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"content": "\u003cp>California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials have delayed the commercial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924803/dungeness-crab-season-bay-area-kqed-forum-rocky-rivera\">Dungeness crab\u003c/a> season statewide for the second time this year and extended a ban on recreational use of certain traps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still a chance the commercial season for Bay Area crabbers could open earlier than the past few years, though, just in time for holiday dinners. Officials said they plan to reevaluate the region’s waters, which had been scheduled to open on Dec. 1, early next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restrictions are due to increased whale populations and their entanglement in crabbing gear. If the whales have finished passing through on their way south to winter breeding grounds, the Department of Fish and Wildlife said it could open the commercial season — and lift the recreational restrictions — statewide on Dec. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dungeness crab season has been delayed six years in a row as humpback and blue whale populations \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002077/whale-sightings-surge-around-the-bay-area-stirring-up-a-frenzy-on-facebook\">have increased\u003c/a> across the state. These whales can get trapped in crabbing gear, causing injuries and even death. In 2020, California implemented rules aimed at protecting these populations, which have led to repeated delays and early closures of the crabbing season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife said that this year, there had been a high number of entanglements, including four that involved the commercial fishery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1995228 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/11/ap23031858418007-1020x680.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These delays are saving humpback whales’ lives and protecting their wellbeing,” said Ben Grundy, an oceans campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Trying to swim, feed and raise young while dragging gear is absolutely brutal for these endangered whales, and we can’t keep letting entanglements happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two northernmost fishing regions in California had been scheduled to open earlier, on Nov. 15, but were delayed because of the abundance of whales as well as high levels of domoic acid, which can be dangerous to ingest in some crabs there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the state’s season had been set to open on Dec. 1, but it will remain closed until at least mid-December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife officials also announced an extension to a preexisting restriction on crab traps used for recreational fishing. The recreational season opened on Nov. 2, with the caveat that traditional traps couldn’t be used along the Central Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recreational take of Dungeness crab by other methods, including hoop nets and crab snares, is not affected by the temporary trap restriction in these areas,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015534/bay-area-record-breaking-rainfall-deluge-surprises-forecasters\">The Bay Area is enduring another intense storm. \u003c/a>And when the wind howls and the rain falls, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1764020273437974998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1764020273437974998\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">trees often come down too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what if a natural disaster strikes \u003cem>your\u003c/em> vehicle or home — literally?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our tips on how to remain safe if a tree has fallen on your car or property — and which city departments to contact if you ever encounter an “act of God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tree fell on my car. Now what?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Katina Papson, a San Francisco-based artist and educator, said she’ll never forget her initial reaction to the photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on California Weather' tag='storm']While Papson and her husband were visiting the East Coast to ring in the 2023 New Year, a neighbor sent the couple some snapshots of their 2011 Subaru Outback covered in mud, foliage and a lot of concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my husband showed it to me, I just laughed,” she said. “Honestly, I was like, ‘This is ridiculously unlucky.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause? A landslide brought on by a torrential downpour that became too much for a concrete wall lining two residences in Papson’s neighborhood of Glen Park. The extra weight from the rain caused the wall to buckle, burying Papson’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our first reaction was obviously shock,” Papson said. “And then, the next one was, ‘OK, we need to call the insurance company, and I don’t remember if we even \u003cem>have\u003c/em> coverage that would take care of any of this.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944951\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289.jpg\" alt=\"Rain pours down on a navy blue Subaru Outback that is surrounded by rubble and debris from a landslide that totaled the vehicle.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katina Papson’s Subaru Outback was totaled during storms on New Year’s Eve when a concrete wall that lined two San Francisco residences in Glen Park buckled, sending debris and rubble onto the car. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katina Papson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Papson is just one of many people who’ve discovered firsthand how these kinds of storms can bring down trees, topple walls and leave damaging debris everywhere — and that sometimes, those items fall onto your property. So, if you wake up to a tree (or concrete wall) on top of your vehicle, what do you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Stay back, stay safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, assess the damage — from a safe distance.\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/storms/storms.page#:~:text=Stay%20away%20from%20downed%20power,%2D800%2D743%2D5000.\"> PG&E advises people to avoid downed power lines\u003c/a> and call 911 immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Tell your city\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How you contact your city will depend on where you live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, you can either \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/help/sf311-mobile-app\">download the SF311 app\u003c/a> or visit \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/\">SF311.org\u003c/a>. You can also call 311 and ask to be connected to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/about/contact-us\">Department of Public Works\u003c/a> to report a downed tree; DPW manages \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/streettreesf\">StreetTreeSF, a program that professionally maintains and cares for more than 124,000 street trees\u003c/a> growing throughout the city. According to its website, street trees are pruned on a three- to five-year cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11937459 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115067-1020x668.jpg']Similarly to PG&E, SF311 advises residents who see a downed tree that has struck power lines, vehicles or buildings to call 911. Be sure to take detailed notes of the damage: Write down the street address, vehicle license plate number (if a car has been hit) and nearest cross street to where the fallen tree or limb is located. You can also fill out \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/new-request-main/tree-maintenance\">a tree maintenance request form online\u003c/a>, depending on whether you notice a tree that appears to be in danger of falling or one that has fallen and caused surrounding damage. You can upload photos with the request and include a brief description of what occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other ways to report a fallen tree in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/oak311\">OAK311\u003c/a>: In Oakland, you can report emergencies like downed trees or limbs, flooding, sewer overflows and street signal outages to OAK311 by dialing 311 or calling 510-615-5566. On the OAK311 home page, residents can also submit reports for all nonemergency issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/us-ca-alameda\">SeeClickFix\u003c/a>: This 311-based online reporting service works by city. In \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/us-ca-alameda\">Alameda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/Q4nTBJPnrfGyosn85v3Js1Uq/issues/map?lat=37.866488440719856&lng=-122.29885534264011&max_lat=37.875245700793144&max_lng=-122.27997259117531&min_lat=37.8577301397966&min_lng=-122.31773809410494&zoom=14\">Berkeley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/7YixXMWCgFA1uHbZX8c9YTuR/issues/map?lat=37.838869251925544&lng=-122.29969973805726&max_lat=37.84762979361093&max_lng=-122.28081698659244&min_lat=37.830107669645855&min_lng=-122.31858248952206&zoom=14\">Emeryville\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/pjqrRrbqWEvUPoXTQYvBCN2E/issues/map?lat=37.65345277746831&lng=-122.41660015369848&max_lat=37.662235296934696&max_lng=-122.39771740223368&min_lat=37.64466921914891&min_lng=-122.43548290516331&zoom=14\">South San Francisco\u003c/a> and beyond, residents can visit the \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/\">SeeClickFix\u003c/a> home page, create an account and report and upload photos of downed trees or limbs, street signal outages, illegal dumping and other safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/city-services/streets-sidewalks-sewers-and-utilities/city-trees-and-coast-live-oak-ordinance\">Urban Forestry\u003c/a>: Berkeley residents wanting to request the removal of a city tree can call 311 if it is within city limits, or dial 510-981-2489. You also can email a request with photos and necessary street information to trees@cityofberkeley.info.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live outside these areas, your city or county may have its own process for reporting a fallen tree. Google “report a fallen tree” plus the name of your city or county to find the website, email address or phone number that’s recommended as the fastest way to alert local authorities to the hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop.jpg\" alt=\"A gigantic tree with dark bark has fallen to the ground with thick branches busted open to reveal tan wooden insides. A black Jeep has taken on large fallen branches and debris to the left of the disaster as wet soil and muddy puddles surround the area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-800x619.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-1020x789.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-1536x1189.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A massive blue spruce fell on power lines in Oakland during storms on Jan. 4, 2023, damaging the electrical panel at a nearby home and causing an outage. The city has received more than 324 tree-related service requests since New Year’s Eve due to torrential rains and wind. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>3. Document everything for your insurance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Take photos and document everything. Snap photos from multiple angles of your vehicle or property, and write down the date and time(s) the damage happened. Be sure to do all of this before your car gets safely moved.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Katina Papson, San Francisco artist and educator\"]‘Our first reaction was obviously shock. And then, the next one was, ‘OK, we need to call the insurance company, and I don’t remember if we even have coverage that would take care of any of this.”[/pullquote]You’ll also want to gather receipts: namely, receipts of recent car maintenance you paid for. This could include fresh tires, engine parts and even a new radio or speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who’ve experienced unexpected property damage like Papson, it’s important to have all these receipts, photos and files to prepare for the next step: calling your auto insurance company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Start the conversation with your insurance provider\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Be prepared to talk to a lot of people about your claim. “You will start to see that there are just so many individuals in the insurance companies that you will have to talk to, like an auto damage adjuster, and then there’s a supplement adjuster,” Papson said. “They are all in communication with the body shop — and with you — so there’s a lot of communication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"left\" citation=\"Katina Papson, San Francisco artist and educator\"]‘One thing that you’ll notice about the auto adjusters is there are less of them now since COVID, and they are starting to do assessments via FaceTime.’[/pullquote]One tip Papson said she found useful was downloading her insurance company’s app, which she used to file a claim and upload all the photos she took. She also recommends creating a simple spreadsheet with insurance policy information, important phone numbers and individuals you speak to along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that you’ll notice about the auto adjusters is there are less of them now since COVID, and they are starting to do assessments via FaceTime,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all the more reason to be diligent when photographing and documenting all damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communicate and advocate strongly for yourself,” she said. “You’ve got to just keep calling the insurance company — and it’s an incredible amount of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. How to file a claim with the city for your damages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you live in San Francisco, once you’ve notified DPW and filed a report with your insurance company, it’s time to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/claims/\">file a claim with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office\u003c/a> for damages to your vehicle and/or property if, say, a city tree did in fact fall onto and damage your property. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Claims-Form-02-14-1.pdf\">Here’s a PDF link to the direct form\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/claims/\"> city attorney’s website\u003c/a>, “claims for death or injury to persons or damage to personal property must be filed within six months after the accident giving rise to the claim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a claim is filed, you should receive a letter of acknowledgment with a claim number notifying you that the claim has been received. Be sure to write this important information down and reference it as you follow up on the case’s status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944950\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Subaru Outback is buried beneath rubble and dirt from a landslide. One worker stands at the top of a hill with two houses behind him. Yellow caution tape blocks off the perimeter.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2554-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concrete wall in the Glen Park neighborhood buckled under the torrential downpour, which caused a landslide and totaled Katina Papson’s Subaru Outback (bottom left). \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katina Papson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. Seek transportation support if you’re left temporarily without a car\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, check whether your vehicle’s insurance coverage plan includes providing you with the use of a rental car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it doesn’t, consider telling friends and co-workers about your situation and requesting to carpool. You can also brush up on your public transportation routes, much like Papson did: For the past two and a half months, she’s carpooled with friends and ridden Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Katina Papson, San Francisco artist and educator\"]‘Be diligent about your paperwork, and be ready to go back and forth with the insurance company. … There’s so many ways that you can kind of fight with them a little bit and stand up for yourself.’[/pullquote]“We did have an umbrella coverage plan with Geico. But under that plan, we didn’t have a rental car. So I took the bus up until last week when I just bought another car,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. Lastly, make sure you know your car’s worth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Papson said that, in the end, she received under $10,000 for her totaled Subaru. She pointed out that the used-car market is “bizarre” right now and that people are selling their vehicles for significantly more than the Kelley Blue Book value — all of which went into her decision to go with Geico’s assessment to total the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be diligent about your paperwork, and be ready to go back and forth with the insurance company,” she said. “Sometimes, you can find listings online for the same car, like a used-car listing. [Your insurer is] going to look at the Kelley Blue Book value, which isn’t accurate anymore. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many ways that you can kind of fight with them a little bit and stand up for yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on December 21, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While Papson and her husband were visiting the East Coast to ring in the 2023 New Year, a neighbor sent the couple some snapshots of their 2011 Subaru Outback covered in mud, foliage and a lot of concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my husband showed it to me, I just laughed,” she said. “Honestly, I was like, ‘This is ridiculously unlucky.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause? A landslide brought on by a torrential downpour that became too much for a concrete wall lining two residences in Papson’s neighborhood of Glen Park. The extra weight from the rain caused the wall to buckle, burying Papson’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our first reaction was obviously shock,” Papson said. “And then, the next one was, ‘OK, we need to call the insurance company, and I don’t remember if we even \u003cem>have\u003c/em> coverage that would take care of any of this.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944951\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289.jpg\" alt=\"Rain pours down on a navy blue Subaru Outback that is surrounded by rubble and debris from a landslide that totaled the vehicle.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1201-scaled-e1680040683289-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katina Papson’s Subaru Outback was totaled during storms on New Year’s Eve when a concrete wall that lined two San Francisco residences in Glen Park buckled, sending debris and rubble onto the car. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katina Papson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Papson is just one of many people who’ve discovered firsthand how these kinds of storms can bring down trees, topple walls and leave damaging debris everywhere — and that sometimes, those items fall onto your property. So, if you wake up to a tree (or concrete wall) on top of your vehicle, what do you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Stay back, stay safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, assess the damage — from a safe distance.\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/storms/storms.page#:~:text=Stay%20away%20from%20downed%20power,%2D800%2D743%2D5000.