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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>Updated 5:00 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of wildfires sparked by lightning beginning Aug. 16 has spread rapidly across wide stretches of the outer Bay Area, as fire crews contend with high winds, dry air and triple-digit temperatures amid an extended heat wave. Tens of thousands of residents from the North Bay to the Peninsula have been forced to evacuate in the face of three major groupings — or complexes — of out-of-control fires blazing across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This post will be updated when new information is made available. Here's the latest on the three fire complexes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#LNU\">\u003cstrong>LNU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Yolo, Lake counties\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#SCU\">\u003cstrong>SCU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Stanislaus counties\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#CZU\">\u003cstrong>CZU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11833686 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Efos-IOVoAAccRm-1020x765.jpeg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"LNU\">\u003c/a>LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>24-hour information line: 707-967-4207\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16-walbridge/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Cal Fire LNU Twitter Feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU complex of fires\u003c/a>, ignited by a barrage of lightning strikes in Napa early on the morning of Aug. 17, consists of seven separate blazes burning in five different counties — including Sonoma, Napa, Solano and small sections of Yolo and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Evacuation orders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and law enforcement officials are asking people to closely follow evacuation orders. A “high-low” siren will be used to alert residents it is time to leave, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find updated evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">the Solano County Sheriff's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. See a \u003ca href=\"https://doitgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=85ff2f5b85574767905e8157576b8c47&extent=-13609268.342%2C4621030.036%2C-13545061.2382%2C4655388.4802%2C102100&fbclid=IwAR1uQfG3Eu52Dv6hRJYf3cXcuUX5BM7IV5I-lJQn_LZDRNT5cG12lNlX5G4\">map of evacuation orders here\u003c/a>. For evacuation questions call 707-784-1634 or 707-784-1635.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in Napa County can be found at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2966/LNU-Wildfires?fbclid=IwAR1OCqpsFKW5kovRRk9sssHcfHMTBax0t3oUBqNE7Pn22_rFXreo4OzWVd4\">county website here\u003c/a>, on an \u003ca href=\"https://napacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=83d73b75423c4201aecd08e15fa8e6e7\">evacuation map here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CountyofNapa\">via the county's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. For the most up-to-date information, county officials recommend residents reach out to the Cal Fire public information line at (707) 967-4207.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See updated county \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/evacuation-update/\">evacuation information here\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/8ca8296b14384a468c72e63fd6de766a\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Evacuation centers and animal shelters\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Padan School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3400794,-121.9852485,18z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!2s200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687!3b1!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232!3m4!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 Padan School Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fairmont School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1355+Marshall+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3461529,-121.9663376,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d15baf50f47:0x47badef1534e1d48!8m2!3d38.3461744!4d-121.9662407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1355 Marshall Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sierra Vista School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sierra+Vista+K-8+School/@38.3381069,-121.9584584,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!2sSierra+Vista+K-8+School!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697!3m4!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">301 Bel Air Dr., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Joseph Nelson Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/611+Village+Dr,+Suisun+City,+CA+94585/@38.2469366,-122.026825,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808515baf9ac806f:0xc2f842a2b069ddf7!8m2!3d38.2469324!4d-122.0246363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">611 Village Dr., Suisun\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ulatis Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1000+Ulatis+Dr,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3558069,-121.9656301,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d3bccd59483:0xa5dc67cd7fb83648!8m2!3d38.3558027!4d-121.9634414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1000 Ulatis Drive\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McBride Senior Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mc+Bride+Senior+Center/@38.3577804,-121.990451,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!2sMc+Bride+Senior+Center!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623!3m4!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">91 Town Square Place\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will C. 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Atlantic Ave, Fairfield\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service animals can be taken to Guru Nanak Sikh Temple at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Guru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple/@38.2478736,-122.0798616,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!2sGuru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729!3m4!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2948 Rockville Rd. in Fairfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large animals can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Fairgrounds\u003c/a> in Vallejo. Evacuees should enter via the Sage Street gate at the Fairgrounds and follow the signage to the livestock barn area. Questions: Please contact Solano County Animal Control at 707-784-4733\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small pets can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/sheriff/animalcare/gi.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Animal Shelter\u003c/a> 2510 Claybank Rd\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crosswalk Community Church: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/LXpAzvmEpbPQgsXs7\">2590 First Street in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Napa County Animal Shelter: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/C6ZdoyLHnAxucYLd6\">942 Hartle Court in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bodega Bay: Westside Park at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2400+Westshore+Rd,+Bodega+Bay,+CA+94923/@38.3222302,-123.058711,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80842872ac6e0015:0xb83469c3b575bb4f!8m2!3d38.322226!4d-123.0565223\">2400 Westshore Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Healdsburg: Vets Memorial Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/13839+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Healdsburg,+CA+95448/@38.6037451,-122.8592227,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808417211ab3c16b:0x54cd765ca4161e8a!8m2!3d38.6037409!4d-122.857034\">13839 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: A Place to Play at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2375+W+3rd+St,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95401/@38.4396181,-122.7637314,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8084382fe5e7b9d5:0x3796116ecf3ee1fa!8m2!3d38.4396139!4d-122.7615427\">2375 West 3\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> Street\u003c/a> and Schopflin Fields at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/4351+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95403/@38.491325,-122.7448965,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808438c7319ab431:0xa5cd709c9177c1b9!8m2!3d38.4913208!4d-122.7427078\">4351 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sebastopol: Ragle Ranch at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/500+Ragle+Rd,+Sebastopol,+CA+95472/@38.404478,-122.8480563,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80843a7b0330b0d3:0x9febeb55da219da4!8m2!3d38.4044738!4d-122.8458676\">500 Ragle Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal Shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Sonoma County Fairgrounds is sheltering large animals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Fire Sonoma-Napa-Lake Unit\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Sheriff's Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/VacavilleDist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vacaville Fire District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FairfieldPolice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fairfield Police Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marincountyfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/solano/\">Solano County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/sonoma/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/napa/\">Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"SCU\">\u003c/a>SCU Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>Information line: 669-247-7431\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Cal Fire SCU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SCU Lightning Complex is approximately 20 separate fires broken into three zones; the Canyon Zone, the Calaveras Zone and the Deer Zone. The fires continue to burn in steep, rugged terrain in multiple locations across Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the terrain has little to no fire history with ample fuel build up, conducive to extreme fire growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"california-wildfires\" label=\"more wildfire coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation orders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/fire/Pages/home.aspx\">the latest information on evacuations here\u003c/a>, and an official \u003ca href=\"https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=69fca73a82df4fefa7c0e48b66d0899d&extent=-123.2395,36.6849,-119.5618,38.1032\">map here\u003c/a>. The county's hotline for residents under evacuation orders is (408) 808-7778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find the latest evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire's incident site\u003c/a>, and by signing up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check the county's \u003ca href=\"https://cwsalerts.com\">Community Warning System\u003c/a> for new alerts, and sign up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation Centers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quinlan Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/iJ2EDVzJBAhbf1sx9\">10185 N Stelling Rd, Cupertino\u003c/a>. Includes RV parking, residents who may be interested in safe camping locations should bring tents and sleeping bags if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creekside Middle School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/u3sdJVTgZtvjRoMf8\">535 Peregrine Dr. Patterson, CA 94363\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ann Sobrato High School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/g4RRHmqxGL6u6WbVA\">401 Burnett Ave, Morgan Hill\u003c/a>. Not a shelter, but serves to assist residents with temporary housing needs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Cal Fire SCU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-clara/\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">Alameda County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"CZU\">\u003c/a>CZU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CZU August Lightning Complex fire consists of multiple smaller lightning-sparked fires in the Santa Cruz mountains which merged into a massive, dangerous blaze burning in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation orders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation updates can be found at the SMC Wildfire Response page \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-wildfire-response\">here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sanmateoco\">via the county's Twitter account\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents can find a map and list of current evacuation orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">here\u003c/a>, and can sign up for email alerts \u003ca href=\"https://tinyurl.com/czulightning\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Emergency shelters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>: Half Moon Bay High School \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/3TeomERcFJvRxiuH9\">1 Lewis Foster Dr in Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> \u003cem>(Note: Moved out of Pescadero due to fire risk)\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/fireresources.aspx\">Find up-to-date shelter status information here\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Note: the county fairgrounds site is now full.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No animal shelters have been listed yet. If you need assistance evacuating animals, call: 831-454-7200.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU (Twitter)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">County of Santa Cruz\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SantaCruzSO1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-cruz/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/218A80E36F49\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/892807736723485/notif\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"LNU\">\u003c/a>LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>24-hour information line: 707-967-4207\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16-walbridge/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Cal Fire LNU Twitter Feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU complex of fires\u003c/a>, ignited by a barrage of lightning strikes in Napa early on the morning of Aug. 17, consists of seven separate blazes burning in five different counties — including Sonoma, Napa, Solano and small sections of Yolo and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Evacuation orders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and law enforcement officials are asking people to closely follow evacuation orders. A “high-low” siren will be used to alert residents it is time to leave, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find updated evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">the Solano County Sheriff's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. See a \u003ca href=\"https://doitgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=85ff2f5b85574767905e8157576b8c47&extent=-13609268.342%2C4621030.036%2C-13545061.2382%2C4655388.4802%2C102100&fbclid=IwAR1uQfG3Eu52Dv6hRJYf3cXcuUX5BM7IV5I-lJQn_LZDRNT5cG12lNlX5G4\">map of evacuation orders here\u003c/a>. For evacuation questions call 707-784-1634 or 707-784-1635.