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Hall, who'd been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/70665/CCCDAO---Miles-HALL-Incident-PDF?bidId=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">district attorney's report\u003c/a>, had several prior contacts with police in similar circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers responded to multiple calls related to Hall the day of the shooting, including from his mother and grandmother, who'd told 911 operators that Hall was having a mental health breakdown, was off his medication, violent and threatening them with a long metal pole, according to the DA's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls had a longstanding relationship with Walnut Creek Police, who’d helped the family hospitalize Miles previously, and the department’s Mental Health Evaluation Team had maintained a file on him. In one instance recounted in the DA's report, Walnut Creek police officers had subdued Hall with shotgun-fired beanbag rounds a year before he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before officers arrived on the scene the day of Hall's death, Sgt. Holley Connors had formed a tactical plan with officers Hsiao, Murphy and Matt Smith. A fifth Walnut Creek officer, Tammy Keagy, was assigned the role of negotiator because she had specialized training and had established a rapport with Hall in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she would never get a chance to talk with him the day of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11843922]As she drove separately to the scene, Keagy called Hall's mother, according to the DA's report, and was told, \"We've never seen him like this before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connors told the other officers, \"I'm not gonna give this guy a lot of chances,\" according to the report. Connors noted that Hall had a weapon and was \"going into neighbor's homes, he's lost his mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connors told officers to give commands, and Murphy was designated to use a Taser if appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just watch your backdrop,\" Connors said, according to the DA, meaning officers should be prepared to fire their guns and pay attention to what was behind their target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was walking through his neighborhood carrying the 15-pound, nearly 5-foot-long digging tool when police confronted him in a cul-de-sac in the 100 block of Arlene Lane. Hall ran toward the officers and ignored multiple commands to drop the tool, police said, according to the DA's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started firing bean bag rounds as Hall continued to close the distance between them. When he got within about 15 feet of Murphy, she fired the first of two rounds of bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith told investigators that Hall was \"too close for comfort\" and that if she hadn't fired he would have killed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Kuong Hsaio (referred to as \"KC Hsaio\" in the DA's report) told investigators that he, too, believed Hall was going to strike Murphy when Hsaio fired the first of four rounds. Hall attempted to get up, but officers held him down, handcuffed him and started to provide first aid. He was pronounced dead at the hospital about 21 minutes after being shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy found Hall was killed by four gunshot wounds to his torso and hip. He also had three bruises consistent with being struck with beanbag rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All five officers involved in the incident were cleared to return to duty within weeks of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='police-killings']Since Hall’s death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843922/the-police-shooting-that-motivated-walnut-creek-residents-to-run-for-city-council\">his family has advocated for non-police alternatives to mental health crises locally and statewide\u003c/a>, suing the city, its police chief and all involved officers before reaching a $4 million settlement that included commitments from the city to invest in non-police alternatives when responding to a mental health crisis, as well as crisis intervention training for the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney John Burris, who represents Hall's family, said he plans to ask the state and federal attorneys general to review the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not finished fighting for justice and accountability in the killing of Miles Hall,\" Burris said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the Walnut Creek Police Department faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/03/15/these-guys-turned-it-into-a-military-operation-lawsuit-filed-against-east-bay-police-that-sicced-dogs-rubber-bullets-on-walnut-creek-protesters/\">further scrutiny\u003c/a> over its treatment of protesters after the death of George Floyd. About 5,000 people marched through the city’s downtown corridor before some protesters attempted to walk onto Interstate 680, where they were met with police in riot gear, police dogs, tear gas and rubber bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883072/nation-reacts-to-guilty-verdict-in-george-floyd-killing\">an interview\u003c/a> with KQED's \"Forum\" radio program following the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of Floyd, Hall’s mother said little has changed in Walnut Creek since her son’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good police are accountable in [George Floyd's] case, but what about our family? Where’s accountability for the police officers that shot Miles?” Taun Hall told KQED's Mina Kim. “If something happened to another family member in Walnut Creek today, things are still the same.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California state officials directed counties and other providers on Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869210/u-s-recommends-pausing-use-of-johnson-johnson-vaccine-over-blood-clot-concerns\">pause use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine\u003c/a> as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration as agencies examine a possible and rare side effect that can cause blood clots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a visit to Butte County this morning, Gov. 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Similarly, other counties have indicated that this vaccine makes up a very small proportion of their supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, J&J doses account for less than 3% of the county’s cumulative vaccine allocation, according to health officials. 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"content": "\u003cp>Even as California prepares to expand vaccine eligibility on April 15 to all residents 16 and older, the state has managed to inoculate only about half its senior population — the 65-and-older target group deemed most vulnerable to death and serious illness in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, nearly 56% of California seniors have received the full course of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations\">data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. That’s about average compared with other states — not nearly as high as places like South Dakota, where almost 74% of seniors are fully vaccinated, but also not as far behind as Hawaii, which has reached 44%. The data, current as of Tuesday, does not include seniors who have received only the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine. 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Meanwhile, in the far northern reaches of the state, encompassing some of California’s most dramatic and rugged terrain, rural counties like Tehama, Shasta and Del Norte have fully vaccinated only about a third of senior residents, according to CDC data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely share one thing in common and that is that we have a fairly high percentage of people who are vaccine hesitant. And that even spreads into the seniors,” Dr. Warren Rehwaldt, health officer for Del Norte County, said of the Northern California counties with relatively low vaccination rates. Del Norte, which is 62% white and voted solidly for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, has vaccinated 36.6% of residents 65 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county, population 28,000, has spotty internet service, leaving the health department reliant on phone appointments for its twice-weekly clinics, which have the capacity to give out 300 doses in a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we have filled any of them completely, and they are tapering off,” Rehwaldt said. Often, 100 or more appointment slots go unused, even after the county expanded eligibility to age 50 and up. “We expected that, but we didn’t expect it this fast,” he said. 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It’s not a resource problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County, whose population is about 80% white and voted in even stronger numbers for Trump, is also struggling to reach the 65-plus group, with just 36.6% of seniors fully vaccinated. Public information officer Kerri Schuette acknowledged health workers were encountering some hesitancy among residents but said their efforts also were hampered by early supply issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other end of the spectrum are counties like Marin, a largely suburban and affluent stretch of communities just north of San Francisco where 71.4% of seniors are fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a thread of privilege that does lead to ease of access to vaccines that needs to be acknowledged,” said county Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis. Many seniors in the county have access to computers and cars, he said, and have been able to access vaccine appointments with relative ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the county made an aggressive plan to vaccinate seniors even before the first doses arrived, he said. Rather than waiting for the federal government’s program that relied on pharmacies to vaccinate residents in long-term care facilities, for example, the health department sent in workers as soon as it had vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county also kept its eligibility rules tightly focused on seniors ages 75 and older through the middle of February, while other counties were expanding to younger age groups and a broad array of occupations. At one point, the county briefly expanded eligibility to teachers, but pulled back just one week later when doses grew scarce. [aside tag=\"coronavirus, covid-19\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We showed that a dose offered to someone 75 and older in Marin was 320 times more likely to save a life than a dose offered to someone younger than 50,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County, a more diverse area on the other side of San Francisco Bay, has done nearly as well: 70.9% of seniors are fully vaccinated. Add in those who have received at least one dose, and the numbers are far higher: 90% of people ages 65-74 and 97% of those 75 and older, according to the county’s vaccine tracker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reach vulnerable seniors, Dr. Ori Tzvieli, Contra Costa’s deputy health officer, said the county worked with nonprofit groups to make lists of residential care facilities and low-income senior housing, then sent mobile clinics to each one. “For people who were literally homebound, we send someone inside. Otherwise, we set up a station in the lobby or right outside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county also set up mobile clinics at farms and places of worship. It gave community health workers dedicated appointments to sign up older residents directly. And rather than have residents track down their own appointment slots online, the department had people fill out forms and then scheduled appointments for them, prioritizing those who lived in low-income ZIP codes with high rates of disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a population of just over 1 million, Contra Costa County now is able to vaccinate 100,000 people a week, Tzvieli said, and has recently opened eligibility to everyone 16 and older. But even within the county, inequalities remain. In Bay Point, for example, a largely working-class Latino community, vaccination rates are still just half of those of some wealthier communities, Tzvieli said. 