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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/171061797\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RIVERSIDE – Mike Soubirous is a prodigious water user, pumping more than 1 million gallons per year at his lushly landscaped home on a hot, windy, Southern California hilltop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soubirous also is a member of the Riverside City Council, and one of his jobs in that position is to make decisions for the Riverside's water utility. In July, Soubirous \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=69fbc35ab20144ac844bad41926e584c&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.riversideca.gov%2fpress_releases%2f2014-0723-riverside-council-enacts-mandatory-conservation-measures-for-rpu-water-customers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">voted with the rest of his council colleagues\u003c/a> to impose tough new water conservation rules in this desert city of 317,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as California’s drought worsened from 2012 to 2013, Soubirous consumed enough water to supply eight California households -- more than any other water official in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soubirous knows he should cut his water use to set a good example, he told The Center for Investigative Reporting. But he has a one-acre lot with cascades of flowering shrubs and a weeping willow tree, and summer temperatures hit 100 degrees. Conservation isn’t that simple, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I have to sell my house to set that example, or do I have to just abolish all my shrubs?” Soubirous asked. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how I can reduce my water rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Soubirous, many of the local officials urging the public to save water during California’s crippling drought actually are profligate water users themselves, a CIR investigation has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Do I have to sell my house? Or do I have to just abolish all my shrubs? I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how I can reduce my water rate.'\u003ccite>Mike Soubirous,\u003cbr>\nRiverside city councilman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Water bills for most Californians are confidential. But bills for officials who set water rates and policies are public under the state’s open records law. CIR obtained more than two years’ worth for the elected and appointed officials who oversee 22 of the state’s biggest water agencies – about 150 officials in all. The bills show that in 2013, nearly half of those officials used more water than the typical California household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And water officials tended not to cut back as the drought persisted. Even as their agencies scolded ratepayers on conservation, 60 percent of these officials used more water in 2013 than they had in 2012, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials used extraordinary amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Soubirous, two other officials -- a Fresno city councilman and a member of Riverside’s utilities board -- each pumped more than 1 million gallons in a single year during the drought, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight other officials used more than 1,100 gallons a day in 2013. That’s triple the state’s average. Among them was Randy Record, chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which recently launched an advertising blitz to persuade 19 million residents in the region to save water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen additional officials used double the statewide rate. One was Ashley Swearengin, Republican candidate for state controller and incumbent mayor of Fresno, where residents are allowed to water lawns twice a week now and not at all in winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the drought has worsened, local agencies have kept up a steady public relations drumbeat, urging Californians to take shorter showers, limit car washing and even tear out their lawns in the name of conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the state told local agencies to enforce tough new rules: Ratepayers can face $500 fines for offenses such as permitting excess runoff from outdoor watering or cleaning sidewalks with hoses. Around the state, according to news reports, neighbors have begun reporting neighbors for wasting water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted, some officials bemoaned how much they were spending on water and blamed undetected sprinkler leaks, overzealous gardeners or heavy use of the family swimming pool. All said conservation is important. All vowed to do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all are following their own water rules. Last month in Riverside, an NBC Los Angeles crew collaborating with CIR on this story witnessed sprinklers running seven nights in a row at Soubirous’ home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in July, Soubirous joined the council in forbidding watering more than four times a week. When asked about it, he acknowledged he might have unintentionally overwatered.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You should be leading by example, not telling the little people you regulate that they need to tighten their belts while you proceed as if nothing had happened.'\u003ccite>Trent Orr,\u003cbr>\nEarthjustice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Trent Orr of the Earthjustice environmental law firm in San Francisco said the officials were “blatantly defying” the conservation ethos they impose on ordinary citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should be leading by example,” Orr said, “not telling the little people you regulate that they need to tighten their belts while you proceed as if nothing had happened and in fact use more water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.irwd.com/images/pdf/save-water/CaSingleFamilyWaterUseEfficiencyStudyJune2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A 2011 study\u003c/a> commissioned by the state Department of Water Resources found that occupants of a single-family home in California use, on average, 361 gallons per day -- or nearly 132,000 gallons a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North and south, Californians use about the same amount of water indoors, the study found. But Southern Californians use far more outdoors to keep their landscaping lush and swimming pools full. Overall, Northern California households use about 295 gallons per day, while Southern Californians use 523 gallons, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis found a similar variance: Water-guzzling officials were concentrated in the drier, thirstier parts of the state – the Central Valley and hot inland areas in Southern California. Bay Area officials used far less: 255 gallons per day – slightly below the Northern California average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, where summers are scorching, officials included in the CIR analysis averaged 855 gallons per day in 2013. The Central Valley’s average use was less than 565 gallons.Because cities in the region have been slow to install residential water meters, bills weren’t available for many officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno City Councilman Oliver Baines said a horrendous malfunction in his sprinkler system made him a million-gallon user in 2013, the first year that water meters kept track in his west Fresno neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baines’ first metered bill showed he used 4,000 gallons a day -- about 11 times the state average. The city, which says it has the lowest water rates in California, charged him $182.43 for that water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year and 1.24 million gallons later, Baines finally solved what he called a “freak situation” involving his sprinklers: In the middle of the night, water would stream from defective sprinkler heads, flooding the yard. The ground became so saturated that a sinkhole opened up behind his house, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Well, you know, I apologize. Clearly, I am not a model of water usage.'\u003ccite>Oliver Baines,\u003cbr>\nFresno city councilman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After repairs, Baines used 149 gallons per day in March. But the memory still rankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, you know, I apologize,” he said. “Clearly, I am not a model of water usage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody in the valley rivaled Baines. Swearengin, Fresno’s mayor, averaged 850 gallons per day in 2013. She didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, water officials averaged 541 gallons per day, exceeding both the state and regional rates. Officials in coastal cities tended to have far lower water bills than those in hotter inland areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside Councilman Soubirous was the only official to use 1 million gallons in successive years, but he was not the only mega-user in the Inland Empire city, which has outlawed watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Walcker of the city Board of Public Utilities used 1 million gallons in 2012. In September 2012, he pumped 6,000 gallons per day – enough water for 16 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walcker’s two-acre property once was a grapefruit grove. Starting 18 months ago, he said he began a landscape makeover, installing a state-of-the-art sprinkler system and pulling out 12,000 square feet of lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water bills show Walcker’s use dropped by 35 percent in 2013 and is on a pace to drop 50 percent this year. Nevertheless, in June, he used more than 1,500 gallons per day, triple the Southern California average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big water bills also prevailed on the board of the Coachella Valley Water District, which supplies desert resort cities and golf courses near Palm Springs. John Powell Jr., president of the Coachella Valley board, used 1,800 gallons per day in 2013 at his home on an Indian Wells golf course, slightly more than in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Powell blamed his landscaper for favoring a green lawn over water conservation. Recently, Powell said he took drastic action: He locked up his irrigation timer to prevent overwatering. He said he also replaced lawns with rock and artificial turf. He expects big savings. But through Aug. 27, his water use was down 4 percent from 2013, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also struggling to conserve water is Randy Record, a Riverside County rancher and local water district official who was elected chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the consortium of 26 Los Angeles-area water agencies has promoted water conservation. Now, facing cutbacks from Northern California, it has redoubled its efforts. In May, Record and other Metropolitan Water District officials held a news conference to warn that if voluntary conservation measures fall short, water rationing would begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his ranch house on the outskirts of San Jacinto, Record has a history of letting the water flow: In both 2012 and 2013, he used enough water to supply four families, with a summertime spike. But this year, in the name of conservation, he told CIR that he has dramatically cut back, turning off the sprinklers for a “big part of our lawn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: In August, Record’s water bill was half what it was a year ago. But he still used 1,300 gallons a day – more than twice the Southern California average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, where summer nights can be cool and foggy, local water officials don’t use much water: 70 percent were under the state average in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region’s biggest user was Martin Koller, vice president of the board of the Alameda County Water District. He used 604 gallons per day, double the regional rate. Koller said nine members of his extended family live with him, and his wife operates a day care center for 14 children out of the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s taxed our water usage,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, Bay Area officials dominated the list of water misers among their peers. The most miserly official in California was Eric Mar of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who lives in a condominium in the Inner Richmond district, part of the city’s fog belt. He used 45 gallons a day in 2013 – about enough to fill a bathtub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was not far behind: He used 53 gallons a day at his Glen Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor believes “conservation is a way of life,” said spokeswoman Christine Falvey, and he’s often out of town on official travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Lee had some extraordinarily low bills. In July, he used 24 gallons a day – enough to wash a load of clothes. In March 2013, he used 12 gallons a day – the equivalent of one six-minute shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee. This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I have to sell my house to set that example, or do I have to just abolish all my shrubs?” Soubirous asked. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how I can reduce my water rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Soubirous, many of the local officials urging the public to save water during California’s crippling drought actually are profligate water users themselves, a CIR investigation has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Do I have to sell my house? Or do I have to just abolish all my shrubs? I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how I can reduce my water rate.'