\"> PG&E advises people to avoid downed power lines\u003c/a> and call 911 immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Tell your city\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How you contact your city will depend on where you live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, you can either \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/help/sf311-mobile-app\">download the SF311 app\u003c/a> or visit \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/\">SF311.org\u003c/a>. You can also call 311 and ask to be connected to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/about/contact-us\">Department of Public Works\u003c/a> to report a downed tree; DPW manages \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/streettreesf\">StreetTreeSF, a program that professionally maintains and cares for more than 124,000 street trees\u003c/a> growing throughout the city. According to its website, street trees are pruned on a three- to five-year cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Similarly to PG&E, SF311 advises residents who see a downed tree that has struck power lines, vehicles or buildings to call 911. Be sure to take detailed notes of the damage: Write down the street address, vehicle license plate number (if a car has been hit) and nearest cross street to where the fallen tree or limb is located. You can also fill out \u003ca href=\"https://sf311.org/new-request-main/tree-maintenance\">a tree maintenance request form online\u003c/a>, depending on whether you notice a tree that appears to be in danger of falling or one that has fallen and caused surrounding damage. You can upload photos with the request and include a brief description of what occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other ways to report a fallen tree in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/oak311\">OAK311\u003c/a>: In Oakland, you can report emergencies like downed trees or limbs, flooding, sewer overflows and street signal outages to OAK311 by dialing 311 or calling 510-615-5566. On the OAK311 home page, residents can also submit reports for all nonemergency issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/us-ca-alameda\">SeeClickFix\u003c/a>: This 311-based online reporting service works by city. In \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/us-ca-alameda\">Alameda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/Q4nTBJPnrfGyosn85v3Js1Uq/issues/map?lat=37.866488440719856&lng=-122.29885534264011&max_lat=37.875245700793144&max_lng=-122.27997259117531&min_lat=37.8577301397966&min_lng=-122.31773809410494&zoom=14\">Berkeley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/7YixXMWCgFA1uHbZX8c9YTuR/issues/map?lat=37.838869251925544&lng=-122.29969973805726&max_lat=37.84762979361093&max_lng=-122.28081698659244&min_lat=37.830107669645855&min_lng=-122.31858248952206&zoom=14\">Emeryville\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/pjqrRrbqWEvUPoXTQYvBCN2E/issues/map?lat=37.65345277746831&lng=-122.41660015369848&max_lat=37.662235296934696&max_lng=-122.39771740223368&min_lat=37.64466921914891&min_lng=-122.43548290516331&zoom=14\">South San Francisco\u003c/a> and beyond, residents can visit the \u003ca href=\"https://seeclickfix.com/\">SeeClickFix\u003c/a> home page, create an account and report and upload photos of downed trees or limbs, street signal outages, illegal dumping and other safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/city-services/streets-sidewalks-sewers-and-utilities/city-trees-and-coast-live-oak-ordinance\">Urban Forestry\u003c/a>: Berkeley residents wanting to request the removal of a city tree can call 311 if it is within city limits, or dial 510-981-2489. You also can email a request with photos and necessary street information to trees@cityofberkeley.info.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live outside these areas, your city or county may have its own process for reporting a fallen tree. Google “report a fallen tree” plus the name of your city or county to find the website, email address or phone number that’s recommended as the fastest way to alert local authorities to the hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop.jpg\" alt=\"A gigantic tree with dark bark has fallen to the ground with thick branches busted open to reveal tan wooden insides. A black Jeep has taken on large fallen branches and debris to the left of the disaster as wet soil and muddy puddles surround the area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-800x619.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-1020x789.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/JeepTreeCrop-1536x1189.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A massive blue spruce fell on power lines in Oakland during storms on Jan. 4, 2023, damaging the electrical panel at a nearby home and causing an outage. The city has received more than 324 tree-related service requests since New Year’s Eve due to torrential rains and wind. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>3. Document everything for your insurance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Take photos and document everything. Snap photos from multiple angles of your vehicle or property, and write down the date and time(s) the damage happened. Be sure to do all of this before your car gets safely moved.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We did have an umbrella coverage plan with Geico. But under that plan, we didn’t have a rental car. So I took the bus up until last week when I just bought another car,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. Lastly, make sure you know your car’s worth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Papson said that, in the end, she received under $10,000 for her totaled Subaru. She pointed out that the used-car market is “bizarre” right now and that people are selling their vehicles for significantly more than the Kelley Blue Book value — all of which went into her decision to go with Geico’s assessment to total the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be diligent about your paperwork, and be ready to go back and forth with the insurance company,” she said. “Sometimes, you can find listings online for the same car, like a used-car listing. [Your insurer is] going to look at the Kelley Blue Book value, which isn’t accurate anymore. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many ways that you can kind of fight with them a little bit and stand up for yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] deadly wildfire, flooding and a seemingly endless malaise. Jennifer Porter has found her way through it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago this month, Porter survived the deadly Camp Fire in Paradise, California, but her home, and thousands of others, were turned to ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Porter was lucky enough to drive through the flames that day, she was immediately set on a new, harrowing path: creating a new life, finding a new job and building a new community, all while recovering from trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We checked in with Porter in various stages of her journey to rebuild her life to hear about all the bumps in the road and how she navigated them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Life before the fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just before the Paradise fire started on Nov. 8, 2018, Porter’s life had hit a sweet spot. She was an emergency department nurse at the local hospital and was living in her “dream home.” Her bedroom was “huge,” and her parents and best friend would often visit to enjoy her pool and hot tub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had really good times there,” Porter remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had strong ties in Paradise. When she first got there in 2006, she was a core member at a local Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where she helped coordinate worship services. That’s where she met her ex-husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would sing, and he played violin,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter said she struggled with a group-think mentality at the church. She felt forced into getting married and having a perfect wedding. That marriage didn’t last, and by the time the fire broke out in 2018, she was divorced. The house she lived in was part of a new life she carved out for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving through the flames\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That November day, Porter had just come home from working an overnight shift at the hospital. She decided to sleep on the couch and charge her phone because there were warnings of high winds and a possible power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom called me,” Porter remembers. “She was like, ‘Jenny, you need to pack up your cats, grab… important stuff and get the hell out, now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter didn’t realize how bad it was until she got in her car. Fire crews had stopped traffic on her road to let residents closer to the fire out first. Ash started to fall on them. Then, the wildfire jumped a major thoroughfare and ignited a house on their street. The house exploded — possibly from a propane tank — and sent embers over their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it headed for my house,” Porter remembers. “I watched it go straight for my house, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, there goes my home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this point, the roads were still blocked. Porter and other people in their cars started screaming to let them go. When Porter finally was able to start driving, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw that the people behind her were burning up in their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, I couldn’t process it or something,” Porter said about seeing the horrific tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She kept driving and called her mom to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was screaming: ‘I love you guys. I’m so sorry. I tried. I tried really hard…but I’m not going to make it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her mom told her she had to get out, and Porter kept driving through smoke and flames. It was pitch black outside the car, so she had to drive with her bumper right up against the car in front of her to guide her way out. People were jumping out of their vehicles with their children and pets in their arms. Finally, Porter reached a parking lot 20 miles away where her family was waiting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My little brother saw me, and he came running and gave me a big hug,” Porter remembers. “It was probably one of the best moments of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Jennifer Porter’s home in Paradise before the Camp Fire. Right: Porter’s home after the Camp Fire in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Just after the fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Porter and her parents were close before the fire, but after, they were inseparable. Her parents and her little brother had also lost their homes in the fire, and she was determined to stay with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few weeks after the fire in 2018, the town of Oroville — about 30 minutes south of Paradise — turned a local community center into a makeshift free grocery store. There, evacuees — still sleeping on couches or in their neighbors’ garages — could fill shopping carts with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I first met Porter. She had been washing up in store bathrooms and wearing donated clothes since the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really hard for us to find a place,” she explained to me about trying to find a temporary home for her adult family members and all their pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter had slept wherever she could since the fire. First, it was in her car, with five cats, in a Kmart parking lot. Then her aunt loaned her a trailer, where Porter — 35 years old at the time — slept in the same bed as her parents, packed in with the nine cats and a dog they shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, an animal shelter in Grass Valley put the whole family — and their animals — up. That’s where she was sleeping when I met her. It wasn’t a huge improvement, but she was grateful for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not ideal because there’s so many of us,” she said. “We don’t have a kitchen or anything. We just have a room and a bathroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was surprisingly calm and clear-headed for someone in the thick of a disaster. But at the same time, strong emotions would sometimes erupt out of her. Dead bodies were still being identified among the ashes, and she knew some of them from her church. She had intense survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God, I just wish so bad we had time [to save them],” she said as she fought back tears. “We just didn’t, and if I didn’t leave a minute earlier, I would have burned too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Six months later\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To this day, the Camp Fire in Paradise is still the most deadly in our state’s recent history. It also destroyed more buildings than any other California wildfire. And at least 30,000 people in and around Paradise lost their homes overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months later, in the spring of 2019, Porter had learned through conversations with her homeowner’s insurance company and mortgage lender that she was “grossly underinsured” on her home in Paradise. She was told that she would have had to pay to keep her property, so she let the mortgage company auction off her plot of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had received some insurance money for lost belongings and had bought a used trailer. Her parents had a trailer, too, so they had all moved to an RV community right on the Sacramento River in Los Molinos, a half-hour north of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without knowing where she would be permanently, she said, it was hard to look for a job. In the meantime, living in an RV park on a riverbed presented a new problem: flooding. After one rain storm that spring, water had risen to the third step of her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015035\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Porter’s cats look out the door at flooding in the RV park in Los Molinos where she lived after the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. Right: Flooding at the RV park in Los Molinos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When my mom and I wanted to get to each other’s trailers, we would be walking through a lake. It was insane,” Porter laughed about it later. “It was just like, ‘What’s next, God? What else do you have for me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amidst the catastrophes, Porter’s family formed even tighter bonds during this time. Her two aunts were there too, and when I visited them one hot spring evening, they were all barbecuing. Her mom, Linda, sat at a picnic bench, scrolling through real estate listings on her phone, looking for places where they could all live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (center) stands with her mother, Linda Porter (right), and a family friend in the RV where she lives in Los Molinos in 2019 after her home burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (left) and her mother, Linda Porter (center), eat dinner outside Linda’s RV in Los Molinos in Spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Porter was laser-focused on finding a new home with her family and getting her career back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like starting over a whole new life,” she said, and “figuring out who I am now. Because who I was is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Family strife\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Later that summer of 2019, Porter and her parents found a house in Red Bluff, farther up the Sacramento River. She got a job as an ER nurse again — this time, at a hospital in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter found that kind of nursing harder than before. She was helping people in the worst moments of their lives while she herself was struggling with PTSD and survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re an ER nurse, you have to put that away because you have to be present for the person that you’re dealing with,” she said. “I just was unable to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was getting help from a psychiatrist. But she said the medications she got during that time actually started her on a new bad road. At one point, she was on five different anxiety and depression meds, and she started experimenting with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you say an antidepressant… or an anti-anxiety med, I’ve probably been on it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she started mixing medications and taking too much of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents were trying to intervene with me and tell me that I needed to back off the medications,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her parents were fighting constantly. Porter was having trouble getting out of bed, and her parents were doing all her household duties, including taking care of their large menagerie of pets. After only a year of living together, Porter and her parents decided they couldn’t do it anymore. Porter moved out, stopped nursing and was back in limbo, picking up waitressing shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew I needed something light. And my whole life before I was a nurse was being a waitress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few years after the fire, Porter was still finding herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wildfires in 2024\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When wildfires started raging this past summer, I wondered about Porter. People in Butte County were being evacuated again because of the Park Fire, which burned more than 400,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I connected with Porter over Zoom and found she was still the look-on-the-bright side person I first met six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had moved to Portola, a town north of Lake Tahoe, near the Nevada border. She still had four of the five cats she escaped Paradise with. She had finally received a victim compensation check from PG&E. And she was almost completely off the medications she started taking after the fire. She was back to nursing, but this time, taking care of the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge change,” she said. “I needed something a little more lightweight, and geriatrics was a good way to get back into it easily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was living alone now, and she had reconciled with her parents, who had moved nearby to be with her. The Park Fire wasn’t threatening them, but other smaller fires in the mountains were. Porter got a warning that she might have to evacuate, and her parents actually did —they came and stayed with her for a couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was pretty calm about it all when I talked to her. But when the orange glow came back in the sky, she said she did lose it for a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom says all the time, ‘I don’t know why we moved back into the trees,’” Porter said. “Because it’s always in the back of your mind, is there a fire risk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Moving to Nevada\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some time now, Porter’s been cooking up a plan to get out of California fire country for good. She used some of her insurance money to buy land in Carson City, Nevada. There’s a trailer home on it now, but it’s in bad shape. So, using some money she got from PG&E, she’s tearing it down and putting a new manufactured home on the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met her in Carson City in October 2024, I also saw a new development in her life: her future husband, Johnny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they’re building their home, he’s living among the plywood and moving boxes, and Porter visits on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love four-wheeling, being up in the mountains… We take my Jeep up and go camping,” she said about spending time with her fiancé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter and her fiancé stand in front of their home in Carson City, Nevada, on Oct. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her new neighborhood in Nevada’s capital suburbs isn’t much like Paradise. There aren’t many trees near her house, and it’s so flat you can see the horizon over miles of farmland. She couldn’t be more excited to move into a new permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to set myself back up in a position where I can be a homeowner again and start over has been everything to me,” Porter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s happier now without the medications. She’s studying for another nursing degree, and, at least for a while, she plans to commute to her nursing job in California, where the wages are much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she doesn’t think she’ll miss California or Paradise — too many triggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trauma never really goes away, she said, and it took her many years to come to terms with that. But she said prayer — for herself and others — has helped her heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to decide that you’re not going to let that traumatic event control who you’re going to become anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that she survived and finding a purpose in that survival, she said, has helped her move to a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to Paul Conley and to Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, where Pauline first covered the aftermath of the Paradise fire.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had really good times there,” Porter remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had strong ties in Paradise. When she first got there in 2006, she was a core member at a local Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where she helped coordinate worship services. That’s where she met her ex-husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would sing, and he played violin,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter said she struggled with a group-think mentality at the church. She felt forced into getting married and having a perfect wedding. That marriage didn’t last, and by the time the fire broke out in 2018, she was divorced. The house she lived in was part of a new life she carved out for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving through the flames\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That November day, Porter had just come home from working an overnight shift at the hospital. She decided to sleep on the couch and charge her phone because there were warnings of high winds and a possible power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom called me,” Porter remembers. “She was like, ‘Jenny, you need to pack up your cats, grab… important stuff and get the hell out, now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter didn’t realize how bad it was until she got in her car. Fire crews had stopped traffic on her road to let residents closer to the fire out first. Ash started to fall on them. Then, the wildfire jumped a major thoroughfare and ignited a house on their street. The house exploded — possibly from a propane tank — and sent embers over their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it headed for my house,” Porter remembers. “I watched it go straight for my house, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, there goes my home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this point, the roads were still blocked. Porter and other people in their cars started screaming to let them go. When Porter finally was able to start driving, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw that the people behind her were burning up in their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, I couldn’t process it or something,” Porter said about seeing the horrific tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She kept driving and called her mom to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was screaming: ‘I love you guys. I’m so sorry. I tried. I tried really hard…but I’m not going to make it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her mom told her she had to get out, and Porter kept driving through smoke and flames. It was pitch black outside the car, so she had to drive with her bumper right up against the car in front of her to guide her way out. People were jumping out of their vehicles with their children and pets in their arms. Finally, Porter reached a parking lot 20 miles away where her family was waiting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My little brother saw me, and he came running and gave me a big hug,” Porter remembers. “It was probably one of the best moments of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Jennifer Porter’s home in Paradise before the Camp Fire. Right: Porter’s home after the Camp Fire in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Just after the fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Porter and her parents were close before the fire, but after, they were inseparable. Her parents and her little brother had also lost their homes in the fire, and she was determined to stay with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few weeks after the fire in 2018, the town of Oroville — about 30 minutes south of Paradise — turned a local community center into a makeshift free grocery store. There, evacuees — still sleeping on couches or in their neighbors’ garages — could fill shopping carts with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I first met Porter. She had been washing up in store bathrooms and wearing donated clothes since the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really hard for us to find a place,” she explained to me about trying to find a temporary home for her adult family members and all their pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter had slept wherever she could since the fire. First, it was in her car, with five cats, in a Kmart parking lot. Then her aunt loaned her a trailer, where Porter — 35 years old at the time — slept in the same bed as her parents, packed in with the nine cats and a dog they shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, an animal shelter in Grass Valley put the whole family — and their animals — up. That’s where she was sleeping when I met her. It wasn’t a huge improvement, but she was grateful for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not ideal because there’s so many of us,” she said. “We don’t have a kitchen or anything. We just have a room and a bathroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was surprisingly calm and clear-headed for someone in the thick of a disaster. But at the same time, strong emotions would sometimes erupt out of her. Dead bodies were still being identified among the ashes, and she knew some of them from her church. She had intense survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God, I just wish so bad we had time [to save them],” she said as she fought back tears. “We just didn’t, and if I didn’t leave a minute earlier, I would have burned too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Six months later\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To this day, the Camp Fire in Paradise is still the most deadly in our state’s recent history. It also destroyed more buildings than any other California wildfire. And at least 30,000 people in and around Paradise lost their homes overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months later, in the spring of 2019, Porter had learned through conversations with her homeowner’s insurance company and mortgage lender that she was “grossly underinsured” on her home in Paradise. She was told that she would have had to pay to keep her property, so she let the mortgage company auction off her plot of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had received some insurance money for lost belongings and had bought a used trailer. Her parents had a trailer, too, so they had all moved to an RV community right on the Sacramento River in Los Molinos, a half-hour north of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without knowing where she would be permanently, she said, it was hard to look for a job. In the meantime, living in an RV park on a riverbed presented a new problem: flooding. After one rain storm that spring, water had risen to the third step of her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015035\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Porter’s cats look out the door at flooding in the RV park in Los Molinos where she lived after the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. Right: Flooding at the RV park in Los Molinos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When my mom and I wanted to get to each other’s trailers, we would be walking through a lake. It was insane,” Porter laughed about it later. “It was just like, ‘What’s next, God? What else do you have for me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amidst the catastrophes, Porter’s family formed even tighter bonds during this time. Her two aunts were there too, and when I visited them one hot spring evening, they were all barbecuing. Her mom, Linda, sat at a picnic bench, scrolling through real estate listings on her phone, looking for places where they could all live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (center) stands with her mother, Linda Porter (right), and a family friend in the RV where she lives in Los Molinos in 2019 after her home burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (left) and her mother, Linda Porter (center), eat dinner outside Linda’s RV in Los Molinos in Spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Porter was laser-focused on finding a new home with her family and getting her career back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like starting over a whole new life,” she said, and “figuring out who I am now. Because who I was is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Family strife\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Later that summer of 2019, Porter and her parents found a house in Red Bluff, farther up the Sacramento River. She got a job as an ER nurse again — this time, at a hospital in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter found that kind of nursing harder than before. She was helping people in the worst moments of their lives while she herself was struggling with PTSD and survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re an ER nurse, you have to put that away because you have to be present for the person that you’re dealing with,” she said. “I just was unable to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was getting help from a psychiatrist. But she said the medications she got during that time actually started her on a new bad road. At one point, she was on five different anxiety and depression meds, and she started experimenting with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you say an antidepressant… or an anti-anxiety med, I’ve probably been on it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she started mixing medications and taking too much of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents were trying to intervene with me and tell me that I needed to back off the medications,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her parents were fighting constantly. Porter was having trouble getting out of bed, and her parents were doing all her household duties, including taking care of their large menagerie of pets. After only a year of living together, Porter and her parents decided they couldn’t do it anymore. Porter moved out, stopped nursing and was back in limbo, picking up waitressing shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew I needed something light. And my whole life before I was a nurse was being a waitress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few years after the fire, Porter was still finding herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wildfires in 2024\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When wildfires started raging this past summer, I wondered about Porter. People in Butte County were being evacuated again because of the Park Fire, which burned more than 400,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I connected with Porter over Zoom and found she was still the look-on-the-bright side person I first met six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had moved to Portola, a town north of Lake Tahoe, near the Nevada border. She still had four of the five cats she escaped Paradise with. She had finally received a victim compensation check from PG&E. And she was almost completely off the medications she started taking after the fire. She was back to nursing, but this time, taking care of the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge change,” she said. “I needed something a little more lightweight, and geriatrics was a good way to get back into it easily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was living alone now, and she had reconciled with her parents, who had moved nearby to be with her. The Park Fire wasn’t threatening them, but other smaller fires in the mountains were. Porter got a warning that she might have to evacuate, and her parents actually did —they came and stayed with her for a couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was pretty calm about it all when I talked to her. But when the orange glow came back in the sky, she said she did lose it for a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom says all the time, ‘I don’t know why we moved back into the trees,’” Porter said. “Because it’s always in the back of your mind, is there a fire risk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Moving to Nevada\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some time now, Porter’s been cooking up a plan to get out of California fire country for good. She used some of her insurance money to buy land in Carson City, Nevada. There’s a trailer home on it now, but it’s in bad shape. So, using some money she got from PG&E, she’s tearing it down and putting a new manufactured home on the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met her in Carson City in October 2024, I also saw a new development in her life: her future husband, Johnny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they’re building their home, he’s living among the plywood and moving boxes, and Porter visits on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love four-wheeling, being up in the mountains… We take my Jeep up and go camping,” she said about spending time with her fiancé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter and her fiancé stand in front of their home in Carson City, Nevada, on Oct. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her new neighborhood in Nevada’s capital suburbs isn’t much like Paradise. There aren’t many trees near her house, and it’s so flat you can see the horizon over miles of farmland. She couldn’t be more excited to move into a new permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to set myself back up in a position where I can be a homeowner again and start over has been everything to me,” Porter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s happier now without the medications. She’s studying for another nursing degree, and, at least for a while, she plans to commute to her nursing job in California, where the wages are much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she doesn’t think she’ll miss California or Paradise — too many triggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trauma never really goes away, she said, and it took her many years to come to terms with that. But she said prayer — for herself and others — has helped her heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to decide that you’re not going to let that traumatic event control who you’re going to become anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that she survived and finding a purpose in that survival, she said, has helped her move to a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The leaders of the two unions representing sheriff’s deputies and sergeants in the county also previously called on Corpus to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three assistant sheriffs or undersheriffs have left the office since complaints about Corpus began to surface, including one who officials said was fired in retaliation for speaking to an investigator looking into allegations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Collectively, the leadership for all of the professional sworn law enforcement in the county, and the captains in the county, have called for Sheriff Corpus’ resignation, and Undersheriff Perea’s resignation,” Mueller said during the news conference. “The two are literally left standing alone in the Sheriff’s Department. The sheriff has lost the faith and trust of her team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s announcement builds on actions already taken by the county leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the full Board of Supervisors advanced a plan to put a measure on the March ballot that would give it the power to fire an elected sheriff for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is expected to finalize its decision at a Dec. 3 meeting. If the measure is placed on the ballot and approved by voters, the new charter rules would set a four-vote threshold for the five-member Board of Supervisors to remove a sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">passed a vote of no confidence\u003c/a> in Corpus and demanded she resign. That came after the publication of a 408-page investigative report into Corpus that the county retained retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. 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Only new leadership can save this organization, which is mired in chaos and demoralization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11969550 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231211-SAN-MATEO-SHERIFF-020-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Cordell’s recommendation, the board also unanimously last week voted to eliminate the position of executive director in the sheriff’s office, which was held by Aenlle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell wrote in her report that Aenlle has “a personal relationship beyond mere friendship” with Corpus. “Evidence suggests they have had an intimate relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of state and federal lawmakers representing the peninsula and the South Bay — Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>For those gathered under umbrellas on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to remember the lives of transgender people lost to violence over the past year, the somber event felt not only like a vigil but like a preparation for struggles to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 150 people came together for the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11097157/for-transgender-day-of-remembrance-watch-video-of-2-undergoing-transitions\">Transgender Day of Remembrance\u003c/a> event, holding pink, blue and white trans pride flags, electric candles, and signs bearing the names and images of victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bad news is, this weather is very appropriate: we have a storm to weather,” trans activist KaiKai Bee Michaels said to attendees. “I think that we have some hard times ahead of us. That kind of sucks. It builds strength. We have a lot of work to do. And I think we’re going to do that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender Day of Remembrance comes at a frightening time for the community as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014337/what-can-trans-folks-do-to-prepare-for-another-trump-administration\">braces for a second Donald Trump presidency\u003c/a>. Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. It is the abuse on the streets of people,” Spencer told KQED. “So many things that aren’t allowing people to be free and to be who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance hold candles in the air in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the country, 36 trans and gender-expansive people have been killed in acts of violence in the past year, and a similar number died in 2023, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrcs-2024-epidemic-of-violence-report-fatal-violence-against-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-people-continues-with-black-trans-women-comprising-nearly-half-of-the-deaths\">Human Rights Campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes Michelle Henry, who was 25 years old when she was found dead in a downtown San Francisco residence in May, according to an SFPD news release. The death was ruled a homicide, and the medical examiner found that Henry had suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=crime&id=333324\">multiple stab wounds and was strangled\u003c/a>, according to the \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>, which reported that police did not have evidence the killing was motivated by hate\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany said Henry grew up in San Francisco and became well-known within the local trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was formerly homeless, was able to engage in services, was housed, was a participant in the S.F. LGBT Center’s youth program,” she told KQED. “I think people were really excited for the progress that she had made in her life and for the life that waited for her ahead. For her life to be cut short at 25, in a very violent way, was really disturbing for a lot of people here in San Francisco, in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990260/a-conversation-with-banko-browns-chosen-family\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black trans man, was shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens store in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that for many of us today, Trans Day of Remembrance, is a really tough time,” Mahogany said during the rally. “Many of us know people who have passed, many of us know people who have passed due to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014337 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1258626528.