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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/gaps-in-california-law-requiring-schools-to-test-for-lead-could-leave-children-at-risk/602756\">2017 state law\u003c/a> led schools across California to have their faucets tested for lead in a program to reduce lead in school drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill that proposes to remove lead from schools and state buildings, awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature, now faces opposition from school groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public employee unions and organizations representing school districts, school boards and school business officers are pitted against each other on legislation spelling out how to protect students and school adults from lead in water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom must pick a side: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1184\">Senate Bill 1144\u003c/a> easily passed through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, on behalf of the California State Pipe Trades Council, the bill would require school districts to write a water efficiency and quality report determining lead levels in every building and replace or install filters on every fixture with high levels of lead. Districts could have to replace lead pipes in buildings — if the state dedicates funding to do so.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Jennifer Lowry, chair, American Academy of Pediatrics' Council on Environmental Health\"]‘We know there is no safe lead level. Schools ought to work to remove that source of lead for these kids.’[/pullquote]Lead is a highly toxic metal that can harm the health and cognitive development of children when ingested or inhaled, even at extremely low levels. An \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/topic/tainted-taps-lead-puts-california-students-at-risk\">EdSource series\u003c/a> four years ago revealed the significant risk for lead exposure in many schools that tested for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By default, the bill would adopt the current, outdated standard for unsafe concentration of lead in water. Set more than a decade ago by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, it is 15 parts per billion. \u003ca href=\"https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/leadtoxicity/safety_standards.html\">The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> and many advocates for children’s health say anything over 5 parts per billion is hazardous for children’s health. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-details-push-to-tighten-rules-for-lead-in-drinking-water\">President Joe Biden’s EPA administrator has said he favors lowering the threshold\u003c/a>, and it could happen by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The level of lead contamination to require action was not brought up in the negotiations on SB 1144, and children’s health groups were not involved, according to those familiar with the discussions. The author and sponsor of the bill did agree to push back the deadline for compliance, phasing it in over four years, starting in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that and other changes narrowing the bill’s scope didn’t placate the opposition, whose Aug. 16 letter said the bill would create an expensive unfunded mandate potentially costing hundreds of millions of dollars and a costly, complicated new program that “failed to identify a persistent problem in schools” it would solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter doesn’t say so, but several coalition members said the pipe fitters union had a self-interest in backing the bill. Troy Flint, vice president of communications for the school boards association, said the focus of the bill is to create “revenue and employment opportunities for trade unions that will do the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those signing the opposition letter were the Association of California School Administrators, California Association of School Business Officials, California School Boards Association, Los Angeles Unified and the Riverside County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill include the California Federation of Teachers, the California Teachers Association, the California Water Association and the State Building and Construction Trades Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926043\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 725px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-173563196.jpg\" alt=\"A small Asian boy with a red shirt drinks from a water fountain.\" width=\"725\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-173563196.jpg 725w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-173563196-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An EdSource analysis of test results for 3,700 schools that had tested for lead as of the summer of 2018 found that 4% — 150 schools — recorded a lead level over 15 parts per billion. The American Academy of Physicians says that any amount of lead is dangerous for children, and that the limit should be no more than 1 ppb. \u003ccite>(Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To an extent, the bill would pick up where a 2017 state law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB746\">Assembly Bill 746\u003c/a>, left off. That legislation required local water companies to test lead levels in every school. In cases where levels exceeded 15 parts per billion, districts had to close off fixtures, take mitigation efforts like regular flushing of faucets or replace them. The deadline was July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike a few states that require periodic testing, that was only a one-time requirement, and some districts were exempted. In large schools, where only spot-testing was required, some lead-laden outlets may have been missed. In violation of the law, some districts failed to notify parents that their schools had unsafe lead levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/gaps-in-california-law-requiring-schools-to-test-for-lead-could-leave-children-at-risk/602756\">An EdSource analysis of test results for 3,700 schools\u003c/a> that had tested for lead as of the summer of 2018 found that 4% — 150 schools — recorded a lead level over 15 parts per billion. But at least one outlet in 897 schools tested between 5 and 15 ppb, requiring no action. That’s significant because scientists and physicians have criticized the federal 15 ppb standard as too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maximum allowable concentration of lead in commercially sold bottled water is 5 ppb. The American Academy of Physicians, saying that any amount of lead is dangerous for children, says the limit should be no more than 1 ppb. The 5 ppb standard was brought up in negotiations over AB 746, but the Brown administration raised concerns about higher costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State and districts can choose a lower standard\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>States have the ability to lower the safe level standard, and districts can act on their own. Oakland, Long Beach and Los Angeles are among districts that have adopted the 5 ppb as the target for fixing and replacing outlets in their schools. Berkeley Unified adopted a 1 ppb limit in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there is no safe lead level. Schools ought to work to remove that source of lead for these kids,” Dr. Jennifer Lowry, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Environmental Health, told EdSource in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children Now, which advocates for children on issues of health and education, didn’t take a position on SB 1144 but does support “regulation and guidelines backed by the scientific community and pediatricians, who know that no amount of lead exposure is safe for growing kids,” said Vince Stewart, the organization’s vice president for policy and programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the gauge is 5 parts or 15 ppb, there is no reliable estimate of how much work is needed to reach safe levels in districts and charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature appropriated about $17 million to help qualifying districts with testing and fixture replacement in 2018 and 2019. But that was clearly not enough. In placing a $13 billion school construction bond on the March 2020 ballot, legislative leaders and Newsom designated $150 million to test and fix water fountains and fixtures with high lead levels, to be distributed to the lowest-income districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts requiring more extensive removal efforts, such as replacing a contaminated water line, could seek supplemental funding of up to 10% of the value of a school renovation project, with the state paying 60% of the cost. Ian Padilla, who represents the Coalition for Adequate School Housing, which lobbies for facilities funding, said the group had sought $500 million for lead abatement in the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Interest wanes with bond’s defeat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But in March 2020, voters \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/all-but-final-california-voters-reject-15-billion-state-school-bond/625328\">defeated the bond\u003c/a>, which unfortunately for advocates had the bad luck of being designated Proposition 13 on the ballot. Padilla said with Covid, primarily an airborne contagion, soon consuming attention, the priority for facilities spending shifted from lead in water to HVAC systems and air filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom proposed committing $1.8 billion in deferred school building maintenance in the 2022-23 budget, but it was cut in final negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current bill includes no funding for testing and the work it could require, although \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-details-push-to-tighten-rules-for-lead-in-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about $15 billion of Biden’s $350 billion infrastructure funding\u003c/a>, passed in December, is dedicated to lead pipe removal in homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter supporting SB 1144, Tiffany Mok, legislative representative for the California Federation of Teachers, said schools in California are “especially afflicted” by poor water quality. It “is amounting to a public health crisis, and we cannot sit back while our children consume unsafe water,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School organizations, however, said they object to the pipe fitter union’s approach to fixing the lead problem. The union didn’t consult with them in drafting the bill and ignored a model that had worked. Under the previous law, the burden of testing was put on water agencies. That took advantage of those agencies’ expertise in identifying potential problems and provided oversight separate from schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, I saw the bill as a huge success, but more work is necessary,” said