\u003ccite>Mike Soubirous,\u003cbr>\nRiverside city councilman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Water bills for most Californians are confidential. But bills for officials who set water rates and policies are public under the state’s open records law. CIR obtained more than two years’ worth for the elected and appointed officials who oversee 22 of the state’s biggest water agencies – about 150 officials in all. The bills show that in 2013, nearly half of those officials used more water than the typical California household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And water officials tended not to cut back as the drought persisted. Even as their agencies scolded ratepayers on conservation, 60 percent of these officials used more water in 2013 than they had in 2012, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials used extraordinary amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Soubirous, two other officials -- a Fresno city councilman and a member of Riverside’s utilities board -- each pumped more than 1 million gallons in a single year during the drought, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight other officials used more than 1,100 gallons a day in 2013. That’s triple the state’s average. Among them was Randy Record, chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which recently launched an advertising blitz to persuade 19 million residents in the region to save water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen additional officials used double the statewide rate. One was Ashley Swearengin, Republican candidate for state controller and incumbent mayor of Fresno, where residents are allowed to water lawns twice a week now and not at all in winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the drought has worsened, local agencies have kept up a steady public relations drumbeat, urging Californians to take shorter showers, limit car washing and even tear out their lawns in the name of conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the state told local agencies to enforce tough new rules: Ratepayers can face $500 fines for offenses such as permitting excess runoff from outdoor watering or cleaning sidewalks with hoses. Around the state, according to news reports, neighbors have begun reporting neighbors for wasting water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted, some officials bemoaned how much they were spending on water and blamed undetected sprinkler leaks, overzealous gardeners or heavy use of the family swimming pool. All said conservation is important. All vowed to do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all are following their own water rules. Last month in Riverside, an NBC Los Angeles crew collaborating with CIR on this story witnessed sprinklers running seven nights in a row at Soubirous’ home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in July, Soubirous joined the council in forbidding watering more than four times a week. When asked about it, he acknowledged he might have unintentionally overwatered.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You should be leading by example, not telling the little people you regulate that they need to tighten their belts while you proceed as if nothing had happened.'\u003ccite>Trent Orr,\u003cbr>\nEarthjustice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Trent Orr of the Earthjustice environmental law firm in San Francisco said the officials were “blatantly defying” the conservation ethos they impose on ordinary citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should be leading by example,” Orr said, “not telling the little people you regulate that they need to tighten their belts while you proceed as if nothing had happened and in fact use more water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.irwd.com/images/pdf/save-water/CaSingleFamilyWaterUseEfficiencyStudyJune2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A 2011 study\u003c/a> commissioned by the state Department of Water Resources found that occupants of a single-family home in California use, on average, 361 gallons per day -- or nearly 132,000 gallons a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North and south, Californians use about the same amount of water indoors, the study found. But Southern Californians use far more outdoors to keep their landscaping lush and swimming pools full. Overall, Northern California households use about 295 gallons per day, while Southern Californians use 523 gallons, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis found a similar variance: Water-guzzling officials were concentrated in the drier, thirstier parts of the state – the Central Valley and hot inland areas in Southern California. Bay Area officials used far less: 255 gallons per day – slightly below the Northern California average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, where summers are scorching, officials included in the CIR analysis averaged 855 gallons per day in 2013. The Central Valley’s average use was less than 565 gallons.Because cities in the region have been slow to install residential water meters, bills weren’t available for many officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno City Councilman Oliver Baines said a horrendous malfunction in his sprinkler system made him a million-gallon user in 2013, the first year that water meters kept track in his west Fresno neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baines’ first metered bill showed he used 4,000 gallons a day -- about 11 times the state average. The city, which says it has the lowest water rates in California, charged him $182.43 for that water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year and 1.24 million gallons later, Baines finally solved what he called a “freak situation” involving his sprinklers: In the middle of the night, water would stream from defective sprinkler heads, flooding the yard. The ground became so saturated that a sinkhole opened up behind his house, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Well, you know, I apologize. Clearly, I am not a model of water usage.'\u003ccite>Oliver Baines,\u003cbr>\nFresno city councilman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After repairs, Baines used 149 gallons per day in March. But the memory still rankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, you know, I apologize,” he said. “Clearly, I am not a model of water usage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody in the valley rivaled Baines. Swearengin, Fresno’s mayor, averaged 850 gallons per day in 2013. She didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, water officials averaged 541 gallons per day, exceeding both the state and regional rates. Officials in coastal cities tended to have far lower water bills than those in hotter inland areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside Councilman Soubirous was the only official to use 1 million gallons in successive years, but he was not the only mega-user in the Inland Empire city, which has outlawed watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Walcker of the city Board of Public Utilities used 1 million gallons in 2012. In September 2012, he pumped 6,000 gallons per day – enough water for 16 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walcker’s two-acre property once was a grapefruit grove. Starting 18 months ago, he said he began a landscape makeover, installing a state-of-the-art sprinkler system and pulling out 12,000 square feet of lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water bills show Walcker’s use dropped by 35 percent in 2013 and is on a pace to drop 50 percent this year. Nevertheless, in June, he used more than 1,500 gallons per day, triple the Southern California average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big water bills also prevailed on the board of the Coachella Valley Water District, which supplies desert resort cities and golf courses near Palm Springs. John Powell Jr., president of the Coachella Valley board, used 1,800 gallons per day in 2013 at his home on an Indian Wells golf course, slightly more than in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Powell blamed his landscaper for favoring a green lawn over water conservation. Recently, Powell said he took drastic action: He locked up his irrigation timer to prevent overwatering. He said he also replaced lawns with rock and artificial turf. He expects big savings. But through Aug. 27, his water use was down 4 percent from 2013, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also struggling to conserve water is Randy Record, a Riverside County rancher and local water district official who was elected chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the consortium of 26 Los Angeles-area water agencies has promoted water conservation. Now, facing cutbacks from Northern California, it has redoubled its efforts. In May, Record and other Metropolitan Water District officials held a news conference to warn that if voluntary conservation measures fall short, water rationing would begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his ranch house on the outskirts of San Jacinto, Record has a history of letting the water flow: In both 2012 and 2013, he used enough water to supply four families, with a summertime spike. But this year, in the name of conservation, he told CIR that he has dramatically cut back, turning off the sprinklers for a “big part of our lawn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: In August, Record’s water bill was half what it was a year ago. But he still used 1,300 gallons a day – more than twice the Southern California average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, where summer nights can be cool and foggy, local water officials don’t use much water: 70 percent were under the state average in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region’s biggest user was Martin Koller, vice president of the board of the Alameda County Water District. He used 604 gallons per day, double the regional rate. Koller said nine members of his extended family live with him, and his wife operates a day care center for 14 children out of the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s taxed our water usage,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, Bay Area officials dominated the list of water misers among their peers. The most miserly official in California was Eric Mar of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who lives in a condominium in the Inner Richmond district, part of the city’s fog belt. He used 45 gallons a day in 2013 – about enough to fill a bathtub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was not far behind: He used 53 gallons a day at his Glen Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor believes “conservation is a way of life,” said spokeswoman Christine Falvey, and he’s often out of town on official travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Lee had some extraordinarily low bills. In July, he used 24 gallons a day – enough to wash a load of clothes. In March 2013, he used 12 gallons a day – the equivalent of one six-minute shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee. This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/10/2014-10-03b-tcrmag.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on whom you ask in Weed, it will take many months or years for things to get back to normal -- or maybe it just won't ever be the same. On Sept. 15, a wildfire raced through the town, burning more than 140 homes, two churches, a library and a community center. Another 90 houses were damaged, along with the lumber mill that is Weed's largest private employer. Officials estimate some 750 people have been displaced in the town of not quite 3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Screenshot-2014-10-02-22.41.55.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10342141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Screenshot-2014-10-02-22.41.55.png\" alt=\"Weed-Locator Map\" width=\"441\" height=\"526\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 285 road miles north of San Francisco on Interstate 5, Weed greets visitors with kitschy tourist shops riffing on the town's name. \"Enjoy Weed,\" a tie-dye shirt suggests, not far from the \"I (Heart) Weed\" lighters. Postcards display the snow on nearby Mount Shasta in beautiful crepuscular pinks and purples, and a neon sign in the window of the Hi-Lo Cafe promises homemade pie to the road-weary families and bikers who stop in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around back is a motel, where waitress Gail Breshears stayed for 10 days after she lost nearly everything she owned to the blaze. Physically intact but \"emotionally fried,\" when asked how long it might take her to get back to normal, she says maybe never, then asks, \"What is normal?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is common around town. While Tony Mazzei still has a house, a workshop burned up with all his tools inside, potentially forcing the longtime handyman into full retirement. He also lost a couple of classic cars to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I bought it brand-new when I was 18 years old --'65 GTO,\" Mazzei says. \"And my dad bought this 1950 Dodge brand-new --in 1950 -- and I restored it. So they're both gone and I can't get 'em back anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if he could replace them, Mazzei says, the cars he knew all his life are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-400x341.jpg\" alt=\"This stone entryway is all the Boles Fire left standing of this home in Weed. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-400x341.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-800x683.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone entryway is all the Boles Fire left standing of this home in Weed. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weed has received an outpouring of help, including clothing, household goods and tools from around the country. At the Weed Church of Christ, volunteer Kenneth Shaffer says they've given out all manner of supplies (they ran out of wheelbarrows) along with dozens of heavy boxes of food and toiletries sent from Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While folks in Weed say they're grateful, in some ways managing so much generosity has rippled into its own set of problems. At a meeting of about 40 resident in a church basement, officials said they'd received more donated pajamas and sweaters than they knew what to do with. Mayor Bob Hall described it as enough clothing to fill two gymnasiums 8 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the more long-term problem of housing. Among the hundreds of people who've been displaced, some are in a hotel while others stay with friends or family. City Administrator Ron Stock says officials are looking into places with room for trailers, where a few residents may end up spending the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How long will it take you to get back to normal, I asked a resident who'd lost her home. Her reply: 'What is normal?'