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"content": "\u003cp>Embers falling on their heads, Venesa Rhodes and her husband had seconds to rush their two beloved cats into their SUV before a wildfire last summer would overtake them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One cat got in. But the other, named Bella, bolted and disappeared as the blaze bore down. The couple had no choice but to flee, and their home and much of the neighborhood in Redding, California, soon was reduced to ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes and her husband, Stephen Cobb, presumed Bella was dead. Devastated by their losses, they moved 1,800 miles to Rhodes' hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, to start over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly six weeks later, they got a call that left them gobsmacked: Bella was alive. Volunteers had put out a feeding station at Rhodes' burned-out property, staked it out after spotting the cat, and then trapped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started bawling,\" Rhodes said from Anchorage, where Bella was curled up in a corner sleeping. \"We were shocked. 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They tried luring him with steak and french fries, another dog and a pickup truck like the one his owner drove before finally nabbing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a two-woman, two-hour operation. One woman crawled on the ground and placed food under a trap and the other waited in a truck and pulled a rope to complete the capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bray, a private pilot by day, once spent nearly seven hours trapping a cat. The wait was worth it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many of these people have lost everything,\" Bray said. \"The only thing they care about is finding their pet that they love. They want that hope back in their lives and we're trying to provide that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pierce, a Lyons, Colorado-based bioethicist who studies end-of-life issues involving humans and their pets, said losing a beloved animal and a home is a double whammy of grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To then be reunited with a pet you thought was gone, that would be like getting a piece of your home back,\" she said. \"For many people, pets are a sense of home, and they identify home with a sense of comfort and peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve and Susan Cortopassi were reunited with their cat, Big Ernie, on Oct. 3, more than two months after the fire started. Their other cat, Elsa, was found about three weeks after the fire, which destroyed their home of 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortopassis had to evacuate in the middle of the night. They grabbed their two dogs but weren't able to track down the cats. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes and Cobb are among dozens of people who lost their homes in the deadly Carr Fire but had their lives brightened weeks or months later when their pets were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network of about 35 volunteers — called Carr Fire Pet Rescue and Reunification — is responsible for many of the happy endings, which continue more than two months after firefighters extinguished the blaze, which destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed six people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group formed with the help of another volunteer animal group born out of the devastating Tubbs Fire, which killed at least 22 people and destroyed thousands of homes last year in wine country north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Bray, a field coordinator for the Carr Fire group, said about 80 pets have been reunited with their families using social media and specially made kiosks in Redding where images of found pets are posted. Most are cats that have \"been through hell,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bray said each new reunion fuels her and the other volunteers, many of whom use their own money to trap and treat the animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen amazing things,\" Bray said. \"We're finding cats that were in a house and the owners presumed they had passed. The heat of fire breaks windows in houses and cats jump out and run and hide. They're survivalists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers go to elaborate lengths to catch the animals, which often are traumatized and injured. Equipped with night-vision cameras, traps and lots of food for bait, the volunteers stake out an area where a missing pet has been spotted, waiting for the right moment to drop a trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They won a hard-fought rescue of a dog nicknamed Buddy on Oct. 27 after he had eluded capture for weeks. They tried luring him with steak and french fries, another dog and a pickup truck like the one his owner drove before finally nabbing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a two-woman, two-hour operation. One woman crawled on the ground and placed food under a trap and the other waited in a truck and pulled a rope to complete the capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bray, a private pilot by day, once spent nearly seven hours trapping a cat. The wait was worth it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many of these people have lost everything,\" Bray said. \"The only thing they care about is finding their pet that they love. They want that hope back in their lives and we're trying to provide that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pierce, a Lyons, Colorado-based bioethicist who studies end-of-life issues involving humans and their pets, said losing a beloved animal and a home is a double whammy of grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To then be reunited with a pet you thought was gone, that would be like getting a piece of your home back,\" she said. \"For many people, pets are a sense of home, and they identify home with a sense of comfort and peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve and Susan Cortopassi were reunited with their cat, Big Ernie, on Oct. 3, more than two months after the fire started. Their other cat, Elsa, was found about three weeks after the fire, which destroyed their home of 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortopassis had to evacuate in the middle of the night. They grabbed their two dogs but weren't able to track down the cats. A friend showed Cortopassi cellphone video of her destroyed home a couple days after the fire and she figured the cats were gone forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just complete and utter devastation,\" she said. \"It's just a miracle they're alive. It's like, life finds a way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes got her call on Sept. 2, 41 days after the fire began. Bella, who is 2, had some burns on her belly, her long black hair was singed to medium length and she was underweight. Her formerly gray paws are now permanently pink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was found, Rhodes and Cobb drove to Redding over five days with their other cat, Mama, so the whole family could be reunited. After staying in a hotel for another five days to make sure Bella was OK, the whole family returned to Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have friends that don't even like cats thinking how crazy we were and we just said, 'They're part of our family,'\" Rhodes said. \"I lost a lot. Thank goodness we did get Bella back because our hearts were just sunken.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has appealed the citations, according to Frank Polizzi, a spokesman for the California Department of Industrial Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Dominikus did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fines amount to a slap on the wrist, according to Veena Dubal, associate professor of law at UC Hastings College of the Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The civil penalties imposed against these heavy equipment contractors for not carrying workers’ compensation insurance are minuscule, compared with the repercussions on the families of the injured and the dead,” said Dubal, who specializes in employment law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith was the third private contractor to die while helping state and federal agencies battle major wildfires in California in the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the company he worked for has become the fourth heavy equipment firm to be penalized by the state for not abiding by workers’ compensation insurance rules after the death or injury to one its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the commissioner’s office fined Red Bluff-based Tehama Transport, which hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636192/chp-blames-bad-brakes-for-crash-that-killed-water-tender-driver-in-north-bay-fires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garrett Paiz\u003c/a>, 38, killed during the North Bay fires after the water tender he was driving in Napa County crashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) penalized Czirban Concrete Construction, the firm that hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11627905/family-of-contract-dozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-drops-suit-against-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reagan\u003c/a>, 35, killed in July 2016 during the Soberanes Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County prosecutors later filed insurance fraud and failure to provide workers’ compensation insurance charges, among other counts, against the owner of that company, Ian Czirban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA also penalized Groveland-based (Tuolumne County) Industrial Defense Development, which employed then 60-year-old John Tiersma, for not having workers’ comp coverage. Tiersma suffered serious injuries when the water tender he was operating rolled over and down a hill that September in 2016 — also in the Soberanes blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubal said with wildfires already a growing problem in California, state officials need to do a better job of making sure firefighting contractors abide by the workers’ compensation requirements or the government should provide the benefit itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the state continues to rely upon contractor labor to fight these fires, then they absolutely must ensure that those contractors and their families are covered by workers’ compensation insurance,” Dubal said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It’s hard to visualize anything other than flat earth and scorched trees, but Iskandar remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The front of our yard was sort of an English countryside theme,” she said. “It was very verdant with rosemary and lavender and a recently planted peach tree. Lots and lots of poppies every summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iskandar and her partner don’t even know if they’ll rebuild their home of 15 years. It all depends on how much money they get from their insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to move on,” Iskandar said. “We’re just stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of their neighbors are in the same position. Many, especially older residents, have given up and sold their lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They couldn’t imagine spending their twilight years rebuilding,” Iskandar explained. “And that’s really sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"Vita Iskandar stands where her home used to be before it was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in October 2017. 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It burned down in the Carr Fire in late July.\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-800x586.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1020x747.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1200x879.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1180x864.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-960x703.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-240x176.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-375x275.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Donna Dowling stand in front of the rubble that used to be the home they built from scratch 25 years ago outside Redding. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The front of our yard was sort of an English countryside theme,” she said. “It was very verdant with rosemary and lavender and a recently planted peach tree. Lots and lots of poppies every summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iskandar and her partner don’t even know if they’ll rebuild their home of 15 years. It all depends on how much money they get from their insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to move on,” Iskandar said. “We’re just stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of their neighbors are in the same position. Many, especially older residents, have given up and sold their lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They couldn’t imagine spending their twilight years rebuilding,” Iskandar explained. “And that’s really sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"Vita Iskandar stands where her home used to be before it was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in October 2017. She doesn't know if she'll rebuild.