Eric Bakke, a former legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association, who was involved in both the drafting of the previous law and the defeated Proposition 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current bill, if lead is found at higher levels at the faucet than coming into a school, districts could be required to search for and remove lead pipes. This could require costly construction work overseen by undefined qualified personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill says that invasive techniques would not be required. But in a letter urging Newsom to veto the bill, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho wrote his district is unaware of how this can be done without tearing down walls and sampling the pipe, potentially releasing asbestos and harmful chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the 2017 law requiring water providers to test water in schools was Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales, D-San Diego. In January, she resigned from the Assembly to become the top executive at the California Labor Federation, the organization representing organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not involved with this bill,” she wrote in an email this week. “I support all bills that have the support of our affiliated unions within their jurisdiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lobbyist for the California State Pipe Trades Council did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also apply to all state buildings. It includes long sections requiring testing and mitigation for the water-borne bacteria causing Legionnaire’s disease, of which there have been no known outbreaks reported in schools. The scaled-back final version would apply only to buildings of at least 10 stories with water towers — all but excluding schools but not some state buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has until the end of September to decide to sign, veto or let SB 1144 become law without his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-school-organizations-urge-veto-of-latest-bill-to-remove-lead-in-school-water/678161\">This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lead is a highly toxic metal that can harm the health and cognitive development of children when ingested or inhaled, even at extremely low levels. An \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/topic/tainted-taps-lead-puts-california-students-at-risk\">EdSource series\u003c/a> four years ago revealed the significant risk for lead exposure in many schools that tested for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By default, the bill would adopt the current, outdated standard for unsafe concentration of lead in water. Set more than a decade ago by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, it is 15 parts per billion. \u003ca href=\"https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/leadtoxicity/safety_standards.html\">The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> and many advocates for children’s health say anything over 5 parts per billion is hazardous for children’s health. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-details-push-to-tighten-rules-for-lead-in-drinking-water\">President Joe Biden’s EPA administrator has said he favors lowering the threshold\u003c/a>, and it could happen by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The level of lead contamination to require action was not brought up in the negotiations on SB 1144, and children’s health groups were not involved, according to those familiar with the discussions. The author and sponsor of the bill did agree to push back the deadline for compliance, phasing it in over four years, starting in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that and other changes narrowing the bill’s scope didn’t placate the opposition, whose Aug. 16 letter said the bill would create an expensive unfunded mandate potentially costing hundreds of millions of dollars and a costly, complicated new program that “failed to identify a persistent problem in schools” it would solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter doesn’t say so, but several coalition members said the pipe fitters union had a self-interest in backing the bill. Troy Flint, vice president of communications for the school boards association, said the focus of the bill is to create “revenue and employment opportunities for trade unions that will do the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those signing the opposition letter were the Association of California School Administrators, California Association of School Business Officials, California School Boards Association, Los Angeles Unified and the Riverside County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill include the California Federation of Teachers, the California Teachers Association, the California Water Association and the State Building and Construction Trades Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926043\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 725px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11926043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-173563196.jpg\" alt=\"A small Asian boy with a red shirt drinks from a water fountain.\" width=\"725\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-173563196.jpg 725w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-173563196-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An EdSource analysis of test results for 3,700 schools that had tested for lead as of the summer of 2018 found that 4% — 150 schools — recorded a lead level over 15 parts per billion. The American Academy of Physicians says that any amount of lead is dangerous for children, and that the limit should be no more than 1 ppb. \u003ccite>(Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To an extent, the bill would pick up where a 2017 state law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB746\">Assembly Bill 746\u003c/a>, left off. That legislation required local water companies to test lead levels in every school. In cases where levels exceeded 15 parts per billion, districts had to close off fixtures, take mitigation efforts like regular flushing of faucets or replace them. The deadline was July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike a few states that require periodic testing, that was only a one-time requirement, and some districts were exempted. In large schools, where only spot-testing was required, some lead-laden outlets may have been missed. In violation of the law, some districts failed to notify parents that their schools had unsafe lead levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/gaps-in-california-law-requiring-schools-to-test-for-lead-could-leave-children-at-risk/602756\">An EdSource analysis of test results for 3,700 schools\u003c/a> that had tested for lead as of the summer of 2018 found that 4% — 150 schools — recorded a lead level over 15 parts per billion. But at least one outlet in 897 schools tested between 5 and 15 ppb, requiring no action. That’s significant because scientists and physicians have criticized the federal 15 ppb standard as too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maximum allowable concentration of lead in commercially sold bottled water is 5 ppb. The American Academy of Physicians, saying that any amount of lead is dangerous for children, says the limit should be no more than 1 ppb. The 5 ppb standard was brought up in negotiations over AB 746, but the Brown administration raised concerns about higher costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State and districts can choose a lower standard\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>States have the ability to lower the safe level standard, and districts can act on their own. Oakland, Long Beach and Los Angeles are among districts that have adopted the 5 ppb as the target for fixing and replacing outlets in their schools. Berkeley Unified adopted a 1 ppb limit in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there is no safe lead level. Schools ought to work to remove that source of lead for these kids,” Dr. Jennifer Lowry, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Environmental Health, told EdSource in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children Now, which advocates for children on issues of health and education, didn’t take a position on SB 1144 but does support “regulation and guidelines backed by the scientific community and pediatricians, who know that no amount of lead exposure is safe for growing kids,” said Vince Stewart, the organization’s vice president for policy and programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the gauge is 5 parts or 15 ppb, there is no reliable estimate of how much work is needed to reach safe levels in districts and charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature appropriated about $17 million to help qualifying districts with testing and fixture replacement in 2018 and 2019. But that was clearly not enough. In placing a $13 billion school construction bond on the March 2020 ballot, legislative leaders and Newsom designated $150 million to test and fix water fountains and fixtures with high lead levels, to be distributed to the lowest-income districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts requiring more extensive removal efforts, such as replacing a contaminated water line, could seek supplemental funding of up to 10% of the value of a school renovation project, with the state paying 60% of the cost. Ian Padilla, who represents the Coalition for Adequate School Housing, which lobbies for facilities funding, said the group had sought $500 million for lead abatement in the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Interest wanes with bond’s defeat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But in March 2020, voters \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/all-but-final-california-voters-reject-15-billion-state-school-bond/625328\">defeated the bond\u003c/a>, which unfortunately for advocates had the bad luck of being designated Proposition 13 on the ballot. Padilla said with Covid, primarily an airborne contagion, soon consuming attention, the priority for facilities spending shifted from lead in water to HVAC systems and air filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom proposed committing $1.8 billion in deferred school building maintenance in the 2022-23 budget, but it was cut in final negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current bill includes no funding for testing and the work it could require, although \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-details-push-to-tighten-rules-for-lead-in-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about $15 billion of Biden’s $350 billion infrastructure funding\u003c/a>, passed in December, is dedicated to lead pipe removal in homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter supporting SB 1144, Tiffany Mok, legislative representative for the California Federation of Teachers, said schools in California are “especially afflicted” by poor water quality. 