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A couple of factors make rebuilding homes complicated. For one, many were built in the old logging town as company homes when asbestos and lead paint were commonplace. Cleanup is too hazardous to leave to volunteers, and in some cases could require removing even the burned home's foundation and a layer of earth to make sure no toxic heavy metals are left behind. Stock says the cost to haul out so much waste is on the order of $4 million -- a tab the state will pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another problem in an area near the lumber mill, known as Angel Valley, is that the old houses were tiny, often around 900 square feet, and on tiny lots that don't mesh neatly with modern requirements for homes set back on the lot, built with garages and so on. Stock says that on the one hand, there are safety concerns with rebuilding the neighborhood as it was, with homes packed in densely, because it allows fires to easily spread. On the other hand, homeowners may receive an insurance check and find it's not enough money to rebuild a house conforming to modern standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342282\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-400x303.jpg\" alt=\"Many homes burned by the Boles Fire were fully leveled, with only the blackened husks of metal appliances left recognizable. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-400x303.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-800x606.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homes burned by the Boles Fire were fully leveled, with only the blackened husks of metal appliances left recognizable. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other residents -- renters -- likely had little if any insurance for what they lost. Stock, who worked through the aftermath of several hurricanes as a city administrator in Florida, says some of the displaced people might just not come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One crucial resident that's not going anywhere is the Roseburg lumber mill, which slices trees into thin ribbons that are glued together to make plywood. It's Weed's largest private employer, second only to the school system for jobs, with more than 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the mill was damaged in the fire, Roseburg quickly transferred about 60 employees to another facility in Oregon so they could keep working. Dozens more are hustling to get the plant back up and running -- hopefully in time for Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is common around town. While Tony Mazzei still has a house, a workshop burned up with all his tools inside, potentially forcing the longtime handyman into full retirement. He also lost a couple of classic cars to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I bought it brand-new when I was 18 years old --'65 GTO,\" Mazzei says. \"And my dad bought this 1950 Dodge brand-new --in 1950 -- and I restored it. So they're both gone and I can't get 'em back anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if he could replace them, Mazzei says, the cars he knew all his life are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-400x341.jpg\" alt=\"This stone entryway is all the Boles Fire left standing of this home in Weed. 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At the Weed Church of Christ, volunteer Kenneth Shaffer says they've given out all manner of supplies (they ran out of wheelbarrows) along with dozens of heavy boxes of food and toiletries sent from Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While folks in Weed say they're grateful, in some ways managing so much generosity has rippled into its own set of problems. At a meeting of about 40 resident in a church basement, officials said they'd received more donated pajamas and sweaters than they knew what to do with. Mayor Bob Hall described it as enough clothing to fill two gymnasiums 8 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the more long-term problem of housing. Among the hundreds of people who've been displaced, some are in a hotel while others stay with friends or family. City Administrator Ron Stock says officials are looking into places with room for trailers, where a few residents may end up spending the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How long will it take you to get back to normal, I asked a resident who'd lost her home. Her reply: 'What is normal?'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A couple of factors make rebuilding homes complicated. For one, many were built in the old logging town as company homes when asbestos and lead paint were commonplace. Cleanup is too hazardous to leave to volunteers, and in some cases could require removing even the burned home's foundation and a layer of earth to make sure no toxic heavy metals are left behind. Stock says the cost to haul out so much waste is on the order of $4 million -- a tab the state will pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another problem in an area near the lumber mill, known as Angel Valley, is that the old houses were tiny, often around 900 square feet, and on tiny lots that don't mesh neatly with modern requirements for homes set back on the lot, built with garages and so on. Stock says that on the one hand, there are safety concerns with rebuilding the neighborhood as it was, with homes packed in densely, because it allows fires to easily spread. On the other hand, homeowners may receive an insurance check and find it's not enough money to rebuild a house conforming to modern standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342282\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-400x303.jpg\" alt=\"Many homes burned by the Boles Fire were fully leveled, with only the blackened husks of metal appliances left recognizable. 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Stock, who worked through the aftermath of several hurricanes as a city administrator in Florida, says some of the displaced people might just not come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One crucial resident that's not going anywhere is the Roseburg lumber mill, which slices trees into thin ribbons that are glued together to make plywood. It's Weed's largest private employer, second only to the school system for jobs, with more than 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the mill was damaged in the fire, Roseburg quickly transferred about 60 employees to another facility in Oregon so they could keep working. Dozens more are hustling to get the plant back up and running -- hopefully in time for Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "King Fire Update: Rain Tames Blaze Even as Warm, Dry Weather Returns",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148997\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (Lone Peak Hotshots via Twitter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (\u003ca href=\"//twitter.com/LonePeakIHC\">Lone Peak Hotshots\u003c/a> via Twitter)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:15 p.m. Monday (Sept. 29): \u003c/strong>Fire officials say that the King Fire will kick up a little this week as warm, dry weather returns to the Sierra Nevada. But as of Monday, they say they're confident that the fire in the forests west of Lake Tahoe has been pretty much stopped in its tracks by several days of rain. Here's the summary of the situation from the unified federal-state fire command:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After four days of precipitation with accumulations of 1 to 3 inches, fire spread has been halted, however heat remains in the heavier fuels and in the heavy duff sheltered from the rain under the dense timber canopy. As the weather turns warm and dry over the next several days, expect to see an increase in fire activity and smoke production; however spread potential is extremely low, due to the successful suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Allegedly the work of an arsonist, the King Fire has burned 97,000 acres -- about 150 square miles -- since starting Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the north, federal fire managers have issued \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">a final update on the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, which has earned a footnote in California wildfire history. The blaze -- actually the combination of several fires that started Aug. 12 and burned together in the following weeks -- has burned nearly 133,000 acres (about 210 square miles) of timber in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. According to Cal Fire, that makes it \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the 16th-biggest California fire in area\u003c/a> going back to 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 25) :\u003c/strong> Rain sounds like a great thing when you're facing the ravages of a wildfire. Right? But for those fighting the two biggest fires in California -- the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Camp Complex in Siskiyou County\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire in El Dorado and Placer\u003c/a> counties -- the state's first significant rain of the season was a little too much of a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm that moved slowly across the North Coast on Wednesday night, then over the central Sierra Nevada earlier Thursday, proved to be very wet, dumping more than 2 inches of rain over the Happy Camp blaze and less copious but still occasionally heavy rain on the King conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: Flash flood warnings were issued for the 210 square miles or so burned so far near Happy Camp in a blaze that started Aug. 12 and for the 145 square miles the King Fire has consumed since Sept. 13 in the Sierra forests west of Lake Tahoe. The heavy rain prompted fears of excessive runoff, debris flows and rock slides, especially on the steeper slopes seared by the fires. Those concerns led fire managers to pull crews off lines until the storm passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rains helped slow down the King Fire substantially, according to the latest event summary. \"The observed fire activity was minimal with smoldering in interior pockets of the heavier fuels,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially: As of Thursday evening, the King Fire is reported to have burned 95,347 acres and is 55 percent contained. The Happy Camp Fire is at 132,733 acres and 94 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>This morning, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> containment is at 38 percent, with about 93,000 acres burned. InciWeb reports that the fire \"remained relatively active throughout the night due to the poor relative humidity recovery and wind.\" Potential remains for \"extreme fire behavior if the winds, fuels, and topography come into alignment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/24/6732102/king-fire-burn-increases-3300.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, which reports community meetings will be held tonight at 7 p.m. at North Tahoe High School and Foresthill High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The good news on \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned almost 90,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests west of Lake Tahoe since it started Sept. 13: The force of nearly 7,500 fire personnel fighting the blaze, aided by several days of cool, damp weather, has achieved 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148394\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\" alt=\"The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"252\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bad news: Much warmer, drier and windier weather is sweeping across much of the northern Sierra, including the fire zone. The National Weather Service has issued a red-flag warning for the mountains from Yosemite clear up to the Oregon border. For El Dorado and Placer counties, where the fire is burning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/?latitude=&longitude=&wfo=sto&interface=fwzones&click.x=553&click.y=382\" target=\"_blank\">the forecast calls for winds\u003c/a> gusting up to 25 mph through Wednesday evening. After that, much of Northern California has a strong chance of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a second day in a row, the National Weather Service has issued\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ072&warncounty=CAC057&firewxzone=CAZ271&local_place1=6%20Miles%20NNW%20Devonshire%20CA&product1=Dense+Smoke+Advisory&lat=39.43421&lon=-120.11525#.VCHYWPldV8E\" target=\"_blank\"> a dense smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the city, surrounding towns and the Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities in the fire region have experienced extremely high levels of particulate pollution over the past several days. The reading for PM 2.5 -- fine particulates like those found in wood smoke -- was an astonishing 434 in parts of Placer County, northeast of Sacramento, on Tuesday morning. By comparison, the measure in most of the Bay Area was in the low 30s. In Auburn, air quality earlier Tuesday was classified as \"hazardous\" under \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi\" target=\"_blank\">the EPA's rating system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Hobbs, an air quality specialist with the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, said the worst of the pollution in Auburn had cleared by midday as winds shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Cool, moist weather over the weekend, complete with occasional rain, has allowed the 5,500-person force fighting the King Fire to gain ground on the blaze burning across a large swath of the Sierra west of Lake Tahoe. The new acreage total for the King Fire released Monday: 87,592 acres, or 136 square miles, with about 18 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/cafw/display_product.php?sid=sto&pil=fwf\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service fire weather forecast for the stat\u003c/a>e says that warm and drier weather is due Monday and Tuesday. Forecasts call for a chance of rainy and windy weather later in the week into next weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire will continue to have an impact over a wide area. The National Weather Service has issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=rev&wwa=dense%20smoke%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">dense-smoke advisories\u003c/a> for Reno and the entire Tahoe basin. Concern about exposing students to poor air quality led several schools, including those in the towns of Colfax and Foresthill in Placer County, to cancel classes on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed 10 homes and 22 \"minor structures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> No surprise: All the numbers have gotten bigger for the King Fire today. Fire officials say -- \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">here, on Inciweb's King Fire page\u003c/a> -- that the area covered by the blaze is now 81,000 acres (that's the number released this morning, so it's bigger now). About 4,900 personnel are assigned to fight the blaze -- the largest contingent assigned to a fire in California this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still rated as 10 percent contained, unchanged from Friday. Fire officials say the contained edge of the fire is along its southern flank, along U.S. 50 near the community of Pollock Pines, where it began a week ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire's biggest impact away from the burned area is the heavy smoke that's settled over much of the southern Sacramento Valley and the northern and central Sierra and foothills. The EPA's AirNow monitoring site shows air quality in the foothills near \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&mapcenter=1&cityid=272\" target=\"_blank\">Auburn\u003c/a>, northeast of Sacramento on Interstate 80, has ranged from very unhealthy to hazardous for most of Saturday. Air pollution in most of the Bay Area has been rated as \"moderate\" most of Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Wayne Allen Huntsman, the 37-year-old suspect in the King Fire that's swept through more than 76,000 acres of Sierra forest this week, entered a not guilty plea Friday to a charge that he deliberately set the blaze. Huntsman's next hearing on a single count of forest arson was set for late October. He continues to be held on $10 million bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plea came as the first reports surfaced that homes have been destroyed in the fire. Sacramento's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sierra/crews-continue-fight-against-stillgrowing-king-fire/28148432\" target=\"_blank\">KCRA-Channel 3 reported Friday afternoon\u003c/a> that the fire destroyed at least four homes north of U.S. 50, in an area called White Meadows about 6 miles from where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said Friday they were assessing structures in the area and wanted to contact property owners before confirming losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntsman's plea in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville was made as media reports emerge detailing the suspect's past and offering clues about the fire's origin near the community of Pollock Pines last weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/auburn-grass-valley/2014/09/19/wayne-huntsman-king-fire-911/15873205/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento's News10 reported Friday\u003c/a> that police believe the arson suspect broke into a home in an apparent attempt to call 911 to report the fire. News10 says that account comes from a homeowner, Ralf Lorenz, whose front door was kicked in last Saturday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lorenz wasn't home at the time. He was working in the Bay Area when the King Fire broke out Saturday on the steep embankment behind his home. His first clue that something wasn't right was when he got a call from his home security company that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't know if my house was still standing,\" Lorenz said. \"I didn't know if it was pilfered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing was taken. But, Lorenz's front door was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perpetrator kicked it in,\" Lorenz said. \"He tried to call 911 to report the fire.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>News10 said that law enforcement officials declined comment on Lorenz's story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several news sources reported on interviews with Huntsman's sister and former girlfriend, who both expressed incredulity that he's been accused with setting the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Family-of-alleged-King-Fire-arsonist-shocked-5767241.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle's Kurtis Alexander\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There's no way he would have ever done this intentionally,\" Tami Criswell of Salinas said in a telephone interview, one day after her brother, Wayne Allen Huntsman, was charged with felony arson....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… (She) said her brother loves the outdoors and is not someone who would want to destroy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had everything going for him,\" she said. \"There's no reason he would ever do this.\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Huntsman has a criminal record that includes convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft in Santa Cruz County in 1997, public records show. None of his crimes relate to arson, and his sister said he cleaned up his act a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had been in good standing with the law and the community,\" said Criswell. \"He's always been part of my family and my kids. He's been helping take care of his elderly grandmother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criswell said Huntsman has enjoyed his life in the Sierra foothills, where he has friends and a few family members and where work has been steadier than in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>She told Alexander the last time she spoke to Huntsman was Saturday, the same day the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last update for now, by way of the Associated Press: Cal Fire says it set a record on Wednesday for the amount of retardant dropped on a wildfire in a single day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff says air tankers on Wednesday poured 203,375 gallons of the red slurry on an explosive Northern California wildfire that has now burned through nearly 120 square miles of timber and vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday, Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service together had dumped 530,000 gallons on the El Dorado County blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolmachoff says the fire is burning so fiercely it is running through the retardant lines because of the extreme drought conditions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The force of more than 4,000 firefighters trying to corral the massive King Fire in El Dorado and Placer counties have gotten some help from a powerful ally -- the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers report much cooler temperatures, along with humidity as high as 90 percent. That slowed the growth of the fire, which had raced north through the heavily forested terrain north of U.S. 50 on Wednesday, to a few thousand acres on Thursday. But the outlook may not be so good Friday: the return of dryer, warmer weather is expected to allow the fire to gain strength again today. So far, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a> has burned 76,376 acres and is 10 percent contained. That's about 120 square miles, roughly two-thirds the area of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators say the fire was deliberately set in steep terrain near the community of Pollock Pines last Saturday. The suspect in the case, identified Thursday as Wayne Allen Huntsman, 37, is scheduled to be arraigned in Placerville this afternoon on a single count of forest arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:15 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As we posted earlier (\u003ca href=\"#arsoncharges\">see below\u003c/a>) El Dorado County authorities announced the arrest of an arson suspect in the King Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">has burned 73,000 acres\u003c/a> and is 10 percent contained. That's about 115 square miles, or the equivalent of the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh news that emerged this afternoon is that the fire's rapid spread through the heavily forested American River watershed north of U.S. 50 is threatening power infrastructure in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Placer County Water Agency, which serves communities from suburban Sacramento through the Sierra foothills and all the way to Lake Tahoe, said that the King Fire is now threatening its power generation facilities and PG&E transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcwa.net/files/docs/king/09-18-2014_King_Fire_Threatens_PCWA_Power_System.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the agency's statement on the fire\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The mammoth King Fire spread rapidly into Placer County Wednesday night. ... The head of the fire has moved all the way to Placer County Water Agency’s Hell Hole Reservoir on the Rubicon River. It seriously threatens PCWA power generation and PG&E transmission facilities. The swath of fire in Placer County is 6 miles wide and fire officials report no containment after last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re extremely concerned and we’re monitoring the situation very closely. We’ve moved all of our employees out of the danger zone, so now our number one concern is protecting PCWA’s Middle Fork American River Project hydroelectric generation facilities and PG&E’s transmission lines. The agency and PG&E are coordinating with the fire command and emergency services officials in El Dorado and Placer counties,” said PCWA General Manager David Breninger.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Firefighting officials said the fire made a run of more than 10 miles to the north between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday. And according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/09/18/king-fire-thursday-update-wildfires-prompt-governor-to-declare-state-of-emergency/\" target=\"_blank\">a report from Capital Public Radio's Bob Moffitt\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mike Kaslin with the Cal Fire Amador County unit says the front of the fire is now about 14 miles west of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That area is fairly remote and we are sending resources up there to continue to flank it,\" says Kaslin. \"But, the lion's share of our efforts are still going to be on the south end where the infrastructure -the homes and residences are.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire is having a dramatic impact on air quality in communities to the east and north. \u003ca href=\"http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/09/16/smoke-clear-reno-friday/15748185/\" target=\"_blank\">From the Reno Gazette-Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Heavy smoke ... has triggered a warning in Washoe County about the extremely poor air quality and prompted schools to cancel most athletic games and other outdoor events in the Reno area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washoe County Health District said the air quality index reached the \"very unhealthy\" range at 4 p.m. Thursday. That's one step away from \"hazardous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials say the \"very unhealthy\" air quality index reading of 221 means the general population may experience significant health effects. Its Reno's worst reading since 2008 when a string of Sierra fires pushed it to 211.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials earlier urged sensitive groups such as the elderly and people with respiratory conditions to remain indoors when the index climbed into the \"unhealthy\" range between 151 and 200.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:20 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong> El Dorado County authorities\u003ca id=\"arsoncharges\">\u003c/a> have filed arson charges in the King Fire, which has raged across 71,000 acres of forest near the community of Pollock Pines since it started Saturday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Thursday morning in Camino, the county's district attorney announced that 37-year-old Wayne Allen Huntsman has been charged with a single court of arson of forest land. His arraignment is scheduled for Friday. Multiple media sources report he's being held on $10 million bail. We've embedded the \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">district attorney's complaint\u003c/a> against Huntsman below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/santa-cruz/aptos-man-charged-with-intentionally-igniting-king-fire/28135656\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey's KSBW reports\u003c/a> that Huntsman is a resident of Aptos, near Santa Cruz. The charging document released Thursday shows four past felonies, including three 1997 convictions in Santa Cruz County. Those offenses include assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft and auto theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little on the investigation \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/wayne-huntsman-king-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was revealed at the news conference that the fire was set near Pollock Pines in very steep terrain. A Calfire investigator was the first to find the origin of the fire and begin the investigatory process that led to Huntsman’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson said that law enforcement had been in contact with the suspect in the days prior to his arrest in Placerville.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148011\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 228px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148011\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\" alt=\"King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities. \" width=\"228\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference to announce the cause of the huge and rapidly spreading King Fire in El Dorado County. The 71,000-acre fire started Saturday evening and the origin has been under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/mandatory-king-fire-evacuations-include-swansboro-crystal-basin-and-wentworth-springs-road/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mountain Democrat of Placerville is reporting\u003c/a> that El Dorado County authorities arrested a suspect Wednesday night on a single count of arson on forest land, though it's not known for sure whether the suspect was picked up for starting the King Fire. The Mountain Democrat says the suspect, whom we'll refrain from naming for the time being, is being held on $10 million bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Leikauf said his is withholding comment until the Cal Fire press conference. We'll note that sheriff's officials, the El Dorado County district attorney and U.S. Forest Service officials are scheduled to attend the press conference in the town of Camino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:40 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>YubaNet.com, based in Nevada City, has been providing some of the most comprehensive coverage of California fires all season long. \u003ca href=\"http://yubanet.com/nevada/King.php\" target=\"_blank\">YubaNet's page on the King Fire\u003c/a> includes an excellent map -- embedded below this update -- that shows the rapid progress of the fire through El Dorado National Forest and, possibly, into Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[googlemaps https://mapsengine.