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And wildlife officials said the Sacramento River is facing a “near-complete loss” of young Chinook salmon due to abnormally warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crash in one year’s class of young salmon can have lasting effects on the total population and shorten or stop the fishing season, a growing concern as climate change continues to make the West hotter and drier. That could be devastating to the commercial salmon fishing industry, which in California alone is worth $1.4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plummeting catch already has led to skyrocketing retail prices for salmon, hurting customers who say they can no longer afford the $35 per pound of fish, said Mike Hudson, who has spent the last 25 years catching and selling salmon at farmers markets in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said he has considered retiring and selling his 40-foot boat because “it’s going to get worse from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter-run Chinook salmon are born in the Sacramento River, traverse hundreds of miles to the Pacific, where they normally spend three years before returning to their birthplace to mate and lay their eggs between April and August. Unlike the fall-run Chinook that survives almost entirely due to hatchery breeding programs, the winter run is still largely reared in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal fisheries officials predicted in May that more than 80% of baby salmon could die because of warmer water in the Sacramento River. Now, state wildlife officials say that number could be higher amid a rapidly depleting pool of cool water in Lake Shasta. California’s largest reservoir is filled to only about 35% capacity, federal water managers said this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pain we’re going to feel is a few years from now, when there will be no naturally spawned salmon out in the ocean,” said John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, which represents the fishing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"John McManus, Golden State Salmon Association\"]‘The pain we’re going to feel is a few years from now, when there will be no naturally spawned salmon out in the ocean.’[/pullquote]When Lake Shasta was formed in the 1940s, it blocked access to the cool mountain streams where fish traditionally spawned. To ensure their survival, the U.S. government is required to maintain river temperatures below 56 degrees Fahrenheit in spawning habitat because salmon eggs generally can’t withstand anything warmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm water is starting to affect older fish, too. Scientists have seen some adult fish dying before they can lay their eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An extreme set of cascading climate events is pushing us into this crisis situation,” said Jordan Traverso, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West has been grappling with a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-science-environment-and-nature-droughts-bb2a2455f9d1e8d67a07817df6d51a00\">historic drought\u003c/a> and recent heat waves worsened by climate change, stressing waterways and reservoirs that sustain millions of people and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmon raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey. State and federal hatcheries take other extraordinary measures to preserve the decimated salmon stocks, such as maintaining a genetic bank to prevent inbreeding at hatcheries and releasing them at critical life stages, when they can recognize and return to the water where they were born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fishermen and environmental groups blame water agencies for diverting too much water too soon to farms, which could lead to severe salmon die-off and drive the species closer to extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Drought Coverage\" tag=\"drought\"]“We know that climate change is going to make years like this more common, and what the agencies should be doing is managing for the worst-case scenario,” said Sam Mace, a director of Save Our Wild Salmon, a coalition working to restore wild salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need some real changes in how rivers are managed if they’re going to survive,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Klamath River near the Oregon state line, California wildlife officials decided not to release more than 1 million young Chinook salmon into the wild and instead drove them to hatcheries that could host them until river conditions improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much is riding on this class of salmon because it could be the first to return to the river if plans to remove four of six dams on the Klamath and restore fish access to the upper river go according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the West, officials are struggling with the similar concerns over fish populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Idaho, officials recognized that endangered sockeye salmon wouldn’t make their upstream migration through hundreds of miles of warm water to their spawning habitat, so they flooded the Snake River with cool water, then trapped and trucked the fish to hatcheries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And environmentalists went to court this month in Portland, Oregon, to try to force dam operators on the Snake and Columbia rivers to release more water at dams blocking migrating salmon, arguing that the effects of climate change and a recent heat wave were further threatening fish already on the verge of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Andrew Rypel, UC Davis\"]‘We’re at the point where I’m not sure drought is appropriate term to describe what’s happening.’