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That took advantage of those agencies’ expertise in identifying potential problems and provided oversight separate from schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, I saw the bill as a huge success, but more work is necessary,” said Eric Bakke, a former legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association, who was involved in both the drafting of the previous law and the defeated Proposition 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current bill, if lead is found at higher levels at the faucet than coming into a school, districts could be required to search for and remove lead pipes. This could require costly construction work overseen by undefined qualified personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill says that invasive techniques would not be required. But in a letter urging Newsom to veto the bill, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho wrote his district is unaware of how this can be done without tearing down walls and sampling the pipe, potentially releasing asbestos and harmful chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the 2017 law requiring water providers to test water in schools was Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales, D-San Diego. In January, she resigned from the Assembly to become the top executive at the California Labor Federation, the organization representing organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not involved with this bill,” she wrote in an email this week. “I support all bills that have the support of our affiliated unions within their jurisdiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lobbyist for the California State Pipe Trades Council did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also apply to all state buildings. 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"content": "\u003cp>Firefighters reported major progress on Thursday against the Mosquito Fire, preventing fast-moving flames from entering a small Sierra foothill community west of Tahoe, even as the blaze surged to become the state’s largest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions were “looking a whole heck of a lot better,” Cal Fire spokesperson Scott McLean said of the eight-day-old conflagration that has grown to more than 64,000 acres, with some \u003ca href=\"https://edcgov.us/mosquito-fire-information\">11,500 residents in Placer and El Dorado counties under evacuation orders\u003c/a>. The fire is now 20% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 6,000 structures in the area are threatened with more than 45 homes and other buildings destroyed so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews on the ground continued to build up containment lines around the south and east sides of the fire while water-dropping helicopters knocked down hot spots after the fire roared back to life on Tuesday, burning structures near the small town of Foresthill. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Don Fregulia, operations section chief, Cal Fire\"]‘We know that the North Fork of the American River is a high-value asset that has not seen a fire in a very long time. So, we really want to keep it from going to the north along with the Interstate 80 corridor.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report from Cal Fire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/9/6/mosquito-fire/\">today’s priorities remain securing each of the three corners of the fire\u003c/a>. Southwest winds have been favorable for the communities along Volcanoville Road, but firefighters remain in the area to ensure the fire does not spot across containment lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stronger winds have been predicted for this weekend ahead of an incoming system that is expected to include some rainfall, Cal Fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had three burn operations going last night on the fire,” Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Don Fregulia said on Thursday morning. “We did some defensive firing along the Deadwood Road to really build the corner. We know that the North Fork of the American River is a high-value asset that has not seen a fire in a very long time. So, we really want to keep it from going to the north along with the Interstate 80 corridor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fregulia said firefighters at Foresthill tried to contain the fire all the way to a nearby river, but conditions weren’t favorable, so they held off and hoped to complete the operation today. In the southeast, firefighters were able to bring the fire to Wentworth Springs Road near Stumpy Meadows Reservoir with no concerns or holding issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925672\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925672 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243214753.jpg\" alt=\"Four firefighters, standing shoulder to shoulder, faces glowing orange, look out onto an ongoing blaze with burning trees in the background.\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243214753.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243214753-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire Placer crew firefighter Ace Nieves (second from right) and colleagues monitor a backfire during the Mosquito Fire in Foresthill, an unincorporated area of Placer County, on Sept. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Firefighters prepared to actively engage in structure defense along the edges of these communities should the fire make similar runs as on Tuesday, Cal Fire said. The area is full of extremely dry fuels that were rapidly igniting, challenging both firefighters on the ground \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HotshotWake/status/1569869173743882240\">and in the air\u003c/a>.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='Related Articles' tag='fire']\u003c/span>Jonathan Pangborn, fire behavior analyst with Cal Fire, said the weather continues to present challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have the winds out of the southwest pushing to the northeast,” he said. “They’re not dramatically strong, but they’re strong enough to give clear air. What that means is that it’s going to continue to have potential for progression out in this northeastern portion of the area of the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar conditions are expected over the next few days, which could lead to more spotting, Pangborn said, referring to small blazes outside that main fire perimeter that are sparked by windblown embers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925676 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243156837.jpg\" alt=\"A man whose face is obscured by a black baseball cap, except for a long gray mustache, sits forward in a camp chair along the curb in a parking space, at the corner of a flowered blanket and across from a cot with a white sheet and flowered pillowcase. The SUV in the next space is lined along the ground with cases of bottled water.\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243156837.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1243156837-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derreck Jones, who was evacuated from the fire zone, sleeps in the parking lot of Sierra College in Rocklin with his dogs as the Mosquito Fire rages on. Thousands of homes are threatened by the multicounty wildfire, and over 11,000 people have evacuated as fire activity is expected to increase. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Mosquito Fire is one of several large fires currently burning across the state. Climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press and KQED’s Spencer Whitney and Attila Pelit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Most Californians are feeling the effects of the drought. But in areas of the state where people rely on groundwater, such as the San Joaquin Valley, the pain of this drought is especially severe. Wells are going dry and there’s intense competition to find and pull more water from underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rural area about 30 miles north of Fresno, a drill pipe rotated as it burrowed deeper and deeper into the earth in a search for untapped reservoirs of groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this well finds water, nearby homeowners whose first well has gone dry will use it. If the drill pipe doesn't hit water, people here, like many in this part of California who aren’t hooked up to municipal water systems, won't have water without buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the drill has to go down pretty deep just to find out if any water is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will not hit water until about 380 to 400 (feet),\" said drilling supervisor Daniel Reese, adding that drilling to such depths to find groundwater would have been rare just 15 to 25 years ago. Then, the maximum drilling depth would have been 200 to 300 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"small\" citation=\"Tom Collishaw, president and CEO, Self-Help Enterprises\"]'The deepest straw gets the water. That's absolutely how it works.'[/pullquote]So why drill deeper to hit water? Drought, of course\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003c/span>both past and present. Less rain means it’s harder for aquifers to get recharged, and that presents its own problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pumping water from ever-deeper aquifers causes the land to sink, and not by a few inches, but by feet. This is called land subsidence. You can imagine how this happens if you think of water as filling in between soil, sand and rock. When pumps pull the water out at deeper and deeper levels, the space between the sand and rocks squishes together and the land sinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11882276']Land subsidence can crack the surface of the land, crack foundations of homes, particularly older homes, and squeeze the capacity of the aquifer overall. Think about it\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003c/span>if the space between sand and rocks squishes together, and then the land sinks on top of it, it's hard for that space to expand to fill with water again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2022/06/02/will-californias-san-joaquin-valley-stop-sinking/\">Land subsidence has already reduced the amount of water\u003c/a> that can flow through crucial canals and aqueducts. Today, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/california-aqueduct#:~:text=The%20California%20Aqueduct%2C%20a%20critical,Joaquin%20Valley%20and%20Southern%20California.