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days the utility company \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/pg-e-is-giving-a-gas-executive-a-raise-ahead-of-its-bankruptcy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarded Jesus Soto\u003c/a>, a senior vice president in charge of PG&E gas operations, a $75,000 raise on top of his $500,000 annual salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raise comes weeks after state utility regulators announced they're starting an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712721/cpuc-investigators-found-pge-falsified-thousands-of-call-before-you-dig-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> investigation into whether PG&E falsified \"Call Before You Dig\" records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"PG&E says it doesn't have the ability to pay fire victims due to 'liquidity problems.' But in recent days, the utility awarded a senior vice president a $75,000 raise on top of his $500,000 annual salary.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1548721056,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":113},"headData":{"title":"'Liquidity Problems' for Fire Survivors, a Raise for PG&E Executive | KQED","description":"PG&E says it doesn't have the ability to pay fire victims due to 'liquidity problems.' But in recent days, the utility awarded a senior vice president a $75,000 raise on top of his $500,000 annual salary.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Liquidity Problems' for Fire Survivors, a Raise for PG&E Executive","datePublished":"2019-01-28T23:21:56.000Z","dateModified":"2019-01-29T00:17:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11721688 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11721688","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/01/28/liquidity-problems-for-fire-victims-a-raise-for-pge-executive/","disqusTitle":"'Liquidity Problems' for Fire Survivors, a Raise for PG&E Executive","path":"/news/11721688/liquidity-problems-for-fire-victims-a-raise-for-pge-executive","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>PG&E says it doesn't have the ability to pay fire victims due to \"liquidity problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors of the 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10940314/cal-fire-hits-pge-with-90-million-bill-for-huge-blaze-in-sierra-foothills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butte Fire\u003c/a> — which burned over 70,000 acres and destroyed around 500 homes — were informed that the negotiated settlements with the company would not be paid at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days the utility company \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/pg-e-is-giving-a-gas-executive-a-raise-ahead-of-its-bankruptcy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarded Jesus Soto\u003c/a>, a senior vice president in charge of PG&E gas operations, a $75,000 raise on top of his $500,000 annual salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raise comes weeks after state utility regulators announced they're starting an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712721/cpuc-investigators-found-pge-falsified-thousands-of-call-before-you-dig-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> investigation into whether PG&E falsified \"Call Before You Dig\" records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11721688/liquidity-problems-for-fire-victims-a-raise-for-pge-executive","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18590","news_20949","news_140","news_24802"],"featImg":"news_11721700","label":"news_18515"},"news_11713393":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11713393","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11713393","score":null,"sort":[1545177606000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"wildland-development-escalates-california-fire-costs","title":"Wildland Development Escalates California Fire Costs","publishDate":1545177606,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny's home is just the latest mega-fire in California -- and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands -- in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa -- helps explain California fires' exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas -- Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state's WUI is made up of chaparral -- dry shrubland -- that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour -- who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 -- agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've taken a lot of land in [California] ... that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages ... and now you put homes in there,\" Harbour said. \"Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a major concern,\" Ting said. \"We've had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever's possible to help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request -- but insufficient. November's Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington's top fires. And the daily reports aren't even complete-- reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California's costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state's unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California's most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon's priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington's fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California's Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,\" read the second of the Butte firefighters' Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington's most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon's most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California's 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are \"always going to be more costly,\" said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. \"It costs more money when you're bringing in more expensive resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million -- 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it \"took forever\" to get into Placerville from the forest. \"Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.\"\u003cbr>\nCalifornia's WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California's WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,\" Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a huge chess game,\" Huang said. \"We have fire engines ... trying to put out the fire ... a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don't catch on fire, and at the same time we're working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't like that,\" Harbour said of the smoke produced. \"You don't like it. The American public doesn't like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts \"a little bit more teeth\" into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands -- for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901's changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's what we call a moral hazard ... [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,\" Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a \"working group\" to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor's office. The appointee would be charged with \"developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,\" said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE's climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month's Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just like the mountains. We like the trees,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else's: \"Get the hell out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not sure yet where he will land -- Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know how ridiculous it sounds,\" he said. \"But that's the kind of country we like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1545175893,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":72,"wordCount":2542},"headData":{"title":"Wildland Development Escalates California Fire Costs | KQED","description":"Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky The sky above Ron Beeny turned black. The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8. Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter,","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Wildland Development Escalates California Fire Costs","datePublished":"2018-12-19T00:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2018-12-18T23:31:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11713393 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11713393","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/18/wildland-development-escalates-california-fire-costs/","disqusTitle":"Wildland Development Escalates California Fire Costs","source":"Bay City News","sourceUrl":"http://www.baycitynews.com/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Bay City News\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11713393/wildland-development-escalates-california-fire-costs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Illustrations by Joe Dworetzky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sky above Ron Beeny turned black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71-year-old was stuck in traffic as he evacuated from his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees and brush lined both sides of the two-lane road. In the darkness, Beeny had no idea where the fire was. A former firefighter, he knew that getting trapped between walls of fuel could be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[When] daytime turns to night, the fire is burning extremely intense,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour Beeny inched forward in his red Toyota pickup, heading west toward Chico. His home of 41 years was incinerated by the Camp Fire. The blaze that destroyed Beeny's home is just the latest mega-fire in California -- and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Fires-In-California-Are-Dangerous-border-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands -- in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa -- helps explain California fires' exceptional damage and expense to put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 federal audit showed that fire suppression costs vastly more in these transition zones between wild and developed areas -- Wildland Urban Interface areas, or WUIs, for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanford analysis of fire costs found that, among the states that spend the most on suppression, California fires overlapped far more with the WUI: More than 30 percent of the 2015 Butte Fire, for example, burned on WUI lands, destroying almost 1,000 buildings. Much of the state's WUI is made up of chaparral -- dry shrubland -- that burns fast and hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers differ on how state and local governments should intervene. But experts like Tom Harbour -- who served as National Director of Fire and Aviation Management before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service in 2016 -- agree that the growth of WUI has fueled a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've taken a lot of land in [California] ... that used to be ponderosa pine down near the bottoms of these drainages ... and now you put homes in there,\" Harbour said. \"Well, the pine trees are still there. The bitterbrush is still there. The sagebrush is still there. The desire that Mother Nature has to burn is still there. But now your home is there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-160x65.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-800x325.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1020x414.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_area-e1545168429488-1200x488.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An analysis of the 20 most expensive fires to fight in each state between 2014 and 2017 shows that western states lead the country in suppression costs. But even among western states, California stands out. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> High costs, high damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Beeny’s home was one of more than 13,000 destroyed in Paradise. One month after the Camp Fire began, the death toll stood at 86, with three people still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are worried about another tally, too: the ballooning cost of putting out such fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strong economy and a state budget surplus mean that recent firefighting costs will not cut into other priorities this year, said California Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. But Ting and other lawmakers are looking for ways to curb the destruction long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a major concern,\" Ting said. \"We've had these two horrific wildfires up and down the state, two really bad summers, so we need to do whatever's possible to help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of August, California had burned through most of the $440 million in emergency funds that had been allotted for the 2018 fiscal year. One week later, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) requested an additional $234 million for firefighting efforts through November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a prescient request -- but insufficient. November's Camp Fire alone would cost more than $150 million to suppress. Late last month, Cal Fire asked for about $250 million more in emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily reports tracking estimated suppression costs show that the 20 most expensive fires in California from 2014 to 2017 cost nearly $1.5 billion to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713417 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/cost_vs_destroyed-e1545168474729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s most expensive fires (circles, shown in red) destroyed and damaged far more buildings than Oregon’s (orange) or Washington’s (yellow). The maximum number of buildings threatened by each fire is indicated by the size of each circle. Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's more than double the cost of fire suppression for the 20 most expensive fires in Oregon, the state with the next highest price tag, and more than triple that of third-ranked Washington's top fires. And the daily reports aren't even complete-- reports are missing for the Thomas Fire, California's costliest fire in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most expensive fires to fight are not necessarily the largest. The state's unusually high suppression costs coincide with a second measure where California leaves other states far behind: damage to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2017, California's most expensive fires destroyed and damaged over 60 times more buildings than Oregon's priciest fires did, and over 10 times more buildings than Washington's fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the measure of buildings destroyed, 41 of the 100 most destructive fires in the nation from 2014 to 2017 occurred in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1109px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"1715\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state.jpg 1109w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-160x247.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-800x1237.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-776x1200.jpg 776w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-960x1485.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-240x371.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-375x580.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/destructive_by_state-520x804.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the 100 fires across the U.S. that destroyed the most buildings between 2014 and 2017, 41 occurred in California.\u003cbr>Source: Incident Status Summary and Situation Report data, National Wildfire Coordinating Group \u003ccite>( Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the edge of wildland and towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Butte Fire spread rapidly toward old Gold Rush towns in the Sierra foothills of California's Amador and Calaveras counties, fueled by chaparral shrubbery dried out in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second day of the fire, more than 6,000 buildings were at risk; by the fourth, 81 houses had been charred. More than 4,000 people joined the firefighting effort as agencies worked to contain the fire, protect homes and evacuate hundreds of people all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suppression efforts had minimal impacts on perimeter control due to a high focus on structure defense,\" read the second of the Butte firefighters' Incident Status Summary reports, which detail fire conditions and resources in use at a given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of the Butte Fire burned in the WUI. By contrast, none of Washington's most expensive fires had more than 7 percent of their area overlap with WUI zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Oregon's most expensive fires overlapped more than 2 percent with the WUI in terms of area. An analysis of geospatial data shows that 18 of California's 20 most expensive recent wildfires overlapped with WUI areas, while in Oregon and Washington, fewer than half did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713415 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_overlap-e1545168462774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California fires overlapped far more with WUI areas than fires in Washington or Oregon, the states with the next-highest suppression costs. Source: USGS GeoMAC data, SILVIS Lab WUI data \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fires that threaten buildings are \"always going to be more costly,\" said Rocky Opliger, a deputy chief for the La Verne Fire Department in Southern California who led Forest Service suppression efforts on major fires as an incident commander. \"It costs more money when you're bringing in more expensive resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, California had more than 3 million homes in the WUI, according to Forest Service data. By 2010, that number had ballooned by more than a third to over 4 million -- 50 percent more than Texas, the state with the next largest number of WUI homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had one of the highest building densities in WUI areas in the country in 2010, the latest year for which the Forest Service has data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people continue to move into the WUI. In El Dorado County, for example, the foothill town of Placerville has sprawled toward a national forest, said Scott Vail, former deputy chief for fire administration with the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Vail said, it \"took forever\" to get into Placerville from the forest. \"Now, once you get out of the national forest, the city starts.\"\u003cbr>\nCalifornia's WUI is especially fire-prone, and that stacks the odds against developed WUI areas, said Michael Mann, a George Washington University geographer who has studied the overlap of California's WUI with high fire-hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral, for instance, evolved with frequent wildfires and feeds fires so intense that they burn all the vegetation in their path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/wui_growth-e1545168440909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"901\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of homes in the WUI is growing. Here we show the growth in number of homes in the WUI since 1990 for the five states with the largest number of homes in the WUI in 2010. Source: Forest Service statistics on WUI growth in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Irena Fischer-Hwang/Stanford Big Local News/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These areas become even more likely to ignite when people arrive, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we move into these landscapes, we burn them,\" Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cost of fighting fires in the WUI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires in the WUI costs $1,695 per acre, according to a 2015 Forest Service audit that examined several WUI fires from 2008 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's more than twice the cost of putting out fires in a forest, and nearly 30 times the cost of fighting fire in undeveloped grassland or shrubbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people and their homes are threatened, agencies tend to marshal whatever resources are needed, said Opliger, the former Forest Service incident commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have yet to have an agency administrator really restrict me on what I need to do as far as getting the job done, especially when it involves direct protection of civilians, private and public property,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting fires becomes far more complex when firefighters are protecting populated areas, said George Huang, a San Luis Obispo battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-11713418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Protecting-Structures-in-the-WUI-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a huge chess game,\" Huang said. \"We have fire engines ... trying to put out the fire ... a couple engines at homes to make sure that homes don't catch on fire, and at the same time we're working with the law enforcement to evacuate people out of their homes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development in rural areas also makes fire prevention tactics such as prescribed burns harder to carry out, said Tom Harbour, the former Forest Service official. The controlled burns produce smoke that can upset residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't like that,\" Harbour said of the smoke produced. \"You don't like it. The American public doesn't like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limiting the damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation passed in September takes some steps toward limiting damage from fires within the WUI. While California Senate Bill 901 focused primarily on forest management and the liabilities of utilities, the measure also puts \"a little bit more teeth\" into community planning guidelines for fire-prone areas, said Cal Fire researcher Dave Sapsis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2021, local governments in areas with very high chances of fire will have to take more precautions previously required only for state lands -- for example, ensuring that roads are wide enough for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some experts doubt SB 901's changes will be enough to prevent the kind of widespread destruction the state has experienced in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller believes one solution is for communities to establish programs, funded through municipal bonds, to buy up wild borderlands from willing private owners and limit development within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local governments have had little financial incentive to prevent development: turning away new residents reduces their tax revenue, while state and federal agencies tend to bear the costs of wildfire suppression, said Kimiko Barrett, a researcher at Montana-based think tank Headwaters Economics who has studied WUI and fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's what we call a moral hazard ... [Cities are] able to approve certain decision-making processes without having to pay the consequences of those decisions,\" Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have been reluctant to intervene in planning issues they consider the province of local governments, but some policymakers are exploring further statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11713420 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER.png 962w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-800x798.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-960x958.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-375x374.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-520x519.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Cal-is-Burning-BORDER-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, who co-chaired the development of SB 901, may introduce new legislation early in 2019, according to his spokesman Garo Manjikian.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, legislation passed in 2018 authorized the California Department of Insurance to create a \"working group\" to investigate potential market-based solutions to curb development in fire-prone rural areas. Yet no timetable has been established for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glacial pace of legislative action leaves experts frustrated. On Nov. 29, University of California at Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and the nonprofit Resources Legacy Fund released their joint recommendations for incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included was a proposal to create a wildfire-focused leadership position within the governor's office. The appointee would be charged with \"developing and implementing state incentives for local governments to limit new development in high-risk areas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the state needs to play a stepped up role coordinating all the different agencies involved, trying to marshal the funding to do it, and then also trying to change local government land use decision-making,\" said Ethan Elkind, director of CLEE's climate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even those knowledgeable about fires find it difficult to resist the call of the wildlands. Ron Beeny, the firefighter who escaped last month's Camp Fire, said he liked Paradise precisely because of its natural beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just like the mountains. We like the trees,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of his career Beeny was an engineer, driving a fire engine to fires of all kinds. He was frequently a first responder, fighting hundreds of fires over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning the Camp Fire blazed into Paradise, his emergency plan was the same as everyone else's: \"Get the hell out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Beeny thought he would rebuild his home in Paradise, but his son is encouraging him to settle elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not sure yet where he will land -- Oregon is at the top of his list. But wherever he ends up, he will probably live in the WUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know how ridiculous it sounds,\" he said. \"But that's the kind of country we like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story by Joe Dworetzky, Irena Fischer-Hwang, Jay Harris, Hannah Knowles and Emily Surgent\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes from a Stanford University class affiliated with the Big Local News project. Journalists collected, processed and analyzed data on the cost of wildfires across California and the U.S. to produce this report. The underlying data and analysis will be released along with how-to guides for other journalists and researchers evaluating the impact of fires. Big Local News is a Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative (JDI). Its goal is to collect, process and share governmental data that are hard to obtain and difficult to analyze; partner with local and national newsrooms on investigative projects across a range of topics; and make it easy to teach best practices for finding stories within the data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11713393/wildland-development-escalates-california-fire-costs","authors":["byline_news_11713393"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_23414","news_22754","news_18590","news_6383","news_20158","news_21959","news_20341","news_24483","news_24512","news_22753","news_24681"],"featImg":"news_11710560","label":"source_news_11713393"},"news_11159448":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11159448","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11159448","score":null,"sort":[1478440800000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"calaveras-county-copes-with-change-after-influx-of-new-marijuana-growers","title":"Calaveras County Copes With Change After Influx of New Marijuana Growers","publishDate":1478440800,"format":"image","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">We're winding along the hills and curves of Calaveras high country past the town of Rail Road Flat to a lookout on Jesus Maria Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Apple farmer Steve Wilensky's at the wheel. He’s headed toward the burn scar of the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/butte-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>. Just over a year ago, the blaze burned 70,000 acres in Calaveras County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky says understanding the scope of the Butte Fire is the best way to grasp how so many marijuana growers rushed into the county in such a short time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky served as county supervisor here from 2004 - 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He