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People who use powered medical devices, including oxygen concentrators and motorized wheelchairs, pay lower rates for gas and electricity by applying to the program with a doctor's note. Under rules approved by the commission, utilities now use medical baseline status to identify and warn vulnerable customers before and during a power shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11779283 label='Left in the Dark' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/20191010_124940-1020x765.jpg\"]But the program is an imperfect proxy for medically vulnerable communities, as Commissioner Liane M. Randolph noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officers and consumer advocates say that the program under-represents who’s at risk in a shutoff area. For instance, people who live in buildings that receive just one electric bill — or in mobile home communities — can’t register. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the medical baseline program itself dates back decades, it’s only this year that PG&E began to use it as a warning mechanism in this kind of emergency. At the same time, a spokesman for San Diego Gas & Electric, the utility that pioneered public safety shutoffs after the 2007 Witch Fire, pointed out that regulations make eligible people who declare that they need air conditioning to be comfortable for a variety of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear how well PG&E warned medical baseline customers about the most recent shutoff event. According to earlier filings with the CPUC, PG&E warns its medical baseline customers via text, email or automated call. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the customer doesn't confirm the warning, the utility will send someone out to knock on the door, said PG&E Senior Vice President Laurie M. Giammona. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nobody answers the door, the utility hangs a tag, and considers the outreach successful. Giammona said that PG&E workers left door tags for about 700 people last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Kaplan of Oakland, who uses an electric chair, bed and ventilator and requires the use of an elevator, explained that being notified about power shutoffs \"isn't all that helpful.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is going to be a reality that we're going to have to get used to, then people who rely on power for survival need to have backup,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781232\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CPUC’s head of safety and enforcement policy, Elizaveta Malashenko, told lawmakers in August that the medical baseline program wasn’t designed for emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves also wondered why some communities got backup generators, when others didn’t. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Was wealth a factor?\" she asked PG&E's Singh about why Calistoga got a generator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said that was not the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Executives Detail Communication Breakdowns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>PG&E's Giammona said that the utility had not anticipated the number of people who would access the website. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that about 1.7 million users per hour were trying to use the PG&E website during the power shut offs. 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At the same time, a spokesman for San Diego Gas & Electric, the utility that pioneered public safety shutoffs after the 2007 Witch Fire, pointed out that regulations make eligible people who declare that they need air conditioning to be comfortable for a variety of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear how well PG&E warned medical baseline customers about the most recent shutoff event. According to earlier filings with the CPUC, PG&E warns its medical baseline customers via text, email or automated call. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the customer doesn't confirm the warning, the utility will send someone out to knock on the door, said PG&E Senior Vice President Laurie M. Giammona. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nobody answers the door, the utility hangs a tag, and considers the outreach successful. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maximina Molina Sanchez is worried about going hungry this winter. She depends on a food bank in Huron to feed her husband and two kids. But with most agricultural workers out of jobs during the winter, demand is bound to increase, so she worries there won’t be enough food to feed everyone who needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchez family is among the 22% of people in Fresno County who couldn’t afford the groceries they needed in the past year. Fresno ranks third in the country for food insecurity, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.frac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Research and Action Center.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Over a fifth of people in Fresno County could not afford the groceries they needed in the past year.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the county leads the nation in agricultural production. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919301296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study\u003c/a> from Santa Clara University revealed that a whopping one-third of the hand-picked crops grown in the state are left to rot in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why can’t this food get to the people who really need it? Food banks are addressing shortages on a piecemeal basis and startups are expanding sales of farmers’ surplus produce. But there is no solution in sight to bridge the food insecurity and crop overproduction that plague the Central Valley because it takes money and labor to harvest the surplus and haul it to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Hirasuna, vice president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunnysidepacking.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunnyside Packing Company\u003c/a> in Selma, said he was not surprised by the study’s finding. The company regularly leaves a third of its produce in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you lump the whole Valley together, it’s a pretty staggering number at the end of the day,” Hirasuna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hunger in the Valley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/interactive-charts-and-highlights/#States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.6 % of households\u003c/a> across the state were food insecure in 2018. In 2016, over a fifth of Fresno residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/saipe_treemap/saipe_snap_treemap.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=09a6dbd393-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-09a6dbd393-84313689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received food stamps\u003c/a> — and 10.6% statewide. It’s unclear whether those are the same groups of people. However, according to the Food Research and Action Center, people on food stamps may still be food insecure because the aid doesn’t always cover the cost of the food they need. And many families with insufficient food have incomes higher than the threshold for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley\u003c/a> found that 27% of residents in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are at risk of hunger even though they live next to two of the most productive agricultural valleys in the country. The food bank raised the issue with food waste researchers at Santa Clara University, who in turn quantified the amount of surplus in those fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wondered whether there may be some opportunities to salvage the food left in the fields and direct it to people on food assistance,” said Greg Baker, executive director of the Center for Food Innovation and Entrepreneurship at SCU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examining 20 hand-harvested crops on 123 Central and Northern California fields in 2016 and 2017, the researchers found that 34% of edible produce never makes it off the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates varied widely among crops; cabbage, romaine lettuce and strawberries were among the most lost. (Researchers refer to leftover produce as “loss,” not “waste,” because unlike food that ends up in a landfill, it can feed livestock or fertilize the soil.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates are likely constant throughout California, according to Baker, but machine-harvested produce experiences much lower levels because the equipment leaves little behind. Produce that can be canned or converted to other food such as raisins also has lower loss rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker found that farmers tend to overproduce to fulfill their contracts with buyers. They plant about a third more than they need in case of weather, pests, plant disease, labor availability, field stability and over-or under-sized crops. If after delivering, the price is too low, they leave the rest to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"https://bfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowles Farming Company\u003c/a> in Los Banos harvested close to 85% of its cantaloupes because market demand was high, according to Cannon Michael, company president. However, last year his company left about 80% of its cantaloupes in the field because prices were too low to justify harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food waste is a big concern of ours,” Michael said. “It’s really frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Johnson, a researcher at North Carolina State University who specializes in food loss and waste, found that in the Southeast, 40% of crops are lost. This is particularly concerning, she said, because the losses stack atop the 30% to 40% of food that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA estimates\u003c/a> is wasted each year in stores and households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-2-800x564.jpeg\" alt=\"Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781094\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Why Not Donate it to People in Need?