\">California Aqueduct, which brings water to some 3 million acres of farmland, carries 20% less water than it was designed for\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This cycle of drought drying up reservoirs, deeper groundwater pumping and the land falling in on itself spirals onward as climate change continues to affect drought and rainfall unpredictably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this simply puts more pressure on the land, since people who live in the Central Valley, like people everywhere, need water to survive. So there’s a kind of race in the San Joaquin Valley now to drill deeper and tap the water that remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='related articles' tag='water']In a sense, a lot of straws are going into the ground to get to that water. But do some people win and some people lose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The deepest straw gets the water. That's absolutely how it works,\" said Tom Collishaw of Visalia-based Self-Help Enterprises, a nonprofit that provides emergency water services and low-interest loans for private well construction in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collishaw says one result of groundwater overpumping is that the cost of drilling has soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well-drilling right now on a single-family household lot is costing $60,000, where three years ago maybe we were paying $25,000,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you do if you can’t afford to drill or you need to wait until a drilling crew arrives? That’s when many people put in giant tanks filled with trucked-in water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water-tank installation contractor Brandon Jones says his company installs as many as five tanks a day. When I meet him, he and his crew are at a home east of Visalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/watertank-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man bends over in front of a water tank outside somebody's home as he tries to attach a large hose connected to a water tanker seen from the rear in the background with a dirt road leading away to a dry landscape and a tree in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/watertank-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/watertank-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/watertank-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/watertank-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/watertank-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/watertank-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew installs a water tank at a home outside Visalia, which will be filled with trucked-in water. People who can't afford to drill for groundwater, or who must wait months for busy drilling contractors to arrive, install the tanks to help them take care of their essential water needs. This tank will need to be filled once every one or two weeks depending on how much water is used. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"So we're installing a temporary 2,500-gallon water tank,\" Jones said. \"And that will get them temporary water until they can come up with a permanent solution for water, either a new well or connection to city infrastructure, which I don’t think is out here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeowner, Michelle\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (\u003c/span>who doesn’t want her last name used), says she hasn’t had water since June, when her well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s like you turn on the faucet and nothing came out,\" she said. With the tank, she and her family can now bathe, flush toilets and cook. Even so, she considers this to be only a temporary solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a Band-Aid until we're able to drill a new well and hopefully find water,\" she said. \"When we get people to call us back and actually come give us an estimate, we'll know, because it's just so hard to get through ... there are so many people in the same situation that everyone is extremely busy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='In-Depth Coverage' link1=\"https://revealnews.org/article/california-is-sinking-and-its-getting-worse/,California Is Sinking and It's Getting Worse\"]\u003c/span>But there's another problem: Even if a property owner or community drills a successful well, the water that’s found could be contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been a years-long issue in mostly poor and Latino communities in the Valley, such as Ducor, population just over 600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s groundwater in Ducor, but the water’s too dangerous to consume because of decades of pesticide runoff from agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Alisao Aldaco says it’s water that’s safe for the plants but not to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, you can’t drink it,\" he said, as he watered his yard. \"You can maybe even smell it? 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Several structures and at least 10 cars burned near the Gold Rush-era community of Michigan Bluff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection warned the Reno area that air quality could be very unhealthy to hazardous due to smoke from the Mosquito Fire 100 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s cause remained under investigation. Pacific Gas and Electric notified the state Public Utilities Commission that the U.S. Forest Service placed caution tape around the base of a PG&E transmission pole but that no damage could be seen. PG&E said unspecified “electrical activity” occurred close in time to the report of the fire on September 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another dangerous blaze burned in stands of timber near the Big Bear Lake resort region in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. It was just 2% contained after scorching nearly 1,280 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surge of clouds and showers associated with Hurricane Kay off Mexico’s Baja California peninsula knocked the edge off temperatures in Southern California at times but also were a potential problem for solar generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the initial impacts of Kay, forecasters warned that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924709/sf-and-coast-included-in-heat-advisory-as-scorching-temperatures-increase-risk-of-blackouts-extreme-fire-danger\">the heat was not yet done\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The seemingly endless heat wave that has been plaguing California will finally be coming to an end across at least Southern California, but not before two more very hot days and very warm nights,” the Los Angeles-area weather office wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operators of California’s power grid issued another Flex Alert call for voluntary cuts in use of electricity and expanded the period by two hours, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire smoke and the cloud cover created uncertainty about solar power production in afternoon hours when temperatures rise toward their peaks, said Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of the California Independent System Operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also uncertainty about wind power at the back end of the period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO has issued Flex Alerts since last week and has avoided ordering rolling power outages, although a miscommunication with one Northern California provider led to blackouts.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO, CAISO\"]‘We certainly think we’re close to turning the corner, but we still have challenges ahead of us this evening.’[/pullquote]With record demand on power supplies across the West, California snapped its energy use record around 5 p.m. Tuesday with 52,061 megawatts, far above the previous high of 50,270 megawatts set July 24, 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency appeal for conservation that was sent to Californians’ cellphones was credited with an immediate drop in demand on the electrical grid that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electrical demand hit 50,184 megawatts on Wednesday, but it ended up being “a relatively quiet operation on the system,” Mainzer told a briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The electrical load forecast for Thursday afternoon and evening was higher, however, and the uncertainty involving the renewable energy sources made the situation a bit more complex, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly think we’re close to turning the corner, but we still have challenges ahead of us this evening,” Mainzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storm and wind conditions associated with the approaching hurricane were likely to create a new set of risks for power shortages in Southern California, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurricane Kay was expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm before it reaches northern Baja California on Friday, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite losing hurricane strength, Kay was expected to send a surge of moisture into Southern California. Strong winds, heavy rain and flash floods were likely Friday evening through Saturday. Tropical storm warnings were posted for mariners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up the West Coast, forecasters predicted strong, gusting winds and low humidity across western Oregon beginning Friday, and authorities warned of heightened wildfire danger after an unseasonably hot and dry late summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two power utilities issued potential shutoff notices to more than 40,000 customers to the south and west of Portland, Oregon, because of winds that could reach 50 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters warned of a chance of “rapid fire spread” but said winds were not expected to be as intense as those that hit on Labor Day weekend in 2020, fanning wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres, destroyed 4,000 homes and killed at least 11 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s grid manager is calling for another round of aggressive conservation as a historic heatwave pushes the state toward a power emergency for the second straight day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Mainzer, chief of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), says the state was spared rotating blackouts Tuesday night only because of a strong response to an emergency alert that went out to 27-million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need the exact same type of response tonight,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11924946\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-800x498.png\" alt=\"A chart shows a dramatic drop in electricity demand after an emergency alert went out to millions of Californians.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-1020x635.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-1536x956.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM-1920x1196.