\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-1020x778.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-1200x915.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-1180x900.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-960x732.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-240x183.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-375x286.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Iskandar-520x397.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vita Iskandar stands where her home used to be before it was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in October, 2017. She doesn’t know if she’ll rebuild. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She and her neighbors who are sticking around are looking out for each other, just like they did the first night of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iskandar put together a \u003ca href=\"https://neighborstogethersr.com/\">website\u003c/a> and email lists to share insurance information, and helps run \u003ca href=\"https://neighborstogethersr.com/event/free-financial-planning-for-fire-survivors-10-20-18/\">workshops\u003c/a> throughout Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helping other people became my coping strategy,” Iskandar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That help has extended 3 1/2 hours north to the community room of the Redding Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Helping other people became my coping strategy.’\u003ccite>Vita Iskandar, Tubbs Fire survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Iskandar recently led a workshop there for survivors of the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689687/deadly-carr-fire-fully-contained-but-work-is-far-from-over\">Carr Fire\u003c/a> that broke out in late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’re trying to accomplish is to inspire the people who would do the same things in this community,” Iskandar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iskandar says sharing information and working together to contact insurance companies helps fire survivors better advocate for more money to rebuild their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Dowling was really excited by that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wouldn’t it be neat though if we could find out who the other Farmers [Insurance] people are?” he asked a small group of fellow Carr Fire survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-800x586.jpg\" alt=\"Jim and Donna Dowling stand in front of the rubble that used to be the home they built from scratch 25 years ago outside Redding. It burned down in the Carr Fire in late July.\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-800x586.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1020x747.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1200x879.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-1180x864.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-960x703.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-240x176.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-375x275.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsStand-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Donna Dowling stand in front of the rubble that used to be the home they built from scratch 25 years ago outside Redding. It burned down in the Carr Fire in late July. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim and his wife Donna sat in a small circle with those fellow survivors, and started brainstorming how they could get people with Farmers Insurance together to send a letter to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fellow Farmers are up against the exact same issues,” Jim Dowling said. “Sixty percent on the contents, and you gotta itemize if you want a farthing more than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the Dowlings can only get 60 percent of the value of their belongings — unless they take an inventory of everything in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially hard to do when there’s nothing left of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their home, which they built from scratch more than 25 years ago, was in a rural neighborhood outside Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a one-story, painted forest green,” Jim Dowling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big 50-foot-long deck in the back,” Donna Dowling added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had lush flower and vegetable gardens, overlooking several acres of undeveloped land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jim and Donna Dowling look at pictures of the lush gardens they maintained outside their home, before it was all destroyed in the Carr Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DowlingsBook-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Donna Dowling look at pictures of the lush gardens they maintained outside their home, before it was all destroyed in the Carr Fire. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m done with the sad stage, I really am. 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"content": "\u003cp>State officials quickly determined an arsonist started last month's huge wildfire southeast of Los Angeles, and that two weeks earlier sparks from a vehicle produced a deadly wildfire in the far northern part of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But causes for many of California's worst blazes of the past decade remain a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reviewed state data on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1928992/half-of-californias-10-largest-fires-occurred-in-the-last-5-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 largest wildfires\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1928992/half-of-californias-10-largest-fires-occurred-in-the-last-5-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 most destructive,\u003c/a> in terms of homes and buildings burned for each year dating to 2008. Lightning was the most common cause, accounting for about a quarter of those fires, followed by incidents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670763/cal-fire-says-pge-power-lines-caused-fires-in-butte-nevada-counties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">involving power lines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, investigators could not determine a cause for about a third of those fires. Experts say each is a missed opportunity to learn something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we don't know what causes a fire, we don't know how to prevent them,\" said Carrie Bilbao, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center who investigated wildfires in Idaho for 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding the trigger aids criminal prosecutions and helps determine liability. It also guides campaigns to change behavior, like avoiding mowing on hot afternoons when fire threat is high. And it leads to safety enhancements, like sleeves on power lines, which came about when it was determined that falling tree branches and birds cause sparks when they hit unprotected electrical wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's estimated human activity — from untended campfires to sparks from vehicles — causes more than 80 percent of all wildfires in the United States, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far in 2018, wildfires have scorched more than 2,000 square miles in California. More than 2,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed, and at least 11 people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683410/carr-fire-expands-in-shasta-two-wildfires-blaze-in-mendocino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mendocino Complex Fire\u003c/a> that burned for nearly two months, killing one firefighter and destroying more than 150 homes, is the largest ever recorded in the state at 720 square miles, an area more than twice the size of New York City. No cause has been determined yet, nor has one been pinpointed for the Ferguson Fire, which prompted the closure of much of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Holy Fire, southeast of Los Angeles, was quickly determined to be arson. Authorities say the suspect was motivated by a feud with his neighbors in the Cleveland National Forest. The fire prompted evacuation orders for 20,000 people and nearly burned through the community of Lake Elsinore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arson was pegged as the cause for only five of California's most destructive or largest fires of the last decade, according to state records, though officials say the true number likely is much higher. That's because for arson to be the cause, no other possibility can exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, even if investigators believe an arsonist was responsible for a fire next to a rail line, they may leave the cause undetermined because they can't rule out a spark from a passing train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding causes that can lead to preventive measures has become more urgent in drought-plagued California. Even as climate change extends the fire season and feeds record-breaking infernos, more homes are being built in rugged areas where fire danger is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times as much acreage has burned so far this year in California as last year, which produced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673398/cal-fire-release-cause-of-a-dozen-more-october-fires-nearly-all-connected-to-pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> that was the most destructive in recorded state history and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11637945/lawsuit-blames-utilities-for-contributing-to-thomas-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a> that, until this year, was the largest ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the most dangerous months for California wildfires are still to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689687/deadly-carr-fire-fully-contained-but-work-is-far-from-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire\u003c/a>, the deadliest so far this year with eight fatalities, started in July with a spark from a vehicle. Whipped by winds, the flames exploded into Redding, the largest city in far Northern California. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver immediately reported the fire, so there was no mystery about how it started. Such quick confirmation is unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trying to investigate any kind of fire is almost like trying to investigate a murder — except most of your evidence has been destroyed, and everything around it has been destroyed, by fire,\" said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lightning maps show no activity in a burn area, the assumption is it was started by humans, and fire investigators immediately head to the spot to cordon it off and protect evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a painstaking process, even when fires are small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators look at how the vegetation is flattened to determine where the flames originated and track it to the ignition point — usually the coldest spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are challenges, especially if the fire occurred along a road or other heavily trafficked area. Crews fighting fires can inadvertently wipe out key clues, like carbon particles from a car backfiring or pieces of porcelain from an exploded catalytic converter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cellphone photos and videos from witnesses help investigators. Drones provide aerial views of a point of ignition, showing burn patterns and strike marks on power lines, which are hard to see from the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often it comes down to two possible causes, which results in the cause being declared undetermined and the case being closed unless new evidence appears. Tolmachoff can't recall an investigation to determine a cause ever reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year's Tubbs and Thomas fires still are under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs, in wine country north of San Francisco, destroyed nearly 5,700 structures and killed 22 people. Thomas, in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, killed two people and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. A month later, heavy rains fell on hills denuded by the fire, unleashing mudslides that killed 21 and left two others missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits seeking billions in damages have been filed. Concern that California's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., would go bankrupt if it's found at fault for the Tubbs Fire prompted the Legislature to pass a bill allowing the company to raise utility bills to pay off lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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More than 2,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed, and at least 11 people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683410/carr-fire-expands-in-shasta-two-wildfires-blaze-in-mendocino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mendocino Complex Fire\u003c/a> that burned for nearly two months, killing one firefighter and destroying more than 150 homes, is the largest ever recorded in the state at 720 square miles, an area more than twice the size of New York City. No cause has been determined yet, nor has one been pinpointed for the Ferguson Fire, which prompted the closure of much of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Holy Fire, southeast of Los Angeles, was quickly determined to be arson. Authorities say the suspect was motivated by a feud with his neighbors in the Cleveland National Forest. 