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that these deaths are a reminder of the dangers that anti-trans rhetoric carries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her hope is for the city to rally around the trans community and defy the fear-mongering and divisive language coming from prominent Republican representatives and right-wing interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘We continue to fight back against anti-trans rhetoric or any kind of rhetoric that seeks to divide us,” she told KQED. “Divide and conquer has proven a very effective strategy. It is the way that fascism comes to the front, but it’s also a way in which those who are powerful, those with a lot of money, those with interests in keeping the working class and the middle-class populace down — that’s the way that they maintain their power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">\u003cem>Brian Watt\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. 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For her life to be cut short at 25, in a very violent way, was really disturbing for a lot of people here in San Francisco, in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990260/a-conversation-with-banko-browns-chosen-family\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black trans man, was shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens store in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that for many of us today, Trans Day of Remembrance, is a really tough time,” Mahogany said during the rally. “Many of us know people who have passed, many of us know people who have passed due to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever wondered what the San Francisco Bay sounds like beneath the water’s surface? The Wave Organ, a sound sculpture maintained by San Francisco’s Exploratorium, has 25 pipes that shoot down into the bay, creating a unique sonic experience for visitors above. You can find the sculpture, made of recycled granite, at the end of the man-made jetty across the street from the Palace of Fine Arts. There, you can put your ear to a pipe made of PVC and concrete to hear the “music” of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ is nothing like the trumpeting organs in a church. The art installation stretches about 60 feet across and is made of rock slabs with different seating levels that visitors can climb on. The artists behind the sculpture chose to use recycled debris from the 1906 earthquake, and remnants of headstones leftover from century-old cemetery relocations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the sound the organ makes — you probably wouldn’t call it musical. This art piece features an orchestra of gurgles, splashes, and booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque for the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wave Organ’s origins\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Understanding the Wave Organ’s origins requires a little lesson in San Francisco art history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This environmental sculpture was created in 1986 by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason George Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was inspired to create the Wave Organ after moving to San Francisco in 1970. He was fascinated by how the tides in the bay showed an intimate connection between the sea and the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1536x1002.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1920x1253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows out of a pipe at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time I was near a place that had tides,” said Richards, a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, about moving to the West Coast. “I was inherently curious about [tides] and how they worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was also inspired by artist Bill Fontana, who had recorded the sounds of pipes in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia, in 1976. Fontana’s sonic art piece amplified and distorted bubbling and splashing sounds from the water. Richards was intrigued by the connection between physics and art to create the acoustic rhythm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards wanted to see if he could do the same using San Francisco’s waters. So he took PVC pipes to the jetty in the city’s Marina district and began testing the sounds of different pipe configurations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015192 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1536x1050.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A conceptual design of the Wave Organ originally shared at the New Music ’81 Festival. (Courtesy of the Exploratorium)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What he found was that the sound from the organ pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does it work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the Wave Organ, each pipe creates a vibrating column of air that amplifies sounds produced by moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified, depending on the length of the pipe and water level within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At high tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher,” Richards explains. “The low tides produce lower frequencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pipes made of PVC and concrete at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. The installation has 25 organ pipes, which sound best during high tide. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richards prototyped his design for the Wave Organ and presented a rudimentary version of the sculpture for the New Music ’81 Festival in San Francisco, a festival for experimental music and instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After securing funding to create a permanent installation, Richards met fellow Bay Area-based stonemason George Gonzalez and invited him to be a collaborator on the project. Richard says that before he met Gonzalez, he had made models and drawings of what he imagined the final installation to look like, but Gonzalez brought an innovative vision and elevated the overall project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started working on it, the first thing we did was throw the drawings away and… just allow the stonework to determine what was needed. George [had an] amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way,” said Richards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1986, the Wave Organ opened to the public. Decades later, it is still a favorite spot for San Franciscans who stop by on their morning walks. It’s also a destination for tourists who want to get off the beaten path and a place for fishermen to cast their lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Easley, a San Franciscan who visits the Wave Organ twice a week to fish, says, “Fish or no fish, this is heaven. It’s a little bit of paradise with a 360-degree view of the bay and the city that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ is free to visit. It’s one of the few Exploratorium exhibits that is located outside the walls of the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all had our little escapes. Places away from the confines of our quarantined homes to get some fresh air … and remind us that despite the distance, the rest of the world still exists. After moving to San Francisco in 2020, Robbie Rock discovered his special spot: a public art installation called the Wave Organ. It’s at the very end of a jetty sitting out in the bay, across the way from The Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> It’s just a really cool place to sit, watch the waves, and also to, like, hear the organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The Wave organ is not like the massive trumpeting organs that you’ll find in a church. Its appearance and sounds are a bit less opulent, but the organ still produces a pretty grand orchestra of gurgles, hisses, and booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[distorted gurgling from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But after all of his visits, Robbie still never really knew what, exactly, he was listening to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> I just had so many questions about it. Why is it there, and how does it even work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And of course…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> When is the best time to hear it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious — the podcast that answers your questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. This week, we’re turning an ear to the waters of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this episode is probably going to sound best with headphones, but if you’re listening on speakers, you might just want to crank it up. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> To learn more about this instrument that’s being played by the bay itself, we sent out Bay Curious intern, Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Out in the Marina district of San Francisco, just off Marina Boulevard, a jetty stretches out into the bay — It’s a man-made stretch of land protecting the docks of St Francis Yacht Club. I went there on a windy morning to visit the Wave Organ. The Wave Organ is an art installation that is partially underwater at the edge of the jetty. It’s an environmental sculpture that interacts with the natural sounds of the waves to create a unique auditory experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Ambient sound of the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> I called up Ken Finn, an educator at the Exploratorium, which is the interactive science and arts museum in San Francisco. The organ is one of the few exploratorium exhibits that is outside the walls of the museum, and it’s free! I asked Ken to show me around the Wave Organ for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> A personal favorite time to come out here…[laughs] when a storm is brewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The Wave Organ is a really unique installation. It looks kind of like a Roman ruin — with various slabs of granite creating different viewing levels and stone stairs leading down to the water’s edge. The organ itself is all around the installation. There are 25 organ pipes that peek out like periscopes. And visitors can place their ear next to each pipe in order to hear what is going on underwater. As I climbed around the installation with Ken, we approached an organ pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Here’s one of the first pipes. And you can see now that the tide is low. You can almost trace it in its winding path down into the bay. I’m going to give it a listen here… Oh, nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Then, it was my turn to listen….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Distorted swishing sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s beautiful!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With the tide out, the lower water level exposes the length of the pipes. Some only reach out 3 or 4 feet into the bay, while others extend out deep into the water. Then, Ken points at a stone slab on the staircase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> I like to call out that on some of these, you can see the leftover red paint, so you can tell there’s a red zone. So, some of these were old curb stones from parts of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s because most of the stone slabs used to make the sculpture are recycled pieces of granite. The jetty was originally built using stone slabs from fallen buildings after the 1906 earthquake and headstone remnants from the cemetery relocations of the early 1900s. Many still had beautiful carvings and designs, and they were given a new life with the creation of the Wave Organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ was created by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason, George Gonzalez. Peter Richards is now a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium, but back in 1970 he was a recent MFA graduate and new to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> It was the first time I was near a place that had tides. So, I was inherently curious about them and how they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> He was enamored by the changing tides and the way they revealed an intimate connection between us — and the sun and the moon. He was also inspired by a recording he had heard from artist Bill Fontana — who had recorded the sounds of cylindrical pipes he found in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia. Peter was drawn in by the rhythmic, distorted, and almost mesmerizing qualities of this audio portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a little excerpt of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Splashing sounds]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Peter wanted to see if he could intentionally create this phenomenon. So he took PVC pipes out onto the jetty just across from the Exploratorium, which at the time was housed at the Palace of Fine Arts. And he began testing the sounds of different pipe lengths and configurations. What he found was that the sound from the pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So at High tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher. And if you go to the low tide, it produces lower frequencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The pipes function like a pan flute. In the Wave Organ, each pipe is a vibrating column of air that amplifies the sounds produced by the moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified depending on the length of the pipe. And this is what creates a distorted orchestra of underwater sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he made this discovery, Peter built a prototype of the Wave Organ for an experimental music festival in 1981. He constructed a rudimentary version at the same spot on the jetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point, it was done very crudely. But we did mic it and run a telephone wire back to the Exploratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The telephone wire ran across Marina Boulevard and all the way to the Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So we had the sounds from the Wave Organ sort of echoing through the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> And visitors loved it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point the Director Frank Oppenheimer said, “Well, we’ve got to do something with this.” So that’s when I started working seriously on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> After working to secure funding, the Exploratorium was ready to break ground on a permanent installation. That is when Peter met George Gonzalez and invited him to be the stonemason on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> During the conceptual development of the project, I had built some models, and I made a drawing of what I envisioned happening. And when we started working on it, the first thing we did is to throw the drawings away and put the model away and just allow the stonework to determine what was needed there. And there was George’s amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With an attention to the beautifully carved granite slabs and to the tides… the Wave Organ rose from the rocks on the jetty in 1986. The Wave Organ is a magical integration of the natural and constructed world. It’s an art piece that sits at the center of many intersections — between the sea and moon and between science and art. And here, you get to be an audience to all of it. But before I left the Wave Organ, I had to ask Ken, the educator from the Exploratorium, the question we are all waiting for: When is the best time to hear the Wave Organ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Definitely check the tides. And I think that visiting the Wave Organ at high tide is the best time. And it’s definitely a lot more enjoyable to be there when the tide is high, and it’s making some tones that are much more easy for us to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> But, in case you are not able to make it out to the Wave Organ at high tide — we’ll bring it to you. Here’s 30 seconds of oceanic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was KQED’s Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Robbie Rock for asking the question and to Bill Fontana for letting us share a piece of his sonic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Curious team is taking a little breather next week, so we won’t have a new episode.\u003cbr>\nBut, we did create a kid-friendly Spotify playlist with some of our greatest hits from over the years. If you’ve got travel plans and need to fill some time — check it out! We’ll drop a link in our show notes. We’ll be back in your feeds on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gift-buying season is on the way, and I know, at least for some of you, it’s been here since Halloween, so I’d love to humbly suggest you consider giving the Bay Curious book this year. It’s chock full of history, culture, fun facts and more all about the San Francisco Bay Area. You can find it at most local bookstores and all the big online retailers. If audiobooks are more your jam, we’ve got one of those too. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">KQED.org/BayCuriousBook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco by Ana De Almeida Amaral, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Chris Hambrick, Holly Kernan, Chris Egusa and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This environmental sculpture was created in 1986 by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason George Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was inspired to create the Wave Organ after moving to San Francisco in 1970. He was fascinated by how the tides in the bay showed an intimate connection between the sea and the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1536x1002.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1920x1253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows out of a pipe at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time I was near a place that had tides,” said Richards, a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, about moving to the West Coast. “I was inherently curious about [tides] and how they worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was also inspired by artist Bill Fontana, who had recorded the sounds of pipes in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia, in 1976. Fontana’s sonic art piece amplified and distorted bubbling and splashing sounds from the water. Richards was intrigued by the connection between physics and art to create the acoustic rhythm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards wanted to see if he could do the same using San Francisco’s waters. So he took PVC pipes to the jetty in the city’s Marina district and began testing the sounds of different pipe configurations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015192 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1536x1050.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A conceptual design of the Wave Organ originally shared at the New Music ’81 Festival. (Courtesy of the Exploratorium)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What he found was that the sound from the organ pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does it work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the Wave Organ, each pipe creates a vibrating column of air that amplifies sounds produced by moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified, depending on the length of the pipe and water level within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At high tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher,” Richards explains. “The low tides produce lower frequencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pipes made of PVC and concrete at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. The installation has 25 organ pipes, which sound best during high tide. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richards prototyped his design for the Wave Organ and presented a rudimentary version of the sculpture for the New Music ’81 Festival in San Francisco, a festival for experimental music and instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After securing funding to create a permanent installation, Richards met fellow Bay Area-based stonemason George Gonzalez and invited him to be a collaborator on the project. Richard says that before he met Gonzalez, he had made models and drawings of what he imagined the final installation to look like, but Gonzalez brought an innovative vision and elevated the overall project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started working on it, the first thing we did was throw the drawings away and… just allow the stonework to determine what was needed. George [had an] amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way,” said Richards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1986, the Wave Organ opened to the public. Decades later, it is still a favorite spot for San Franciscans who stop by on their morning walks. It’s also a destination for tourists who want to get off the beaten path and a place for fishermen to cast their lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Easley, a San Franciscan who visits the Wave Organ twice a week to fish, says, “Fish or no fish, this is heaven. It’s a little bit of paradise with a 360-degree view of the bay and the city that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ is free to visit. It’s one of the few Exploratorium exhibits that is located outside the walls of the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all had our little escapes. Places away from the confines of our quarantined homes to get some fresh air … and remind us that despite the distance, the rest of the world still exists. After moving to San Francisco in 2020, Robbie Rock discovered his special spot: a public art installation called the Wave Organ. It’s at the very end of a jetty sitting out in the bay, across the way from The Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> It’s just a really cool place to sit, watch the waves, and also to, like, hear the organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The Wave organ is not like the massive trumpeting organs that you’ll find in a church. Its appearance and sounds are a bit less opulent, but the organ still produces a pretty grand orchestra of gurgles, hisses, and booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[distorted gurgling from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But after all of his visits, Robbie still never really knew what, exactly, he was listening to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> I just had so many questions about it. Why is it there, and how does it even work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And of course…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> When is the best time to hear it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious — the podcast that answers your questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. This week, we’re turning an ear to the waters of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this episode is probably going to sound best with headphones, but if you’re listening on speakers, you might just want to crank it up. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> To learn more about this instrument that’s being played by the bay itself, we sent out Bay Curious intern, Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Out in the Marina district of San Francisco, just off Marina Boulevard, a jetty stretches out into the bay — It’s a man-made stretch of land protecting the docks of St Francis Yacht Club. I went there on a windy morning to visit the Wave Organ. The Wave Organ is an art installation that is partially underwater at the edge of the jetty. It’s an environmental sculpture that interacts with the natural sounds of the waves to create a unique auditory experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Ambient sound of the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> I called up Ken Finn, an educator at the Exploratorium, which is the interactive science and arts museum in San Francisco. The organ is one of the few exploratorium exhibits that is outside the walls of the museum, and it’s free! I asked Ken to show me around the Wave Organ for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> A personal favorite time to come out here…[laughs] when a storm is brewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The Wave Organ is a really unique installation. It looks kind of like a Roman ruin — with various slabs of granite creating different viewing levels and stone stairs leading down to the water’s edge. The organ itself is all around the installation. There are 25 organ pipes that peek out like periscopes. And visitors can place their ear next to each pipe in order to hear what is going on underwater. As I climbed around the installation with Ken, we approached an organ pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Here’s one of the first pipes. And you can see now that the tide is low. You can almost trace it in its winding path down into the bay. I’m going to give it a listen here… Oh, nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Then, it was my turn to listen….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Distorted swishing sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s beautiful!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With the tide out, the lower water level exposes the length of the pipes. Some only reach out 3 or 4 feet into the bay, while others extend out deep into the water. Then, Ken points at a stone slab on the staircase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> I like to call out that on some of these, you can see the leftover red paint, so you can tell there’s a red zone. So, some of these were old curb stones from parts of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s because most of the stone slabs used to make the sculpture are recycled pieces of granite. The jetty was originally built using stone slabs from fallen buildings after the 1906 earthquake and headstone remnants from the cemetery relocations of the early 1900s. Many still had beautiful carvings and designs, and they were given a new life with the creation of the Wave Organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ was created by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason, George Gonzalez. Peter Richards is now a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium, but back in 1970 he was a recent MFA graduate and new to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> It was the first time I was near a place that had tides. So, I was inherently curious about them and how they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> He was enamored by the changing tides and the way they revealed an intimate connection between us — and the sun and the moon. He was also inspired by a recording he had heard from artist Bill Fontana — who had recorded the sounds of cylindrical pipes he found in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia. Peter was drawn in by the rhythmic, distorted, and almost mesmerizing qualities of this audio portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a little excerpt of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Splashing sounds]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Peter wanted to see if he could intentionally create this phenomenon. So he took PVC pipes out onto the jetty just across from the Exploratorium, which at the time was housed at the Palace of Fine Arts. And he began testing the sounds of different pipe lengths and configurations. What he found was that the sound from the pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So at High tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher. And if you go to the low tide, it produces lower frequencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The pipes function like a pan flute. In the Wave Organ, each pipe is a vibrating column of air that amplifies the sounds produced by the moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified depending on the length of the pipe. And this is what creates a distorted orchestra of underwater sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he made this discovery, Peter built a prototype of the Wave Organ for an experimental music festival in 1981. He constructed a rudimentary version at the same spot on the jetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point, it was done very crudely. But we did mic it and run a telephone wire back to the Exploratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The telephone wire ran across Marina Boulevard and all the way to the Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So we had the sounds from the Wave Organ sort of echoing through the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> And visitors loved it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point the Director Frank Oppenheimer said, “Well, we’ve got to do something with this.” So that’s when I started working seriously on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> After working to secure funding, the Exploratorium was ready to break ground on a permanent installation. That is when Peter met George Gonzalez and invited him to be the stonemason on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> During the conceptual development of the project, I had built some models, and I made a drawing of what I envisioned happening. And when we started working on it, the first thing we did is to throw the drawings away and put the model away and just allow the stonework to determine what was needed there. And there was George’s amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With an attention to the beautifully carved granite slabs and to the tides… the Wave Organ rose from the rocks on the jetty in 1986. The Wave Organ is a magical integration of the natural and constructed world. It’s an art piece that sits at the center of many intersections — between the sea and moon and between science and art. And here, you get to be an audience to all of it. But before I left the Wave Organ, I had to ask Ken, the educator from the Exploratorium, the question we are all waiting for: When is the best time to hear the Wave Organ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Definitely check the tides. And I think that visiting the Wave Organ at high tide is the best time. And it’s definitely a lot more enjoyable to be there when the tide is high, and it’s making some tones that are much more easy for us to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> But, in case you are not able to make it out to the Wave Organ at high tide — we’ll bring it to you. Here’s 30 seconds of oceanic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was KQED’s Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Robbie Rock for asking the question and to Bill Fontana for letting us share a piece of his sonic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Curious team is taking a little breather next week, so we won’t have a new episode.\u003cbr>\nBut, we did create a kid-friendly Spotify playlist with some of our greatest hits from over the years. If you’ve got travel plans and need to fill some time — check it out! We’ll drop a link in our show notes. We’ll be back in your feeds on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gift-buying season is on the way, and I know, at least for some of you, it’s been here since Halloween, so I’d love to humbly suggest you consider giving the Bay Curious book this year. It’s chock full of history, culture, fun facts and more all about the San Francisco Bay Area. You can find it at most local bookstores and all the big online retailers. If audiobooks are more your jam, we’ve got one of those too. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">KQED.org/BayCuriousBook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco by Ana De Almeida Amaral, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Chris Hambrick, Holly Kernan, Chris Egusa and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>San José leaders on Tuesday night unanimously approved a $1.2 billion proposal from a private firm to build two new wings at Good Samaritan Hospital on the city’s west side, despite concerns about the for-profit hospital owner’s controversial record of cutting services or shuttering facilities at its properties when profits drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While HCA Healthcare — the largest private hospital operator in the country — said the new facilities at the hospital are needed to comply with heightened state earthquake safety standards, some council members, residents and patient advocates were apprehensive about approving a massive project for a company that has reduced critical health care options across the city in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after HCA last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\">announced plans\u003c/a> to close its trauma center at Regional Medical Center hospital in East San José while also cutting its severe heart attack and stroke services — a decision it walked back slightly after prolonged protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents the community that hospital is located in, was among those pushing to defer Tuesday’s vote by a month to allow more time for discussion about a community benefits agreement that would “safeguard the health of residents” and ensure HCA would be a good partner going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at this juncture because HCA, a Fortune 500 company, has consistently cut services in the name of profit,” Ortiz said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz ultimately voted to support the environmental review and rezoning to allow the new Good Samaritan buildings because he said he needed to do what’s right for health care in the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he accused HCA of creating a two-tiered health care system: one for residents in wealthier parts of the city, the other for those in poorer areas, by cutting critical services in East San José while expanding and investing heavily in West San José. He also said the company was “fear-mongering” by suggesting that delaying the decision could result in Good Samaritan having to close down entirely because it wouldn’t meet state earthquake safety deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m troubled by the rhetoric implying that failing to pass this rezoning, especially when we were just going to postpone it a month, would result in Good Samaritan to close,” Ortiz said. “In my opinion, that’s fear-mongering of the worst kind, and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Councilmember Pam Foley, who represents the area where Good Samaritan is located, said the choice was clear for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Good Sam closes because it cannot meet the timeline, we lose access to critical health care resources. “How can I say to my constituents and the community at large, ‘Well, that’s HCA’s fault.’ How can any of us say that?” she said. “Let’s be perfectly clear. A vote against rezoning today is a vote in favor of closing Good Samaritan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA’s proposal entails a three-phase project to build 750,000 square feet of new hospital space across two buildings and a new 200,000-square-foot medical office while demolishing the hospital’s main building, which does not meet the state’s new seismic safety standards that go into effect between now and 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project also includes a 24,000-square-foot central utility plant and two large parking garages totaling nearly 700,000 square feet. In all, the project is set to take about six years to complete, with shovels set to hit the ground in 2025.[aside label=\"more South Bay news\" tag=\"santa-clara-county\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a deal hammered out ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, outlined in a memo from five councilmembers, HCA agreed to kick in $3 million as a sweetener to support affordable housing citywide and emergency interim housing in the area around the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your decision today is about protecting the patients that rely on Good Sam, a vital community resource, and enabling us to meet the state-mandated 2030 earthquake compliance deadline,” Jackie Van Blaricum, the head of HCA’s Far West division, told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we may not see eye to eye on everything, surely we can agree that losing an entire hospital’s services is not in the community’s best interest,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor representatives and construction workers, along with former Good Samaritan patients, doctors and other hospital staff, all spoke in support of the project on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopi Ayer, the chief of staff at the hospital, said while concerns from the community are “legitimate,” they should be saved for another time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we need to do today,” Ayer told the council. “If we don’t go ahead with this, it will be like cutting off our nose to spite our face, and that is not a good bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memo, council members said the major benefits to the city from such a project should not be overlooked, including increased property tax revenue and about 1,000 construction jobs, in addition to the ongoing jobs at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA’s announcement in early 2023 that it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\">close the trauma center\u003c/a> at Regional Medical Center sparked an outcry among residents and health care workers, who said shuttering the only such trauma center on the East Side of the county would have life-threatening consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of protests, the hospital \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996422/hospital-operator-backs-off-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center-after-public-outcry\">slightly reduced\u003c/a> its planned cuts and Santa Clara County officials later announced the county would move to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">purchase the hospital\u003c/a> and fold it into the public health care system, with plans to eventually restore cut services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents also recalled how the company cut labor and delivery services at the Regional Medical Center in 2020. And in 2004, it closed San José Medical Center shortly after buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents and mental health advocates also noted that HCA last year, citing a lack of staff, cut a 21-bed inpatient psychiatric services program at Mission Oaks Hospital in Los Gatos, which served Good Samaritan patients who needed acute mental health treatment. At the same time, it also closed Good Samaritan’s pediatric intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not against the development. I am against allowing HCA, the company, a blank check to worsen our quality of life and create health inequity where it otherwise wouldn’t exist in this city,” Darcie Green, the head of local health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said the council should have required the company to work with residents and advocates to come up with a plan to restore services and “create a patient protection fund, which is a very reasonable and fair ask given the harm that’s been caused.