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-07-at-1.15.40-PM.png 1924w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This chart from CAISO shows how sharply electricity demand fell after an emergency alert went out to millions of Californians. The green dotted line shows the forecast for energy demand looking a day ahead. The blue dotted line shows the forecast looking an hour ahead. \u003ccite>(California Independent System Operator)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A statewide Flex Alert for power conservation kicks in at 4 p.m. and continues through 9 this evening. Consumers are asked to set thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, if their medical conditions permit that. Grid managers also ask that people turn off unnecessary lights and avoid using major appliances or re-charging electric cars during the Flex Alert period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 35,700 people lost electricity Tuesday in the South Bay and beyond, including Cupertino, Campbell, San José, Milpitas and Morgan Hill. Most of the outages were heat-related, said Jason King of Pacific Gas and Electric Tuesday evening. The utility said high power demand overloaded electrical equipment, and the prolonged extreme heat degraded its infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11878134,news_11924833,news_11886628' label='Resources for Extreme Heat]Crews from PG&E worked overnight to restore power and got the number of customers affected down to about 3,585 as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, with more than 3,000 of those located in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO acknowledged that a miscommunication led to the small number of power shutoffs. Two small local power companies\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003c/span>Alameda Municipal Power and Palo Alto Utilities\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003c/span>put in place rotating outages after 6 p.m. for about an hour, affecting several thousand customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The miscommunication occurred Tuesday afternoon as the grid was perilously close to running out of energy, Mainzer said at a briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he did not know specifically how the miscommunication occurred, but he stressed the grid operator did not order rotating blackouts. CAISO had ordered utilities to prepare to institute load shedding but did not proceed to the final order to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO issued a Stage 3 emergency power alert Tuesday,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>one step below ordering utilities to start rotating outages to ease the strain on the system. The move allowed it to draw on emergency power sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand swelled in the late afternoon and into the evening, with everyone from Gov. Gavin Newsom to the state’s legal marijuana business control agency urging people to turn off lights and reduce power or use backup generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO said the peak electricity demand on Tuesday hit 52,061 megawatts, far above the previous high of 50,270 megawatts set on July 24, 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand fell toward evening as businesses closed, and dropped sharply after CAISO sent out a message on its mobile phone app begging customers to cut back their use, warning that “power interruptions may occur unless you take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within moments we saw a significant amount of load reduction,” Mainzer said, adding that it took the state back from “the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stage 3 alert ended at 8 p.m. without major rotating outages. CAISO tweeted that “consumer conservation played a big part in protecting electric grid reliability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924959\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1235px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11924959 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps.png\" alt=\"A map showing Bay Area cities with record-breaking temperatures on Sept. 6.\" width=\"1235\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps.png 1235w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps-800x652.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps-1020x832.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/record-temps-160x130.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1235px) 100vw, 1235px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heat records were shattered in Santa Rosa, Napa and San Jose, and tied in Livermore and Redwood City. 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College Ave., will be open Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m.-7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, officials listed more than a dozen sites where residents can escape the heat, in addition to county library branches that are open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. every day but Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Coddingtown Mall (10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa Plaza (10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cloverdale Senior Multipurpose Center, 311 N. Main St. (1-4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cloverdale Regional Library, 401 N. Cloverdale Blvd. (11 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Healdsburg Senior Center, 133 Matheson St. (9 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Petaluma Community Center, 320 N. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was updated at 5 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for a cooling center near you? \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">Find one here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even San Francisco and other typically cooler Bay Area regions sweltered Tuesday amid a brutal heat wave that continued to blanket much of California with record-breaking triple-digit temperatures, as state officials pleaded with residents and businesses to conserve energy to avoid blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scorching temperatures have been particularly tough on firefighters as they battle 14 different large blazes around the state. In Northern California, two people were killed by the Mill Fire, which has burned more than 4,000 acres in and around the town of Weed. In Southern California, two people were killed and one was injured by the Fairview Fire, which has burned more than 2,000 acres near the city of Hemet, southeast of Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Heat advisory expanded to SF and coast\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11880497,news_11878134,news_11924244\"]Early Tuesday, the National Weather Service had expanded its heat advisory to include San Francisco, as well as the entire Pacific coastline stretching from Sonoma County to Big Sur. The advisory is in effect through 8 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s downtown and its neighborhoods along the bay could see highs reach into the low 90s Tuesday, before cooling slightly Wednesday but then climbing again Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the coast on the peninsula, temperatures are expected to be in the upper 70s, in the mid-90s in Santa Cruz and in the 80s down the coast in Monterey County. Among the hottest will be in Big Sur, which could reach 102 degrees Tuesday and maintain highs in the 90s through the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service considers these conditions a moderate risk for heat-related illness. This warning encompasses a wide geographic area, including the coastal mountains of Marin County, north Monterey Bay, the northern Salinas Valley, Hollister Valley and Carmel Valley. Highs in these additional areas will range from the upper 80s to the low 100s, with lows falling only into the 60s and 70s through Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday afternoon, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a Spare the Air alert for Wednesday, the fifth straight day the district has issued the alert for unhealthy levels of smog caused by the ongoing heat wave in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a genuinely dangerous event from a human health perspective,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1567064106280316931\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services said that while hot weather isn’t unusual at this time of year in the Bay Area, the length of the heat wave is rare. The high temperatures afflicting even normally cooler cities like San Francisco, he said, are in part due to a high-pressure system that has prevented greater circulation, or “cut off our natural air-conditioning, the sea breeze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RobMayeda/status/1567299918368481280\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland areas, as usual, are seeing the hottest temperatures, which the service considers an extreme risk for heat-related illness. The areas affected by the most severe temperatures include the interior areas of the North Bay and East Bay, the Santa Clara Valley, the Santa Cruz Mountains, interior Monterey County, southern Salinas Valley and San Benito County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight lows will likely drop only into the mid- to upper 60s in interior valleys, with 70s and 80s in the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a sign displaying a temperature of 109 degrees\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-1020x663.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-1536x998.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-2048x1331.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-1920x1248.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign displays a temperature of 109 degrees on Sept. 6, 2022, in Petaluma. A major heat wave continues in the Bay Area, with some temperatures reaching over 115 degrees. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Conservation ‘absolutely essential’ to avoid blackouts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As people crank up their air conditioners, California officials forecasted record levels of energy use, predicting the electrical load Tuesday evening could top 52,000 megawatts, the highest demand the state has ever seen. Monday’s peak demand was 49,020 megawatts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Mainzer, president of California Independent System Operators, which runs the state’s electrical grid, said the state has additional energy capacity at the moment “but blackouts, rolling, rotating outages, are a possibility.” Mainzer called additional conservation “absolutely essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAISO site Tuesday morning showed that California could fall more than 5,000 megawatts short of its power supply at peak demand, forecasted for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, CAISO said it expected to declare an Energy Emergency Alert 3 around 5:30 p.m., a procedural move that puts it one step away from ordering rotating power outages. If power reserves are exhausted, the power grid operator says it will order utilities like PG&E to begin rotating outages until the demand meets available supplies.