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in Napa County can be found at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2966/LNU-Wildfires?fbclid=IwAR1OCqpsFKW5kovRRk9sssHcfHMTBax0t3oUBqNE7Pn22_rFXreo4OzWVd4\">county website here\u003c/a>, on an \u003ca href=\"https://napacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=83d73b75423c4201aecd08e15fa8e6e7\">evacuation map here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CountyofNapa\">via the county's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. For the most up-to-date information, county officials recommend residents reach out to the Cal Fire public information line at (707) 967-4207.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See updated county \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/evacuation-update/\">evacuation information here\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/8ca8296b14384a468c72e63fd6de766a\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Evacuation centers and animal shelters\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Padan School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3400794,-121.9852485,18z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!2s200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687!3b1!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232!3m4!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 Padan School Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fairmont School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1355+Marshall+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3461529,-121.9663376,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d15baf50f47:0x47badef1534e1d48!8m2!3d38.3461744!4d-121.9662407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1355 Marshall Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sierra Vista School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sierra+Vista+K-8+School/@38.3381069,-121.9584584,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!2sSierra+Vista+K-8+School!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697!3m4!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">301 Bel Air Dr., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Joseph Nelson Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/611+Village+Dr,+Suisun+City,+CA+94585/@38.2469366,-122.026825,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808515baf9ac806f:0xc2f842a2b069ddf7!8m2!3d38.2469324!4d-122.0246363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">611 Village Dr., Suisun\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ulatis Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1000+Ulatis+Dr,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3558069,-121.9656301,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d3bccd59483:0xa5dc67cd7fb83648!8m2!3d38.3558027!4d-121.9634414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1000 Ulatis Drive\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McBride Senior Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mc+Bride+Senior+Center/@38.3577804,-121.990451,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!2sMc+Bride+Senior+Center!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623!3m4!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">91 Town Square Place\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will C. Wood High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Will+C+Wood+High+School/@38.3455411,-121.9775024,17z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80853d6a074fee55:0x981f2c4f14f49901!2s998+Marshall+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687!3b1!8m2!3d38.3455369!4d-121.9753137!3m4!1s0x80853d41c219e5bb:0x34e677ee187efe01!8m2!3d38.3466192!4d-121.9777036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">998 Marshall Rd, Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lambrecht Fields: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Irving+H.+Lambrecht+Sports+Complex/@38.2450359,-121.9753004,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853fc9919d5909:0xd84721a789fef767!2sIrving+H.+Lambrecht+Sports+Complex!8m2!3d38.2450317!4d-121.9731117!3m4!1s0x80853fc9919d5909:0xd84721a789fef767!8m2!3d38.2450317!4d-121.9731117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petersen Road, Suisun City\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rodriguez High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rodriguez+High+School/@38.1995555,-122.1485833,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x808512589084b9db:0x530de1fc659448e3!2sRodriguez+High+School!8m2!3d38.1995513!4d-122.1463946!3m4!1s0x808512589084b9db:0x530de1fc659448e3!8m2!3d38.1995513!4d-122.1463946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5000 Red Top Rd, Fairfield\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fairfield High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fairfield+High+School/@38.2758675,-122.0332643,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8085167913fa3a4f:0xa3a5d3ea68d87965!8m2!3d38.2758633!4d-122.0310756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">205 E. Atlantic Ave, Fairfield\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service animals can be taken to Guru Nanak Sikh Temple at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Guru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple/@38.2478736,-122.0798616,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!2sGuru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729!3m4!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2948 Rockville Rd. in Fairfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large animals can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Fairgrounds\u003c/a> in Vallejo. Evacuees should enter via the Sage Street gate at the Fairgrounds and follow the signage to the livestock barn area. Questions: Please contact Solano County Animal Control at 707-784-4733\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small pets can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/sheriff/animalcare/gi.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Animal Shelter\u003c/a> 2510 Claybank Rd\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crosswalk Community Church: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/LXpAzvmEpbPQgsXs7\">2590 First Street in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Napa County Animal Shelter: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/C6ZdoyLHnAxucYLd6\">942 Hartle Court in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bodega Bay: Westside Park at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2400+Westshore+Rd,+Bodega+Bay,+CA+94923/@38.3222302,-123.058711,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80842872ac6e0015:0xb83469c3b575bb4f!8m2!3d38.322226!4d-123.0565223\">2400 Westshore Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Healdsburg: Vets Memorial Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/13839+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Healdsburg,+CA+95448/@38.6037451,-122.8592227,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808417211ab3c16b:0x54cd765ca4161e8a!8m2!3d38.6037409!4d-122.857034\">13839 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: A Place to Play at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2375+W+3rd+St,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95401/@38.4396181,-122.7637314,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8084382fe5e7b9d5:0x3796116ecf3ee1fa!8m2!3d38.4396139!4d-122.7615427\">2375 West 3\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> Street\u003c/a> and Schopflin Fields at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/4351+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95403/@38.491325,-122.7448965,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808438c7319ab431:0xa5cd709c9177c1b9!8m2!3d38.4913208!4d-122.7427078\">4351 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sebastopol: Ragle Ranch at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/500+Ragle+Rd,+Sebastopol,+CA+95472/@38.404478,-122.8480563,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80843a7b0330b0d3:0x9febeb55da219da4!8m2!3d38.4044738!4d-122.8458676\">500 Ragle Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal Shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Sonoma County Fairgrounds is sheltering large animals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Fire Sonoma-Napa-Lake Unit\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Sheriff's Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/VacavilleDist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vacaville Fire District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FairfieldPolice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fairfield Police Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marincountyfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/solano/\">Solano County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/sonoma/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/napa/\">Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The county's hotline for residents under evacuation orders is (408) 808-7778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find the latest evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire's incident site\u003c/a>, and by signing up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check the county's \u003ca href=\"https://cwsalerts.com\">Community Warning System\u003c/a> for new alerts, and sign up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation Centers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quinlan Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/iJ2EDVzJBAhbf1sx9\">10185 N Stelling Rd, Cupertino\u003c/a>. Includes RV parking, residents who may be interested in safe camping locations should bring tents and sleeping bags if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creekside Middle School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/u3sdJVTgZtvjRoMf8\">535 Peregrine Dr. Patterson, CA 94363\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ann Sobrato High School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/g4RRHmqxGL6u6WbVA\">401 Burnett Ave, Morgan Hill\u003c/a>. Not a shelter, but serves to assist residents with temporary housing needs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Cal Fire SCU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-clara/\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">Alameda County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"CZU\">\u003c/a>CZU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CZU August Lightning Complex fire consists of multiple smaller lightning-sparked fires in the Santa Cruz mountains which merged into a massive, dangerous blaze burning in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation orders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation updates can be found at the SMC Wildfire Response page \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-wildfire-response\">here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sanmateoco\">via the county's Twitter account\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents can find a map and list of current evacuation orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">here\u003c/a>, and can sign up for email alerts \u003ca href=\"https://tinyurl.com/czulightning\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Emergency shelters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>: Half Moon Bay High School \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/3TeomERcFJvRxiuH9\">1 Lewis Foster Dr in Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> \u003cem>(Note: Moved out of Pescadero due to fire risk)\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/fireresources.aspx\">Find up-to-date shelter status information here\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Note: the county fairgrounds site is now full.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No animal shelters have been listed yet. If you need assistance evacuating animals, call: 831-454-7200.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU (Twitter)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">County of Santa Cruz\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SantaCruzSO1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-cruz/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/218A80E36F49\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/892807736723485/notif\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834086/what-you-need-to-know-bay-area-lightning-fires\">Find more details on evacuations and other essential wildfire information here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of wildfires sparked by lightning over the weekend continued to spread rapidly across large expanses of the outer Bay Area. The fires — in the North Bay, East Bay and Peninsula regions — remained largely uncontained as crews, already stretched thin, contend with high winds, rough terrain and triple-digit temperatures amid a week-long heat wave. One grouping of fires — dubbed the LNU Lightning Complex in Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties — more than doubled in area since Wednesday, blazing across 131,00 acres by Thursday morning and threatening some 30,500 houses and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Thursday, tens of thousands of residents from the North Bay to the Peninsula were ordered to evacuate in the face of three major groupings — or complexes — of fire blazing throughout the region. \u003ca href=\"#original\">Click here\u003c/a> to skip to our original post below the updates section.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The latest updates\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:15 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warning orders for the community of Platina in Shasta County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1296688405233848322\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, an evacuation warning has been issued by Cal Fire for the community of Platina, Calif. in Shasta County. Cal Fire officials are asking citizens of Platina to prepare in the event that evacuations become necessary. Citing \"fire behavior, no containment, lack of resources to include personnel and aircraft,\" Cal Fire advises residents to \"get ready, clear vegetation around your property, have your important documents and medications ready to go.\" For more information, refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4996/readysetgo_plan.pdf\">the READY, SET, GO program\u003c/a> at fire.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders for Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, Cal Fire issued additional evacuation orders in Santa Cruz County, which includes the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296633985586454529?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, the following orders apply to:\u003cbr>\n- All Scott’s Valley residents west of State Route 17.\u003cbr>\n- The Santa Cruz County area of east of Zayante Canyon, west of State Route 17 and south of State Route 35.