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It’s a cultivated variety (or “cultivar”) that originated in France in the 1880s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really know who brought it here,” said Shelagh Fritz, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alcatraz Gardens program manager\u003c/span>. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A likely candidate could be James Johnston, the first and longest-serving warden of Alcatraz. By all accounts, the man had a thing for roses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnston grew the flowers by his house in the 1930s and 40s. 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(\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it is illegal to remove any plants, flowers, or other landscape artifacts from a National Park, there are special collection permits that the National Park Service grants on occasion.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he said, the rose has been sighted in many places across the globe. Lowery mentioned another rose, the Black Boy, which is closely related to the Bardou Job and can sometimes be mistaken for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the return of the rose to the museum, if this \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/948871.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC article\u003c/a> from 2000 is anything to go by, has been a point of pride for the Welsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I can confirm that the Bardou Job rose is still at the National Museum of History,” said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Janet Wilding, head of the historic buildings unit at the National Museum Wales, of which the history museum is a part, in an email to KQED. “It is\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the rosery and is still going strong.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about the many different species of flower growing on Alcatraz, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=332523&id=EB5DDC02-155D-4519-3EE686FB0E778540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about visiting Alcatraz, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/escape-to-alcatraz?gclid=CjwKCAiA17P9BRB2EiwAMvwNyMXI7Odf9mIpxPwLron_AaZehSmu2mScbIt8cp_ZEMvDKCaxy6OoNBoCb94QAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowery said an early website — \u003ca href=\"https://www.helpmefind.com/roses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Help Me Find Roses\u003c/a> — helped the museum track the flower down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was essentially a cross-referenced encyclopedia of roses with input from the public and with listings of nurseries and so forth,” Lowery said. “They were able to find us through that.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Lowery sent a clipping of the Bardou Job to Wales. (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it is illegal to remove any plants, flowers, or other landscape artifacts from a National Park, there are special collection permits that the National Park Service grants on occasion.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he said, the rose has been sighted in many places across the globe. Lowery mentioned another rose, the Black Boy, which is closely related to the Bardou Job and can sometimes be mistaken for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the return of the rose to the museum, if this \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/948871.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC article\u003c/a> from 2000 is anything to go by, has been a point of pride for the Welsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I can confirm that the Bardou Job rose is still at the National Museum of History,” said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Janet Wilding, head of the historic buildings unit at the National Museum Wales, of which the history museum is a part, in an email to KQED. “It is\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the rosery and is still going strong.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about the many different species of flower growing on Alcatraz, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=332523&id=EB5DDC02-155D-4519-3EE686FB0E778540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about visiting Alcatraz, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/escape-to-alcatraz?gclid=CjwKCAiA17P9BRB2EiwAMvwNyMXI7Odf9mIpxPwLron_AaZehSmu2mScbIt8cp_ZEMvDKCaxy6OoNBoCb94QAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Fire season in California has been particularly devastating this year. Some of the biggest wildfires the state has ever seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840987/glass-fire-continues-as-california-wildfires-burn-over-4-million-acres\">raged across the state\u003c/a> and almost 4.2 million acres burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the firefighters battling to keep our communities safe are state prisoners, which prompted Bay Curious listener Brittany Powers to ask this question: \u003cstrong>“Why are prisoners fighting California wildfires [paid so little] and why are they unable to get jobs in this field after they’ve served their sentences?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo] Brittany’s question won our September voting round, right around the time news was breaking that the state’s wildfire response was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968728/shortage-of-inmate-firefighters-hampers-response-in-bay-area\">hampered this year by a lack of inmate firefighters\u003c/a>. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843335/in-californias-prison-with-the-worst-covid-19-outbreak-men-say-their-mental-health-is-suffering\">COVID-19 swept through the prison system\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom released many low-level offenders early, including some of the firefighters. Suddenly, it was more obvious than ever just how important this workforce is to California’s wildland firefighting capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While crucial, the prison firefighting program has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784042/inmates-saved-homes-in-the-kincade-fire-theyll-face-an-uphill-battle-getting-firefighting-jobs-after-release\">long been criticized \u003c/a>for paying low wages and providing few job opportunities for people upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The History of Fire Camps\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/\">inmate firefighter program first started in 1915, \u003c/a>but it was during World War II — when civilian firefighters were fighting in the war — that the program really got going. Inmate firefighters took care of fire emergencies during the war. Since then, California has maintained inmate fire camps, mostly in the mountains near where fires are likely to break out. The incarcerated firefighters live at those camps year-round, ready to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate firefighters are paid $2 to $5 per day, and they get an extra dollar per hour when they’re actively working at a fire. While this is much less than entry-level professional firefighters make, it’s still the highest paid job in the prison system, says a spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It’s also a desirable and competitive job to get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only people who the state deems a low safety risk are eligible, and everyone must pass a series of physical fitness tests and be trained. Once a person steps foot in fire camp, their remaining sentence is reduced, sometimes by as much as half. And life at a fire camp is more permissive than in a general population prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11846634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Inmate-Firefighters3.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate firefighters clear brush from a roadside in the Berkeley Hills near Tilden Regional Park on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. Fire officials say fuel reduction projects like this are critical to preventing major wildfires.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Inmate-Firefighters3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Inmate-Firefighters3-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Inmate-Firefighters3-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Inmate-Firefighters3-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Inmate-Firefighters3-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate firefighters clear brush from a roadside in the Berkeley Hills near Tilden Regional Park on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. Fire officials say fuel reduction projects like this are critical to preventing major wildfires. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh man, night and day. It almost feels like you are free there,” said Gary Minnick, a firefighter working at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\">Kincade Fire in 2019\u003c/a>. “Enough to keep you on track and in line, but kinda helping you get back to be able to be reintroduced to the public and out of the politics and the bad stuff that goes along with a regular prison yard. I’d rather be here than where I was at, any day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire camps have dorms, a dining hall and a yard for working out. Prisoners get to work outside, doing an important job that many take pride in doing. In the off season, they cut fire breaks and do general forest management. When a fire breaks out, they’re often assigned to the most difficult and backbreaking work. They hike cross-country carrying heavy tools like chainsaws, shovels, rakes and other hand tools. Then, in teams of 12-16, they work to clear six-foot wide trenches called fire breaks, to help contain the fire. At times, when a fire is threatening a home, they fight it directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Direct attack. Flames licking in your face. Situations where you have to get in and out quickly with no margin for error,” said Christopher Jones, another incarcerated firefighter who fought at the Kincade Fire last year. “It’s exhilarating. It’s exciting. It’s challenging. You feel like you are alive and you are doing something both positive and productive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislative Changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11846630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate firefighters seen from a distance, working on the Bully fire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate firefighters seen from a distance, working on the Bully fire. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836399/how-two-men-went-from-prison-crew-to-professional-firefighting\">some former prisoners do get contract jobs\u003c/a> working for CalFire or the National Forest Service doing wildland firefighting after they are released, the path to stable employment in municipal fire departments has been very narrow to them for many years. That’s because of a law that says people with felonies can’t get EMT licenses, which are required to become a firefighter in many cities across the state. Advocates have long wanted to see this barrier removed so formerly incarcerated folks with firefighting experience have access to good, well-paid jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year they got their wish. In September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837644/newsom-signs-law-paving-way-for-former-inmates-to-become-professional-firefighters\">Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2147\u003c/a>, which would make it easier for formerly incarcerated people to have their records expunged, and open the door to an EMT license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At the site of the North Complex Fire today, Governor \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GavinNewsom\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmReyes47?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmReyes47\u003c/a>‘s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/AB2147?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AB2147\u003c/a> eliminating barriers that prevent former inmate fire crews from pursuing a career as a firefighter once they served their time. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CaliforniaForAll?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CaliforniaForAll\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/tT3D18UJWK\">pic.twitter.com/tT3D18UJWK\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1304514036306829313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Questions remain about how quickly the state will process requests from formerly incarcerated firefighters, but many are grateful there is now a path forward. Samantha Vetter was fighting fires outside Los Angeles this year, but she was released this summer as part of the state’s push to slow the spread of the coronavirus across the prison system. She says the new legislation gives her hope for a career as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very grateful that the bill passed and I’m grateful for everyone who voted on it,” Vetter said. “There’s a lot of us that want to change and it is just really going to help. Totally one less obstacle, and I feel blessed that it went through at the perfect time. You know, I did just get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the governor is shifting resources away from the fire camps. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article246400810.html\">state plans to shutter eight\u003c/a> at the end of fire season, which will mean fewer opportunities for incarcerated people to participate in the program. At the same time, Newsom is expanding the California Conservation Corps, which means the state will bolster the number of civilian hand crews fighting wildland fires while contracting its prison camp program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And life at a fire camp is more permissive than in a general population prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11846634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Inmate-Firefighters3.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate firefighters clear brush from a roadside in the Berkeley Hills near Tilden Regional Park on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. 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Fire officials say fuel reduction projects like this are critical to preventing major wildfires. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh man, night and day. It almost feels like you are free there,” said Gary Minnick, a firefighter working at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\">Kincade Fire in 2019\u003c/a>. “Enough to keep you on track and in line, but kinda helping you get back to be able to be reintroduced to the public and out of the politics and the bad stuff that goes along with a regular prison yard. I’d rather be here than where I was at, any day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire camps have dorms, a dining hall and a yard for working out. Prisoners get to work outside, doing an important job that many take pride in doing. In the off season, they cut fire breaks and do general forest management. When a fire breaks out, they’re often assigned to the most difficult and backbreaking work. They hike cross-country carrying heavy tools like chainsaws, shovels, rakes and other hand tools. Then, in teams of 12-16, they work to clear six-foot wide trenches called fire breaks, to help contain the fire. At times, when a fire is threatening a home, they fight it directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Direct attack. Flames licking in your face. Situations where you have to get in and out quickly with no margin for error,” said Christopher Jones, another incarcerated firefighter who fought at the Kincade Fire last year. “It’s exhilarating. It’s exciting. It’s challenging. You feel like you are alive and you are doing something both positive and productive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislative Changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11846630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate firefighters seen from a distance, working on the Bully fire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/InmateFirefightersBully-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate firefighters seen from a distance, working on the Bully fire. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836399/how-two-men-went-from-prison-crew-to-professional-firefighting\">some former prisoners do get contract jobs\u003c/a> working for CalFire or the National Forest Service doing wildland firefighting after they are released, the path to stable employment in municipal fire departments has been very narrow to them for many years. That’s because of a law that says people with felonies can’t get EMT licenses, which are required to become a firefighter in many cities across the state. Advocates have long wanted to see this barrier removed so formerly incarcerated folks with firefighting experience have access to good, well-paid jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year they got their wish. In September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837644/newsom-signs-law-paving-way-for-former-inmates-to-become-professional-firefighters\">Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2147\u003c/a>, which would make it easier for formerly incarcerated people to have their records expunged, and open the door to an EMT license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At the site of the North Complex Fire today, Governor \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GavinNewsom\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmReyes47?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmReyes47\u003c/a>‘s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/AB2147?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AB2147\u003c/a> eliminating barriers that prevent former inmate fire crews from pursuing a career as a firefighter once they served their time. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CaliforniaForAll?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CaliforniaForAll\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/tT3D18UJWK\">pic.twitter.com/tT3D18UJWK\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1304514036306829313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Questions remain about how quickly the state will process requests from formerly incarcerated firefighters, but many are grateful there is now a path forward. Samantha Vetter was fighting fires outside Los Angeles this year, but she was released this summer as part of the state’s push to slow the spread of the coronavirus across the prison system. She says the new legislation gives her hope for a career as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very grateful that the bill passed and I’m grateful for everyone who voted on it,” Vetter said. “There’s a lot of us that want to change and it is just really going to help. Totally one less obstacle, and I feel blessed that it went through at the perfect time. You know, I did just get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the governor is shifting resources away from the fire camps. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article246400810.html\">state plans to shutter eight\u003c/a> at the end of fire season, which will mean fewer opportunities for incarcerated people to participate in the program. At the same time, Newsom is expanding the California Conservation Corps, which means the state will bolster the number of civilian hand crews fighting wildland fires while contracting its prison camp program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hey’ve been here for hours: buses full of seniors still idling in the parking lot. Hundreds of white-haired and bald fire refugees, some of them still in their pajamas, lean on walkers or sit on folding chairs scattered on the sidewalk outside the door of the evacuation center, waiting. They ended up here, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa, in the very early morning hours of Sept. 28, 2020, after the fast-moving Glass Fire forced them out of bed at the retirement communities where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after hours of waiting for a cot, there’s no sign they will be allowed in anytime soon, or at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were absolutely not ready for us,” said Pierre LaBerge, 86, who helped his fellow residents evacuate their retirement community that night, and who has fled his home three times in the last four years. “The previous time, it was very efficient. But this has been not too perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1310519995835641856?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, there’s a pandemic on top of a wildfire, and the evacuation centers can only admit a fraction of evacuees in order to maintain safe social distance between cots. This time, the fire is moving even faster, and the evacuation center may itself have to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man in an orange vest jumps up on one of the folding chairs to announce that, because of rapidly shifting fire behavior, they are no longer accepting people here at the vets building. Everyone out here will have to move on to another evacuation center, 18 miles away in Petaluma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I have to caution you against,” he shouts to the crowd, “is getting your hopes up that you are going to walk into a bed over there. It is likely going to be like this again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More crowds and more waiting, as the county races to set up the next evacuation site. Sleep is still hours away for these seniors, but no one groans or complains. They seem stoic, Zen, or perhaps resigned. They line up to re-board the buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Evacuees on board a bus listen to instructions\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents who fled retirement communities under evacuation orders on Sept. 28 came to the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa by bus. With less capacity because of the pandemic, that shelter filled up quickly. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is not how this was supposed to go. Hundreds of seniors, most of them mobile and independent, but also many who are infirm, in wheelchairs or with dementia, waiting outside in the literal cold, being shuttled from one evacuation site to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not the plan,” said Crista Barnett Nelson, who leads Sonoma County’s long-term care ombudsman program. “These were very frail individuals and they should not have been there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Facilities, Evacuation Sites Not Ready for Glass Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County officials say at least half a dozen long-term care facilities brought as many as 100 of their residents to public evacuation shelters starting late on the night of Sept. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fires across the state become more frequent and intense, some long-term care facilities are, in turn, leaning harder on public resources in evacuations. What happened in Sonoma County during the Glass Fire has sparked a dispute among care homes, county officials and regulators – and it reveals a shifting understanding in California about what’s owed to vulnerable residents in the path of fire, and by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they were not ready for the fire, it’s inexcusable,” said Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane, who visited evacuation sites after the Glass Fire, where she saw several long-term care residents in the crowd of elderly evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a KQED investigation found that 35% of the state’s long-term care homes are in areas at risk for fire. All must have some form of an emergency plan: multiple sites to which they can relocate, feasible transportation and safeguards for the well-being of residents along the way. But regulators for assisted living have almost never found problems with these plans, and nursing home surveyors rarely follow up in person even when deficiencies are found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Older and Overlooked\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44306_GettyImages-1059345394-qut.jpg\" heroURL=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968076\" link1=\"https://data.kqed.org/olderandoverlooked/index.html,See How Wildfires Endanger Older Californians - and Find Out If Your Address Is in a Fire-Prone Area\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968076/even-after-care-homes-abandoned-residents-california-still-isnt-ready-for-wildfires,Even After Care Homes Abandoned Residents, California Still Isn't Ready for Wildfires\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968417/millions-of-older-californians-live-where-wildfire-threatens-mostly-theyre-on-their-own,Millions of Older Californians Live Where Wildfire Threatens. Mostly, They're on Their Own\" link4=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968093,The Questions to Ask Your Loved One's Facility\" link5=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968174/how-we-analyzed-where-older-californians-are-at-increased-risk-for-wildfire,How We Analyzed Where Older Californians Are at Increased Risk for Wildfire\"]More and more care homes are seeking shelter from fires: this year, 27 fires have caused more than 100 facilities to evacuate and relocate nearly 2,400 adults, according to the California Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 has complicated emergency planning and underlined its importance. Advocates for elderly and disabled care home residents say the state’s weak oversight has left facilities unprepared for one emergency, let alone two happening at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a hand in the responsibility of holding these facilities accountable, and that’s what I’m asking of them,” said Paul Dunaway, director of adult and aging services for Sonoma County’s Human Services Department. “I think that the community needs to ask the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Eye of the Firestorm and the Birth of a Law\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent years, wildfire has been threatening care homes all over the state, but Sonoma County has become the epicenter for repeated evacuations of elderly residents. In 2017, the fast-moving Tubbs Fire – which killed 22 people and destroyed about 5,600 homes – revealed gaping holes in emergency plans at two assisted living facilities and spurred new rules to strengthen preparations for future fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the flames approached the Villa Capri and Varenna facilities in Santa Rosa, overnight staff were paralyzed. They had never been trained in evacuations. The printed emergency plan was in a locked office, inaccessible. Keys to vans that could have carried residents to safety were nowhere to be found. Staff used their personal cars to shuttle handfuls of residents out of the area, but left about 100 seniors stranded at the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members and police ultimately came to rescue the remaining seniors, many with dementia or in wheelchairs, shortly before Villa Capri burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt terrible – like you’ve really been abandoned,” said Alice Eurotas, 87. “Leaving all of these elderly people, many of whom cannot walk, to fight the flames? That doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_BethSteffy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_BethSteffy.