\u003cbr>\nPG&E had more than 12,000 customers reporting outages around the Bay Area as of shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday, including more than 8,200 in the East Bay, utility spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/danbrekke/status/1567222501587173377\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday extended an earlier statewide emergency proclamation and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/9.6.22-Labor-Day-Heat-Event-EO.pdf?emrc=631eef\">executive order\u003c/a> intended to reduce the strain on California’s grid and increase the state’s energy capacity. Both are in effect through Friday, September 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians have stepped up in a big way during this record heat wave, but with the hottest temperatures here now, the risk of outages is real. We all have to double down on conserving energy to reduce the unprecedented strain on the grid,” said Newsom. “We need everyone — individuals, businesses, the state and energy producers — to do their part in the coming days and help California continue to meet this challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1567198723746443266\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s energy grid runs on a mix of mostly solar and natural gas during the day, along with some imports of power from other states. But solar power begins to fall off during the late afternoon and into the evening, which is the hottest time of day in some parts of the state. And some of the aging natural gas plants California relies on for backup power aren’t as reliable in hot weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At CAISO’s request on Monday, four temporary emergency power generators deployed by the Department of Water Resources in Roseville and Yuba City were activated for the first time since they were installed last year, providing up to 120 megawatts, enough electricity for 120,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO also has issued a Flex Alert call for voluntary conservation between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday, making seven alerts in as many days. Consumers were urged to keep air conditioners at 78 degrees or higher during the period and avoid using major appliances such as ovens and dishwashers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"sun shines through electric tower\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun shines behind electrical power lines during a heat wave in Hawthorne. Gov. Newsom extended an emergency order on Tuesday intended to reduce the strain of the heat wave on California’s energy grid. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The efforts have worked to keep the lights on “but we have now entered the most intense phase of this heat wave” that could last into the week, and two to three times the level of conservation will be needed from people and businesses, Mainzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO also issued a Stage 2 Energy Emergency Alert from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday. The second of three emergency alert stages means taking emergency energy-saving measures “such as tapping backup generators, buying more power from other states and using so-called demand response programs,” according to a CAISO website. Stage 3 would be rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred thousand Californians lost power in rolling blackouts in August 2020 amid hot weather, but the state avoided a similar scenario last summer. Newsom signed legislation on Friday that could allow the state’s last remaining nuclear plant to stay open beyond its planned 2025 closure, to ensure more power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wildfires turn deadly\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The danger of wildfires has grown extreme as scorching heat and low humidity turn brush to tinder. Four deaths were reported over the Labor Day weekend as some 4,400 firefighters battled 14 large fires around California, with 45 new blazes on Sunday alone, said Anale Burlew, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, Siskiyou County’s Mill Fire was 55% contained Tuesday morning after killing two people, injuring others and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/phila_lex/status/1566213344427577345\">destroying at least 88 homes and other buildings since it erupted last week\u003c/a>, Cal Fire said. The bodies of the two women, age 66 and 73, were found in the city of Weed on Friday, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday. Details weren’t immediately released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few miles away, the Mountain Fire grew to nearly 18 square miles and was only 20% contained, with winds threatening to renew its eastward spread in steep terrain, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1.jpg\" alt=\"fire consumes a forest\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mountain Fire consumes a forest Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, along Gazelle Callahan Road, west of Weed, after another fire, the Mill Fire, tore through town earlier, destroying dozens of homes. \u003ccite>(Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, two people were killed and one injured by the Fairview Fire, which started Monday near the city of Hemet, the Riverside County Fire Department said. Roughly 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the fire quickly spread to at least 2,400 acres, prompting evacuations, and was only 5% contained. Multiple residential structures burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead people were not immediately identified. Authorities said both were found in the same area but it was not known whether they were from the same household. They were apparently trying to flee when they were overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, unsettled weather also brought the chance of thunderstorms over Southern California and into the Sierra Nevada, with a few isolated areas of rain but nothing widespread. The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cooling centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials in all nine Bay Area counties have opened cooling centers for those looking to beat the heat. In most counties, public libraries are also serving as cooling centers. Find more information at the links below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://veoci.com/v/p/dashboard/ewxv8granu\">Alameda County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3065\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.org/pages/weather\">Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://readynapacounty.org/\">Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/services/cooling-centers\">San Francisco County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/news/san-mateo-county-health-system-offers-guidance-heat-related-illnesses-during-labor-day-weekend\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/residents/hot-weather-safety\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/oes/cooling_centers.asp\">Solano County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/cooling-centers/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/cooling-centers/\">California’s state-sponsored cooling center locator is online\u003c/a>, and the PG&E website also offers a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/savings-programs/cooler-locator/cooling-center-locations.page\">cooling center locator for Bay Area and Northern California residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/482/Swimming-Pools\">S.F. Recreation and Parks announced the city’s swimming pools would be free for several hours in the afternoon on both September 6 and 7\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This article includes reporting from The Associated Press and Bay City News.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Inland areas, as usual, are seeing the hottest temperatures, which the service considers an extreme risk for heat-related illness. The areas affected by the most severe temperatures include the interior areas of the North Bay and East Bay, the Santa Clara Valley, the Santa Cruz Mountains, interior Monterey County, southern Salinas Valley and San Benito County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight lows will likely drop only into the mid- to upper 60s in interior valleys, with 70s and 80s in the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a sign displaying a temperature of 109 degrees\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-1020x663.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-1536x998.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-2048x1331.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1421418793-1920x1248.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign displays a temperature of 109 degrees on Sept. 6, 2022, in Petaluma. A major heat wave continues in the Bay Area, with some temperatures reaching over 115 degrees. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Conservation ‘absolutely essential’ to avoid blackouts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As people crank up their air conditioners, California officials forecasted record levels of energy use, predicting the electrical load Tuesday evening could top 52,000 megawatts, the highest demand the state has ever seen. Monday’s peak demand was 49,020 megawatts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Mainzer, president of California Independent System Operators, which runs the state’s electrical grid, said the state has additional energy capacity at the moment “but blackouts, rolling, rotating outages, are a possibility.” Mainzer called additional conservation “absolutely essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAISO site Tuesday morning showed that California could fall more than 5,000 megawatts short of its power supply at peak demand, forecasted for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, CAISO said it expected to declare an Energy Emergency Alert 3 around 5:30 p.m., a procedural move that puts it one step away from ordering rotating power outages. If power reserves are exhausted, the power grid operator says it will order utilities like PG&E to begin rotating outages until the demand meets available supplies.\u003cbr>\nPG&E had more than 12,000 customers reporting outages around the Bay Area as of shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday, including more than 8,200 in the East Bay, utility spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday extended an earlier statewide emergency proclamation and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/9.6.22-Labor-Day-Heat-Event-EO.pdf?emrc=631eef\">executive order\u003c/a> intended to reduce the strain on California’s grid and increase the state’s energy capacity. Both are in effect through Friday, September 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians have stepped up in a big way during this record heat wave, but with the hottest temperatures here now, the risk of outages is real. We all have to double down on conserving energy to reduce the unprecedented strain on the grid,” said Newsom. “We need everyone — individuals, businesses, the state and energy producers — to do their part in the coming days and help California continue to meet this challenge.