[/pullquote]Low water levels are also affecting recreational fishing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated July 23, 2021 at 10:29 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time you pick up some California-grown carrots or melons in the grocery store, consider the curious, contested odyssey of the water that fed them. Chances are, farmers pumped that water from underground aquifers on a scale that's become unsustainable, especially as the planet heats up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing an ongoing drought that is squeezing surface water supplies, farmers are extracting groundwater at higher rates to continue growing food as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's farmers probably will pump an additional 6 to 7 million acre-feet of water from their wells this year, above what they normally use, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucmerced.edu/content/josu%C3%A9-medellin-azuara\">Josue Medellin-Azuara\u003c/a>, a water expert at UC Merced. That quantity would cover 10,000 square miles with a foot of water, and far exceeds the amount that naturally replenishes the aquifer, even during a year with normal rainfall. [aside tag=\"drought,water\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a huge amount,\" says Steve Jackson, a farmer in Visalia who helps to manage 40,000 acres of almonds and other crops. \"I'd say 90% to 95% of our crop demands this year are going to be met by groundwater.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, however, may mark the beginning of the end of California's great groundwater grab. The state is preparing to phase in new limits on groundwater pumping that will force painful adjustments on the state's farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is a powerhouse of food production, growing some 40% of the country's fruit, vegetables and nuts. 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Susana De Anda, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.communitywatercenter.org/staff\">Community Water Center\u003c/a>, in the town of Visalia, was among those pushing for change. \"When 90% of our valley residents rely on groundwater, we have to be sure that we're sharing that for all beneficial uses,\" she says. \"That means that we should not over-pump.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, California passed the \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/programs/groundwater-management/sgma-groundwater-management\">Sustainable Groundwater Management Act\u003c/a>. It requires big changes, but they will be enforced only gradually, over the next two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this law, overuse of the aquifer must end by 2040. By that date, use and replenishment of the state's groundwater must be in balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local officials now are coming up with limits on groundwater use to achieve this. 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One study, backed by the agricultural industry, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnostate.edu/craig/ubc/documents/cencal/2020/CCBR2020_WaterAg.pdf\">predicts\u003c/a> that a million acres, or 20% of the fields in the San Joaquin Valley, will be taken out of production. Other researchers \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/water-and-the-future-of-the-san-joaquin-valley-february-2019.pdf\">think\u003c/a> it will be half that much. Farmers are likely to adapt by shifting their limited water supplies to their most valuable crops. They also will be able, for the first time, to buy and sell groundwater allotments, shifting the water to the places where it's worth the most. [aside tag=\"california-water,farmers\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other farmers, like Kathy Briano, reject the prospect of idling fertile Central Valley land. Briano agrees that it makes sense to protect the aquifer. 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Then he had to drive about 10 miles up Camp Creek Road, a one-lane dirt road that passes the spot where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705306/pge-transmission-line-may-be-tied-to-disastrous-butte-county-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a PG&E transmission line started the Camp Fire\u003c/a> early the morning of Nov. 8, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1whAYyxH56Ms3bva5UcjCiYbnlWFcR7Av\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip up the steep, winding road would have been slow under any conditions. Describing the character of the route the worker traveled, Ramsey said, “There’s an old statement, ‘They’re barely passable — not even jackass-able.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight miles up the road — still well short of the power line segment with the apparent blown fuse — the driver encountered a roadblock: a Butte County public works crew repairing a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was turned back there,” Ramsey said. “They told him, nah, it’s going to be at least a couple, two and a half hours” before they’d be done with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pack, the county’s director of public works, said the crew was working to repair “significant damage” to the one-lane span that had been reported on July 9. Pack said the bridge deck had suffered “multiple failures,” likely due to an oversized vehicle that had used the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to cross the bridge for the time being, the PG&E worker turned around and drove all the way back down to Highway 70, then another six miles back toward Oroville to a spot where he’d get better radio reception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882002\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E worker making his way up Camp Creek Road in Butte County was initially unable to proceed to the suspected source of the trouble because a road crew was repairing damage to this bridge. Trouble on the power line is suspected of touching off the Dixie Fire on July 13, 2021. The photo was taken about six hours before the fire was discovered. \u003ccite>(Butte County Department of Public Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker discussed with a dispatcher coming back to Chico to do other work, but given the extra travel time that would add, he decided to wait for the bridge on Camp Creek Road to open. It wasn’t until 4:30 p.m. that the worker finally made it up to and over the bridge and reached the spot where trouble was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey echoed PG&E’s account that once the worker reached the scene, he discovered a small fire on the ground near a tree that had fallen onto the power lines. Fuses had blown on two of the three lines running across the tops of the poles at the site, Ramsey said, but the third