\u003cbr>\n- University of California, Santa Cruz campus only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County evacuation centers are located at:\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz County Fairground, 2601 E. Lake Avenue in Watsonville\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz (At Capacity)\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Seventh Day Adventist Camp Ground, 1931 Soquel San Jose Rd \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the most current evacuation map and information: \u003ca href=\"http://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders, warnings issued in Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued new evacuation orders and warnings to Santa Clara County residents late Thursday afternoon in response to the SCU Lightning Complex of fires that since Sunday has burned more than 137,000 acres across five counties and remained only 5% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1296537523510894592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following areas, previously under an evacuation warning, are now under a mandatory evacuation order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- East of Shingle Valley Road and everything east of Anderson Lake, east of Coyote Creek, east of Coyote Reservoir, east of Roop Road, east of Leavesly Road, east of Crews Road, east of Ferguson Road.\u003cbr>\n- East and north of state Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- West of the Merced County Line, north of Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- South of Metcalf Road at Shingle Valley Road, east to the\u003cbr>\nStanislaus County Line\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas now under an evacuation warning include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- South of Metcalf Road, east of Coyote Creek to the Anderson Lake\u003cbr>\nShore, east of Cochrane Road, east of Hill Road, and south of Main Avenue, north of Maple Avenue, east of Foothill Avenue, north of San Martin Avenue, east of New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- West of Shingle Valley Road and everything west of Anderson Lake, west of Coyote Creek, west of Coyote reservoir, north and west of Roop Road between Coyote Reservoir Road and New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- East of Lovers Lane and the Santa Cruz County line\u003cbr>\n- South of Highway 152 to the San Benito County Line\u003cbr>\n-West to the Merced County Line\u003cbr>\n- North of the San Benito County Line to Highway 152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are road closures at Holiday Drive at East Dunne Avenue; Coyote Reservoir Road at Roop Road; Canada Road at Highway 152; and Highway 152 at Belle Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter for Santa Clara County residents is available at Ann Sobrato High School in the Performing Arts Building at 401 Burnett Ave. in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees that need animal services can call Santa Clara County Animal Services at (408) 686-3900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4 p.m. Thursday: Santa Cruz County asks all visitors to leave to free up shelter capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center on Thursday afternoon requested that all visitors and tourists staying in local overnight accommodations like hotels and vacation rentals leave the county immediately in order to free up shelter capacity for wildfire evacuees. With local shelters nearing capacity, the EOC is working with local agencies, including cities and school districts, to provide more shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents set up inside a large exhibition hall at the Santa Cruz County Fairground evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county is also asking evacuees to first seek shelter with friends and family and is urging residents with extra bedrooms or even tents to share their information on social media platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those leaving the county should depart south on state Highway 1 or north on state Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of existing and anticipated evacuation orders because of the CZU August Lighting Complex of wildfires is unprecedented, officials said. As of Thursday morning, the fires had already burned 40,000 acres and were 0% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the most current \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75.\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warnings issued for UC Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Thursday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation warning for the entire UC Santa Cruz campus and the the nearby communities of Paradise Park and the area of Scotts Valley west of State Route 17 (encompassing the downtown area). Cal Fire said said an evacuation warning is issued when \"the threat is plausible for fire activity to increase and your residence may be in the affected area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gavin Earnest, 62, inside a tent at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds evacuation center on Aug. 20, 2020. He and his mother, Elizabeth Earnest, evacuated from their Boulder Creek home two days ago. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby evacuation centers include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County Fairground: 2601 E. Lake Ave. in Watsonville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist campground: Soquel San Jose Rd. in Soquel\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium: 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz (was at capacity as of Thursday afternoon).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296561778038513664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:15 p.m. Thursday: Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County now top priority in North Bay\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe 14,500-acre Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County is now the top priority for firefighting efforts in the LNU Lightning Complex of fires burning in the North Bay, fire officials said. The lightning-ignited blaze, which merged overnight with the Stewart Fire, poses a serious threat to Guerneville and neighboring Russian River communities. See map of fire perimeters and evacuation zones \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=69a0e54e9e2b48c086d122027b21c961\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were hoping to make a lot better progress today. We are expecting better conditions than we had the last couple of days,\" said Santa Rosa Assistant Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal at a press briefing Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11 a.m. Thursday: LNU Complex has burned 131,000 acres, with 0% containment\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe LNU Lightning Complex of fires raging in the North Bay has collectively burned 131,000 acres, destroyed 105 structures and damaged 70 others as of Thursday morning, Cal Fire officials said.An estimated 30,500 structures remain threatened by the wildfires, which have prompted widespread evacuations in Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties, among other communities. Cal Fire says the fires are at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296469315705802752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the fires is the Hennessey Fire, which started near Hennessey Ridge Road in Napa County and has spread across 105,000 acres, according to Cal Fire. Another large blaze, the Walbridge Fire west of Healdsburg, has charred 14,500 acres while the Meyers Fire north of Jenner is at 3,000 acres as of Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10 a.m. Thursday: Nearly all East Bay regional parks closed\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDue to the extreme fire activity in the region, nearly all East Bay regional parks — except some shoreline locations — have been shut down closed until further notice, the \u003ca href=\"http://except%20some%20shoreline%20parks\">East Bay Regional Park District announced\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EBRPD/status/1296243710162862080\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is currently experiencing an unprecedented number of wildfires in parks, including Round Valley Regional Preserve, Morgan Territory Regional Preserve, Del Valle Regional Park, Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve, Ohlone Wilderness Regional Preserve, Mission Peak Regional Preserve, and Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. Paved regional trails are not affected by the closures and will remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following parks remain open:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crown Beach State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hayward Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>MLK Jr. Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McLaughlin Eastshore State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Point Isabel Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 a.m. Thursday: Entire town of Felton in Santa Cruz Mountains ordered to evacuate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\">has ordered\u003c/a> all Felton residents to evacuate immediately due to severe fire danger. That includes all six of Felton's evacuation zones. Evacuation centers have been established in San Mateo County at Half Moon Bay High School (1 Lewis Foster Dr.) and in Santa Cruz County at the Civic Auditorium (307 Church St., and 2601 East Lake Ave., Watsonville) and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incident information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8 a.m. Thursday: PG&E worker dies near Vacaville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PG&E worker was found unresponsive in his vehicle in the Gates Canyon area in Vacaville Wednesday, where he had been assisting first responders battling the Hennessey Fire, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409/photo/1\">Cal Fire confirmed\u003c/a> Thursday. CPR was performed and the employee was then brought to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The employee's name has not been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Original post (last updated Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of people were under orders to evacuate from the North Bay to the Peninsula early Wednesday as three major series of lightning-sparked wildfires blazed out of control across the Bay Area amid a heat wave now in its sixth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throughout the state of California right now, we are stretched thin for crews\" because of the fires, said Will Powers, a Cal Fire spokesman. \"Air resources have been stretched thin throughout the whole state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11833686 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Hennessey-fire-1020x609.jpg']Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed \"this extraordinary weather we’re experiencing and all of these lightning strikes” for a total of 367 known fires now burning across California. Newsom said the state had recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the outskirts of the Solano County city of Vacaville, police and firefighters went door to door late Tuesday and early Wednesday in a scramble to warn residents to evacuate as one of the eight blazes that are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> raced toward the residential areas from the northwest. Fire officials said at least 50 structures were destroyed and 50 were damaged and that four people were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LNU Lightning Complex includes lightning-sparked fires burning from the Sonoma County coast east across Napa County and Solano County. The blazes had burned a total 46,225 acres by early Wednesday. Most of the fires are burning in areas with limited access and steep terrain, making it difficult to get crews in. Fire crews were stretched too thin overnight to focus on more than immediate life-saving measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mgafni/status/1296046197409345537?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle reporter Matthias Gafni, who traveled down Pleasants Valley Road on the western outskirts of Vacaville shortly after 4:00 a.m., told KQED that houses were on fire when he arrived, but that most people had evacuated from that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It appeared the fire had just crossed the road and swept eastward towards the city proper,\" Gafni said. \"Houses were on fire. Structures, cars, explosions were being heard as propane tanks exploded and gas lines were whizzing. And it was a pretty chaotic scene when I when I first showed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Godley, Sonoma County's emergency management director, said about 10,000 people were under evacuation orders as crews battled two blazes and were working to set up an evacuation center with alternate locations for people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that resources are strapped statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to second guess what the fire commanders are doing with their aircraft. But it’s not like last year when we saw just a huge wealth of resources flowing into the county,\" he said. “It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents the area, said the fires burning in Napa and Sonoma counties were mostly affecting less populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the people around here, even the people that have structures in harm’s way, understand that they’re in a more rural area and that the people in more densely populated areas have to get the resources first,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation order for residents of the Hidden Valley Lake and Jerusalem Valley areas of Lake County, suggesting a potentially dangerous northward move into that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, about 22,000 people were ordered to evacuate overnight due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">CZU August Lightning Complex fire\u003c/a>, burning in the Santa Cruz mountains, Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fire – also comprised of multiple lightning-sparked blazes – quickly expanded to 10,000 acres overnight and is at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296005460022067200?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last night we saw a major increase in fire activity in both San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties,” Cox said Wednesday morning. “And we saw several of the fires merge together and make a significant run into Santa Cruz County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very active timber fire burning in two counties with a serious threat to both public safety and for structures that are out in front of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials issued evacuation orders late Tuesday night for people living in the Boulder Creek and Ben Lomond areas along Highway 9, and for Bonny Doon down towards Davenport on Highway 1 as multiple blazes merged together in the mountains between Big Basin State Park and Bonny Doon, threatening to move further south and east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased winds on Wednesday afternoon appeared to fuel the blaze's growth and cause the formation of a large pyrocumulus cloud - large, thunderhead-like clouds which top out at high altitudes and are themselves capable of producing lightning. All of the three major complex fires \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1296209917410455552?s=20\">were producing pyrocumulus clouds\u003c/a> Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RobMayeda/status/1296217706300022784?