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"content": "\u003cp>There are the facts: The Valley Fire that hit Lake County last September was one of the most destructive in California history. The reality becomes really clear when I drive through what once was a neighborhood in the town of Cobb. I see stone chimneys standing alone, foundations that outline former houses. The hills above had been thick with pine and fir trees. Now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a moonscape with trees. The trees have been burned so badly there are no needles left,” Kevin Sadlier says. It’s actually because of this fire that Sadlier drove two hours from his home in Marin to explore Lake County this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we call it ‘chasing the burns,’ ” he says, in search of the black morel mushrooms that grow in the springtime after a forest fire. 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He scouted here, where the Valley Fire hit, a couple weeks back, measuring soil temperature and waiting for the perfect conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930201 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg\" alt=\"Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-400x462.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-1180x1364.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-960x1110.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, 'Morels make fools of all of us.' \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It rained, it warmed up, we have a bit of canopy left, and we have some needleleaf litter on the ground keeping moisture in the soil. Now all we need is morels,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.” Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for morels. Their textured caps are long and cone-shaped, like dark honeycomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of their charm. We find maybe it’s like a bad boyfriend or girlfriend that you keep going out and being shamed by. It’s a bit like that with morels,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is not just a forager. For decades she’s run a business supplying wild mushrooms to high-end Bay Area restaurants, and she co-authored the book \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.thewildtable.net/\">The Wild Table\u003c/a>.\" She says there’s a long history and appreciation of different types of morels in Europe and in the Midwest. Here, before morels became a fine-dining staple, long before European settlers came, Native Americans collected them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re absolutely delicious and ultimately terribly frustrating, and immensely scream-worthy to find,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, commercial and amateur hunters will chase the burns from Northern California through the Pacific Northwest, Canada and Alaska. Some say that because of the large number of acres burned in the West last summer, this may be a huge “burn” morel season. Lake County’s just the first stop on a morel trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-960x634.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three of us walk through the forest, heads down, when suddenly Kevin Sadlier spots a black SUV covertly parked off the road and says, “We’ve got company,” likely a fellow mushroom hunter. Sadlier and Green both laugh, knowingly, and plan to head off in a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we move to another spot, and come across two other foragers he knows, that’s when we find a cluster of morels poking out of needles covering the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gasp, and Sadlier says, “We’re in the promised land. They’re everywhere!” I see grown men chase each other to a morel cluster, and we spend hours scanning the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We fill a paper grocery bag with morels: a respectable haul but really just for home eating. So, what’s the allure? Adventure, for one. Sadlier says he’s come across rattlesnakes, mountain lions, even bears while hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do really enjoy eating the wild mushrooms, but I enjoy the hunt more,” he says. “There’s something about how it brings out the hunter/gatherer instinct. It’s almost a magical feeling: You go into a wilderness area, you interpret your environment, and you try your luck. If you find wild mushrooms, there’s no better feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These foragers believe the real mother lode would be higher up, inside the boundaries of \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateparks.com/boggs_mountain_state_forest_in_california.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boggs Mountain State Forest\u003c/a>, which has been closed to the public since the fire. 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It’s almost impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says 80 percent of the forest's trees burned, and his top priority is removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he drives me around the black and brown hills of the forest, it looks like something out of a dystopic science fiction film. On an active logging site, equipment with mechanized arms and saws fells dead trees, strips off burnt bark and moves as much as 100 truckloads a day out to mills. Even where logging isn’t happening, Wright says, the forest is dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of trees are in danger of coming down,” he says. “The tops will start breaking out of these trees, the limbs will start breaking off and coming down with just the slightest breeze,” and burned-out stumps and roots create holes in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wright knows many morel hunters are familiar with forests and are eager to get on the land, he says, “We can’t interview each person to find out if they’re qualified, see if they have a hardhat, if they're familiar with hazards of forest. We’d have to do a site safety plan with each one of them. It’s just not practical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the forest is closed to all recreational activity, and Wright hopes to have at least some portions of the forest open in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been to many morel fire-burned areas,” says local Joe Guardado, “and there’s areas in Boggs that are beyond anything I ever saw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930277 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"'Mushroom' Joe Guardado\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-400x272.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Mushroom Joe' Guardado \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the fire, Guardado hiked Boggs Forest every day. He’s spent many winters foraging pounds and pounds of porcini mushrooms in the forest and around the town of Loch Lomond, where he lives. It’s a weekend getaway for Northern Californian Italian families, with resorts like Biggi’s Family Club and Italian Village swelling the population in the summer. They revere mushrooms here. Guardado introduces me to a friend, Mike Giusti, who built a shrine in his front yard that, from a distance, looks like it honors the Virgin Mary. Up close, it’s clear that it’s a porcini made of stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardado says he doesn’t forage mushrooms for money. He swaps jars of dried porcinis for hunted pheasant or duck, or wine made by the families who vacation here. Guardado is a caretaker, and he knows them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Flora and Romano Marcucci. He points to Guardado and says, “They call him the King for Mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep. In these parts, Guardado is called the King, or Mushroom Joe. He’s showing the Marcuccis where edible wild mushrooms pop out of little mounds of leaves in a yard. They’re coccolis, white mushrooms as big as my hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930285\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg\" alt=\"Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-400x416.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-1180x1227.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-960x998.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Marcuccis ran an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, and know what to do with their haul. Flora says she’ll slice the mushrooms and cook them simply in olive oil with garlic, pepper and salt. “Let it fry, get nice and crunch. Delicious!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also unearth one deadly mushroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, that’s a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\">death cap\u003c/a>,” says Mushroom Joe, looking at its pimply skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romano Marcucci draws his finger across his neck, ominously, saying, “No doctor will save you from that.” But all three are lifelong mushroom hunters who know what to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mushroom Joe and I spend the afternoon in a couple burn areas hunting for morels: no luck today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elusive Morchella, that’s what they call them. They’re elusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ll be here only after this fire. So, he’ll keep looking. But he skipped porcini season last winter ... his heart just wasn’t in it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are the facts: The Valley Fire that hit Lake County last September was one of the most destructive in California history. The reality becomes really clear when I drive through what once was a neighborhood in the town of Cobb. I see stone chimneys standing alone, foundations that outline former houses. The hills above had been thick with pine and fir trees. Now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a moonscape with trees. The trees have been burned so badly there are no needles left,” Kevin Sadlier says. It’s actually because of this fire that Sadlier drove two hours from his home in Marin to explore Lake County this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we call it ‘chasing the burns,’ ” he says, in search of the black morel mushrooms that grow in the springtime after a forest fire. Joining Sadlier is fellow wild mushroom enthusiast Connie Green, who says morels are opportunists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317385&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317385'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spring following a summer or autumn fire is a golden opportunity for morels,” Green says. “It’s as if fire is taking a gigantic eraser, and wiped life out. Where there’s a void, where cleansing fire has made this rather sad, with black sticks in their landscape, morels love this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadlier runs a garden center in Marin and co-founded the Mycological Society of Marin County. He doesn’t sell most of the wild mushrooms he finds, but instead gives them to chefs -- in exchange for meals. He scouted here, where the Valley Fire hit, a couple weeks back, measuring soil temperature and waiting for the perfect conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930201 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg\" alt=\"Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-800x925.