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"content": "\u003cp>The company that hired a bulldozer operator killed during the massive Carr Fire in July does not have a workers’ compensation policy on file with Cal Fire — despite an agency requirement that it show proof its employees were covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mtdemocrat.com/obituaries/donald-ray-smith/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Ray Smith, 81,\u003c/a> from the El Dorado County community of Pollock Pines, died on July 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is the third private contractor to be killed on the job in the last two years helping state and federal firefighters battle a large wildfire in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies that hired the two other deceased workers also lacked workers’ compensation policies, which typically provide a wide range of benefits for workers hurt, disabled or killed on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These three men put their lives on the line for Californians,” said Veena Dubal, an associate professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. “It’s extremely upsetting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith was working for Pollock Pines-based Robert Dominikus General Engineering, one of the scores of small contractors Cal Fire hires for the use of heavy equipment like bulldozers and water tenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire regulations require the contractors to supply a current workers’ compensation policy with the state firefighting agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the company’s contract with Cal Fire, obtained through a California Public Records Act request, does not include such coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean said a check of Dominikus Engineering’s vendor file did not turn up any workers’ compensation insurance documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contractors State License Board \u003ca href=\"https://www2.cslb.ca.gov/OnlineServices/CheckLicenseII/LicenseDetail.aspx?LicNum=1038403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records\u003c/a> show the firm told the state earlier this year it was exempt from carrying workers’ compensation insurance because it had no employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McLean, in an email, said that Smith was an employee of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Dominikus declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Commissioner’s office has launched an investigation into the company, said Frank Polizzi, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Industrial Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the same agency fined Red Bluff-based Tehama Transport, the company that hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636192/chp-blames-bad-brakes-for-crash-that-killed-water-tender-driver-in-north-bay-fires\">Garrett Paiz\u003c/a>, 38, who was killed during last October’s North Bay fires when the water tender he was driving crashed in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioner’s office ordered the firm to stop working after it determined the company failed to carry workers’ comp insurance. A lawyer for Tehama Transport has said the state’s requirements meant it was quitting the firefighting business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators also penalized Czirban Concrete Construction, the company that hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11627905/family-of-contract-dozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-drops-suit-against-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reagan\u003c/a>, 35, killed in July 2016 during the Soberanes Fire in Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disclosures surrounding workers’ comp problems associated with Czirban led Monterey County prosecutors to file charges against the company’s owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another contract employee injured while fighting the Soberanes Fire, water tender driver John Tiersma, also worked for a firm that failed to provide workers’ comp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that the firms that employed Smith, Paiz, Reagan and Tiersma did not have workers’ compensation means Cal Fire needs to do a better job of vetting its vendors, said Dubal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This seems like a very easy thing to do, to make sure that if they’re putting people’s lives in danger, that those folks have some kind of protection,” Dubal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the fact Cal Fire found no documentation of workers’ compensation insurance in Dominikus Engineering’s file is telling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like they’re not taking this supposed requirement seriously,” Dubal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says it expects heavy equipment vendors to understand all of the policies that apply to their contracts and that it takes violations of those rules seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to ensure that every vendor that enters into an emergency equipment rental agreement clearly reads and understands the terms and conditions established in the agreement,” McLean said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a vendor is ordered to respond to an incident their paperwork will be reviewed within a few days of the incident to again validate that they have the appropriate documentation,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has protected itself from financial consequences in connection with the contractor deaths. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith was working for Pollock Pines-based Robert Dominikus General Engineering, one of the scores of small contractors Cal Fire hires for the use of heavy equipment like bulldozers and water tenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire regulations require the contractors to supply a current workers’ compensation policy with the state firefighting agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the company’s contract with Cal Fire, obtained through a California Public Records Act request, does not include such coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean said a check of Dominikus Engineering’s vendor file did not turn up any workers’ compensation insurance documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contractors State License Board \u003ca href=\"https://www2.cslb.ca.gov/OnlineServices/CheckLicenseII/LicenseDetail.aspx?LicNum=1038403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records\u003c/a> show the firm told the state earlier this year it was exempt from carrying workers’ compensation insurance because it had no employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McLean, in an email, said that Smith was an employee of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Dominikus declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Commissioner’s office has launched an investigation into the company, said Frank Polizzi, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Industrial Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the same agency fined Red Bluff-based Tehama Transport, the company that hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636192/chp-blames-bad-brakes-for-crash-that-killed-water-tender-driver-in-north-bay-fires\">Garrett Paiz\u003c/a>, 38, who was killed during last October’s North Bay fires when the water tender he was driving crashed in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioner’s office ordered the firm to stop working after it determined the company failed to carry workers’ comp insurance. A lawyer for Tehama Transport has said the state’s requirements meant it was quitting the firefighting business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators also penalized Czirban Concrete Construction, the company that hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11627905/family-of-contract-dozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-drops-suit-against-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reagan\u003c/a>, 35, killed in July 2016 during the Soberanes Fire in Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disclosures surrounding workers’ comp problems associated with Czirban led Monterey County prosecutors to file charges against the company’s owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another contract employee injured while fighting the Soberanes Fire, water tender driver John Tiersma, also worked for a firm that failed to provide workers’ comp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that the firms that employed Smith, Paiz, Reagan and Tiersma did not have workers’ compensation means Cal Fire needs to do a better job of vetting its vendors, said Dubal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This seems like a very easy thing to do, to make sure that if they’re putting people’s lives in danger, that those folks have some kind of protection,” Dubal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the fact Cal Fire found no documentation of workers’ compensation insurance in Dominikus Engineering’s file is telling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like they’re not taking this supposed requirement seriously,” Dubal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says it expects heavy equipment vendors to understand all of the policies that apply to their contracts and that it takes violations of those rules seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to ensure that every vendor that enters into an emergency equipment rental agreement clearly reads and understands the terms and conditions established in the agreement,” McLean said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a vendor is ordered to respond to an incident their paperwork will be reviewed within a few days of the incident to again validate that they have the appropriate documentation,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has protected itself from financial consequences in connection with the contractor deaths. That should change, said Dubal. Not only should Cal Fire do a better job of checking its vendor files, the state should consider providing the workers’ comp coverage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three men died without protections for their families. That’s three men too many,” Dubal said. “We owe them and their families something much more.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]endy and Norm Alvarez had a unique living arrangement, which they depended on because Wendy has MS and can’t work. Norm is a carpenter and had taken care of an antique dealer’s house for years. The place was on a scrubby country road on the outskirts of Redding. It had a workshop where Norm did small jobs for other clients, and it had an in-law unit. Two years ago Norm and Wendy moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an ideal setup, one that they thought would carry them into a fairly comfortable retirement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was peaceful and quiet to sit out here in the evening with all the trees and birds and animals,” Wendy said, “We had a good life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month ago, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/carr-fire/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carr Fire\u003c/a> forced Norm and Wendy to evacuate. The next day they were watching the news and saw footage of their neighborhood. Some of the houses were untouched. Theirs was completely destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly everything they owned was burned. Wendy said she felt like suddenly they might never recover financially. And she’s right. They might not. The set back has been tremendous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Wendy and Norm Alvarez lost their home to the Carr Fire earlier this summer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-1020x750.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-1200x883.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-960x706.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-375x276.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-520x382.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendy and Norm Alvarez lost their home to the Carr Fire earlier this summer. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only did they lose their possessions, their affordable living situation and Norm’s caretaking arrangement, they also lost what Norm used to make money: his tools. All he has left is a drill, which happened to be in his truck when they fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many who lost homes in these fires, the couple did not have renters insurance. For the first time in their lives they had to ask for help. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Financially we are in a position we haven’t had to be in,” Wendy said, “It’s been very uncomfortable to humble yourself to ask for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate aftermath of the fire, organizations like the Red Cross, the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation and the Lion’s Club gave them some money for food and clothes. FEMA helped cover a few months rent. Right now they’re splitting rent on an apartment with other fire survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It strips you from the inside out. It doesn’t leave you feeling like you have any value.’\u003ccite>Wendy Alvarez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“None of us know which direction we’re going to go,” Wendy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy and Norm need to start generating income. They’re trying to scrape together money to buy Norm tools so he can get some work helping others rebuild. All their loss has made it hard for them to even think about a long-term plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It strips you from the inside out,” Wendy said, “It doesn’t leave you feeling like you have any value. You don’t have any hope left to go forward. I am a godly woman, so I ask God every day, ‘give me the strength.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires, like all natural disasters, disproportionately affect those who are low income. They often lack insurance and resources to rebuild or move elsewhere. The effects on families quickly add up for a community. You can see that with all the fires that have hit Shasta and surrounding counties in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/natural-disasters-by-location-rich-leave-and-poor-get-poorer/\">A paper published\u003c/a> in the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed 90 years of natural disaster data. It found that major catastrophes increase a county’s poverty rate — the percentage of people living below the poverty line — by an average of 1 percent. That’s because disasters encourage those who are well off to leave, and it makes those with low income poorer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a disturbing reality for the counties hit by wildfires this summer. Many of them are already struggling with above-average poverty rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"The fire completely destroyed Norm's workshop along with all of his tools.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691147\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-1200x811.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fire completely destroyed Norm’s workshop along with all of his tools. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Shasta County, where Wendy and Norm live, the percentage of people living below the poverty line is 17.5 percent. To the south, in Mendocino, it’s close to 20 percent. Next door in Lake County it’s 25 percent. These counties have been pounded by wildfires since the drought that began in 2011. Take Lake County for instance. Well over half of it has burned since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this year, the Carr and Mendocino Complex Fires destroyed over 1,300 homes. Many of those who lost their homes may never fully rebound financially. Good jobs and affordable housing are hard to replace in rural Northern California. Losing a home can destabilize a family for years or even generations. Many fire survivors from previous years are still in limbo, like John and Ellen Brackett.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689006/the-shrunken-california-dream-just-keeping-a-place-to-live\">The Shrunken California Dream: Just Keeping a Place to Live\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689006/the-shrunken-california-dream-just-keeping-a-place-to-live\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Florida-St-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>John and Ellen’s house in Mendocino County burned in the fires last October. They lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple had two acres that John’s grandparents had bought. They lived on the property with their two children. The place was all paid for, they just needed to cover taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property was filled with three generations of stuff: tools, trailers and lots of motorbikes. John only saved his Harley, on which he road away from the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Wendy and Norm, the couple had no insurance. Ellen said it was complicated and expensive because they had so much stuff on the property. After the fires, FEMA gave them $21,000. It didn’t go very far. Ellen said they used almost all of the money just to fix their well and get drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They needed the well on their property to get a FEMA trailer, which they’re still living in. They have been in the trailer since February. Ellen said they aren’t allowed to tack pictures to the walls. The walls are bare except for one small photo of the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen and John Brackett had a collection of antique coins that was destroyed by the fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-1200x864.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-1180x849.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-960x691.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-375x270.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen and John Brackett had a collection of antique coins that was destroyed by the fire. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family has no real savings. Ellen has a job doing in-home care. John was a sheetrocker. But a motorcycle accident and years of hanging drywall destroyed his shoulder. He just had surgery, and is in a sling. His doctor told him he’s done with manual labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John said he’s the kind of guy who likes to give help, not receive it. But right now they need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mendocino, 402 families lost their homes last October. Only one family has rebuilt and moved back in, according to a local organization called \u003ca href=\"https://mendocino-roc.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mendocino Rebuilding Our Community\u003c/a>. Around 50 families like the Bracketts are living in FEMA trailers or even tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You only get a FEMA trailer for 18 months. Ellen and John will lose theirs next April. If they don’t have a home by then, Ellen said they will have to live in a tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have be done with our plan by April,” Ellen said, “We have to have a place out here. Because my kids, his mom, I mean we can rough it in a tent, but a 15-year-old, a 12-year-old and a 70-year-old? They cannot be in a tent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"Only one coin survived from Ellen and John Brackett's coin collection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691151\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-800x597.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-1200x896.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-960x717.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-520x388.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only one coin survived from Ellen and John Brackett’s coin collection. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendocino Rebuilding Our Community estimates it would take around $9 million for everyone to rebuild. The group has raised $3 million. The state plans to start issuing a handful of low or no interest home-building loans. Ellen and John are praying they’re one of the lucky few to get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we will get approved,” Ellen said, “and then, we’re just going to slap in a five-bedroom modular, and hopefully get our lives back together. Because this is crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the couple’s bedroom they have a large plastic storage tub. In it, John keeps the remains of stuff his family has collected over the years: small antiques, coins, very old guns and knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The things may not have been worth that much, but it gave Ellen and John a sense of security. They thought they could sell some of this stuff in a pinch. Only one thing survived the fire: a 100-year-old gold dollar coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This one piece amongst all of this is kind of like a hope,” Ellen said, “There has to be. This can’t be what ends it. 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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>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>endy and Norm Alvarez had a unique living arrangement, which they depended on because Wendy has MS and can’t work. Norm is a carpenter and had taken care of an antique dealer’s house for years. The place was on a scrubby country road on the outskirts of Redding. It had a workshop where Norm did small jobs for other clients, and it had an in-law unit. Two years ago Norm and Wendy moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an ideal setup, one that they thought would carry them into a fairly comfortable retirement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was peaceful and quiet to sit out here in the evening with all the trees and birds and animals,” Wendy said, “We had a good life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month ago, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/carr-fire/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carr Fire\u003c/a> forced Norm and Wendy to evacuate. The next day they were watching the news and saw footage of their neighborhood. Some of the houses were untouched. Theirs was completely destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly everything they owned was burned. Wendy said she felt like suddenly they might never recover financially. And she’s right. They might not. The set back has been tremendous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Wendy and Norm Alvarez lost their home to the Carr Fire earlier this summer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-1020x750.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-1200x883.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-960x706.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-375x276.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WendyAndNorm-520x382.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendy and Norm Alvarez lost their home to the Carr Fire earlier this summer. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only did they lose their possessions, their affordable living situation and Norm’s caretaking arrangement, they also lost what Norm used to make money: his tools. All he has left is a drill, which happened to be in his truck when they fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many who lost homes in these fires, the couple did not have renters insurance. For the first time in their lives they had to ask for help. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Financially we are in a position we haven’t had to be in,” Wendy said, “It’s been very uncomfortable to humble yourself to ask for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate aftermath of the fire, organizations like the Red Cross, the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation and the Lion’s Club gave them some money for food and clothes. FEMA helped cover a few months rent. Right now they’re splitting rent on an apartment with other fire survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It strips you from the inside out. It doesn’t leave you feeling like you have any value.’\u003ccite>Wendy Alvarez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“None of us know which direction we’re going to go,” Wendy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy and Norm need to start generating income. They’re trying to scrape together money to buy Norm tools so he can get some work helping others rebuild. All their loss has made it hard for them to even think about a long-term plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It strips you from the inside out,” Wendy said, “It doesn’t leave you feeling like you have any value. You don’t have any hope left to go forward. I am a godly woman, so I ask God every day, ‘give me the strength.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires, like all natural disasters, disproportionately affect those who are low income. They often lack insurance and resources to rebuild or move elsewhere. The effects on families quickly add up for a community. You can see that with all the fires that have hit Shasta and surrounding counties in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/natural-disasters-by-location-rich-leave-and-poor-get-poorer/\">A paper published\u003c/a> in the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed 90 years of natural disaster data. It found that major catastrophes increase a county’s poverty rate — the percentage of people living below the poverty line — by an average of 1 percent. That’s because disasters encourage those who are well off to leave, and it makes those with low income poorer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a disturbing reality for the counties hit by wildfires this summer. Many of them are already struggling with above-average poverty rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"The fire completely destroyed Norm's workshop along with all of his tools.