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued an additional evacuation warning for the Santa Cruz mountains at 2:00 p.m., requesting that all residents leave from areas west of Highway 9 to Empire Grade, and south from Bear Creek Road to Felton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Cecile Juliette said crews spent all night and all morning evacuating people with the help of the Santa Cruz County sheriff's office. She said the COVID-19 pandemic has created another challenging layer for evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Red Cross now can't put them all in one big gymnasium. You know, they'll have to get them hotel rooms, and so that just adds another layer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sanmateoco/status/1296105613399744515?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees from the CZU August Lightning Complex blazes were being sent to the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds in Watsonville, where \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296155025018720256?s=20\">tents were set up\u003c/a> inside an air conditioned building as a COVID-19 safety measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frightening to think maybe you don't have a home to go back to,\" said Toni Bravo, who evacuated from the Boulder Creek area with her son Josh at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296118724785651714?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com/\">evacuation center\u003c/a> has been set up at Pescadero High School in Pescadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, a cluster of 20 separate lightning-sparked fires dubbed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">SCU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> threatened about 1,400 structures in rugged terrain with dense brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fires, burning in Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties have now burned 85,000 acres and are 5% contained. Two people have been injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SCU Lightning Complex is burning in what's regarded as the Diablo Range, east of Mount Diablo, east of Fremont, and northeast of Mount Hamilton. The biggest fires are the Del Puerto, burning west of the town of Patterson along Del Puerto Canyon Road, and the Reservoir, just east of the Calaveras Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoFire/status/1295540694128287746?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the blazes are believed to have been sparked by lightning strikes from the unusual series of thunderstorms that rolled across the Bay Area beginning early last Sunday. Meteorologist Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services said the lightning storms and ongoing sizzling temperatures created a very dangerous combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the very dry fuels that we have, both from the temperatures and the fact it's been almost three months since there's been any significant rain in the state... 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, an evacuation warning has been issued by Cal Fire for the community of Platina, Calif. in Shasta County. Cal Fire officials are asking citizens of Platina to prepare in the event that evacuations become necessary. Citing \"fire behavior, no containment, lack of resources to include personnel and aircraft,\" Cal Fire advises residents to \"get ready, clear vegetation around your property, have your important documents and medications ready to go.\" For more information, refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4996/readysetgo_plan.pdf\">the READY, SET, GO program\u003c/a> at fire.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders for Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, Cal Fire issued additional evacuation orders in Santa Cruz County, which includes the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed \"this extraordinary weather we’re experiencing and all of these lightning strikes” for a total of 367 known fires now burning across California. Newsom said the state had recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the outskirts of the Solano County city of Vacaville, police and firefighters went door to door late Tuesday and early Wednesday in a scramble to warn residents to evacuate as one of the eight blazes that are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> raced toward the residential areas from the northwest. Fire officials said at least 50 structures were destroyed and 50 were damaged and that four people were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LNU Lightning Complex includes lightning-sparked fires burning from the Sonoma County coast east across Napa County and Solano County. The blazes had burned a total 46,225 acres by early Wednesday. Most of the fires are burning in areas with limited access and steep terrain, making it difficult to get crews in. Fire crews were stretched too thin overnight to focus on more than immediate life-saving measures.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Godley, Sonoma County's emergency management director, said about 10,000 people were under evacuation orders as crews battled two blazes and were working to set up an evacuation center with alternate locations for people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that resources are strapped statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to second guess what the fire commanders are doing with their aircraft. But it’s not like last year when we saw just a huge wealth of resources flowing into the county,\" he said. “It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents the area, said the fires burning in Napa and Sonoma counties were mostly affecting less populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the people around here, even the people that have structures in harm’s way, understand that they’re in a more rural area and that the people in more densely populated areas have to get the resources first,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation order for residents of the Hidden Valley Lake and Jerusalem Valley areas of Lake County, suggesting a potentially dangerous northward move into that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, about 22,000 people were ordered to evacuate overnight due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">CZU August Lightning Complex fire\u003c/a>, burning in the Santa Cruz mountains, Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fire – also comprised of multiple lightning-sparked blazes – quickly expanded to 10,000 acres overnight and is at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a group of three fires in Napa County northeast of Santa Rosa had also collectively burned more than 12,000 acres as of Tuesday, and remained 0% contained. One of the blazes — the Hennessey Fire — southwest of Lake Berryessa, triggered expanded evacuation orders Tuesday, including everything west of Lake Berryessa along Berryessa Knoxville Road between Highway 128 and East Side Road, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa County Office of Emergency Services said an evacuation shelter has been established at Crosswalk Community Church at 2590 1st St.in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re in an evacuation warning area, be prepared to go, have your pets near by, have your car packed and facing outward so that you can leave if that evacuation warning was changed to an evacuation order,” said Will Powers, a spokesman with the Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2142px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11833999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2142\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM.png 2142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM-1536x1183.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM-2048x1578.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-6.44.23-PM-1920x1479.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2142px) 100vw, 2142px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Active fires in and around the Bay Area. Source: Cal Fire. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The majority of the fires are in a rural area, steep terrain with brush, not a lot of accessibility for crews to get into certain areas, so air resources are playing a vital role on doing fire suppression,” Powers added. No injuries had been reported as of Tuesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Efforts to quell the fires come amid an excessive heat warning that remains in effect until Wednesday. This weekend, the National Weather Service issued Red Flag warnings across much of Northern California as extreme heat and the threat of continued widespread thunderstorms raised the risk of more lightning-sparked fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday declared a statewide emergency in response to the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was co-published with the PBS series \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter sparking a series of deadly fires in Northern California and then shutting off power to millions of people in an attempt to avoid sparking more, Pacific Gas & Electric has started on an ambitious slate of upgrades that it says will drastically reduce the number of new fires sparked by its electrical equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility giant’s leaders have said that transformation may take as long as a decade. But a detailed review of documents and hearings shows that PG&E spent the last 10 years resisting many of those very same reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A FRONTLINE investigation found dozens of instances of such pushback: For instance, the company fought a proposal that it report every fire its equipment caused, describing the measure as an “unnecessary cost” of time and resources in a 2010 filing. The following year, responding to another proposal, its attorneys wrote that “PG&E does not agree that it is necessary to require a formal plan specific to fire prevention.” And for years, the Northern California company argued to regulators that it shouldn’t be held to the same standards as its Southern California counterparts, saying wind-driven fire risk in its territory was significantly lower than in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These battles unfolded mainly within a little-publicized proceeding overseen by its regulator, the California Public Utilities Commission. In recent years, the commission has monitored the utilities’ fire safety more aggressively. But from 2008 to 2018, even as it wrote rules aimed at reducing utility wildfires, the commission didn’t have a single staff member who specialized in wildfire prevention. During that period, according to three former employees, the commission was hamstrung by too few enforcement officers and distracted by simultaneous investigations into other utility catastrophes, which allowed utility lawyers to dominate its proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mark Ferron, former CPUC commissioner\"]'On a scale from one to 10, where 10 is really obstructive and zero is completely cooperative, I would have put PG&E at a nine.'[/pullquote]In many cases, PG&E could have upgraded its systems and passed along those costs to its consumers as rate increases. After starting a devastating fire in 2018, the company filed for bankruptcy. Its exit plan, approved in June, leaves the company as much as $38 billion in debt, including $13.5 billion in compensation owed to people who lost their homes and businesses in fires over the last several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E wasn’t the only utility that pushed back against fire-prevention regulations. California’s two other major investor-owned utilities, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, usually sided with them. But documents and interviews suggest that the vigor and persistence of PG&E’s resistance stood out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a scale from one to 10, where 10 is really obstructive and zero is completely cooperative, I would have put PG&E at a nine,” said Mark Ferron, a CPUC commissioner from 2011 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture of PG&E has been to push back,” said Timothy Alan Simon, the former CPUC commissioner assigned to oversee the first years of the proceeding. “I think that kind of attitude has backfired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncooperative power company, together with an overwhelmed regulator, a rapidly warming climate and a growing population living in California’s tinder-dry forests combined to set the stage for tragedy: PG&E equipment has been found responsible for numerous wildfires in recent years, including the 2018 Camp Fire that burned nearly 14,000 homes and killed scores of people in the town of Paradise and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11824596 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS33914_111318_AW_CampFire_02-qut-1020x680.jpg']FRONTLINE’s review of hundreds of documents filed with CPUC between 2008 and 2019 reveals that PG&E and its regulators repeatedly failed to swiftly adopt stringent safety measures. The story those records tell has been corroborated by interviews with more than a dozen experts and officials, some now retired, who attended years of hearings and workshops. PG&E’s recent embrace of fire safety policies, they say, has taken place only after years of resistance — a pattern that caused them deep exasperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deflect, delay, defer … we would joke that these were the rules of utility rulemaking,” said Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Todd, one of the few firefighting professionals who attended the CPUC hearings. “There was just no movement. It felt that they were just going to run out the clock on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fire prevention measures were first proposed by a small, determined cadre of safety advocates long before they were forced upon the utilities by the CPUC or frustrated state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We called it the glacial rodeo,” said Joseph Mitchell, a San Diego County resident who devoted years advocating for greater fire safety. “PG&E was just very, very hesitant. … I think it's come back to bite them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to a list of questions regarding the pushback on fire safety measures described in this story, PG&E spokesperson Jennifer Robison said in an email that “PG&E is very much focused on the future and re-imagining the company as one driven by the twin goals of safety and better serving our customers.” The devastating 2017 and 2018 fires “have made it clear that we must work together to continue to do what we must to keep our customers, their families and communities safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison points to the “state-of-the-art technology and techniques” the company has implemented in the last three years, including new fire-spread modeling, hundreds of new weather stations and cameras that allow for more granular weather forecasting and fire monitoring, and line inspections that sometimes include drones and helicopters. She says PG&E has begun replacing conventional power lines in wildfire-prone areas with insulated “tree wire” that’s less likely to spark a blaze if it comes into contact with vegetation. And she says the company has begun the process of dividing up its distribution system so that fire safety power shutoffs affect fewer people. These and other measures “lessen the risk that our equipment will start a wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She referred to a summary on PG&E’s website detailing the many strides the company has made toward fire safety over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain deeply, deeply sorry for the terrible devastation we have caused,” said former company CEO William Johnson in a June 18 public statement accompanying the company’s guilty plea for the Camp Fire deaths. “We are intently focused on reducing the risk of wildfire in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/PGE-Cuts-Line-After-Camp-Fire-2-scaled-e1597706943224.