settled in the Sierra foothills of Calaveras in the 1980s after moving out from Michigan. He planted an apple orchard where he now cultivates 186 apple varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“What drew me here was that there were seasons,” explains Wilensky. “A sense of place, a sense of community and a great level of civic engagement. There was tolerance. A (willingness) to live and let live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As we crest a hill and come into the hot burn of the Butte Fire, our conversation stops short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">All you can see are barren hills studded with black shards sticking out of the ground. It’s a 360 degree view of what used to be pine, manzanita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“See that little road down there?” Wilensky asks, pointing into the canyon. “That's Hawver Road and there were at least forty to fifty houses along that road that all burned,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky witnessed firefighters battling the blaze in this area. He says he showed them how to access the canyons. He said they led a heroic effort and kept the fire from engulfing three nearby towns, including Mountain Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras resident Bill Schmiett's wasn’t one of the lucky ones. His Mountain Ranch home was destroyed. Earlier in his life, Schmiett worked as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“I’ve seen fire up close before. But it’s a whole different ball game when everything you had is a big pile, a smoking pile of ash and twisted metal roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett is a realtor. In December, right on the heels of the Butte fire, his phone starting ringing like crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County,” explains Schmiett. “I’m not sure how the county got the national exposure it did. There was quite a bit of activity in bare land for growers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett recalls that most callers were candid about their intentions to grow cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnt-out homes still had wells, septic systems and ways to connect to power. Schmiett says that's what growers were looking for. Schmiett says parcels worth $75,000 were going for $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Out of town growers were grabbing land before the county or state could regulate marijuana cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While the Butte fire raged through the Sierra, the California Legislature approved a bill that would pave the way for medical marijuana regulations. Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on October 9, 2015. That law initially set a March 2016 deadline for counties to set their own rules on medical marijuana - otherwise state regulations would apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Counties scrambled and several decided to ban marijuana grows all together rather than rush through regulations. Meanwhile, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors moved to regulate marijuana. But several factors delayed passage of the county’s “urgency ordinance” until May 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As a result there was a nearly six month gap between the Butte Fire and the County’s permitting process going into effect. That gap led to what some have nicknamed “the green rush” of Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Peter Maurer is Director of the Calaveras County Planning Department. He says the county anticipated 200-300 applications to grow marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Instead, says Maurer, “we received 740 commercial applications and an additional 250 personal (or caregiver) operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer says the intent of the County ordinance was to create a legal registration process. One that would bring in funding to support code enforcement and the Sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Let’s regulate it. Let’s fund the resources we need to keep it under control,” explains Maurer. “Eliminate the bad players, support the good players.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">To date, the county’s taken in roughly $3.7 million in registration fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer explains, “The first prong of enforcement is to go after those who didn’t register at all. “Those that are just not going to bother to register. The Sheriff’s Department and D.A. can go after those and remove them from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Caz Tomaszewski is a local grower and the Executive Director of Calaveras Cannabis Alliance which represents the industry in the county. He says the CCA advocates for “the identification and removal of illicit marijuana grows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says his organization has spent considerable time and money educating local leaders and residents about the profile of local marijuana growers represented by CCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He sees a stark contrast between long-time growers who want to grow marijuana under the county’s legal framework and those who rushed in after the Butte fire. Tomaszewski likens the latter to prospectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“You know, people hear from a couple of buddies at the grow shop that a particular county is a good place to grow. And they go and buy two pieces of land and move out the next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski argues that’s a change from how earlier marijuana growers established themselves in Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Before the Butte fire, he says would-be growers from outside Calaveras were vetted by locals. He says the profile of growers in Calaveras is different from other northern California counties where marijuana is cultivated. We tend to have “younger, more progressive growers” who take a more “deliberate approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">By contrast, Tomaszewski categorizes the flood of growers who came after the Butte Fire as largely ignorant about local regulations as well as local culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“And if you move into a rural place you've never been before and you don't know the neighbors and you don't know the local customs, there's a high potential to offend people,” Tomaszewski explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a "green rush" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a \"green rush\" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The main complaints the CCA fields from Calaveras residents fall into three main categories: neighbors don't like the smell of the cannabis crop; they complain about fast driving on rural roads and they take issue with dogs on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says tensions around marijuana have never been as high as they are now. He believes the climate has led to rhetoric that tars all growers with the same brush: whether they're people going through the county's legal permitting process or illicit growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio links a recent rise in crime to transient marijuana workers who come to Calaveras during harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“We have one guy we caught, I believe he was from Kansas,” recalls DiBasilio. “He had burglarized either three or four houses. So what brought him out here was marijuana, he was a trimmer. And now he’s robbing our homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Just last week the Sheriff led a big raid on an illicit grow near West Point. “We did some flyovers and actually found 4 properties with grows on them,” says DiBasilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The raid led to more than 20 arrests. The Sheriff said they found 750 marijuana plants at these sites plus 500-600 pounds of processed marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Between pot raids and local patrols, the Sheriff says he doesn't have the bodies he needs to get the job done. He’s looking to hire several additional deputies. But DiBasilio says the county has one of the lowest salary rates in the state which makes it challenging to attract qualified applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County resources are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">This rural county already faced considerable challenges before the Butte Fire. A high unemployment rate, problems with meth addiction and trees dying from beetle infestation. Add the potential ecological impact of illicit pot grows on the Sierra landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Former county supervisor Wilensky is uncertain about how his community will find their way. But he’s not without hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It’s kind of like Lemony Snicket,” says Wilensky. “A Series of Unfortunate Events have befallen us and it's going to take everything we've got and everybody we have to be able to come out on the other side of this with a decent community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras voters will have their say about how the county should move forward next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">They'll decide on two pot-related ballot measures: one to tax and the other to regulate local marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marijuana Measures On Local Ballots In California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://marnfed.carto.com/viz/38da874c-96fe-11e6-a6d1-0e3ebc282e83/embed_map\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"People have grown marijuana quietly in Calaveras County for decades. But after the Butte Fire, long-time residents say a 'green rush' fueled by outsiders is hurting their county.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478547023,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":1649},"headData":{"title":"Calaveras County Copes With Change After Influx of New Marijuana Growers | KQED","description":"People have grown marijuana quietly in Calaveras County for decades. 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He’s headed toward the burn scar of the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/butte-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>. Just over a year ago, the blaze burned 70,000 acres in Calaveras County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky says understanding the scope of the Butte Fire is the best way to grasp how so many marijuana growers rushed into the county in such a short time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky served as county supervisor here from 2004 - 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He settled in the Sierra foothills of Calaveras in the 1980s after moving out from Michigan. He planted an apple orchard where he now cultivates 186 apple varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“What drew me here was that there were seasons,” explains Wilensky. “A sense of place, a sense of community and a great level of civic engagement. There was tolerance. A (willingness) to live and let live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/SteveWilensky_9929_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple farmer and former Calaveras County Supervisor Steve Wilensky stands on a hillside burned in the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As we crest a hill and come into the hot burn of the Butte Fire, our conversation stops short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">All you can see are barren hills studded with black shards sticking out of the ground. It’s a 360 degree view of what used to be pine, manzanita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“See that little road down there?” Wilensky asks, pointing into the canyon. “That's Hawver Road and there were at least forty to fifty houses along that road that all burned,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Wilensky witnessed firefighters battling the blaze in this area. He says he showed them how to access the canyons. He said they led a heroic effort and kept the fire from engulfing three nearby towns, including Mountain Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras resident Bill Schmiett's wasn’t one of the lucky ones. His Mountain Ranch home was destroyed. Earlier in his life, Schmiett worked as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“I’ve seen fire up close before. But it’s a whole different ball game when everything you had is a big pile, a smoking pile of ash and twisted metal roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett is a realtor. In December, right on the heels of the Butte fire, his phone starting ringing like crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County,” explains Schmiett. “I’m not sure how the county got the national exposure it did. There was quite a bit of activity in bare land for growers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Schmiett recalls that most callers were candid about their intentions to grow cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnt-out homes still had wells, septic systems and ways to connect to power. Schmiett says that's what growers were looking for. Schmiett says parcels worth $75,000 were going for $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Out of town growers were grabbing land before the county or state could regulate marijuana cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bill20Schmiett_9941_110216P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Real Estate Agent Bill Schmiett's home was completely destroyed by the 2015 Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While the Butte fire raged through the Sierra, the California Legislature approved a bill that would pave the way for medical marijuana regulations. Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on October 9, 2015. That law initially set a March 2016 deadline for counties to set their own rules on medical marijuana - otherwise state regulations would apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Counties scrambled and several decided to ban marijuana grows all together rather than rush through regulations. Meanwhile, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors moved to regulate marijuana. But several factors delayed passage of the county’s “urgency ordinance” until May 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">As a result there was a nearly six month gap between the Butte Fire and the County’s permitting process going into effect. That gap led to what some have nicknamed “the green rush” of Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Everybody in the world wanted to buy a piece of land in Calaveras County.