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sanchez has seen the loss first-hand. She was a picker until her son, now 9 months old, was born. Life has been difficult since her husband fell off a truck while he was packing lettuce and injured his back a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westside Family Preservation, a food bank in the roughly 7,000-person town of Huron, keeps most of the town’s agricultural workers from starving by supplying such staples as milk, corn flakes, pasta, rice, beans and canned fruits and vegetables. But the food bank regularly lacks the fresh produce grown in the Valley, which Sanchez said she needs to keep her sons healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of throwing it away, why not donate it to people in need? The cold is coming, it’s going to rain, and these people, we are in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting food out of the fields and into the households that need it is far costlier than simply growing it, Johnson explained. With limited budgets, food banks can’t offset the full cost of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11771889,news_11762399,news_11737874' label='RELATED COVERAGE']The \u003ca href=\"https://ccfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central California Food Bank\u003c/a> serves about 280,000 families in the Valley, including Sanchez’s family. They share surplus and trade vegetables with over 200 food banks nationwide. But supplies often fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s feast to famine,” said Jaclyn Pack, food acquisitions manager at the food bank. “During the summer we’re very feast. I can’t keep our cold storage empty. And during the winter it’s very famine, where I’m constantly trying to figure out how to get product in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank provides farms with cardboard boxes and picks them up, and the state gives farmers a tax credit worth 15% of the wholesale value. But Baker said many farmers don’t participate because they either didn’t know about the tax incentives or found the compensation too low. It made more sense to write off the crop as a loss than to donate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not their business,” said Baker. “They’re not running a charity along with their farm. They’re very happy to contribute but it can cost them too much money because they’re operating on slim margins as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks have tried to get volunteers to glean the produce off the farms but it didn’t work. Frequently there wasn’t enough time to organize enough volunteers and gleaners take far longer and harvest much less than professional field workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-3-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781095\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Food Left in Fields Likely to Increase\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steve Linkhart, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafoodbanks.org/farm-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farm to Family\u003c/a>, at the California Association of Food Banks, is working on a statewide solution. He plans to hire the labor the farms already contract to get all the product off the field that could go to food banks. Funding, again, is the main roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way to offset the labor fees,” Linkhart said. Growers and researchers say reducing the surplus calls for a seismic shift. They suggested more open communication within the supply chain. Baker said the retailers could shift the status quo by being more flexible on what they accept. That is, taking more produce that is off-size or has imperfections. That way, growers wouldn’t have to overplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, investors spent over \u003ca href=\"https://www.refed.com/download#food-waste-investment-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$125 million\u003c/a> on startups looking to address food loss and waste. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article233304382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperfect Produce\u003c/a>, for example, delivers otherwise unmarketable produce to homes, and recently began delivering boxes in Fresno, Merced and Modesto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full Harvest works with growers across California to deliver imperfect fruits and vegetables to food processors across the state and country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are products that didn’t have any channel for incremental revenue,” said Christine Mosely, who runs Full Harvest. “It’s a win-win because the farms are happy to sell it because it would’ve been disced under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot more needs to be done to curtail waste at a bigger scale, or get more of it to people in need and no one has even a roadmap just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael at Bowles suspects the problem will only worsen as produce prices stay low and labor costs rise.“The potential for food to be left in the field is increasing because of the increased human cost,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why a lot of the big folks are trying to move as much production out to Mexico and Central America, because the cost of labor is so much less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manuela Tobias is a journalist at The Fresno Bee. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates varied widely among crops; cabbage, romaine lettuce and strawberries were among the most lost. (Researchers refer to leftover produce as “loss,” not “waste,” because unlike food that ends up in a landfill, it can feed livestock or fertilize the soil.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates are likely constant throughout California, according to Baker, but machine-harvested produce experiences much lower levels because the equipment leaves little behind. Produce that can be canned or converted to other food such as raisins also has lower loss rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker found that farmers tend to overproduce to fulfill their contracts with buyers. They plant about a third more than they need in case of weather, pests, plant disease, labor availability, field stability and over-or under-sized crops. If after delivering, the price is too low, they leave the rest to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"https://bfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowles Farming Company\u003c/a> in Los Banos harvested close to 85% of its cantaloupes because market demand was high, according to Cannon Michael, company president. However, last year his company left about 80% of its cantaloupes in the field because prices were too low to justify harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food waste is a big concern of ours,” Michael said. “It’s really frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Johnson, a researcher at North Carolina State University who specializes in food loss and waste, found that in the Southeast, 40% of crops are lost. This is particularly concerning, she said, because the losses stack atop the 30% to 40% of food that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA estimates\u003c/a> is wasted each year in stores and households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-2-800x564.jpeg\" alt=\"Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781094\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Why Not Donate it to People in Need?