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1405\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked to respond to charges that the CPUC’s approach to wildfire safety wasn’t aggressive enough in the years leading to the disasters of 2017 and 2018, commission spokesperson Terrie Prosper said in an email that the agency has been “working hard to address wildfire issues, both by ramping up staffing and by creating new policies and working with sister agencies. … Since the massive wildfires began a few years ago, the CPUC has taken a number of steps to ensure rules were in place for utilities, who have an obligation to safely operate their systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 100 deaths in PG&E-caused fires since 2015, critics of the utility and its regulator say such changes have come too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former CPUC commissioner Catherine Sandoval says PG&E knew it had a wildfire problem fueled by drought and bark-beetle tree die-offs long before taking its recent steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew that their territory was very vulnerable to wildfire,” she said. “Any assertion that they were just getting started on it in 2019 is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, Mitchell was devastated as he listened to news reports of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had tears streaming down my face,” he said. “I mean, it was so frustrating to have worked so hard on this for so long, and to have this horrendous failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Trench Warfare’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, a physicist who worked in Europe before moving to California, bought his white, two-story San Diego County bungalow in 1999. Surrounded by crooked cacti and leggy rose bushes, the home sits atop a scrub-lined road northeast of San Diego in an area historically prone to devastating wildfires. In dry years — meaning most years — any wayward spark can ignite an inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haunted by the prospect that a wildfire could reduce his life to rubble, Mitchell rigged a rooftop watering system to protect his home in 2003. Soon after, a fire destroyed hundreds of nearby homes. Thanks to his system, when Mitchell and his wife Diane Conklin returned to theirs, roses still bloomed around their unscathed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg\" alt=\"Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joseph Mitchell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When San Diego Gas & Electric proposed a new power line through the neighborhood, Mitchell began investigating its potential fire risk and found a stunning relationship: Electrical equipment starts 10 percent or fewer of California’s fires, but has caused 40 percent of the state’s worst blazes. That’s because the high winds that can snap power poles and bring down lines can transform a spark into a catastrophe. When SDG&E equipment ignited the Witch Fire in 2007, Mitchell’s home again survived — but 1,100 others did not. He and Conklin decided they had to do more to protect their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did the CPUC: In late 2008, the regulator opened a proceeding aimed at preventing future utility-caused fires. Thus began a years-long process in which stakeholders — including utility companies, state and city agencies, telecommunications firms, safety advocates and CPUC officials — could propose and debate new rules the utilities would have to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell and Conklin, a law school graduate, threw themselves into the process as advocates under the name Mussey Grade Road Alliance, after their San Diego County community. Mitchell consulted wildfire experts and immersed himself in research papers while Conklin handled the legal paperwork. To encourage public involvement in proceedings, the CPUC pays participants for their time and labor; since 2006, Mitchell estimates that the couple has received close to $700,000 from the CPUC for their work on wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the proceeding unfolded, it calcified into a series of standoffs between opposing camps. On one side: Mitchell, Conklin, a handful of municipal fire and elected officials, and the CPUC Consumer Protection and Safety Division — the department tasked with advocating for safety. On the other: attorneys representing the utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Florio, former CPUC commissioner\"]'We had a very skeleton internal staff that didn’t really have any kind of wildfire expertise... I guess it’s human nature, you don’t get a focus on something until it becomes a problem.'[/pullquote]Southern California Edison, with territory far larger than San Diego Gas & Electric’s but not as sprawling or complex as PG&E’s, was dogged by the danger of the region’s famous Santa Ana winds. Despite this specter of higher fire risk, their attorneys nearly always sided with PG&E during the hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDG&E, which has the smallest and simplest system of the three major utilities, was the most likely to agree to proposed fire safety rules, as it had already invested in reforms after its equipment had touched off major fires in 2003 and 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted to make some real changes,” said Los Angeles County Fire’s John Todd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd had trained as a forester before being hired by the county’s fire agency and believed safety should trump financial considerations. He expected to be involved in the CPUC proceeding for a few months at the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually I learned that this was going to be a long game,” Todd said. He attended meetings for years, growing incredulous at how long it took to get new rules written. “It was trench warfare. … We weren't moving, we were just locked into place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workload was unsustainable, Todd says, and he eventually stepped back to focus on pressing safety issues in his own community. That left the process even more vulnerable to domination by the utilities, he said, because once everyone else returned to their day jobs, “who's over there still working on the rule book?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another official at many hearings was now-retired Laguna Beach Fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse. He recalls that utility lawyers would frequently call for a vote over a motion, transforming a regulatory process into a democratic one. “It was all run by the utilities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often found himself the only fire official present during a given hearing, but was convinced that if other local fire officials had known about the proceeding, they would have been there. The Laguna Beach team became so frustrated with the lack of community involvement that they reached out to their state senator, John Moorlach. In 2016, Moorlach introduced a bill that would have required the CPUC and Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, to consult with local officials and fire departments in identifying areas where overhead power lines posed an increased wildfire risk. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the bill, saying the agencies were already addressing the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, the CPUC commissioner, admits the regulator has not always been rigorous about encouraging public involvement, a “blind spot” that can tilt the balance of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The utilities have a very deep bench, which oftentimes can outmatch local governments or other intervenors,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the commission eventually did rule in favor of safety policies — but only after years of contentious hearings. Several people, including three former CPUC employees, told FRONTLINE that the regulator’s biggest problem was an absence of in-house expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a very skeleton internal staff that didn’t really have any kind of wildfire expertise,” said Mike Florio, a former commissioner who oversaw the proceeding between 2011 and 2017. “I guess it’s human nature, you don’t get a focus on something until it becomes a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has since addressed its understaffing, said CPUC spokesperson Prosper: In 2018, the agency hired its first three engineers dedicated to wildfires. At the direction of the Legislature, the CPUC has established a new Wildfire Safety Division, which will audit and evaluate utilities’ safety plans. Another new division will provide advisory support to CPUC on safety policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Waste of Commission Staff and Utility Time’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost as soon as the 2008 wildfire safety proceeding began, its slow pace worried CPUC’s safety division. In a March 2009 filing, commission engineer Ray Fugere wrote that “certain entities… would have the commission act like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. … Fires ignited by electric power lines have been responsible for some of the largest wildland fires in California’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how the utilities influenced the pace and outcome of the proceeding, FRONTLINE’s investigation focused on three proposed rules: One would require utilities to report each fire that their equipment started. A second would create detailed maps to identify fire-prone parts of the system. A third would require utilities to create contingency plans for extreme winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell’s group made the first proposal – that utilities track and report every fire – as soon as the proceeding began. As it stood, utilities only reported fires that burned more than 100 acres. But Mitchell believed that gathering data on all fires — even small ones — would help utilities identify problem areas and prevent larger blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E immediately opposed the idea, saying that earlier efforts to collect such data had proven “a waste of commission staff and utility time” and that being required to disclose its role in fires could create new legal liabilities. Mitchell “would like to have the electric utilities collect fire incident data on the theory that it might be helpful for study in the future,” wrote PG&E’s attorneys in January 2010. PG&E put forth an alternate proposal, which would require utilities and the CPUC’s safety division to jointly assess “adequacy of fire-related data.”\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/1968093,The Questions to Ask Your Loved One's Facility\" link4=\"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\"]Initially, the CPUC rejected both Mitchell’s and PG&E’s proposals. “We are not convinced that the … proposal to require [utilities] to report detailed data on all power-line fires will be any more successful than our previous effort,” it wrote in a 2012 decision. But the commission promised to reconsider the issue in a future phase of the proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell’s group continued to advocate for fire reporting, while PG&E and Southern California Edison persisted in their opposition, now arguing the idea was impractical because it would largely rely on “field observations made by utility personnel who are not trained forensic fire investigators.” Finally, in 2013, PG&E and Edison agreed to the mandate after negotiating changes that would limit their liability. But even after that, PG&E and Edison pushed for the rule to apply exclusively to “extreme” or “very high” fire threat areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2014 — the proceeding’s sixth year — that the commission finally mandated utilities track and report all fires, noting that PG&E and Edison remained “lukewarm” about the plan while SDG&E “strongly” supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s Robison did not comment on the company’s opposition to reporting its system’s fires, but she said that data now provides “an invaluable tool” for PG&E and regulators, allowing them to “evaluate diverse risks, better understand the effects of extreme weather, and, most importantly, improve wildfire safety.” She noted that the reported data has shown that the majority of fires associated with its system were “relatively small in size” and occurred outside high-risk areas. Further, she said, the data has shown that the number of fires within its highest risk territories has decreased by nearly 30 percent over the last two years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Fire Prevention Plan Is Not Necessary’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A second key proposal made early in the rulemaking would require utilities to create contingency plans for the extreme winds that can cause fast-moving, destructive wildfires. The utilities could then assess what equipment might be vulnerable under worst-case wind conditions and either reinforce it or take other safety steps, like power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, PG&E pushed back, describing the idea as “misplaced” for several reasons: It fell under an inappropriate legal framework; duplicated plans already in existence; and assumed that “somehow utilities (or anyone else) can predict wildfires started by” power lines. Edison endorsed PG&E’s position, adding that the company “does not believe such costs are outweighed by the uncertain benefits of this proposal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Fire-in-Paradise-screengrab-e1597709923559.jpg\" alt=\"A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in modern state history. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E also argued that if adopted, the mandate should only apply to Southern California utilities: “High winds in Northern California are most frequently associated with winter storms (not summer fire risk) and may not play as great a role in potential fire risk in Northern California as they do in Southern California,” the company’s lawyers wrote in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an argument PG&E made for years: That it should be held to different fire safety standards than its Southern Californian counterparts. Yet according to fire officials interviewed for this story, the historical record shows that wind-driven wildfire has always been a part of Northern California’s landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its 2012 decision, the CPUC required the two Southern California utilities to create fire prevention plans while asking PG&E to make a “good faith” effort to determine if its territory needed one too. Months later, PG&E told the commission that it had done its due diligence and “determined a fire prevention plan is not necessary” for its Northern California facilities. However, it nonetheless included a six-page summary of its territory-wide fire prevention and mitigation plans. The CPUC in 2013 approved the filing despite protests from Mitchell’s group that it was grossly inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a disaster of historic proportions and a sweeping change in state law to force PG&E to finally create a rigorous, enforceable fire protection plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power line-sparked fires swept through parts of Northern California in October 2017, destroying nearly 10,000 structures and killing 44 people. State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents a wine country district that saw some of the worst of the destruction, was so incensed that PG&E lacked a legally binding wildfire safety plan that he wrote a law requiring the state's utilities to develop plans or face criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Dodd-2017-Firestorm-Destruction-scaled-e1597708551796.jpg\" alt=\"California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February 2019, PG&E submitted the first of its newly required annual wildfire mitigation plans. In that 145-page blueprint, the company envisioned spending at least $1.7 billion for a program including improved infrastructure, a dramatically expanded effort to find and trim or remove dangerous trees near power lines, and expanding its network of remote weather stations to provide better awareness during periods of high fire danger. The plan also relied heavily on public safety power shutoffs to minimize the risk of wildfires during extremely windy, dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CPUC administrative law judge signed off on the plan, though she identified several aspects of PG&E’s plan that required improvement in the following years’ plans. Responding, PG&E wrote, “we will not solve the problems of catastrophic wildfires in one year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the utility’s initial resistance to creating a fire contingency plan, PG&E’s Robison referred to a section of the 2012 decision in which the CPUC echoed the PG&E’s longstanding argument that Southern California “is the area of the state with the greatest risk” of utility-caused fires. Edison’s spokesman David Song said his company had never been “opposed to performing risk analysis on equipment based on high winds in high fire areas,” but rather contested the legal framework of the proposal and believed it conflicted with other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E got mixed reviews for its execution of the first year’s plan. Unlike 2017 and 2018, no one died in fires sparked by the company’s equipment. But its widespread power shutoffs, which reached a climax during prolonged windstorms in October 2019 when more than 1 million customers were blacked out, were initially plagued by poor communication with the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the utility reported it found hundreds of locations where the shutoffs probably prevented fires, one of its high-voltage transmission lines touched off one of the year’s most destructive blazes — the Kincade Fire, which broke out as 80 m.p.h. gusts raked a mountainous area north of San Francisco. About 200,000 people were forced from their homes during the incident, which destroyed 374 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Battle Over Maps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A third proposal advocated by Mitchell’s group and the CPUC’s safety division championed the creation of elaborate statewide fire maps overseen by the commission. Fire scientists have long known that a granular map of winds and other weather factors, layered on maps of vegetation, topography, human settlement and power lines, can provide invaluable insight into where fires may start and spread. Such maps could help utilities focus maintenance work on the areas at highest risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric had already mapped its system. PG&E and Southern California Edison were open to the idea, but pushed back on a series of specifics. PG&E attorneys asked that the CPUC not enforce the maps in an “absolute or prescriptive” way. “It should be made clear in the standard or rule that the maps are simply a guideline, and not the ultimate authority,” PG&E attorneys wrote in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC adopted interim fire maps for Southern California that year, but when Mitchell’s group and the commission’s safety division pushed for statewide maps with detailed wind data, Edison said the proposal would “impose significant costs on the utilities” and would duplicate work already done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do not adopt,” PG&E attorneys wrote. “[The proposal] should be rejected outright. It overreaches in many respects, including the fact that it proposes that the maps be funded by the [utilities].” The company began suggesting the commission postpone the map question until a later phase of the proceeding, a suggestion the CPUC agreed to over the objections of safety advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2015, PG&E and SoCal Edison had stopped resisting the concept but continued to influence the plan in ways that safety advocates believed delayed its implementation and diminished its rigor. That May, the CPUC opened a whole new proceeding to specifically focus on the maps and other issues that hadn’t been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in 2016, after Cal Fire concluded PG&E equipment had sparked a 70,000-acre wind-driven fire in Amador and Calaveras counties the year before, the utility continued to assert the fire threat in its territory was “very different from conditions in Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around then, Mitchell noticed that wind-specific maps — the core of his initial proposal — had been diluted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been promised a steak, and it has been turned into a hash, and then put into a stew, which has been used to make a soup,” Mitchell wrote. “If the commission is to deliver on what it has promised ratepayers in this proceeding … it will need to pull the steak back out of the soup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2018 — nearly a decade after the mapping proposal was first made — the CPUC adopted new fire maps and required utilities to use remote weather stations to monitor high winds. Mitchell notes that the maps still lack the detailed wind data that would help utilities pinpoint vulnerable infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked recently about its early opposition to detailed, CPUC-managed maps, Edison’s spokesperson, Song, said the utility’s “concern was procedural in nature, not with the substance of the rulemaking.” In response to a similar inquiry, PG&E’s Robison said the current map is helping PG&E and others prioritize safety, prevention and response efforts. She added that it shows how dramatically climate impacts are increasing fire risk. “In less than a decade, the area served by PG&E that the CPUC designated to be at a high risk of wildfire has tripled from 15 percent to more than 50 percent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stopping Sparks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Regulatory hearings weren’t the only arena in which PG&E took a sluggish approach to addressing fire safety. FRONTLINE’s investigation found the utility also failed to adopt a risk-reduction technique that had been used by other utilities for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power lines suffer a problem — for instance, a branch striking the line — devices called \"reclosers\" will halt the flow of electricity, then immediately try to restore it. (When lights flicker at a home or an office building, it’s likely due to a recloser doing its job.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For at least 30 years, utilities have known that reclosers can also start fires. For instance, if a line breaks and falls on brush-covered ground, the recloser’s attempt to resume the flow of power can spark a fire. A 1989 booklet titled “Power Line Fire Prevention Field Guide,” written by utility companies in conjunction with state fire agencies, outlined the risk: “Automatic reclosers, by re-energizing the line... increase the probability of ignition,” the booklet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, many utilities have long-standing policies to turn off reclosers during fire season, opting for the laborious but safer method of sending out a crew to manually check a power line when it faults. Southern California Edison told FRONTLINE that it has had a policy in place to block reclosers during fire season since at least 1956; SDG&E began doing the same after its 2007 fire and hasn’t identified a recloser-linked fire since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a real basic, easy thing to do,” said Hal Mortier, SDG&E’s retired head of fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators raised the danger of reclosers with PG&E more than once: Former commissioner Simon said the regulator had “extensive dialogue” about reclosers with all utilities after the 2007 Witch Fire in San Diego County. And at a state Senate hearing in 2015, Sen. Jerry Hill of suburban San Francisco again asked utility officials about recloser risks. Representatives from SDG&E and Edison said they had recloser policies in place, while Pat Hogan, a PG&E senior vice president, said his company’s policy was “very similar to my colleagues’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, PG&E did not have a formal recloser policy — a reality that came to light two years later when an active recloser re-energized a fallen line north of San Francisco, sparking a fire. It joined with four other nearby fires, part of the October 2017 wildfire siege, which ultimately killed three people and burned 172 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E only implemented a system-wide recloser shutoff policy in June 2018, after Sen. Hill authored a bill mandating they do so. When asked by FRONTLINE why the company had long failed to adopt such a measure, PG&E’s Robison did not respond directly, but rather outlined the specifics of the June 2018 program they were legally required to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are able to disable reclosing on those line reclosers based on a daily decision-making process during periods of high fire danger, as determined by our Wildfire Safety Operations Center,\" Robison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'A Right to Expect Better'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After killing scores of people and destroying billions of dollars of property, PG&E has now adopted a drastic new measure: It routinely cuts power to large portions of the state during times of high fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric started giving the measure considerable thought more than a decade ago. After the Witch Fire, SDG&E asked the CPUC for a special proceeding to develop a policy on power shutoffs during high winds. It implemented its first power shutoff under that policy in 2013, and then invested in grid upgrades allowing the utility to, for example, cut power to homes on a single ridge rather than to a whole city. The utility has also ramped up communication systems to notify customers as threatening conditions develop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E and SoCal Edison declined to participate in the proceeding that created the first preemptive power shutoff rules. When the subject was raised in 2010, PG&E said it had little interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No company makes any money when it is forced to terminate power,” utility attorneys wrote. “Termination of power at multiple locations is the last thing that a utility wants to do.” As recently as January 2018, just months after disastrous electricity-sparked fires swept Northern California, PG&E’s former senior vice president Pat Hogan said in a state Senate hearing that the company was open to the idea, but did not have plans to implement it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This changed months later, after CalFire concluded that PG&E equipment had caused 12 of the previous year’s fires. In October 2018, PG&E conducted its first major intentional blackout during a period of high winds and extremely low humidity, turning off power to 60,000 customers in seven counties. But an event several weeks later led to a dramatic shift in how PG&E and state regulators looked at public safety power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, a badly worn piece of equipment on a PG&E transmission tower failed, providing the spark that ignited the Camp Fire and incinerated Paradise. PG&E’s policy at the time did not include shutting down its high-voltage transmission lines during fire safety blackouts. The utility said doing that would be overly complex, might affect the stability of its power grid and would likely affect millions of people in its service area. The company’s stance changed after the Camp Fire, with PG&E deciding in 2019 it would include transmission lines in its power shutoff plans. Partly as a consequence, the company repeatedly turned off power last fall to hundreds of thousands of customers at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Power-Shutoff-Oakland-2019-scaled-e1597708246761.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's darkened Montclair neighborhood at dusk during a PG&E power shutoff on Oct. 10, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland's darkened Montclair neighborhood at dusk during a PG&E power shutoff on Oct. 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid widespread criticism of the 2019 shutoffs, PG&E CEO Johnson said it will likely take at least a decade for the company to fortify the system enough to make blackouts unnecessary. That comment drew public outcry, and since then, PG&E has laid out a new plan for power shutoffs, promising future shutoffs will be “smarter, smaller and shorter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California faces the perennial threat of a potentially catastrophic fire season — as well as a global pandemic that threatens to hamper firefighting efforts — many involved in the CPUC wildfire rulemaking reflect on the process with regret: that it took so long; that the commission was hobbled by insufficient expertise; that aggressive safety measures weren’t adopted sooner. It’s impossible to know if those differences could have prevented any given fire, but they cannot help but speculate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, I still think that the results are watered down, and it’s for economic reasons,” said retired Laguna Beach Fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse. “But look at what these fires are costing [PG&E]. Not just in losses, but in lawsuits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hundreds of hours spent navigating the unwieldy CPUC proceedings, Joseph Mitchell still considers utility-caused wildfires a solvable problem. This gives him hope, as well as commitment to the cause of utility safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes have been very slow,” he said. “People have a right to be upset, they have a right to be concerned, and I think they have a right to expect better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from Jodi Wei, and additional editing from KQED's Dan Brekke.