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Peter Maurer is Director of the Calaveras County Planning Department. He says the county anticipated 200-300 applications to grow marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Instead, says Maurer, “we received 740 commercial applications and an additional 250 personal (or caregiver) operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer says the intent of the County ordinance was to create a legal registration process. One that would bring in funding to support code enforcement and the Sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Let’s regulate it. Let’s fund the resources we need to keep it under control,” explains Maurer. “Eliminate the bad players, support the good players.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">To date, the county’s taken in roughly $3.7 million in registration fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Maurer explains, “The first prong of enforcement is to go after those who didn’t register at all. “Those that are just not going to bother to register. The Sheriff’s Department and D.A. can go after those and remove them from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/CannabisQuestionsInCalaveras_9919_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Calaveras Planning Department approved about 700 permits for growing cannabis, far more than anticipated. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Caz Tomaszewski is a local grower and the Executive Director of Calaveras Cannabis Alliance which represents the industry in the county. He says the CCA advocates for “the identification and removal of illicit marijuana grows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says his organization has spent considerable time and money educating local leaders and residents about the profile of local marijuana growers represented by CCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He sees a stark contrast between long-time growers who want to grow marijuana under the county’s legal framework and those who rushed in after the Butte fire. Tomaszewski likens the latter to prospectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“You know, people hear from a couple of buddies at the grow shop that a particular county is a good place to grow. And they go and buy two pieces of land and move out the next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski argues that’s a change from how earlier marijuana growers established themselves in Calaveras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Before the Butte fire, he says would-be growers from outside Calaveras were vetted by locals. He says the profile of growers in Calaveras is different from other northern California counties where marijuana is cultivated. We tend to have “younger, more progressive growers” who take a more “deliberate approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">By contrast, Tomaszewski categorizes the flood of growers who came after the Butte Fire as largely ignorant about local regulations as well as local culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“And if you move into a rural place you've never been before and you don't know the neighbors and you don't know the local customs, there's a high potential to offend people,” Tomaszewski explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a "green rush" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/ButteFireBurnAreaCalaverasCounty_9896_110316P-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Butte Fire burned through much of Calaveras County in 2015, and was followed by a \"green rush\" of cannabis growers buying property in the county's favorable climate for cultivation of the crop. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The main complaints the CCA fields from Calaveras residents fall into three main categories: neighbors don't like the smell of the cannabis crop; they complain about fast driving on rural roads and they take issue with dogs on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Tomaszewski says tensions around marijuana have never been as high as they are now. He believes the climate has led to rhetoric that tars all growers with the same brush: whether they're people going through the county's legal permitting process or illicit growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio links a recent rise in crime to transient marijuana workers who come to Calaveras during harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“We have one guy we caught, I believe he was from Kansas,” recalls DiBasilio. “He had burglarized either three or four houses. So what brought him out here was marijuana, he was a trimmer. And now he’s robbing our homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Just last week the Sheriff led a big raid on an illicit grow near West Point. “We did some flyovers and actually found 4 properties with grows on them,” says DiBasilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The raid led to more than 20 arrests. The Sheriff said they found 750 marijuana plants at these sites plus 500-600 pounds of processed marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Between pot raids and local patrols, the Sheriff says he doesn't have the bodies he needs to get the job done. He’s looking to hire several additional deputies. But DiBasilio says the county has one of the lowest salary rates in the state which makes it challenging to attract qualified applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras County resources are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">This rural county already faced considerable challenges before the Butte Fire. A high unemployment rate, problems with meth addiction and trees dying from beetle infestation. Add the potential ecological impact of illicit pot grows on the Sierra landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Former county supervisor Wilensky is uncertain about how his community will find their way. But he’s not without hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It’s kind of like Lemony Snicket,” says Wilensky. “A Series of Unfortunate Events have befallen us and it's going to take everything we've got and everybody we have to be able to come out on the other side of this with a decent community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Calaveras voters will have their say about how the county should move forward next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">They'll decide on two pot-related ballot measures: one to tax and the other to regulate local marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marijuana Measures On Local Ballots In California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://marnfed.carto.com/viz/38da874c-96fe-11e6-a6d1-0e3ebc282e83/embed_map\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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The county says residents and public agencies suffered more than $1 billion in damage and that it wants the California Public Utilities Commission to investigate the utility and fine it for starting the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an initial statement, the utility said it was reviewing Cal Fire's findings. \"We are committed to doing the right thing for our customers and will respond in the normal legal process,\" the statement said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hours later, PG&E released a second statement saying that after a preliminary review, \"we accept the report’s finding that a tree made contact with a power line, but we do not believe it is clear what caused the tree to fail or that vegetation management practices fell short.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire started early the afternoon of last Sept. 9 and burned about 71,000 acres -- 110 square miles -- before it was contained on Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10940340\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 573px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10940340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2.png\" alt=\"A slumped-over tree (at center, bent forward) that Cal Fire investigators say touched off last September's 71,000-acre Butte Fire.\" width=\"573\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2.png 573w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A slumped-over tree (at center, bent forward) that Cal Fire investigators say touched off last September's 71,000-acre Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's report zeroes in on one cluster, or stand, of pines in the hills 4 miles east of Jackson, where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire investigator who searched for the origins of the blaze a little more than an hour after it was first reported said he quickly spotted a slender pine that was slumped over immediately below power lines that run through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator, Gianni Muschetto, found that a 1-foot section of the tree about 2 feet from its top was charred, suggesting that it had come into contact with the overhead lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent inquiries determined that two Los Angeles-based contractors, ACRT Inc. and Trees Inc., had taken out two pines adjacent to the slumped-over tree in an apparent attempt to remove a fire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire arborist said in a separate report made public Thursday that the removals increased the risk that the remaining trees would fall. The arborist's report explained that trees that grow on the interior of a stand are weaker and are prone to failure if stable, exterior trees are removed. (See Cal Fire's \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/fire_protection_firereports\" target=\"_blank\">investigative file\u003c/a> on the Butte Fire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arborist also found that a range of other factors, including new growth on the spindly gray pine and prevailing winds, also played a part in the tree's toppling into the nearby power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fire was still burning last September, PG&E said the area where the fire started had been the subject of half a dozen separate inspections in 2014 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Muschetto, the Cal Fire investigator, said a review of records from PG&E and its contractors found no evidence they had reinspected the stand of pines or identified the stand's weak interior trees as a potential hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Failing to identify the potential hazard of leaving weaker, inherently unstable trees on the edge of the stand, without conducting maintenance on them, ultimately led to the failure of the gray pine which contact the power line ... and ignited the uncontrolled wildland fire,\" Muschetto wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its second statement on the fire, PG&E defended its efforts to manage vegetation near its facilities and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our vegetation management program is among the very best in the industry and was expanded in 2014 in response to California’s historic drought to include special air and foot patrols, funding for lookout towers and cameras for early fire detection and funding for fire fuel reduction and emergency access projects and public education,\" the statement said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"buttefirereport\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/310812354/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-zj92Pna7GJBjnbTchq2h&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7700854700854701\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_92641\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Firefighting agency says incomplete maintenance of trees near power line sparked deadly Butte Fire. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1461890655,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":751},"headData":{"title":"Cal Fire Hits PG&E With $90 Million Bill for Huge Blaze in Sierra Foothills | KQED","description":"Firefighting agency says incomplete maintenance of trees near power line sparked deadly Butte Fire. 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The county says residents and public agencies suffered more than $1 billion in damage and that it wants the California Public Utilities Commission to investigate the utility and fine it for starting the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an initial statement, the utility said it was reviewing Cal Fire's findings. \"We are committed to doing the right thing for our customers and will respond in the normal legal process,\" the statement said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hours later, PG&E released a second statement saying that after a preliminary review, \"we accept the report’s finding that a tree made contact with a power line, but we do not believe it is clear what caused the tree to fail or that vegetation management practices fell short.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire started early the afternoon of last Sept. 9 and burned about 71,000 acres -- 110 square miles -- before it was contained on Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10940340\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 573px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10940340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2.png\" alt=\"A slumped-over tree (at center, bent forward) that Cal Fire investigators say touched off last September's 71,000-acre Butte Fire.