Lake County communities. Two people were found dead in the 110-square-mile Butte Fire burning in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire was 60 percent contained Friday morning. More than 8,000 firefighters are battling the two blazes. Cal Fire says temperatures expected to break 90 degrees this weekend, with very low humidity, could present challenges to the firefighting effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Causes of the fires are under investigation. Cal Fire is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigating a PG&E power line\u003c/a> and conductor as a potential source of the Butte Fire. PG&E says a live tree, which was inspected six times in the past two years, may have contacted the power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From the Associated Press\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more bodies were found in the burned ruins of homes in California, bringing the death toll to five from two of the most destructive wildfires in the state in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both fires continued burning Thursday, but cooler weather and rain helped firefighters gain ground on the blazes that have destroyed more than 700 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official identifications have not yet been made, but the sheriff’s office said the two bodies found in Lake County were presumed to be those of Bruce Beven Burns and former San Jose Mercury News police reporter Leonard Neft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman was found dead Sunday in the blaze burning about 100 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Burns said her 65-year-old brother-in-law might have been sleeping in his trailer and didn’t realize the fire was speeding toward him on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It came in very fast, it was a monster,” she said from her home in Lodi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled Burns as a laid-back guy who sold items at a Clear Lake flea market and lived in a trailer at the family’s metal recycling yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He reminded me of a big teddy bear,” Shirley Burns said. “He was a real kind and gentle person. He had a beard and looked like a mountain man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s wife and daughter were not immediately available for comment on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He last spoke with his family on Saturday before authorities found his burned-out car on a route he would have used to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His daughter, Joselyn Neft, previously said Adela Neft repeatedly called her husband Saturday to tell him to leave the house, but he told her he didn’t think the fire was coming toward him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s house was in the same area where Barbara McWilliams, 72, was found dead. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown and would be fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cadaver dogs found the latest bodies on Wednesday in the Hidden Valley and Anderson Springs areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other bodies were found inside homes destroyed in a separate wildfire about 170 miles away in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was identified as Mark McCloud, 65, who was found Tuesday in the Mountain Ranch area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raggio wouldn’t release the name of the other victim because the family had not been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disclosures came as firefighters gained ground on the massive blazes amid cooler weather and rain on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Lake County had charred 115 square miles and was 35 percent contained. An estimated 585 homes and hundreds of other structures have burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Amador and Calaveras counties has burned 110 square miles. It was 49 percent contained after destroying 252 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that two people have died in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark McCloud, 67, was found near his home in Calaveras County. The second victim was a 65-year-old man who refused to heed a mandatory evacuation order, says Raggio. He declined to identify the second man, saying the family hasn’t been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say they are now using dogs to search for several other people who may have been killed in that fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> this morning that the fire now stands at 73,700 acres, with 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-power-line-may-have-sparked-deadly-Sierra-6509980.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that a power line coming into contact with a tree may have sparked the Butte Fire, which has now burned more than 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we don’t have all the facts yet, a live tree may have contacted a PG&E line in the vicinity of the ignition point,” Barry Anderson, PG&E vice president of emergency preparedness and operations, said Wednesday to the Chronicle. “We are cooperating fully with Cal Fire in an investigation of whether this could have been a source of ignition for the Butte Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> A second life has been claimed by massive wildfires that swept through Northern California this week. The Calaveras County Sheriff has confirmed a fatality resulting from the Butte Fire, according to an update posted on Twitter by Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant. More information is expected soon. The Butte Fire has predominantly impacted Calaveras County, and was 45 percent contained as of the most recent update. So far, the Butte Fire has destroyed just over 400 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are currently 14,000 firefighters across the state of California battling 10 active blazes, Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said in a Wednesday update. But crews are making progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire, which has