line was apparently still live and may have helped ignite the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker attempted to call the fire in to a PG&E dispatcher via radio, but got no response. He then attempted to put out the fire, which was spreading slowly on a steep slope below the road, by himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker made two “forays” to try to control the blaze, one while carrying a fire extinguisher, one while using equipment from a fire backpack in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker then heard someone on the radio answering his earlier call. He got back on the radio, which led to an emergency call being made to Cal Fire. Ramsey said Cal Fire got the alert from PG&E two minutes after a team of firefighters driving up Highway 70, across the river from the blaze, reported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal Fire dispatch audio, the passing firefighters estimated the blaze was about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments made during media briefings Wednesday, PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said the worker “alone, by himself, in the wilderness, made multiple trips … from the top of the slope, where his truck was, down to the source of the fire, attempting to put it out. His efforts can be called nothing less than heroic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to respond to detailed questions about the timeline of its response, including what time its worker first reached Cresta Dam to look for trouble and what delays he encountered along the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']Once the fire was reported, Cal Fire dispatched a pair of air tankers and a water-dropping helicopter to hold the fire in check as ground crews tried to reach the incident. But getting to the scene proved as daunting for those crews as it had for the PG&E worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire engine and a bus carrying a 20-member hand crew made their way up Camp Creek Road only to find the out-of-service bridge. 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The site of the potential problem was just a quarter-mile from the dam as the crow flies, but it would take the worker hours to reach it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get there, he had to drive back down Highway 70 to the community of Pulga, where the route crosses the river. Then he had to drive about 10 miles up Camp Creek Road, a one-lane dirt road that passes the spot where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705306/pge-transmission-line-may-be-tied-to-disastrous-butte-county-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a PG&E transmission line started the Camp Fire\u003c/a> early the morning of Nov. 8, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1whAYyxH56Ms3bva5UcjCiYbnlWFcR7Av\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip up the steep, winding road would have been slow under any conditions. Describing the character of the route the worker traveled, Ramsey said, “There’s an old statement, ‘They’re barely passable — not even jackass-able.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight miles up the road — still well short of the power line segment with the apparent blown fuse — the driver encountered a roadblock: a Butte County public works crew repairing a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was turned back there,” Ramsey said. “They told him, nah, it’s going to be at least a couple, two and a half hours” before they’d be done with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pack, the county’s director of public works, said the crew was working to repair “significant damage” to the one-lane span that had been reported on July 9. 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"content": "\u003cp>Local air regulators moved Wednesday to require two of California's largest oil refineries to significantly reduce the amount of pollution they spew into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted 19 to 3 to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbfenergy.com/refineries/\">PBF Energy-owned refinery in Martinez\u003c/a> to cut down on the particulate matter emitted by a key part of their plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came after two separate days of hours-long hearings and threats of a lawsuit from the oil industry, along with pressure from environmentalists, health advocates, refinery workers and labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whatever we do we're going to face a legal challenge and that's the name of the game,\" said Nate Miley, a member of the board and an Alameda County supervisor. \"I want history to show, at least my vote, that I was on the side of protecting communities, putting the health of people above cost, above money, above refineries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To satisfy the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units?rule_version=2020%20Amendment#:~:text=Description%3A,precursors%20of%20secondary%20particulate%20matter.,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rules\u003c/a>, the two oil companies would most likely need to buy and install air pollution devices known as wet gas scrubbers at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Bauters, Bay Area Air Quality Management District board director\"]'Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely Brown, Black, impoverished or politically under-represented communities for decades. They have externalized hazardous materials, pollution and waste onto the people we as a board collectively represent.