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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The view from Point Sur Lighthouse is breathtaking. It’s perched up on a huge rock and surrounded by water on three sides. Shimmering views of the Pacific. Sea lions echoing up from the rocks below. Sea otters basking in the kelp beds. It’s utterly isolated, far away from the road on a craggy stretch of coastline just north of Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701342\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701342 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Point Sur Lighthouse has been operating since 1889. It’s one of California’s oldest and most remote light stations. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the oldest and most remote lighthouses in California, a beacon for ships navigating some of the most treacherous waters of the California coast. More than a dozen shipwrecks have happened nearby. This section of coast was also the site where the airship called the USS Macon (a precursor to the blimp) crashed in 1935.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701349\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701349 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lighthouse features an exhibit of newspaper articles about shipwrecks and crashes, including the USS Macon airship, which crashed off the coast of Point Sur in 1935. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lighthouse was built in 1889, and the keepers and their families who lived next to it could get supplies only by ship. A doctor was a four-hour horseback ride away in Monterey. To leave this lighthouse in the early years, residents had to climb down nearly 400 stairs and trek several miles to a county road. Highway 1 wasn’t completed from Carmel to San Simeon until 1937.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though lighthouse life was lonely for the kids who grew up here, the lighthouse keepers and their wives often fell in love with these breathtaking ocean views. The head lightkeeper’s house, which has been restored, has an ocean-view window in every room, including the closets and bathrooms. Imagine watching whales spout and breach while brushing your teeth!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701343\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701343 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33426_D3FBCCC5-07F3-491E-9906-9F26648E192C-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The craggy coastline between Carmel and Big Sur is home to some of California’s most treacherous waters. Many ships have wrecked near Point Sur Lighthouse. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lighthouse is now a \u003ca href=\"http://pointsur.org/\">state historic park\u003c/a>. It offers limited visiting hours and tours, often led by docents like Julie Nunes. She drives two hours each way from San Jose to volunteer here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my Shangri-La,” she says. “It’s just so utterly beautiful and peaceful. There’s something about this place that’s so calming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701444 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Sur Lighthouse volunteer Julie Nunes is not afraid of ghosts. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it makes sense, she says, that the families who once lived here have come back. As ghosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701350\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Nunes’ license plate proclaims her fascination with the supernatural. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunes is not scared of ghosts. She’s intrigued by them. She brings her tape recorder when she volunteers here and says she often picks up the sounds of ghosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She plays me one of an eerie female voice whispering “Now she wants you to go home.” In another, a woman says, “Pokey, go to bed.” \u003cem>(Listen to the radio version of this story if you want to hear them.) \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes says that last recording captured the voice of Catherine Ingersoll, a Danish immigrant who was married to a lighthouse keeper. She’s apparently telling her daughter, nicknamed Pokey, to go up to bed. You can hear the faint sound of a little girl’s voice responding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lighthouse was automated by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1972, and the last lighthouse keeper left here in 1974. So these days, when you come to visit this rock, it feels very empty, even if you join one of their \u003ca href=\"http://ptsur.org\">regular tours\u003c/a>. You can’t see another house anywhere, and the winding path down to Highway 1 seems miles long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701479 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-960x666.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-375x260.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children of lighthouse keepers who lived at the base of the Point Sur rock, circa 1913. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many families lived here over the course of nearly a century, and Nunes always knocks to ask permission to come in, in case any of their spirits are still around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello, it’s Julie!” she chirps to the empty house. “Hi Ruth! Can we come in to visit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s talking to the ghost of a resident she says used to live in this house. Nunes says Ruth’s spirit still hangs out in the kitchen, because she liked to cook. Nunes says Ruth’s ghosts often closes the doors in the kitchen, which has been restored to look like it did in the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701445 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nunes believes a ghost of a former resident hangs out in the lighthouse kitchen. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She’s hoping we’ll get to hear Ruth talking to us through a ghost-hunting device called an Ovilus, used by paranormal investigators. It has a dictionary of about 3,000 words, and supposedly each word has a different sound frequency that ghosts can use to “talk” to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is anybody else here with us right now that we can’t see?” Nunes asks the empty kitchen. “Pokey, are you here? Can you come say hi?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t hear anything but the wind rattling the windows. The wind here can be strong, up to 50 mph. Nunes says at one point a lighthouse keeper’s dog got blown off a cliff. The dog survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers decorated lighthouse quarters for Halloween. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s getting a little bit creepy. It’s hard to tell if this is a hokey trick for Halloween, because docents have decorated rooms with fake skeletons and witches’ hats. But Nunes seems really convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing evil or malevolent ever happened here,” says Nunes. “These are nice ghosts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She puts the Ovilus down on the kitchen table next to a pair of plastic skeleton arms, and asks any ghosts to tap the black box, so it can sense a vibration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/jbwq0RjmZyI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look closely at the skeleton hand to the left, near the coffee mug. It begins to twitch. Just a tiny bit, but it’s definitely moving. I am utterly freaked out at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes asks the spirits to make the skeleton hands move again. No luck, but we do start to hear a weird static buzz through our headphones as we’re recording our interview with Nunes. The buzzing doesn’t go away until we leave the building. Weird, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re probably thinking all of this is a gimmick to try to get people to visit this remote lighthouse. After all, Julie Nunes does a \u003ca href=\"http://ptsur.org\">ghost-hunting tour\u003c/a> to help raise money for lighthouse restoration on the weekends before Halloween. Even some of the other docents who volunteer regularly here don’t believe Julie’s ghost tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one volunteer named Sheila Fraser says she used to be a skeptic, until she had her own encounter. The other docents call her “the level-headed Canadian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fraser volunteers to clean the head lighthouse keeper’s house every Thursday. Usually she’s the only one in the building at that time. One morning, she was putting away the vacuum when she heard something downstairs. She looked down at the stairway landing, and says she saw a woman who looked very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-800x585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-1200x878.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-960x703.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-240x176.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-375x274.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family who lived at the lighthouse quarters. \u003ccite>(Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She was turn of the century. Had her hair up, maybe in her late 30s, early 40s… long sleeves, poofy, long skirt,” says Fraser. “She turned and looked up at me and she was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701473\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701473 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33428_alt_792-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"263\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stairway where volunteer Sheila Fraser claims she saw a ghost. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fraser says she also had an encounter with a male ghost looking in at her through the living room window of the lighthouse keeper’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all sounds a little far-fetched. Even Nunes’ ghost-sensing Ovilus isn’t picking up any words or vibrations from ghosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the minute we walk into a different building, the former blacksmith shop, the Ovilus starts squawking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s here with us right now?” asks Nunes. “Walter,” answers the Ovilus, which is programmed to sense words and articulate them in a robotic voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point we are thoroughly freaked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701477 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghost-hunting device called an Ovilus, used by paranormal investigators, including volunteer Julie Nunes. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khoka/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re doing a radio show and they’d like to interview you, Walter,” Nunes says, like it’s the most normal thing in the world. “Would you like to be on the radio, Walter?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter and any of the other ghosts don’t say much more. The machine stops talking. But it does spell out a few words that make it seem like the ghosts know who we are: PRESS. REPORT. INVESTIGATE. STATEMENT. THANK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a level-headed Californian myself, and I don’t usually go for the supernatural. But as the sun starts to set, I’m pretty relieved to be getting back to Highway 1. I’m not sure I could handle walking through the spooky Point Sur Lighthouse at night.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The view from Point Sur Lighthouse is breathtaking. It’s perched up on a huge rock and surrounded by water on three sides. Shimmering views of the Pacific. Sea lions echoing up from the rocks below. Sea otters basking in the kelp beds. It’s utterly isolated, far away from the road on a craggy stretch of coastline just north of Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701342\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701342 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33425_84AD42F7-6D7C-4746-919E-8EE605106069-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Point Sur Lighthouse has been operating since 1889. It’s one of California’s oldest and most remote light stations. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the oldest and most remote lighthouses in California, a beacon for ships navigating some of the most treacherous waters of the California coast. More than a dozen shipwrecks have happened nearby. This section of coast was also the site where the airship called the USS Macon (a precursor to the blimp) crashed in 1935.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701349\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701349 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33429_40F59023-19F7-4E51-9EAC-AA0954521870-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lighthouse features an exhibit of newspaper articles about shipwrecks and crashes, including the USS Macon airship, which crashed off the coast of Point Sur in 1935. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lighthouse was built in 1889, and the keepers and their families who lived next to it could get supplies only by ship. A doctor was a four-hour horseback ride away in Monterey. To leave this lighthouse in the early years, residents had to climb down nearly 400 stairs and trek several miles to a county road. Highway 1 wasn’t completed from Carmel to San Simeon until 1937.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though lighthouse life was lonely for the kids who grew up here, the lighthouse keepers and their wives often fell in love with these breathtaking ocean views. The head lightkeeper’s house, which has been restored, has an ocean-view window in every room, including the closets and bathrooms. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my Shangri-La,” she says. “It’s just so utterly beautiful and peaceful. There’s something about this place that’s so calming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701444 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33406_julie-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Sur Lighthouse volunteer Julie Nunes is not afraid of ghosts. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it makes sense, she says, that the families who once lived here have come back. As ghosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701350\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33416_AD272639-CD22-4B3F-9368-E85B330ECAFE-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Nunes’ license plate proclaims her fascination with the supernatural. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunes is not scared of ghosts. She’s intrigued by them. She brings her tape recorder when she volunteers here and says she often picks up the sounds of ghosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She plays me one of an eerie female voice whispering “Now she wants you to go home.” In another, a woman says, “Pokey, go to bed.” \u003cem>(Listen to the radio version of this story if you want to hear them.) \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes says that last recording captured the voice of Catherine Ingersoll, a Danish immigrant who was married to a lighthouse keeper. She’s apparently telling her daughter, nicknamed Pokey, to go up to bed. You can hear the faint sound of a little girl’s voice responding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lighthouse was automated by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1972, and the last lighthouse keeper left here in 1974. So these days, when you come to visit this rock, it feels very empty, even if you join one of their \u003ca href=\"http://ptsur.org\">regular tours\u003c/a>. You can’t see another house anywhere, and the winding path down to Highway 1 seems miles long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701479 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-960x666.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-375x260.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33400_140132183-qut-1-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children of lighthouse keepers who lived at the base of the Point Sur rock, circa 1913. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many families lived here over the course of nearly a century, and Nunes always knocks to ask permission to come in, in case any of their spirits are still around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello, it’s Julie!” she chirps to the empty house. “Hi Ruth! Can we come in to visit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s talking to the ghost of a resident she says used to live in this house. Nunes says Ruth’s spirit still hangs out in the kitchen, because she liked to cook. Nunes says Ruth’s ghosts often closes the doors in the kitchen, which has been restored to look like it did in the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701445 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33407_kitchen-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nunes believes a ghost of a former resident hangs out in the lighthouse kitchen. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She’s hoping we’ll get to hear Ruth talking to us through a ghost-hunting device called an Ovilus, used by paranormal investigators. It has a dictionary of about 3,000 words, and supposedly each word has a different sound frequency that ghosts can use to “talk” to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is anybody else here with us right now that we can’t see?” Nunes asks the empty kitchen. “Pokey, are you here? Can you come say hi?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t hear anything but the wind rattling the windows. The wind here can be strong, up to 50 mph. Nunes says at one point a lighthouse keeper’s dog got blown off a cliff. The dog survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33403_halloween-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers decorated lighthouse quarters for Halloween. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s getting a little bit creepy. It’s hard to tell if this is a hokey trick for Halloween, because docents have decorated rooms with fake skeletons and witches’ hats. But Nunes seems really convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing evil or malevolent ever happened here,” says Nunes. “These are nice ghosts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She puts the Ovilus down on the kitchen table next to a pair of plastic skeleton arms, and asks any ghosts to tap the black box, so it can sense a vibration.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/jbwq0RjmZyI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jbwq0RjmZyI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Look closely at the skeleton hand to the left, near the coffee mug. It begins to twitch. Just a tiny bit, but it’s definitely moving. I am utterly freaked out at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes asks the spirits to make the skeleton hands move again. No luck, but we do start to hear a weird static buzz through our headphones as we’re recording our interview with Nunes. The buzzing doesn’t go away until we leave the building. Weird, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re probably thinking all of this is a gimmick to try to get people to visit this remote lighthouse. After all, Julie Nunes does a \u003ca href=\"http://ptsur.org\">ghost-hunting tour\u003c/a> to help raise money for lighthouse restoration on the weekends before Halloween. Even some of the other docents who volunteer regularly here don’t believe Julie’s ghost tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one volunteer named Sheila Fraser says she used to be a skeptic, until she had her own encounter. The other docents call her “the level-headed Canadian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fraser volunteers to clean the head lighthouse keeper’s house every Thursday. Usually she’s the only one in the building at that time. One morning, she was putting away the vacuum when she heard something downstairs. She looked down at the stairway landing, and says she saw a woman who looked very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-800x585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-1200x878.