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-400x462.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-1180x1364.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/ConnieGreen-960x1110.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. As Connie Green warns, 'Morels make fools of all of us.' \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It rained, it warmed up, we have a bit of canopy left, and we have some needleleaf litter on the ground keeping moisture in the soil. Now all we need is morels,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Connie Green warns, “Morels make fools of all of us.” Finding the right conditions doesn’t guarantee success. It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for morels. Their textured caps are long and cone-shaped, like dark honeycomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of their charm. We find maybe it’s like a bad boyfriend or girlfriend that you keep going out and being shamed by. It’s a bit like that with morels,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is not just a forager. For decades she’s run a business supplying wild mushrooms to high-end Bay Area restaurants, and she co-authored the book \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.thewildtable.net/\">The Wild Table\u003c/a>.\" She says there’s a long history and appreciation of different types of morels in Europe and in the Midwest. Here, before morels became a fine-dining staple, long before European settlers came, Native Americans collected them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re absolutely delicious and ultimately terribly frustrating, and immensely scream-worthy to find,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, commercial and amateur hunters will chase the burns from Northern California through the Pacific Northwest, Canada and Alaska. Some say that because of the large number of acres burned in the West last summer, this may be a huge “burn” morel season. Lake County’s just the first stop on a morel trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MorelBowl-960x634.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s easy to mistake tiny burnt stumps or rocks for the long, cone-shaped textured caps of morels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three of us walk through the forest, heads down, when suddenly Kevin Sadlier spots a black SUV covertly parked off the road and says, “We’ve got company,” likely a fellow mushroom hunter. Sadlier and Green both laugh, knowingly, and plan to head off in a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we move to another spot, and come across two other foragers he knows, that’s when we find a cluster of morels poking out of needles covering the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gasp, and Sadlier says, “We’re in the promised land. They’re everywhere!” I see grown men chase each other to a morel cluster, and we spend hours scanning the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We fill a paper grocery bag with morels: a respectable haul but really just for home eating. So, what’s the allure? Adventure, for one. Sadlier says he’s come across rattlesnakes, mountain lions, even bears while hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do really enjoy eating the wild mushrooms, but I enjoy the hunt more,” he says. “There’s something about how it brings out the hunter/gatherer instinct. It’s almost a magical feeling: You go into a wilderness area, you interpret your environment, and you try your luck. If you find wild mushrooms, there’s no better feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These foragers believe the real mother lode would be higher up, inside the boundaries of \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateparks.com/boggs_mountain_state_forest_in_california.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boggs Mountain State Forest\u003c/a>, which has been closed to the public since the fire. They’re pretty frustrated that they’re restricted from this public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Arbitrary and capricious,” Sadlier calls that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Idiocy,” Green says. “Now, it’ll be fine to go in there and do salvage logging, but to allow outdoors people, taxpaying Americans who pay for the parks, to walk in the woods looking for mushrooms, that’s not OK with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Jim Wright, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/departments/natural-resources-agency/department_of_forestry_and_fire_protection?agencyid=149\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection\u003c/a>, disagrees. He’s co-managing Boggs Mountain State Forest and asks, “How do you protect people across 3,000 acres of dead trees? It’s almost impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says 80 percent of the forest's trees burned, and his top priority is removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he drives me around the black and brown hills of the forest, it looks like something out of a dystopic science fiction film. On an active logging site, equipment with mechanized arms and saws fells dead trees, strips off burnt bark and moves as much as 100 truckloads a day out to mills. Even where logging isn’t happening, Wright says, the forest is dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of trees are in danger of coming down,” he says. “The tops will start breaking out of these trees, the limbs will start breaking off and coming down with just the slightest breeze,” and burned-out stumps and roots create holes in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wright knows many morel hunters are familiar with forests and are eager to get on the land, he says, “We can’t interview each person to find out if they’re qualified, see if they have a hardhat, if they're familiar with hazards of forest. We’d have to do a site safety plan with each one of them. It’s just not practical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the forest is closed to all recreational activity, and Wright hopes to have at least some portions of the forest open in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been to many morel fire-burned areas,” says local Joe Guardado, “and there’s areas in Boggs that are beyond anything I ever saw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10930277 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"'Mushroom' Joe Guardado\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-400x272.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/MushroomJoe-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Mushroom Joe' Guardado \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the fire, Guardado hiked Boggs Forest every day. He’s spent many winters foraging pounds and pounds of porcini mushrooms in the forest and around the town of Loch Lomond, where he lives. It’s a weekend getaway for Northern Californian Italian families, with resorts like Biggi’s Family Club and Italian Village swelling the population in the summer. They revere mushrooms here. Guardado introduces me to a friend, Mike Giusti, who built a shrine in his front yard that, from a distance, looks like it honors the Virgin Mary. Up close, it’s clear that it’s a porcini made of stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardado says he doesn’t forage mushrooms for money. He swaps jars of dried porcinis for hunted pheasant or duck, or wine made by the families who vacation here. Guardado is a caretaker, and he knows them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Flora and Romano Marcucci. He points to Guardado and says, “They call him the King for Mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep. In these parts, Guardado is called the King, or Mushroom Joe. He’s showing the Marcuccis where edible wild mushrooms pop out of little mounds of leaves in a yard. They’re coccolis, white mushrooms as big as my hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930285\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg\" alt=\"Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-800x832.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-400x416.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-1180x1227.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-960x998.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Coccolis-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romano Marcucci shows off the coccolis he unearthed. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Marcuccis ran an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, and know what to do with their haul. Flora says she’ll slice the mushrooms and cook them simply in olive oil with garlic, pepper and salt. “Let it fry, get nice and crunch. Delicious!