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But if you’re living in poverty, that’s a big barrier.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point in the campaign, Prado said, most seniors eager for the vaccine have received at least an initial dose: “The final 25% is going to be the most resource-intensive, the most difficult to reach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, calls this public health’s “low-hanging fruit phenomenon.” As the proportion of people who are vaccinated grows, he said, “we’ll have to work proportionally harder to keep advancing these numbers, because the eager beavers go first.” In rural counties from California to Tennessee, he added, supply is already outpacing demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, just more than 75% of seniors in the U.S. have received at least one dose of vaccine, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at that as the glass is half-empty or half-full,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, during a recent episode of his weekly podcast. That still leaves more than 13 million seniors unprotected despite facing the highest risk of death; 8 in 10 deaths from COVID-19 reported in the U.S. have been among adults 65 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is crucial, Osterholm said, that states continue to direct efforts toward reaching and vaccinating vulnerable seniors who are homebound or hesitant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we say we’re going to open up eligibility to everybody 16 or 18 years and older, that seems like a victory,” he said. “In many states, that is an admission of defeat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KHN senior correspondent Anna Maria Barry-Jester contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). 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"content": "\u003cp>Musician Ian Brennan was born in Oakland and made a name for himself performing in live shows at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/350127/barbara-manning-joins-colorful-mix-on-laundromat-cd/\">Brainwash Laundromat in ‘90s San Francisco\u003c/a>. He went on to become a producer, working with artists like Lucinda Williams and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brennan is best known for his field recordings. Along with his wife, photographer and filmmaker Marilena Delli, Brennan has recorded musicians around the world, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2016/11/09/501463338/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe\">inmates at Zomba Prison\u003c/a> in Malawi and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2696103780\">genocide survivors in Cambodia\u003c/a>. He won a Grammy Award for the production of the album \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/arts/music/tinariwens-tassili-desert-blues-recorded-on-site.html\">Tassili\u003c/a> from the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/05/17/478372649/watch-tinariwen-perform-tin-ihlan-live-at-pickathon\">Tinariwen\u003c/a>, which has roots in Mali and Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839064\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Ian Brennan working with \"The Good Ones,\" a musical group in Rwanda.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Brennan working with “The Good Ones,” a musical group in Rwanda. \u003ccite>(Marilena Umuhoza Delli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More recently, Brennan has worked closer to home, producing an album called \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/producer-taps-voices-of-oaklands-homeless-community-for-new-album\">Homeless Oakland Heart\u003c/a> in 2019, which features recordings of unsheltered people on the streets of West Oakland — singing, rapping, reciting poetry and playing instruments, including a broken, nylon-string guitar one man had in his tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Brennan has turned his mic on his older sister, Jane Brennan, who was born with Down syndrome. She and her companions at an adult care facility in Contra Costa County call themselves “The Sheltered Workshop Singers.” They released their first album, \u003ca href=\"https://shelteredworkshopsingers.bandcamp.com/album/who-you-calling-slow\">“Who You Calling Slow?”\u003c/a> this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839062\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt='The album \"Who You Calling Slow?\" produced by Grammy Award-winner Ian Brennan, captures the voices and improvised songs of his sister, who has Down syndrome, and her companions.' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album “Who You Calling Slow?” produced by Grammy Award-winner Ian Brennan, captures the voices and improvised songs of his sister, who has Down syndrome, and her companions. \u003ccite>(Marilena Umuhoza Delli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brennan sat down recently to talk with California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha about recording the album. Here are some highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Comments have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Growing Up With Jane\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane was and is one of the biggest factors in my life. The most significant individual growing up really in my whole world was her. We’re only 14 months apart. And for better or for worse, she took care of me and she took care of the rest of us and the family. And it was because of her that we that we stayed together as a family. I don’t know that we would’ve made it without her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839063\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-800x1384.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Brennan with his older sister, Jane Brennan, in the 1970s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-800x1384.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-1020x1764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-160x277.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-888x1536.jpg 888w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Brennan with his older sister, Jane Brennan, in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ian Brennan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I started playing guitar when I was five. I don’t really remember not playing music. I only really remember music as a part of everyday life, as a way to connect, a way to communicate. For my sister and her peers, it was dance — the freedom that they express themselves with — was always so extraordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ian Brennan, music producer\"]‘We used some of the singers’ own devices — the wheelchairs, the canes. There was a yoga ball. It’s 100% live.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane has old vinyl records of mine and some other folks. And she’s played those records until they’re unplayable or continues to play them when they’re barely playable. I’d say she’s, with great certainty, the only person left on the planet Earth, if ever there were many, that listens to any of my music. She still embraces it. I think for her, probably a lot of it is the memories that surround the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839065\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44996_hotelutah-qut-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Brennan performing in the '90s at the Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44996_hotelutah-qut-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44996_hotelutah-qut-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44996_hotelutah-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44996_hotelutah-qut-1536x984.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44996_hotelutah-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Brennan performing in the ’90s at the Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ian Brennan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Jane’s Musical Abilities\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Well, my mother played a little piano as part of her therapy, but Jane would play it and she would bang away on it — again, without any reservation. Music was our language of communicating with one another. I was verbal before my sister was verbal, though she was older. She taught me a way of listening: to listen not to the words, but the spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beautiful thing about her is that she is mostly nonverbal, but she knows the words to every song — she just makes them up as she goes along. And there’s not that self-consciousness. It’s not a performance. It’s instead just an expression of her state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we listen to each other more carefully, we learn and we have so much to learn from each other. What I learned from my sister is that she may be developmentally delayed, yet her emotional intelligence is higher than almost anybody I’ve ever met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44999_DadandJanerecording-qut-800x855.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Brennan with her late father, James Brennan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44999_DadandJanerecording-qut-800x855.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44999_DadandJanerecording-qut-1020x1090.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44999_DadandJanerecording-qut-160x171.