\" width=\"573\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2.png 573w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/buttefire2-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A slumped-over tree (at center, bent forward) that Cal Fire investigators say touched off last September's 71,000-acre Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's report zeroes in on one cluster, or stand, of pines in the hills 4 miles east of Jackson, where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire investigator who searched for the origins of the blaze a little more than an hour after it was first reported said he quickly spotted a slender pine that was slumped over immediately below power lines that run through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator, Gianni Muschetto, found that a 1-foot section of the tree about 2 feet from its top was charred, suggesting that it had come into contact with the overhead lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent inquiries determined that two Los Angeles-based contractors, ACRT Inc. and Trees Inc., had taken out two pines adjacent to the slumped-over tree in an apparent attempt to remove a fire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire arborist said in a separate report made public Thursday that the removals increased the risk that the remaining trees would fall. The arborist's report explained that trees that grow on the interior of a stand are weaker and are prone to failure if stable, exterior trees are removed. (See Cal Fire's \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/fire_protection_firereports\" target=\"_blank\">investigative file\u003c/a> on the Butte Fire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arborist also found that a range of other factors, including new growth on the spindly gray pine and prevailing winds, also played a part in the tree's toppling into the nearby power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fire was still burning last September, PG&E said the area where the fire started had been the subject of half a dozen separate inspections in 2014 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Muschetto, the Cal Fire investigator, said a review of records from PG&E and its contractors found no evidence they had reinspected the stand of pines or identified the stand's weak interior trees as a potential hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Failing to identify the potential hazard of leaving weaker, inherently unstable trees on the edge of the stand, without conducting maintenance on them, ultimately led to the failure of the gray pine which contact the power line ... and ignited the uncontrolled wildland fire,\" Muschetto wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its second statement on the fire, PG&E defended its efforts to manage vegetation near its facilities and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our vegetation management program is among the very best in the industry and was expanded in 2014 in response to California’s historic drought to include special air and foot patrols, funding for lookout towers and cameras for early fire detection and funding for fire fuel reduction and emergency access projects and public education,\" the statement said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"buttefirereport\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/310812354/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-zj92Pna7GJBjnbTchq2h&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7700854700854701\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_92641\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10940314/cal-fire-hits-pge-with-90-million-bill-for-huge-blaze-in-sierra-foothills","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18590","news_140","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_10940320","label":"news_72"},"news_10933757":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10933757","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10933757","score":null,"sort":[1461395152000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"healing-soil-and-community-after-the-butte-fire","title":"After Destructive Butte Fire, a Community Heals the Soil and Itself","publishDate":1461395152,"format":"image","headTitle":"California Foodways | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Many Californians may barely remember the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/butte-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>, which hit the Gold Country foothills last September. But people in Calaveras County do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched this all happen from my deck,” says farmer and beekeeper Sean Kriletich, who put out spot fires on his land and prepared for evacuation. “I didn’t sleep for 10 days. It was an extremely stressful situation, and I didn’t even lose anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stands on that deck now, looking out over forests and vineyards and grazing land, remembering 200-foot-tall flames and plumes of smoke filling this vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hang out with Kriletich for a couple days and you’re likely to leave both exhausted and inspired. His concern for the people and land around him is relentless. Case in point, his reaction the first time he drove through the burn zone after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was seriously throwing up, that’s how intense it was,” he says. “To go from being so beautiful, so verdant, a place I’ve known my whole life, to see that destroyed and know it’s not coming back in my lifetime, it’s disgusting. And it hurts. It hurts a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260435359\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriletich and his mom and dad and a bunch of neighbors work with \u003ca href=\"http://calaverasgrown.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CalaverasGROWN\u003c/a>, a group that promotes the county’s agriculture from its cattle ranchers, vintners, honey and olive makers, and others. They convened a meeting before the fire was even out. They knew they had to do something, but couldn’t build new houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re agriculturalists,” Kriletich says. “We know about caring for the plants, we know about caring for soils, we know about caring for animals. OK. So what should our role in this be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937213\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay-800x828.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers with CalaverasGROWN spread straw on scorched hills for erosion control.\" width=\"800\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay-400x414.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers with CalaverasGROWN spread straw on scorched hills for erosion control. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found their answer in bales of straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends spreading straw mulch on burned land because it contains seeds, retains moisture and lowers soil temperature. It should green up these hills and help keep topsoil in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on a recent day, 15 volunteers drove a caravan of pickup trucks filled with 200 bales of straw to a devastated property. They unloaded, then dragged bales down hillsides to spread the straw by hand in between charred manzanita trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Kriletich’s dad, Michael, described the land. “It’s completely black, just scoured by the fire. This property, it’s fried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually there’s a natural seed bank, which lives in the soil and then germinates. But the dry conditions created by four years of drought, the worst in recent history, meant the Butte Fire burned so fast and so hot it sterilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scorched earth is obviously bad news for Calaveras cattle ranchers, who lost grazing land. For beekeepers like Sean Kriletich, “This is a complete nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lost dozens of hives, and estimates that tens of thousands were displaced. Then there’s the pollen bees won’t get from burned oak trees and wildflowers that will never grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937205\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Kriletich, farmer and beekeeper, estimates tens of thousands of hives were displaced by the Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-400x279.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-960x670.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Kriletich, farmer and beekeeper, estimates tens of thousands of hives were displaced by the Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The grocery store for the bees is closed,” he says. “The grocery store got burned down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more serious? Fire coupled with Calaveras’ red clay soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you get intense fire over top of it, we get a glazed layer in the soil,” Kriletich says. “This literally was a kiln. Just like your coffee mug in the morning doesn’t let all that coffee out of the mug, that glaze isn’t letting water from the surface down into the aquifer, into the water table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when winter rains came, water didn’t permeate the soil. It rushed off that glazed surface, taking black ash and red clay with it. The Calaveras and Mokelumne rivers that provide drinking water and an important source of irrigation looked like chocolate milk, roiling with dirty black and red water. It got so bad the local water treatment plant was shut down overnight, giving its overworked filters a break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriletich says preventing erosion and recharging the aquifer is essential, “Not only for our local wells but for the entire foodshed of California. This is the water for San Joaquin County,” a key agricultural producer in the state, “and this is also the water that eventually flows out the Golden Gate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937253\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"Erosion made the North Fork of the Calaveras River look like chocolate milk, after winter storms sent black ash and red clay into the waterway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-400x255.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-960x612.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erosion made the North Fork of the Calaveras River look like chocolate milk, after winter storms sent black ash and red clay into the waterway. \u003ccite>(Gordon Long/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, CalaverasGROWN has received donations from the City of Stockton and its water district, plus Bay Area individuals. Those people and organizations know: water impacted in Calaveras comes downstream. Most donations go right to buying straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is a group of volunteers doing this erosion control work? Almost three-quarters of the more than 70,000 acres of land that burned here is privately owned, and that limits what government agencies can do, according to Sharon Torrance from Butte Fire Recovery. “There are state and federal funds to put the fire out, but once the emergency is over,” she says, the funds are really limited for range and forest management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YGYsuJSpOPpwIVciAAelfKAfUUE4x0oa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA also has some funding available for eligible agricultural producers for long-term restoration work on private land. Trees that threaten county or state roads are removed by the County Public Works Department, and they are applying for grants to fund tree removal, water treatment and communications because, Torrence says, “The work of recovery is as big, if not bigger, than the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Kriletich says CalaverasGROWN goes where invited, no paperwork required. “That’s why we could get started right away. While the fire was still smoldering we were out here doing this. We said, 'We’re gonna take the worst first.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the reason more than 60 people have volunteered with CalaverasGROWN to spread straw -- and also fell hazard trees and reinstate wells -- is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our community” he says, choking up. “People’s lives have been ruined, we’re just helping. We’re worried about soil erosion, more trauma and it could burn again. There’s 71,000 acres that need to be cleaned up. That’ll never happen, but it’s what we need to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Goat rancher Sandi Young stands in front of her pastures -- she believes they were saved by her herd of goats mowing them -- and blackened hills, among the 300 acres she lost in the Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-400x293.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-960x702.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goat rancher Sandi Young stands in front of her pastures -- she believes they were saved by her herd of goats mowing them -- and blackened hills, among the 300 acres she lost in the Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goat rancher Sandi Young knows that all too well. “It’s called the burn scar area for a reason. It is a scar. It’s a wound that will take a very long time to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband lost 300 acres in the Mountain Ranch area, but her house and surrounding pasture land were spared. She attributes that to her herd of 50 goats, which had eaten the grasses down, giving the fire no fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows she’s more fortunate than many. Still, Young says, “You lose your way of life, you lose your business.” She has only a handful of her herd here now. “My goats are thousands of miles away right now until we can repair and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the first rains, her neighbor’s hillside above washed out the road to her house, tumbling into the creek below. That’s when Young called on Sean Kriletich and CalaverasGROWN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WG6uMD7FvmkpCZdnJTzTax0XgBXt90dL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came with four guys with chainsaws and we built dams with the dead trees,” to slow debris rushing down the hill. They helped her reseed blackened hillsides which are now turning green, and set priorities for next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the work party, Sean Kriletich says people are still in shock. “We feel that it’s really important for people to have the tools they need in order to move forward,” to improve their land and emotional health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often times that’s just as simple as taking the black landscape and turning it yellow with straw, to add some color to a very dark situation,” Kriletich says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, it’s the familiar golden color of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-foodways\" target=\"_blank\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported, in part, by a grant from \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">California Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since last fall's Butte Fire, dozens of Calaveras food producers have volunteered, helping prevent erosion.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1461619786,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1520},"headData":{"title":"After Destructive Butte Fire, a Community Heals the Soil and Itself | KQED","description":"Since last fall's Butte Fire, dozens of Calaveras food producers have volunteered, helping prevent erosion.