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_BethSteffy-160x224.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Eurotas enjoys the gardens at Villa Capri assisted living, the day before it burned down in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Steffy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After that, advocates and officials stepped in to demand better plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new state law that took effect in 2019, assisted living facilities are now required to set up two safe relocation sites to take residents in an emergency, a reliable means of transportation to get there and a way to communicate with far-away family members that their elderly loved ones are OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As yet another fire zoomed toward the city in late September, Santa Rosa care homes had to put their new, revised emergency plans to the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Rosa and Petaluma fire crews work to put out a fire at a home on White Oak Drive in the Oakmont neighborhood in east Santa Rosa on Sept. 28, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Residents ‘Suffered’ at Congregate Shelters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the county evacuation shelters began filling up with frail residents from local elder care homes, Crista Barnett Nelson was awakened by a phone call around 3 a.m. Ambulances carrying bed-bound elderly people from a small assisted living facility were pulling up to the Petaluma Veterans Building, and county health officials were concerned the shelter was not the appropriate place for them to be housed, even temporarily, because of their intensive care needs and the risk of coronavirus exposure. Barnett Nelson went down there to redirect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They called and said, ‘They’re not supposed to be here,’ ” Barnett Nelson remembers. “That’s not the plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sonoma County’s long-term care ombudsman, Barnett Nelson investigates elder abuse and advocates for residents at assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, including through an emergency evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My role that evening is to ensure their safety and ensure that all the systems are working that had been planned,” she said. “And then to aid in getting them moved to a more safe environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright.jpg\" alt=\"senior evacuees wait outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 200 elderly evacuees wait at 3 a.m. outside the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa before being turned away from the temporary shelter on Sept. 28, 2020. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six different facilities arrived at public shelters that night, she said. She helped staff from Hill House, whose six residents arrived in a series of ambulances, find another place they could go. She turned another facility, Betsy’s II care home, away at the door, because they had a sister facility they could go to. Oakmont Gardens stayed one night then arranged placements for its roughly 40 assisted living residents. But Spring Lake Village needed more time to make new arrangements after its original relocation sites fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several seniors left at the public shelters had dementia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very confusing for them and very disorienting,” said Barnett Nelson, who visited them at the shelter every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Crista Barnett Nelson, long-term care ombudsman for Sonoma County\"]‘These are private companies and they’re paid to follow these things all the way through. How do you not have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D when you have 400 peoples’ lives in your hands?’[/pullquote]She described one woman with dementia who flagged her down after the first night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Excuse me, ma’am? I’ve chosen to stay. I would like a cot, please,’ ” Barnett Nelson remembers. Even though the woman had already stayed the night before and already had a cot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett Nelson played along and replied, “Absolutely, let me see what I can find for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she started to step away, the woman pulled her aside again and said, “Excuse me, ma’am. I think I want a cot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman was making the decision to stay over and over again, Barnett Nelson said. Weighing pros and cons, worrying about what-ifs. It was just on repeat in her mind, the anxiety looping around and around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could tell for her it was a big decision,” Barnett Nelson said. “But it’s over and over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why change is so distressing for people with dementia, and why it’s so important that they not be moved around multiple times or left in limbo. This is one of the things the new law was supposed to protect against, in Barnett Nelson’s view, by requiring facilities to have a plan in place for where dementia residents can be taken right away in an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other facilities were able to move their residents out of the shelters after one day, Spring Lake Village, a large senior living community that includes assisted living, took four days to finish finding placements for all of its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Lake Village Santa Rosa\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-1536x857.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Spring Lake Village senior living community in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Google Street View)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s too long,” Barnett Nelson said. “Yes, they had to get them out, but you don’t put them in an evacuation shelter for three days while you figure it out. There’s no excuse for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, along with the county’s Paul Dunaway, were so disturbed by the evacuations, they filed a rare complaint with state regulators. They argued emergency plans should be so robust that facilities, especially the large ones, should not need to rely on public shelters the way they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are private companies and they’re paid to follow these things all the way through,” Barnett Nelson said. “How do you not have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D when you have 400 peoples’ lives in your hands?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Plans Scuttled by Power Shutoffs, Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At Spring Lake Village, a property in Santa Rosa owned by the nonprofit Covia, Senior Vice President for Organizational Advancement Mary McMullin said they had a Plan A. And a Plan B, and a few letters beyond that. But fire – and COVID-19 – confounded them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on the morning of Sept. 27, a Nixle alert warned of smoke and ash, but said fire wasn’t a threat to Sonoma County. Then winds shifted. By evening, scanner traffic reported “extreme fire behavior,” with long flames creating new hot spots a mile or more ahead of the fire itself, torch-like conditions that had taken lives in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Spring Lake Village’s neighborhood, an evacuation warning sounded around 10 p.m., with orders to get out issued less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a continuing care retirement community, Spring Lake Village offers independent living to nearly 400 seniors, as well as assisted living and a skilled nursing facility. So its wildfire plan had to meet state and federal standards, overseen by multiple agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those living on their own, Spring Lake Village created a buddy system, where residents checked on each other. McMullin and some residents say that worked better than in previous wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre LaBerge lives in the Spring Lake Village retirement community in Santa Rosa. He helped his fellow residents evacuate during the Glass Fire in September 2020. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody expects to be evacuated,” said Pierre LaBerge, a volunteer fire warden who helped oversee the Glass Fire departures. “You know, they don’t really mean it this time, do they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people left to stay with friends or family; others had signed up to take a pre-arranged bus to a hotel in Tahoe. But that night, McMullin said the Tahoe hotel was subject to a power shutoff meant to prevent wildfire starts and couldn’t check in nearly 100 seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For assisted living, Spring Lake Village had “handshake agreements” with facilities outside of the area to accept short-term about two dozen residents who need some help with daily activities. Because of the pandemic, those agreements fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The relationships we had, when push came to shove, they were unwilling to accept people due to the COVID restrictions and not wanting to put their residents at risk,” McMullin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Spring Lake Village’s 51 skilled nursing patients headed directly for St. Paul’s Towers in Oakland, a sister facility also owned by Covia. McMullin said the plan was to take the rest to other Covia properties, including Webster House in Palo Alto. But she said families of some residents didn’t want them to go that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Spring Lake Village sent so many people to Veterans Memorial on Sunday night. McMullin defends the decision, pointing out that more than two dozen staffers boarded buses and drove cars to the shelters to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the county directed Spring Lake Village to go to the congregate shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why else would we have gone there?” she said. “It wasn’t like we just stuck a finger up in the wind and said, where are we going, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMullin said the county got “caught a little flat-footed” that Sunday night. But Sonoma County spokeswoman Carly Cabrera disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county was not aware of [Spring Lake Village’s] evacuation plans before the arrival of patients from the facility to the Santa Rosa Veterans Building,” she said. Once they arrived, she said the county helped “craft a plan to move 12 skilled nursing patients to the Cloverdale Health Center by the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Regulators Side With Facilities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County complained to state regulators and said it has opened a local investigation into what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state regulators dismiss the county’s concerns that care homes didn’t have good plans in place, and that they were relying too heavily on public resources. In a written statement, the California Department of Social Services, which regulates assisted living facilities, called the actions of facilities “appropriate,” and said their plans meet state standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the plan cannot be followed due to extenuating circumstances, they may use public resources, such as a shelter, to ensure the health and safety of residents in care,” the department wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1968093 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/nursinghome-1038x576.jpg']Both CDSS and the California Department of Public Health, which regulates nursing homes, said they help facilities by strategizing how to