already been designated as the most destructive wildfire in 2015, has caused one known fatality and scorched about 100 square miles, with more than 600 structures damaged in the blaze. That property toll doesn’t include barns or sheds that went up in flames along with homes burnt to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When all the other outbuildings are assessed and a full damage assessment is complete, it is likely that this fire will be in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/16/valley-and-butte-fires-are-among-californias-most-destructive-blazes\">the top five most destructive fires\u003c/a> that we have seen in our history,” Berlant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are making progress, thanks in part to cooler temperatures — the Valley Fire was 30 percent contained as of Wednesday morning. At the same time, another weather-related factor was working against their efforts. A number of hot spots continue to smolder throughout the fire zone, and these small fiery patches can be reignited by gusty winds. Those powerful gusts can spur flare-ups and threaten to reverse firefighters’ progress in bringing blazes under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther to the east, in Calaveras and Amador counties, firefighters were also making progress in gaining control of the Butte Fire, which has scorched 71,780 acres and already ranks as the state’s 14th most damaging blaze. The Butte Fire now stands at 45 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the affected areas, thousands of people who have been put up for days at evacuation centers are still waiting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still thousands of residents who have been evacuated from this fire,” Berlant said of the Valley Fire. “Many are asking when can they get back home, and we are hoping to get them back just as soon as possible. But you’ve got to remember, there are a lot of hazards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has caused at least $1 million in damage to California’s largest geothermal energy complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire disabled five cooling towers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.geysers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Geysers\u003c/a> network of power plants, northwest of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brett Kerr, a spokesman for Calpine, which runs the plant, said the fire may have also left it isolated from the power grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the non-Calpine-owned transmission lines that deliver the power that is produced to the Geysers to the actual market were also damaged, so while there might be the ability to generate capacity and energy at the Geysers, it may not be able to make it to the grid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials who manage the grid say damage at The Geysers will not have a significant impact on the state’s energy supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Valley-Fire-apparently-started-near-home-in-Cobb-6506658.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle is reporting\u003c/a> investigators are focusing on a burned-out shed in Cobb, where the fire started, in trying to pinpoint the cause of the conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update: 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this morning’s fire briefing, medical officials cautioned firefighters to watch out for signs of stress. A lot of firefighters are local, officials said, and they know plenty of fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Of course, the worst anxiety is being experienced by those who have had to leave their homes and belongings behind. From KQED health reporter April Dembosky’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/15/anxiety-taking-toll-on-fire-evacuees-and-exacerbating-other-health-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on our State of Health blog\u003c/a> today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For a lot of other people here, the anxiety of not knowing [the fate of their homes] is getting to them. Dr. Colleen Townsend, a family practice doctor in Napa, is helping to staff the makeshift medical center inside one of the buildings on the fairgrounds. She says anxiety is one of the main complaints. And that is making other health conditions worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many folks in this area are really affected by chronic illness,” Townsend says, especially diabetes and high blood pressure. Because people were evacuated so quickly, many didn’t have time to grab medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly in these settings their blood sugar and blood pressure are already rising just from the stress of the occasion,” Townsend said. “Without adequate supplies of their medicines, that can cause acute symptoms like feeling shaky, nausea, sometimes dehydration.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>People have also been worried about their pets. Some residents are being escorted back into evacuation zones to retrieve them. It’s dangerous out there for animals, as can be seen in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Wasson-Memorial-Veterinary-Clinic-121404277937611/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post\u003c/a> by a veterinary clinic in Lakeport. The clinic is treating a burned black cat that was rescued by firefighters near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" width=\"347\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s disturbing, yes, but fear not, the cat is doing much better. “Eyes are improving fast!! He’s purring and rubbing his head for kitty kisses!! Thanks for all the inquiries!!” the clinic wrote. If you know who the owner is, call 707-263-5380.