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"After Destructive Butte Fire, a Community Heals the Soil and Itself","datePublished":"2016-04-23T07:05:52.000Z","dateModified":"2016-04-25T21:29:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10933757 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10933757","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/23/healing-soil-and-community-after-the-butte-fire/","disqusTitle":"After Destructive Butte Fire, a Community Heals the Soil and Itself","customPermalink":"2016/04/23/after-destructive-butte-fire-community-heals-soil-and-itself/","path":"/news/10933757/healing-soil-and-community-after-the-butte-fire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many Californians may barely remember the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/butte-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>, which hit the Gold Country foothills last September. But people in Calaveras County do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched this all happen from my deck,” says farmer and beekeeper Sean Kriletich, who put out spot fires on his land and prepared for evacuation. “I didn’t sleep for 10 days. It was an extremely stressful situation, and I didn’t even lose anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stands on that deck now, looking out over forests and vineyards and grazing land, remembering 200-foot-tall flames and plumes of smoke filling this vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hang out with Kriletich for a couple days and you’re likely to leave both exhausted and inspired. His concern for the people and land around him is relentless. Case in point, his reaction the first time he drove through the burn zone after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was seriously throwing up, that’s how intense it was,” he says. “To go from being so beautiful, so verdant, a place I’ve known my whole life, to see that destroyed and know it’s not coming back in my lifetime, it’s disgusting. And it hurts. It hurts a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260435359&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260435359'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriletich and his mom and dad and a bunch of neighbors work with \u003ca href=\"http://calaverasgrown.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CalaverasGROWN\u003c/a>, a group that promotes the county’s agriculture from its cattle ranchers, vintners, honey and olive makers, and others. They convened a meeting before the fire was even out. They knew they had to do something, but couldn’t build new houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re agriculturalists,” Kriletich says. “We know about caring for the plants, we know about caring for soils, we know about caring for animals. OK. So what should our role in this be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937213\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay-800x828.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers with CalaverasGROWN spread straw on scorched hills for erosion control.\" width=\"800\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay-400x414.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SpreadingHay-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers with CalaverasGROWN spread straw on scorched hills for erosion control. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found their answer in bales of straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends spreading straw mulch on burned land because it contains seeds, retains moisture and lowers soil temperature. It should green up these hills and help keep topsoil in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on a recent day, 15 volunteers drove a caravan of pickup trucks filled with 200 bales of straw to a devastated property. They unloaded, then dragged bales down hillsides to spread the straw by hand in between charred manzanita trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Kriletich’s dad, Michael, described the land. “It’s completely black, just scoured by the fire. This property, it’s fried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually there’s a natural seed bank, which lives in the soil and then germinates. But the dry conditions created by four years of drought, the worst in recent history, meant the Butte Fire burned so fast and so hot it sterilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scorched earth is obviously bad news for Calaveras cattle ranchers, who lost grazing land. For beekeepers like Sean Kriletich, “This is a complete nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lost dozens of hives, and estimates that tens of thousands were displaced. Then there’s the pollen bees won’t get from burned oak trees and wildflowers that will never grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937205\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Kriletich, farmer and beekeeper, estimates tens of thousands of hives were displaced by the Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-400x279.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SeanKriletich-960x670.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Kriletich, farmer and beekeeper, estimates tens of thousands of hives were displaced by the Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The grocery store for the bees is closed,” he says. “The grocery store got burned down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more serious? Fire coupled with Calaveras’ red clay soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you get intense fire over top of it, we get a glazed layer in the soil,” Kriletich says. “This literally was a kiln. Just like your coffee mug in the morning doesn’t let all that coffee out of the mug, that glaze isn’t letting water from the surface down into the aquifer, into the water table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when winter rains came, water didn’t permeate the soil. It rushed off that glazed surface, taking black ash and red clay with it. The Calaveras and Mokelumne rivers that provide drinking water and an important source of irrigation looked like chocolate milk, roiling with dirty black and red water. It got so bad the local water treatment plant was shut down overnight, giving its overworked filters a break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kriletich says preventing erosion and recharging the aquifer is essential, “Not only for our local wells but for the entire foodshed of California. This is the water for San Joaquin County,” a key agricultural producer in the state, “and this is also the water that eventually flows out the Golden Gate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937253\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"Erosion made the North Fork of the Calaveras River look like chocolate milk, after winter storms sent black ash and red clay into the waterway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-400x255.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MuddyWaters-960x612.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erosion made the North Fork of the Calaveras River look like chocolate milk, after winter storms sent black ash and red clay into the waterway. \u003ccite>(Gordon Long/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, CalaverasGROWN has received donations from the City of Stockton and its water district, plus Bay Area individuals. Those people and organizations know: water impacted in Calaveras comes downstream. Most donations go right to buying straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is a group of volunteers doing this erosion control work? Almost three-quarters of the more than 70,000 acres of land that burned here is privately owned, and that limits what government agencies can do, according to Sharon Torrance from Butte Fire Recovery. “There are state and federal funds to put the fire out, but once the emergency is over,” she says, the funds are really limited for range and forest management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA also has some funding available for eligible agricultural producers for long-term restoration work on private land. Trees that threaten county or state roads are removed by the County Public Works Department, and they are applying for grants to fund tree removal, water treatment and communications because, Torrence says, “The work of recovery is as big, if not bigger, than the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Kriletich says CalaverasGROWN goes where invited, no paperwork required. “That’s why we could get started right away. While the fire was still smoldering we were out here doing this. We said, 'We’re gonna take the worst first.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the reason more than 60 people have volunteered with CalaverasGROWN to spread straw -- and also fell hazard trees and reinstate wells -- is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our community” he says, choking up. “People’s lives have been ruined, we’re just helping. We’re worried about soil erosion, more trauma and it could burn again. There’s 71,000 acres that need to be cleaned up. That’ll never happen, but it’s what we need to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10937351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Goat rancher Sandi Young stands in front of her pastures -- she believes they were saved by her herd of goats mowing them -- and blackened hills, among the 300 acres she lost in the Butte Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-400x293.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SandiYoungGoat-960x702.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goat rancher Sandi Young stands in front of her pastures -- she believes they were saved by her herd of goats mowing them -- and blackened hills, among the 300 acres she lost in the Butte Fire. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goat rancher Sandi Young knows that all too well. “It’s called the burn scar area for a reason. It is a scar. It’s a wound that will take a very long time to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband lost 300 acres in the Mountain Ranch area, but her house and surrounding pasture land were spared. She attributes that to her herd of 50 goats, which had eaten the grasses down, giving the fire no fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows she’s more fortunate than many. Still, Young says, “You lose your way of life, you lose your business.” She has only a handful of her herd here now. “My goats are thousands of miles away right now until we can repair and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the first rains, her neighbor’s hillside above washed out the road to her house, tumbling into the creek below. That’s when Young called on Sean Kriletich and CalaverasGROWN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came with four guys with chainsaws and we built dams with the dead trees,” to slow debris rushing down the hill. They helped her reseed blackened hillsides which are now turning green, and set priorities for next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the work party, Sean Kriletich says people are still in shock. “We feel that it’s really important for people to have the tools they need in order to move forward,” to improve their land and emotional health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often times that’s just as simple as taking the black landscape and turning it yellow with straw, to add some color to a very dark situation,” Kriletich says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, it’s the familiar golden color of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-foodways\" target=\"_blank\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported, in part, by a grant from \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">California Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10933757/healing-soil-and-community-after-the-butte-fire","authors":["3229"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_17045"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18590","news_333","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10937161","label":"news_72"},"news_10696948":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10696948","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10696948","score":null,"sort":[1443230095000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fema-arrives-in-calaveras-county-after-butte-fire-federal-disaster-declaration","title":"FEMA Arrives in Calaveras County After Butte Fire Federal Disaster Declaration","publishDate":1443230095,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1221\" target=\"_blank\">Butte Fire\u003c/a> that burned more than 70,000 acres of Calaveras and Amador counties, an area more than twice the size of San Francisco, has joined the Valley Fire as a federally recognized disaster area, and Friday federal officials were at the scene east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Administration Agency joined the California Office of Emergency Services, Cal Fire, and the Red Cross and outlined services available to people who lost their homes or were otherwise impacted by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Scranton, the federal coordinating officer acting as liaison between FEMA and local emergency services, said the main goal of his agency is to get displaced residents out of tents and into more permanent places. They're also offering legal services, crisis counseling, and setting up field offices throughout the county as residents return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ijBiQfIli4pQllL86mvhNMMq3ZFTT2cQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that it's going to be a long-term recovery for those survivors that have been affected,\" Scranton said. \"We want to be able to partner with you to help you with that long-term strategy because this is not going to be quick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is now 93 percent contained, but the devastation left behind is huge: two deaths, at least 475 houses and 343 other building destroyed, and dozens more damaged. Scranton stressed that people who feel they need it should seek crisis counseling available through the state and federal partnership. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that we need to remember with these types of devastating events is when your home burns up all of your memories are gone,\" he said. \"Your pictures and you videos of your kids, all of that is no longer in existence. So we want to be there to help you through these difficult times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama added Calaveras County Thursday to a Lake County Federal Disaster Declaration originally issued Sept. 22 for the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> burning 150 miles to the west. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scranton also urged people to \u003ca href=\"http://www.disasterassistance.