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-960x703.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-240x176.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-375x274.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33435_archival-qut-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family who lived at the lighthouse quarters. \u003ccite>(Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She was turn of the century. Had her hair up, maybe in her late 30s, early 40s… long sleeves, poofy, long skirt,” says Fraser. “She turned and looked up at me and she was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701473\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701473 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33428_alt_792-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"263\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stairway where volunteer Sheila Fraser claims she saw a ghost. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fraser says she also had an encounter with a male ghost looking in at her through the living room window of the lighthouse keeper’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all sounds a little far-fetched. Even Nunes’ ghost-sensing Ovilus isn’t picking up any words or vibrations from ghosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the minute we walk into a different building, the former blacksmith shop, the Ovilus starts squawking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s here with us right now?” asks Nunes. “Walter,” answers the Ovilus, which is programmed to sense words and articulate them in a robotic voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point we are thoroughly freaked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701477 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33436_alt_794-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghost-hunting device called an Ovilus, used by paranormal investigators, including volunteer Julie Nunes. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khoka/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re doing a radio show and they’d like to interview you, Walter,” Nunes says, like it’s the most normal thing in the world. “Would you like to be on the radio, Walter?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter and any of the other ghosts don’t say much more. The machine stops talking. But it does spell out a few words that make it seem like the ghosts know who we are: PRESS. REPORT. INVESTIGATE. STATEMENT. THANK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]hortly after Lucas Boek joined his local fire department, he saw a veteran firefighter walk into firehouse and drop all his gear. “’That’s it, I’m done,’” Boek remembers the man saying. “’I can’t do this anymore.’ And he left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the incident stuck with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Boek is sitting and talking with two other men in a Ukiah high school classroom. Between the three — medic Corey Bender, 44, and firefighters Lucas Boek, 40, and Brendan Turner, 46 — they have nearly 60 years of experience in emergency response. Sixty years of running toward car accidents, gunshots and flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not the physical danger of the work that these guys are talking about today. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something else, something that until recently has been pretty difficult to discuss openly: their mental health. A \u003ca href=\"http://rudermanfoundation.org/white_papers/police-officers-and-firefighters-are-more-likely-to-die-by-suicide-than-in-line-of-duty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 study\u003c/a> found that police officers and firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty. Another \u003ca href=\"https://www.phoenix.edu/about_us/media-center/news/uopx-releases-first-responder-mental-health-survey-results.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> done last year by the University of Phoenix found that 85 percent of first responders have symptoms related to mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To a certain extent I agree with what my therapist said, which is that she’s never met a first responder that’s been working in the field full-time for more than 20 years that isn’t a little bit messed up,” Turner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_2982-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Turner stands by his fire truck behind the Redwood Valley Fire Department in Mendocino.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698397\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brendan Turner stands by his fire truck behind the Redwood Valley Fire Department in Mendocino. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they talk, these guys keep going back to the metaphor of “the bucket” to explain the effect of cumulative stress on their psyches. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each call they respond to adds another rock to that bucket, and when that bucket overflows, the effects can be disastrous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bender says he’s personally known veteran paramedics and firefighters who have quit on a dime, have been alienated from their families or have committed suicide after years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the number one killer in the fire and EMS services is heart attack,” Bender says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation these three guys are having was pretty unthinkable even just a few years ago. But for many of those who responded to the October fire siege, this conversation is not only urgent now — but finally possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know every single call was a drop in that bucket, and that bucket for some of us was pretty darn close to full before that happened,” Turner says. “It got kicked over in October for many of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Last October\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 8, 2017, Turner was acting fire chief in Redwood Valley, when he got a call around 11:30 p.m. about a fire in the neighboring town of Potter Valley. An hour later, an ember pushed by incredibly high winds ignited another fire that was sweeping down into Redwood Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters consider a fire moving at 3 mph to be extremely dangerous, Turner says. This fire was moving 18-20 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698403\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_3013-e1539362096335-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood Valley relies on a largely volunteer firefighting department like many rural towns.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698403\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood Valley relies on a largely volunteer firefighting department like many rural towns. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t outrun that on foot,” Turner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner remembers that night like a series of movie trailers in his head — disjointed and in no particular order. It is a blur of trying to rescue people trapped by flames and making split-second life-or-death decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that I’m ever going to have that full movie in my head,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like nothing Turner had seen before, and it devastated their tiny community of fewer than 2,000 people, burning down more than 500 homes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner’s in-laws lost their home. Another volunteer firefighter drove past his own home on fire, to evacuate people from harm’s way. He wasn’t able to confirm until the following morning that his wife made it out alive. Nine people, including two teenagers, died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Turner and Boek, this fire was incredibly personal. They had spent time inside the homes that were burning and knew the burn patients they were bandaging and sending to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it just really wrecked me, like it really hurt a lot,” Boek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Injury, Not a Disorder\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Turner says in the months after the fire he became a hermit. He stopped going out in public or shopping at the local supermarket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My perception was that, you know, people were looking at me different,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But isolation also didn’t help. He would wake up in the night in full fight-or-flight mode, replaying the worst calls of his career. When the wind picked up, his whole body would go taut and his chest would tighten.