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\" alt=\"cat2\" width=\"339\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:40 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa County, near Pope Valley and Angwin, advisory evacuations have been lifted for Summit Lake Drive, Howell Mountain Road North, North White Cottage Road and Ink Grade Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:40 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emotional \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4479072-181/valley-fire-lake-county-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to his colleagues\u003c/a> on Monday, Santa Rosa Press Democrat staff photographer Kent Porter captured the havoc caused by the fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am floored by the amount of devastation I’ve seen. Whole communities were wiped off the map in a matter of minutes. We all have friends up there, families and people we’ve met in passing. What struck me the most is the utter completeness of this disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually nothing is left above the proper of Cobb. The houses are down to foundations, even some chimneys are gone. Driving through the area is like looking at a ghost community. So much gone, so many ways of life disrupted, so much hardship remains for the people affected. In Middletown, you can draw a line where firefighters stopped the fire. They saved downtown. Anderson Springs is nearly 80% wiped out, same goes for the homes along Highway 175 in the canyon to Cobb. Hidden Valley suffered losses too, as did Hobergs and Adams Springs. I didn’t make it to Siegler Canyon, it was way too dangerous (but I did try).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re all journalists, we’ve all seen catastrophes and witnessed amazing, great things. If there is anything you can donate, especially for the children and seniors, now would be a good time. Overwhelmed is pretty good word to use when you think of what an uphill climb it will be for them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>: In this morning’s update from Cal Fire, the agency said more resources have been arriving to fight the Valley Fire. Firefighting aircraft are now in operation, and lower temperatures and higher humidity are aiding efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The toll of homes destroyed now stands at 585, and hundreds of other structures have also been destroyed. Nine thousand other structures are still threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has now scorched 67,000 acres — about 100 square miles — and is 15 percent contained. The hope is containment can be increased before the weather shifts again. About 13,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas surrounding the town of Cobb were hit hard yesterday, with about 100 homes burned. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/friendsofcobbmountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page\u003c/a> has been posting local reports of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the latest map of the Valley Fire from Cal Fire. You can see the small communities that have been swallowed up in red — places like Adams, Howard Springs, Whispering Pines, Hidden Valley Lake. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Click on the map\u003c/a> and you’ll be able to zoom in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10683549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg\" alt=\"firemap\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap-400x277.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in parts of Napa County have been made advisory instead of mandatory. From the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/fire-evacuations-eased-in-napa-county/article_603dcf63-69c3-5cec-bff2-35c9285061ad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The advisory evacuations cover Pope Valley Road between Aetna Springs Road and Howell Mountain Road, Ink Grade, Summit Lake Drive and North White Cottage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations remain in effect in Napa County along Butts Canyon Road, Berryessa Estates, Snell Valley Road and Pope Valley Road from Aetna Springs North to Lake County.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuation orders still remain in effect for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hwy 29 x Hwy 53, South on Hwy 29 to Tubbs Lane in Napa County, all of Hwy 175 in the Cobb area, Point Lakeview to Soda Bay on Hwy 281, all of Bottle Rock Road and High Valley Road. Butts Canyon Road from Hwy 29 to Napa County line (including all of Berryessa Estates). The communities of Twin Lakes, Hidden Valley Lake, Middletown, Aetna Springs, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, and the Riviera Areas.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said today some people are being allowed back into their homes to get pets and medication. A high school near Lower Lake is being used as a staging area to bring people to their homes, reports KQED’s Scott Shafer. Residents will have 15 minutes to check, feed and water animals.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Monday night in the Kelseyville High School cafeteria, now being used as an evacuation center, hundreds of people lined up for a dinner prepared and donated by celebrity chef Guy Fieri, who owns property nearby. The feast was small consolation for evacuees like Lela Prather, who lives in Loch Lomond, another Lake County community now threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t heard recently about our houses,” she told Scott Shafer, her voice cracking with emotion. “We don’t know if our houses are there right now. Because the wind has picked up and … I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people were similarly emotional as they waited and wondered what they’ll go home to — including the condition of pets, in some cases — when Cal Fire finally gives them the green light to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the severe stress and loss of property caused by the fire, some Lake County residents saw a silver lining, in that it has brought the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt Frazier Jr., vice president of the local Vietnam Veterans chapter, sheltered at Kelseyville High School last night. He said he was impressed by how people have united across cultural and economic barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had helicopters coming in, helping out, aircraft coming out,” he said. “But what I’m seeing are the citizens, the residents, including the ones who’ve been displaced, helping out with one another, calming each other down emotionally. Because this is an emotional impact on the whole county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also yesterday: Barbara McWilliams was identified as the lone fire-related fatality. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown, despite the nearby blaze. Her body was found late Sunday in her burned-out home after flames kept Lake County sheriff’s officials from reaching her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Hittson, McWilliams’ caregiver, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that she left McWilliams’ home around 3 p.m. Saturday, unaware of the fire’s seriousness or how quickly it would grow, even though officers were at that point turning drivers away from Highway 175, which leads to the Cobb Mountain area where McWilliams lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson said she called the sheriff’s office twice Saturday and Cal Fire on Sunday, only to be told by dispatchers, “We will get out there when we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson saiid McWilliams could walk slowly and that her hands were weak. “That I left her there, it haunts me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:45 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>According to the latest report from authorities stationed in Lakeport, the Valley Fire had grown to 62,000 acres as of Monday evening, 1,000 acres larger than its previous size, and was at 10 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-valley-fire-victim-20150914-story.html\">report\u003c/a> in the Los Angeles Times identified the woman who was killed in the Valley Fire as 72-year old Barbara McWilliams, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. The report includes an account from McWilliams’ caretaker, Jennifer Hittson, who said she’d phoned authorities more than once to alert them that McWilliams needed evacuation assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:35 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has released more information about the first victim killed in the Valley Fire. First responders received a phone call at 7:12 p.m. on Sept. 12 to help an elderly, disabled woman evacuate a subdivision on Hot Springs Road. Officers and deputies arrived to the area at 7:29 p.m., but were unable to make it to her home before the structure was engulfed in flames, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Valley Fire has damaged The Geysers, a network of 14 power plants run by Calpine and one of the largest geothermal complexes in the world. Calpine has confirmed that the blaze damaged five of its cooling towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">See more photos of the Valley Fire and the aftermath\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of the employees who would typically be working today were notified not to try to come to the site,” spokesman Brett Kerr told KQED’s Ted Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sells electricity produced in the area to PG&E and other utilities. Calpine reduced its operations in response to the damage, impacting roughly a third of its energy output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at a medical tent set up at an evacuation center in Calistoga, Red Cross volunteers and staff from a nearby clinic were working to treat evacuees experiencing health problems. While smoke inhalation was a more immediate medical concern yesterday, evacuees are now grappling with symptoms associated with chronic health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents who fled their homes left too quickly to take prescription medication along, volunteers working in the medical tent told KQED’s April Dembosky. Evacuees suffering from diabetes are more vulnerable to health impacts because stress and anxiety can exacerbate the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early Monday morning, the Valley Fire had scorched some 61,000 acres since Saturday and was only 5 percent contained. The Butte Fire, which has been burning for more than five days, was 30 percent contained with more than 71,000 acres scarred by flames. At a press conference held Monday morning, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/gov-sees-damn-serious-fire-situation-costs-top-212-million\">pegged the total cost of California wildfires at $212.6 million\u003c/a> through early last week, before factoring in the costs of this weekend’s devastating blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:06 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong> A total of 23,000 people had been displaced by the Valley and Butte fires as of Monday morning, according to the Associated Press. That includes 13,000 who were forced to leave their homes due to the Valley Fire and another 10,000 from the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:10 a.m., Monday, Sept 14: \u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has devastated Harbin Hot Springs, a popular nonprofit retreat and workshop center established in 1972 that has long attracted Bay Area residents seeking holistic health therapies. Michael Hardy of Posterity Productions \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PosterityProductions/photos/a.891054524322216.1073741881.137782922982717/891055514322117/?type=3&theater\">posted seven photographs on Facebook\u003c/a> showing a number of structures reduced to rubble, including gathering spaces where guests would practice yoga and walkways that led to soaking pools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An update posted to the retreat center’s Facebook page Sunday at 10 p.m. indicated that staff and residents were staying with friends, or being temporarily housed at evacuation centers. “As soon as we know specifics about damages on the property, we will post news here and on the Harbin website,” the message noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, about 800 people spent last night at the Red Cross evacuation center in Calistoga in campers, tents or just under tarps. Many of those who had to evacuate are still trying to get over the shock of leaving their homes as the flames encroached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could see it on the mountain. It just came, it came with a vengeance, it came so fast,” said Theresa DeGroat. “And then we knew. Winds came, it was strong winds, and we had to get out fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGroat says the only thing left of her Middletown home is the chimney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:15 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morning update\u003c/a> says the fire continues to grow and has now scorched 61,000 acres. The blaze is 5 percent contained. Still no word on the one fatality reported — Cal Fire says only that it’s being investigated by “law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-one-reported-dead?