evacuate, finding placements for their charges, and marshalling any public resources they can to help. For example, CDSS said it worked with officials at the Petaluma fairgrounds to secure a private room for Spring Lake Village evacuees for four nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither regulator finds fault with the evacuations. CDPH issued no deficiencies related to what the department’s surveyor saw at the evacuation sites during the Glass Fire, and CDSS said it’s not investigating any assisted living responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials and advocates for the elderly say if the state won’t hold the facilities accountable, the community will have to. Residents who pay high monthly rents and service fees will have to demand better emergency plans for their money, said Barnett Nelson, the Sonoma County long-term care ombudsman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we have to stop relying on government to make people do the right thing,” she said. “They need to do it because it’s the right thing to do and they’re getting paid a lot of money to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuations Bring Trauma, Confusion and Uncertainty\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Communities like Spring Lake Village aim to reduce uncertainty about where to live for older residents as their health needs are changing. Even under the best-executed plans, wildfire and evacuations directly undermine that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuations cause emotional and physical trauma for older people. Studies have shown that people with dementia are at higher risk of death in the months following a natural disaster, like a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that it takes a toll on you,” said Pierre LaBerge. “I mean, it’s spooky. The sky is all smoky and fiery, and people are walking around, not knowing what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation for older people is hard on family members, too. Barb Nesbett’s parents, Betty and Barney Johnson met on a blind date at Tommy’s Joynt in San Francisco; they spent more than half a century in the same house before deciding to move to Spring Lake Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want us, the kids, to worry about them,” Nesbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the fires broke out last month, Nesbett and her dad, who was in independent living, didn’t know where her mom, a skilled nursing patient, was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nesbett emailed the facility multiple times and posted on Facebook, but it was days before a Spring Lake Village staffer called her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She felt just awful that no one had gotten back to me,” Nesbett said through tears. “But she did see my mom and assured me my mom was fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now back at Spring Lake Village, her parents are quarantined against the risk of the pandemic. Her father can only wave to her mother through a window. That isolation and these evacuations – this is not the way old age is supposed to go, Nesbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not how my parents envisioned these years,” she said. “It’s just been awful and it’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is Santa Rosa the Right Place to Retire?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For all of the confusion and finger pointing about who should have done what better with these evacuations, the real villain is wildfire. The villain is climate change, and the uncertainty and unpredictability of how it will impact the winds and heat that conspire to create these infernos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do know that the winds will keep blowing and the fires will continue to erupt. And we know they’re getting worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1=\"https://data.kqed.org/olderandoverlooked/index.html,See How Wildfires Endanger Older Californians - and it's Getting Worse\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS27514_GettyImages-860684916-1020x680.jpg\"]Climate change has made major fires in California more common and more destructive – including those in Santa Rosa, raising questions about whether the city is really a safe place for seniors to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In light of two fires in three years, what is the market viability of that community in the long run? You know? And will residents choose to be there?” said Covia’s Mary McMullin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she adds that it’s a statewide concern, not just a Spring Lake Village one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are safer with us because we’re equipped. There’s no doubt about that. If someone said, should I still move in? I would say absolutely,” she said. “I know it’s traumatizing for residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Barnett Nelson points out that after the Tubbs Fire roared through, many people in Sonoma County treated it like an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Villa Capri\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Villa Capri assisted living center in Santa Rosa on July 29, 2020 – on the same spot where it burned down in 2017. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They started rebuilding immediately in the exact same spot,” she said, referring to the owners of Villa Capri, who rebuilt on the same land where residents were abandoned in 2017 and where fire has returned, again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who were here in the ’60s when there weren’t homes said, ‘Don’t build homes there. That’s a fire zone!’ ” said Crista Barnett Nelson. “And then they grew old and probably passed and they built homes there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierre LaBerge has returned to his Spring Lake Village home – though he, too, is growing weary of the heat, the fires, the evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBerge and his wife retired to Santa Rosa more than 20 years ago, settling in the Fountaingrove neighborhood. His home there burned to the ground not long after he sold it to move to Spring Lake Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBerge said he and his neighbors are living through the results of global warming: new conditions, to which everyone needs to adapt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to be smarter … We’re on a learning curve,” he said. “Nothing’s the same as it was. And you’ve got to accept that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBerge muses about where else he might have retired to, what other conditions might have threatened their homes: tornadoes, snowstorms, floods. But he and his wife love California. And he said they’re too old to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would we have picked here again?” he asked himself. “I dunno. I doubt it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabe Meline, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Lisa Pickoff-White contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>This time, there’s a pandemic on top of a wildfire, and the evacuation centers can only admit a fraction of evacuees in order to maintain safe social distance between cots. This time, the fire is moving even faster, and the evacuation center may itself have to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man in an orange vest jumps up on one of the folding chairs to announce that, because of rapidly shifting fire behavior, they are no longer accepting people here at the vets building. Everyone out here will have to move on to another evacuation center, 18 miles away in Petaluma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I have to caution you against,” he shouts to the crowd, “is getting your hopes up that you are going to walk into a bed over there. It is likely going to be like this again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More crowds and more waiting, as the county races to set up the next evacuation site. Sleep is still hours away for these seniors, but no one groans or complains. They seem stoic, Zen, or perhaps resigned. They line up to re-board the buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Evacuees on board a bus listen to instructions\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45561_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents who fled retirement communities under evacuation orders on Sept. 28 came to the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa by bus. With less capacity because of the pandemic, that shelter filled up quickly. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is not how this was supposed to go. Hundreds of seniors, most of them mobile and independent, but also many who are infirm, in wheelchairs or with dementia, waiting outside in the literal cold, being shuttled from one evacuation site to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not the plan,” said Crista Barnett Nelson, who leads Sonoma County’s long-term care ombudsman program. “These were very frail individuals and they should not have been there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Facilities, Evacuation Sites Not Ready for Glass Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County officials say at least half a dozen long-term care facilities brought as many as 100 of their residents to public evacuation shelters starting late on the night of Sept. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fires across the state become more frequent and intense, some long-term care facilities are, in turn, leaning harder on public resources in evacuations. What happened in Sonoma County during the Glass Fire has sparked a dispute among care homes, county officials and regulators – and it reveals a shifting understanding in California about what’s owed to vulnerable residents in the path of fire, and by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they were not ready for the fire, it’s inexcusable,” said Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane, who visited evacuation sites after the Glass Fire, where she saw several long-term care residents in the crowd of elderly evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More and more care homes are seeking shelter from fires: this year, 27 fires have caused more than 100 facilities to evacuate and relocate nearly 2,400 adults, according to the California Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 has complicated emergency planning and underlined its importance. Advocates for elderly and disabled care home residents say the state’s weak oversight has left facilities unprepared for one emergency, let alone two happening at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a hand in the responsibility of holding these facilities accountable, and that’s what I’m asking of them,” said Paul Dunaway, director of adult and aging services for Sonoma County’s Human Services Department. “I think that the community needs to ask the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Eye of the Firestorm and the Birth of a Law\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent years, wildfire has been threatening care homes all over the state, but Sonoma County has become the epicenter for repeated evacuations of elderly residents. In 2017, the fast-moving Tubbs Fire – which killed 22 people and destroyed about 5,600 homes – revealed gaping holes in emergency plans at two assisted living facilities and spurred new rules to strengthen preparations for future fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the flames approached the Villa Capri and Varenna facilities in Santa Rosa, overnight staff were paralyzed. They had never been trained in evacuations. The printed emergency plan was in a locked office, inaccessible. Keys to vans that could have carried residents to safety were nowhere to be found. Staff used their personal cars to shuttle handfuls of residents out of the area, but left about 100 seniors stranded at the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members and police ultimately came to rescue the remaining seniors, many with dementia or in wheelchairs, shortly before Villa Capri burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt terrible – like you’ve really been abandoned,” said Alice Eurotas, 87. “Leaving all of these elderly people, many of whom cannot walk, to fight the flames? That doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_BethSteffy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_BethSteffy.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_BethSteffy-160x224.