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Mental Health Resources for First Responders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.managingtheghosts.org/resources/\">‘Managing the Ghosts,’ a Meeting Directory for First Responders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/managingtheghosts/?ref=br_rs\">A First Responders Facebook Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/helping-someone-with-ptsd.htm\">Resources for the Loved Ones of First Responders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ptsdusa.org/get-help/first-responders/ptsd-assessment-form/\">A PTSD Assessment Form for First Responders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then on Christmas Eve, a friend who’d also been an emergency responder came up to him at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That person approached me and said, ‘I think you need to talk to somebody,'” Turner remembers. “Without blinking. I said, ‘Yes I think that’s a good idea.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In therapy Turner was finally able to talk about not just the October firestorm, but his 23 years of being a witness to some of the most extreme and traumatic events human beings experience. It all came tumbling out of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Turner was diagnosed with PTSD. But he doesn’t think of it as a disorder, which implies a pre-existing condition. He calls it an injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at it the same way as if I were to break my ankle on a call,” he says. “I would go to an orthopedic surgeon, right, and get that fixed? I view this the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner says now he is learning how to treat this injury, through breathing techniques, meditation and by reaching out to other first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not the Only One\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Turner reached out to Corey Bender, his old friend from paramedic school, with the idea of putting together a peer group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, ‘I think that’s an amazing idea,'” Bender says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_3363-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Corey Bender has been a medic for 18 years. He now lives in Redwood Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698401\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Bender has been a medic for 18 years. He now lives in Redwood Valley. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Completely independently, Bender found he was being approached by more and more people — military veterans, police officers, medics and sheriff’s deputies — all of them speaking about the same thing: PTSD and cumulative stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peer group now gets together every few weeks or so, and they just talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner remembers a meeting in which he was describing the symptoms he has of chest discomfort — a kind of numbing sensation that travels down his arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I don’t want my kids to think that I’m hurt or broken, even though maybe I am a little hurt and broken.’\u003ccite>Firefighter Lucas Boek\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One of the members of that group said, ‘Oh no it starts right here.’” Turner says the man pointed to an area on his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘And it feels like crawling under your skin,’” Tuner says. “And I apologized. I said, ‘I’m sorry did I already tell you this?’ He goes, ‘No, I’m telling you what I experience.’ It was almost identical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is made up primarily of people who have been doing this work for decades. They share bad calls, but also talk about their fears, their feelings and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighter Boek says he called up Turner one day because he felt like he was letting down his kids. He was used to being able to handle anything — he kind of felt like Superman. Now he found himself crying in the kitchen for no apparent reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want my kids to think that I’m hurt or broken, even though maybe I am a little hurt and broken,” Boek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_3366-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighter Lucas Boek says the Redwood Valley Fire hit himself and his community really hard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighter Lucas Boek says the Redwood Valley Fire hit himself and his community really hard. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Turner says he has come to see that they’ve been actually letting down their families for years — by pretending that they’re not affected by this work. They can actually help their own kids, he says, and other young people who are just starting out as emergency responders by modeling emotional openness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s one positive that I can see from that horrible incident, it’s that the shell that was starting to crack — the attitude and really the lack of honesty about emotions in emergency services — it went from having some cracks in it to shattering for a lot of us,” Turner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A New Kind of Emergency Responder\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, Turned stepped down as assistant fire chief in Redwood Valley. He still volunteers, but he has a new job now teaching health occupations to high school kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with homework assignments and reading, the words “evacuations” and “disaster response” are written on whiteboard in his classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of his students are considering a career in emergency response. He wants them to go into this work with their eyes wide open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Turner’s class did a review of Hurricane Katrina. They spent three days watching footage of the disaster and discussing the health care crisis that occurred in the hurricane’s aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s pretty heavy for some high school kids to watch that,” Turner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, a counselor for the school came into the classroom and did a presentation on techniques to deal with stress and emotions. Turner said when things would get intense, they would take a break and all practice breathing exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RanchFire_AW_105-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter holds a hand tool ready to build containment around the Ranch Fire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698407\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter holds a hand tool ready to build containment around the Ranch Fire. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Turner hopes by sharing his own experiences and teaching these young people the tools to cope with those experiences, he can better equip them to manage their own buckets of rocks, now and in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t have to end with the firefighter walking in and dropping their gear on the floor and saying you know, ‘Bleep this, I’m done,'” he says. “And I think that’s really what we want to prevent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Marisa Lagos contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To a certain extent I agree with what my therapist said, which is that she’s never met a first responder that’s been working in the field full-time for more than 20 years that isn’t a little bit messed up,” Turner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_2982-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Turner stands by his fire truck behind the Redwood Valley Fire Department in Mendocino.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698397\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brendan Turner stands by his fire truck behind the Redwood Valley Fire Department in Mendocino. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they talk, these guys keep going back to the metaphor of “the bucket” to explain the effect of cumulative stress on their psyches. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each call they respond to adds another rock to that bucket, and when that bucket overflows, the effects can be disastrous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bender says he’s personally known veteran paramedics and firefighters who have quit on a dime, have been alienated from their families or have committed suicide after years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the number one killer in the fire and EMS services is heart attack,” Bender says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation these three guys are having was pretty unthinkable even just a few years ago. But for many of those who responded to the October fire siege, this conversation is not only urgent now — but finally possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know every single call was a drop in that bucket, and that bucket for some of us was pretty darn close to full before that happened,” Turner says. “It got kicked over in October for many of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Last October\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 8, 2017, Turner was acting fire chief in Redwood Valley, when he got a call around 11:30 p.m. about a fire in the neighboring town of Potter Valley. An hour later, an ember pushed by incredibly high winds ignited another fire that was sweeping down into Redwood Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters consider a fire moving at 3 mph to be extremely dangerous, Turner says. This fire was moving 18-20 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698403\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_3013-e1539362096335-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood Valley relies on a largely volunteer firefighting department like many rural towns.