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a deal hammered out ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, outlined in a memo from five councilmembers, HCA agreed to kick in $3 million as a sweetener to support affordable housing citywide and emergency interim housing in the area around the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your decision today is about protecting the patients that rely on Good Sam, a vital community resource, and enabling us to meet the state-mandated 2030 earthquake compliance deadline,” Jackie Van Blaricum, the head of HCA’s Far West division, told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we may not see eye to eye on everything, surely we can agree that losing an entire hospital’s services is not in the community’s best interest,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor representatives and construction workers, along with former Good Samaritan patients, doctors and other hospital staff, all spoke in support of the project on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopi Ayer, the chief of staff at the hospital, said while concerns from the community are “legitimate,” they should be saved for another time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we need to do today,” Ayer told the council. “If we don’t go ahead with this, it will be like cutting off our nose to spite our face, and that is not a good bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memo, council members said the major benefits to the city from such a project should not be overlooked, including increased property tax revenue and about 1,000 construction jobs, in addition to the ongoing jobs at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA’s announcement in early 2023 that it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\">close the trauma center\u003c/a> at Regional Medical Center sparked an outcry among residents and health care workers, who said shuttering the only such trauma center on the East Side of the county would have life-threatening consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of protests, the hospital \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996422/hospital-operator-backs-off-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center-after-public-outcry\">slightly reduced\u003c/a> its planned cuts and Santa Clara County officials later announced the county would move to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">purchase the hospital\u003c/a> and fold it into the public health care system, with plans to eventually restore cut services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents also recalled how the company cut labor and delivery services at the Regional Medical Center in 2020. And in 2004, it closed San José Medical Center shortly after buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents and mental health advocates also noted that HCA last year, citing a lack of staff, cut a 21-bed inpatient psychiatric services program at Mission Oaks Hospital in Los Gatos, which served Good Samaritan patients who needed acute mental health treatment. At the same time, it also closed Good Samaritan’s pediatric intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not against the development. I am against allowing HCA, the company, a blank check to worsen our quality of life and create health inequity where it otherwise wouldn’t exist in this city,” Darcie Green, the head of local health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 4 a.m. Nov. 20\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center-running bike lane pilot on San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/valencia-street\">Valencia Street\u003c/a> reached the end of the road, as the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency board voted unanimously to replace it with a side-running protected bike lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tuesday evening vote sets in motion \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005173/the-future-of-san-franciscos-valencia-street-and-what-oaklands-telegraph-ave-tells-us-about-it\">another round of dramatic changes\u003c/a> for one of San Francisco’s most popular corridors — a major bicycle route and a hub for nightlife dense with independent restaurants and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the center bike lane, which rolled out last year, drew criticism from merchants as well as some cyclists, many of the dozens of San Franciscans who showed up for public comment at Tuesday’s meeting tried to persuade the board to keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I noticed that the moment I turned onto the Valencia Street center bike lane, the intensity of biking through city traffic subsided and I was able to ride with peace and safety, even calmly bringing my friends and loved ones along without worry,” Dylan Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others commenters implored the SFMTA Board to make the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The center lane brings cyclists through the neighborhood past small businesses, whereas protected side lanes mean it’s easy to see a small business and stop,” said Zach Lipton, a volunteer with the neighborhood group Friends of Valencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The side-running design calls for a bike lane that mostly runs alongside the sidewalk, with parking spots for cars placed farther out towards the street. This is what’s known as a “protected” bike lane, because parked cars separate people moving down the bike lane from traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bike lane encounters one of the 21 curbside parklets located on the 8-block section between 15th and 23rd streets, it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003826/sfs-new-valencia-street-bike-lane-will-have-to-go-around-and-between-parklets\">curve around those parklets\u003c/a>, something SFMTA staff describe as “slaloming.” Three additional parklets will be “floated” away from the sidewalk, allowing the bike lane to continue in a straight line, but forcing people entering and exiting those parklets to cross the bike lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left turns will continue to be banned on the section of Valencia under this plan, which also proposes a new prohibition on making a right turn at a red light, and adding posts and speed bumps around the edges of intersections to help protect pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the decision to scrap it, SFMTA maintains that the \u003ca href=\"https://westernite.org/western-district-awards/transportation-project-of-the-year/\">award-winning pilot\u003c/a> achieved its goals. A newly released 12-month evaluation of the pilot shows a reduction in vehicles double parking in the bike lane and a downward trend in traffic collisions, although the agency said collisions “are not drastically lower than pre-implementation conditions.” However, daily vehicle volume is down 14% from before the pilot, and pedestrian volume is down 8%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bicyclists ride on the Valencia Street center bike lane in San Francisco’s Mission District on Aug. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Heminger, an SFMTA board member, asked SFMTA’s Paul Stanis why staff was recommending the change when data indicated that the project was achieving its goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Data tells one side of the story. There’s this whole non-data component, and that’s how people experience the street,” said Stanis, who gave examples of how the current design can cause backups when cars double park, or be startling to cyclists when cars illegally enter the center-running lane. “That doesn’t necessarily show up in any of our evaluation data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Valencia Corridor Merchants Association said in a press release that it believes that the side-running bike lane could be an improvement, but the group found the new design equally problematic and said it could not endorse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concerns are that all left-hand turns are still eliminated, nearly half of parking/loading spaces will be lost making it difficult and frustrating for customers to park, and pedestrians, deliveries, and cyclists will collide with each other in the lane,” reads the press release. “Inconsistency in how the SFMTA has treated Parklets and Shared Spaces not only reduces customer parking, but makes the experience unpredictable and confusing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA says the side-running design will remove 37% of the parking spaces in the current road design. That’s on top of 71 metered parking spots that were lost when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962992/cyclists-and-businesses-reflect-on-2-months-with-the-valencia-street-bikeway\">the center-running design was installed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition supported the SFMTA’s move to begin designing a side-running protected bike lane in June, but wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://sfbike.org/news/new-design-on-valencia-forces-compromise-for-everyone/?j=4723956&sfmc_sub=164117404&l=502_HTML&u=147234977&mid=7208971&jb=8004\">blog post\u003c/a> last week that it has “serious concerns” about SFMTA’s plans to have three floating parklets in the new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Floating parklets introduce potentially dangerous conflicts between people biking and staff and customers who use the parklets. The mix of curbside and floating parklets is unpredictable and confusing, making the design less safe for everyone,” said SF Bicycle Coalition advocacy director Claire Amable at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floating parklets exist on a section of Telegraph Avenue in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood, something SFMTA staff say they have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003826/sfs-new-valencia-street-bike-lane-will-have-to-go-around-and-between-parklets\">studied\u003c/a> and point to as an example of success with floating parklets.[aside postID=news_12005173 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-14-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2023, SFMTA began the Mid-Valencia pilot, which moved the traditional bike lane that ran alongside parked cars on either side of the street and placed it in the center of the road. 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That doesn’t include an additional $900,000 that a staff report says is necessary to fund repaving of the center of the roadway, planters, landscaping and parklet reimbursement assistance for merchants, for which funding has not been identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction could begin as soon as January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA Board Vice Chair Stephanie Cajina framed the center-running bike lane as an “experiment” and “learning moment” for the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be very careful about experimenting in commercial corridors, specifically, and that requires a certain level of care that perhaps we did not perceive when we initially approved this particular item,” Cajina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing positive SFMTA data about the impacts of the project, and the positive public comment at the meeting, Cajina told SFMTA staff she hoped they would feel a “sense of agency” to implement another center-running bike lane on another corridor in the city in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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This is what’s known as a “protected” bike lane, because parked cars separate people moving down the bike lane from traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bike lane encounters one of the 21 curbside parklets located on the 8-block section between 15th and 23rd streets, it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003826/sfs-new-valencia-street-bike-lane-will-have-to-go-around-and-between-parklets\">curve around those parklets\u003c/a>, something SFMTA staff describe as “slaloming.” Three additional parklets will be “floated” away from the sidewalk, allowing the bike lane to continue in a straight line, but forcing people entering and exiting those parklets to cross the bike lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left turns will continue to be banned on the section of Valencia under this plan, which also proposes a new prohibition on making a right turn at a red light, and adding posts and speed bumps around the edges of intersections to help protect pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the decision to scrap it, SFMTA maintains that the \u003ca href=\"https://westernite.org/western-district-awards/transportation-project-of-the-year/\">award-winning pilot\u003c/a> achieved its goals. A newly released 12-month evaluation of the pilot shows a reduction in vehicles double parking in the bike lane and a downward trend in traffic collisions, although the agency said collisions “are not drastically lower than pre-implementation conditions.” However, daily vehicle volume is down 14% from before the pilot, and pedestrian volume is down 8%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bicyclists ride on the Valencia Street center bike lane in San Francisco’s Mission District on Aug. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Heminger, an SFMTA board member, asked SFMTA’s Paul Stanis why staff was recommending the change when data indicated that the project was achieving its goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Data tells one side of the story. There’s this whole non-data component, and that’s how people experience the street,” said Stanis, who gave examples of how the current design can cause backups when cars double park, or be startling to cyclists when cars illegally enter the center-running lane. “That doesn’t necessarily show up in any of our evaluation data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Valencia Corridor Merchants Association said in a press release that it believes that the side-running bike lane could be an improvement, but the group found the new design equally problematic and said it could not endorse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concerns are that all left-hand turns are still eliminated, nearly half of parking/loading spaces will be lost making it difficult and frustrating for customers to park, and pedestrians, deliveries, and cyclists will collide with each other in the lane,” reads the press release. “Inconsistency in how the SFMTA has treated Parklets and Shared Spaces not only reduces customer parking, but makes the experience unpredictable and confusing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA says the side-running design will remove 37% of the parking spaces in the current road design. That’s on top of 71 metered parking spots that were lost when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962992/cyclists-and-businesses-reflect-on-2-months-with-the-valencia-street-bikeway\">the center-running design was installed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition supported the SFMTA’s move to begin designing a side-running protected bike lane in June, but wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://sfbike.org/news/new-design-on-valencia-forces-compromise-for-everyone/?j=4723956&sfmc_sub=164117404&l=502_HTML&u=147234977&mid=7208971&jb=8004\">blog post\u003c/a> last week that it has “serious concerns” about SFMTA’s plans to have three floating parklets in the new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Floating parklets introduce potentially dangerous conflicts between people biking and staff and customers who use the parklets. 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"content": "\u003cp>Health officials confirmed this weekend that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014826/san-mateo-county-reports-first-known-u-s-case-of-emerging-mpox-strain\">the first U.S. case of a new mpox strain had been detected in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This variant of mpox — formerly called monkeypox — is known as clade I and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000319/mpox-is-declared-a-global-emergency-again-heres-what-to-know\">circulating in eastern and central Africa over the last year\u003c/a>, where it’s caused sickness among children and adults and even deaths. The disease usually spreads through close skin-to-skin contact, including sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Saturday that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/s1116-california-first-clade.html\">the U.S.’s first known clade I case had recently returned from travel\u003c/a> to the African continent and was treated for mpox symptoms at a medical facility in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clade I is a more severe strain of mpox compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">clade II strain that caused an outbreak in the Bay Area in 2022\u003c/a> and that is still circulating at low levels. But the CDC has said that the risk of clade I mpox to the general public within the U.S. “remains low.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/vaccines/index.html\">A two-dose vaccine for mpox\u003c/a>, which offers protection against both clade I and clade II, remains available for eligible people at higher risk of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">Who’s eligible for an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#who-risk-mpox\">Who is most at risk from mpox?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what we know about this new U.S. case of clade I mpox, how mpox spreads, what symptoms to be aware of and who should get an \u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">mpox vaccine\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do we know about this first clade I mpox case in the U.S.?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not a great deal — because health officials don’t want to release details that could identify this person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR24-036.aspx\">the patient received medical care at a facility in San Mateo County\u003c/a> and had recently returned from travel to Eastern Africa. The patient is now isolating at home, the CDC said — although their home county hasn’t been disclosed — and their symptoms are improving. “It has not been a severe illness” for this patient, San Mateo County health officer Dr. Kismet Baldwin-Santana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who had close contact with this individual are being contacted by public health workers, but there is no concern or evidence that mpox clade I is currently spreading between individuals in California or the United States,” the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin-Santana said that officials were also “actively working” with San Mateo health care staff “that have been exposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, said that the first U.S. case of clade I was “expected,” owing to the scale not just of the outbreak in eastern and central Africa but of international travel. “It was only a matter of time before we saw cases in the U.S. from people who traveled there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Small circular patterns float in a dense, thick brown substance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-800x635.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-1536x1218.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (orange) found within an infected cell (brown) cultured in a laboratory. \u003ccite>(NIH-NIAID/Image Point FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What is clade I mpox, and where is it spreading?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close contact with someone who is infected and causes mpox disease. As the name might suggest, the virus is related to the smallpox virus, but it’s generally less severe and much less contagious than smallpox, according to CDPH. In addition to fever, chills, headache and muscle pain, mpox can cause a painful rash — also known as lesions — that appear on many parts of the body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">clade I mpox outbreak\u003c/a> in eastern and central Africa a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000319/mpox-is-declared-a-global-emergency-again-heres-what-to-know\">global emergency\u003c/a>. Historically, this strain has caused more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the other type of mpox, clade II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/outbreaks/2023/index.html\">epicenter of the outbreak\u003c/a>, has reported more than 9,000 confirmed clade I mpox cases and more than 40 deaths since Jan. 1. \u003ca href=\"https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/level2/clade-1-mpox-central-eastern-africa\">Clade I mpox has also spread\u003c/a> to Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Very few doses of the \u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">mpox vaccine\u003c/a> were originally available on the African continent, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/democratic-republic-congo-starts-mpox-vaccination-high-priority-provinces\">in October, 265,000 doses arrived in the DRC\u003c/a> for distribution among vulnerable groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">the first clade I mpox case outside the African continent was detected in Sweden\u003c/a>. Subsequent cases of people who had recently traveled to affected regions in Africa have also been detected in Germany, India, Kenya, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Zambia and Zimbabwe — and now the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is clade I different from the type of mpox that hit the Bay Area in 2022?