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Eurotas enjoys the gardens at Villa Capri assisted living, the day before it burned down in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Steffy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After that, advocates and officials stepped in to demand better plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new state law that took effect in 2019, assisted living facilities are now required to set up two safe relocation sites to take residents in an emergency, a reliable means of transportation to get there and a way to communicate with far-away family members that their elderly loved ones are OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As yet another fire zoomed toward the city in late September, Santa Rosa care homes had to put their new, revised emergency plans to the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45101_010_KQED_SantaRosa_GlassIncident_09282020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Rosa and Petaluma fire crews work to put out a fire at a home on White Oak Drive in the Oakmont neighborhood in east Santa Rosa on Sept. 28, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Residents ‘Suffered’ at Congregate Shelters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the county evacuation shelters began filling up with frail residents from local elder care homes, Crista Barnett Nelson was awakened by a phone call around 3 a.m. Ambulances carrying bed-bound elderly people from a small assisted living facility were pulling up to the Petaluma Veterans Building, and county health officials were concerned the shelter was not the appropriate place for them to be housed, even temporarily, because of their intensive care needs and the risk of coronavirus exposure. Barnett Nelson went down there to redirect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They called and said, ‘They’re not supposed to be here,’ ” Barnett Nelson remembers. “That’s not the plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sonoma County’s long-term care ombudsman, Barnett Nelson investigates elder abuse and advocates for residents at assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, including through an emergency evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My role that evening is to ensure their safety and ensure that all the systems are working that had been planned,” she said. “And then to aid in getting them moved to a more safe environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright.jpg\" alt=\"senior evacuees wait outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Seniors-Wait-Outside-Meline_bright-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 200 elderly evacuees wait at 3 a.m. outside the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa before being turned away from the temporary shelter on Sept. 28, 2020. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six different facilities arrived at public shelters that night, she said. She helped staff from Hill House, whose six residents arrived in a series of ambulances, find another place they could go. She turned another facility, Betsy’s II care home, away at the door, because they had a sister facility they could go to. Oakmont Gardens stayed one night then arranged placements for its roughly 40 assisted living residents. But Spring Lake Village needed more time to make new arrangements after its original relocation sites fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several seniors left at the public shelters had dementia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very confusing for them and very disorienting,” said Barnett Nelson, who visited them at the shelter every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She described one woman with dementia who flagged her down after the first night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Excuse me, ma’am? I’ve chosen to stay. I would like a cot, please,’ ” Barnett Nelson remembers. Even though the woman had already stayed the night before and already had a cot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett Nelson played along and replied, “Absolutely, let me see what I can find for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she started to step away, the woman pulled her aside again and said, “Excuse me, ma’am. I think I want a cot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman was making the decision to stay over and over again, Barnett Nelson said. Weighing pros and cons, worrying about what-ifs. It was just on repeat in her mind, the anxiety looping around and around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could tell for her it was a big decision,” Barnett Nelson said. “But it’s over and over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why change is so distressing for people with dementia, and why it’s so important that they not be moved around multiple times or left in limbo. This is one of the things the new law was supposed to protect against, in Barnett Nelson’s view, by requiring facilities to have a plan in place for where dementia residents can be taken right away in an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other facilities were able to move their residents out of the shelters after one day, Spring Lake Village, a large senior living community that includes assisted living, took four days to finish finding placements for all of its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Lake Village Santa Rosa\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Spring-Lake-Village-1536x857.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Spring Lake Village senior living community in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Google Street View)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s too long,” Barnett Nelson said. “Yes, they had to get them out, but you don’t put them in an evacuation shelter for three days while you figure it out. There’s no excuse for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, along with the county’s Paul Dunaway, were so disturbed by the evacuations, they filed a rare complaint with state regulators. They argued emergency plans should be so robust that facilities, especially the large ones, should not need to rely on public shelters the way they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are private companies and they’re paid to follow these things all the way through,” Barnett Nelson said. “How do you not have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D when you have 400 peoples’ lives in your hands?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Plans Scuttled by Power Shutoffs, Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At Spring Lake Village, a property in Santa Rosa owned by the nonprofit Covia, Senior Vice President for Organizational Advancement Mary McMullin said they had a Plan A. And a Plan B, and a few letters beyond that. But fire – and COVID-19 – confounded them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on the morning of Sept. 27, a Nixle alert warned of smoke and ash, but said fire wasn’t a threat to Sonoma County. Then winds shifted. By evening, scanner traffic reported “extreme fire behavior,” with long flames creating new hot spots a mile or more ahead of the fire itself, torch-like conditions that had taken lives in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Spring Lake Village’s neighborhood, an evacuation warning sounded around 10 p.m., with orders to get out issued less than an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a continuing care retirement community, Spring Lake Village offers independent living to nearly 400 seniors, as well as assisted living and a skilled nursing facility. So its wildfire plan had to meet state and federal standards, overseen by multiple agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those living on their own, Spring Lake Village created a buddy system, where residents checked on each other. McMullin and some residents say that worked better than in previous wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45559_Pierre-La-Berge-evacuee-2-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre LaBerge lives in the Spring Lake Village retirement community in Santa Rosa. He helped his fellow residents evacuate during the Glass Fire in September 2020. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody expects to be evacuated,” said Pierre LaBerge, a volunteer fire warden who helped oversee the Glass Fire departures. “You know, they don’t really mean it this time, do they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people left to stay with friends or family; others had signed up to take a pre-arranged bus to a hotel in Tahoe. But that night, McMullin said the Tahoe hotel was subject to a power shutoff meant to prevent wildfire starts and couldn’t check in nearly 100 seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For assisted living, Spring Lake Village had “handshake agreements” with facilities outside of the area to accept short-term about two dozen residents who need some help with daily activities. Because of the pandemic, those agreements fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The relationships we had, when push came to shove, they were unwilling to accept people due to the COVID restrictions and not wanting to put their residents at risk,” McMullin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Spring Lake Village’s 51 skilled nursing patients headed directly for St. Paul’s Towers in Oakland, a sister facility also owned by Covia. McMullin said the plan was to take the rest to other Covia properties, including Webster House in Palo Alto. But she said families of some residents didn’t want them to go that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Spring Lake Village sent so many people to Veterans Memorial on Sunday night. McMullin defends the decision, pointing out that more than two dozen staffers boarded buses and drove cars to the shelters to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the county directed Spring Lake Village to go to the congregate shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why else would we have gone there?” she said. “It wasn’t like we just stuck a finger up in the wind and said, where are we going, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMullin said the county got “caught a little flat-footed” that Sunday night. But Sonoma County spokeswoman Carly Cabrera disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county was not aware of [Spring Lake Village’s] evacuation plans before the arrival of patients from the facility to the Santa Rosa Veterans Building,” she said. Once they arrived, she said the county helped “craft a plan to move 12 skilled nursing patients to the Cloverdale Health Center by the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Regulators Side With Facilities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County complained to state regulators and said it has opened a local investigation into what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state regulators dismiss the county’s concerns that care homes didn’t have good plans in place, and that they were relying too heavily on public resources. In a written statement, the California Department of Social Services, which regulates assisted living facilities, called the actions of facilities “appropriate,” and said their plans meet state standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the plan cannot be followed due to extenuating circumstances, they may use public resources, such as a shelter, to ensure the health and safety of residents in care,” the department wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Both CDSS and the California Department of Public Health, which regulates nursing homes, said they help facilities by strategizing how to evacuate, finding placements for their charges, and marshalling any public resources they can to help. For example, CDSS said it worked with officials at the Petaluma fairgrounds to secure a private room for Spring Lake Village evacuees for four nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither regulator finds fault with the evacuations. CDPH issued no deficiencies related to what the department’s surveyor saw at the evacuation sites during the Glass Fire, and CDSS said it’s not investigating any assisted living responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials and advocates for the elderly say if the state won’t hold the facilities accountable, the community will have to. Residents who pay high monthly rents and service fees will have to demand better emergency plans for their money, said Barnett Nelson, the Sonoma County long-term care ombudsman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we have to stop relying on government to make people do the right thing,” she said. “They need to do it because it’s the right thing to do and they’re getting paid a lot of money to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuations Bring Trauma, Confusion and Uncertainty\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Communities like Spring Lake Village aim to reduce uncertainty about where to live for older residents as their health needs are changing. Even under the best-executed plans, wildfire and evacuations directly undermine that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuations cause emotional and physical trauma for older people. Studies have shown that people with dementia are at higher risk of death in the months following a natural disaster, like a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that it takes a toll on you,” said Pierre LaBerge. “I mean, it’s spooky. The sky is all smoky and fiery, and people are walking around, not knowing what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation for older people is hard on family members, too. Barb Nesbett’s parents, Betty and Barney Johnson met on a blind date at Tommy’s Joynt in San Francisco; they spent more than half a century in the same house before deciding to move to Spring Lake Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want us, the kids, to worry about them,” Nesbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the fires broke out last month, Nesbett and her dad, who was in independent living, didn’t know where her mom, a skilled nursing patient, was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nesbett emailed the facility multiple times and posted on Facebook, but it was days before a Spring Lake Village staffer called her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She felt just awful that no one had gotten back to me,” Nesbett said through tears. “But she did see my mom and assured me my mom was fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now back at Spring Lake Village, her parents are quarantined against the risk of the pandemic. Her father can only wave to her mother through a window. That isolation and these evacuations – this is not the way old age is supposed to go, Nesbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not how my parents envisioned these years,” she said. “It’s just been awful and it’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is Santa Rosa the Right Place to Retire?