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>California’s energy grid runs on a mix of mostly solar and natural gas during the day, along with some imports of power from other states. But solar power begins to fall off during the late afternoon and into the evening, which is the hottest time of day in some parts of the state. And some of the aging natural gas plants California relies on for backup power aren’t as reliable in hot weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At CAISO’s request on Monday, four temporary emergency power generators deployed by the Department of Water Resources in Roseville and Yuba City were activated for the first time since they were installed last year, providing up to 120 megawatts, enough electricity for 120,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO also has issued a Flex Alert call for voluntary conservation between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday, making seven alerts in as many days. Consumers were urged to keep air conditioners at 78 degrees or higher during the period and avoid using major appliances such as ovens and dishwashers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"sun shines through electric tower\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1242997343-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun shines behind electrical power lines during a heat wave in Hawthorne. Gov. Newsom extended an emergency order on Tuesday intended to reduce the strain of the heat wave on California’s energy grid. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The efforts have worked to keep the lights on “but we have now entered the most intense phase of this heat wave” that could last into the week, and two to three times the level of conservation will be needed from people and businesses, Mainzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAISO also issued a Stage 2 Energy Emergency Alert from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday. The second of three emergency alert stages means taking emergency energy-saving measures “such as tapping backup generators, buying more power from other states and using so-called demand response programs,” according to a CAISO website. Stage 3 would be rolling blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred thousand Californians lost power in rolling blackouts in August 2020 amid hot weather, but the state avoided a similar scenario last summer. Newsom signed legislation on Friday that could allow the state’s last remaining nuclear plant to stay open beyond its planned 2025 closure, to ensure more power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wildfires turn deadly\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The danger of wildfires has grown extreme as scorching heat and low humidity turn brush to tinder. Four deaths were reported over the Labor Day weekend as some 4,400 firefighters battled 14 large fires around California, with 45 new blazes on Sunday alone, said Anale Burlew, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, Siskiyou County’s Mill Fire was 55% contained Tuesday morning after killing two people, injuring others and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/phila_lex/status/1566213344427577345\">destroying at least 88 homes and other buildings since it erupted last week\u003c/a>, Cal Fire said. The bodies of the two women, age 66 and 73, were found in the city of Weed on Friday, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday. Details weren’t immediately released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few miles away, the Mountain Fire grew to nearly 18 square miles and was only 20% contained, with winds threatening to renew its eastward spread in steep terrain, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1.jpg\" alt=\"fire consumes a forest\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-1420578800-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mountain Fire consumes a forest Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, along Gazelle Callahan Road, west of Weed, after another fire, the Mill Fire, tore through town earlier, destroying dozens of homes. \u003ccite>(Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, two people were killed and one injured by the Fairview Fire, which started Monday near the city of Hemet, the Riverside County Fire Department said. Roughly 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the fire quickly spread to at least 2,400 acres, prompting evacuations, and was only 5% contained. Multiple residential structures burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead people were not immediately identified. Authorities said both were found in the same area but it was not known whether they were from the same household. They were apparently trying to flee when they were overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, unsettled weather also brought the chance of thunderstorms over Southern California and into the Sierra Nevada, with a few isolated areas of rain but nothing widespread. The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cooling centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials in all nine Bay Area counties have opened cooling centers for those looking to beat the heat. In most counties, public libraries are also serving as cooling centers. 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"content": "\u003cp>By now, many people have seen, or even smelled, the thousands of fish that have washed up on shores all over the Bay Area. Scientists say it’s likely the result of an algal bloom that’s grown over the past month or so, but they also say there are things we could have done to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Baykeeper, an environmental watchdog for the San Francisco Bay, first received reports of discolored water in late July. The organization patrols the bay and investigates reports of pollution, and then holds polluters and public agencies accountable.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jon Rosenfield, senior scientist, SF Baykeeper\"]‘We really need to take this trauma and turn it into a focus on cleaning up our mess and living within the limits that nature prescribes.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay is known to have algal blooms, particularly during the summer, that are small and usually don’t last that long. But this one has lasted over a month now, which is unprecedented, according to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jarosenfield\">Jon Rosenfield\u003c/a>, senior scientist with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBaykeeper\">SF Baykeeper\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said they started to get reports of dead fish washing up on the Foster City shoreline. “A few sturgeon appeared there. Sharks. Striped bass. Things that you don’t usually see washed up,” Rosenfield said. “Lake Merritt had the most graphic documentation and dramatic images of the fish kill, but it certainly wasn’t limited to Lake Merritt in any way. Central San Francisco Bay, but also the South Bay down by San José and then the North Bay as well as up in the Vallejo area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield said that since then, they’ve continued to get reports of dead or dying fish washing up on the shoreline. He sat down with Alan Montecillo, editor of KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bay\u003c/a> podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALAN MONTECILLO: Do we have any idea yet how many fish have died?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON ROSENFIELD:\u003c/strong> It’s an unimaginable number of fish. Whatever you’re seeing on the shore or even floating in the water is literally skimming the surface of the actual event.[aside postID=\"news_11923920\"]Lake Merritt was particularly dramatic because it’s not very deep, so you can see everything. It’s really an uncountable number of fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We know that these fish have died as a result of an algal bloom. What is an algal bloom and how do they typically form? What has been so dangerous about this algal bloom in the bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bloom is when the reproduction of a particular organism kind of goes out of control. And so that’s what’s happening here — a particular organism, heterosigma akashiwo, grew out of control. An algal bloom of any size can lead to low dissolved oxygen in the water as the algae die. Other things are consuming it in the water and their populations then go off the charts and they’re sucking the oxygen out of the water. And then fish don’t have enough oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algae are a normal part of the bay. There are lots of organisms floating around in the bay that are the foundation of the food web for the bay. When one of those organisms starts growing out of control and we call that a bloom, once we get to a bloom state, then it can dramatically alter the chemistry of the water to the point that there’s no oxygen and/or lots of toxins floating around. It’s the size and the duration of this bloom that have caused the real problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is it fair to say basically the fish couldn’t breathe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t know the specific mechanism that produced this fish kill, but it’s highly likely, and certainly the pictures that we saw indicate that these fish were struggling for oxygen, whether that’s because there wasn’t enough oxygen in the water or because the algae released a toxin that damages the fish’s gills. We don’t know. And it could be both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is your sense of the cause or causes behind this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, algae in any body of water need sunlight, nutrients and a certain level of water temperature. So San Francisco Bay, we know, is over-enriched with nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus. The source of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay water is primarily from wastewater treatment plants around the bay. There’s 40 different publicly owned water treatment plants that are treating our wastewater. And after treatment, the effluent is disposed of in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When we say wastewater, we’re talking about sewage water, like human waste?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treated sewage water. On average, that’s about a little bit over 60% of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay. Other inputs are stormwater runoff from urban areas and agricultural runoff, principally from the Central Valley. If you mix that over-enriched bay water with the right amount of sunlight and the right temperature, that sets the stage for harmful algal blooms like this to occur. We have those necessary conditions every summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My first instinct when I heard about this was to think about climate change. Did this happen because of climate change?