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698403\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood Valley relies on a largely volunteer firefighting department like many rural towns. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t outrun that on foot,” Turner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner remembers that night like a series of movie trailers in his head — disjointed and in no particular order. It is a blur of trying to rescue people trapped by flames and making split-second life-or-death decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that I’m ever going to have that full movie in my head,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like nothing Turner had seen before, and it devastated their tiny community of fewer than 2,000 people, burning down more than 500 homes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner’s in-laws lost their home. Another volunteer firefighter drove past his own home on fire, to evacuate people from harm’s way. He wasn’t able to confirm until the following morning that his wife made it out alive. Nine people, including two teenagers, died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Turner and Boek, this fire was incredibly personal. They had spent time inside the homes that were burning and knew the burn patients they were bandaging and sending to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it just really wrecked me, like it really hurt a lot,” Boek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Injury, Not a Disorder\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Turner says in the months after the fire he became a hermit. He stopped going out in public or shopping at the local supermarket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My perception was that, you know, people were looking at me different,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But isolation also didn’t help. He would wake up in the night in full fight-or-flight mode, replaying the worst calls of his career. When the wind picked up, his whole body would go taut and his chest would tighten.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Mental Health Resources for First Responders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.managingtheghosts.org/resources/\">‘Managing the Ghosts,’ a Meeting Directory for First Responders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/managingtheghosts/?ref=br_rs\">A First Responders Facebook Group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/helping-someone-with-ptsd.htm\">Resources for the Loved Ones of First Responders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ptsdusa.org/get-help/first-responders/ptsd-assessment-form/\">A PTSD Assessment Form for First Responders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then on Christmas Eve, a friend who’d also been an emergency responder came up to him at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That person approached me and said, ‘I think you need to talk to somebody,'” Turner remembers. “Without blinking. I said, ‘Yes I think that’s a good idea.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In therapy Turner was finally able to talk about not just the October firestorm, but his 23 years of being a witness to some of the most extreme and traumatic events human beings experience. It all came tumbling out of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Turner was diagnosed with PTSD. But he doesn’t think of it as a disorder, which implies a pre-existing condition. He calls it an injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at it the same way as if I were to break my ankle on a call,” he says. “I would go to an orthopedic surgeon, right, and get that fixed? I view this the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner says now he is learning how to treat this injury, through breathing techniques, meditation and by reaching out to other first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not the Only One\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Turner reached out to Corey Bender, his old friend from paramedic school, with the idea of putting together a peer group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, ‘I think that’s an amazing idea,'” Bender says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_3363-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Corey Bender has been a medic for 18 years. He now lives in Redwood Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698401\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Bender has been a medic for 18 years. He now lives in Redwood Valley. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Completely independently, Bender found he was being approached by more and more people — military veterans, police officers, medics and sheriff’s deputies — all of them speaking about the same thing: PTSD and cumulative stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peer group now gets together every few weeks or so, and they just talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner remembers a meeting in which he was describing the symptoms he has of chest discomfort — a kind of numbing sensation that travels down his arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I don’t want my kids to think that I’m hurt or broken, even though maybe I am a little hurt and broken.’\u003ccite>Firefighter Lucas Boek\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One of the members of that group said, ‘Oh no it starts right here.’” Turner says the man pointed to an area on his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘And it feels like crawling under your skin,’” Tuner says. “And I apologized. 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"content": "\u003cp>Wildfire has been an integral part of California ecosystems for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520246058/fire-in-californias-ecosystems\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">centuries\u003c/a>. Now, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/wui/state_summary/#wui-houses\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly a third of homes in the state\u003c/a> are in wildland urban interface areas where houses intermingling with wildlands and fire is a natural phenomenon. Just as Californians must live with earthquake risk, they must live with wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaped by ignitions, climate and fuels, wildfires are likely to become more \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/wildfires-in-west-have-gotten-bigger-more-frequent-and-longer-since-the-1980s-42993\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frequent and severe with climate change\u003c/a>. The 2017 experience of the largest and most damaging wildfires in California history, and ongoing destructive fires in 2018, provide a window of opportunity for learning to better \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/learning-to-live-with-wildfires-how-communities-can-become-fire-adapted-59508\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coexist\u003c/a> with wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both governments and people tend to adopt only short-term responses that don’t necessarily \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/california-needs-to-rethink-urban-fire-risk-starting-with-where-it-builds-houses-88825\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce risk effectively\u003c/a>. For example, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, after visiting fires in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/08/active-forest-management-prevent-wildfires-column/913801002/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> the solution to wildfire prevention is more \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-tells-california-how-to-stop-wildfires-cut-down-trees_us_5b712e75e4b0ae32af996079\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">active management\u003c/a> to remove fuel from forests. In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026587142989008897\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweet\u003c/a>, President Trump criticized California’s handling of the wildfires, blaming its environmental policies and saying that tree clearing is needed to contain fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, focusing on traditional approaches like fighting fires and fuels management alone can’t solve the wildfire problem. Instead, California must become better prepared for inevitable fires and change how it develops future communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Change Will Make Fires Worse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many decades, reducing ignitions was the focus of much public and government attention. Smokey Bear chided, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.smokeybear.com/en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Only you can prevent forest fires\u003c/a>.” Indeed, ignitions play a role in determining \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2012/nrs_2012_bar_001.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when and where fires occur\u003c/a>. However, whether ignitions translate into fires that spread to larger areas with substantial risks to human infrastructure depends strongly on weather and fuel conditions at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-of-the-art climate \u003ca href=\"https://cal-adapt.