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For all of the confusion and finger pointing about who should have done what better with these evacuations, the real villain is wildfire. The villain is climate change, and the uncertainty and unpredictability of how it will impact the winds and heat that conspire to create these infernos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do know that the winds will keep blowing and the fires will continue to erupt. And we know they’re getting worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Climate change has made major fires in California more common and more destructive – including those in Santa Rosa, raising questions about whether the city is really a safe place for seniors to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In light of two fires in three years, what is the market viability of that community in the long run? You know? And will residents choose to be there?” said Covia’s Mary McMullin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she adds that it’s a statewide concern, not just a Spring Lake Village one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are safer with us because we’re equipped. There’s no doubt about that. If someone said, should I still move in? I would say absolutely,” she said. “I know it’s traumatizing for residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Barnett Nelson points out that after the Tubbs Fire roared through, many people in Sonoma County treated it like an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Villa Capri\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44158_006_KQED_SantaRosa_OlderandOverlooked_07292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Villa Capri assisted living center in Santa Rosa on July 29, 2020 – on the same spot where it burned down in 2017. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They started rebuilding immediately in the exact same spot,” she said, referring to the owners of Villa Capri, who rebuilt on the same land where residents were abandoned in 2017 and where fire has returned, again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who were here in the ’60s when there weren’t homes said, ‘Don’t build homes there. That’s a fire zone!’ ” said Crista Barnett Nelson. “And then they grew old and probably passed and they built homes there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierre LaBerge has returned to his Spring Lake Village home – though he, too, is growing weary of the heat, the fires, the evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBerge and his wife retired to Santa Rosa more than 20 years ago, settling in the Fountaingrove neighborhood. His home there burned to the ground not long after he sold it to move to Spring Lake Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBerge said he and his neighbors are living through the results of global warming: new conditions, to which everyone needs to adapt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to be smarter … We’re on a learning curve,” he said. “Nothing’s the same as it was. And you’ve got to accept that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBerge muses about where else he might have retired to, what other conditions might have threatened their homes: tornadoes, snowstorms, floods. But he and his wife love California. And he said they’re too old to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would we have picked here again?” he asked himself. “I dunno. I doubt it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabe Meline, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Lisa Pickoff-White contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The 2020 election is being held amidst a deadly pandemic, extreme political polarization and, in California, wildfires that have scorched a historic number of acres while forcing thousands to flee their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also brought into sharper view the issue of climate change, a key dividing line between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837821/trump-to-visit-california-for-a-wildfire-briefing\">paid a last minute visit\u003c/a> to California during the worst of the October fires, he disputed the notion that scientists know the cause of climate change, and instead reiterated his belief that better forest management was the best way to prevent the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) stunned California officials by rejecting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request for an emergency declaration to help get federal assistance with six fires and their aftermath. Only after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) and others intervened did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1970419/trump-administration-denies-more-disaster-relief-for-california-wildfires\">Trump reverse FEMA’s decision\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2016 presidential election, where Hillary Clinton swamped Donald Trump by more than 4 million votes in California, the outcome in Lake and Butte counties was much closer — with Trump narrowly beating Clinton in Butte and Clinton edging out Trump in Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both counties have also been ravaged by wildfires, leaving them in the hands of firefighters and, in many cases, the help of neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We visited those counties this past week to see how those disasters are affecting the way voters there are thinking about this year’s election. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn’t part of the San Francisco Bay Area, but it’s bordered by two counties that are\u003ci> —\u003c/i> Napa and Sonoma. And about 60% of Lake County has been burned by wildfires in the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butte County is also rural with wide open spaces. It’s home to Chico State University and the town of Paradise, which was devastated in the Camp Fire two years ago. And these days, you see a lot of burned out lots and shuttered businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the people we met along the way, and their thoughts about partisan division and how living through wildfires affects their thinking about government and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Kelly, Clearlake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11843915 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soap maker Elizabeth Kelly of Clearlake at the farmer’s market. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Lake County Farmers Market last weekend, vendor Elizabeth Kelly was selling soap and lotion made from goat milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2018 — the Sulphur Fire — I lost all of my coops, pens, fencing. I had gotten my animals out, but I just kind of had to start completely over,” Kelly said. “The only thing that remained on that property was my house, which … thank you God, for that blessing. But everything else I lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said despite the destruction, the fires have brought the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like, if you need a place to stay, my house is open. If you need something, you let me know (and) we plaster it all over Facebook and Lake County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Merrill, Lower Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11843920 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beekeeper Dan Merrill in Lower Lake \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of independent voters and they swing one way or the other depending on what they see. Whereas most counties you get that it’s blue or it’s red, I see a lot of change up over here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding political polarization: “I haven’t seen the response that I’ve seen from, like, friends of mine that are out of the state. You can see a Democrat and Republican (yard) sign next to each other without anyone throwing stuff at their neighbor. You know, it’s still civil, so to speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deb Bauman, Chair, Lake County Democratic Central Committee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deb Bauman in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the most important thing to remember about places like Lake County is that neighbors depend upon each other and we are neighbors \u003cem>first.\u003c/em> And I have very good friends who are of other parties. And we stick together in terms of when a wildfire is coming, when animals need to be evacuated or anything like that. We’re there for each other and we are neighbors first and always.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Armijo, Lower Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3523-scaled-e1603938414932.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Armijo, 25, in Lower Lake. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve lost family members and friends, good friends, just from political beliefs, you know? This has never been this way — it’s like they just have a meltdown as soon as you start to say your side. But we can’t meet somewhere in the middle. We can not. I don’t know why. You know, I see way more Republicans trying to meet in the middle than Democrats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teresa Harborth, owner, Pasquinelli’s Deli in Lower Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Harborth, owner of Pasquinelli’s Deli in Lower Lake. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am a very avid Trump supporter because I think our economy needs that climate. We need to get back to brass tacks. We need to get back to what America is supposed to be. I was raised where you worked hard, you know, you made your own way. You made the right decisions. You had the opportunities to do what you needed to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Navitsky, Paradise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1669\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-800x927.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-1020x1182.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-1325x1536.jpg 1325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Navitsky, whose bar burned down in the 2018 Camp Fire.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Navitsky spent much of 2019 rebuilding after her bar, Jen’s Place, after it burned down in the 2018 Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost everything. And are trying to rebuild our community and our lives. It’s tough. That’s why I worked really hard to get this place open, because I knew our community, you needed a place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navitsky tries to stay away from political discussions, though her customers often get into heated debates. And she said, between the election and the pandemic, everyone is exhausted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s torn with it. Everybody feels once the elections come and go, then COVID is going to be gone. I get a lot of that in here. I have a lot of people who don’t want to wear masks and they’re just totally over it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathi Hiatt, Magalia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1020x1359.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1537x2048.jpg 1537w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathi Hiatt, standing in front of her home. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kathi Hiatt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kathi Hiatt and her husband are Trump supporters. She believes both the state and federal government bear some responsibility for letting the forest get overgrown. But she also points a finger at environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get protecting forests, but not to the point to where it’s burned a whole community down because of lack of cleanup. So I blame both. Most fires that come through will go through the treetops. That thing came through here so hot and heavy and it just took everything out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phil Howard, Magalia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-800x701.