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sanchez has seen the loss first-hand. She was a picker until her son, now 9 months old, was born. Life has been difficult since her husband fell off a truck while he was packing lettuce and injured his back a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westside Family Preservation, a food bank in the roughly 7,000-person town of Huron, keeps most of the town’s agricultural workers from starving by supplying such staples as milk, corn flakes, pasta, rice, beans and canned fruits and vegetables. But the food bank regularly lacks the fresh produce grown in the Valley, which Sanchez said she needs to keep her sons healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of throwing it away, why not donate it to people in need? The cold is coming, it’s going to rain, and these people, we are in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting food out of the fields and into the households that need it is far costlier than simply growing it, Johnson explained. With limited budgets, food banks can’t offset the full cost of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ccfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central California Food Bank\u003c/a> serves about 280,000 families in the Valley, including Sanchez’s family. They share surplus and trade vegetables with over 200 food banks nationwide. But supplies often fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s feast to famine,” said Jaclyn Pack, food acquisitions manager at the food bank. “During the summer we’re very feast. I can’t keep our cold storage empty. And during the winter it’s very famine, where I’m constantly trying to figure out how to get product in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank provides farms with cardboard boxes and picks them up, and the state gives farmers a tax credit worth 15% of the wholesale value. But Baker said many farmers don’t participate because they either didn’t know about the tax incentives or found the compensation too low. It made more sense to write off the crop as a loss than to donate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not their business,” said Baker. “They’re not running a charity along with their farm. They’re very happy to contribute but it can cost them too much money because they’re operating on slim margins as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks have tried to get volunteers to glean the produce off the farms but it didn’t work. Frequently there wasn’t enough time to organize enough volunteers and gleaners take far longer and harvest much less than professional field workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-3-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781095\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Food Left in Fields Likely to Increase\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steve Linkhart, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafoodbanks.org/farm-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farm to Family\u003c/a>, at the California Association of Food Banks, is working on a statewide solution. He plans to hire the labor the farms already contract to get all the product off the field that could go to food banks. Funding, again, is the main roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way to offset the labor fees,” Linkhart said. Growers and researchers say reducing the surplus calls for a seismic shift. They suggested more open communication within the supply chain. Baker said the retailers could shift the status quo by being more flexible on what they accept. That is, taking more produce that is off-size or has imperfections. That way, growers wouldn’t have to overplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, investors spent over \u003ca href=\"https://www.refed.com/download#food-waste-investment-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$125 million\u003c/a> on startups looking to address food loss and waste. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article233304382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperfect Produce\u003c/a>, for example, delivers otherwise unmarketable produce to homes, and recently began delivering boxes in Fresno, Merced and Modesto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full Harvest works with growers across California to deliver imperfect fruits and vegetables to food processors across the state and country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are products that didn’t have any channel for incremental revenue,” said Christine Mosely, who runs Full Harvest. “It’s a win-win because the farms are happy to sell it because it would’ve been disced under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot more needs to be done to curtail waste at a bigger scale, or get more of it to people in need and no one has even a roadmap just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael at Bowles suspects the problem will only worsen as produce prices stay low and labor costs rise.“The potential for food to be left in the field is increasing because of the increased human cost,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why a lot of the big folks are trying to move as much production out to Mexico and Central America, because the cost of labor is so much less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manuela Tobias is a journalist at The Fresno Bee. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The contractor was at our terminal that day performing scheduled routine maintenance,” Cho said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/52c3efd17595df98882584940076d9f2?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,crockett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entry\u003c/a>, added just an hour after the fire, to a California Office of Emergency Services hazardous spills database, described the situation before the worker was rescued.[aside postID=\"news_11780224\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The facility was evacuated but there is one contract employee that could not get out of the building and they are in the back of the facility. Caller stated that the fire department is aware of the contractor location,” the entry stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker was not seriously injured, Cal/OSHA spokesman Frank Polizzi said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar on Friday afternoon released its \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/CCHS-HazMat-Incident-Notification-Att.-B-submittal-10-18-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">72-hour follow-up report \u003c/a>to the county. The report notes the cause of the fire, which started at approximately 1:48 p.m. on Tuesday and was abated at about 9 p.m., is still unknown and under investigation. There were less than 3,000 barrels of denatured ethanol in each of the two tanks that caught fire, plus “an unknown quantity of other potential fuels (diesel and jet) released through broken lines,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also states that the terminal was evacuated within approximately two minutes, with the exception of the lone contractor, who was rescued within 20 minutes. There were no employee or contractor injuries and one firefighter sustained a minor burn injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to understand what training workers, whether they be contractors or employees, went through,” said Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, who said the contractor was unable to give emergency workers any information about the tanks’ contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A petrochemical facility, he added, needs to have a system in place for people who understand the plant to meet with first responders on arrival during emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s less important whether it’s a contractor or an employee and more about ensuring everybody there, however long they’ve worked there, is sufficiently trained to maximize safety and reduce harm at the facility,” said Gioia, who sits on the board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gioia said the front gate of the NuStar facility was locked when firefighters arrived and that its emergency fire suppression system was not activated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar has said there was “initial confusion” about which tanks were involved because the explosion and fire erupted so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VallejoFire/status/1184253063185358848?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the intensity of the fire during the first few minutes, they could not get close enough to verify which tanks were on fire,” Cho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company officials say the power at the terminal has been restored. But Cal/OSHA, earlier this week, ordered that operations at the facility be suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All movements of product into and out of the terminal are halted, as we assess the damage and develop a plan for repairs,” Cho said, adding that he didn’t know when operations would resume or how much the fire and suspension of operations would cost the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors issued an order to preserve evidence in the two tanks and the pipes involved in the blaze. They also issued an order to cease operations at the facility “until we can confirm that operations can resume safely,” said Erika Monterroza, another Cal/OSHA representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cal/OSHA is working expeditiously to identify and correct hazards that may impact workers’ safety at the NuStar Energy facility or that of the surrounding community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire sent up a huge plume of smoke for hours, prompting a shelter-in-place order for nearby communities and the closure of a section of Interstate 80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County health officials detected elevated levels of particulate matter at the time of the fire, according to Randy Sawyer, the county’s chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that agency and the Air District have yet to release data on the air quality tests taken during the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven patients who complained of respiratory distress went to the emergency room at Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo, according to a hospital spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency rooms at Kaiser’s Richmond, Oakland and Vallejo hospitals did not see a significant increase in the number of patients as a result of the fire, said Kaiser representative Deniene Erickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is under investigation by the Contra Costa County Fire Department, the Air District and Cal/OSHA. 