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">projections\u003c/a> estimate that annual average daily temperatures are expected to increase by 3-5 degrees Celsius in the next few decades, increasing how fast fuels will dry out. In mountainous parts of California, increasing temperatures also cause snow to melt earlier, \u003ca href=\"http://science.sciencemag.org/content/313/5789/940\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lengthening the summer fire season\u003c/a>. The number of days with extreme temperatures, when fire risks are especially high, is also expected to double by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher temperatures and drought combine to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21560682\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create fuels that are dry and highly flammable\u003c/a>. Extreme rainfall events, which contribute to post-fire flooding, erosion and even \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/post-fire-mudslide-problems-arent-new-and-likely-to-get-worse-90048\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debris flows\u003c/a>, are also expected to increase in frequency and intensity. Taken together, these changes in climate are \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014GL059576\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely to increase the length of the fire season\u003c/a>, fire size and fire severity, and the \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014GL059576\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impacts of fire for much of the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuel management such as controlled burns, vegetation clearing, forest thinning and fire breaks can sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/6/549/249143\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce fire severity\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112705000411\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">limit the size of fires\u003c/a>. However, like taking vitamin C and exercising, which cannot completely prevent colds, fuel management cannot eliminate fires. \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/barkbeetles/135/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dry enough fuels\u003c/a> and high enough temperatures and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/get/545d07bce4b0ba8303f7239f\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winds will spread fires\u003c/a>. And fuel management need to be maintained over time, or vegetation regrows and reduces the effectiveness of such actions – often within five to 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expense of fuel management can certainly be worthwhile if it uses best-available science to inform active management practices. Fuel management plans must also take advantage of advances in fire science to strategically inform where and how often to perform fuels management on different landscapes. But even well-designed fuel management will not eliminate fires, nor even severe fires and the substantial losses associated with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Right After Fires Is the Time to Make Changes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the largest and most destructive fire \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Acres.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have occurred in the last decade\u003c/a>. As of July 2018, the Mendocino Complex Fire is the largest fire in recorded California history. In 2017, the Tubbs Fire, the most damaging California fire at that time, burned more than 5,000 structures. In response, the California state legislature is considering at least \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billSearchClient.xhtml?author=All&lawCode=All&session_year=20172018&keyword=wildfire&house=Both\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">57 bills related to wildfire\u003c/a>. Our research shows that this is typical; governments often respond to wildfire quickly and \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3173855\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decisively\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people and governments don’t always respond in ways that reduce the risk most effectively. For example, our research shows that they place fuels management projects close to places that have had recent wildfires. These are often places at reduced risk of wildfire relative to places that haven’t just had a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://serifire.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our research shows\u003c/a> that responses to wildfire and other natural hazards tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0208-8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce risks in the short rather than long term\u003c/a>. Moreover, most responses to fire are focused on suppression and fuels management, rather than also emphasizing other policy responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strategies for Living With Wildfire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the wildfire problem will require policy solutions that reflect a shift in perspective from fighting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanscientist.org/article/coexisting-with-wildfire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coexisting with wildfire\u003c/a>. Here are some specific ways to achieve that goal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reducing incentives to locate in the wildland-urban interface: Local decision-makers need incentives to support safer and more sustainable development, recognizing that fire is inevitable in their communities. The relative lack of disincentives to develop in risky areas – for example, expecting state and federal payments for suppression and losses – ensures that local decisions will continue to promote disasters for which we all pay. And people must begin to pay the costs for living in fire-prone landscapes. Rather than encouraging development by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfpnet.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guaranteed fire insurance\u003c/a> and publicly funded fire suppression, we need to ensure that prospective homeowners can make informed decisions about the risks they face in the WUI.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Retrofitting existing housing stock: Homes often ignite and burn due to flying embers from a burning landscape far from the structure itself. There is a crucial need for \u003ca href=\"http://www.readyforwildfire.org/Hardening-Your-Home/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retrofits of existing structures\u003c/a>, such as replacing wood roofing and screening attic vents, which are cost-effective ways to reduce home losses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating more sustainable future development: Building new homes on fire-prone landscapes increases our exposure and the risk of losses. \u003ca href=\"https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2018/0803/Wildfires-force-California-to-reckon-with-a-not-so-new-normal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Future development\u003c/a> needs to concentrate structures in the lower hazard portions of the landscape and avoid the highest hazard areas, as with other natural hazards. We can achieve safer spatial layouts for neighborhoods by, for example, including buffering with non-flammable features such as orchards, and ease the work of fire fighters by, for example, clustering homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Improving evacuation planning, education and warning systems: Regardless of where people end up living, we will eventually be faced with evacuation due to inevitable wildfires. Evacuation planning can begin with spatial land use planning that accounts for multiple exit routes and ease of access. But it must extend to early education about evacuation. People must know in advance how to respond to wildfire, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fire-warnings-failure-20171229-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evacuation-warning systems must be robust\u003c/a> by having, for example, redundant technologies. Warning and education must also address the many consequences of fire beyond home and infrastructure loss, including health impacts of exposure to smoke, post-fire flooding and landslide risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California has a great deal to learn from other inevitable natural hazards. Following the roadmap for earthquakes, from seismic planning to earthquake retrofitting to education campaigns, the state can move the response to wildfire from reactive fighting to comprehensive preparedness. Increasing wildfires – in number, size and severity – may be inevitable. However, increasing home losses, fatalities and costs are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was originally published through \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many decades, reducing ignitions was the focus of much public and government attention. Smokey Bear chided, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.smokeybear.com/en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Only you can prevent forest fires\u003c/a>.” Indeed, ignitions play a role in determining \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2012/nrs_2012_bar_001.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when and where fires occur\u003c/a>. However, whether ignitions translate into fires that spread to larger areas with substantial risks to human infrastructure depends strongly on weather and fuel conditions at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-of-the-art climate \u003ca href=\"https://cal-adapt.