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote is the culmination of work started by air district staff in 2019. Dozens of agency workers researched the proposal, worked with outside departments and took comments from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878624/a-pivotal-moment-for-regulating-the-bay-areas-oil-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second\u003c/a> before the full board on the proposed rule. In early June, so many environmentalists, refinery workers, union officials and local residents offered public comment that the board had to delay the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, more than 300 people spoke during the public comment periods of both meetings, according to the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday's public comment period, board director John Bauters, a member of the Emeryville City Council who chaired the district committee that first approved the rule, implored his colleagues to act aggressively to protect people who live near the region's refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely brown, Black, impoverished or politically underrepresented communities for decades,\" Bauters said. \"They have externalized hazardous materials, pollution and waste onto the people we as a board collectively represent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists and health advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874932/air-regulators-weigh-plan-aimed-at-dramatically-cutting-bay-area-refinery-pollution\">urged\u003c/a> the board to approve the proposal. 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They also said the large devices they may need to buy to satisfy the new rule use too much water and won't achieve the environmental gains predicted by the air agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after the vote, Chevron said it has already reduced its particulate matter releases, argued those reductions were greater than the ones required under the new rule and indicated it might sue the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, rather than rely on actual data from our facility, Air Board Members adopted a rule based on erroneous data that fails to significantly improve local air quality at an extreme cost that could impact Bay Area consumers who rely on affordable energy in their daily lives,\" company spokesman Brian Hubinger said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rule threatens the supply of affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy at a time when our regional economy is still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cp>A couple whose gender reveal ceremony sparked a Southern California wildfire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914368098/a-firefighter-is-killed-in-california-wildfire-sparked-by-gender-reveal-party\">killed a firefighter\u003c/a> last year were charged with involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez pleaded not guilty Monday to charges involving the El Dorado Fire, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson announced at a news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges included one felony count of involuntary manslaughter, along with other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The El Dorado Fire erupted on Sept. 5 when the couple and their young children staged a baby gender reveal at El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smoke-generating pyrotechnic device was set off in a field and quickly ignited dry grass on a scorching day. The couple frantically tried to use bottled water to douse the flames and called 911, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong winds stoked the fire as it ran through wilderness on national forest land, about 75 miles east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely dry conditions and heat waves tied to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/911847159/how-climate-change-affects-wildfires\">climate change have made wildfires harder to fight\u003c/a>. Climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photograph of fallen Big Bear Interagency Hotshot Charles Morton, a firefighter who was killed battling the El Dorado wildfire, is displayed at his memorial service on Sept. 25, 2020 in San Bernardino. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 17, flames overran a remote area where firefighters were cutting fire breaks, killing Charles Morton, the 39-year-old leader of the elite Big Bear Interagency Hotshot Squad. Morton had worked as a firefighter for 18 years, mostly with the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze injured 13 other people and forced the evacuations of hundreds of residents in small communities in the San Bernardino National Forest area. It destroyed five homes and 15 other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze blackened nearly 36 square miles of land in San Bernardino and Riverside counties before it was contained on Nov. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was one of thousands during a record-breaking wildfire season in California that charred more than 4% of the state while destroying nearly 10,500 buildings and killing 33 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple were released on their own recognizance pending a Sept. 15 court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E said in a report filed with state utility regulators late Sunday night that Cal Fire is investigating the company's equipment as the possible cause of a wildland blaze that's burned nearly 50 square miles of forest land in Butte and Plumas counties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says Cal Fire investigators collected parts of a power line and other possible evidence, including portions of a tree that came into contact with the line, from the location where the fire was first seen last Tuesday, July 13. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday night report and a separate PG&E statement said the company was disclosing the information \"in an abundance of caution\" and is cooperating with Cal Fire's investigation. Cal Fire confirmed it's investigating but declined further comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/14/dixie-fire/\">Dixie Fire\u003c/a> started in the Feather River Canyon just 5 miles upstream from the spot where a PG&E transmission line touched off the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's recorded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21011766/071821.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">electrical incident report\u003c/a> to the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E described a 10-hour series of events that began 7 a.m. on July 13 with a power outage at its Cresta hydropower dam on the Feather River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says a field worker — referred to in the report as a troubleman — was dispatched to the area, along Highway 70 about 30 miles northeast of Oroville, to investigate. The company's report does not say when the worker was dispatched. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The responding PG&E troubleman observed from a distance what he thought was a blown fuse\" on a power line. But getting to the line – a lower-voltage distribution line strung across wooden poles — proved difficult. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only access to the spot, along a rugged dirt track called Storrie Road, was by way of another backcountry route called Camp Creek Road. PG&E says its worker drove along that road until he reached an out-of-service bridge and was forced to walk the rest of the way to the location of the possible blown fuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally reached that spot it was 4:40 p.m., the company says — nearly 10 hours after the first indication of trouble in the area. In addition to finding that two of three fuses at the location had blown, the company report says, the worker discovered a \"healthy green tree leaning into [a power line], which was still intact and suspended on the poles. He also observed a fire on the ground near the base of the tree.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After removing the still-intact fuse, the worker alerted a supervisor, who then called 911. But by then, Cal Fire already knew about the blaze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11880651,news_11879943,news_11875846 label='Related Coverage']Just after 5 p.m., a passing Sutter County fire crew alerted Cal Fire dispatchers to a small blaze burning \"near the power lines\" on the other side of the river. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew leader estimated the size of the fire at 40 feet by 40 feet. Cal Fire air tankers and helicopters responded within an hour in hopes of dropping enough water and retardant on the blaze to limit its spread until ground crews could arrive. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting access to the fire scene also proved daunting for those ground forces, which initially included half a dozen fire engines, two hand crews, a bulldozer and three water tenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire engine and a bus carrying a 20-member hand crew made their way up Camp Creek Road only to find the impassable bridge. The hand crew arrived at the disabled bridge after 8 p.m., nearly three hours after it was dispatched, and still faced a hike of at least a mile to get to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire commanders decided to hold off on sending reinforcements up Camp Creek Road. Instead, just before 9 p.m., they dispatched engines and water tenders to a remote road called 300 U Line that a single Cal Fire engine had scouted and found to have access to the fire scene from the slope above. Getting to the U Line site, however, required a drive of about 20 miles from a staging location on Highway 70 — much of it on a series of steep, twisting dirt roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final factor limited Cal Fire's early response to the blaze: Shortly before 8 p.m., air operations were halted when a private drone was spotted over the fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Cal Fire issued a statement at 8:45 p.m. that sounded an optimistic note about containing the fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Air resources were able to ... hold the fire to approximately 1 to 2 acres,\" the statement said. \"Air tankers dropped at least 7,000 gallons of retardant, while [a] helicopter was able to consistently take and drop water from the Feather River, which was right below the fire. 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But there are also health issues around grid reliability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But locals said they're not confident about the plant's safety amid outstanding questions about what caused a late-night explosion at the plant two months ago, prompting evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A number of residents were at the meeting to oppose the plan too, saying those debating this plant aren't the ones who have the breathe the air in Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think our people have to pay with our lives to benefit the rest of the state,\" said Hayward resident Claire Dugan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ericka Cruz Guevarra (@NotoriousECG) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NotoriousECG/status/1415739404992225281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before midnight on May 27, the plant — owned by Houston-based Calpine Corporation — erupted into flames after a steam turbine broke apart, sending chunks of metal flying as far as 1,200 feet away and puncturing the roof of the city's Housing Navigation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a matter of days, McAdoo told California Energy Commission members that Calpine was at work on an application to restart the power plant at half capacity, which is expected to release twice as much carbon per unit of energy produced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We acknowledge the state's need for adequate power supply, but this should not be accomplished at the cost of community safety and detrimental environmental impacts,\" McAdoo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo']'We acknowledge the state's need for adequate power supply, but this should not be accomplished at the cost of community safety and detrimental environmental impacts.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents said they were concerned about the plant's impact on the air quality for the surrounding community, and its impact on the mostly low-income immigrant communities that live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a resident of the community who lives within a 2-mile radius of the power plant I am extremely concerned about the safety of my family and the quality of air that we breathe,\" Alwine Knowles wrote to energy commissioners. \"If you lived in this community, this would be totally unexceptable.\" [sic]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, California regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/07/14/report-multiple-safety-issues-at-hayward-plant-before-explosion/\">found problems\u003c/a> at the Russell City Energy Center, including corrosive piping and defective equipment. 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