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I remember when they found the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Out-of-the-Rubble-3312129.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kid in the rubble\u003c/a> on the bridge a week later. It was a shining moment in a horrible week! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eva Raczkowski\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was in San Mateo, in my office at Oracle. We had just had a birthday party for my 40th birthday where I was given an \"Oh no 40!\" button and covered with black silly string. I had no idea what was happening and ignored it until a coworker pulled me under a desk. No one at work suffered any injuries, but we discovered that a water pipe had broken right above the computer that ran all of the company's internal applications. 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I thought people were jumping up and down on the bus, then I looked out at the street light poles were swinging 45 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People ran from a building at the corner, and then a large plume of dust came out the door. My bus was diesel so we started right back up. As I walked from Market up Haight, I heard of more and more damage from each car where a radio was playing. I unplugged my answering machine so my analog phone would work and my family in Iowa panicked as I had no way to receive messages until I got through on a payphone later that night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to a friend in Noe Valley who had power and saw my office on the TV. I went down to find I had no place to work. Our owners set up a temporary office a block away in a warehouse on Townsend and kept us employed. My desk was a door on milk crates for almost a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Van House\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was in a meeting in my office on UC Berkeley campus when the shaking hit. We all went under a table. We tried to continue the meeting but realized we were too shaken. I had a radio because of the baseball game and I tried to tune into KCBS radio to find out what happened but, oddly, couldn’t find them (they were off the air for a while). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my way to my car, listening to the radio, I began to hear the real extent of the damage. As I got into my car in a multilevel parking structure, I heard KCBS broadcasters say they were feeling an aftershock. I knew they were in Embarcadero Center, and I gunned my car to get out of there before the aftershock hit Berkeley!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a very scary time. I watched TV and listened to the radio obsessively for weeks — in Berkeley, I never lost power. Learning more and more about the damage, I felt oddly outside of it, with no damage. Almost a kind of survivor’s guilt. I seriously considered leaving the Bay Area (but didn’t). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Siobhan Greene\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was in my house in San Mateo, a small house at the top of a hill. My daughter, Brighid, was 6 weeks old, sitting in her baby swing. The house felt like a train went through it; dogs went nuts; swing went higher than a mom wants to see. I whisked Brighid out of her swing without even unbuckling it. Had I not been home with my girl I would have been on the Bay Bridge on my way home from Berkeley where I worked. It was both my route and time. During crisis you feel you have to protect your child and save her from harm. I later realized, she saved me that day. She saved me that day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago she got a tattoo of the Loma Prieta fault line (San Andreas) on her arm in honor of that weirdly special day we share. 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We had just had a birthday party for my 40th birthday where I was given an \"Oh no 40!\" button and covered with black silly string. I had no idea what was happening and ignored it until a coworker pulled me under a desk. No one at work suffered any injuries, but we discovered that a water pipe had broken right above the computer that ran all of the company's internal applications. Thanks to teamwork, we recovered quickly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lived in Half Moon Bay at the time, and for days I picked up speed every time I crossed the fault. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julia from San Jose\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was a kindergartener in Davis, about 80 miles from the earthquake. I remember I was over at my friend Becky's house after school and I recall watching the chandelier in her kitchen swing. We had practiced stop, drop and roll routines at school and I vaguely recall hiding under her kitchen table. We didn't experience any damage or long-term effects, but we were amazed that we felt it so far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tim Ryan\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI got sent home early from work to watch the World Series. I was on a bus at 9th and Folsom when my office wall collapsed. I found out that two of my coworkers and three other pedestrians were crushed to death at my office at 185 Bluxome in San Francisco. I thought people were jumping up and down on the bus, then I looked out at the street light poles were swinging 45 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People ran from a building at the corner, and then a large plume of dust came out the door. My bus was diesel so we started right back up. As I walked from Market up Haight, I heard of more and more damage from each car where a radio was playing. I unplugged my answering machine so my analog phone would work and my family in Iowa panicked as I had no way to receive messages until I got through on a payphone later that night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to a friend in Noe Valley who had power and saw my office on the TV. I went down to find I had no place to work. Our owners set up a temporary office a block away in a warehouse on Townsend and kept us employed. My desk was a door on milk crates for almost a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Van House\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was in a meeting in my office on UC Berkeley campus when the shaking hit. We all went under a table. We tried to continue the meeting but realized we were too shaken. I had a radio because of the baseball game and I tried to tune into KCBS radio to find out what happened but, oddly, couldn’t find them (they were off the air for a while). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my way to my car, listening to the radio, I began to hear the real extent of the damage. As I got into my car in a multilevel parking structure, I heard KCBS broadcasters say they were feeling an aftershock. I knew they were in Embarcadero Center, and I gunned my car to get out of there before the aftershock hit Berkeley!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a very scary time. I watched TV and listened to the radio obsessively for weeks — in Berkeley, I never lost power. Learning more and more about the damage, I felt oddly outside of it, with no damage. Almost a kind of survivor’s guilt. I seriously considered leaving the Bay Area (but didn’t). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Siobhan Greene\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was in my house in San Mateo, a small house at the top of a hill. My daughter, Brighid, was 6 weeks old, sitting in her baby swing. The house felt like a train went through it; dogs went nuts; swing went higher than a mom wants to see. I whisked Brighid out of her swing without even unbuckling it. Had I not been home with my girl I would have been on the Bay Bridge on my way home from Berkeley where I worked. It was both my route and time. During crisis you feel you have to protect your child and save her from harm. I later realized, she saved me that day. She saved me that day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago she got a tattoo of the Loma Prieta fault line (San Andreas) on her arm in honor of that weirdly special day we share. 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I was terrified! We had the Battle of the Bay World Series on the TV and I was half-watching and half-playing a game with my sister. My mom was on the phone buying tickets for the musical \"Cats.\" When the shaking started she hung up and yelled for us to get under our desks, but I deemed my room too far and went to the doorway. My youngest sister was only 3 and couldn't even walk with all the shaking. It was so noisy and a brick retaining wall in front of our house collapsed. The power went out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was over my mom took us three kids and our dog into our backyard. She brought a radio. There was a 6.0 aftershock shortly after. We couldn't communicate with my dad who was at work in Mountain View. It took him hours to get home from just a few miles and I was so scared he was hurt or trapped somewhere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School was canceled the next day. The day after that we went back to school and made earthquake memory capsules in my fifth grade class but unfortunately I have no idea where it is now! Our power didn't come back on for three days because we were in the hills. We cooked with our camping stove. On the third day my dad bought a generator but the power came back on that day! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty years later I'm still so jumpy about earthquakes, even the little ones get my heart racing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allison White\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was working out in the weight room at Foothill College in Los Altos. When the shaking started, the lights went out and ceiling tiles fell. We exited the weight room and looked out to see the Olympic-sized swimming pool sloshing swimmers out onto the deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foothill College looks down on Highway 280 to the east. I knew how serious the quake was because cars on 280 had stopped in their lanes (and not from bumper to bumper traffic). If you've ever driven on 280, you know how fast cars tend to drive, so seeing cars stopped on 280 was amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cathy Connell\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was working for the San Francisco Examiner as a circulation department district manager and the Marina was part of the area I covered. On that day, I was waiting for my dinner order at O' Sole Mio restaurant on Chestnut near Fillmore and watching the Giants and A's in the World Series at Candlestick. Little did I know how the world around me was about to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main thing that I remember was the intense shaking. I was unable to stand up from my seat. When the shaking finally subsided, I walked out to Chestnut Street to an eerie silence only broken by the sound of car alarms. I crossed the street to my truck and switched on the CB radio. A small group of people gathered around to listen for any news of what just happened to us. We were all in shock. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Monterey County Superior Court judge found the employer of the only person to die in the massive 2016 Soberanes Fire criminally guilty of violating several labor laws in a case that debated whether heavy equipment operators hired to help the state battle wildfires are independent contractors or employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Andrew Liu announced the verdict in a Salinas courtroom on Wednesday afternoon for Ian Czirban, who employed Robert Reagan, a contract bulldozer operator killed while fighting the blaze that grew to more than 130,000 acres near Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Morgan Kemple, widow of Robert Reagan, killed fighting the Soberanes Fire\"]‘[Cal Fire] contractors are repetitively claiming to have no employees. There needs to be a change.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu ruled that Czirban was guilty of two counts of willfully failing to file a payroll tax return, one count of not having workers’ comp and one count of filing a false document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest hope is that this opens Cal Fire’s eyes,” said Morgan Kemple, Reagan’s widow, in a text message after the verdict. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Reagan died, two other heavy equipment contractors were killed helping state fire crews battle large blazes whose employers also did not have workers’ comp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their contractors are repetitively claiming to have no employees. There needs to be a change and I sincerely hope this creates needed change,” Kemple said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan, 35, of Fresno County died after the dozer he was operating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11042061/cal-fire-probe-details-death-of-dozer-driver-in-big-sur-blaze\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">toppled down an embankment\u003c/a> on July 26, 2016, several days after what was once the most expensive wildfire in U.S. history to fight began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan left behind Kemple and two children. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggled in the aftermath of his death\u003c/a>, in part, because the company he worked for, Madera County-based Czirban Concrete Construction, did not have a valid workers’ comp policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11367902 label='No Workers Comp in a Dangerous Line of Work' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/2016_09_20-16.07.59.194-CDT-1180x885.jpeg']Heavy equipment firms that contract with Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service are required to have workers’ comp. After state regulators determined the company lacked the benefit, Monterey County prosecutors charged Czirban with insurance and workers’ compensation fraud and failure to pay taxes, among other counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Czirban pleaded not guilty. More than three years after the fire and Reagan’s death, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11749704/trial-to-shed-light-on-status-of-workers-hired-to-fight-california-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case\u003c/a> has come to a close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the next two years following Reagan’s death, heavy equipment operators employed by small firms who contract with Cal Fire died helping battle some of California’s worst fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the verdict comes two years to the day after Garrett Paiz, a private contractor helping firefighters battle the Nuns Fire, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636192/chp-blames-bad-brakes-for-crash-that-killed-water-tender-driver-in-north-bay-fires\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed after the water tanker he was driving crashed\u003c/a> in Napa County on Oct. 16 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators determined that his employer, Red Bluff-based Tehama Transport, did not have workers’ comp. The state Labor Commissioner’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702314/state-penalizes-firm-that-employed-dozer-operator-killed-in-carr-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fined the firm\u003c/a> and shut it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years to the day after Reagan died, bulldozer operator Donald Ray Smith, 81, of Pollock Pines in El Dorado County, was killed during the Carr Fire near Redding when the rapidly growing fire overtook him. The company he worked for, Robert Dominikus General Engineering, did not have workers’ comp either. State officials cited the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict sends a message to heavy equipment contractors, according to Veena Dubal, an associate professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, who specializes in employment and has followed cases involving heavy equipment contractors in California’s wildfire gig economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they continue to misclassify their workers and fail to provide the required workers’ compensation insurance, as required by law, then they are taking a huge personal risk,” Dubal said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County’s successful prosecution could prompt district attorneys in other jurisdictions to prosecute similar cases, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cal Fire should also be on notice. They need to do more than require that contractors say they carry workers’ compensation,” Dubal said, adding that the agency should do a better job of vetting their contractors documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire spokesman has yet to comment on the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kemple, Reagan’s widow, said prosecutors in Napa and Shasta counties should pursue similar cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope this gives those counties motivation to file on those families’ behalf’s as well,” Reagan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11405049 label='Online Fundraising Where Workers Comp Should Be' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/reagan-family-photo-1180x1476.jpg']At the crux of the prosecution’s argument was what’s become a familiar one in California’s wars over workers’ rights — that Czirban was Reagan’s employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of the underground economy. That was a theme in this case,” said John Hubanks, Monterey County deputy district attorney, in a courthouse interview after the verdict was read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt pretty clearly that he was the employer. The law, under the facts in this case, was very clear,” Hubanks said, adding that Czirban owned the bulldozer that Reagan was driving when he died, he paid people to drive it and he signed a contract for his company to do business with Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court arguments, Hubanks argued that Czirban filed a false workers’ comp insurance certificate, leading Cal Fire officials to believe they were hiring a firm abiding by the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hubanks said the fact that Czirban was convicted of not having workers comp means that he may have to pay restitution to Kemple and her two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me that was the crux of the case,” Hubanks said. “I’m hoping the court will do the right thing and grant restitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge found Czirban not guilty of insurance fraud and filing a false workers’ compensation exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Czirban is due to be sentenced Dec. 13. Along with restitution, he faces the possibility of time behind bars in the county jail and probation, according to Hubanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Czirban’s attorney argued that Reagan was not a traditional employee, but instead a contractor and that Czirban did not file false information or mislead anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney, Daniel Olmos, declined to comment after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The zone will allow taxis, emergency vehicles, buses, trams and bicycles, but not personal cars, including ride-hail vehicles like Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will not only be a magnificent Market Street, it will be a model Market Street,\" said Malcolm Heinicke, SFMTA board chair. \"Let’s start building future ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780229\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_Screen-Shot-2019-10-15-at-1.20.30-PM-qut-800x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_Screen-Shot-2019-10-15-at-1.20.30-PM-qut-800x245.