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691147\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-1200x811.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedHome-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fire completely destroyed Norm’s workshop along with all of his tools. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Shasta County, where Wendy and Norm live, the percentage of people living below the poverty line is 17.5 percent. To the south, in Mendocino, it’s close to 20 percent. Next door in Lake County it’s 25 percent. These counties have been pounded by wildfires since the drought that began in 2011. Take Lake County for instance. Well over half of it has burned since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this year, the Carr and Mendocino Complex Fires destroyed over 1,300 homes. Many of those who lost their homes may never fully rebound financially. Good jobs and affordable housing are hard to replace in rural Northern California. Losing a home can destabilize a family for years or even generations. Many fire survivors from previous years are still in limbo, like John and Ellen Brackett.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689006/the-shrunken-california-dream-just-keeping-a-place-to-live\">The Shrunken California Dream: Just Keeping a Place to Live\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689006/the-shrunken-california-dream-just-keeping-a-place-to-live\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Florida-St-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>John and Ellen’s house in Mendocino County burned in the fires last October. They lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple had two acres that John’s grandparents had bought. They lived on the property with their two children. The place was all paid for, they just needed to cover taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property was filled with three generations of stuff: tools, trailers and lots of motorbikes. John only saved his Harley, on which he road away from the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Wendy and Norm, the couple had no insurance. Ellen said it was complicated and expensive because they had so much stuff on the property. After the fires, FEMA gave them $21,000. It didn’t go very far. Ellen said they used almost all of the money just to fix their well and get drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They needed the well on their property to get a FEMA trailer, which they’re still living in. They have been in the trailer since February. Ellen said they aren’t allowed to tack pictures to the walls. The walls are bare except for one small photo of the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen and John Brackett had a collection of antique coins that was destroyed by the fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-1200x864.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-1180x849.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-960x691.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-375x270.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/EllenAndJohn-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen and John Brackett had a collection of antique coins that was destroyed by the fire. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family has no real savings. Ellen has a job doing in-home care. John was a sheetrocker. But a motorcycle accident and years of hanging drywall destroyed his shoulder. He just had surgery, and is in a sling. His doctor told him he’s done with manual labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John said he’s the kind of guy who likes to give help, not receive it. But right now they need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mendocino, 402 families lost their homes last October. Only one family has rebuilt and moved back in, according to a local organization called \u003ca href=\"https://mendocino-roc.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mendocino Rebuilding Our Community\u003c/a>. Around 50 families like the Bracketts are living in FEMA trailers or even tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You only get a FEMA trailer for 18 months. Ellen and John will lose theirs next April. If they don’t have a home by then, Ellen said they will have to live in a tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have be done with our plan by April,” Ellen said, “We have to have a place out here. Because my kids, his mom, I mean we can rough it in a tent, but a 15-year-old, a 12-year-old and a 70-year-old? They cannot be in a tent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"Only one coin survived from Ellen and John Brackett's coin collection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691151\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-800x597.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-1200x896.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-960x717.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DestroyedCoins-520x388.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only one coin survived from Ellen and John Brackett’s coin collection. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendocino Rebuilding Our Community estimates it would take around $9 million for everyone to rebuild. The group has raised $3 million. The state plans to start issuing a handful of low or no interest home-building loans. Ellen and John are praying they’re one of the lucky few to get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we will get approved,” Ellen said, “and then, we’re just going to slap in a five-bedroom modular, and hopefully get our lives back together. Because this is crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the couple’s bedroom they have a large plastic storage tub. In it, John keeps the remains of stuff his family has collected over the years: small antiques, coins, very old guns and knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The things may not have been worth that much, but it gave Ellen and John a sense of security. They thought they could sell some of this stuff in a pinch. Only one thing survived the fire: a 100-year-old gold dollar coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This one piece amongst all of this is kind of like a hope,” Ellen said, “There has to be. This can’t be what ends it. 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"content": "\u003cp>After more than a month of intense firefighting, crews have gained control of a relentless wildland blaze that ripped through parts of the city of Redding, destroying more than 1,000 homes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683410/carr-fire-expands-in-shasta-two-wildfires-blaze-in-mendocino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">causing multiple deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire officials announced Thursday night that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire\u003c/a> — which was ignited by sparks from a trailer's flat tire in Shasta County on July 23 — was fully contained at 229,651 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of those big steps for the firefighters,\" Cal Fire Deputy Chief Scott McLean said. \"They've got it. They've got a handle on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLean said that, while a milestone has been reached, the job is far from over. Firefighters will likely remain in the area for months to patrol the burn area and continue fire suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a fire is 100 percent contained, that means we've got a line all the way around a fire, but also we've got a lot of work within that perimeter, taking care of all the hot spots, trying to prevent anything from developing,\" he said. \"So there's a lot of work that still has to be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Carr Fire is one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, responsible for the deaths of multiple civilians and first responders and the destruction of 1,604 structures. The dead include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Ray Smith\u003c/a>, 81, a contract bulldozer operator working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/08/09/cal-fire-mechanic-eighth-death-linked-carr-fire/952203002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Brake\u003c/a>, 40, a heavy equipment mechanic working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Stoke\u003c/a>, 37, a firefighter with the Redding Fire Department\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684923/seventh-person-killed-in-connection-with-carr-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jairus Ayeta\u003c/a>, 21, an apprentice linesman with PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melody Bledsoe\u003c/a>, 70, a resident of Redding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Roberts\u003c/a>, 5, Bledsoe's great-grandson\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Roberts\u003c/a>, 4, Bledsoe's great-granddaughter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Daniel Bush, 62, a resident of Keswick who was identified by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2018/07/31/sister-says-brother-who-died-carr-fire-needed-help-evacuating/875542002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redding Record Searchlight.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The blaze became notorious for creating a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1928143/reddings-firenado-was-not-your-garden-variety-fire-whirl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firenado\u003c/a>\" — an intensely rotating column of heated air that rose from the wildfire — that ripped through western Redding on July 28, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are not a common phenomenon,\" McLean said. \"It's just amazing the destruction that these types of weather patterns produce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the unpredictable fire vortex, McLean said there were other factors that made the Carr Fire uniquely difficult for first responders, including soaring temperatures and dry, gusty winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Looking back at the Carr Fire, we started just before June with 100-degree-plus temperatures, and those temperatures stayed consistent,\" he said. \"So we've seen high temperatures consistently, we've seen the winds brought along with them, we've seen the erratic wind behavior, the erratic weather patterns that we've had to deal with so much this year — more so than years past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters haven't gained ground only on the Carr Fire. In Mariposa County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687674/deadly-ferguson-fire-burning-near-yosemite-fully-contained-after-more-than-a-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crews fully contained the massive Ferguson Fire\u003c/a> — which forced the weeks-long closure of a portion of Yosemite National Park — on Aug. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say progress has also been made on the largest wildfire in recorded state history, burning in Lake, Mendocino and Colusa counties. As of Friday morning, the \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6073/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mendocino Complex Fire\u003c/a> was 93 percent contained at 459,102 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all of that progress across Northern California, McLean said firefighters are still up against extremely difficult conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing that's changed is the temperature and the humidity, as far as the weather and calmness of the winds,\" he said. \"We're still dealing with topography issues, we're still dealing with limited access, and we're still dealing with the dryness of the vegetation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California saw five years of significant drought starting in 2012, followed by periods of heavy rain in 2017 and 2018. McLean said both of those have contributed to difficult fire conditions this year: The drought dried out plants, leaving a trail of dead vegetation that can fuel wildfires; the rainfall enhanced the growth of grass, providing additional fuel for the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while conditions have been favorable recently, McLean said fire officials must remain vigilant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot be complacent,\" McLean said. \"Even though the weather is looking nice, the Northern California predicted temperatures are predicted be back up into the mid-'90s soon. The potential is still there. Fires will still spark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year has already been one for the record books when it comes to California wildfires. So far, roughly \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.2 million\u003c/a> acres have burned across the state. To put that in perspective, last year California's wildfires scorched just over 1.4 million acres, and fire season continued well into December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we're at 1.2 [million acres] just a little over halfway through the year,\" McLean said. \"That kind of tells you what the firefighters are dealing with.