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">apply for monetary aid\u003c/a> through FEMA along with their insurance, though the maximum amount offered, even to those who are permanently displaced, is set at $32,900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire has been burning since September 9, and fire officials estimate it will be completely contained by October 1.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Butte Fire has been wreaking havoc in Calaveras County since Sept. 9, and now FEMA is stepping in. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1443233161,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":381},"headData":{"title":"FEMA Arrives in Calaveras County After Butte Fire Federal Disaster Declaration | KQED","description":"The Butte Fire has been wreaking havoc in Calaveras County since Sept. 9, and now FEMA is stepping in. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"FEMA Arrives in Calaveras County After Butte Fire Federal Disaster Declaration","datePublished":"2015-09-26T01:14:55.000Z","dateModified":"2015-09-26T02:06:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10696948 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10696948","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/25/fema-arrives-in-calaveras-county-after-butte-fire-federal-disaster-declaration/","disqusTitle":"FEMA Arrives in Calaveras County After Butte Fire Federal Disaster Declaration","path":"/news/10696948/fema-arrives-in-calaveras-county-after-butte-fire-federal-disaster-declaration","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1221\" target=\"_blank\">Butte Fire\u003c/a> that burned more than 70,000 acres of Calaveras and Amador counties, an area more than twice the size of San Francisco, has joined the Valley Fire as a federally recognized disaster area, and Friday federal officials were at the scene east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Administration Agency joined the California Office of Emergency Services, Cal Fire, and the Red Cross and outlined services available to people who lost their homes or were otherwise impacted by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Scranton, the federal coordinating officer acting as liaison between FEMA and local emergency services, said the main goal of his agency is to get displaced residents out of tents and into more permanent places. They're also offering legal services, crisis counseling, and setting up field offices throughout the county as residents return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that it's going to be a long-term recovery for those survivors that have been affected,\" Scranton said. \"We want to be able to partner with you to help you with that long-term strategy because this is not going to be quick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is now 93 percent contained, but the devastation left behind is huge: two deaths, at least 475 houses and 343 other building destroyed, and dozens more damaged. Scranton stressed that people who feel they need it should seek crisis counseling available through the state and federal partnership. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that we need to remember with these types of devastating events is when your home burns up all of your memories are gone,\" he said. \"Your pictures and you videos of your kids, all of that is no longer in existence. So we want to be there to help you through these difficult times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama added Calaveras County Thursday to a Lake County Federal Disaster Declaration originally issued Sept. 22 for the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> burning 150 miles to the west. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scranton also urged people to \u003ca href=\"http://www.disasterassistance.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">apply for monetary aid\u003c/a> through FEMA along with their insurance, though the maximum amount offered, even to those who are permanently displaced, is set at $32,900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire has been burning since September 9, and fire officials estimate it will be completely contained by October 1.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10696948/fema-arrives-in-calaveras-county-after-butte-fire-federal-disaster-declaration","authors":["8637"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_18590","news_17286","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_10696990","label":"news_72"},"news_10687032":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10687032","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10687032","score":null,"sort":[1442543033000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze","title":"Utilities Were Urged to Step Up Fire Prevention Long Before Deadly Blaze","publishDate":1442543033,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Authorities have for years envisioned a scenario in which power lines would cause the next devastating California wildfire. Now Cal Fire is investigating whether the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/13/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county\" target=\"_blank\">deadly Butte Fire\u003c/a> was caused by a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. electric service line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A live tree may have contacted a PG&E line in the vicinity of the ignition point,\" PG&E's Barry Anderson wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20150916_pge_cooperating_fully_with_cal_fire_investigation_of_butte_fire_ignition\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said it is fully cooperating with Cal Fire's investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jZreSnhwEAgTPE9IZAzEkV5ByXzYtYoS\"]“It could be a downed line, it could have been caused by a tree,\" Cal Fire spokesman Mike Mohler told KQED Thursday. \"We’re still in the initial stages of completing that investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/general.aspx?id=1974\" target=\"_blank\">State law\u003c/a> requires utilities to maintain clearances between power lines and trees, which requires trimming. Also, if a utility is notified of dead or rotten trees leaning toward power lines, the companies are responsible for removing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler said Cal Fire investigators will examine PG&E service and inspection records for the area around the fire’s suspected origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesman Joe Molica said that the tree in question was given six separate inspections in 2014 and 2015 and was not identified as a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission is also investigating the cause of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conductors can actually sag quite a lot, just depending on the temperatures,\" California Public Utilities Commission Safety Enforcement Director Elizaveta Malashenko told KQED. \"You look at a power line, and it seems like it’s pretty high and far away from the ground -- it’s more or less a straight line between the poles. You can come back to the same area on a different day when you have higher load, higher temperatures, and have that sagging quite a bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that wind and rainstorms can also cause trees and power lines to move in unpredictable ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know you can have a great vegetation management program, but it only takes a one-time issue to start a major fire,\" Malashenko said. \"I think the utilities have been doing a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC could fine PG&E if the utility failed to adhere to state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not including the Butte Fire, electrical power problems have caused five large fires throughout California since 2010, according to Cal Fire data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fire Prevention Ramped Up During Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities have spent millions on preventive measures since the drought began, forging public-private partnerships to prevent just such a scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in response to Gov. Jerry Brown's declaration in early 2014 that the drought constituted an ongoing state of emergency, the California Public Utilities Commission’s acting Safety and Enforcement Division director \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/281682145/California-Public-Utilities-Commission-Fire-Prevention-Resolution\" target=\"_blank\">issued a letter\u003c/a> to all of California’s utilities directing them to “take all practicable measures necessary to reduce the likelihood of fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant increasing inspections in fire-threatened areas, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10687179\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 387px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10687179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-6.12.24-PM.png\" alt=\"Tree clearance diagram.\" width=\"387\" height=\"351\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree clearance diagram. \u003ccite>(California Public Utilities Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E announced last month that the company supports a Cal Fire campaign pushing property owners to remove dying or dead trees infected with bark beetles, which have wiped out 85 percent of the trees in some communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These dead trees are just waiting to go up in flames,\" said Dennis Mathisen, Cal Fire chief of public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility is also removing more trees. It has removed about 107,000 hazardous trees this year, PG&E told KQED, more than double the 50,000 trees cut down in 2010. It plans to trim or remove about 1.1 million trees by the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E operates 134,000 miles of power lines, employs 350 foresters, and contracts with more than 650 private tree crews to patrol its lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous Blazes Caused by Power Lines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, PG&E and its contractors agreed to pay a $50.5 million settlement in litigation over the Power Fire and the Whiskey Fire. The blazes burned more than 18,000 acres of national forest in October 2004 and June 2008, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E paid a \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/07/wildfire-power-lines-pge.html\" target=\"_blank\">$14.75 million settlement\u003c/a> to the U.S. Forest Service in 2009 after being blamed for the 1999 Pendola Fire. It burned for 11 days and scorched 11,725 acres, mainly in the Tahoe and Plumas national forests. The fire's cause: A rotten pine, which the government said PG&E should have removed, fell on a power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility also reached a $22.7 million settlement with the CPUC in 1999 after regulators found PG&E hadn't spent money earmarked for tree trimming and removal toward those purposes. Shareholders paid the settlement amount for future projects, and PG&E paid a $6 million penalty to the state.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Utilities have spent millions of dollars clearing trees to prevent a blaze like the deadly Butte Fire.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1461869513,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":815},"headData":{"title":"Utilities Were Urged to Step Up Fire Prevention Long Before Deadly Blaze | KQED","description":"Utilities have spent millions of dollars clearing trees to prevent a blaze like the deadly Butte Fire.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Utilities Were Urged to Step Up Fire Prevention Long Before Deadly Blaze","datePublished":"2015-09-18T02:23:53.000Z","dateModified":"2016-04-28T18:51:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10687032 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10687032","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze/","disqusTitle":"Utilities Were Urged to Step Up Fire Prevention Long Before Deadly Blaze","path":"/news/10687032/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Authorities have for years envisioned a scenario in which power lines would cause the next devastating California wildfire. Now Cal Fire is investigating whether the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/13/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county\" target=\"_blank\">deadly Butte Fire\u003c/a> was caused by a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. electric service line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A live tree may have contacted a PG&E line in the vicinity of the ignition point,\" PG&E's Barry Anderson wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20150916_pge_cooperating_fully_with_cal_fire_investigation_of_butte_fire_ignition\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said it is fully cooperating with Cal Fire's investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“It could be a downed line, it could have been caused by a tree,\" Cal Fire spokesman Mike Mohler told KQED Thursday. \"We’re still in the initial stages of completing that investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/general.aspx?id=1974\" target=\"_blank\">State law\u003c/a> requires utilities to maintain clearances between power lines and trees, which requires trimming. Also, if a utility is notified of dead or rotten trees leaning toward power lines, the companies are responsible for removing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler said Cal Fire investigators will examine PG&E service and inspection records for the area around the fire’s suspected origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesman Joe Molica said that the tree in question was given six separate inspections in 2014 and 2015 and was not identified as a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission is also investigating the cause of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conductors can actually sag quite a lot, just depending on the temperatures,\" California Public Utilities Commission Safety Enforcement Director Elizaveta Malashenko told KQED. \"You look at a power line, and it seems like it’s pretty high and far away from the ground -- it’s more or less a straight line between the poles. You can come back to the same area on a different day when you have higher load, higher temperatures, and have that sagging quite a bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that wind and rainstorms can also cause trees and power lines to move in unpredictable ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know you can have a great vegetation management program, but it only takes a one-time issue to start a major fire,\" Malashenko said. \"I think the utilities have been doing a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC could fine PG&E if the utility failed to adhere to state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not including the Butte Fire, electrical power problems have caused five large fires throughout California since 2010, according to Cal Fire data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fire Prevention Ramped Up During Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities have spent millions on preventive measures since the drought began, forging public-private partnerships to prevent just such a scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in response to Gov. Jerry Brown's declaration in early 2014 that the drought constituted an ongoing state of emergency, the California Public Utilities Commission’s acting Safety and Enforcement Division director \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/281682145/California-Public-Utilities-Commission-Fire-Prevention-Resolution\" target=\"_blank\">issued a letter\u003c/a> to all of California’s utilities directing them to “take all practicable measures necessary to reduce the likelihood of fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant increasing inspections in fire-threatened areas, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10687179\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 387px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10687179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-6.12.24-PM.png\" alt=\"Tree clearance diagram.