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44999_DadandJanerecording-qut-1437x1536.jpg 1437w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44999_DadandJanerecording-qut-1916x2048.jpg 1916w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44999_DadandJanerecording-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Brennan with her late father, James Brennan. \u003ccite>(Marilena Umuhoza Delli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Producing ‘Farewell Father’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We had an idea about doing a recording with Jane and her peers for years. My father was 85, and we realized that if we were going to do it, we needed to do it now. My father had been diagnosed with less than a year to live. Jane is now 55. The life expectancy, unfortunately, for her generation with Down syndrome is 60.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We did the recordings with three generations — my three-year-old daughter and my father were present. So were Jane and her peers, many of whom I’ve known their entire lives. On the song “Farewell Father,” you can hear Jane singing to my father and telling him goodbye. And, in fact, he passed away two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Recording His Family After Recording Around the Globe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It felt like literally coming home. It really came full circle musically because the music for me really started with her. It’s been deeply rewarding to hear those voices and to see that there are no amusical people. Music is everywhere. It’s necessary for survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really evaluate a record based on: is it unique? Is it different? Does it have a reason to exist for that reason alone? I think that the voices here are unlike any others. The things that are expressed are real. This recording is comprised of instant compositions with people that had never written songs before, sung into a microphone before or played instruments before. Nonetheless, the results were stunning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On the Recording Techniques Used\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We used some of the singers’ own devices — the wheelchairs, the canes. There was a yoga ball. It’s 100% live. What you’re hearing is something that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On most recordings nowadays, what we hear is something that never happened. It’s a simulation of an event that never actually occurred. I am invested in trying to represent a place and time and a moment in time that can connect people to reality in such a way that they can hear better.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On the Album’s Message\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What I’ve always learned from Jane and her peers throughout my life is perseverance and tenacity and acceptance. It’s not a surrender, but an acceptance of limitations, working with them and beyond them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on this album make up these incredible melodies that are very intricate and unique and complex. Some people have heard them and they say, “What language is that in?” And it’s easy. It’s in the language of music. It’s the universal language. There are no words to those songs. The meaning is embedded in the music itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/embed/q-hvvuGQTUM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He won a Grammy Award for the production of the album \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/arts/music/tinariwens-tassili-desert-blues-recorded-on-site.html\">Tassili\u003c/a> from the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/05/17/478372649/watch-tinariwen-perform-tin-ihlan-live-at-pickathon\">Tinariwen\u003c/a>, which has roots in Mali and Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839064\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Ian Brennan working with \"The Good Ones,\" a musical group in Rwanda.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44995_goodonesrwanda-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Brennan working with “The Good Ones,” a musical group in Rwanda. \u003ccite>(Marilena Umuhoza Delli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More recently, Brennan has worked closer to home, producing an album called \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/producer-taps-voices-of-oaklands-homeless-community-for-new-album\">Homeless Oakland Heart\u003c/a> in 2019, which features recordings of unsheltered people on the streets of West Oakland — singing, rapping, reciting poetry and playing instruments, including a broken, nylon-string guitar one man had in his tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Brennan has turned his mic on his older sister, Jane Brennan, who was born with Down syndrome. She and her companions at an adult care facility in Contra Costa County call themselves “The Sheltered Workshop Singers.” They released their first album, \u003ca href=\"https://shelteredworkshopsingers.bandcamp.com/album/who-you-calling-slow\">“Who You Calling Slow?”\u003c/a> this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839062\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt='The album \"Who You Calling Slow?\" produced by Grammy Award-winner Ian Brennan, captures the voices and improvised songs of his sister, who has Down syndrome, and her companions.' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44993_B1pbRKRg-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album “Who You Calling Slow?” produced by Grammy Award-winner Ian Brennan, captures the voices and improvised songs of his sister, who has Down syndrome, and her companions. \u003ccite>(Marilena Umuhoza Delli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brennan sat down recently to talk with California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha about recording the album. Here are some highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Comments have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Growing Up With Jane\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane was and is one of the biggest factors in my life. The most significant individual growing up really in my whole world was her. We’re only 14 months apart. And for better or for worse, she took care of me and she took care of the rest of us and the family. And it was because of her that we that we stayed together as a family. I don’t know that we would’ve made it without her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839063\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-800x1384.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Brennan with his older sister, Jane Brennan, in the 1970s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-800x1384.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-1020x1764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-160x277.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut-888x1536.jpg 888w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44994_OKxtShvw-qut.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Brennan with his older sister, Jane Brennan, in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ian Brennan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I started playing guitar when I was five. I don’t really remember not playing music. I only really remember music as a part of everyday life, as a way to connect, a way to communicate. For my sister and her peers, it was dance — the freedom that they express themselves with — was always so extraordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834086/what-you-need-to-know-bay-area-lightning-fires\">Find more details on evacuations and other essential wildfire information here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of wildfires sparked by lightning over the weekend continued to spread rapidly across large expanses of the outer Bay Area. The fires — in the North Bay, East Bay and Peninsula regions — remained largely uncontained as crews, already stretched thin, contend with high winds, rough terrain and triple-digit temperatures amid a week-long heat wave. One grouping of fires — dubbed the LNU Lightning Complex in Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties — more than doubled in area since Wednesday, blazing across 131,00 acres by Thursday morning and threatening some 30,500 houses and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Thursday, tens of thousands of residents from the North Bay to the Peninsula were ordered to evacuate in the face of three major groupings — or complexes — of fire blazing throughout the region. \u003ca href=\"#original\">Click here\u003c/a> to skip to our original post below the updates section.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The latest updates\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:15 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warning orders for the community of Platina in Shasta County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1296688405233848322\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, an evacuation warning has been issued by Cal Fire for the community of Platina, Calif. in Shasta County. Cal Fire officials are asking citizens of Platina to prepare in the event that evacuations become necessary. Citing \"fire behavior, no containment, lack of resources to include personnel and aircraft,\" Cal Fire advises residents to \"get ready, clear vegetation around your property, have your important documents and medications ready to go.\" For more information, refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4996/readysetgo_plan.pdf\">the READY, SET, GO program\u003c/a> at fire.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders for Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, Cal Fire issued additional evacuation orders in Santa Cruz County, which includes the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296633985586454529?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, the following orders apply to:\u003cbr>\n- All Scott’s Valley residents west of State Route 17.\u003cbr>\n- The Santa Cruz County area of east of Zayante Canyon, west of State Route 17 and south of State Route 35.\u003cbr>\n- University of California, Santa Cruz campus only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County evacuation centers are located at:\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz County Fairground, 2601 E. Lake Avenue in Watsonville\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz (At Capacity)\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Seventh Day Adventist Camp Ground, 1931 Soquel San Jose Rd \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the most current evacuation map and information: \u003ca href=\"http://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders, warnings issued in Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued new evacuation orders and warnings to Santa Clara County residents late Thursday afternoon in response to the SCU Lightning Complex of fires that since Sunday has burned more than 137,000 acres across five counties and remained only 5% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1296537523510894592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following areas, previously under an evacuation warning, are now under a mandatory evacuation order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- East of Shingle Valley Road and everything east of Anderson Lake, east of Coyote Creek, east of Coyote Reservoir, east of Roop Road, east of Leavesly Road, east of Crews Road, east of Ferguson Road.