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also unearth one deadly mushroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, that’s a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\">death cap\u003c/a>,” says Mushroom Joe, looking at its pimply skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romano Marcucci draws his finger across his neck, ominously, saying, “No doctor will save you from that.” But all three are lifelong mushroom hunters who know what to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mushroom Joe and I spend the afternoon in a couple burn areas hunting for morels: no luck today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elusive Morchella, that’s what they call them. They’re elusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ll be here only after this fire. So, he’ll keep looking. But he skipped porcini season last winter ... his heart just wasn’t in it. He says he feels a tension between his mushroom-hunting passion and his love of these now-scorched hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what you loved and now it’s all black,” he says. “It’s not so bad because right now we’re looking for mushrooms, so I don’t have to look up that often. I’m looking down at the ground, like you’re blocking it out of your mind that it’s not there. It’s sad. It’s just real sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, Mushroom Joe Guardado says, chasing the burn for morels hurts a little, if it’s in your own backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He needs it,\" said Lupercio. \"It makes me sad because I know I won't be seeing him in a couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/IMG_9368-e1444259274261.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-90209\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/IMG_9368-e1444259274261.jpg\" alt=\"Rodrigo Lupercio plays football, basketball and baseball at Clear Lake High. He says more physical activity through sports at Indian reservations could decrease substance abuse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodrigo Lupercio plays football, basketball and baseball at Clear Lake High. He says more physical activity through sports at Indian reservations could decrease substance abuse. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talamoni-Marcks tries to convince his mother to quit smoking after seeing another smoker, his former karate teacher, have to breathe through a hole in his throat. The lesson?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think I would ever,\" he says of smoking. \"I hate it. (My mother) is addicted to it, and I hate to see her like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the two teenagers took their views on addiction a step further. As part of their applications to a native youth health summit in Washington, D.C., they wrote essays on ways to improve the health of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Indian Health Board, a non-profit representing tribal governments organizing the summit, selected them along with 28 others to meet with staff members for the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and discuss their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupercio spoke of seeking greater participation in sports at the Big Valley Rancheria, the reservation where he's spent most of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Down in the reservation, I’d say all Indians should have their own sports teams. I think that would get them active, and they wouldn’t want to do drugs. They’d just want to just do sports,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talamoni-Marcks wants to keep sporting events with Native participants alcohol and smoke-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give them water rather than beer, don't let them smoke there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tj Keeya Talamoni-Marcks walks off the field with sweat dripping from his forehead, as more than 20 other Clear Lake High School students finish their grueling football practice in temperatures that reached over 90 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clear Lake's Cardinals are getting ready to play against Colusa High in a few days, and Talamoni-Marcks, a tackle and guard, holds his helmet with one hand and makes a beeline for the water fountain while limping. He recently recovered from a toe injury, and complains about pain in his foot. Still, he shrugs it off, saying pain and visible bruises on his arms are “part of the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports are a source of pride for Talamoni-Marks and his family, of Pomo Indian and Samoan descent. The 15-year-old wants to follow in his parents’ footsteps -- his mom was a basketball star and his dad \"running back of the year\" at Clear Lake High, the only high school in Lakeport, about 120 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sports keep me away from drugs and alcohol. They keep me healthy,\" he says. \"I want to get other Natives healthier too, and I think sports could be the way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228392878&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228392878'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His teammate and childhood friend, Rodrigo Lupercio, agrees heartily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For both teenagers, sports have become an inspiration to tackle a bigger challenge than any football match: substance abuse among Pomo Indian communities in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, Native Americans are more likely to die of alcohol-related causes such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/LCWK1_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">chronic liver disease\u003c/a> and fatal motor \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/native/factsheet.html\" target=\"_blank\">crashes involving alcohol\u003c/a> than any other ethnic group in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control. Native Americans also have very high rates of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/resources/data/cigarette-smoking-in-united-states.html\" target=\"_blank\">cigarette smoking\u003c/a> compared to whites, blacks, Hispanics or Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupercio, from the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, has witnessed the toll of alcohol and tobacco use on his grandfather. The two are very close. They used to play baseball and \"always have a good time\" together, he says. But now, Lupercio, just 14, fears the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He shakes a lot and has a hard time walking. Because he drank so much throughout all of his life, it became part of his system. He needs it,\" said Lupercio. \"It makes me sad because I know I won't be seeing him in a couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/IMG_9368-e1444259274261.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-90209\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/IMG_9368-e1444259274261.jpg\" alt=\"Rodrigo Lupercio plays football, basketball and baseball at Clear Lake High. He says more physical activity through sports at Indian reservations could decrease substance abuse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodrigo Lupercio plays football, basketball and baseball at Clear Lake High. He says more physical activity through sports at Indian reservations could decrease substance abuse. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talamoni-Marcks tries to convince his mother to quit smoking after seeing another smoker, his former karate teacher, have to breathe through a hole in his throat. The lesson?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think I would ever,\" he says of smoking. \"I hate it. (My mother) is addicted to it, and I hate to see her like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the two teenagers took their views on addiction a step further. As part of their applications to a native youth health summit in Washington, D.C., they wrote essays on ways to improve the health of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Indian Health Board, a non-profit representing tribal governments organizing the summit, selected them along with 28 others to meet with staff members for the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and discuss their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupercio spoke of seeking greater participation in sports at the Big Valley Rancheria, the reservation where he's spent most of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Down in the reservation, I’d say all Indians should have their own sports teams. I think that would get them active, and they wouldn’t want to do drugs. They’d just want to just do sports,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talamoni-Marcks wants to keep sporting events with Native participants alcohol and smoke-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give them water rather than beer, don't let them smoke there. And just have a fun game, while keeping healthy,\" said Talamoni-Marcks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenagers also want a rehab and wellness center for youth and adults within their tribal communities, and greater educational opportunities that will lead to better jobs. The unemployment rate for Native Americans was almost double the national rate in 2013, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrace2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">figures\u003c/a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talamoni-Marcks and Lupercio hope their meeting in Washington with the Senate staffers will eventually bring much needed resources to change the health outcomes in their communities. They believe that advocacy can make a difference. But if that takes too long, they dream of another path that does not involve the federal budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to play professional sports to help my family, to help my community, to come back and donate money while doing stuff I love to do,\" said Talamoni-Marcks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lupercio, who wants to become a professional football player, the most important thing now is emotional support for his grandfather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to say, 'I love you grandpa, and you’ll always be in my heart,' \" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The towering walls of flame that rampaged across an area more than double the size of San Francisco are gone. Lake County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.record-bee.com/general-news/20150429/lake-county-ranked-first-in-nation-for-clean-air-third-year-in-a-row\" target=\"_blank\">famous clean mountain air\u003c/a> no longer carries the acrid smell of creosote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But clouds of smoke have been replaced by a fog of uncertainty as the county tries to tackle a host of challenges in the wake of the Valley Fire, which burned more than 76,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest job facing the county as it tries to recover, officials say, is making sure that the thousands of residents who lost their homes in the blaze can stay. That means rebuilding the 1,280 single-family residences and 27 multifamily buildings \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">the fire destroyed.