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> puts the evacuation count at 20,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:00 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire is raging through parts of Lake and Napa counties. It has burned through 50,000 acres and destroyed 400 homes, two apartment complexes, 1,000 outbuildings and 10 businesses, by last count. It has also taken the life of at least one person, Cal Fire says, and injured at least four firefighters. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a \u003ca href=\"http://cert1.mail-west.com/RyjkE/c7rmx/myuzjanm/rnev20t31xRgt/1hl/qvnqxRglb/31xR/v919u60t/uiilfxqv?_c=d%7Cze7pzanwmhlzgt%7C13g06h919isyvvh&_ce=1442157652.735aaa0b9af354ab236232be04d35747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state of emergency\u003c/a> in the two counties. About 17,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, KXTV-Sacramento is \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc10.com/story/news/local/2015/09/13/valley-fire-update-state--emergency-declared-mandatory-evacuations--napa-county--40000-acre-blaze/72203574/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a>, and containment is thus far zero percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin called the fire “the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen,” the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-hellish-blaze-grows?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two evacuation centers that have been established, officials estimated about 800 evacuees had been taken in tonight, sleeping in tents and trailers. Officials are warning those who have left their homes not to give their addresses online, as potential burglars are posing as members of the media who are offering to check on the status of abandoned residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are using the Internet to better ends: Here’s a \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=807293669388482&id=560613960723122\">damage report\u003c/a>, posted on the Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page, detailing the condition of various areas in Cobb — population under 2,000. “There are simply no words to express the terrible fullness of our loss,” reads a post from Saturday. “Many of us in the community have lost our homes, pets, property, and so much more. But let’s remember that a community is, at its heart, people. We will return, we will rebuild …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7831493,-122.7221946,11z/data=!4m2!6m1!1szp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for a map of the fire’s perimeter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10681340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png\" alt=\"perimeter\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-400x218.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-1180x643.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-960x523.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News accounts have also captured the sudden devastation that has swept through victims’ lives. “I’m standing in the middle of a bombed-out town,” a Cal Fire battalion chief told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/northern-california-wildfires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a>, speaking of 1,300-resident Middletown in Lake County, roughly 90 miles north of San Francisco. “I’m on a block of burned-down structures. There’s the frame of a mobile home — that’s all that’s left. The cars are burned-out hulks. The trees look like skeletons. There’s a porch swing, a bathtub. I’m seeing the remnants of somebody’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/F5ZI3\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/13/valleyfiremap.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Get the latest details directly from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Cal Fire Web Site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\">#Valleyfire on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/resources-valley-fire-evacuation-centers-school-closures/982676/\">Donations, school closures, shelters\u003c/a> (ABC7)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelakecounty.org/\">Donation centers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My house burned down. Everything burned down,” 33-year-old Justin Olson told the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/wildfire-scorches-lake-county-towns-forces-evacuations-to-calistoga/article_c036c27b-2071-588c-a0d0-d73dc4a6e1a0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>. “All I have is just what I had on me. Didn’t even have a car — I hitchhiked down here; someone stopped and I jumped into the back of his pickup truck. All you could see was this big wall of fire coming toward us …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have posted devastating photos using the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ValleyFire hashtag \u003c/a>on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is one of the fastest-burning in decades. It took just 12 hours to burn through 40,000 acres, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-wildfire-spread-with-mind-boggling-speed-20150913-story.