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone’s mind goes to climate change these days when there’s some sort of natural disaster. And that’s appropriate because the changing climate is certainly affecting everything. But we have no direct signal at this early stage of a particular climate change mechanism driving this bloom this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The important thing to understand is that the necessary conditions for a harmful algal bloom of this type are in the bay every year, and we’ve known that for decades. We don’t need to invoke climate change in order to explain what’s happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, climate change could have played a role and will likely exacerbate this problem, making it more common in the future. But, what we know is, there are nutrients in the bay that are always at a level that will support harmful algal blooms. The East Bay shoreline gets a lot of sunlight during the summer, and water temperatures reach levels that will support a bloom even before climate change. I’m not saying that climate change doesn’t have a role, but for some people, it’s convenient to point to climate change because it means that they didn’t have responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the problem and what is this really about, do you think?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the problems that’s not gotten enough attention is where our wastewater goes when we flush the toilet. I want to acknowledge again that there’s a smaller but measurable component of urban stormwater runoff and a measurable component from agricultural runoff. But we have wastewater treatment facilities that are operating the way they’re supposed to operate. They’re removing solids from the water. They’re treating the water and getting rid of the bacteria. But they’re not designed to remove these nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, before the water gets dumped into the bay. So it’s sort of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem has been lurking for decades, and those who research it and study it and manage it within the agencies have been aware of it. This red tide, algal bloom, that we’re experiencing is a signal from nature that we’re taking too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In an interview with KQED, Bill Johnson with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board said it’s actually too soon to say that human wastewater is to blame. Why has it taken so long, and why are these nutrients not removed from the wastewater?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a challenging problem. To reduce that nutrient load is an expensive proposition. And so before we begin to make the investments, it’s prudent to know how much of an effect we need to have. That takes research. That research needs to be funded adequately in order to have it proceed at the fastest pace it can. And then there needs to be the leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some of the things that you believe would help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s technology to do wastewater recycling. Potable reuse. We can take the water that we flushed down the toilet or that goes down the drain, and clean it up to the level that people can use it, then we’ve removed the nutrients and we kind of have them in hand and we then have a choice of how to dispose of them. And hopefully, that choice would be to dispose of them in a responsible manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other options in addition to water recycling would be nature-based solutions such as treatment, wetlands, constructed wetlands, wetland plants, and any plants like these same nutrients that the algae like. And they, well, they can soak it up and store it in their tissue, and then that’s treating the water as well. And then a final way would be continuing to invest in the large-scale restoration of the natural wetlands that used to surround San Francisco Bay. Natural marsh plants are also filtering this water that’s in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This sounds to me like infrastructure.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s physical infrastructure of the pipes and the filters and the systems to treat the water. It’s also natural infrastructure that unfortunately we’ve destroyed in the past, but are now turning towards restoring more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will it take to implement some of these solutions, and who needs to take the lead on it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various agencies are responsible, principally the Regional Water Quality Control Board, which issued permits for wastewater treatment facilities and stormwater runoff, etcetera. So there is sort of the lead agency at the state level. The federal level would be the Environmental Protection Agency. But also we have these sewage management districts, 40 treatment plants, and they have responsibility, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, water recycling. As an example, San Francisco does not recycle very much of its water at all. But the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission could make the decision that they need to invest heavily in water recycling. So there’s many different actors that do play a role here and will have to play a role, and they will need a lot of money to implement these solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you hope people take away from the events of this week?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope people take away from the fish kill the tremendous diversity and abundance of beautiful organisms that this bay supports, even though we don’t always see them. Many of the species that are going to be affected by this were already endangered or their populations have declined a bunch. 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There are lots of organisms floating around in the bay that are the foundation of the food web for the bay. When one of those organisms starts growing out of control and we call that a bloom, once we get to a bloom state, then it can dramatically alter the chemistry of the water to the point that there’s no oxygen and/or lots of toxins floating around. It’s the size and the duration of this bloom that have caused the real problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is it fair to say basically the fish couldn’t breathe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t know the specific mechanism that produced this fish kill, but it’s highly likely, and certainly the pictures that we saw indicate that these fish were struggling for oxygen, whether that’s because there wasn’t enough oxygen in the water or because the algae released a toxin that damages the fish’s gills. We don’t know. And it could be both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is your sense of the cause or causes behind this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, algae in any body of water need sunlight, nutrients and a certain level of water temperature. So San Francisco Bay, we know, is over-enriched with nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus. The source of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay water is primarily from wastewater treatment plants around the bay. There’s 40 different publicly owned water treatment plants that are treating our wastewater. And after treatment, the effluent is disposed of in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When we say wastewater, we’re talking about sewage water, like human waste?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treated sewage water. On average, that’s about a little bit over 60% of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay. Other inputs are stormwater runoff from urban areas and agricultural runoff, principally from the Central Valley. If you mix that over-enriched bay water with the right amount of sunlight and the right temperature, that sets the stage for harmful algal blooms like this to occur. We have those necessary conditions every summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My first instinct when I heard about this was to think about climate change. Did this happen because of climate change?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone’s mind goes to climate change these days when there’s some sort of natural disaster. And that’s appropriate because the changing climate is certainly affecting everything. But we have no direct signal at this early stage of a particular climate change mechanism driving this bloom this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The important thing to understand is that the necessary conditions for a harmful algal bloom of this type are in the bay every year, and we’ve known that for decades. We don’t need to invoke climate change in order to explain what’s happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, climate change could have played a role and will likely exacerbate this problem, making it more common in the future. But, what we know is, there are nutrients in the bay that are always at a level that will support harmful algal blooms. The East Bay shoreline gets a lot of sunlight during the summer, and water temperatures reach levels that will support a bloom even before climate change. I’m not saying that climate change doesn’t have a role, but for some people, it’s convenient to point to climate change because it means that they didn’t have responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the problem and what is this really about, do you think?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the problems that’s not gotten enough attention is where our wastewater goes when we flush the toilet. I want to acknowledge again that there’s a smaller but measurable component of urban stormwater runoff and a measurable component from agricultural runoff. But we have wastewater treatment facilities that are operating the way they’re supposed to operate. They’re removing solids from the water. They’re treating the water and getting rid of the bacteria. But they’re not designed to remove these nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, before the water gets dumped into the bay. So it’s sort of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem has been lurking for decades, and those who research it and study it and manage it within the agencies have been aware of it. This red tide, algal bloom, that we’re experiencing is a signal from nature that we’re taking too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In an interview with KQED, Bill Johnson with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board said it’s actually too soon to say that human wastewater is to blame. 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The move is expected to increase air pollution, but Karen Douglas, the governor’s senior energy advisor, said the priority was to keep the lights on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Legislature approved extending the life of the state’s \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924367/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924367/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">last operating nuclear power plant\u003c/a> by five years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate change era. 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