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228211689\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy English, whose house in Cobb burned down, is among the estimated 3,000 Lake County residents the fire made homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing was already hard to find before the fire,\" she said. English and her three kids, ages 3, 10 and 11, have been living with her mother in Kelseyville for about a month now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s been a helluva 90 days for the county of Lake.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Mike McGuire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If they want people to stay in this county, they're going to have to step up and help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But concerns about the mountains of toxic ash left by the fire are slowing the rebuilding process. A widely anticipated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/09/02/floods-in-a-drought-how-a-monster-el-nino-could-bring-relief-and-misery-to-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wet El Niño winter\u003c/a> could also unleash landslides that carry toxic materials into local waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we will lose some people,\" said Jack Long, Lake County's director of economic development. \"But I think it'll be much less than what most people would expect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Mountain Community'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the loss of housing, Long estimates 10 percent of businesses in Lake County have been either damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many surviving businesses have reopened. Others are waiting on insurance claims for smoke damage or to replace stocks of perishable goods lost in the weeks that communities like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown\u003c/a>, Cobb, Loch Lomond, Anderson Springs and Hidden Valley Lake were under mandatory evacuation orders and without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711934\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home along with about 1,300 others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1440x942.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-960x628.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the massive Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home, along with about 1,300 others. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dean Nicolaides owns Dino's Loch Lomond Market at the intersection of Highway 175 and Loch Lomond Road. Firefighters staged for one of the early battles against the Valley Fire in his parking lot, Nicolaides said, which is likely why his shop and other tenant businesses in his building were saved. But houses all around, including his own, were burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally 1,200 out of maybe 2,000 houses are gone, and the ones that are left might not find it agreeable to be in a construction zone,\" he said. \"I consider this area devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and his wife Lena are committed to staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, of course,\" he said. \"We're the store owners here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said most people he knows want to rebuild and will stay in Lake County for as long as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a mountain community,\" he said. \"They're an unselfish lot, and I think that they're here because they loved it to begin with. It's not an easy life up here. It's not a life with a lot of amenities, just beauty and trails. People who like that tend to want to stay in it\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/226663820\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Among State's Poorest Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn't an affluent place. The Census Bureau says one-quarter of the population lives below the federal poverty level. \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/cgi/dataanalysis/areaselection.asp?tablename=labforce\" target=\"_blank\">State data\u003c/a> show the county's unemployment rate rose to more than 17 percent at the height of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Damage Assessment via Lake County and Cal Fire\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=ed1fce5bf14141349cebcb9cc0beccf1&extent=-122.8339,38.6771,-122.3333,38.9064&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&legend=true&basemap_toggle=true&alt_basemap=satellite&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The state has not been as active or engaged as they should have been in Lake County,\" says state Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents the region. \"It's one of the poorest counties in the state. It's one of the unhealthiest counties in the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted preliminary estimates of the Valley Fire's impact on the county's revenue: a 12 percent loss to sales tax, 5 percent to property tax, 35 percent to hotel tax and 16 percent to energy royalties from the damaged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/29/wildfire-damage-at-renewable-energy-complex-estimated-at-35-million\" target=\"_blank\">Geysers geothermal plant\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a helluva 90 days for the county,\" McGuire said, mentioning the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rocky-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires that together burned nearly 100,000 acres north and east of the Valley Fire in late July and August. \"There have been economic struggles here for years, and this fire is only going to impact those struggles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/Auditor/Financial+Reporting/2014+Comprehensive+Annual+Financial+Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the county was finally recovering from the recession, with declining unemployment and rising hotel taxes. In August, the county reported a 6.6 percent unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we were on a strong track to start growth back here before the fire,\" Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Living Demon'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early on the afternoon of Sept. 12, a small fire started outside a residence on Cobb Mountain. Within hours, the blaze had turned into a wind-driven monster that put thousands of residents to flight and devoured homes by the hundred. By dawn the next day, the fire had burned more than 60 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Spence fled from Cobb Mountain with her infant son and many of her neighbors to Middletown, where they watched the flames barrel down toward them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like it was its own kind of entity,\" she said in a phone interview a couple of weeks later from Santa Rosa, where she's been staying with family. \"It was this living demon almost, which is kind of strange to say, but it felt like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire consumed her home but spared her little coffee shop. which she opened a couple of years ago in Loch Lomond. It was a dream to own and operate a gathering place for her community, she said. Now she's unsure if it can stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how many people are going to move back, how many people want to live in a place where all the trees are completely scorched and basically looks like a bomb went off,\" she said. \"And because I have an 8-month-old son, I'm particularly concerned about the air quality and environmental quality during the cleanup. ... I don't really think it's worth it to keep going and to reopen and expose him to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the dangers in the charred landscape: asbestos and heavy metals left behind from burned homes and outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Office of Emergency Services \u003ca href=\"https://caloesnewsroom.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/states-emergency-services-director-requests-federal-public-assistance-funds-for-valley-and-butte-fire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\">recently requested\u003c/a> about $67 million in federal funds to aid the cleanup from the Valley Fire and the Butte Fire, which burned hundreds of homes in Amador and Calaveras counties. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees to pay, it would cover about two-thirds of the estimated cleanup cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal OES Deputy Directory Nancy Ward says the faster environmental cleanup is finished, the faster people can start rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It very much is an economic recovery issue,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding Boom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Lake County's economy is being propped up by a myriad of revenue sources related to the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4240\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA funding\u003c/a> is flowing to those who lost property in the fire. The federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/offices/disaster/dfocw/declaration/1490294\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration\u003c/a> is offering low-interest loans of up to $2 million to those whose saw their enterprises destroyed or damaged. A local \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcu.org/lakecountyfirevictims\" target=\"_blank\">credit union\u003c/a> is offering $5,000 one-year, no-interest loans to Valley Fire victims. Out-of-towners, including firefighters, PG&E crews, tree trimmers, Red Cross volunteers, news crews and others, are spending money at local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there's a tremendous amount of help,\" said Spence, the Loch Lomond coffee shop owner. \"But how long that is available, what it actually means after, and when the real cleanup and rebuilding starts, is up for debate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials can't pinpoint a date when fire and environmental cleanup trucks will be replaced with those carrying lumber, tools and carpenters to job sites, but it's safe to say Lake County is banking on a building boom to carry it through the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of this rebuild that's going to happen in this county is going to create jobs like we haven't had in five years,\" Economic Development Director Jack Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3V8DKKZkgwxxCGfXF7Ebe5Ou2ACWQ6xd\"]\u003cbr>\nContractors and out-of-work carpenters are already getting ready. The county hosted a job fair in Kelseyville to connect them in late September. Hundreds crowded the high school auditorium to pass out resumes to dozens of contractors posted at folding tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown resident Geoffrey Huckabay showed up looking for some general carpentry work. His job as an electrician at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/15/harbin-hot-springs-a-love-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Harbin Hot Springs\u003c/a> burned up with the famed retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do need a job,\" he said, adding that he wasn't that concerned about finding work, given the expected surge in construction. He said he'd moved to Lake County to work at Harbin -- a dream job. And even though the retreat plans to rebuild, that's not why he's decided to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason I've decided to stay at this time, even though Harbin is no longer there, is people are real,\" he said. \"People who we wouldn't normally have talked to or connected with are just coming together, and we can recognize each other and really see each other. It's a very unique experience and I want to be a part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sukey Lewis of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The towering walls of flame that rampaged across an area more than double the size of San Francisco are gone. Lake County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.record-bee.com/general-news/20150429/lake-county-ranked-first-in-nation-for-clean-air-third-year-in-a-row\" target=\"_blank\">famous clean mountain air\u003c/a> no longer carries the acrid smell of creosote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But clouds of smoke have been replaced by a fog of uncertainty as the county tries to tackle a host of challenges in the wake of the Valley Fire, which burned more than 76,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest job facing the county as it tries to recover, officials say, is making sure that the thousands of residents who lost their homes in the blaze can stay. That means rebuilding the 1,280 single-family residences and 27 multifamily buildings \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">the fire destroyed.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228211689&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228211689'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy English, whose house in Cobb burned down, is among the estimated 3,000 Lake County residents the fire made homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing was already hard to find before the fire,\" she said. English and her three kids, ages 3, 10 and 11, have been living with her mother in Kelseyville for about a month now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s been a helluva 90 days for the county of Lake.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Mike McGuire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If they want people to stay in this county, they're going to have to step up and help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But concerns about the mountains of toxic ash left by the fire are slowing the rebuilding process. A widely anticipated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/09/02/floods-in-a-drought-how-a-monster-el-nino-could-bring-relief-and-misery-to-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wet El Niño winter\u003c/a> could also unleash landslides that carry toxic materials into local waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we will lose some people,\" said Jack Long, Lake County's director of economic development. \"But I think it'll be much less than what most people would expect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Mountain Community'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the loss of housing, Long estimates 10 percent of businesses in Lake County have been either damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many surviving businesses have reopened. Others are waiting on insurance claims for smoke damage or to replace stocks of perishable goods lost in the weeks that communities like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown\u003c/a>, Cobb, Loch Lomond, Anderson Springs and Hidden Valley Lake were under mandatory evacuation orders and without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711934\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home along with about 1,300 others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1440x942.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-960x628.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the massive Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home, along with about 1,300 others. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dean Nicolaides owns Dino's Loch Lomond Market at the intersection of Highway 175 and Loch Lomond Road. Firefighters staged for one of the early battles against the Valley Fire in his parking lot, Nicolaides said, which is likely why his shop and other tenant businesses in his building were saved. But houses all around, including his own, were burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally 1,200 out of maybe 2,000 houses are gone, and the ones that are left might not find it agreeable to be in a construction zone,\" he said. \"I consider this area devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and his wife Lena are committed to staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, of course,\" he said. \"We're the store owners here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said most people he knows want to rebuild and will stay in Lake County for as long as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a mountain community,\" he said. \"They're an unselfish lot, and I think that they're here because they loved it to begin with. It's not an easy life up here. It's not a life with a lot of amenities, just beauty and trails. People who like that tend to want to stay in it\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/226663820&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/226663820'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Among State's Poorest Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn't an affluent place. The Census Bureau says one-quarter of the population lives below the federal poverty level. \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/cgi/dataanalysis/areaselection.asp?tablename=labforce\" target=\"_blank\">State data\u003c/a> show the county's unemployment rate rose to more than 17 percent at the height of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Damage Assessment via Lake County and Cal Fire\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=ed1fce5bf14141349cebcb9cc0beccf1&extent=-122.8339,38.6771,-122.3333,38.9064&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&legend=true&basemap_toggle=true&alt_basemap=satellite&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The state has not been as active or engaged as they should have been in Lake County,\" says state Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents the region. \"It's one of the poorest counties in the state. It's one of the unhealthiest counties in the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted preliminary estimates of the Valley Fire's impact on the county's revenue: a 12 percent loss to sales tax, 5 percent to property tax, 35 percent to hotel tax and 16 percent to energy royalties from the damaged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/29/wildfire-damage-at-renewable-energy-complex-estimated-at-35-million\" target=\"_blank\">Geysers geothermal plant\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a helluva 90 days for the county,\" McGuire said, mentioning the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rocky-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires that together burned nearly 100,000 acres north and east of the Valley Fire in late July and August. \"There have been economic struggles here for years, and this fire is only going to impact those struggles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/Auditor/Financial+Reporting/2014+Comprehensive+Annual+Financial+Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the county was finally recovering from the recession, with declining unemployment and rising hotel taxes. In August, the county reported a 6.6 percent unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we were on a strong track to start growth back here before the fire,\" Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Living Demon'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early on the afternoon of Sept. 12, a small fire started outside a residence on Cobb Mountain. Within hours, the blaze had turned into a wind-driven monster that put thousands of residents to flight and devoured homes by the hundred. By dawn the next day, the fire had burned more than 60 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Spence fled from Cobb Mountain with her infant son and many of her neighbors to Middletown, where they watched the flames barrel down toward them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like it was its own kind of entity,\" she said in a phone interview a couple of weeks later from Santa Rosa, where she's been staying with family. \"It was this living demon almost, which is kind of strange to say, but it felt like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire consumed her home but spared her little coffee shop. which she opened a couple of years ago in Loch Lomond. It was a dream to own and operate a gathering place for her community, she said. Now she's unsure if it can stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how many people are going to move back, how many people want to live in a place where all the trees are completely scorched and basically looks like a bomb went off,\" she said. \"And because I have an 8-month-old son, I'm particularly concerned about the air quality and environmental quality during the cleanup. ... I don't really think it's worth it to keep going and to reopen and expose him to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the dangers in the charred landscape: asbestos and heavy metals left behind from burned homes and outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Office of Emergency Services \u003ca href=\"https://caloesnewsroom.