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t very many fires in California’s history that have done that. I don’t know if there really is a precedent for it,” climate scientist Daniel Swain told the paper. “This fire sort of broke the rules even relative to this incredible season that’s already occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t even a fire. It was like fluorescent evil,” Whispering Pines resident Bill Gavin told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4474770-181/valley-fire-evacuees-tell-of?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Democrat\u003c/a>. “I saw sections like football fields go up in four seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a hair-raising video posted by someone who said he was fleeing Anderson Springs.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0lVPB3HI9Wg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0lVPB3HI9Wg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Here’s a Press Democrat video of the devastation in Middletown.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/X9mv9dJQoL4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/X9mv9dJQoL4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Below is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map of all the active fires in California\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>, burning in Amador & Calaveras Counties, is now at 65,300 acres, or about 102 square miles. That’s slightly larger than the city of Sacramento. The fire is 25 percent contained. So far, 135 residences and 79 outbuildings have been destroyed, Cal Fire says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAt a 5 p.m. briefing at the Napa Fairgrounds, Cal Fire officials said that most of the commercial business in Middletown and the high school remain intact, but many homes off the main drag have been impacted. Chris Childs of the Napa CHP said it will be at least two days before residents can return to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE\">@CAL_FIRE\u003c/a> firefighters rest in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/HiddenValley?src=hash\">#HiddenValley\u003c/a> after defending homes from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ValleyFire?src=hash\">#ValleyFire\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NorthBayNews\">@NorthBayNews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CDF_firefighter\">@CDF_firefighter\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/hIjf1MZAUm\">pic.twitter.com/hIjf1MZAUm\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kent Porter (@kentphotos) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/643225271802290176\">September 14, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:45 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nState fire officials are reporting the Valley Fire has increased to 50,000 acres, with containment remaining at zero percent. The Associated Press has called the Valley Fire one of the “fastest-burning wildfires in decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">have been ordered\u003c/a> for the following locations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Point Lakeview Hwy and Hwy 281, Rivera West and Clearlake Rivera, Hwy 29 (Kelseyville) at Hwy 175 south on Hwy 175 towards Cobb, Red Hills Road to Hwy 29, Hwy 29 X Hwy 175 south to Seigler Canyon Road (south side of Hwy 29), Hwy 29 Tubbs Lane (Calistoga, Napa County) to Hwy 29/Hwy 53(Lower Lake, Lake County) Butts Canyon Road to Napa County Line, including Berreyssa Estates, Butts Canyon Road to Pope Valley. Communities of Cobb, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, Middletown and Hidden Valley Lakes, Livermore Road, Summit Lake Road and north of the community of Angwin.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>According to KQED reporter Danielle Venton at the Napa Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two current evacuation centers, evacuees have begun arriving and are numbering in the hundreds. However, the evacuee team anticipates closer to 1,000 at the fairgrounds by dinner time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venton says that, for the most part, spirits are up among evacuees and a sense of community is noticeable throughout. Some have started pickup football and soccer games, while others have picked up instruments and started jamming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 12:15 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire and Lake County officials are surveying what’s believed to be a massive amount of destruction caused by the Valley Fire that’s prompted some 15,000 residents to flee their homes and sent smoke into nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be pretty devastating,” said Jill Ruzicka, spokeswoman for the Lake County Office of Emergency Services. “All of us know people who have lost their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is the third large wildfire to burn in Lake County in the last few months. Ruzicka said it is already, by far, the most destructive to people’s livelihoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult for us to come to full staff right now because so many of our people are either under evacuation notices or have lost their homes,” Ruzicka said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has yet to publish any official data on the number of structures damaged or destroyed by the blaze, but reports are coming in and it looks bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen some destruction in and around the Middletown area,” said Amy Head, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parts that I couldn’t even make into myself,” Head said from Hidden Valley, another community under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who fled from Middletown told the Associated Press the cars they were driving dodged smoldering telephone poles and billowing smoke as they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is believed to have started on Cobb Mountain, an area that normally gets lots of rain. The drought has obviously changed that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a fire to spread from there all the way to where it is now is very unprecedented,” Head said. The lack of rain, Saturday’s strong winds, and the area’s low humidity and hot temperatures were all