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zdKyl7kg4VB4.kzoGHac5DqbE&w=640&h=480]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The major wildfire burning north of the Bay Area's main route to Lake Tahoe has exploded in size, with state and federal officials now saying the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4108/24483/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> northeast of Placerville has covered nearly 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the blaze is threatening 2,000 homes and 1,500 \"minor structures\" near the El Dorado County community of Pollock Pines, which is in a sort of transition zone from the Sierra Nevada foothills into thickly timbered mountain ridges and canyons in the American River watershed. So far, there's no word that the fire has burned homes or structures. About 3,600 personnel have been assigned to the fire, which is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire, most of the blaze's spread over the last day has been to the north and northwest, toward the communities of Swansboro and Volcanoville and Stumpy Meadows Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second time since the blaze broke out over the weekend, U.S. 50 has been shut down to give firefighters full access to the fire zone. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/highway-50-closed-again-near-28000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details on the closure from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...Highway 50 is closed again in the Sierra Nevada as crews set backfires to stem the march of the King blaze that has charred a broad swath of timberland in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reports that [an 8-mile] stretch of the highway from Sly Park Road to Ice House Road closed again around midnight. Firefighters are busy setting backfires that they hope will burn into the main fire and provide a large burned buffer between flames and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure will be re-evaluated later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire is close to the roadway and they are trying to get crews in and out,” said CHP spokesman Officer Rich Wetzel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternate routes for trans-Sierra travelers are Interstate 80 and Highway 88.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of the King Fire -- which apparently quadrupled in size from early Wednesday to early Thursday -- has been breathtaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze started last Saturday evening on the outskirts of the community of Pollock Pines, about a dozen miles as the crow flies northeast of Placerville. That evening, it was reported to be 20 acres. Driven by hot, dry and occasionally windy weather and feeding on drought-parched forests, the fire has expanded rapidly since, covering 3,000 acres by Sunday evening, 8,600 by Monday night and 12,800 by Tuesday night and about 18,500 on Wednesday morning. After dark Wednesday, officials said the fire had grown to 28,000 acres, an estimate updated to 71,000 Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current acreage total is equivalent to abut 110 square miles. How would that area look on a Bay Area map? It's \u003cem>roughly\u003c/em> equal to the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate all the way down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials say that weather conditions Thursday, though a bit cooler and moister than earlier in the week, could feed \"extreme fire behavior\" in the continue to push the fire north, east and west. Fire managers also report the southern flank of the fire, near Pollock Pines and along U.S. 50, is the most secure at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/240196194/DA-Announces-Filing-of-Criminal-Complaint-Against-Wayne-Allen-Huntsman\">DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_2308\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/240196194/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148997\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (Lone Peak Hotshots via Twitter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (\u003ca href=\"//twitter.com/LonePeakIHC\">Lone Peak Hotshots\u003c/a> via Twitter)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:15 p.m. Monday (Sept. 29): \u003c/strong>Fire officials say that the King Fire will kick up a little this week as warm, dry weather returns to the Sierra Nevada. But as of Monday, they say they're confident that the fire in the forests west of Lake Tahoe has been pretty much stopped in its tracks by several days of rain. Here's the summary of the situation from the unified federal-state fire command:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After four days of precipitation with accumulations of 1 to 3 inches, fire spread has been halted, however heat remains in the heavier fuels and in the heavy duff sheltered from the rain under the dense timber canopy. As the weather turns warm and dry over the next several days, expect to see an increase in fire activity and smoke production; however spread potential is extremely low, due to the successful suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Allegedly the work of an arsonist, the King Fire has burned 97,000 acres -- about 150 square miles -- since starting Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the north, federal fire managers have issued \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">a final update on the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, which has earned a footnote in California wildfire history. The blaze -- actually the combination of several fires that started Aug. 12 and burned together in the following weeks -- has burned nearly 133,000 acres (about 210 square miles) of timber in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. According to Cal Fire, that makes it \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the 16th-biggest California fire in area\u003c/a> going back to 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 25) :\u003c/strong> Rain sounds like a great thing when you're facing the ravages of a wildfire. Right? But for those fighting the two biggest fires in California -- the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Camp Complex in Siskiyou County\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire in El Dorado and Placer\u003c/a> counties -- the state's first significant rain of the season was a little too much of a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm that moved slowly across the North Coast on Wednesday night, then over the central Sierra Nevada earlier Thursday, proved to be very wet, dumping more than 2 inches of rain over the Happy Camp blaze and less copious but still occasionally heavy rain on the King conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: Flash flood warnings were issued for the 210 square miles or so burned so far near Happy Camp in a blaze that started Aug. 12 and for the 145 square miles the King Fire has consumed since Sept. 13 in the Sierra forests west of Lake Tahoe. The heavy rain prompted fears of excessive runoff, debris flows and rock slides, especially on the steeper slopes seared by the fires. Those concerns led fire managers to pull crews off lines until the storm passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rains helped slow down the King Fire substantially, according to the latest event summary. \"The observed fire activity was minimal with smoldering in interior pockets of the heavier fuels,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially: As of Thursday evening, the King Fire is reported to have burned 95,347 acres and is 55 percent contained. The Happy Camp Fire is at 132,733 acres and 94 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>This morning, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> containment is at 38 percent, with about 93,000 acres burned. InciWeb reports that the fire \"remained relatively active throughout the night due to the poor relative humidity recovery and wind.\" Potential remains for \"extreme fire behavior if the winds, fuels, and topography come into alignment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/24/6732102/king-fire-burn-increases-3300.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, which reports community meetings will be held tonight at 7 p.m. at North Tahoe High School and Foresthill High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The good news on \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned almost 90,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests west of Lake Tahoe since it started Sept. 13: The force of nearly 7,500 fire personnel fighting the blaze, aided by several days of cool, damp weather, has achieved 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148394\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\" alt=\"The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"252\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bad news: Much warmer, drier and windier weather is sweeping across much of the northern Sierra, including the fire zone. The National Weather Service has issued a red-flag warning for the mountains from Yosemite clear up to the Oregon border. For El Dorado and Placer counties, where the fire is burning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/?latitude=&longitude=&wfo=sto&interface=fwzones&click.x=553&click.y=382\" target=\"_blank\">the forecast calls for winds\u003c/a> gusting up to 25 mph through Wednesday evening. After that, much of Northern California has a strong chance of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a second day in a row, the National Weather Service has issued\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ072&warncounty=CAC057&firewxzone=CAZ271&local_place1=6%20Miles%20NNW%20Devonshire%20CA&product1=Dense+Smoke+Advisory&lat=39.43421&lon=-120.11525#.VCHYWPldV8E\" target=\"_blank\"> a dense smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the city, surrounding towns and the Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities in the fire region have experienced extremely high levels of particulate pollution over the past several days. The reading for PM 2.5 -- fine particulates like those found in wood smoke -- was an astonishing 434 in parts of Placer County, northeast of Sacramento, on Tuesday morning. By comparison, the measure in most of the Bay Area was in the low 30s. In Auburn, air quality earlier Tuesday was classified as \"hazardous\" under \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi\" target=\"_blank\">the EPA's rating system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Hobbs, an air quality specialist with the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, said the worst of the pollution in Auburn had cleared by midday as winds shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Cool, moist weather over the weekend, complete with occasional rain, has allowed the 5,500-person force fighting the King Fire to gain ground on the blaze burning across a large swath of the Sierra west of Lake Tahoe. The new acreage total for the King Fire released Monday: 87,592 acres, or 136 square miles, with about 18 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/cafw/display_product.php?sid=sto&pil=fwf\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service fire weather forecast for the stat\u003c/a>e says that warm and drier weather is due Monday and Tuesday. Forecasts call for a chance of rainy and windy weather later in the week into next weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire will continue to have an impact over a wide area. The National Weather Service has issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=rev&wwa=dense%20smoke%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">dense-smoke advisories\u003c/a> for Reno and the entire Tahoe basin. Concern about exposing students to poor air quality led several schools, including those in the towns of Colfax and Foresthill in Placer County, to cancel classes on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed 10 homes and 22 \"minor structures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> No surprise: All the numbers have gotten bigger for the King Fire today. Fire officials say -- \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">here, on Inciweb's King Fire page\u003c/a> -- that the area covered by the blaze is now 81,000 acres (that's the number released this morning, so it's bigger now). About 4,900 personnel are assigned to fight the blaze -- the largest contingent assigned to a fire in California this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still rated as 10 percent contained, unchanged from Friday. Fire officials say the contained edge of the fire is along its southern flank, along U.S. 50 near the community of Pollock Pines, where it began a week ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire's biggest impact away from the burned area is the heavy smoke that's settled over much of the southern Sacramento Valley and the northern and central Sierra and foothills. The EPA's AirNow monitoring site shows air quality in the foothills near \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&mapcenter=1&cityid=272\" target=\"_blank\">Auburn\u003c/a>, northeast of Sacramento on Interstate 80, has ranged from very unhealthy to hazardous for most of Saturday. Air pollution in most of the Bay Area has been rated as \"moderate\" most of Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Wayne Allen Huntsman, the 37-year-old suspect in the King Fire that's swept through more than 76,000 acres of Sierra forest this week, entered a not guilty plea Friday to a charge that he deliberately set the blaze. Huntsman's next hearing on a single count of forest arson was set for late October. He continues to be held on $10 million bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plea came as the first reports surfaced that homes have been destroyed in the fire. Sacramento's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sierra/crews-continue-fight-against-stillgrowing-king-fire/28148432\" target=\"_blank\">KCRA-Channel 3 reported Friday afternoon\u003c/a> that the fire destroyed at least four homes north of U.S. 50, in an area called White Meadows about 6 miles from where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said Friday they were assessing structures in the area and wanted to contact property owners before confirming losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntsman's plea in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville was made as media reports emerge detailing the suspect's past and offering clues about the fire's origin near the community of Pollock Pines last weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/auburn-grass-valley/2014/09/19/wayne-huntsman-king-fire-911/15873205/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento's News10 reported Friday\u003c/a> that police believe the arson suspect broke into a home in an apparent attempt to call 911 to report the fire. News10 says that account comes from a homeowner, Ralf Lorenz, whose front door was kicked in last Saturday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lorenz wasn't home at the time. He was working in the Bay Area when the King Fire broke out Saturday on the steep embankment behind his home. His first clue that something wasn't right was when he got a call from his home security company that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't know if my house was still standing,\" Lorenz said. \"I didn't know if it was pilfered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing was taken. But, Lorenz's front door was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perpetrator kicked it in,\" Lorenz said. \"He tried to call 911 to report the fire.