\u003cbr>\n- East and north of state Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- West of the Merced County Line, north of Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- South of Metcalf Road at Shingle Valley Road, east to the\u003cbr>\nStanislaus County Line\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas now under an evacuation warning include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- South of Metcalf Road, east of Coyote Creek to the Anderson Lake\u003cbr>\nShore, east of Cochrane Road, east of Hill Road, and south of Main Avenue, north of Maple Avenue, east of Foothill Avenue, north of San Martin Avenue, east of New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- West of Shingle Valley Road and everything west of Anderson Lake, west of Coyote Creek, west of Coyote reservoir, north and west of Roop Road between Coyote Reservoir Road and New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- East of Lovers Lane and the Santa Cruz County line\u003cbr>\n- South of Highway 152 to the San Benito County Line\u003cbr>\n-West to the Merced County Line\u003cbr>\n- North of the San Benito County Line to Highway 152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are road closures at Holiday Drive at East Dunne Avenue; Coyote Reservoir Road at Roop Road; Canada Road at Highway 152; and Highway 152 at Belle Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter for Santa Clara County residents is available at Ann Sobrato High School in the Performing Arts Building at 401 Burnett Ave. in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees that need animal services can call Santa Clara County Animal Services at (408) 686-3900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4 p.m. Thursday: Santa Cruz County asks all visitors to leave to free up shelter capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center on Thursday afternoon requested that all visitors and tourists staying in local overnight accommodations like hotels and vacation rentals leave the county immediately in order to free up shelter capacity for wildfire evacuees. With local shelters nearing capacity, the EOC is working with local agencies, including cities and school districts, to provide more shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents set up inside a large exhibition hall at the Santa Cruz County Fairground evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county is also asking evacuees to first seek shelter with friends and family and is urging residents with extra bedrooms or even tents to share their information on social media platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those leaving the county should depart south on state Highway 1 or north on state Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of existing and anticipated evacuation orders because of the CZU August Lighting Complex of wildfires is unprecedented, officials said. As of Thursday morning, the fires had already burned 40,000 acres and were 0% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the most current \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75.\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warnings issued for UC Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Thursday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation warning for the entire UC Santa Cruz campus and the the nearby communities of Paradise Park and the area of Scotts Valley west of State Route 17 (encompassing the downtown area). Cal Fire said said an evacuation warning is issued when \"the threat is plausible for fire activity to increase and your residence may be in the affected area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gavin Earnest, 62, inside a tent at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds evacuation center on Aug. 20, 2020. He and his mother, Elizabeth Earnest, evacuated from their Boulder Creek home two days ago. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby evacuation centers include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County Fairground: 2601 E. Lake Ave. in Watsonville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist campground: Soquel San Jose Rd. in Soquel\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium: 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz (was at capacity as of Thursday afternoon).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296561778038513664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:15 p.m. Thursday: Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County now top priority in North Bay\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe 14,500-acre Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County is now the top priority for firefighting efforts in the LNU Lightning Complex of fires burning in the North Bay, fire officials said. The lightning-ignited blaze, which merged overnight with the Stewart Fire, poses a serious threat to Guerneville and neighboring Russian River communities. See map of fire perimeters and evacuation zones \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=69a0e54e9e2b48c086d122027b21c961\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were hoping to make a lot better progress today. We are expecting better conditions than we had the last couple of days,\" said Santa Rosa Assistant Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal at a press briefing Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11 a.m. Thursday: LNU Complex has burned 131,000 acres, with 0% containment\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe LNU Lightning Complex of fires raging in the North Bay has collectively burned 131,000 acres, destroyed 105 structures and damaged 70 others as of Thursday morning, Cal Fire officials said.An estimated 30,500 structures remain threatened by the wildfires, which have prompted widespread evacuations in Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties, among other communities. Cal Fire says the fires are at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296469315705802752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the fires is the Hennessey Fire, which started near Hennessey Ridge Road in Napa County and has spread across 105,000 acres, according to Cal Fire. Another large blaze, the Walbridge Fire west of Healdsburg, has charred 14,500 acres while the Meyers Fire north of Jenner is at 3,000 acres as of Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10 a.m. Thursday: Nearly all East Bay regional parks closed\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDue to the extreme fire activity in the region, nearly all East Bay regional parks — except some shoreline locations — have been shut down closed until further notice, the \u003ca href=\"http://except%20some%20shoreline%20parks\">East Bay Regional Park District announced\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EBRPD/status/1296243710162862080\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is currently experiencing an unprecedented number of wildfires in parks, including Round Valley Regional Preserve, Morgan Territory Regional Preserve, Del Valle Regional Park, Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve, Ohlone Wilderness Regional Preserve, Mission Peak Regional Preserve, and Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. Paved regional trails are not affected by the closures and will remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following parks remain open:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crown Beach State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hayward Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>MLK Jr. Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McLaughlin Eastshore State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Point Isabel Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 a.m. Thursday: Entire town of Felton in Santa Cruz Mountains ordered to evacuate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\">has ordered\u003c/a> all Felton residents to evacuate immediately due to severe fire danger. That includes all six of Felton's evacuation zones. Evacuation centers have been established in San Mateo County at Half Moon Bay High School (1 Lewis Foster Dr.) and in Santa Cruz County at the Civic Auditorium (307 Church St., and 2601 East Lake Ave., Watsonville) and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incident information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8 a.m. Thursday: PG&E worker dies near Vacaville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PG&E worker was found unresponsive in his vehicle in the Gates Canyon area in Vacaville Wednesday, where he had been assisting first responders battling the Hennessey Fire, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409/photo/1\">Cal Fire confirmed\u003c/a> Thursday. CPR was performed and the employee was then brought to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The employee's name has not been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Original post (last updated Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of people were under orders to evacuate from the North Bay to the Peninsula early Wednesday as three major series of lightning-sparked wildfires blazed out of control across the Bay Area amid a heat wave now in its sixth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throughout the state of California right now, we are stretched thin for crews\" because of the fires, said Will Powers, a Cal Fire spokesman. \"Air resources have been stretched thin throughout the whole state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11833686 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Hennessey-fire-1020x609.jpg']Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed \"this extraordinary weather we’re experiencing and all of these lightning strikes” for a total of 367 known fires now burning across California. Newsom said the state had recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the outskirts of the Solano County city of Vacaville, police and firefighters went door to door late Tuesday and early Wednesday in a scramble to warn residents to evacuate as one of the eight blazes that are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> raced toward the residential areas from the northwest. Fire officials said at least 50 structures were destroyed and 50 were damaged and that four people were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LNU Lightning Complex includes lightning-sparked fires burning from the Sonoma County coast east across Napa County and Solano County. The blazes had burned a total 46,225 acres by early Wednesday. Most of the fires are burning in areas with limited access and steep terrain, making it difficult to get crews in. Fire crews were stretched too thin overnight to focus on more than immediate life-saving measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mgafni/status/1296046197409345537?