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-1020x894.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-1536x1346.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magalia resident Phil Howard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Howard is lifelong Republican, but will be voting for Biden. Howard doesn’t support Trump. He doesn’t like his stance on the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the fixes that he is proposing right now are shortsighted. We’ve got to fix our environment or nothing else matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn’t part of the San Francisco Bay Area, but it’s bordered by two counties that are\u003ci> —\u003c/i> Napa and Sonoma. And about 60% of Lake County has been burned by wildfires in the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butte County is also rural with wide open spaces. It’s home to Chico State University and the town of Paradise, which was devastated in the Camp Fire two years ago. And these days, you see a lot of burned out lots and shuttered businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the people we met along the way, and their thoughts about partisan division and how living through wildfires affects their thinking about government and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Kelly, Clearlake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11843915 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3564-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soap maker Elizabeth Kelly of Clearlake at the farmer’s market. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Lake County Farmers Market last weekend, vendor Elizabeth Kelly was selling soap and lotion made from goat milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2018 — the Sulphur Fire — I lost all of my coops, pens, fencing. I had gotten my animals out, but I just kind of had to start completely over,” Kelly said. “The only thing that remained on that property was my house, which … thank you God, for that blessing. But everything else I lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said despite the destruction, the fires have brought the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like, if you need a place to stay, my house is open. If you need something, you let me know (and) we plaster it all over Facebook and Lake County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Merrill, Lower Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11843920 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3574-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beekeeper Dan Merrill in Lower Lake \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of independent voters and they swing one way or the other depending on what they see. Whereas most counties you get that it’s blue or it’s red, I see a lot of change up over here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding political polarization: “I haven’t seen the response that I’ve seen from, like, friends of mine that are out of the state. You can see a Democrat and Republican (yard) sign next to each other without anyone throwing stuff at their neighbor. You know, it’s still civil, so to speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deb Bauman, Chair, Lake County Democratic Central Committee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3575-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deb Bauman in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the most important thing to remember about places like Lake County is that neighbors depend upon each other and we are neighbors \u003cem>first.\u003c/em> And I have very good friends who are of other parties. And we stick together in terms of when a wildfire is coming, when animals need to be evacuated or anything like that. We’re there for each other and we are neighbors first and always.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Armijo, Lower Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3523-scaled-e1603938414932.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Armijo, 25, in Lower Lake. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve lost family members and friends, good friends, just from political beliefs, you know? This has never been this way — it’s like they just have a meltdown as soon as you start to say your side. But we can’t meet somewhere in the middle. We can not. I don’t know why. You know, I see way more Republicans trying to meet in the middle than Democrats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teresa Harborth, owner, Pasquinelli’s Deli in Lower Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/IMG_3513-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Harborth, owner of Pasquinelli’s Deli in Lower Lake. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am a very avid Trump supporter because I think our economy needs that climate. We need to get back to brass tacks. We need to get back to what America is supposed to be. I was raised where you worked hard, you know, you made your own way. You made the right decisions. You had the opportunities to do what you needed to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Navitsky, Paradise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1669\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-800x927.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-1020x1182.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45493_Jennifer-qut-1325x1536.jpg 1325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Navitsky, whose bar burned down in the 2018 Camp Fire.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Navitsky spent much of 2019 rebuilding after her bar, Jen’s Place, after it burned down in the 2018 Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost everything. And are trying to rebuild our community and our lives. It’s tough. That’s why I worked really hard to get this place open, because I knew our community, you needed a place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navitsky tries to stay away from political discussions, though her customers often get into heated debates. And she said, between the election and the pandemic, everyone is exhausted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s torn with it. Everybody feels once the elections come and go, then COVID is going to be gone. I get a lot of that in here. I have a lot of people who don’t want to wear masks and they’re just totally over it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kathi Hiatt, Magalia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1020x1359.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1537x2048.jpg 1537w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45492_Kathi-2-qut-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathi Hiatt, standing in front of her home. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kathi Hiatt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kathi Hiatt and her husband are Trump supporters. She believes both the state and federal government bear some responsibility for letting the forest get overgrown. But she also points a finger at environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get protecting forests, but not to the point to where it’s burned a whole community down because of lack of cleanup. So I blame both. Most fires that come through will go through the treetops. That thing came through here so hot and heavy and it just took everything out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phil Howard, Magalia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-800x701.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-1020x894.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45494_Revised-Phil-qut-1536x1346.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magalia resident Phil Howard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Howard is lifelong Republican, but will be voting for Biden. 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"content": "\u003cp>A political action committee funded mainly by the Valero Energy company has raised more than a quarter-million dollars to convince Benicia residents to vote for its preferred candidate in the city's mayoral race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Antonio-based oil giant runs the Benicia refinery, one of California's largest, which is located in the small Solano County city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christina Strawbridge, Benicia city councilwoman and mayoral candidate\"]'Once again, Valero has gone after my opponent with negative ads. That does not work in Benicia.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributions to the Working Families for a Strong Benicia PAC represent four times the total combined amount raised from individual donations by the city's three mayoral candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mayor's race, Valero and one of its allied unions are supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/Christina_Strawbridge_Candidate_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christina Strawbridge\u003c/a>, a councilwoman and vice mayor, against Councilman \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/Steve_Young_Candidate_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Young\u003c/a> — both Democrats — funding phone polls, digital ads and mailers and reigniting a debate over the city's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2019, Valero has donated $240,000 to the committee. The donations come two years after the Valero-funded PAC spent thousands to help Strawbridge and Lionel Largaespada \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704576/valero-backed-candidates-win-benicia-city-council-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">win seats\u003c/a> on the Benicia City Council and defeat Kari Birdseye, an environmentalist candidate who supported tighter regulation of the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PAC also received a $25,000 contribution from the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Lodge 549 in what the union calls an effort to stop \"coastal politicians\" from killing manufacturing jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Steve Young wants Benicia to be a town where tech professionals buy a latte and telecommute. Christina Strawbridge wants it to be a place where our members who live in Benicia, who come home from work dirty and tired, can continue to raise their families, too,\" said Timothy Jefferies, the union's business manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Patterson, Benicia's current mayor and one of Valero's leading critics, is leaving office after serving in that position for 13 years and on the City Council for 17 years prior to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election arrives as Valero and other oil companies that produce and process petroleum in California face declining sales because of the coronavirus pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841676/behind-the-battle-for-the-future-of-californias-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasing calls\u003c/a> for the state to move away from fossil fuels as it battles climate change-driven wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839077/strong-california-gas-demand-unlikely-to-return-as-even-refineries-go-renewable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gasoline demand dropping\u003c/a>, two of the Bay Area's refineries, the Marathon plant in Martinez and Phillips 66 in Rodeo, are shifting to producing renewable fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Thursday, Valero announced a \u003ca href=\"https://investorvalero.com/news/news-details/2020/Valero-Energy-Reports-Third-Quarter-2020-Results/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loss of $464 million in the third quarter\u003c/a> of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two worst refinery accidents in the Bay Area in the last three years took place at Valero's Benicia refinery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A May 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681218/cpuc-probe-says-pge-mistakes-led-to-benicia-refinery-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">power outage at the refinery\u003c/a> led to a major release of toxic sulfur, prompting city leaders to call for an industrial safety ordinance. In March 2019, the plant had a series of malfunctions that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737076/valeros-pollution-release-exposes-weaknesses-in-benicias-air-monitoring-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another significant pollution release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson and Young have since pushed for the city to have more regulatory control over the refinery. Attacks from the Valero PAC followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Steve Young doesn't need a job because he is supported by the taxpayers of California. He has no reason to protect Benicia's jobs and tax base,\" states one of the recent mailers from the Valero PAC that was widely distributed to Benicia voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Christina is a local business owner and knows how important it is to keep Benicia working. Now, more than ever, we need leaders like Christina