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>News10 said that law enforcement officials declined comment on Lorenz's story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several news sources reported on interviews with Huntsman's sister and former girlfriend, who both expressed incredulity that he's been accused with setting the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Family-of-alleged-King-Fire-arsonist-shocked-5767241.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle's Kurtis Alexander\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There's no way he would have ever done this intentionally,\" Tami Criswell of Salinas said in a telephone interview, one day after her brother, Wayne Allen Huntsman, was charged with felony arson....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… (She) said her brother loves the outdoors and is not someone who would want to destroy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had everything going for him,\" she said. \"There's no reason he would ever do this.\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Huntsman has a criminal record that includes convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft in Santa Cruz County in 1997, public records show. None of his crimes relate to arson, and his sister said he cleaned up his act a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had been in good standing with the law and the community,\" said Criswell. \"He's always been part of my family and my kids. He's been helping take care of his elderly grandmother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criswell said Huntsman has enjoyed his life in the Sierra foothills, where he has friends and a few family members and where work has been steadier than in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>She told Alexander the last time she spoke to Huntsman was Saturday, the same day the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last update for now, by way of the Associated Press: Cal Fire says it set a record on Wednesday for the amount of retardant dropped on a wildfire in a single day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff says air tankers on Wednesday poured 203,375 gallons of the red slurry on an explosive Northern California wildfire that has now burned through nearly 120 square miles of timber and vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday, Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service together had dumped 530,000 gallons on the El Dorado County blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolmachoff says the fire is burning so fiercely it is running through the retardant lines because of the extreme drought conditions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The force of more than 4,000 firefighters trying to corral the massive King Fire in El Dorado and Placer counties have gotten some help from a powerful ally -- the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers report much cooler temperatures, along with humidity as high as 90 percent. That slowed the growth of the fire, which had raced north through the heavily forested terrain north of U.S. 50 on Wednesday, to a few thousand acres on Thursday. But the outlook may not be so good Friday: the return of dryer, warmer weather is expected to allow the fire to gain strength again today. So far, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a> has burned 76,376 acres and is 10 percent contained. That's about 120 square miles, roughly two-thirds the area of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators say the fire was deliberately set in steep terrain near the community of Pollock Pines last Saturday. The suspect in the case, identified Thursday as Wayne Allen Huntsman, 37, is scheduled to be arraigned in Placerville this afternoon on a single count of forest arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:15 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As we posted earlier (\u003ca href=\"#arsoncharges\">see below\u003c/a>) El Dorado County authorities announced the arrest of an arson suspect in the King Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">has burned 73,000 acres\u003c/a> and is 10 percent contained. That's about 115 square miles, or the equivalent of the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh news that emerged this afternoon is that the fire's rapid spread through the heavily forested American River watershed north of U.S. 50 is threatening power infrastructure in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Placer County Water Agency, which serves communities from suburban Sacramento through the Sierra foothills and all the way to Lake Tahoe, said that the King Fire is now threatening its power generation facilities and PG&E transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcwa.net/files/docs/king/09-18-2014_King_Fire_Threatens_PCWA_Power_System.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the agency's statement on the fire\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The mammoth King Fire spread rapidly into Placer County Wednesday night. ... The head of the fire has moved all the way to Placer County Water Agency’s Hell Hole Reservoir on the Rubicon River. It seriously threatens PCWA power generation and PG&E transmission facilities. The swath of fire in Placer County is 6 miles wide and fire officials report no containment after last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re extremely concerned and we’re monitoring the situation very closely. We’ve moved all of our employees out of the danger zone, so now our number one concern is protecting PCWA’s Middle Fork American River Project hydroelectric generation facilities and PG&E’s transmission lines. The agency and PG&E are coordinating with the fire command and emergency services officials in El Dorado and Placer counties,” said PCWA General Manager David Breninger.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Firefighting officials said the fire made a run of more than 10 miles to the north between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday. And according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/09/18/king-fire-thursday-update-wildfires-prompt-governor-to-declare-state-of-emergency/\" target=\"_blank\">a report from Capital Public Radio's Bob Moffitt\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mike Kaslin with the Cal Fire Amador County unit says the front of the fire is now about 14 miles west of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That area is fairly remote and we are sending resources up there to continue to flank it,\" says Kaslin. \"But, the lion's share of our efforts are still going to be on the south end where the infrastructure -the homes and residences are.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire is having a dramatic impact on air quality in communities to the east and north. \u003ca href=\"http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/09/16/smoke-clear-reno-friday/15748185/\" target=\"_blank\">From the Reno Gazette-Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Heavy smoke ... has triggered a warning in Washoe County about the extremely poor air quality and prompted schools to cancel most athletic games and other outdoor events in the Reno area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washoe County Health District said the air quality index reached the \"very unhealthy\" range at 4 p.m. Thursday. That's one step away from \"hazardous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials say the \"very unhealthy\" air quality index reading of 221 means the general population may experience significant health effects. Its Reno's worst reading since 2008 when a string of Sierra fires pushed it to 211.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials earlier urged sensitive groups such as the elderly and people with respiratory conditions to remain indoors when the index climbed into the \"unhealthy\" range between 151 and 200.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:20 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong> El Dorado County authorities\u003ca id=\"arsoncharges\">\u003c/a> have filed arson charges in the King Fire, which has raged across 71,000 acres of forest near the community of Pollock Pines since it started Saturday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Thursday morning in Camino, the county's district attorney announced that 37-year-old Wayne Allen Huntsman has been charged with a single court of arson of forest land. His arraignment is scheduled for Friday. Multiple media sources report he's being held on $10 million bail. We've embedded the \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">district attorney's complaint\u003c/a> against Huntsman below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/santa-cruz/aptos-man-charged-with-intentionally-igniting-king-fire/28135656\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey's KSBW reports\u003c/a> that Huntsman is a resident of Aptos, near Santa Cruz. The charging document released Thursday shows four past felonies, including three 1997 convictions in Santa Cruz County. Those offenses include assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft and auto theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little on the investigation \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/wayne-huntsman-king-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was revealed at the news conference that the fire was set near Pollock Pines in very steep terrain. A Calfire investigator was the first to find the origin of the fire and begin the investigatory process that led to Huntsman’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson said that law enforcement had been in contact with the suspect in the days prior to his arrest in Placerville.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148011\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 228px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148011\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\" alt=\"King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities. \" width=\"228\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference to announce the cause of the huge and rapidly spreading King Fire in El Dorado County. The 71,000-acre fire started Saturday evening and the origin has been under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/mandatory-king-fire-evacuations-include-swansboro-crystal-basin-and-wentworth-springs-road/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mountain Democrat of Placerville is reporting\u003c/a> that El Dorado County authorities arrested a suspect Wednesday night on a single count of arson on forest land, though it's not known for sure whether the suspect was picked up for starting the King Fire. The Mountain Democrat says the suspect, whom we'll refrain from naming for the time being, is being held on $10 million bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Leikauf said his is withholding comment until the Cal Fire press conference. We'll note that sheriff's officials, the El Dorado County district attorney and U.S. Forest Service officials are scheduled to attend the press conference in the town of Camino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:40 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>YubaNet.com, based in Nevada City, has been providing some of the most comprehensive coverage of California fires all season long. \u003ca href=\"http://yubanet.com/nevada/King.php\" target=\"_blank\">YubaNet's page on the King Fire\u003c/a> includes an excellent map -- embedded below this update -- that shows the rapid progress of the fire through El Dorado National Forest and, possibly, into Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n src='https://mapsengine.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zdKyl7kg4VB4.kzoGHac5DqbE&w=640&h=480'\n title='https://mapsengine.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zdKyl7kg4VB4.kzoGHac5DqbE&w=640&h=480'\n width='640'\n height='480'\n scrolling='no'\n frameborder='no'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The major wildfire burning north of the Bay Area's main route to Lake Tahoe has exploded in size, with state and federal officials now saying the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4108/24483/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> northeast of Placerville has covered nearly 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the blaze is threatening 2,000 homes and 1,500 \"minor structures\" near the El Dorado County community of Pollock Pines, which is in a sort of transition zone from the Sierra Nevada foothills into thickly timbered mountain ridges and canyons in the American River watershed. So far, there's no word that the fire has burned homes or structures. About 3,600 personnel have been assigned to the fire, which is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire, most of the blaze's spread over the last day has been to the north and northwest, toward the communities of Swansboro and Volcanoville and Stumpy Meadows Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second time since the blaze broke out over the weekend, U.S. 50 has been shut down to give firefighters full access to the fire zone. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/highway-50-closed-again-near-28000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details on the closure from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...Highway 50 is closed again in the Sierra Nevada as crews set backfires to stem the march of the King blaze that has charred a broad swath of timberland in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reports that [an 8-mile] stretch of the highway from Sly Park Road to Ice House Road closed again around midnight. Firefighters are busy setting backfires that they hope will burn into the main fire and provide a large burned buffer between flames and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure will be re-evaluated later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire is close to the roadway and they are trying to get crews in and out,” said CHP spokesman Officer Rich Wetzel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternate routes for trans-Sierra travelers are Interstate 80 and Highway 88.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of the King Fire -- which apparently quadrupled in size from early Wednesday to early Thursday -- has been breathtaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze started last Saturday evening on the outskirts of the community of Pollock Pines, about a dozen miles as the crow flies northeast of Placerville. That evening, it was reported to be 20 acres. Driven by hot, dry and occasionally windy weather and feeding on drought-parched forests, the fire has expanded rapidly since, covering 3,000 acres by Sunday evening, 8,600 by Monday night and 12,800 by Tuesday night and about 18,500 on Wednesday morning. After dark Wednesday, officials said the fire had grown to 28,000 acres, an estimate updated to 71,000 Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current acreage total is equivalent to abut 110 square miles. How would that area look on a Bay Area map? It's \u003cem>roughly\u003c/em> equal to the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate all the way down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials say that weather conditions Thursday, though a bit cooler and moister than earlier in the week, could feed \"extreme fire behavior\" in the continue to push the fire north, east and west. Fire managers also report the southern flank of the fire, near Pollock Pines and along U.S. 50, is the most secure at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/240196194/DA-Announces-Filing-of-Criminal-Complaint-Against-Wayne-Allen-Huntsman\">DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148796\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A feller--a firefighter whose particular expertise is felling trees that need to be cleared to create firebreaks, on the line of the Happy Camp Fire. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A feller -- a firefighter whose particular expertise is felling trees that need to be cleared to create firebreaks -- on the line of the Happy Camp Fire. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Little noticed in the rest of California on Aug. 12, lightning strikes ignited several fires in the mountains along the Klamath River and just south of the Oregon border. It's country with a history of burning. Earlier in the summer, lightning-sparked fires swept across the region's vast forests, devouring a total of about 100,000 acres. Since 1999, those forests in Siskiyou and Trinity counties have been the scene of three of \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the biggest fires in state history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blazes that started on Aug. 12 near the town of Happy Camp began spreading across a landscape suffering through a historic drought. Daily temperatures in the 90s and consistently low humidity helped create the perfect conditions for the fires to grow. The fire burned in remote, relatively inaccessible and very rough terrain. With all those ingredients in place, the fires, which federal fire managers named the Happy Camp Complex, began their march through Klamath National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of today -- Friday, Sept. 26 -- the main fire in the complex has burned 132,000 acres. That's about 210 square miles and roughly five times the land area of San Francisco. That makes it California's 16th-biggest fire in terms of area burned since the 1930s. After six weeks and the season's first significant rain, the fire is nearly 100 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've been following the fire from afar, especially during the weeks when it threatened hundreds of homes in the sparsely settled country along the Klamath and Scott rivers. One person who saw the fire close-up was freelance photographer Kari Greer. She spent weeks embedded with fire crews fighting the Happy Camp Complex, and the pictures here are a small selection of the chronicle she's posted at \u003ca href=\"http://wildland-fires.smugmug.com/Happy-Camp-Complex-CA-2014/Happy-Camp-Complex/\" target=\"_blank\">her own online gallery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: All images here are used by permission. You can click on each image for a larger version.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148797\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"On the lines of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. The vast majority of crewmembers are men. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa-480x640.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the lines of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. The vast majority of crew members are men. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Among the basic weapons against wildland fires: firehoses and water supplied by tankers are used to douse hot spots along the fire lines. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9-640x427.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Among the basic weapons against wildland fires: Fire hoses and water supplied by tankers are used to douse hot spots along the fire lines. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Intense heat on the line of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2-640x427.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intense heat on the line of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148813\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses are retrieved after use on the lines and checked for damage. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses are retrieved after use on the lines and checked for damage. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148812\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex spread rapidly through the mountains south of the Klamath River in late August, prompting an aggressive air attack that employed helicopters capable of dropping retardant or water. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex spread rapidly through the mountains south of the Klamath River in late August, prompting an aggressive air attack that employed helicopters capable of dropping retardant or water. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Among the many fixed-wing aircraft fighting the Happy Camp Complex blaze in late August was this BAe 146 tanker. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Among the many fixed-wing aircraft fighting the Happy Camp Complex blaze in late August was this BAe 146 tanker. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighter helps coordinate air and ground operations. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighter helps coordinate air and ground operations. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148801\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighting conditions on the Happy Camp Complex were consistently very hot, very dry and very smoky. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighting conditions on the Happy Camp Complex were consistently very hot, very dry and very smoky. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148807\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp12-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex has burned a vast piece of Siskiyou County landscape -- about 210 square miles, or roughly five times the area of San Francisco. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp12-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp12-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp12-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex has burned a vast piece of Siskiyou County landscape -- about 210 square miles, or roughly five times the area of San Francisco. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp7-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighter works on hose line as fire advances. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148804\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp7-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp7-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp7-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp7.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighter works on hose line as fire advances. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6b-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"On the firelines: unremitting hard labor in just about the toughest working conditions you can imagine. (Kari Greer) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6b-640x427.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6b-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6b.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the firelines: Unremitting hard labor in just about the toughest working conditions you can imagine. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582189_ecbc950805_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148811\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582189_ecbc950805_o-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"An otherworldy scene along a fireline cut through the middle of Klamath National Forest. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582189_ecbc950805_o-480x640.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582189_ecbc950805_o-771x1028.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An otherworldy scene along a fireline cut through the middle of Klamath National Forest. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582969_592cfb7b63_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148810\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582969_592cfb7b63_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"In a wild land fire moving as fast as the Happy Camp Complex fire, operations continue around the clock. Nighttime scenes can be both terrifying and awesome. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582969_592cfb7b63_o-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582969_592cfb7b63_o-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/14955582969_592cfb7b63_o-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a wildland fire moving as fast as the Happy Camp Complex fire, operations continue around the clock. Nighttime scenes can be both terrifying and awesome. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148796\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A feller--a firefighter whose particular expertise is felling trees that need to be cleared to create firebreaks, on the line of the Happy Camp Fire. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A feller -- a firefighter whose particular expertise is felling trees that need to be cleared to create firebreaks -- on the line of the Happy Camp Fire. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Little noticed in the rest of California on Aug. 12, lightning strikes ignited several fires in the mountains along the Klamath River and just south of the Oregon border. It's country with a history of burning. Earlier in the summer, lightning-sparked fires swept across the region's vast forests, devouring a total of about 100,000 acres. Since 1999, those forests in Siskiyou and Trinity counties have been the scene of three of \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the biggest fires in state history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blazes that started on Aug. 12 near the town of Happy Camp began spreading across a landscape suffering through a historic drought. Daily temperatures in the 90s and consistently low humidity helped create the perfect conditions for the fires to grow. The fire burned in remote, relatively inaccessible and very rough terrain. With all those ingredients in place, the fires, which federal fire managers named the Happy Camp Complex, began their march through Klamath National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of today -- Friday, Sept. 26 -- the main fire in the complex has burned 132,000 acres. That's about 210 square miles and roughly five times the land area of San Francisco. That makes it California's 16th-biggest fire in terms of area burned since the 1930s. After six weeks and the season's first significant rain, the fire is nearly 100 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've been following the fire from afar, especially during the weeks when it threatened hundreds of homes in the sparsely settled country along the Klamath and Scott rivers. One person who saw the fire close-up was freelance photographer Kari Greer. She spent weeks embedded with fire crews fighting the Happy Camp Complex, and the pictures here are a small selection of the chronicle she's posted at \u003ca href=\"http://wildland-fires.smugmug.com/Happy-Camp-Complex-CA-2014/Happy-Camp-Complex/\" target=\"_blank\">her own online gallery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: All images here are used by permission. You can click on each image for a larger version.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148797\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"On the lines of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. The vast majority of crewmembers are men. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa-480x640.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp1aa.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the lines of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. The vast majority of crew members are men. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Among the basic weapons against wildland fires: firehoses and water supplied by tankers are used to douse hot spots along the fire lines. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9-640x427.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp9.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Among the basic weapons against wildland fires: Fire hoses and water supplied by tankers are used to douse hot spots along the fire lines. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Intense heat on the line of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2-640x427.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intense heat on the line of the Happy Camp Complex fire in Siskiyou County. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148813\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses are retrieved after use on the lines and checked for damage. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15169372805_08c2c53f60_o-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses are retrieved after use on the lines and checked for damage. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148812\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex spread rapidly through the mountains south of the Klamath River in late August, prompting an aggressive air attack that employed helicopters capable of dropping retardant or water. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15139294871_fa245274d3_o-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex spread rapidly through the mountains south of the Klamath River in late August, prompting an aggressive air attack that employed helicopters capable of dropping retardant or water. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Among the many fixed-wing aircraft fighting the Happy Camp Complex blaze in late August was this BAe 146 tanker. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CA_14-08-29_0472-X3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Among the many fixed-wing aircraft fighting the Happy Camp Complex blaze in late August was this BAe 146 tanker. (Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighter helps coordinate air and ground operations. (Kari Greer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp6a-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighter helps coordinate air and ground operations. 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(Kari Greer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148807\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/happycamp12-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex has burned a vast piece of Siskiyou County landscape -- about 210 square miles, or roughly five times the area of San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121939\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 343px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-121939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7953_185719392-scr-640x422.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"343\" height=\"226\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the U.N. Climate Summit in New York Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown said California is ahead of the pack when it comes to lowering greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the U.N. Private Sector Forum, Brown cited laws requiring more alternative energy sources, more electric vehicles and better insulation in buildings. He also acknowledged that the centerpiece of California's climate change efforts -- a cap-and-trade market mandating permits for pollution -- has come under political fire. Energy companies are warning cap-and-trade will lead to higher gasoline costs next year. But Brown said so far so good when it comes to gas prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Luckily the price of oil has been coming down ever since those ads went on the air just a month or so ago,\" he said. \"So somebody’s watching over California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, state officials have acknowledged gas prices will likely go up -- possibly by more than a dime a gallon -- when the cap-and-trade program expands to cover transportation fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also said that while carbon has led to \"progress and prosperity,\" that progress \"now has the dark shadow of the toxicity of carbon itself. The pollution, the smog, the health effects, the rising sea level -- in California, the forest fires which are now burning for more days than historically was ever imaginable -- it's real, it's here and we've got to put a price on carbon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg News today takes a \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-09-24/brown-says-global-lead-on-zero-emissions-beating-forecast\" target=\"_blank\">further look at California's leadership on climate change\u003c/a>, including the proliferation of electric vehicles, reporting that 40 percent of plug-in electric vehicle sales occur in California. For more, check out\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/category/climate/\" target=\"_blank\"> KQED Science's climate coverage\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are Brown's full remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The California story is a very hopeful one. It's a story of Republican and Democratic governors pioneering innovative climate strategies. It's not been easy, it's not without contest, but we're making real progress. In fact, the people themselves have been involved when those who oppose carbon pricing put the measure to a popular referendum. And in that vote just a few years ago, the people voted overwhelmingly to stay the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what do we have? Well, we've got a goal to have one-third of our electricity sector renewable by 2020. We're at 23 percent today and we will make it probably in the next three or four years, and then we'll go beyond that. We have a goal of a million electric cars - we have 100,000 on the roads today - and we have the toughest vehicle emission standards anywhere in the country. In fact, the country now has adopted the California standard. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol photo of the King Fire, which spread rapidly north of U.S. 50 near Pollock Pines earlier this month.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol photo of the King Fire, which spread rapidly north of U.S. 50 near Pollock Pines earlier this month.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here's an ongoing debate in our newsroom as we move into autumn and what is often the climax to our fire season: What's the best way to describe the size of a wildfire? In acres? Square miles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hectares? 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If the AP announced the rationale for the change, I've never seen it, and I've never gotten around to asking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, our main firefighting agencies -- Cal Fire for state jurisdictions and the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service, among others, for federal lands -- stick religiously to acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus: Fire managers report the King Fire now burning in El Dorado and Placer counties is 89,574 acres. AP (and news outlets that just repeat what the agency reports) will say 140 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is some editorial disorder that may matter only to those handling news broadcasts and news-type blog posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At KQED, some anchors, reporters and editors use square miles. Some use acres, as I do. My rationale: I'll stick with the unit the fire agencies use. But there's more to it. Part of it might be blind traditionalism -- if acres were good enough for Mark Twain, they're good enough for me. And part of it might be that I can visualize an acre, which was about the size of the lot my parents had when I was growing up in south suburban Chicago. Of course, imagining 89,574 of those lots is a little bit of a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say they've got a better handle on what a square mile is than what an acre might be. I know what they mean. I've always thought that Midwest folk knowledge consists in part of the following truths, passed down from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: that a square mile contains 640 acres; that a square mile is called a section, and that 36 sections in a 6-by-6 grid comprise a township.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The folk knowledge is borne out before your eyes if you fly across the country. 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But face it: For most of us, a piece of territory that big sprawls beyond comprehension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148394\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\" alt=\"The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"252\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which leads us to the homely comparison with the area of a city or county that we all know. 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Some of them are among those hardest hit by the drought, as wells across the state are starting to go dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vieiras are hoping to benefit from \u003ca href=\"http://www.stancounty.com/er/pdf/groundwater/loan-application.pdf\">a new Stanislaus County program for homeowners,\u003c/a> especially senior citizens, who need to drill expensive new wells — the first such county program in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vieira and her husband, Lawrence, have lived in this home, surrounded by almond and sweet potato farms, for about 40 years. Like many in the rural community of Denair, south of Modesto, they’re too far from town to hook into a municipal water system. Their household well has always worked fine, even through the 1977 drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very water-conscious. We have been all these years,” says Vieira.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, their kids and grandkids can’t even stay overnight because there’s not enough water. The Vieiras have let their lawn die, let their gardener go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have artificial flowers by my front door. And I hate artificial flowers. But, for a little bit of color,” says Vieira, who takes me on a tour of her dead front lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s trying to save her grandmother’s 100-year-old hydrangea — and her great-grandmother’s even older geranium — by collecting the water she uses to bathe and pouring it into the pots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my grandmother’s, and it’s just burned and dying,” she says, fingering the dry petals. “But I think it will make it through. What i’m concerned about is, are we going to make it through?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vieiras ran an auto repair shop for many years. Now they’re retired and have nowhere near the $20,000 it would take to drill a new well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband’s 75 and I’m 70. We live on a fixed income,” says Vieira. “We’re not asking for a handout. We just need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>But the Vieiras have slipped through the safety net. The state provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/drought/PWSDER%20Final%20Drought%20Fact%20Sheet%20SWRCB.pdf\">drought assistance\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Smallwatersystems.shtml\">small, rural community water systems\u003c/a>, but not for private property owners who rely on their own wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one has thought about domestic well owners,” says Vieira. “Which is a real shame, because there’s thousands of us, and water is a necessity. You have to have it to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA offers some limited \u003ca href=\"http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/06/0118.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent\">federal grants and loans\u003c/a> for extremely low-income individuals with water wells, but nothing for middle-class folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“ ’Cuz if you’re super rich, you got the money. If you’re super poor, you qualify for the grants. But we’re in between. We’re the middle class, and now we’re old!” Vieira laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the population Stanislaus County is trying to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water is such a basic necessity of life,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.stancounty.com/board/bosbios/district1.shtm\">Stanislaus County Supervisor Bill O’Brien\u003c/a>. “Someone doesn’t have water, can’t get a new well, you know, we feel there’s a moral obligation to step in and do something to help ‘em. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien and his colleagues — who are all fiscal conservatives — unanimously decided to dig into county coffers to set up a program to help people whose wells are going dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien says this is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a handout. It’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.stancounty.com/er/pdf/groundwater/loan-application.pdf\">loan to be paid back with interes\u003c/a>t — at a very attractive 1 percent interest rate. Loan applicants have to put liens on their homes to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The taxpayer is protected. And that’s why I think you saw a conservative Board of Supervisors approve this program,” says O’Brien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money comes from a county economic development bank fund. And O’Brien says this project fits that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really to fund things to spur the economy. If someone doesn’t have water, that’s part of the economy as well. If they have to move out of county, they’re not spending money at the local businesses,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot phase allots only $200,000, which will pay for loans to dig only about 10 wells. No one knows for sure how many wells are going dry in the county, but O’Brien estimates about 100,000 people — a fifth of Stanislaus County’s population — rely on domestic wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Noe Paramo of \u003ca href=\"http://www.crlaf.org/who-we-are/\">California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation\u003c/a> says he’s glad to see the supervisors stepping up to provide a local safety net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This critical issue of groundwater depletion has hit home. 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