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle reporter Matthias Gafni, who traveled down Pleasants Valley Road on the western outskirts of Vacaville shortly after 4:00 a.m., told KQED that houses were on fire when he arrived, but that most people had evacuated from that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It appeared the fire had just crossed the road and swept eastward towards the city proper,\" Gafni said. \"Houses were on fire. Structures, cars, explosions were being heard as propane tanks exploded and gas lines were whizzing. And it was a pretty chaotic scene when I when I first showed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Godley, Sonoma County's emergency management director, said about 10,000 people were under evacuation orders as crews battled two blazes and were working to set up an evacuation center with alternate locations for people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that resources are strapped statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to second guess what the fire commanders are doing with their aircraft. But it’s not like last year when we saw just a huge wealth of resources flowing into the county,\" he said. “It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents the area, said the fires burning in Napa and Sonoma counties were mostly affecting less populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the people around here, even the people that have structures in harm’s way, understand that they’re in a more rural area and that the people in more densely populated areas have to get the resources first,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation order for residents of the Hidden Valley Lake and Jerusalem Valley areas of Lake County, suggesting a potentially dangerous northward move into that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, about 22,000 people were ordered to evacuate overnight due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">CZU August Lightning Complex fire\u003c/a>, burning in the Santa Cruz mountains, Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fire – also comprised of multiple lightning-sparked blazes – quickly expanded to 10,000 acres overnight and is at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296005460022067200?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last night we saw a major increase in fire activity in both San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties,” Cox said Wednesday morning. “And we saw several of the fires merge together and make a significant run into Santa Cruz County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very active timber fire burning in two counties with a serious threat to both public safety and for structures that are out in front of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials issued evacuation orders late Tuesday night for people living in the Boulder Creek and Ben Lomond areas along Highway 9, and for Bonny Doon down towards Davenport on Highway 1 as multiple blazes merged together in the mountains between Big Basin State Park and Bonny Doon, threatening to move further south and east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased winds on Wednesday afternoon appeared to fuel the blaze's growth and cause the formation of a large pyrocumulus cloud - large, thunderhead-like clouds which top out at high altitudes and are themselves capable of producing lightning. All of the three major complex fires \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1296209917410455552?s=20\">were producing pyrocumulus clouds\u003c/a> Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RobMayeda/status/1296217706300022784?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued an additional evacuation warning for the Santa Cruz mountains at 2:00 p.m., requesting that all residents leave from areas west of Highway 9 to Empire Grade, and south from Bear Creek Road to Felton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Cecile Juliette said crews spent all night and all morning evacuating people with the help of the Santa Cruz County sheriff's office. She said the COVID-19 pandemic has created another challenging layer for evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Red Cross now can't put them all in one big gymnasium. You know, they'll have to get them hotel rooms, and so that just adds another layer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sanmateoco/status/1296105613399744515?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees from the CZU August Lightning Complex blazes were being sent to the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds in Watsonville, where \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296155025018720256?s=20\">tents were set up\u003c/a> inside an air conditioned building as a COVID-19 safety measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frightening to think maybe you don't have a home to go back to,\" said Toni Bravo, who evacuated from the Boulder Creek area with her son Josh at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296118724785651714?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com/\">evacuation center\u003c/a> has been set up at Pescadero High School in Pescadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, a cluster of 20 separate lightning-sparked fires dubbed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">SCU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> threatened about 1,400 structures in rugged terrain with dense brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fires, burning in Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties have now burned 85,000 acres and are 5% contained. Two people have been injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SCU Lightning Complex is burning in what's regarded as the Diablo Range, east of Mount Diablo, east of Fremont, and northeast of Mount Hamilton. The biggest fires are the Del Puerto, burning west of the town of Patterson along Del Puerto Canyon Road, and the Reservoir, just east of the Calaveras Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoFire/status/1295540694128287746?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the blazes are believed to have been sparked by lightning strikes from the unusual series of thunderstorms that rolled across the Bay Area beginning early last Sunday. Meteorologist Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services said the lightning storms and ongoing sizzling temperatures created a very dangerous combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the very dry fuels that we have, both from the temperatures and the fact it's been almost three months since there's been any significant rain in the state... It's just been the perfect scenario for this sort of event to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the forecast for the next few days, Null sounded a meager note of optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are past the high point of the heat wave,\" he said, noting that Wednesday should be the last triple-digit temperature day in the inland Bay Area and into the Central Valley, but temperatures are still expected to reach the 90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slight weather change is more likely to help crews battling the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire along the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're starting to see a little bit of a deeper marine layer, so we will see some cooling along the coastal areas that will bring some higher humidities in,\" Null said. \"But again, fuels are extremely dry. We are looking at fuels that, a few weeks ago, were drier by a month than what they normally are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press, Bay City News and KQED's Dan Brekke, David Marks, Matthew Green, Adhiti Bandlamudi and Hannah Hagemann. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The following areas, previously under an evacuation warning, are now under a mandatory evacuation order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- East of Shingle Valley Road and everything east of Anderson Lake, east of Coyote Creek, east of Coyote Reservoir, east of Roop Road, east of Leavesly Road, east of Crews Road, east of Ferguson Road.\u003cbr>\n- East and north of state Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- West of the Merced County Line, north of Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- South of Metcalf Road at Shingle Valley Road, east to the\u003cbr>\nStanislaus County Line\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas now under an evacuation warning include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- South of Metcalf Road, east of Coyote Creek to the Anderson Lake\u003cbr>\nShore, east of Cochrane Road, east of Hill Road, and south of Main Avenue, north of Maple Avenue, east of Foothill Avenue, north of San Martin Avenue, east of New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- West of Shingle Valley Road and everything west of Anderson Lake, west of Coyote Creek, west of Coyote reservoir, north and west of Roop Road between Coyote Reservoir Road and New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- East of Lovers Lane and the Santa Cruz County line\u003cbr>\n- South of Highway 152 to the San Benito County Line\u003cbr>\n-West to the Merced County Line\u003cbr>\n- North of the San Benito County Line to Highway 152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are road closures at Holiday Drive at East Dunne Avenue; Coyote Reservoir Road at Roop Road; Canada Road at Highway 152; and Highway 152 at Belle Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter for Santa Clara County residents is available at Ann Sobrato High School in the Performing Arts Building at 401 Burnett Ave. in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees that need animal services can call Santa Clara County Animal Services at (408) 686-3900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4 p.m. Thursday: Santa Cruz County asks all visitors to leave to free up shelter capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center on Thursday afternoon requested that all visitors and tourists staying in local overnight accommodations like hotels and vacation rentals leave the county immediately in order to free up shelter capacity for wildfire evacuees. With local shelters nearing capacity, the EOC is working with local agencies, including cities and school districts, to provide more shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents set up inside a large exhibition hall at the Santa Cruz County Fairground evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county is also asking evacuees to first seek shelter with friends and family and is urging residents with extra bedrooms or even tents to share their information on social media platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those leaving the county should depart south on state Highway 1 or north on state Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of existing and anticipated evacuation orders because of the CZU August Lighting Complex of wildfires is unprecedented, officials said. As of Thursday morning, the fires had already burned 40,000 acres and were 0% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the most current \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75.