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After more than a month of intense firefighting, crews have gained control of a relentless wildland blaze that ripped through parts of the city of Redding, destroying more than 1,000 homes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683410/carr-fire-expands-in-shasta-two-wildfires-blaze-in-mendocino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">causing multiple deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire officials announced Thursday night that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire\u003c/a> — which was ignited by sparks from a trailer's flat tire in Shasta County on July 23 — was fully contained at 229,651 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of those big steps for the firefighters,\" Cal Fire Deputy Chief Scott McLean said. \"They've got it. They've got a handle on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLean said that, while a milestone has been reached, the job is far from over. Firefighters will likely remain in the area for months to patrol the burn area and continue fire suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a fire is 100 percent contained, that means we've got a line all the way around a fire, but also we've got a lot of work within that perimeter, taking care of all the hot spots, trying to prevent anything from developing,\" he said. \"So there's a lot of work that still has to be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Carr Fire is one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, responsible for the deaths of multiple civilians and first responders and the destruction of 1,604 structures. The dead include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Ray Smith\u003c/a>, 81, a contract bulldozer operator working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/08/09/cal-fire-mechanic-eighth-death-linked-carr-fire/952203002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Brake\u003c/a>, 40, a heavy equipment mechanic working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Stoke\u003c/a>, 37, a firefighter with the Redding Fire Department\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684923/seventh-person-killed-in-connection-with-carr-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jairus Ayeta\u003c/a>, 21, an apprentice linesman with PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melody Bledsoe\u003c/a>, 70, a resident of Redding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Roberts\u003c/a>, 5, Bledsoe's great-grandson\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Roberts\u003c/a>, 4, Bledsoe's great-granddaughter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Daniel Bush, 62, a resident of Keswick who was identified by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2018/07/31/sister-says-brother-who-died-carr-fire-needed-help-evacuating/875542002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redding Record Searchlight.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The blaze became notorious for creating a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1928143/reddings-firenado-was-not-your-garden-variety-fire-whirl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firenado\u003c/a>\" — an intensely rotating column of heated air that rose from the wildfire — that ripped through western Redding on July 28, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are not a common phenomenon,\" McLean said. \"It's just amazing the destruction that these types of weather patterns produce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the unpredictable fire vortex, McLean said there were other factors that made the Carr Fire uniquely difficult for first responders, including soaring temperatures and dry, gusty winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Looking back at the Carr Fire, we started just before June with 100-degree-plus temperatures, and those temperatures stayed consistent,\" he said. \"So we've seen high temperatures consistently, we've seen the winds brought along with them, we've seen the erratic wind behavior, the erratic weather patterns that we've had to deal with so much this year — more so than years past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters haven't gained ground only on the Carr Fire. In Mariposa County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687674/deadly-ferguson-fire-burning-near-yosemite-fully-contained-after-more-than-a-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crews fully contained the massive Ferguson Fire\u003c/a> — which forced the weeks-long closure of a portion of Yosemite National Park — on Aug. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say progress has also been made on the largest wildfire in recorded state history, burning in Lake, Mendocino and Colusa counties. As of Friday morning, the \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6073/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mendocino Complex Fire\u003c/a> was 93 percent contained at 459,102 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all of that progress across Northern California, McLean said firefighters are still up against extremely difficult conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only thing that's changed is the temperature and the humidity, as far as the weather and calmness of the winds,\" he said. \"We're still dealing with topography issues, we're still dealing with limited access, and we're still dealing with the dryness of the vegetation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California saw five years of significant drought starting in 2012, followed by periods of heavy rain in 2017 and 2018. McLean said both of those have contributed to difficult fire conditions this year: The drought dried out plants, leaving a trail of dead vegetation that can fuel wildfires; the rainfall enhanced the growth of grass, providing additional fuel for the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while conditions have been favorable recently, McLean said fire officials must remain vigilant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot be complacent,\" McLean said. \"Even though the weather is looking nice, the Northern California predicted temperatures are predicted be back up into the mid-'90s soon. The potential is still there. Fires will still spark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year has already been one for the record books when it comes to California wildfires. So far, roughly \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.2 million\u003c/a> acres have burned across the state. To put that in perspective, last year California's wildfires scorched just over 1.4 million acres, and fire season continued well into December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we're at 1.2 [million acres] just a little over halfway through the year,\" McLean said. \"That kind of tells you what the firefighters are dealing with.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Monday, Aug. 20, 11 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A roundup of major wildfires burning across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mendocino Complex/Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https://google.org/crisismap/us-wildfires?hl=en&llbox=39.427%2C38.94%2C-122.2732%2C-123.5916&t=TERRAIN&layers=16%2C17%2C9%2C2&embedded=true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Acreage and containment:\u003c/strong> Two fires, the River and Ranch fires, are collectively named the Mendocino Complex. The complex has burned 389,862 acres in Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties and is 79 percent contained as of Monday, Aug. 20. On Monday, Aug. 7, it became the largest wildfire in California history, surpassing the Thomas Fire, which burned 281,893 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties this past December before it was contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Aug. 12, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranch Fire\u003c/a>, burning southwest of the community of Potter Valley and north of Highway 20, on its own surpassed the Thomas Fire as the largest single fire in state history. It has now consumed 349,942 acres and is 74 percent contained as of Monday, Aug. 20. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636613915/largest-california-wildfire-wont-be-contained-until-september-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officials now estimate\u003c/a> the fire won’t be fully contained until Sept. 1. The smaller \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">River Fire\u003c/a> has burned 48,920 acres northeast of the community of Hopland and west of the town of Lakeport, and was fully contained as of Monday, Aug. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casualties:\u003c/strong> On Monday, Aug. 13, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686818/fatality-in-mendocino-complex-fire-adds-to-deadly-month-for-california-firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire announced that a firefighter\u003c/a> died while working on an “active portion” of the Ranch Fire. He was identified as Matthew Burchett, 42, of Draper, Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damage update:\u003c/strong> At least 277 structures — including 157 homes — have been destroyed as of Monday, Aug. 20, and another 1,050 structures remain threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuations and repopulation:\u003c/strong> See Cal Fire’s Mendocino Complex \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/admin8327985/cdf/images/incidentfile2178_3955.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information sheet\u003c/a> for details on evacuations ordered in Mendocino and Lake counties. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office is also providing evacuation updates on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MendocinoSheriff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. Cal Fire is publishing repopulation notices on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">River\u003c/a> fire information pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuation centers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lower Lake High School, 9430 Lake St., Lower Lake\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Twin Pine Casino, 22223 CA-29, Middletown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Middletown High School, 20932 Big Canyon Road, Middletown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Middletown Middle School, 15846 Wardlaw St., Middletown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mountain Vista Middle School, 5081 Konocti Road, Kelseyville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Colusa County Veterans Hall, 108 E. Main St., Colusa\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Animal shelters:\u003c/strong> Horses are being accepted at Redwood Riders Arena at 8300 East Road in Redwood Valley, and small animals are being accepted at Animal Care at 298 Plant Road in Ukiah. You can contact the shelter directly at 707-463-4427 with any questions or concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire/Shasta County\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https://google.org/crisismap/us-wildfires?hl=en&llbox=41.1249%2C40.1715%2C-120.9908%2C-123.6275&t=TERRAIN&layers=16%2C17%2C9%2C2&embedded=true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Acreage and containment:\u003c/strong> The Carr Fire in Shasta County has burned 229,651 acres. The blaze was 88 percent contained as of Monday, Aug. 20. It is now the sixth-most-destructive wildfire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casualties:\u003c/strong> Three firefighters and four residents have died in the blaze. A PG&E employee was also killed while working to restore service to an area affected by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Ray Smith\u003c/a>, 81, a contract bulldozer operator working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/08/09/cal-fire-mechanic-eighth-death-linked-carr-fire/952203002/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Brake\u003c/a>, 40, a heavy equipment mechanic working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Stoke\u003c/a>, 37, a firefighter with the Redding Fire Department\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684923/seventh-person-killed-in-connection-with-carr-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jairus Ayeta\u003c/a>, 21, an apprentice linesman with PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melody Bledsoe\u003c/a>, 70, a resident of Redding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Roberts\u003c/a>, 5, Bledsoe’s great-grandson\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Roberts\u003c/a>, 4, Bledsoe’s great-granddaughter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Daniel Bush, 62, a resident of Keswick who was identified by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2018/07/31/sister-says-brother-who-died-carr-fire-needed-help-evacuating/875542002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redding Record Searchlight.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Missing persons:\u003c/strong> Authorities in Northern California say all people reported missing in a massive wildfire have been located. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said officials received 60 reports of missing people and that all had been located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damage update:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire said 1,604 structures have been destroyed — including 1,079 homes — and another 279 structures have been damaged. No additional structures are threatened by the fire, according to Cal Fire. You can view a map with the \u003ca href=\"http://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/PublicInformation/index.html?appid=5bbcbed430ad45e5a38e6be155ef5fec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most current structure information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuations and repopulation:\u003c/strong> As of Aug. 15, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRESHU/status/1029842988279586816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all the remaining evacuation orders had been lifted\u003c/a>. Here’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/index/sheriff_index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest list\u003c/a> of repopulation plans from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. You can view \u003ca href=\"http://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=cdd41ecf8575458ea8851c6f76770d50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a map here\u003c/a>. Cal Fire is also publishing repopulation announcements on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire information page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emergency shelters:\u003c/strong> All evacuation centers have now closed. There is, however, a disaster recovery center at the former K-Mart at 2685 Hilltop Drive in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County and the city of Redding have created \u003ca href=\"https://stories.opengov.com/reddingca/published/bDZJVvdJK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a disaster recovery website\u003c/a> for rebuilding and relief information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Animal evacuation centers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Small animal shelter: Haven Humane, 1816 CA-273, Anderson\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drinking water alerts: \u003c/strong>The California State Water Resources Control Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/docs/libraries/resource-management-docs/ehd-docs/boil-water-advisory-7-31-18.pdf?sfvrsn=26c3fb89_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a boil water advisory\u003c/a> for the Shasta community service district (west of Redding) water systems as a result of the Carr Fire. Customers in these areas should boil their water for one minute before using it for drinking or food preparation. The advisories for Clear Creek and Centerville were lifted. You can view \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/index/drm_index/eh_index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates to the advisory here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5927/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire/Mariposa County\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https://google.org/crisismap/us-wildfires?hl=en&llbox=37.9436%2C37.2417%2C-118.8572%2C-120.615&t=TERRAIN&layers=16%2C17%2C9%2C2&embedded=true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Acreage and containment:\u003c/strong> The fire just west of Yosemite National Park had burned 96,901 acres and was 100 percent contained as of Sunday, Aug. 19. It is now the largest fire in the Sierra National Forest’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yosemite closures:\u003c/strong> The Ferguson Fire prompted an extended indefinite closure of Yosemite Valley and other parts of the national park. It was the longest closure at Yosemite since 1997, when floods closed the park for over two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Yosemite Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686856/yosemite-national-park-reopens-but-fires-toll-still-felt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reopened on Tuesday, Aug. 14\u003c/a>. Highway 41 and Glacier Point will remain closed for another week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casualties:\u003c/strong> The fire has killed two firefighters: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683600/second-firefighter-killed-battling-wildfire-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Hughes\u003c/a>, who died Sunday, July 29, after being struck by a tree, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680606/firefighter-killed-fighting-blaze-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braden Varney\u003c/a>, who died on Saturday, July 14, when his bulldozer tumbled down a mountainside. The fire has injured 15 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuations and repopulations:\u003c/strong> Federal incident managers have published a list of mandatory evacuations and repopulation notices on Inciweb’s \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5927/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuation center:\u003c/strong> Temporary evacuations centers have now closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Animal shelters:\u003c/strong> For small animals, call the Central California Animal Disaster Team (CCADT) at 888-402-2238, ext. 700. Large animals are being accepted at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds at 5007 Fairgrounds Road in Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Monday, Aug. 20, 11 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A roundup of major wildfires burning across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mendocino Complex/Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https://google.org/crisismap/us-wildfires?hl=en&llbox=39.427%2C38.94%2C-122.2732%2C-123.5916&t=TERRAIN&layers=16%2C17%2C9%2C2&embedded=true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Acreage and containment:\u003c/strong> Two fires, the River and Ranch fires, are collectively named the Mendocino Complex. The complex has burned 389,862 acres in Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties and is 79 percent contained as of Monday, Aug. 20. On Monday, Aug. 7, it became the largest wildfire in California history, surpassing the Thomas Fire, which burned 281,893 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties this past December before it was contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Aug. 12, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranch Fire\u003c/a>, burning southwest of the community of Potter Valley and north of Highway 20, on its own surpassed the Thomas Fire as the largest single fire in state history. It has now consumed 349,942 acres and is 74 percent contained as of Monday, Aug. 20. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636613915/largest-california-wildfire-wont-be-contained-until-september-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officials now estimate\u003c/a> the fire won’t be fully contained until Sept. 1. The smaller \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">River Fire\u003c/a> has burned 48,920 acres northeast of the community of Hopland and west of the town of Lakeport, and was fully contained as of Monday, Aug. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casualties:\u003c/strong> On Monday, Aug. 13, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686818/fatality-in-mendocino-complex-fire-adds-to-deadly-month-for-california-firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire announced that a firefighter\u003c/a> died while working on an “active portion” of the Ranch Fire. He was identified as Matthew Burchett, 42, of Draper, Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damage update:\u003c/strong> At least 277 structures — including 157 homes — have been destroyed as of Monday, Aug. 20, and another 1,050 structures remain threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuations and repopulation:\u003c/strong> See Cal Fire’s Mendocino Complex \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/admin8327985/cdf/images/incidentfile2178_3955.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information sheet\u003c/a> for details on evacuations ordered in Mendocino and Lake counties. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office is also providing evacuation updates on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MendocinoSheriff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. Cal Fire is publishing repopulation notices on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">River\u003c/a> fire information pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuation centers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lower Lake High School, 9430 Lake St., Lower Lake\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Twin Pine Casino, 22223 CA-29, Middletown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Middletown High School, 20932 Big Canyon Road, Middletown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Middletown Middle School, 15846 Wardlaw St., Middletown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mountain Vista Middle School, 5081 Konocti Road, Kelseyville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Colusa County Veterans Hall, 108 E. Main St., Colusa\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Animal shelters:\u003c/strong> Horses are being accepted at Redwood Riders Arena at 8300 East Road in Redwood Valley, and small animals are being accepted at Animal Care at 298 Plant Road in Ukiah. You can contact the shelter directly at 707-463-4427 with any questions or concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire/Shasta County\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https://google.org/crisismap/us-wildfires?hl=en&llbox=41.1249%2C40.1715%2C-120.9908%2C-123.6275&t=TERRAIN&layers=16%2C17%2C9%2C2&embedded=true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Acreage and containment:\u003c/strong> The Carr Fire in Shasta County has burned 229,651 acres. The blaze was 88 percent contained as of Monday, Aug. 20. It is now the sixth-most-destructive wildfire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casualties:\u003c/strong> Three firefighters and four residents have died in the blaze. A PG&E employee was also killed while working to restore service to an area affected by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Ray Smith\u003c/a>, 81, a contract bulldozer operator working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/08/09/cal-fire-mechanic-eighth-death-linked-carr-fire/952203002/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Brake\u003c/a>, 40, a heavy equipment mechanic working with Cal Fire\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687075/cal-fire-green-sheet-carr-fire-jeremy-stoke-don-ray-smith\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Stoke\u003c/a>, 37, a firefighter with the Redding Fire Department\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684923/seventh-person-killed-in-connection-with-carr-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jairus Ayeta\u003c/a>, 21, an apprentice linesman with PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melody Bledsoe\u003c/a>, 70, a resident of Redding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Roberts\u003c/a>, 5, Bledsoe’s great-grandson\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683457/death-toll-up-to-5-as-carr-fire-continues-to-burn-in-redding\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Roberts\u003c/a>, 4, Bledsoe’s great-granddaughter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Daniel Bush, 62, a resident of Keswick who was identified by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2018/07/31/sister-says-brother-who-died-carr-fire-needed-help-evacuating/875542002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redding Record Searchlight.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Missing persons:\u003c/strong> Authorities in Northern California say all people reported missing in a massive wildfire have been located. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said officials received 60 reports of missing people and that all had been located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damage update:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire said 1,604 structures have been destroyed — including 1,079 homes — and another 279 structures have been damaged. No additional structures are threatened by the fire, according to Cal Fire. You can view a map with the \u003ca href=\"http://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/PublicInformation/index.html?appid=5bbcbed430ad45e5a38e6be155ef5fec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most current structure information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuations and repopulation:\u003c/strong> As of Aug. 15, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRESHU/status/1029842988279586816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all the remaining evacuation orders had been lifted\u003c/a>. Here’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/index/sheriff_index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest list\u003c/a> of repopulation plans from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. You can view \u003ca href=\"http://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=cdd41ecf8575458ea8851c6f76770d50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a map here\u003c/a>. Cal Fire is also publishing repopulation announcements on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire information page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emergency shelters:\u003c/strong> All evacuation centers have now closed. There is, however, a disaster recovery center at the former K-Mart at 2685 Hilltop Drive in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County and the city of Redding have created \u003ca href=\"https://stories.opengov.com/reddingca/published/bDZJVvdJK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a disaster recovery website\u003c/a> for rebuilding and relief information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Animal evacuation centers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Small animal shelter: Haven Humane, 1816 CA-273, Anderson\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drinking water alerts: \u003c/strong>The California State Water Resources Control Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/docs/libraries/resource-management-docs/ehd-docs/boil-water-advisory-7-31-18.pdf?sfvrsn=26c3fb89_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a boil water advisory\u003c/a> for the Shasta community service district (west of Redding) water systems as a result of the Carr Fire. Customers in these areas should boil their water for one minute before using it for drinking or food preparation. The advisories for Clear Creek and Centerville were lifted. You can view \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/index/drm_index/eh_index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates to the advisory here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5927/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire/Mariposa County\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https://google.org/crisismap/us-wildfires?hl=en&llbox=37.9436%2C37.2417%2C-118.8572%2C-120.615&t=TERRAIN&layers=16%2C17%2C9%2C2&embedded=true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Acreage and containment:\u003c/strong> The fire just west of Yosemite National Park had burned 96,901 acres and was 100 percent contained as of Sunday, Aug. 19. It is now the largest fire in the Sierra National Forest’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yosemite closures:\u003c/strong> The Ferguson Fire prompted an extended indefinite closure of Yosemite Valley and other parts of the national park. It was the longest closure at Yosemite since 1997, when floods closed the park for over two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Yosemite Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686856/yosemite-national-park-reopens-but-fires-toll-still-felt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reopened on Tuesday, Aug. 14\u003c/a>. Highway 41 and Glacier Point will remain closed for another week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casualties:\u003c/strong> The fire has killed two firefighters: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683600/second-firefighter-killed-battling-wildfire-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Hughes\u003c/a>, who died Sunday, July 29, after being struck by a tree, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680606/firefighter-killed-fighting-blaze-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braden Varney\u003c/a>, who died on Saturday, July 14, when his bulldozer tumbled down a mountainside. The fire has injured 15 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuations and repopulations:\u003c/strong> Federal incident managers have published a list of mandatory evacuations and repopulation notices on Inciweb’s \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5927/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuation center:\u003c/strong> Temporary evacuations centers have now closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Animal shelters:\u003c/strong> For small animals, call the Central California Animal Disaster Team (CCADT) at 888-402-2238, ext. 700. Large animals are being accepted at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds at 5007 Fairgrounds Road in Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last month, the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683410/carr-fire-expands-in-shasta-two-wildfires-blaze-in-mendocino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carr Fire\u003c/a> ripped through parts of the city of Redding, destroying more than 1,000 homes in the process. It’s still burning in some remote areas, but \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRESHU/status/1029842988279586816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all evacuation orders for nearby communities have been lifted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, firefighters from the Redding Fire Department have been deployed to a different wildfire: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683410/carr-fire-expands-in-shasta-two-wildfires-blaze-in-mendocino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Mendocino Complex\u003c/a>. It’s about a three hour drive southwest of Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically the engines that we’re with [are] on a task force to lay hose on a dozer line to assist with firing operations,” said Kody Hansen, one of the Redding firefighters assigned to the Mendocino Complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In non-firefighter lingo, that means spraying water on a line that a bulldozer has cleared of vegetation, which is fuel for the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen and his crew have been assigned to the Mendocino Complex for days now. He says he likes helping out other communities, but fighting the Carr Fire earlier this summer as it burned into Redding was much more personal for his team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had several members from the Redding Fire Department that were either evacuated or did lose their homes,” Hansen said. “A lot of them came off vacation to come into work knowing that their home was most likely going to burn down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Hansen says there’s a part of him that wishes he was back in Redding now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely difficult,” he said. “I think all of us want to do everything that we can to help out our community. Any way that we can, whether they lost their homes or were evacuated or have family members that lost their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hansen knows there are other communities out there that need help as well and because of the state’s mutual aid system, moving from fire to fire is just part of the job.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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At its base, the report estimates the tornado was 1,000 feet in diameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also details the circumstances around a series of close calls that injured three Marin County firefighters — hurt when flames exploded in the vegetation around a home they were trying to save — and two bulldozer operators in the path of the fire tornado. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Carr Fire, started July 23, by sparks thrown by a trailer with a flat tire, has burned nearly 215,000 acres — about 340 square miles, or about six times the area of San Francisco — and is 69 percent contained. The fire has claimed a total of eight lives, including those of Smith and Stoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Fire Behavior Unpredictable and Unusual’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s Green Sheet includes an extended discussion of the weather conditions that preceded the acceleration of the blaze and the fire tornado. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those conditions on July 26 included record heat — the temperature at Redding Municipal Airport hit 113 degrees, 13 degrees above normal — and humidity in the single digits. For most of the day, however, the wind was calm. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late in the day, however, gusty northwest winds developed as cool air from the coast was sucked across the Coast Ranges toward a hot low pressure area in the Sacramento Valley. The fire responded nearly instantly to the onset of the higher winds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire was observed moving 2.5 miles per hour with spot fires becoming established over 1 mile ahead of the main fire front. 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Peak gas temperatures likely exceeded 2,700 degrees,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The resultant fire behavior was unpredictable and unusual. It surprised many highly experienced firefighters. The rotating vertical plume appeared and behaved in many aspects like an EF-3 scale tornado,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dozer Driver Cut Off by Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green Sheet says that Smith, a veteran bulldozer operator, was directed to try to improve a “contingency” line — a sort of fallback fire line — near Spring Creek Reservoir, just west of Redding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dozers had abandoned the line earlier in the day after determining “it would not be viable” because the area near the lake was so steep and overgrown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started down the dozer line about 5:40 p.m. just as fire in the area intensified, and he was almost immediately cut off by the rapidly advancing flames. The Green Sheet says a crew leader tried to radio Smith to tell him “to get out of there.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two firefighters near the start of the dozer line tried to chase Smith to tell him to pull back, but they were turned back by the fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith finally radioed that he couldn’t turn back and would try to make it down to the lake. Shortly afterward, he said he was trying to excavate a safety zone and asked for helicopter water drops on his position. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several drops were made. At 7 p.m., a little more than an hour after his last radio call, a fire captain made it down the dozer line and found Smith dead. Neither the protective fire curtains in the dozer’s cab nor his emergency shelter had been deployed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Close Call for Marin Unit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 6:45 p.m., a little over a mile to the southeast, firefighters from a Marin County strike set up to defend a home in the community of Keswick. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green Sheet says that the three-member crew of a Marin engine company started preparing for a defensive firing operation by removing brush from around a house at George Street and Rock Creek Road and laying a hose line. When they began their work, the crew said they believed the fire was about 1,000 feet away. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 20 minutes of work, however, the blaze suddenly intensified, with even ornamental plants and the hose covers on their engine igniting. The fire was so hot that the first firefighter to reach the truck suffered burns on his hands when he reached for the door handle. The other two firefighters suffered minor facial burns as they retreated to the truck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green Sheet says the blaze was so intense that the crew was unable to move the fire engine until the fire passed. The injured firefighters received first aid from a nearby Marin engine crew, then were treated at a Redding hospital. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fire Tornado and Death of Redding Firefighter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about the same time the Marin firefighters were overcome, crews evacuating residents on the east side of the Sacramento River noticed a “large rotating plume of smoke” to the north, a Buenaventura Boulevard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The swirling winds at the base of the plume dramatically increased fire intensity,” the Green Sheet says. “The rotating plume continued to intensify until it developed into a fire tornado. Wind dramatically increased near the fire tornado, and embers were lofted in many directions. The fire front exhibited erratic and rapid growth during this period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoke, who worked as a fire prevention inspector for the Redding Fire Department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/video/news/local/california/redding-firefighter-jeremy-stoke-died-in-the-carr-fire-trying-to-save-others/103-8219119\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly\u003c/a> cut a vacation short to return to duty after the Carr Fire broke out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green Sheet says Stoke had spent the early part of July 26 conducting welfare checks on residents in the threatened Salt Creek Heights area west of the city. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 7:39 p.m., the report says, Stoke was responding to a call for help in a subdivision in southwest Redding and was headed south on Buenaventura Boulevard. A minute later, he radioed a “mayday” call, saying he was in the middle of the road, the fire was burning over him and he needed a helicopter water drop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a captain radioed back to determine his location, there was no response, and Stoke was not heard from again. Redding firefighters found Stoke’s body the next morning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green Sheet concludes that Stoke’s vehicle was engulfed by the fire tornado. 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