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_Screen-Shot-2019-10-15-at-1.20.30-PM-qut-160x49.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_Screen-Shot-2019-10-15-at-1.20.30-PM-qut-1020x312.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_Screen-Shot-2019-10-15-at-1.20.30-PM-qut-1200x367.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_Screen-Shot-2019-10-15-at-1.20.30-PM-qut.jpg 1549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the Better Market Street project on Oct. 15, 2019. \u003ccite>( Better Market Street)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Viktoriya Wise, SFMTA's acting director of sustainable streets, called the project “a once in a generation transformation of Market Street” — the city’s busiest bicycle, pedestrian and transit corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Better Market Street \u003ca href=\"http://bettermarketstreetsf.org/about-project-teams.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team\u003c/a> includes several city agencies, including Public Works, SFMTA and the Planning Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people — cyclists, pedestrians, business leaders, climate change activists and environmentalists — spoke in support of the car-free zone at the SFMTA board meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking cars off Market is clearly going to save lives,\" said Darren Newell, campaign coordinator at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it should be returned to an incredible avenue for the city,\" said Kevin Carroll, president and CEO of the Hotel Council of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Straus, a member of the San Francisco Transit Riders executive board, said they had a number of concerns primarily related to stops — such as ensuring full accessibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780219\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10152019_sf_better-market-street-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Market Street at Front Street on Oct. 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every day, 500,000 people walk on Market Street and 75,000 ride on above-ground transit. Some 200 buses an hour shuttle people to the area during peak times, according to Better Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials cited aging infrastructure and safety challenges as some of the reasons that they’re making the changes, noting 75% of the injury collisions in the area include walking or biking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-going-car-free-ban-2018-12#madrid-banned-older-cars-from-its-city-center-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joins\u003c/a> a number of cities — New York, Paris and Oslo in Norway — that have banned cars from parts of their metropolitan areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other changes to the car-free zone include creating enhanced buffer zones between cyclists and pedestrians, restricting peak-hour loading on Market Street and adding bicycle intersection improvements and safety zones at eight intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's public works director approved the proposal earlier Tuesday, said Better Market Street project manager Cristina Olea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the SFMTA board vote is the final approval, there is a 30-day appeal period following the city planning commission's unanimous vote on Oct. 10 to certify the environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work on the \u003ca href=\"http://bettermarketstreetsf.org/about-common-questions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project\u003c/a> began about 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 1 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews remain on the scene of Tuesday’s explosion and hours-long fire at NuStar Energy’s storage facility in Crockett, where two large storage tanks that held ethanol burned almost entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire led to a nearly 7.5-hour shelter-in-place order for parts of Contra Costa County and the shutdown of Interstate 80 in both directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Fire spokesman Steve Hill said all of the facility’s tanks have now been inspected, and officials have no concerns about the integrity of nearby tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters from Chevron, Shell and Marathon oil’s nearby refineries are working with NuStar firefighters Wednesday to tour the site and make final determinations, Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to vent adjacent tanks … to relieve pressure and prevent fire,” Hill said at a news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secondary containment ponds around the two burned-out tanks are now filled with material. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that’s mostly water now,” Hill said, noting that a team is making a final determination of the makeup of that material. Crews are now working to pipe runoff composed of ethanol, water and foam into containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials believe there’s no further risk of fire, but said they’re keeping blankets of fire-suppression foam applied to the site out of an abundance of caution. Fire crews will remain on-scene in case another ignition is triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve used about 15,000 gallons of firefighting foam in the course of yesterday afternoon and into last night,” Hill said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Foam-Containment-Fire-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Crews covered remaining flammable material with foam at NuStar Energy's storage facility on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent additional flare ups.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Foam-Containment-Fire-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Foam-Containment-Fire-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Foam-Containment-Fire-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Foam-Containment-Fire-1200x866.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Foam-Containment-Fire.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews covered remaining flammable material with foam at NuStar Energy’s storage facility on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent additional flare ups. \u003ccite>(Contra Costa County Fire Dept. /Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When the fire began, [the two tanks that burned] were filled to 1% of their capacity,” Hill said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted crews dodged multiple bullets in the last 24 hours in regard to how much worse things could have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even at 1% capacity those tanks had a lot of ethanol in them. That’s approximately 3,000 barrels, which comes to about 126,000 gallons of ethanol in each tank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearby tanks that were threatened, most of them contained ethanol — but one of them contained jet fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding health concerns for nearby residents, Contra Costa County’s chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer Randy Sawyer assured reporters that there is no harmful benzene in the area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest concern is the particulates,” Sawyer said. “We did find some unhealthy levels of particulates last night. When we called an all clear last night, it was in the healthy range for particulates … We’re not expecting any long-term health impacts from the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials continue to say they cannot confirm any connection to Monday night’s 4.5 magnitude earthquake, centered near Pleasant Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That quake \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780107/4-5-magnitude-earthquake-near-pleasant-hill-rattles-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caused malfunctions at two nearby oil refineries\u003c/a> operated by Shell and Marathon oil, Sawyer told KQED previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything related to the earthquakes as a cause to the fire would be speculation at this point,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, Wednesday, 9 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Hill said Wednesday morning during a press conference that the fire at the NuStar Energy storage facility in Crockett has been extinguished and firefighters are working to make sure it will not flare up again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Contra Costa County Fire is leading the investigation into the blaze, but said it was far too early to know the fire’s cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two storage containers that