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>FRONTLINE’s review of hundreds of documents filed with CPUC between 2008 and 2019 reveals that PG&E and its regulators repeatedly failed to swiftly adopt stringent safety measures. The story those records tell has been corroborated by interviews with more than a dozen experts and officials, some now retired, who attended years of hearings and workshops. PG&E’s recent embrace of fire safety policies, they say, has taken place only after years of resistance — a pattern that caused them deep exasperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deflect, delay, defer … we would joke that these were the rules of utility rulemaking,” said Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Todd, one of the few firefighting professionals who attended the CPUC hearings. “There was just no movement. It felt that they were just going to run out the clock on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fire prevention measures were first proposed by a small, determined cadre of safety advocates long before they were forced upon the utilities by the CPUC or frustrated state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We called it the glacial rodeo,” said Joseph Mitchell, a San Diego County resident who devoted years advocating for greater fire safety. “PG&E was just very, very hesitant. … I think it's come back to bite them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to a list of questions regarding the pushback on fire safety measures described in this story, PG&E spokesperson Jennifer Robison said in an email that “PG&E is very much focused on the future and re-imagining the company as one driven by the twin goals of safety and better serving our customers.” The devastating 2017 and 2018 fires “have made it clear that we must work together to continue to do what we must to keep our customers, their families and communities safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison points to the “state-of-the-art technology and techniques” the company has implemented in the last three years, including new fire-spread modeling, hundreds of new weather stations and cameras that allow for more granular weather forecasting and fire monitoring, and line inspections that sometimes include drones and helicopters. She says PG&E has begun replacing conventional power lines in wildfire-prone areas with insulated “tree wire” that’s less likely to spark a blaze if it comes into contact with vegetation. And she says the company has begun the process of dividing up its distribution system so that fire safety power shutoffs affect fewer people. These and other measures “lessen the risk that our equipment will start a wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She referred to a summary on PG&E’s website detailing the many strides the company has made toward fire safety over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain deeply, deeply sorry for the terrible devastation we have caused,” said former company CEO William Johnson in a June 18 public statement accompanying the company’s guilty plea for the Camp Fire deaths. “We are intently focused on reducing the risk of wildfire in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/PGE-Cuts-Line-After-Camp-Fire-2-scaled-e1597706943224.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1405\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked to respond to charges that the CPUC’s approach to wildfire safety wasn’t aggressive enough in the years leading to the disasters of 2017 and 2018, commission spokesperson Terrie Prosper said in an email that the agency has been “working hard to address wildfire issues, both by ramping up staffing and by creating new policies and working with sister agencies. … Since the massive wildfires began a few years ago, the CPUC has taken a number of steps to ensure rules were in place for utilities, who have an obligation to safely operate their systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 100 deaths in PG&E-caused fires since 2015, critics of the utility and its regulator say such changes have come too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former CPUC commissioner Catherine Sandoval says PG&E knew it had a wildfire problem fueled by drought and bark-beetle tree die-offs long before taking its recent steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew that their territory was very vulnerable to wildfire,” she said. “Any assertion that they were just getting started on it in 2019 is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, Mitchell was devastated as he listened to news reports of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had tears streaming down my face,” he said. “I mean, it was so frustrating to have worked so hard on this for so long, and to have this horrendous failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Trench Warfare’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, a physicist who worked in Europe before moving to California, bought his white, two-story San Diego County bungalow in 1999. Surrounded by crooked cacti and leggy rose bushes, the home sits atop a scrub-lined road northeast of San Diego in an area historically prone to devastating wildfires. In dry years — meaning most years — any wayward spark can ignite an inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haunted by the prospect that a wildfire could reduce his life to rubble, Mitchell rigged a rooftop watering system to protect his home in 2003. Soon after, a fire destroyed hundreds of nearby homes. Thanks to his system, when Mitchell and his wife Diane Conklin returned to theirs, roses still bloomed around their unscathed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg\" alt=\"Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joseph Mitchell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When San Diego Gas & Electric proposed a new power line through the neighborhood, Mitchell began investigating its potential fire risk and found a stunning relationship: Electrical equipment starts 10 percent or fewer of California’s fires, but has caused 40 percent of the state’s worst blazes. That’s because the high winds that can snap power poles and bring down lines can transform a spark into a catastrophe. When SDG&E equipment ignited the Witch Fire in 2007, Mitchell’s home again survived — but 1,100 others did not. He and Conklin decided they had to do more to protect their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did the CPUC: In late 2008, the regulator opened a proceeding aimed at preventing future utility-caused fires. Thus began a years-long process in which stakeholders — including utility companies, state and city agencies, telecommunications firms, safety advocates and CPUC officials — could propose and debate new rules the utilities would have to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell and Conklin, a law school graduate, threw themselves into the process as advocates under the name Mussey Grade Road Alliance, after their San Diego County community. Mitchell consulted wildfire experts and immersed himself in research papers while Conklin handled the legal paperwork. To encourage public involvement in proceedings, the CPUC pays participants for their time and labor; since 2006, Mitchell estimates that the couple has received close to $700,000 from the CPUC for their work on wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the proceeding unfolded, it calcified into a series of standoffs between opposing camps. On one side: Mitchell, Conklin, a handful of municipal fire and elected officials, and the CPUC Consumer Protection and Safety Division — the department tasked with advocating for safety. On the other: attorneys representing the utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Southern California Edison, with territory far larger than San Diego Gas & Electric’s but not as sprawling or complex as PG&E’s, was dogged by the danger of the region’s famous Santa Ana winds. Despite this specter of higher fire risk, their attorneys nearly always sided with PG&E during the hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDG&E, which has the smallest and simplest system of the three major utilities, was the most likely to agree to proposed fire safety rules, as it had already invested in reforms after its equipment had touched off major fires in 2003 and 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted to make some real changes,” said Los Angeles County Fire’s John Todd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd had trained as a forester before being hired by the county’s fire agency and believed safety should trump financial considerations. He expected to be involved in the CPUC proceeding for a few months at the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually I learned that this was going to be a long game,” Todd said. He attended meetings for years, growing incredulous at how long it took to get new rules written. “It was trench warfare. … We weren't moving, we were just locked into place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workload was unsustainable, Todd says, and he eventually stepped back to focus on pressing safety issues in his own community. That left the process even more vulnerable to domination by the utilities, he said, because once everyone else returned to their day jobs, “who's over there still working on the rule book?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another official at many hearings was now-retired Laguna Beach Fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse. He recalls that utility lawyers would frequently call for a vote over a motion, transforming a regulatory process into a democratic one. “It was all run by the utilities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often found himself the only fire official present during a given hearing, but was convinced that if other local fire officials had known about the proceeding, they would have been there. The Laguna Beach team became so frustrated with the lack of community involvement that they reached out to their state senator, John Moorlach. In 2016, Moorlach introduced a bill that would have required the CPUC and Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, to consult with local officials and fire departments in identifying areas where overhead power lines posed an increased wildfire risk. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the bill, saying the agencies were already addressing the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, the CPUC commissioner, admits the regulator has not always been rigorous about encouraging public involvement, a “blind spot” that can tilt the balance of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The utilities have a very deep bench, which oftentimes can outmatch local governments or other intervenors,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the commission eventually did rule in favor of safety policies — but only after years of contentious hearings. Several people, including three former CPUC employees, told FRONTLINE that the regulator’s biggest problem was an absence of in-house expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a very skeleton internal staff that didn’t really have any kind of wildfire expertise,” said Mike Florio, a former commissioner who oversaw the proceeding between 2011 and 2017. “I guess it’s human nature, you don’t get a focus on something until it becomes a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has since addressed its understaffing, said CPUC spokesperson Prosper: In 2018, the agency hired its first three engineers dedicated to wildfires. At the direction of the Legislature, the CPUC has established a new Wildfire Safety Division, which will audit and evaluate utilities’ safety plans. Another new division will provide advisory support to CPUC on safety policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Waste of Commission Staff and Utility Time’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost as soon as the 2008 wildfire safety proceeding began, its slow pace worried CPUC’s safety division. In a March 2009 filing, commission engineer Ray Fugere wrote that “certain entities… would have the commission act like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. … Fires ignited by electric power lines have been responsible for some of the largest wildland fires in California’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how the utilities influenced the pace and outcome of the proceeding, FRONTLINE’s investigation focused on three proposed rules: One would require utilities to report each fire that their equipment started. A second would create detailed maps to identify fire-prone parts of the system. A third would require utilities to create contingency plans for extreme winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell’s group made the first proposal – that utilities track and report every fire – as soon as the proceeding began. As it stood, utilities only reported fires that burned more than 100 acres. But Mitchell believed that gathering data on all fires — even small ones — would help utilities identify problem areas and prevent larger blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E immediately opposed the idea, saying that earlier efforts to collect such data had proven “a waste of commission staff and utility time” and that being required to disclose its role in fires could create new legal liabilities. Mitchell “would like to have the electric utilities collect fire incident data on the theory that it might be helpful for study in the future,” wrote PG&E’s attorneys in January 2010. PG&E put forth an alternate proposal, which would require utilities and the CPUC’s safety division to jointly assess “adequacy of fire-related data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Initially, the CPUC rejected both Mitchell’s and PG&E’s proposals. “We are not convinced that the … proposal to require [utilities] to report detailed data on all power-line fires will be any more successful than our previous effort,” it wrote in a 2012 decision. But the commission promised to reconsider the issue in a future phase of the proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell’s group continued to advocate for fire reporting, while PG&E and Southern California Edison persisted in their opposition, now arguing the idea was impractical because it would largely rely on “field observations made by utility personnel who are not trained forensic fire investigators.” Finally, in 2013, PG&E and Edison agreed to the mandate after negotiating changes that would limit their liability. But even after that, PG&E and Edison pushed for the rule to apply exclusively to “extreme” or “very high” fire threat areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2014 — the proceeding’s sixth year — that the commission finally mandated utilities track and report all fires, noting that PG&E and Edison remained “lukewarm” about the plan while SDG&E “strongly” supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s Robison did not comment on the company’s opposition to reporting its system’s fires, but she said that data now provides “an invaluable tool” for PG&E and regulators, allowing them to “evaluate diverse risks, better understand the effects of extreme weather, and, most importantly, improve wildfire safety.” She noted that the reported data has shown that the majority of fires associated with its system were “relatively small in size” and occurred outside high-risk areas. Further, she said, the data has shown that the number of fires within its highest risk territories has decreased by nearly 30 percent over the last two years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Fire Prevention Plan Is Not Necessary’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A second key proposal made early in the rulemaking would require utilities to create contingency plans for the extreme winds that can cause fast-moving, destructive wildfires. The utilities could then assess what equipment might be vulnerable under worst-case wind conditions and either reinforce it or take other safety steps, like power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, PG&E pushed back, describing the idea as “misplaced” for several reasons: It fell under an inappropriate legal framework; duplicated plans already in existence; and assumed that “somehow utilities (or anyone else) can predict wildfires started by” power lines. Edison endorsed PG&E’s position, adding that the company “does not believe such costs are outweighed by the uncertain benefits of this proposal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Fire-in-Paradise-screengrab-e1597709923559.jpg\" alt=\"A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in modern state history. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E also argued that if adopted, the mandate should only apply to Southern California utilities: “High winds in Northern California are most frequently associated with winter storms (not summer fire risk) and may not play as great a role in potential fire risk in Northern California as they do in Southern California,” the company’s lawyers wrote in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an argument PG&E made for years: That it should be held to different fire safety standards than its Southern Californian counterparts. Yet according to fire officials interviewed for this story, the historical record shows that wind-driven wildfire has always been a part of Northern California’s landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its 2012 decision, the CPUC required the two Southern California utilities to create fire prevention plans while asking PG&E to make a “good faith” effort to determine if its territory needed one too. Months later, PG&E told the commission that it had done its due diligence and “determined a fire prevention plan is not necessary” for its Northern California facilities. However, it nonetheless included a six-page summary of its territory-wide fire prevention and mitigation plans. The CPUC in 2013 approved the filing despite protests from Mitchell’s group that it was grossly inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a disaster of historic proportions and a sweeping change in state law to force PG&E to finally create a rigorous, enforceable fire protection plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power line-sparked fires swept through parts of Northern California in October 2017, destroying nearly 10,000 structures and killing 44 people. State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents a wine country district that saw some of the worst of the destruction, was so incensed that PG&E lacked a legally binding wildfire safety plan that he wrote a law requiring the state's utilities to develop plans or face criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Dodd-2017-Firestorm-Destruction-scaled-e1597708551796.jpg\" alt=\"California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February 2019, PG&E submitted the first of its newly required annual wildfire mitigation plans. In that 145-page blueprint, the company envisioned spending at least $1.7 billion for a program including improved infrastructure, a dramatically expanded effort to find and trim or remove dangerous trees near power lines, and expanding its network of remote weather stations to provide better awareness during periods of high fire danger. The plan also relied heavily on public safety power shutoffs to minimize the risk of wildfires during extremely windy, dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CPUC administrative law judge signed off on the plan, though she identified several aspects of PG&E’s plan that required improvement in the following years’ plans. Responding, PG&E wrote, “we will not solve the problems of catastrophic wildfires in one year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the utility’s initial resistance to creating a fire contingency plan, PG&E’s Robison referred to a section of the 2012 decision in which the CPUC echoed the PG&E’s longstanding argument that Southern California “is the area of the state with the greatest risk” of utility-caused fires. Edison’s spokesman David Song said his company had never been “opposed to performing risk analysis on equipment based on high winds in high fire areas,” but rather contested the legal framework of the proposal and believed it conflicted with other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E got mixed reviews for its execution of the first year’s plan. Unlike 2017 and 2018, no one died in fires sparked by the company’s equipment. But its widespread power shutoffs, which reached a climax during prolonged windstorms in October 2019 when more than 1 million customers were blacked out, were initially plagued by poor communication with the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the utility reported it found hundreds of locations where the shutoffs probably prevented fires, one of its high-voltage transmission lines touched off one of the year’s most destructive blazes — the Kincade Fire, which broke out as 80 m.p.h. gusts raked a mountainous area north of San Francisco. About 200,000 people were forced from their homes during the incident, which destroyed 374 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Battle Over Maps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A third proposal advocated by Mitchell’s group and the CPUC’s safety division championed the creation of elaborate statewide fire maps overseen by the commission. Fire scientists have long known that a granular map of winds and other weather factors, layered on maps of vegetation, topography, human settlement and power lines, can provide invaluable insight into where fires may start and spread. Such maps could help utilities focus maintenance work on the areas at highest risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric had already mapped its system. PG&E and Southern California Edison were open to the idea, but pushed back on a series of specifics. PG&E attorneys asked that the CPUC not enforce the maps in an “absolute or prescriptive” way. “It should be made clear in the standard or rule that the maps are simply a guideline, and not the ultimate authority,” PG&E attorneys wrote in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC adopted interim fire maps for Southern California that year, but when Mitchell’s group and the commission’s safety division pushed for statewide maps with detailed wind data, Edison said the proposal would “impose significant costs on the utilities” and would duplicate work already done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do not adopt,” PG&E attorneys wrote. “[The proposal] should be rejected outright. It overreaches in many respects, including the fact that it proposes that the maps be funded by the [utilities].” The company began suggesting the commission postpone the map question until a later phase of the proceeding, a suggestion the CPUC agreed to over the objections of safety advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2015, PG&E and SoCal Edison had stopped resisting the concept but continued to influence the plan in ways that safety advocates believed delayed its implementation and diminished its rigor. That May, the CPUC opened a whole new proceeding to specifically focus on the maps and other issues that hadn’t been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in 2016, after Cal Fire concluded PG&E equipment had sparked a 70,000-acre wind-driven fire in Amador and Calaveras counties the year before, the utility continued to assert the fire threat in its territory was “very different from conditions in Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around then, Mitchell noticed that wind-specific maps — the core of his initial proposal — had been diluted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been promised a steak, and it has been turned into a hash, and then put into a stew, which has been used to make a soup,” Mitchell wrote. “If the commission is to deliver on what it has promised ratepayers in this proceeding … it will need to pull the steak back out of the soup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2018 — nearly a decade after the mapping proposal was first made — the CPUC adopted new fire maps and required utilities to use remote weather stations to monitor high winds. Mitchell notes that the maps still lack the detailed wind data that would help utilities pinpoint vulnerable infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked recently about its early opposition to detailed, CPUC-managed maps, Edison’s spokesperson, Song, said the utility’s “concern was procedural in nature, not with the substance of the rulemaking.” In response to a similar inquiry, PG&E’s Robison said the current map is helping PG&E and others prioritize safety, prevention and response efforts. She added that it shows how dramatically climate impacts are increasing fire risk. “In less than a decade, the area served by PG&E that the CPUC designated to be at a high risk of wildfire has tripled from 15 percent to more than 50 percent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stopping Sparks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Regulatory hearings weren’t the only arena in which PG&E took a sluggish approach to addressing fire safety. FRONTLINE’s investigation found the utility also failed to adopt a risk-reduction technique that had been used by other utilities for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power lines suffer a problem — for instance, a branch striking the line — devices called \"reclosers\" will halt the flow of electricity, then immediately try to restore it. (When lights flicker at a home or an office building, it’s likely due to a recloser doing its job.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For at least 30 years, utilities have known that reclosers can also start fires. For instance, if a line breaks and falls on brush-covered ground, the recloser’s attempt to resume the flow of power can spark a fire. A 1989 booklet titled “Power Line Fire Prevention Field Guide,” written by utility companies in conjunction with state fire agencies, outlined the risk: “Automatic reclosers, by re-energizing the line... increase the probability of ignition,” the booklet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, many utilities have long-standing policies to turn off reclosers during fire season, opting for the laborious but safer method of sending out a crew to manually check a power line when it faults. 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By early Monday, the fire had scorched 2,800 acres of steep terrain and was 10% contained, according to Cal Fire. The blaze had already damaged five structures and was threatening 1,500 more, with four firefighters suffering from heat-related injuries, the agency reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday morning, the blaze had spread across Pine Canyon, and was continuing to move to the south toward River Road, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes along Pine Canyon Road, Parker Road, Laurel Lane and Trimble Hill Lane, while an evacuation advisory covers Indian Canyon Road, Mt. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a rare sight for thunder and lighting to rock the Bay Area. As the skies sparked Saturday night and through Sunday morning, it’s not a surprise that many of you got out your phones and cameras to capture the spectacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve collected some submissions from KQED listeners, readers and staff, as well as some great shots from around the Bay Area social media-sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enjoy the odd weather while you can: San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose are expected to get sunny by Sunday afternoon, though there is still a chance of thunderstorms Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of your photos and videos from around the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9CN22j3nC/?igshid=1gj1qt6bc6p98\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/5U8hy7PsHz\">pic.twitter.com/5U8hy7PsHz\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Stephanie Jones (@slolee) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/slolee/status/1295072743767982080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">6am in San Francisco! \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/GGIwzfCIcn\">pic.twitter.com/GGIwzfCIcn\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Shannon Dee (@_shannondee_) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_shannondee_/status/1295063304902074368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/UdiUfVa0WJ\">pic.twitter.com/UdiUfVa0WJ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CindyWeil (@cindyweilsf) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cindyweilsf/status/1295020881714925568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FremontPD/status/1295008026764570624\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">From Tiburon. Crazy winds!!! \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/nmLnZG50pP\">pic.twitter.com/nmLnZG50pP\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— E. King (@18or262) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/18or262/status/1295017804026925058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"eu\">in San Leandro. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/3xqeXEd88E\">pic.twitter.com/3xqeXEd88E\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— A Cool Slut 😎 (@bigtitenergy) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bigtitenergy/status/1295063857862307846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taken on top of Twin Peaks at about 7:30am during bike ride…storm as it passed over East Bay \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/dNeK6xZ1yk\">https://t.co/dNeK6xZ1yk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— amnesiac 🇩🇰 🎸🚴 (@gkkd) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gkkd/status/1295074281659875328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">very loud thunder this morning! Woke me up \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/zzVNcq2CL0\">pic.twitter.com/zzVNcq2CL0\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— molly mermin (@mollymermaids) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mollymermaids/status/1295058396584927232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hamrashaar/status/1294953731683885062\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">View from Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/13h1nt4jNe\">pic.twitter.com/13h1nt4jNe\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ariel Nava Photo (@arielnavaphoto) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/arielnavaphoto/status/1295065698754953216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Beyond excited to have captured some good pics of the INCREDIBLE \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayArea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayArea\u003c/a> lightning storm early this morning! 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