Strawbridge,\" it states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benicia residents have also received several rounds of calls paid for by the Valero-funded PAC, aimed at convincing voters to back Strawbridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Young: 'Leave it to Benicia Voters'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Young says he's not against the refinery, noting that it's a major part of Benicia's economy and that Valero frequently contributes to \"worthy local causes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the PAC is targeting him because he led a Planning Commission vote several years ago that ultimately led to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/index.asp?SEC=B7EDC93A-FFF0-4A14-9B1A-1C8563BC256A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejection of Valero's crude-by-rail application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their ongoing attempts to influence the makeup of the City Council go far beyond normal corporate interest in local affairs,\" Young said in an email. \"Leave it to Benicia voters to elect their own representatives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he wants the company to be more transparent about problems and accidents at the refinery and to send out immediate alerts to Benicia residents when accidents occur. He also says the city should have stronger air quality monitoring systems in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The relationship between Valero and the community is strained,\" Young said, adding that city officials and refinery executives can change that by holding monthly meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he's a stronger candidate than Strawbridge because of his career working in local government and his better understanding of how to address problems facing the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Strawbridge: 'Heal the Divide'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge says that since she was elected to the City Council in 2018, relations between Benicia and the refinery have improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that while the city did not put in place the more stringent regulations that Young and Patterson wanted, Benicia reached an agreement with Valero that includes the addition of portable air monitors, notifications during hazardous material incidents and increased disclosure on incident investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"valero\"]But she also acknowledges that the campaign work by the company's PAC is not helping the two sides get along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The relationship needs to improve and may have had a setback with this election cycle and Valero's formation of a PAC,\" Strawbridge said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is now a continued lack of trust within the community about the methods used during the election that were similar to 2018,\" she added. \"Once again, Valero has gone after my opponent with negative ads. That does not work in Benicia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge believes the pushback from Valero's critics has also gone too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has been a concerted effort to discredit me on social media and the local paper by supporters of my opponent,\" Strawbridge said. \"As mayor of Benicia, I plan to heal the divide our city has experienced for many years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge touts her experience promoting nonprofits, preserving historic buildings and advocating for parks and local tourism. She says her background in small business will help guide the city through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third mayoral candidate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/Jason_Diavatis_Candidate_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Diavatis\u003c/a>, who has not been supported or opposed by the Valero PAC, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Influence in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Valero's donations to the PAC represent just one place the oil company has made campaign contributions to influence California races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil giant and its various political action committees have contributed at least $14.1 million to California groups and congressional candidates in the state since 2015, according to a review of state and federal campaign finance data by \u003ca href=\"https://maplight.org/data/\">MapLight\u003c/a>, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that follows money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Kaune, the Benicia PAC's treasurer and head of political law at Nielsen Merksamer, a Sacramento-based lobbying firm, declined to comment. A Valero spokeswoman also did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700855/valero-backed-group-spends-heavily-to-sway-benicia-city-council-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">work of a similar PAC in the 2018 election\u003c/a> led to a significant divide in Benicia, pitting environmentalists against refinery workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that election, the city filed a complaint with state campaign finance regulators, alleging that Valero sponsored a so-called push poll intended to negatively characterize Birdseye, the environmental candidate. The state's Fair Political Practices Commission, though, declined to investigate the calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute led the City Council to approve stronger disclosure rules for political committees involved in local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But she also acknowledges that the campaign work by the company's PAC is not helping the two sides get along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The relationship needs to improve and may have had a setback with this election cycle and Valero's formation of a PAC,\" Strawbridge said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is now a continued lack of trust within the community about the methods used during the election that were similar to 2018,\" she added. \"Once again, Valero has gone after my opponent with negative ads. That does not work in Benicia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge believes the pushback from Valero's critics has also gone too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has been a concerted effort to discredit me on social media and the local paper by supporters of my opponent,\" Strawbridge said. \"As mayor of Benicia, I plan to heal the divide our city has experienced for many years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge touts her experience promoting nonprofits, preserving historic buildings and advocating for parks and local tourism. She says her background in small business will help guide the city through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third mayoral candidate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/Jason_Diavatis_Candidate_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Diavatis\u003c/a>, who has not been supported or opposed by the Valero PAC, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Influence in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Valero's donations to the PAC represent just one place the oil company has made campaign contributions to influence California races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil giant and its various political action committees have contributed at least $14.1 million to California groups and congressional candidates in the state since 2015, according to a review of state and federal campaign finance data by \u003ca href=\"https://maplight.org/data/\">MapLight\u003c/a>, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that follows money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Kaune, the Benicia PAC's treasurer and head of political law at Nielsen Merksamer, a Sacramento-based lobbying firm, declined to comment. A Valero spokeswoman also did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700855/valero-backed-group-spends-heavily-to-sway-benicia-city-council-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">work of a similar PAC in the 2018 election\u003c/a> led to a significant divide in Benicia, pitting environmentalists against refinery workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that election, the city filed a complaint with state campaign finance regulators, alleging that Valero sponsored a so-called push poll intended to negatively characterize Birdseye, the environmental candidate. The state's Fair Political Practices Commission, though, declined to investigate the calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute led the City Council to approve stronger disclosure rules for political committees involved in local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Back in 1968, Oakland capped the amount anyone could be fined for major city code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly, that $1,000 cap remains in place today. And many city leaders argue it needs to go up – way up – to crack down on flagrant offenses that have long plagued the city, like illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilman\"]‘It hasn’t been changed in 50-plus years. That’s crazy.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/election-2020-alameda-county-measure-rr\">Measure RR\u003c/a>, which the City Council voted unanimously to place on the November ballot, the city would be able to remove that limit and impose higher fines for some of the worst violations. (Note: Oakland’s Measure RR is not to be confused with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/regional-measure-rr-caltrain-sales-tax\">Santa Clara County’s Measure RR\u003c/a>, a sales tax for Caltrain).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For very egregious violators of the municipal code, $1,000 is not enough to deter them from breaking the rules,” said Oakland Councilman Dan Kalb, who introduced the measure. “Sometimes they will just pay the $1,000 and keep doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said the cap should be raised to at least $5,000 to effectively thwart serial violators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t been changed in 50-plus years. That’s crazy,” he said. “The goal is not to get more money — the goal is to deter the bad behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed by a majority of voters, the measure would require the City Council to hold public hearings before raising limits for specific violations, Kalb said. He noted that most fines for less serious violations that are currently well below the $1,000 cap would not go up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, he said, is particularly aimed at certain bad actors who hire themselves out to haul away people’s junk, ostensibly to the county dump, but end up tossing old mattresses, broken refrigerators, construction debris and whatever else in various places around the city. For many of these operators, getting caught and paying the maximum fine costs much less than paying disposal fees at the dump, leaving the city to foot the bill — which adds up to millions of dollars each year — to clean up the mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This happens time and time again,” Kalb said. “Sometimes it’s just a one-off of someone moving out of an apartment,” Kalb said. “It’s the ones that do it repeatedly and make money that we are trying to go after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Taxpayers Association strongly opposes the measure, calling it a “half-baked plan” that would give the city too much punitive power to impose excessive fines for minor infractions like cracked sidewalks or unmowed grass — a claim that backers of the measure say is inaccurate — while doing little to stop illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11656388,science_1917206]“The Proponents are BLIND to the fact that this Charter Amendment will create a bigger mess than the problem than they are trying to solve,” the group wrote in its official rebuttal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal dumping is one of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/PWA/o/FE/s/IDR/index.htm\">most persistent\u003c/a> code enforcement challenges. In 2019, nearly 29,000 Oakland residents made 311 service requests about it, \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiODE1NDg4MGYtMmJjYy00MTc1LWIyMmEtNzhkNDNlMjM0MDZlIiwidCI6Ijk4OWEyMTgwLTZmYmMtNDdmMS04MDMyLTFhOWVlOTY5YzU4ZCJ9\">accounting for over 30%\u003c/a> of all 311 requests in the city that year — far more than any other quality-of-life issue — according to the city. So far this year, almost 40% of all 311 requests — more than 27,000 — have been illegal dumping complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much more common than a pothole,” Kalb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of dumped detritus comes from residential sources, a “significant percentage” of those being Oakland residents, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3108761&GUID=91485569-0C10-4D75-B680-1C999F90AFBA&Options=&Search=\">2017 report\u003c/a> by the city’s Public Works Department. 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