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">projections\u003c/a> estimate that annual average daily temperatures are expected to increase by 3-5 degrees Celsius in the next few decades, increasing how fast fuels will dry out. In mountainous parts of California, increasing temperatures also cause snow to melt earlier, \u003ca href=\"http://science.sciencemag.org/content/313/5789/940\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lengthening the summer fire season\u003c/a>. The number of days with extreme temperatures, when fire risks are especially high, is also expected to double by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher temperatures and drought combine to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21560682\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create fuels that are dry and highly flammable\u003c/a>. Extreme rainfall events, which contribute to post-fire flooding, erosion and even \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/post-fire-mudslide-problems-arent-new-and-likely-to-get-worse-90048\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debris flows\u003c/a>, are also expected to increase in frequency and intensity. Taken together, these changes in climate are \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014GL059576\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely to increase the length of the fire season\u003c/a>, fire size and fire severity, and the \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014GL059576\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impacts of fire for much of the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuel management such as controlled burns, vegetation clearing, forest thinning and fire breaks can sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/6/549/249143\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce fire severity\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112705000411\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">limit the size of fires\u003c/a>. However, like taking vitamin C and exercising, which cannot completely prevent colds, fuel management cannot eliminate fires. \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/barkbeetles/135/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dry enough fuels\u003c/a> and high enough temperatures and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/get/545d07bce4b0ba8303f7239f\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winds will spread fires\u003c/a>. And fuel management need to be maintained over time, or vegetation regrows and reduces the effectiveness of such actions – often within five to 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expense of fuel management can certainly be worthwhile if it uses best-available science to inform active management practices. Fuel management plans must also take advantage of advances in fire science to strategically inform where and how often to perform fuels management on different landscapes. But even well-designed fuel management will not eliminate fires, nor even severe fires and the substantial losses associated with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Right After Fires Is the Time to Make Changes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the largest and most destructive fire \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Acres.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have occurred in the last decade\u003c/a>. As of July 2018, the Mendocino Complex Fire is the largest fire in recorded California history. In 2017, the Tubbs Fire, the most damaging California fire at that time, burned more than 5,000 structures. In response, the California state legislature is considering at least \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billSearchClient.xhtml?author=All&lawCode=All&session_year=20172018&keyword=wildfire&house=Both\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">57 bills related to wildfire\u003c/a>. Our research shows that this is typical; governments often respond to wildfire quickly and \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3173855\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decisively\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people and governments don’t always respond in ways that reduce the risk most effectively. For example, our research shows that they place fuels management projects close to places that have had recent wildfires. These are often places at reduced risk of wildfire relative to places that haven’t just had a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://serifire.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our research shows\u003c/a> that responses to wildfire and other natural hazards tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0208-8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce risks in the short rather than long term\u003c/a>. Moreover, most responses to fire are focused on suppression and fuels management, rather than also emphasizing other policy responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strategies for Living With Wildfire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the wildfire problem will require policy solutions that reflect a shift in perspective from fighting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanscientist.org/article/coexisting-with-wildfire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coexisting with wildfire\u003c/a>. Here are some specific ways to achieve that goal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reducing incentives to locate in the wildland-urban interface: Local decision-makers need incentives to support safer and more sustainable development, recognizing that fire is inevitable in their communities. The relative lack of disincentives to develop in risky areas – for example, expecting state and federal payments for suppression and losses – ensures that local decisions will continue to promote disasters for which we all pay. And people must begin to pay the costs for living in fire-prone landscapes. Rather than encouraging development by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfpnet.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guaranteed fire insurance\u003c/a> and publicly funded fire suppression, we need to ensure that prospective homeowners can make informed decisions about the risks they face in the WUI.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Retrofitting existing housing stock: Homes often ignite and burn due to flying embers from a burning landscape far from the structure itself. There is a crucial need for \u003ca href=\"http://www.readyforwildfire.org/Hardening-Your-Home/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retrofits of existing structures\u003c/a>, such as replacing wood roofing and screening attic vents, which are cost-effective ways to reduce home losses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating more sustainable future development: Building new homes on fire-prone landscapes increases our exposure and the risk of losses. \u003ca href=\"https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2018/0803/Wildfires-force-California-to-reckon-with-a-not-so-new-normal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Future development\u003c/a> needs to concentrate structures in the lower hazard portions of the landscape and avoid the highest hazard areas, as with other natural hazards. We can achieve safer spatial layouts for neighborhoods by, for example, including buffering with non-flammable features such as orchards, and ease the work of fire fighters by, for example, clustering homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Improving evacuation planning, education and warning systems: Regardless of where people end up living, we will eventually be faced with evacuation due to inevitable wildfires. Evacuation planning can begin with spatial land use planning that accounts for multiple exit routes and ease of access. But it must extend to early education about evacuation. People must know in advance how to respond to wildfire, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fire-warnings-failure-20171229-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evacuation-warning systems must be robust\u003c/a> by having, for example, redundant technologies. Warning and education must also address the many consequences of fire beyond home and infrastructure loss, including health impacts of exposure to smoke, post-fire flooding and landslide risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California has a great deal to learn from other inevitable natural hazards. Following the roadmap for earthquakes, from seismic planning to earthquake retrofitting to education campaigns, the state can move the response to wildfire from reactive fighting to comprehensive preparedness. Increasing wildfires – in number, size and severity – may be inevitable. However, increasing home losses, fatalities and costs are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bureau of Cannabis Control\u003c/a> is holding a series of public hearings on draft rules that would clearly allow door-to-door pot deliveries even in places where cannabis sales are banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Californians are pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing on Monday, Charles Harvey, legislative representative for public safety for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League of California Cities\u003c/a>, said his organization has concerns about the proposed regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said local authorities should have the right to regulate pot businesses in their jurisdictions, as dictated by existing pot laws under \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prop 64\u003c/a>. The league represents 475 of the state’s 482 cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These proposed regulations seek to diminish the voice of locals,” Harvey said. “If finalized, they could also lead to greater public safety obligations and costs for local law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of Cannabis Control, however, believes delivering marijuana across city and county lines — even to a city that’s banned marijuana sales — is legal under current state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesman Alex Traverso pointed out provisions of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 94\u003c/a>, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last year. The law says cites “shall not prevent delivery of cannabis or cannabis products on public roads by a licensee acting in compliance with this division and local law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are clarifying that point,” Traverso said. “While it could still change, our view is that delivery is currently legal statewide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacannabisindustry.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Cannabis Industry Association\u003c/a> spokesman Josh Drayton said pot delivery will mean more tax dollars and greater public safety for cities who participate by adopting local rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The priority of Prop. 64 was to prioritize safety and health by creating regulations for an existing industry,” said Drayton. “The safety issue is most prevalent in cities and counties with no regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traverso said the Bureau of Cannabis Control will use feedback from the public hearings on this and other pot-related regulations to refine the draft regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hearing the pros and cons on either side,” Traverso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Los Angeles. A final hearing is scheduled in Sacramento on Aug. 27. The regulations must be finalized by the first week of December, Traverso said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California legislators passed the California Coastal Act in 1976 as a way to protect the state’s famed shoreline and to enshrine beach access for all. But that landmark law has spawned a nearly five-decade-long tug-of-war between the state and private property owners. Now, two highly-publicized legal skirmishes — including one pending before the U.S. Supreme Court — have coastal advocates worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara native Joshua Brown practically grew up in the ocean waves here in California’s picturesque Santa Barbara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started surfing when I was about 11-years-old and I spent a lot of time in the water swimming, kayaking, surfing — being very comfortable in the ocean,” said the 26-year-old resident of Kernville.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622403/coastal-protection-on-the-edge-the-challenge-of-preserving-californias-legacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Protection on the Edge: The Challenge of Preserving California’s Legacy\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So Brown didn’t hesitate in 2010 when friends invited him to strap his surfboard to a kayak and paddle more than two miles to the coveted shores of Hollister Ranch — a community renowned for its legendary waves and pristine coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s insanely beautiful,” Brown said. “There’s otters, there’s all kinds of sea life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 14,500-acre Hollister Ranch is a subdivision of mostly 100-acre lots, owned by wealthy surfers and celebrities. The Ranch is private, gated and patrolled by security guards. Beach trails within the ranch are off-limits to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s exactly how Hollister land owners would like it to stay. They have been fighting to keep their beach private for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most recent battle, land owners filed a lawsuit in 2013 challenging the state of California’s claim to an easement that provides the only public access by land to a small beach within the famed ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the parties quietly struck a legal settlement — without public input or public knowledge — that would have California extinguish the land-based access claim. In exchange, Hollister owners would open up a narrow strip of beach to the public, but only to those willing to risk the ocean journey by small craft, such as kayaks, paddleboards or soft-bottom boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1920209/silicon-valley-billionaire-takes-case-over-public-beach-access-to-u-s-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Billionaire Takes Case Over Public Beach Access to U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely unfair, it’s unreasonable and I’m really surprised the state would agree to such a settlement that exposes the public to significant risk,” said Susan Jordan, executive director of the California Coastal Protection Network. “The general member of the public would not be able to manage this and I would advise them not to even try to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Brown agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The afternoon winds during his 2010 trip snuck up during his paddle home, turning the placid ocean surface into a roiling mass of whitecaps. The winds flipped his kayak and blew his companions far beyond the shore. Thankfully, he said, surfers passing in a motor boat helped tow them back safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understood the ocean but it ended up becoming a very dangerous trip,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geography and weather make the ocean trek “unpredictable and treacherous,” said Marc Chytilo, an attorney for the Gaviota Coast Conservancy and the Gaviota Coastal Trail Alliance, a collection of coastal advocacy groups now challenging the pending settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It goes past four canyons which are notorious for having off-shore winds blowing under sundowner conditions,” Chytilo said of the ocean trek from Gaviota State Park to the Cuarto Canyon beach at the Hollister Ranch. “Twenty-five to 40-mile-an-hour winds come out of those canyon mouths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Colleen Sterne gave the settlement preliminary approval, subject to public notification and the opportunity for any interested party to intervene in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal advocates and hundreds of Californians have sent emails to the California Coastal Commission contending that ocean-only access is tantamount to no access at all. And that, Chytilo says, violates California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California constitution and the Coastal Act provide that the public’s right to access the ocean cannot be denied,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Coastal Commissioner Aaron Peskin said the proposed legal settlement, brokered by the State Attorney General’s office “wasn’t ideal but we were making the best of a bad situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good news is that the public has weighed in: over 1,500 individuals have sent emails,” Peskin said. “They’ve all been heartfelt and that’s really refocused the commission on the longer term goal of getting real public access, not only by water and not only by small groups to Hollister ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680479/santa-cruz-neighborhood-rejects-state-compromise-wont-open-gated-beach-for-free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Cruz Neighborhood Rejects State Compromise, Won’t Open Gated Beach for Free\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Hollister Ranch Owners Association would comment only by written statement. The group characterized the pending settlement, which also includes the expansion of an existing tide pool program for students and of limited tours for certain non-profit groups as “fair and reasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the settlement reflects an appropriate balance of interests – including managed public access to the beach and the continued privacy and security of the Ranch residents,” Monte Ward, president of the Hollister Ranch Owners Association said in the written statement. “It also assures that the valuable natural resources along the coastline will be respected and protected into the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge will decide whether to give final approval to the settlement after a final hearing on Sept. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, near San Francisco, Silicon Valley billionaire, Vinod Khosla, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/silicon-valley-billionaire-takes-case-over-public-beach-access-to-u-s-supreme-court/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been fighting for years to block the beach-going public from crossing his land\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing in the state’s lower courts, the Sun Microsystems co-founder is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his challenge to the California Coastal Act. That challenge puts the landmark law at risk, said Richard Frank, director of the California Environmental Law and Policy Center at the University of California at Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Supreme Court has been very concerned about private property rights, particularly as they bump up against coastal access concerns, pretty much since the creation of the California Coastal Act,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the conservative-leaning high court agrees to hear the case, Frank says, private property rights could win out and limit how California manages its nearly one-thousand-mile coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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