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The 2022 mpox outbreak in the United States\u003c/a> — which particularly affected gay and bisexual men, as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men — was caused by clade II mpox, the less severe strain. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000319/mpox-is-declared-a-global-emergency-again-heres-what-to-know#mpox-wastewater\">Read more about the 2022 outbreak\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2024’s clade I mpox is also different because it’s “not really in a \u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/research-project/sexual-networks\">sexual network\u003c/a> per se,” UCSF’s Chin-Hong said — that is, groups of people who are connected to one another sexually. In 2022, clade II “was engineered, almost, to be very efficiently spread within a sexual network, and it was amplified by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">a lot of things happening at the same time, like Pride events\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clade I strain that’s been spreading in eastern and central Africa “primarily affects heterosexual people and children within households,” Chin-Hong said — but with the caveat that this exposure within a home has to be “intensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjEQASABSABSBmU5ZTg3ZVIGMzc0MzBhWgpNUFhWX0cyUl9HeIkBigEGOTY3NzIwwAEB&selectedChartId=967720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data from Stanford University’s WastewaterSCAN project\u003c/a>, which monitors the presence of viruses, including mpox, in human sewage across the U.S., shows that more than two years after the initial 2022 outbreak, clade II of mpox is still occasionally detected in the Bay Area’s wastewater.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Julia Janssen, deputy director of the HIV/STI Prevention and Control Branch at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, stressed that the city had seen 31 confirmed cases this year — and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html\">Bay Area residents at higher risk of infection \u003c/a>should still stay vigilant for clade II mpox by \u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">getting their mpox vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-1536x1052.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pharmacist prepares a dose of the Jynneos mpox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic opened by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library on Aug. 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"who-risk-mpox\">\u003c/a>Who is at higher risk of getting clade I mpox?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has led us to believe up till now that there is a heightened risk to the general public” from clade I mpox, San Mateo County’s Baldwin-Santana said, echoing the CDC and CDPH. “Most people in the public really should not be too concerned at this point in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC said that the large number of children getting clade I in eastern and central Africa likely shows that it’s spreading within households and between family members. “Based on what we know right now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/situation-summary/index.html\">we don’t expect to see the same sort of risk if mpox were introduced in the United States for several reasons\u003c/a>, including different household makeup and size, access to disinfecting products and improved access to medical care,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on its own models, the CDC also said that close-contact transmission within and between households “is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/about/modeling-forecasting/mpox-transmission.html\">unlikely to result in a large number of mpox clade I cases\u003c/a>” nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clade I is “nothing to worry about for the general population” in the Bay Area, UCSF’s Chin-Hong said. “It’s still very hard to get mpox, even from somebody with active lesions. It requires close skin-to-skin contact or intensive household contact — so you can’t get it from Muni or from yoga or from going to Trader Joe’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clade II mpox remains a much more real threat in the Bay Area right now than this one clade I case, Chin-Hong said, since that strain is still circulating at low levels in the region. It’s “a great reminder for people to continue to pay attention to that — that is, people in the LGBTQ community — to really make sure they’re up to date on\u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\"> vaccines\u003c/a>,” he said, reminding folks that gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, as well as transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse people, are at greater risk for a clade II infection. Jump to \u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are the symptoms of mpox, and how does it spread?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close — usually skin-to-skin — contact with someone who is infected. This could be direct contact with the infectious rashes or scabs someone with mpox develops, scabs, having intimate physical contact with someone who has mpox, such as kissing, cuddling or sex. Coming into contact with infected bodily fluids or items that have been touched by rashes or fluids from an infected person can also expose you to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The symptoms of clade I and clade II mpox are similar, SFDPH’s Janssen said, and they can often start as flu-like conditions — which is worth bearing in mind as the Bay Area enters respiratory virus season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, including the face, inside the mouth, hands, feet, chest, genitals and anus. These spots often start as red, flat spots that then become bumps before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break. These symptoms can be extremely painful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. See more on \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">what to do if you suspect you have mpox\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000320\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses, a face mask and a visor with blue surgical gloves holds a syringe and a small bottle.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149-160x101.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) Gabriela Solis prepares a dose of the Jynneos mpox vaccine at an L.A. County vaccination site in East Los Angeles on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003c/a>Who’s eligible for an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses. Maximal immunity will build two weeks after your second dose. If you only got one dose previously, go ahead and seek out your second dose ASAP.[aside tag=\"mpox, health\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that people who have received both doses of the mpox vaccine — along with people who have already had clade II mpox — “are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/08/14/united-states-governments-response-clade-i-mpox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-other-countries-region.html\">expected to be protected against severe illness from clade I mpox\u003c/a>” as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC recommends the two-dose mpox vaccine to gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, as well as transgender, nonbinary or gender-diverse people who in the past 6 months, have had:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than one sexual partner and/or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A new diagnosis of one or more sexually transmitted infections.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s vaccine recommendations also include anyone who has had sex at a commercial sex venue like a sex club or bathhouse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/vaccines/index.html\">See the full mpox vaccine eligibility recommendations from the CDC\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-treatment\">San Francisco additionally recommends vaccination\u003c/a> for anyone living with HIV, anyone taking PrEP or who’s eligible to take it and sex workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC has recently updated its vaccination recommendations to extend to people traveling to countries with clade I outbreaks, which as of Nov. 16 include Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. The agency recommends getting both doses of the vaccine “if you anticipate experiencing any of the following” while traveling to these countries:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sex with a new partner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sex at a commercial sex venue, such as a sex club or bathhouse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sex in exchange for money, goods, drugs or other trade\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sex in association with a large public event, such as a rave, party or festival.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where can I find an mpox vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re eligible for the vaccine, your health insurance should cover the costs \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/vaccines/index.htmla\">thanks to the CDC’s recommendations\u003c/a>. If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. SFDPH confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident in San Francisco to get vaccinated for mpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting an mpox vaccine at a pharmacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID-19 and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer ahead of time that they’ll cover the cost of an mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep. If you find your insurance doesn’t fully cover the cost, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-treatment\">SFDPH said you can seek your vaccine at one of their clinics while supplies last\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens — the way you can’t get your COVID-19 or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Billy Cruz, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí and Nisa Khan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do we know about this first clade I mpox case in the U.S.?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not a great deal — because health officials don’t want to release details that could identify this person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR24-036.aspx\">the patient received medical care at a facility in San Mateo County\u003c/a> and had recently returned from travel to Eastern Africa. The patient is now isolating at home, the CDC said — although their home county hasn’t been disclosed — and their symptoms are improving. “It has not been a severe illness” for this patient, San Mateo County health officer Dr. Kismet Baldwin-Santana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who had close contact with this individual are being contacted by public health workers, but there is no concern or evidence that mpox clade I is currently spreading between individuals in California or the United States,” the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin-Santana said that officials were also “actively working” with San Mateo health care staff “that have been exposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, said that the first U.S. case of clade I was “expected,” owing to the scale not just of the outbreak in eastern and central Africa but of international travel. “It was only a matter of time before we saw cases in the U.S. from people who traveled there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Small circular patterns float in a dense, thick brown substance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-800x635.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65506_GettyImages-1428290091-1-qut-1536x1218.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (orange) found within an infected cell (brown) cultured in a laboratory. \u003ccite>(NIH-NIAID/Image Point FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What is clade I mpox, and where is it spreading?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close contact with someone who is infected and causes mpox disease. As the name might suggest, the virus is related to the smallpox virus, but it’s generally less severe and much less contagious than smallpox, according to CDPH. In addition to fever, chills, headache and muscle pain, mpox can cause a painful rash — also known as lesions — that appear on many parts of the body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">clade I mpox outbreak\u003c/a> in eastern and central Africa a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000319/mpox-is-declared-a-global-emergency-again-heres-what-to-know\">global emergency\u003c/a>. Historically, this strain has caused more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the other type of mpox, clade II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/outbreaks/2023/index.html\">epicenter of the outbreak\u003c/a>, has reported more than 9,000 confirmed clade I mpox cases and more than 40 deaths since Jan. 1. \u003ca href=\"https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/level2/clade-1-mpox-central-eastern-africa\">Clade I mpox has also spread\u003c/a> to Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Very few doses of the \u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">mpox vaccine\u003c/a> were originally available on the African continent, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/democratic-republic-congo-starts-mpox-vaccination-high-priority-provinces\">in October, 265,000 doses arrived in the DRC\u003c/a> for distribution among vulnerable groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">the first clade I mpox case outside the African continent was detected in Sweden\u003c/a>. Subsequent cases of people who had recently traveled to affected regions in Africa have also been detected in Germany, India, Kenya, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Zambia and Zimbabwe — and now the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is clade I different from the type of mpox that hit the Bay Area in 2022?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The 2022 mpox outbreak in the United States\u003c/a> — which particularly affected gay and bisexual men, as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men — was caused by clade II mpox, the less severe strain. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000319/mpox-is-declared-a-global-emergency-again-heres-what-to-know#mpox-wastewater\">Read more about the 2022 outbreak\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2024’s clade I mpox is also different because it’s “not really in a \u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/research-project/sexual-networks\">sexual network\u003c/a> per se,” UCSF’s Chin-Hong said — that is, groups of people who are connected to one another sexually. In 2022, clade II “was engineered, almost, to be very efficiently spread within a sexual network, and it was amplified by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">a lot of things happening at the same time, like Pride events\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clade I strain that’s been spreading in eastern and central Africa “primarily affects heterosexual people and children within households,” Chin-Hong said — but with the caveat that this exposure within a home has to be “intensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjEQASABSABSBmU5ZTg3ZVIGMzc0MzBhWgpNUFhWX0cyUl9HeIkBigEGOTY3NzIwwAEB&selectedChartId=967720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data from Stanford University’s WastewaterSCAN project\u003c/a>, which monitors the presence of viruses, including mpox, in human sewage across the U.S., shows that more than two years after the initial 2022 outbreak, clade II of mpox is still occasionally detected in the Bay Area’s wastewater.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Julia Janssen, deputy director of the HIV/STI Prevention and Control Branch at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, stressed that the city had seen 31 confirmed cases this year — and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html\">Bay Area residents at higher risk of infection \u003c/a>should still stay vigilant for clade II mpox by \u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">getting their mpox vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-1536x1052.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pharmacist prepares a dose of the Jynneos mpox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic opened by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library on Aug. 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"who-risk-mpox\">\u003c/a>Who is at higher risk of getting clade I mpox?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has led us to believe up till now that there is a heightened risk to the general public” from clade I mpox, San Mateo County’s Baldwin-Santana said, echoing the CDC and CDPH. “Most people in the public really should not be too concerned at this point in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC said that the large number of children getting clade I in eastern and central Africa likely shows that it’s spreading within households and between family members. “Based on what we know right now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/situation-summary/index.html\">we don’t expect to see the same sort of risk if mpox were introduced in the United States for several reasons\u003c/a>, including different household makeup and size, access to disinfecting products and improved access to medical care,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on its own models, the CDC also said that close-contact transmission within and between households “is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/about/modeling-forecasting/mpox-transmission.html\">unlikely to result in a large number of mpox clade I cases\u003c/a>” nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clade I is “nothing to worry about for the general population” in the Bay Area, UCSF’s Chin-Hong said. “It’s still very hard to get mpox, even from somebody with active lesions. It requires close skin-to-skin contact or intensive household contact — so you can’t get it from Muni or from yoga or from going to Trader Joe’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clade II mpox remains a much more real threat in the Bay Area right now than this one clade I case, Chin-Hong said, since that strain is still circulating at low levels in the region. It’s “a great reminder for people to continue to pay attention to that — that is, people in the LGBTQ community — to really make sure they’re up to date on\u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\"> vaccines\u003c/a>,” he said, reminding folks that gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, as well as transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse people, are at greater risk for a clade II infection. Jump to \u003ca href=\"#find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are the symptoms of mpox, and how does it spread?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close — usually skin-to-skin — contact with someone who is infected. This could be direct contact with the infectious rashes or scabs someone with mpox develops, scabs, having intimate physical contact with someone who has mpox, such as kissing, cuddling or sex. Coming into contact with infected bodily fluids or items that have been touched by rashes or fluids from an infected person can also expose you to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The symptoms of clade I and clade II mpox are similar, SFDPH’s Janssen said, and they can often start as flu-like conditions — which is worth bearing in mind as the Bay Area enters respiratory virus season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, including the face, inside the mouth, hands, feet, chest, genitals and anus. These spots often start as red, flat spots that then become bumps before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break. These symptoms can be extremely painful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. See more on \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">what to do if you suspect you have mpox\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000320\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses, a face mask and a visor with blue surgical gloves holds a syringe and a small bottle.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1414098149-160x101.