held ethanol burned almost entirely, Hill said. The ethanol is now being held in place by dirt berms and foam blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said an assessment team was at the facility looking for ways to remove the ethanol and to mitigate problems with vapors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill also said a Chevron firefighter sustained minor injuries overnight related to the heat of the blaze, but was treated by Chevron and released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large blaze at the NuStar facility Tuesday led to a shelter-in-place order from about 2 p.m. until about 9:30 p.m. in parts of Contra Costa County. It also forced the closure of I-80 from Highway 4 in Hercules north across the Carquinez Bridge to I-780 in Vallejo for nearly seven hours, snarling traffic throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All John Swett Unified School District schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be closed on Wednesday\u003c/a> due to the extended shelter-in-place in the Crockett/Rodeo communities, according to the Contra Costa County Office of Education. Class is canceled Wednesday for the Golden Gate Community School in Rodeo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CoCoSchools/status/1184464508820938752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong> Updated Tuesday, 11 p.m.:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large explosion and fire at a NuStar Energy storage facility in Crockett on Tuesday afternoon resulted in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cococws.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shelter-in-place order\u003c/a> for some Contra Costa County residents, from just north of Hercules along the I-80 corridor to Crockett. The order included residents of both Rodeo and Crockett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office issued the order shortly after 2 p.m. — it was lifted around 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CoCoCWS/status/1184327718969729024\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the affected area were advised to go inside, close all windows and doors, cover any cracks around doors or windows with tape or damp towels, and turn off all air conditioners, heaters and fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQED/status/1184235302002409472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire began around 2 p.m. Tuesday and was pushing smoke eastward into the Central Valley, according to Kristine Roselius with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air District issued an air quality advisory shortly before 5 p.m. for smoke east of Rodeo along the Carquinez Strait, including Benicia, Martinez, Baypoint, Pittsburg and areas to the East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I-80 was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/320PIO/status/1184241621975461888\">closed in both directions\u003c/a> from Highway 4 in Hercules north across the Carquinez Bridge to I-780 in Vallejo, snarling traffic across the Bay Area. The closure was expected to last until \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/320PIO/status/1184266966069993473?s=20\">midnight\u003c/a>, but the freeway reopened earlier, just before 9:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/320PIO/status/1184329146383552512\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two large storage tanks burned at the NuStar facility, according to Contra Costa County fire officials and NuStar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters were using foam and water to attack the flames and cool adjacent storage tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the tanks is believed to contain ethanol, while another is believed to have been empty, county officials said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of the second tank exploding can be seen at the 13-second mark of this video, provided to Vallejo fire officials:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VallejoFire/status/1184253063185358848?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) spokesman \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1184264212626886656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed a worker was trapped\u003c/a> during the fire and had to be rescued by fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials and Cal/OSHA have not received any other reports of injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed press release, NuStar said all its personnel are “safe and accounted for,” and that the company is working with first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The tanks] were holding very low volumes of ethanol — less than 1% of tank capacity,” the release stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar Energy LP is a subsidiary of NuStar Energy, based in San Antonio, Texas. That parent company has been fined dozens of times for environmental and railroad safety violations. In 2010, the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-pipeline-company-agrees-pay-civil-penalty-resolve-clean-water-act-violations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid $450,000\u003c/a> to settle federal Clean Water Act violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This explosion is yet another unmistakable sign of how dangerous oil facilities are to people living around them,” said Hollin Kretzmann, a Center for Biological Diversity attorney who works on oil issues. “It’s time for California to stop accepting this industry’s explosions, oil spills and everyday pollution of our air and water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar’s Crockett facility is located at 90 San Pablo Ave., north of I-80 and just northeast of the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d14325.448601026936!2d-122.24159877499532!3d38.044955304282404!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x8085715f14235ee1%3A0xfda9fcdd442eb09a!2sNuStar%20Energy!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1571181204733!5m2!1sen!2sus&w=800&h=500]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips 66 refinery personnel were assisting in a mutual aid response, said spokesperson Adrienne Ursino in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety of the community, the environment and our responders are of the utmost importance,” Ursino said. She also noted there have been no impacts to Phillips 66 employees or operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hazardous materials staff and firefighters were responding and conducting air monitoring on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire crews were also responding to a 15-acre brush fire touched off by the NuStar tank fire. As of 6:30 p.m., that fire was 75% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1184278684363919360\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Smoke-Billows-NuStar-Fire-Rodeo-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke billows from a fire at a NuStar Energy storage terminal in Crockett on Oct. 15, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Smoke-Billows-NuStar-Fire-Rodeo-800x585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Smoke-Billows-NuStar-Fire-Rodeo-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Smoke-Billows-NuStar-Fire-Rodeo-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Smoke-Billows-NuStar-Fire-Rodeo-1200x877.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Smoke-Billows-NuStar-Fire-Rodeo.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke billows from a fire at a NuStar Energy storage terminal in Crockett on Oct. 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials said they did not immediately know the cause of the fire and whether there was any connection to Monday night’s 4.5 magnitude earthquake, centered near Pleasant Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That quake \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780107/4-5-magnitude-earthquake-near-pleasant-hill-rattles-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caused malfunctions at two nearby oil refineries\u003c/a> operated by Shell and Marathon oil, Randy Sawyer, Contra Costa County’s chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting by KQED’s Ted Goldberg, Sonja Hutson and Lisa Pickoff-White.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, Wednesday, 9 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Hill said Wednesday morning during a press conference that the fire at the NuStar Energy storage facility in Crockett has been extinguished and firefighters are working to make sure it will not flare up again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Contra Costa County Fire is leading the investigation into the blaze, but said it was far too early to know the fire’s cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two storage containers that held ethanol burned almost entirely, Hill said. The ethanol is now being held in place by dirt berms and foam blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said an assessment team was at the facility looking for ways to remove the ethanol and to mitigate problems with vapors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill also said a Chevron firefighter sustained minor injuries overnight related to the heat of the blaze, but was treated by Chevron and released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large blaze at the NuStar facility Tuesday led to a shelter-in-place order from about 2 p.m. until about 9:30 p.m. in parts of Contra Costa County. It also forced the closure of I-80 from Highway 4 in Hercules north across the Carquinez Bridge to I-780 in Vallejo for nearly seven hours, snarling traffic throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All John Swett Unified School District schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be closed on Wednesday\u003c/a> due to the extended shelter-in-place in the Crockett/Rodeo communities, according to the Contra Costa County Office of Education. Class is canceled Wednesday for the Golden Gate Community School in Rodeo. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong> Updated Tuesday, 11 p.m.:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large explosion and fire at a NuStar Energy storage facility in Crockett on Tuesday afternoon resulted in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cococws.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shelter-in-place order\u003c/a> for some Contra Costa County residents, from just north of Hercules along the I-80 corridor to Crockett. The order included residents of both Rodeo and Crockett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office issued the order shortly after 2 p.m. — it was lifted around 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Two large storage tanks burned at the NuStar facility, according to Contra Costa County fire officials and NuStar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters were using foam and water to attack the flames and cool adjacent storage tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the tanks is believed to contain ethanol, while another is believed to have been empty, county officials said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of the second tank exploding can be seen at the 13-second mark of this video, provided to Vallejo fire officials:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) spokesman \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1184264212626886656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed a worker was trapped\u003c/a> during the fire and had to be rescued by fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials and Cal/OSHA have not received any other reports of injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed press release, NuStar said all its personnel are “safe and accounted for,” and that the company is working with first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The tanks] were holding very low volumes of ethanol — less than 1% of tank capacity,” the release stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar Energy LP is a subsidiary of NuStar Energy, based in San Antonio, Texas. That parent company has been fined dozens of times for environmental and railroad safety violations. In 2010, the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-pipeline-company-agrees-pay-civil-penalty-resolve-clean-water-act-violations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid $450,000\u003c/a> to settle federal Clean Water Act violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This explosion is yet another unmistakable sign of how dangerous oil facilities are to people living around them,” said Hollin Kretzmann, a Center for Biological Diversity attorney who works on oil issues. “It’s time for California to stop accepting this industry’s explosions, oil spills and everyday pollution of our air and water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar’s Crockett facility is located at 90 San Pablo Ave., north of I-80 and just northeast of the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n src='https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d14325.448601026936!2d-122.24159877499532!3d38.044955304282404!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x8085715f14235ee1%3A0xfda9fcdd442eb09a!2sNuStar%20Energy!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1571181204733!5m2!1sen!2sus&w=800&h=500'\n title='https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d14325.448601026936!2d-122.24159877499532!3d38.044955304282404!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x8085715f14235ee1%3A0xfda9fcdd442eb09a!2sNuStar%20Energy!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1571181204733!5m2!1sen!2sus&w=800&h=500'\n width='800'\n height='500'\n scrolling='no'\n frameborder='no'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips 66 refinery personnel were assisting in a mutual aid response, said spokesperson Adrienne Ursino in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety of the community, the environment and our responders are of the utmost importance,” Ursino said. She also noted there have been no impacts to Phillips 66 employees or operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hazardous materials staff and firefighters were responding and conducting air monitoring on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire crews were also responding to a 15-acre brush fire touched off by the NuStar tank fire. As of 6:30 p.m., that fire was 75% contained.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of gallons of crude petroleum began spouting out of the ground near a part of Chevron's steam injection well network in a Kern County oil field over the weekend, prompting a new cleanup effort and state response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two new spills, one of which covered the length of two football fields, are in the northwestern portion of the Cymric Oil Field, in the same area where a \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/01c634326454a660882584930083b750?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger uncontrolled release\u003c/a> of 234,000 gallons of oil has taken place since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1715px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11780126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates.jpg 1715w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-1200x831.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1715px) 100vw, 1715px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing a series of uncontrolled oil releases in the 36W section of the Cymric Oil Field. \u003ccite>(Department of Conservation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \"seep\" in an area of the field called 36W began leaking a small amount of oil on Oct. 12 but has now stopped, according to Chevron and state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early the next morning, a larger release in the same area began sending crude petroleum and water into a dry stream bed and land nearby. The company said late Monday that close to 10,000 gallons of oil has been released from the \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/1b329a5325e473cf882584940001f564?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second spill\u003c/a>, prompting crews to bring in vacuum trucks and begin cleanup work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That second release was initially described as \"very active\" with high energy steam and fluid, according to Teresa Schilling, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Conservation, which oversees the state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two spill locations are 340 feet apart, Schilling said, adding that there are no active wells or cyclic steam work near the new surface expressions, a term used by state regulators and industry officials to describe the oil releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron said its work to stop a much larger and longer-term release, that's located close to 2,400 feet away, may be causing the new seeps, according to company spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua. That spill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769850/state-launches-probe-into-oil-field-spills-including-one-that-started-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GS-5 seep\u003c/a>, has released tens of millions of gallons of oil since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron is currently executing a plan designed to stop the GS-5 seep by reducing the amount of steam being injected into the reservoir and balancing fluid withdrawal,\" Flores-Paniagua said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continues to alter the distribution of energy in the reservoir and may lead to reactivation or new flow locations in the near term,\" she said, adding that the company's \"operational goal\" is to prevent the releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11778272,news_11769850,news_11766115\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) has sent crews to each of the new oil releases, according to Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Eric Laughlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still out there overseeing cleanup of the two areas,\" Laughlin said, adding that the oil had spread approximately 700 feet into the nearby stream bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it has for other oil releases in the field, Chevron is restricting access to the spill site, installing lights and a propane cannon to keep wildlife away, according to Schilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists who've followed Chevron's problems in the Cymric Oil Field said the weekend spills raised a new round of concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can clearly see the issues in this region with practices such as steam flooding and injection to extract crude is a growing problem,\" said Gustavo Aguirre Jr., a Bakersfield project coordinator with the Central California Environmental Justice Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is for how much longer will we continue to dam off these stream beds from oil spills as the rain season is upon us? 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