factors that helped the fire spread so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are battling the blaze. Cal Fire says getting more of them to the scene is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re having to place orders for additional resources,” Head said. “We are spread pretty thin throughout Northern California with the other fires, so we’re having to pull resources from wherever we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has sent ash and smoke miles away. “It almost looks like Bay Area fog, we are so socked in with this smoke,” Ruzicka said from Lakeport, about 25 miles northwest of Middletown. “This morning when I woke up, my car was covered in ash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross has set up two shelters: one at Kelseyville High School at 5480 Main St. in Kelseyville and another at the Napa County Fairgrounds at 1435 N. Oak St. in Calistoga. According to the Red Cross, a community meeting is planned at the Kelseyville site at 2 p.m. and at the Calistoga one at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:40 a.m.:\u003c/strong> From the Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Lake and Napa counties after a wildfire charred more than 60 square miles within 12 hours, prompting \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4470252-181/thousands-under-order-to-flee?page=2?gallery=4470892\">thousands to flee\u003c/a> their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Sunday the declaration will expedite debris removal and waive fees to people who need to replace official documents lost in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, has destroyed an unconfirmed number of homes and other buildings and damaged highways and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown had earlier declared a state of emergency for a separate 101-square-mile wildfire about 70 miles southeast of Sacramento that has destroyed 86 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://instagram.com/p/7k0pZJsQ2d/\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Original Post: Bay City News Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> that started in \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/\">Lake County\u003c/a> Saturday has now burned an estimated 40,000 acres and is zero percent contained as of this morning, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional mandatory evacuations have been ordered in Lake County from state Highway 29 and state Highway 175 to Seigler Canyon Road, and for state Highway 29 at state Highway 175 toward Cobb, and Red Hills Road to state Highway 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are fighting the fire and getting people evacuated from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas of Napa County are under advisory and could be under mandatory evacuations later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire injured four firefighters who were part of a helicopter crew Saturday. The firefighters suffered burn injuries and were transported to an area burn center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire is reporting there have been an unconfirmed number of structures destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The wildfires ravaging Lake County this summer might have an impact unnoticed by most people: the increased looting of ancient Native American artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Pomo residents worry that the fires, which have cleared trees and structures off land, and the drought, which has lowered water levels at Clear Lake, are making it easier for looters to unearth relics that belonged to their ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225040171\" 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>Although theft at Native American sites is nothing new, local sheriff's deputies are being trained for the first time in how to identify and investigate these crimes. That led to the arrest last month of a man suspected of stealing obsidian arrowheads and other artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case may be the first arrest of its kind in Lake County, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. Lake County leads the state's 58 counties in terms of drug-induced deaths, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Documents/OHIRProfiles2015.pdf\">figures\u003c/a> from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that drought conditions and wildfires are exposing archaeological sites around Clear Lake that were not visible, making these potential troves more accessible than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires and drought increase access in Lake County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires raging in the area since July have burned vegetation and structures in 171,000 acres so far. At the same time, the state’s four-year drought is making Clear Lake’s shoreline recede as water levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Clear Lake’s water levels were about 2 feet higher than today, says Andrew Watson, field office chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Ukiah branch. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. Lake County leads the state's 58 counties in terms of drug-induced deaths, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Documents/OHIRProfiles2015.pdf\">figures\u003c/a> from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that drought conditions and wildfires are exposing archaeological sites around Clear Lake that were not visible, making these potential troves more accessible than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires and drought increase access in Lake County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires raging in the area since July have burned vegetation and structures in 171,000 acres so far. At the same time, the state’s four-year drought is making Clear Lake’s shoreline recede as water levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Clear Lake’s water levels were about 2 feet higher than today, says Andrew Watson, field office chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Ukiah branch. 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