\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warnings issued for UC Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Thursday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation warning for the entire UC Santa Cruz campus and the the nearby communities of Paradise Park and the area of Scotts Valley west of State Route 17 (encompassing the downtown area). Cal Fire said said an evacuation warning is issued when \"the threat is plausible for fire activity to increase and your residence may be in the affected area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gavin Earnest, 62, inside a tent at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds evacuation center on Aug. 20, 2020. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed \"this extraordinary weather we’re experiencing and all of these lightning strikes” for a total of 367 known fires now burning across California. Newsom said the state had recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the outskirts of the Solano County city of Vacaville, police and firefighters went door to door late Tuesday and early Wednesday in a scramble to warn residents to evacuate as one of the eight blazes that are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> raced toward the residential areas from the northwest. Fire officials said at least 50 structures were destroyed and 50 were damaged and that four people were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LNU Lightning Complex includes lightning-sparked fires burning from the Sonoma County coast east across Napa County and Solano County. The blazes had burned a total 46,225 acres by early Wednesday. Most of the fires are burning in areas with limited access and steep terrain, making it difficult to get crews in. Fire crews were stretched too thin overnight to focus on more than immediate life-saving measures.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Firefighters on Monday continued battling a string of wildfires in rural areas of Contra Costa, Alameda and Napa counties, which have so far forced residents in more than 150 homes to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued Red Flag warnings across much of Northern California as extreme heat and the threat of continued widespread thunderstorms raised the risk of more lightning-sparked fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, four blazes burning on the northeast side of Mount Diablo — collectively called \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/16/deer-zone-fires/\">the Deer Zone Fires\u003c/a> — are believed to have been ignited by lightning strikes early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday morning, the fires had burned 1,161 acres of vegetation and were 0% contained, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the area were ordered to evacuate at about 9:20 p.m. Sunday after what firefighters said was a “change in behavior” of the fire, according to the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District. The orders cover as many as 200 houses along the length of Morgan Territory Road south to the Alameda County line and along Marsh Creek Road from Bragdon Way east to the Round Valley Regional Preserve parking lot, including the Clayton Palms mobile home community about three miles southwest of Brentwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1295035822148710403\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday morning, no homes were reported destroyed or damaged by the fires, officials said. One firefighter suffered a minor injury Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re under investigation, but early on it looks like they’re all lightning-related,” said Pam Temmermand, a Cal Fire spokeswoman. “The high temperatures and low humidity we have right now, that’s a given for this time of year. I think the odd thing we had was this lightning storm that came through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews from the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District, Cal Fire and the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District are battling the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation center, operated by the Red Cross, at the Brentwood Community Center at 35 Oak St. in Brentwood, east of the fire zone, is available for residents who were ordered to leave their homes. The Clayton Library, at 6125 Clayton Road in Clayton, west of the fire zone, was also being used as an evacuation center, but most residents have been taken to hotels, according to a spokesman for the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews on Monday were also battling blazes in rural areas of Alameda, Napa and Monterey counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2254px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11833744 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2254\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM.png 2254w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM-800x545.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM-1020x695.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM-1536x1047.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM-2048x1396.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-3.37.09-PM-1920x1308.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2254px) 100vw, 2254px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Active fires in and around the Bay Area. Source: Cal Fire. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A group of fires near the Sunol Regional Wilderness and the Calaveras Reservoir in southeastern Alameda County — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/16/marsh-fire/\">called the Marsh complex\u003c/a> — was first reported Sunday afternoon, and as of Monday morning had burned more than 1,775 acres, with 0% containment, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters with the Alameda County Fire Department, Cal Fire and fire departments in Oakland, Fremont and Livermore-Pleasanton began battling the blaze late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandFireCA/status/1295397295970586624\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires forced the evacuation of about 10 homes along Welch Creek Road, located about four miles southeast of Sunol and one mile north of the Little Yosemite Trail area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, crews on Monday continued to battle \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/16/river-fire/#incident-overview\">the River Fire\u003c/a> in rural Monterey County southeast of Salinas, which was first reported shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday near Toro Peak. By early Monday, the fire had scorched 2,800 acres of steep terrain and was 10% contained, according to Cal Fire. The blaze had already damaged five structures and was threatening 1,500 more, with four firefighters suffering from heat-related injuries, the agency reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday morning, the blaze had spread across Pine Canyon, and was continuing to move to the south toward River Road, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes along Pine Canyon Road, Parker Road, Laurel Lane and Trimble Hill Lane, while an evacuation advisory covers Indian Canyon Road, Mt. Toro Access Road and San Benancio Road from Troy Lane to Corral de Tierra, including Corral del Cielo Road, Lucie Lane and Covie Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of evacuees was not immediately known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more wildfire coverage\" tag=\"california-wildfires\"]An evacuation center has been set up at Buena Vista Middle School at 18250 Tara Drive in Salinas. An animal evacuation center is at the SPCA, Marina Equestrian Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuations were also ordered Monday morning in the area near a wildfire in rural Napa County. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/hennessey-fire/\">Hennessey Fire\u003c/a> — burning near the 60 block of Hennessey Ridge Road — was reported at 6:40 a.m., authorities said, and the evacuation order was given just before 11 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet known how many homes are in the area or if the cause of the fire was also a lightning strike, Cal Fire said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/trulyca/3185/bay-area-hospital-closure-impacted-explored-in-documentary-the-desert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“The Desert”\u003c/a>, a documentary film recently released as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/trulyca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED’s Truly CA\u003c/a> series, looks at the ripple effects in a community after a hospital closes. Doctors Medical Center operated for 60 years, serving western Contra Costa County from its location in San Pablo, north of Richmond in the East Bay.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/24993/san-pablos-doctors-medical-center-to-close-tuesday\">closed in 2015\u003c/a>, after failing to bridge a stubborn $18-20 million annual deficit, it left nearly 250,000 mostly low-income residents more than a half-hour drive away from the closest hospital.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#film\">The film\u003c/a> was produced and directed by Bo Kovitz, who spoke with The California Report Magazine. Interview excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830990\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11830990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44121_Kovitz_Headshot-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44121_Kovitz_Headshot-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44121_Kovitz_Headshot-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44121_Kovitz_Headshot-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44121_Kovitz_Headshot-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44121_Kovitz_Headshot-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bo Kovitz produced and directed ‘The Desert’ as her thesis film while at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bo Kovitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On what inspired her to make the film\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I had gone to a public forum about the planned closure of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in South Berkeley. And there was a lot of discussion at the time about how we would lose another emergency room on a critical corridor of the Bay Area. There was reference to a hospital that had already closed in Richmond. It was sort of glossed over. It really piqued my interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We really take for granted this idea that we all have a hospital in our neighborhood. I thought, what does it look like to live in a community where there isn’t a hospital? I approached this wanting to hear from the doctors, the frontline workers, the patients, about what the tragedy was. They were never quite heard. And I wanted them to drive this story. I wanted them to be the storytellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I felt that the reporting and the knowledge around the closure of Doctors Medical Center was never really in the hands of the people who were living and breathing the impacts of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On