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) Gabriela Solis prepares a dose of the Jynneos mpox vaccine at an L.A. County vaccination site in East Los Angeles on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"find-mpox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003c/a>Who’s eligible for an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses. Maximal immunity will build two weeks after your second dose. If you only got one dose previously, go ahead and seek out your second dose ASAP.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that people who have received both doses of the mpox vaccine — along with people who have already had clade II mpox — “are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/08/14/united-states-governments-response-clade-i-mpox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-other-countries-region.html\">expected to be protected against severe illness from clade I mpox\u003c/a>” as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC recommends the two-dose mpox vaccine to gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, as well as transgender, nonbinary or gender-diverse people who in the past 6 months, have had:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than one sexual partner and/or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A new diagnosis of one or more sexually transmitted infections.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s vaccine recommendations also include anyone who has had sex at a commercial sex venue like a sex club or bathhouse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/vaccines/index.html\">See the full mpox vaccine eligibility recommendations from the CDC\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-treatment\">San Francisco additionally recommends vaccination\u003c/a> for anyone living with HIV, anyone taking PrEP or who’s eligible to take it and sex workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC has recently updated its vaccination recommendations to extend to people traveling to countries with clade I outbreaks, which as of Nov. 16 include Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. The agency recommends getting both doses of the vaccine “if you anticipate experiencing any of the following” while traveling to these countries:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sex with a new partner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sex at a commercial sex venue, such as a sex club or bathhouse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sex in exchange for money, goods, drugs or other trade\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sex in association with a large public event, such as a rave, party or festival.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where can I find an mpox vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re eligible for the vaccine, your health insurance should cover the costs \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mpox/vaccines/index.htmla\">thanks to the CDC’s recommendations\u003c/a>. If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. SFDPH confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident in San Francisco to get vaccinated for mpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting an mpox vaccine at a pharmacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID-19 and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer ahead of time that they’ll cover the cost of an mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep. If you find your insurance doesn’t fully cover the cost, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-treatment\">SFDPH said you can seek your vaccine at one of their clinics while supplies last\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens — the way you can’t get your COVID-19 or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Billy Cruz, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí and Nisa Khan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>People who have been advocating for decades to restore \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/west-oakland\">West Oakland\u003c/a>’s once-bustling 16th Street train station see a potential light at the end of their tunnel in the form of federal historic recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early January, the National Park Service will decide whether to list the station — which played a critical role in the development of West Oakland as a thriving Black neighborhood — on the National Register of Historic Places. That would open it up to a 20% tax credit that could be used to help with badly needed repairs and rehabilitation work, estimated to cost $50 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about time. I’m hoping this will get folks to say, ‘Well, what can we really do with this asset?’” said Feleciai Favroth, the treasurer of the Oakland Heritage Alliance, a nonprofit organization that submitted the station’s application to the California State Historical Resources Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously last week to nominate the station and its signal tower for consideration to the national register, citing its cultural, architectural and transportation-related significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the tax credit, the Oakland Heritage Alliance hopes designation as a historic place will attract grants and additional attention that could give the station a second life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1912, the station was once a sort of Grand Central Station of the West, welcoming generations of newly arrived Oaklanders from all parts of the country on their way to the city’s once-plentiful jobs working for the railroad, Navy and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/007_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"The front exterior of an abandoned building with fencing around it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/007_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/007_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/007_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/007_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/007_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/007_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front exterior of the now abandoned 16th Street Station in West Oakland on Feb. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Soaring arched windows evoke Roman baths and flood the grand main hall with natural light, providing the visitor with a majestic portal into Oakland,” reads the Oakland Heritage Alliance’s application for the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porters who worked out of the station’s baggage wing established the West Coast headquarters for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters — the first Black union in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after the slow decline of rail travel and the deindustrialization of Oakland, the station fell out of use and into disrepair. After being damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, it saw its last train in 1994 and has sat vacant and in neglect for the past 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the station is repaired, Favroth said she would hope to see it used in a way that benefits the West Oakland community now and honors its past. She suggested the space could be used as a hybrid events space and business incubator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Disrepair_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Disrepair_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Disrepair_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Disrepair_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Disrepair_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Disrepair_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plaster has crumbled to reveal brick in the Main Hall of 16th Street Station in West Oakland on Feb. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“African American places are rarely saved, rarely counted, rarely documented. This is an opportunity to say to West Oakland in particular, we hear you, your stories are important, and we are willing to help you save a physical asset that hopefully will reinvigorate the community and be able to be a physical representation of your story,” Favroth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current owner, housing developer City Ventures, has an application pending with the city of Oakland to build a 77-unit townhome-style development — dubbed “Signal House” — in the areas around the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11910890 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal has been under review since May 2023 and does not include rehabilitation of the station. City Ventures has hired the OE Consulting firm to explore fundraising for the repair of the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We and our client are delighted with the nomination and grateful to the Oakland Heritage Alliance for their efforts,” said Arthur Combs, the principal of OE Consulting. “The prospect of tax credits helps with our funder conversations. In order to be successful, this restoration campaign will have to make use of every possible avenue for resources; it’s always a complex mix of private and public support, and this will be no different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Oakland Heritage Alliance are hopeful that if the station is added to the national register, it will spur a drive to repair it before it falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really look forward to finding a way to get this station rejuvenated as an activity hub for West Oakland, and celebrating its role in Oakland’s rail, and multimodal transportation history,” said Naomi Schiff, secretary of the Oakland Heritage Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favroth said a place on the national register would cement the station’s significance not just as an architectural gem but also as a place of significance for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need the world to know that it’s more than just this physical structure that trains went through. We need to talk about the people,” Favroth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Historical Resources Commission passed the nomination on to the National Park Service on Nov. 7. The park service has 60 days to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid continued frustration over the cost of living, public safety and homelessness, voters in the Bay Area’s largest cities are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013761/this-was-not-a-good-election-to-be-an-incumbent\">embracing mayoral candidates and campaigns that promise a shake-up at city hall\u003c/a> — putting aside concerns about experience and stability and embracing political outsiders in this year’s elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, nonprofit founder and philanthropist Daniel Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">toppled incumbent mayor London Breed and bested a field of candidates\u003c/a> with decades of combined city hall experience. In San Jose, Mayor Matt Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#matt-mahan-sails-to-second-term-as-mayor-of-san-jose\">cruised to an early re-election in March\u003c/a>, riding the momentum of his own insurgent victory less than two years ago. And in Oakland, Mayor Sheng Thao \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">was removed from office after an unprecedented\u003c/a> recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates have long rode promises of change to victory, but in Mahan and Lurie, voters in the region’s two largest cities have chosen leaders with a historic lack of government experience who touted their outsider status as evidence of a fresh and independent perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt Mahan felt like an outsider, and I think Daniel Lurie does, too,” said Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the business advocacy group the Bay Area Council and a former mayoral chief of staff in San Francisco. “I think their campaigns were sort of saying, ‘Things aren’t being run the way they could be, and I could do a better job, and I won’t be afraid to make the changes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his surprising victory in 2022, Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967395/san-jose-labor-groups-dont-like-mayor-matt-mahan-so-why-does-his-re-election-seem-assured\">faced no organized opposition in the mayoral contest held in March\u003c/a> after the city moved its mayoral elections to presidential years. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">Lurie prevailed in a ranked-choice election, winning the most first-choice votes\u003c/a> and also drawing second-choice support from voters across San Francisco’s political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wave of political change in Bay Area cities could have profound impacts on city management, government transparency and local labor unions — especially those representing city workers. Some progressives worry that a new preference for upstart campaigns could challenge the traditional pipelines of power that allow candidates without access to large financial resources to build support while slowly moving up the ranks of local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">benefited from record spending, much of it self-financed\u003c/a>, to become the city’s first mayor elected without any government experience since Jim Rolph in 1911. When Mahan won the mayorship in 2022, he did so after just two years on the city council — the least government experience of any mayor since San Jose voters began directly electing the position in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan at the press conference on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Mahan and Lurie were able to seize on voter discontent over widespread and highly visible homelessness, a rise in shoplifting and commercial burglaries and ongoing disruptions from the pandemic by blaming city hall “insiders.” They argued that their years of experience outside of government — Mahan as CEO of the civic engagement tech platform Brigade, Lurie as founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community — would allow them to engineer a culture shift within the municipal bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">At his victory press conference on Friday\u003c/a>, Lurie promised “a government centered on accountability, service and change” that would move past years of corruption scandals. It was a message with echoes of Mahan’s 2022 campaign call for “common sense, accountability and transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither candidate emerged completely independent of their cities’ existing power structures. Lurie grew up amid San Francisco’s financial elite, and his work with Tipping Point brought him close contact with city leaders trying to reduce homelessness. Mahan was backed by the incumbent mayor, Sam Liccardo, and the city’s powerful business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wunderman said voters viewed these political outsiders as better equipped to take a data-driven approach to reducing homelessness, crime and blight — and more likely to ask tough questions of city department heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like ‘Why do we have so many employees in the city? 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In San Francisco, they recommended only that voters leave former interim mayor Mark Farrell off of their ranked-choice ballots for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our fervent hope that Daniel Lurie’s administration is going to make it a priority to support the workers that actually make this city run,” said Bianca Polovina, president of IFPTE Local 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polovina said the mayoral election results should not be read as a rebuke to organized labor — pointing to the success of a majority of IFPTE-endorsed candidates for supervisor and city council across the three cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='politics' label='More Politics Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working people across the San Francisco Bay Area are demanding bold leadership that prioritizes high-quality public services,” Polovina added. “Voters are pretty adamant that they want core essential services, they want clean streets, effective public transportation, and comprehensive public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did Mahan and Lurie win without major backing from labor, incumbent elected officials across the political spectrum also opposed them. All of Mahan’s fellow city council members endorsed his 2022 opponent, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, and not a single sitting San Francisco supervisor picked Lurie as their first choice for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing entrenched interests and the daunting task of introducing themselves to voters, Lurie’s personal wealth and Mahan’s Silicon Valley connections provided them with access to capital, argued Kimi Lee, executive director of Bay Rising, a coalition of progressive groups working to build political power among working-class voters of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see is that there’s definitely an influence of corporations and billionaires and outside money and venture capitalists,” said Lee, who also noted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">outsized role of a single hedge-fund manager\u003c/a> in funding the Thao recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the losing end of last week’s electoral upheaval were two incumbents, Thao and Breed, who had spent years working their way up the ranks of city government before breaking barriers as their city’s first Hmong-American and Black female mayors, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is still something there, where people overly criticize women, women of color,” said Lee. “They expect higher things from them — just more critical, saying they’re soft on crime…or saying that they’re not someone who can handle this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s lack of experience will be tested quickly, as he will face the immediate challenges of building an administration, establishing relationships within city hall and closing an ongoing budget deficit. After a rocky first year in office in which he was often on the losing end of high-profile votes, Mahan found his footing in 2024 — winning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">unanimous support for his homeless housing plan\u003c/a>, emerging as a leading supporter of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012656/proposition-36-californias-newest-tough-on-crime-measure-appears-headed-for-victory\">new criminal sentencing law approved by California voters\u003c/a>, Proposition 36, and garnering 87% of the vote in his run for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next test for insurgent campaigns will be in Oakland, where voters will likely pick a new mayor in a special election next spring. 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It was a message with echoes of Mahan’s 2022 campaign call for “common sense, accountability and transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither candidate emerged completely independent of their cities’ existing power structures. Lurie grew up amid San Francisco’s financial elite, and his work with Tipping Point brought him close contact with city leaders trying to reduce homelessness. Mahan was backed by the incumbent mayor, Sam Liccardo, and the city’s powerful business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wunderman said voters viewed these political outsiders as better equipped to take a data-driven approach to reducing homelessness, crime and blight — and more likely to ask tough questions of city department heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like ‘Why do we have so many employees in the city? 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In San Francisco, they recommended only that voters leave former interim mayor Mark Farrell off of their ranked-choice ballots for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our fervent hope that Daniel Lurie’s administration is going to make it a priority to support the workers that actually make this city run,” said Bianca Polovina, president of IFPTE Local 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polovina said the mayoral election results should not be read as a rebuke to organized labor — pointing to the success of a majority of IFPTE-endorsed candidates for supervisor and city council across the three cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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