\" width=\"387\" height=\"351\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree clearance diagram. \u003ccite>(California Public Utilities Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E announced last month that the company supports a Cal Fire campaign pushing property owners to remove dying or dead trees infected with bark beetles, which have wiped out 85 percent of the trees in some communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These dead trees are just waiting to go up in flames,\" said Dennis Mathisen, Cal Fire chief of public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility is also removing more trees. It has removed about 107,000 hazardous trees this year, PG&E told KQED, more than double the 50,000 trees cut down in 2010. It plans to trim or remove about 1.1 million trees by the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E operates 134,000 miles of power lines, employs 350 foresters, and contracts with more than 650 private tree crews to patrol its lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous Blazes Caused by Power Lines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, PG&E and its contractors agreed to pay a $50.5 million settlement in litigation over the Power Fire and the Whiskey Fire. The blazes burned more than 18,000 acres of national forest in October 2004 and June 2008, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E paid a \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/07/wildfire-power-lines-pge.html\" target=\"_blank\">$14.75 million settlement\u003c/a> to the U.S. Forest Service in 2009 after being blamed for the 1999 Pendola Fire. It burned for 11 days and scorched 11,725 acres, mainly in the Tahoe and Plumas national forests. The fire's cause: A rotten pine, which the government said PG&E should have removed, fell on a power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility also reached a $22.7 million settlement with the CPUC in 1999 after regulators found PG&E hadn't spent money earmarked for tree trimming and removal toward those purposes. Shareholders paid the settlement amount for future projects, and PG&E paid a $6 million penalty to the state.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10687032/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze","authors":["3231","199"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18590","news_6383","news_1066","news_140"],"featImg":"news_10687121","label":"news_6944"},"news_10685026":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10685026","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10685026","score":null,"sort":[1442427590000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"valley-and-butte-fires-are-among-californias-most-destructive-blazes","title":"Valley and Butte Fires Now Among California's Most Destructive Blazes","publishDate":1442427590,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The most destructive wildfire in California history took place in 1991, when the Tunnel Fire swept through the Oakland and Berkeley hills, killing 25 and destroying 2,900 structures. The fifth-most-damaging wildfire ever to impact California took place in Shasta County in 1999, when the Jones Fire scorched 26,200 acres and destroyed 954 homes, outbuildings and commercial properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire hasn’t yet completed full damage assessments for the Valley and Butte fires. But based on what’s known so far, the Valley Fire is ranked as the state’s ninth-most-damaging blaze in history, while the Butte Fire is being counted as the 14th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both are still burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Information from the Butte Fire and Valley Fire will likely change until the fire is contained and the full damage assessment is complete,” Cal Fire noted when it released a list of the state's 20 most destructive blazes. When it comes to the number of structures leveled in the blazes, “The Valley Fire is likely to increase by several hundred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Bove, a senior research meteorologist at an insurance company, said in an interview with Fortune that he believed the Valley Fire was on track to become \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2015/09/15/cost-california-wildfires/\">the most destructive blaze in California history\u003c/a>. His estimate is based on insurance losses; according to Fortune, the East Bay Hills fire resulted in an industrywide insurance cost of roughly $3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, authorities have confirmed that the Valley Fire caused one fatality and destroyed 603 structures in Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties. The Butte Fire, meanwhile, leveled 408 structures in Amador and Calaveras counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the full extent of the fire damage is still unknown, both wildfires are climbing Cal Fire’s list of the state's most destructive infernos, which dates back to 1923. As of Wednesday morning, the number of structures still threatened stood at 9,000 for the Valley Fire and 6,400 for the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to recent updates posted to Twitter by Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant, fire crews had managed to contain the Valley Fire by 30 percent, but its size had increased to 70,000 acres. The Butte Fire, meanwhile, had scorched 71,780 acres and was 45 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the caveat that it's subject to change, here is Cal Fire's list of the top 20 most destructive blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=281392849 key=key-ZPkx2W2xjfkc9Kt9YgVM mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Cal Fire says the Valley and Butte fires already rank among the state's 20 most damaging wildfires.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1442440885,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":432},"headData":{"title":"Valley and Butte Fires Now Among California's Most Destructive Blazes | KQED","description":"Cal Fire says the Valley and Butte fires already rank among the state's 20 most damaging wildfires.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Valley and Butte Fires Now Among California's Most Destructive Blazes","datePublished":"2015-09-16T18:19:50.000Z","dateModified":"2015-09-16T22:01:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10685026 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10685026","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/16/valley-and-butte-fires-are-among-californias-most-destructive-blazes/","disqusTitle":"Valley and Butte Fires Now Among California's Most Destructive Blazes","path":"/news/10685026/valley-and-butte-fires-are-among-californias-most-destructive-blazes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The most destructive wildfire in California history took place in 1991, when the Tunnel Fire swept through the Oakland and Berkeley hills, killing 25 and destroying 2,900 structures. The fifth-most-damaging wildfire ever to impact California took place in Shasta County in 1999, when the Jones Fire scorched 26,200 acres and destroyed 954 homes, outbuildings and commercial properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire hasn’t yet completed full damage assessments for the Valley and Butte fires. But based on what’s known so far, the Valley Fire is ranked as the state’s ninth-most-damaging blaze in history, while the Butte Fire is being counted as the 14th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both are still burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Information from the Butte Fire and Valley Fire will likely change until the fire is contained and the full damage assessment is complete,” Cal Fire noted when it released a list of the state's 20 most destructive blazes. When it comes to the number of structures leveled in the blazes, “The Valley Fire is likely to increase by several hundred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Bove, a senior research meteorologist at an insurance company, said in an interview with Fortune that he believed the Valley Fire was on track to become \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2015/09/15/cost-california-wildfires/\">the most destructive blaze in California history\u003c/a>. His estimate is based on insurance losses; according to Fortune, the East Bay Hills fire resulted in an industrywide insurance cost of roughly $3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, authorities have confirmed that the Valley Fire caused one fatality and destroyed 603 structures in Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties. The Butte Fire, meanwhile, leveled 408 structures in Amador and Calaveras counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the full extent of the fire damage is still unknown, both wildfires are climbing Cal Fire’s list of the state's most destructive infernos, which dates back to 1923. 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But not all of the garments will make it into the hands of impacted residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been drizzling a little bit in Calistoga, and a lot of the clothing that was donated got rained on,” KQED reporter April Dembosky explained by phone as she stood just outside the medical tent at the Calistoga evacuation center, staffed by Red Cross volunteers and staff from a local clinic. 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He's planning to deliver about 100 bales of donated hay tomorrow, which relief volunteers told him was a more urgent need than the abundance of cat food and dog food that was dropped off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a list of some resources for those wishing to contribute to the relief effort, either with cash or in-kind donations. Capital Public Radio has provided \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/09/14/california-wildfires-how-to-help-those-affected-by-butte,-valley-fires/\">another list\u003c/a>, including for victims of the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone wishing to lend assistance should exercise caution when sending monetary donations online -- reports of scams have already surfaced in the wake of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Monetary Donations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> The Redwood Credit Union has teamed up with The Press Democrat to set up a Lake County Fire Victims Fund to aid the relief efforts and assist individuals and families. \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcu.org/about-rcu/news-announcements-specials/rockyfire\">Visit the credit union's website\u003c/a> for more information.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> KCRA and the Red Cross are partnering for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/tv/about/kcra-red-cross-team-up-for-california-wildfire-relief-telethon/35257076\">California Wildfire Relief Telethon\u003c/a> beginning at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Donations will go to communities affected by recent and current wildfires in the region, with a goal of raising more than $500,000 to assist those affected by the Butte and Valley fires. Phones will go live just before 4:30 a.m. and remain open until 7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> The Mendo-Lake Credit Union is accepting financial donations on behalf of North Coast Opportunities Inc. to assist with fire recovery efforts. More information can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlcu.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In-Kind Donations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> Donations of blankets, personal hygiene items, canned or packaged food and pet food can be brought to the Clearlake Community United Methodist Church at 14521 Pearl Ave., Clearlake, from Tuesday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> A list of donation centers and needs is being continuously updated at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelakecounty.org/\">LoveLakeCounty.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supplies for Pets and Livestock\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> The \u003ca href=\"http://santarosaveterinary.com/\">Santa Rosa Veterinary Hospital\u003c/a> is accepting donations for pets that have been evacuated, including food, bedding, crates, leashes and collars. Dropoffs can be made Monday or Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> A Facebook page has been created to help people who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/lakecountypets\">lost or found pets\u003c/a> in the aftermath of the fire.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/broccos-old-barn-sonoma\">Brocco's Old Barn\u003c/a>, a feed store and pet store in Sonoma, is accepting donations by phone from customers who purchase needed supplies for evacuees' pets and livestock. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Businesses and Others Supporting Relief Efforts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of businesses have also stepped up to help relief efforts. 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