following patients who must plan a whole day around a hospital visit\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I think there’s been a lot of focus about the loss of (Doctors Medical Center) through the prism of emergency services and not having an emergency room in West Contra Costa County. But there’s another enormous deficit, which is specialty care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a cancer center at Doctors Medical Center. Epigmenio Mayo and Angelica Lopez are a couple, both battling cancer. At the time the film was shot, they regularly made a trip where they would take three different buses to get to the county hospital in Martinez, where both of them were receiving cancer treatment. For them, this trip is an absolute necessity, but it’s something that they have to plan their entire day around. They are winded by the time they even show up to their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the film, the sun is already set. It’s a full day trip. They’ve talked a lot about how there’s no other option. As they say in the film, they prepare their minds and bodies for the trip because they know they have to take it. This is how they survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11830987 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epigmenio Mayo and Angelica Lopez ride three buses to get to the hospital for their cancer treatment. \u003ccite>(Bo Kovitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On the urgent care clinic now across the street from the former Doctors Medical Center site\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>They’re serving the same population with just a quarter of the staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Millie Callen worked at Doctors Medical Center for more than a decade. She was one of the coordinators in the E.R., which is one of the most important roles. She’s making sure that everything’s moving smoothly, bringing people in, bouncing them to their doctors, making sure their insurance is covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the hospital closed, Millie was caring for her own loved ones and understood the before and after of what it’s like to lose a hospital. Her mother has a heart condition. The urgent care where Millie now works is much busier with the spike of COVID-19 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_still_06-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_still_06-copy-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_still_06-copy-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_still_06-copy-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_still_06-copy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_still_06-copy-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_still_06-copy.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millie Callen worked at Doctors Medical Center, and now works at the urgent care clinic across the street from the former hospital site. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bo Kovits)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a while, they were one of the few locations that were doing COVID-19 testing. Not only are they answering a lot of patients needing primary care, but they are also dealing with an additional load of patients who were experiencing or showing symptoms of COVID-19. And then there’s that added stress of how do we sequester that person away from the rest of our patients? They had set up a tent in the back parking lot and they were running back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On the firefighters and paramedics she follows in the film\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a Richmond paramedic company. There’s no West Contra Costa County paramedic company. So the firefighters take on the role of being the first to arrive on scene. Firefighters can get on scene, but they’re limited in what they can do because in certain advanced or complicated cases, the ambulance and the paramedics are the ones who need to show up and then transport the person and have specialty training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are times of the day where highways are really, really congested. Wait times for the paramedics to show up can be up to 30 minutes depending on the day. And then those paramedics are often forced to transport patients outside the city or county for care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-800x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-800x419.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-1020x534.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Rogers and his fellow firefighters often care for critically ill patients — many of their calls are for health care emergencies, not fires.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the paramedics that I had the opportunity to film with is Aimee Skaggs, and she has been in the community for years. She was around when Doctors Medical Center was there and brought a lot of patients there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aimee describes something that I think is unique to low income communities where 911 calls are really treated as primary care. Emergency responders are the ones who essentially are doing triage on the spot. They are having to navigate so many different layers of what it means to make the best decision for a patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s more than just ‘what’s the closest hospital?’ It’s ‘what makes the most financial sense? Where is going to be the closest place that the family can come without it being a hassle?’ And in cases where the issue is something really time-sensitive, paramedics like Aimee have to bring in another dimension to the decision making: how to get them somewhere fast when highways are clogged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hospitals may not take them. Where do they go that is not going to also leave the patient riddled with hospital bills in the aftermath? [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"— Trevor Rogers, firefighter medic\"]‘If we happen to have three calls and there are three critical patients that need critical care, now you have three ambulances that are outside of our city… And that essentially depletes the city of our resources.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On how hospital closures are playing out throughout the state\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are more hospital closures that are happening in California. They’re mostly in rural communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the closure of Doctors Medical Center represents an accelerating trend in urban communities. Regions that are concentrated areas for Medi-Cal, Medicare or uninsured patients are losing hospitals because hospitals and ERs are trying to consolidate in urban centers where there are more privately insured patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On the burden of shouldering COVID-19 patients now that the hospital has closed\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Right now, Bay Area hospitals haven’t been overwhelmed so far with COVID-19 cases — which is lucky. But if things were to get really over the top, I think people will wish Doctors Medical Center was there. There’s definitely concern about capacity. There’s also a concern that many people — especially those with chronic illnesses like diabetes, hypertension or asthma — may not be getting seen for illnesses that need to be managed right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We may never know how many people are in West Contra Costa County who may have died, who did not seek emergency care or did not seek health care, because they were afraid of being exposed to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Doctors Medical Center closed, a lot of trust was lost among the community. A community that has historically been marginalized from the health care system now feels further marginalized because they lost a resource. They lost an institution that represented a lot of trust in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke about this with the ambulatory director at the county hospital in Martinez, Dr. Gabriela Sullivan. She says that health care is often left with the job of trying to plug all these holes that are in the social fabric of our country. And that if we are trying to leave social issues on the doorstep of health care, that’s a recipe for failure. A lot of people in the years leading up to the hospital closure said it will take a public health crisis of extreme proportions to reveal how essential Doctors Medical Center and other safety net hospitals are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think with this pandemic, it’s not just that Black and brown communities are dying and are more impacted. There’s also going to be a downstream increase of morbidity and mortality for years to come. There is a real worry that they’re holding back the dams right now in terms of acute care. The realities of the disparity are going to last far beyond this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"film\">\u003c/a>Watch the full documentary here:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bjKcfSmVxU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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This is how they survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11830987 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44118_desert_03-qut.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epigmenio Mayo and Angelica Lopez ride three buses to get to the hospital for their cancer treatment. \u003ccite>(Bo Kovitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On the urgent care clinic now across the street from the former Doctors Medical Center site\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>They’re serving the same population with just a quarter of the staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Millie Callen worked at Doctors Medical Center for more than a decade. 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Not only are they answering a lot of patients needing primary care, but they are also dealing with an additional load of patients who were experiencing or showing symptoms of COVID-19. And then there’s that added stress of how do we sequester that person away from the rest of our patients? They had set up a tent in the back parking lot and they were running back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On the firefighters and paramedics she follows in the film\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a Richmond paramedic company. There’s no West Contra Costa County paramedic company. So the firefighters take on the role of being the first to arrive on scene. 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And then those paramedics are often forced to transport patients outside the city or county for care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-800x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-800x419.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-1020x534.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/desert_04-wide.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Rogers and his fellow firefighters often care for critically ill patients — many of their calls are for health care emergencies, not fires.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the paramedics that I had the opportunity to film with is Aimee Skaggs, and she has been in the community for years. She was around when Doctors Medical Center was there and brought a lot of patients there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aimee describes something that I think is unique to low income communities where 911 calls are really treated as primary care. Emergency responders are the ones who essentially are doing triage on the spot. They are having to navigate so many different layers of what it means to make the best decision for a patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s more than just ‘what’s the closest hospital?’ It’s ‘what makes the most financial sense? Where is going to be the closest place that the family can come without it being a hassle?’ And in cases where the issue is something really time-sensitive, paramedics like Aimee have to bring in another dimension to the decision making: how to get them somewhere fast when highways are clogged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hospitals may not take them. Where do they go that is not going to also leave the patient riddled with hospital bills in the aftermath? \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A blood test confirmed his blood alcohol content was nearly twice the legal limit, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office internal investigation found that Spadaro lied about his drinking during that encounter. Spadaro had also put paper license plates on his car in order to avoid paying the Benicia-Martinez Bridge toll during his commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston first tried to fire Spadaro, but ultimately reduced his discipline to a six-month pay cut. It appears the deputy still works for the county. Spadaro did not respond to an email requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Public Defender Robin Lipetzky wrote in statement that her office is “investigating the impacts of Deputy Spadaro’s misconduct on recent and pending cases where he was a material witness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipetzky said timely compliance with both SB 1421 and \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/373/83/\">\u003ci>Brady v. Maryland\u003c/i>\u003c/a> “are necessary to ensure due process for everyone in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jimmy Lee did not respond to questions about why it took a year to locate and produce the Spadaro file, nor would he clarify if his office has more disciplinary records to produce. Lee said in an email that his office intends to disclose all relevant SB 1421 records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our release of documents continues and we are committed to fulfilling all proper [SB] 1421 requests as quickly as possible,” Lee wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor John Gioia, who is one of Livingston’s critics, said he believes the Contra Costa County Sheriff Deputies’ Association pressured Livingston to withhold the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sheriff should follow the law in disclosing documents despite a contrary position by the Deputy Sheriff's Association,\" Gioia said. \"His job is to follow the law as a county officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DSA President Shawn Welch, in a phone interview Wednesday, denied asking that the document be withheld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11786770,news_11792317,news_11789945\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never took a stance,” Welch said. “It was delayed because [SB] 1421 is a brand new law” and there were questions about whether Spadaro’s case applies to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welch’s union was one of the first police associations to file suit back in January 2019 to block the county from releasing past misconduct and use-of-force records unsealed by SB 1421. A number of First Amendment and media organizations including KQED joined that suit to argue for the disclosure of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Contra Costa judge’s ruling in that case, which found that SB 1421 should apply retroactively, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732520/appeals-court-covering-bay-area-rules-in-favor-of-releasing-police-misconduct-shooting-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upheld\u003c/a> by the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco on March 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even after that ruling, Livingston refused to search for records, arguing that searching the “voluminous” internal affairs files constituted an “undue burden” on the department. He was one of the few law enforcement officials statewide to make this argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally in June, the sheriff said the search for records had been completed. Seven incidents had been identified in which deputies had used force causing death or serious injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Tuesday, the Sheriff’s Office released Spadaro’s disciplinary file without any explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It begs the question: why it took litigation for these records to be released? Why were they not promptly released a year ago?” said David Snyder, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Amendment Coalition\u003c/a>, which is involved in the Contra Costa litigation. “A year is not prompt. It makes one wonder if there are other records languishing in the sheriff's files that the public is entitled to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spadaro was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2017, and court records show it was his first criminal offense in Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Spadaro was accused of sexual harassment in 2006 by a female deputy in the Sheriff’s Department. The county settled the suit in 2008 for an unknown amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal records released Tuesday by the Sheriff’s Office show Spadaro was also reprimanded in 2015. But the Sheriff’s Office said records related to that prior misconduct are not disclosable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee would not say if the sheriff has ongoing concerns about Spadaro’s fitness to be deputy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thomas Peele of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. 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They were like, ‘Wow.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a quarter of U.S. states and numerous smaller jurisdictions are looking for ways to reduce the use of solitary confinement, according to the Vera Institute of Justice, which encourages alternatives to a practice behavioral experts say is dehumanizing and can worsen mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies in California came after Specter’s firm sued seven of California’s 58 counties, alleging that conditions had grown inhumane as jails absorbed inmates who previously would have served their sentences in state prisons. The state in 2011 began sending less serious offenders to local jails for years at a time to ease crowding in state penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some jurisdictions nationwide are banning isolation for young offenders, pregnant women or those with mental health diagnoses. The California counties’ approach of generally limiting it to those who engage in continued violent behavior has dramatically reduced the number of inmates in isolation and the length of time they stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa started 2019 with about 100 people in solitary, most jailsfor more than a year. It had just three in isolation cells by December, after officials began using the new approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rick Raemisch, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections\"]'Think of yourself being in a cell the size of a parking space for 23 hours a day. At a minimum you’re going to get angry, and when you get angry you’re going to fight back.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County also is following the policy pioneered by Santa Clara County, while Fresno County is considering it. Among other things, it encourages the use of low-cost incentives to reward good behavior, like the opportunity to listen to the radio, watch a movie or get an extra snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County has cut its isolated population roughly in half, to about 60 inmates, said Lt. 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And Cook County, Illinois, no longer keeps troublesome inmates in isolation, allowing them to regularly spend time with about a half-dozen other inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a decades-long effort to reform solitary, especially in prisons. But what we haven’t seen is a paired reform effort for jails,” said Amy Fettig, director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Stop Solitary campaign. “In Santa Clara what we’re seeing is an attempt to reform the whole process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term isolation can be so debilitating, Fettig said, that she’s had clients cut themselves “just to feel something because they’ve become numb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County once had 400 inmates in solitary confinement. Specter’s client in Santa Clara County had been in solitary confinement for nearly five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By last fall there were about 40 inmates confined to isolation cells for an average of about two months, and just 26 by December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said she and many deputies were initially skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has surprised me, and I think it’s very, very good for our inmates,” she said. “I think what we’re doing is correct, and I think it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said she remains concerned that assaults on staff are up. She said the increase is logical, however, since inmates locked in their cells virtually around the clock have little opportunity to assault anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Todd Kendrick, president of the county's correctional officers association, attributed the increase to other less restrictive jail policies as well as the easing of solitary confinement. He and Smith both called for increased staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the county fell into a pattern of protectively isolating inmates to separate purported gang members and those charged with murder and to safeguard jailhouse informants or sex offenders for fear they would be harmed. Officials sought to improve after several major incidents, including deaths in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most jails, three-quarters or more of inmates had not been convicted of a crime and yet spent months and sometimes years awaiting trial in isolation. 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