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/states-emergency-services-director-requests-federal-public-assistance-funds-for-valley-and-butte-fire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\">recently requested\u003c/a> about $67 million in federal funds to aid the cleanup from the Valley Fire and the Butte Fire, which burned hundreds of homes in Amador and Calaveras counties. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees to pay, it would cover about two-thirds of the estimated cleanup cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal OES Deputy Directory Nancy Ward says the faster environmental cleanup is finished, the faster people can start rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It very much is an economic recovery issue,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding Boom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Lake County's economy is being propped up by a myriad of revenue sources related to the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4240\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA funding\u003c/a> is flowing to those who lost property in the fire. The federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/offices/disaster/dfocw/declaration/1490294\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration\u003c/a> is offering low-interest loans of up to $2 million to those whose saw their enterprises destroyed or damaged. A local \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcu.org/lakecountyfirevictims\" target=\"_blank\">credit union\u003c/a> is offering $5,000 one-year, no-interest loans to Valley Fire victims. Out-of-towners, including firefighters, PG&E crews, tree trimmers, Red Cross volunteers, news crews and others, are spending money at local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there's a tremendous amount of help,\" said Spence, the Loch Lomond coffee shop owner. \"But how long that is available, what it actually means after, and when the real cleanup and rebuilding starts, is up for debate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials can't pinpoint a date when fire and environmental cleanup trucks will be replaced with those carrying lumber, tools and carpenters to job sites, but it's safe to say Lake County is banking on a building boom to carry it through the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of this rebuild that's going to happen in this county is going to create jobs like we haven't had in five years,\" Economic Development Director Jack Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nContractors and out-of-work carpenters are already getting ready. The county hosted a job fair in Kelseyville to connect them in late September. Hundreds crowded the high school auditorium to pass out resumes to dozens of contractors posted at folding tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown resident Geoffrey Huckabay showed up looking for some general carpentry work. His job as an electrician at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/15/harbin-hot-springs-a-love-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Harbin Hot Springs\u003c/a> burned up with the famed retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do need a job,\" he said, adding that he wasn't that concerned about finding work, given the expected surge in construction. He said he'd moved to Lake County to work at Harbin -- a dream job. And even though the retreat plans to rebuild, that's not why he's decided to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason I've decided to stay at this time, even though Harbin is no longer there, is people are real,\" he said. \"People who we wouldn't normally have talked to or connected with are just coming together, and we can recognize each other and really see each other. It's a very unique experience and I want to be a part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a Saturday evening in September, I sat watching two good friends get married in their Sonoma County backyard. As they offered their vows, I reflected on my own wedding three years earlier. It was at Bonanza Springs -- an abandoned Lake County resort and campground where, as a teenager, I’d tromped through the oak leaves listening to Nirvana on my Walkman and shared illicit cigarettes with my friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was my escape from a world of hormones and crushes and the reality that my mother was dying of brain cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although I no longer live in Lake County, getting married there seemed a way to tie my past to my future. On that Saturday, as I watched my friends tie their own knot, I had no idea that my childhood was burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10702553\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Small fires give off heavy smoke in Lake County's Valley Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut-800x470.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut-400x235.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x847.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x694.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16850_ValleyFire1-qut-960x565.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small fires give off heavy smoke in Lake County's Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sunday, the day after the fire started, was my son’s fourth birthday party, in Sebastopol. By then, I’d heard about the blaze ripping through the homes of my friends and family, but I still couldn’t quite believe it. Every summer fires happen -- thousands of acres of wildland burn here and there -- but this was something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Spider Man jumpy house was ready and the juice boxes sat sweating in the afternoon heat as a dozen evacuees and their kids wandered in, looking shellshocked and sleepless. The party turned into a refugee camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224456694&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friends’ cars were packed with the strangest things: basketballs and remote controls, birth certificates and kids' paintings. Because what do you take when your whole life is about go up in smoke?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids ran circles around their stunned parents in tiger costumes and princess dresses. The adults sipped beer and cried and murmured the same useless phrases over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you hear?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you see?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where were you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When my friend, Harp Gerakin, got word there was a fire nearby, she started cleaning her house -- thinking she’d be able to take people in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent about an hour cleaning the house,” she said. “And then I looked outside and saw enormous billowing smoke right over the mountain and flames coming out of the top of the hill right next to us, and I was like, I think, I should be packing our stuff instead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harp’s house burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10702549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was supposed to work on Monday, but I hadn’t been able to sleep, and I couldn’t think straight. I needed to see it for myself. I thought maybe by reporting, I could pull some context, some order out of the chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my friends, Danya Parkinson, was driving into the fire zone to check on the family home and retrieve his wife’s baby photos from her parents’ house -- if it was still standing. So I headed into the mountains in the back seat of his truck, part of a convoy of residents escorted in by Cal Fire to get pets and valuables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we took the back way onto Cobb Mountain, I rolled down my window and inhaled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County in the summertime smells of pine and manzanita, and always a whiff of fire. My hometown is a place of mountains, dirt roads, hippie hot springs and meth labs. The people who live here opted out or were born in this place of trailers and mobile homes and could never hitch them up to leave. As we drove into the tiny hamlet of Loch Lomond, though, the fire was more than a whiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still we couldn’t see it. The trees alongside the road stood tall and green -- a strange stillness the only thing that hinted at the wreckage ahead. Aside from our small convoy and the occasional PG&E truck, there were no cars on the road, no neighbors milling about in their yards or feeding their livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire escort led us past the corner store where we used to buy candy: still intact. Then, all of a sudden a wall of thick gray smoke rose up out of the valley next to us, and a black streak marked the road where fire ripped through the scrub brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The destruction started coming faster. We passed a burned-out Toyota, the tires reduced to circles of soot against the asphalt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Holy moly,” I murmured. “That is just totally, totally gone,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We drove past the house I grew up in. Gone. The house where my mother died. Gone. The house where my son’s godmother lives -- or lived. Gone. And then, amazingly, a friend’s childhood home stood, completely untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire appeared to have left claw marks on the side of the mountain, dragging many houses completely to the ground while leaving others unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue pine smoke lingered in the air and small spot fires still burned on the hillside. Cal Fire directed us under a downed power line -- the end of the power pole glowing like a lit cigarette. We parked and I got out to look around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I walked the small road where I skinned my knees learning to ride a bike, my steps were punctuated by the massive crashes of trees eaten up by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So many houses were just gone -- a weird kind of absence with so much weight to it. Heirlooms and house cats and refrigerators and memories -- all reduced to piles of ash and twisted metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702550\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10702550 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A statue looks out at the destruction. Ceramics and glass are some of the few things that can survive the high temperatures of a wildfire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue looks out at the destruction. Ceramics and glass are among the few things that can survive the high temperatures of a wildfire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A flock of wild turkeys wandered by, gobbling and hungry but unsinged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the turkeys, Danya’s family home also survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was fire literally 6 inches from the house on three sides,” Danya said. “A total miracle that it’s still standing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I wondered: What would be left of this community? These are people who have carved their homes out of volcanic rock and red clay. Who have huddled together during power outages and shoveled each other out when they got snowed in. Who in the face of this fire needed each other more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night the fire started, after packing their own belongings, one family rescued a neighbor who has Parkinson’s and can’t drive. The few residents who were either allowed in by Cal Fire, or somehow dodged the roadblocks, hurried to help their neighbors -- feeding cats and checking on their friends’ homes. Some grabbed shovels and rakes, making firebreaks to protect the homes of loved ones and even strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just 2 feet make a difference,” my friend Amos Schieber said. “A few leaves that touch up against the plastic pipe, or whatever, you got a fire. And I should know -- I lost two houses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun had long since set as I squeezed back in Danya’s truck next to the rescued photo albums. On the drive back, the fires still burning looked like hundreds of small campfires along the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we headed past the Loch Lomond Store, red lights flashed behind us and we pulled over. There had been reports of looters in the area and the deputy sheriff wanted to make sure we were legit. I pulled out my press pass and, after a few minutes, he let us move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10702547 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hoberg's Resort on Cobb Mountain, five days after the start of the Valley Fire. Many in the area were counting on jobs from the newly refurbished resort.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoberg's Resort on Cobb Mountain, five days after the start of the Valley Fire. Many in the area were counting on jobs from the newly refurbished resort. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That night -- or morning rather -- I stayed at a friend’s place to sleep for a couple of hours. At daylight, I headed home to Richmond. But before I could make it back to my 4-year-old and my house with all four walls and a roof, I had to pull over. I couldn’t see through my tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a reporter in this situation feels so useless and small. When everyone you know has lost something, what is there to say? Because it is not just things that have burned. It’s a whole ecosystem, a whole way of life that’s not there and is not going to be the same for a long time to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of the fire continues to baffle me. Facebook is a minefield of loss. Now, when I talk to my friends, we discuss insurance and flashpoints and make lists of what to pack in case of an emergency. 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The adults sipped beer and cried and murmured the same useless phrases over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you hear?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you see?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where were you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When my friend, Harp Gerakin, got word there was a fire nearby, she started cleaning her house -- thinking she’d be able to take people in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent about an hour cleaning the house,” she said. “And then I looked outside and saw enormous billowing smoke right over the mountain and flames coming out of the top of the hill right next to us, and I was like, I think, I should be packing our stuff instead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harp’s house burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10702549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16848_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,200 homes were reduced to twisted metal and ash in the destructive Valley Fire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was supposed to work on Monday, but I hadn’t been able to sleep, and I couldn’t think straight. I needed to see it for myself. I thought maybe by reporting, I could pull some context, some order out of the chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my friends, Danya Parkinson, was driving into the fire zone to check on the family home and retrieve his wife’s baby photos from her parents’ house -- if it was still standing. So I headed into the mountains in the back seat of his truck, part of a convoy of residents escorted in by Cal Fire to get pets and valuables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we took the back way onto Cobb Mountain, I rolled down my window and inhaled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County in the summertime smells of pine and manzanita, and always a whiff of fire. My hometown is a place of mountains, dirt roads, hippie hot springs and meth labs. The people who live here opted out or were born in this place of trailers and mobile homes and could never hitch them up to leave. As we drove into the tiny hamlet of Loch Lomond, though, the fire was more than a whiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still we couldn’t see it. The trees alongside the road stood tall and green -- a strange stillness the only thing that hinted at the wreckage ahead. Aside from our small convoy and the occasional PG&E truck, there were no cars on the road, no neighbors milling about in their yards or feeding their livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire escort led us past the corner store where we used to buy candy: still intact. Then, all of a sudden a wall of thick gray smoke rose up out of the valley next to us, and a black streak marked the road where fire ripped through the scrub brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The destruction started coming faster. We passed a burned-out Toyota, the tires reduced to circles of soot against the asphalt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Holy moly,” I murmured. “That is just totally, totally gone,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We drove past the house I grew up in. Gone. The house where my mother died. Gone. The house where my son’s godmother lives -- or lived. Gone. And then, amazingly, a friend’s childhood home stood, completely untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire appeared to have left claw marks on the side of the mountain, dragging many houses completely to the ground while leaving others unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue pine smoke lingered in the air and small spot fires still burned on the hillside. Cal Fire directed us under a downed power line -- the end of the power pole glowing like a lit cigarette. We parked and I got out to look around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I walked the small road where I skinned my knees learning to ride a bike, my steps were punctuated by the massive crashes of trees eaten up by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So many houses were just gone -- a weird kind of absence with so much weight to it. Heirlooms and house cats and refrigerators and memories -- all reduced to piles of ash and twisted metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702550\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10702550 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A statue looks out at the destruction. Ceramics and glass are some of the few things that can survive the high temperatures of a wildfire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16849_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue looks out at the destruction. Ceramics and glass are among the few things that can survive the high temperatures of a wildfire. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A flock of wild turkeys wandered by, gobbling and hungry but unsinged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the turkeys, Danya’s family home also survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was fire literally 6 inches from the house on three sides,” Danya said. “A total miracle that it’s still standing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I wondered: What would be left of this community? These are people who have carved their homes out of volcanic rock and red clay. Who have huddled together during power outages and shoveled each other out when they got snowed in. Who in the face of this fire needed each other more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night the fire started, after packing their own belongings, one family rescued a neighbor who has Parkinson’s and can’t drive. The few residents who were either allowed in by Cal Fire, or somehow dodged the roadblocks, hurried to help their neighbors -- feeding cats and checking on their friends’ homes. Some grabbed shovels and rakes, making firebreaks to protect the homes of loved ones and even strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just 2 feet make a difference,” my friend Amos Schieber said. “A few leaves that touch up against the plastic pipe, or whatever, you got a fire. And I should know -- I lost two houses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun had long since set as I squeezed back in Danya’s truck next to the rescued photo albums. On the drive back, the fires still burning looked like hundreds of small campfires along the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we headed past the Loch Lomond Store, red lights flashed behind us and we pulled over. There had been reports of looters in the area and the deputy sheriff wanted to make sure we were legit. I pulled out my press pass and, after a few minutes, he let us move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10702547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10702547 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hoberg's Resort on Cobb Mountain, five days after the start of the Valley Fire. Many in the area were counting on jobs from the newly refurbished resort.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16846_ValleyFire1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoberg's Resort on Cobb Mountain, five days after the start of the Valley Fire. Many in the area were counting on jobs from the newly refurbished resort. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That night -- or morning rather -- I stayed at a friend’s place to sleep for a couple of hours. At daylight, I headed home to Richmond. But before I could make it back to my 4-year-old and my house with all four walls and a roof, I had to pull over. I couldn’t see through my tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a reporter in this situation feels so useless and small. When everyone you know has lost something, what is there to say? Because it is not just things that have burned. It’s a whole ecosystem, a whole way of life that’s not there and is not going to be the same for a long time to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of the fire continues to baffle me. Facebook is a minefield of loss. Now, when I talk to my friends, we discuss insurance and flashpoints and make lists of what to pack in case of an emergency. For those who lost everything, we donate clothes and give to GoFundMe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23:\u003c/strong> Federal emergency responders are on the ground in Lake County assessing damage from one of the most destructive wildfires in California’s recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, joined state and local officials for an update from the Valley Fire Wednesday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can provide some financial assistance based upon need,” he said. “The first part is getting registered to determine that need, but the longer-term need is going to be housing. And we’re going to work with the state and locals on how we get the housing needs met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fugate encouraged people who suffered uninsured losses in the fire to \u003ca href=\"http://www.disasterassistance.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register with FEMA\u003c/a> as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials estimate the fire left roughly 3,000 people homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no silver bullet to this particular issue,” state Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said. “There is a patchwork of capability that we’re looking at. We’re looking at everything from hotels to what rental properties may be available, to opening an old resort — the Konocti Harbor [Resort], to also putting manufactured housing on the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s confirmed \u003ca href=\"#jump\">death toll\u003c/a> rose Wednesday morning when the Lake County Sheriff’s Department announced the discovery of a fourth body in ruins left by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts and minds and prayers go out to all of them,” Lake County Supervisor Jim Comstock said, “but we are very encouraged there are not more of them at this time. Our communities will rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county expects to lose $2.1 million in property tax revenue per year. The total cost of the fire is, of course, much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s conceivable and realistic that the cost overall when you take in loss of revenue, response cost and everything, clearly is in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Ghilarducci said. “We don’t have an exact figure yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials candidly described a fire that moved too quickly to control, with initial firefighters and other first responders on the scene quickly shifting from fighting the flames to attempting to evacuate communities in blaze’s path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re past the preparing for fire now,” Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott said. “It’s now being ready to go. People have to have evacuation plans in place. This fire spread miles just within a few hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents likely didn’t know they should evacuate until the fire was upon them, officials said, despite notifications sent via reverse-911 calls, among other methods.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"jump\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n“I don’t think people understand how rapid and how violent this fire was,” Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said. “In some cases those phone lines were burned down before the messages were delivered to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23:\u003c/strong> Officials in Lake County say they’ve found an apparent fourth victim of the Valley Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/5497628/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Wednesday\u003c/a> that searchers had discovered human remains in the community of Cobb, one of the areas the fire roared through shortly after it started the afternoon of Sept. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office said the victim is presumed to be Robert Taylor Fletcher, 66, who was last seen the day the fire started and was reported missing several days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies are still trying to locate another missing man, identified as Rob Litchman, 61, a resident of the Siegler Springs area near the town of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reported Wednesday that the 76,000-acre blaze is 80 percent contained. The firefighting agency also gave its latest report on the number of structures destroyed in the blaze: 1,238 homes and 672 outbuildings. With a total of 1,910 structures destroyed, the Valley Fire now ranks \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 3 on the agency’s list\u003c/a> of most damaging fires since 1923.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the number of structures incinerated in the Valley blaze, which has crossed into Sonoma and Napa counties, is likely to rise by several hundred when damage assessment teams are finally able to tour the entire fire area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has raised its estimate of homes destroyed in the Valley Fire to 1,050 — and warns the number could rise further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said that damage assessment teams have covered about 80 percent of the 76,000 acres — nearly 120 square miles — that have burned since Sept. 12. The number of residences destroyed makes the Valley Fire the state’s fourth-most-damaging fire on \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Cal Fire list\u003c/a> that goes back to the 1923 Berkeley Hills disaster, which destroyed 584 homes in a neighborhood just north of the University of California campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is now 70 percent contained with a huge force, more than 4,200 personnel, working to build lines around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the firefighting agency also issued a revised report on the number of homes burned in the Butte Fire, which has burned nearly 71,000 acres, or 111 square miles, in the foothills of Calaveras and Amador counties. With damage assessment continuing, the agency has documented 545 residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have confirmed three deaths so far in the Valley Fire and two in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, property losses in the two fires are the worst the state has seen since October 2003, when nearly 4,000 homes were lost in conflagrations that swept hundreds of square miles in San Diego and San Bernardino counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters advanced containment of the Valley Fire burning in Lake, Sonoma and Napa counties to 40 percent overnight, and one of two people still missing since the fire’s start was found safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reports that 56-year-old Edwin Null was discovered at a friend’s home Thursday night. Family members thought he was in the fire zone near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people are confirmed killed in the fast-moving, 115-square-mile fire that destroyed parts of Middletown, Cobb and other Lake County communities. Two people were found dead in the 110-square-mile Butte Fire burning in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire was 60 percent contained Friday morning. More than 8,000 firefighters are battling the two blazes. Cal Fire says temperatures expected to break 90 degrees this weekend, with very low humidity, could present challenges to the firefighting effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Causes of the fires are under investigation. Cal Fire is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigating a PG&E power line\u003c/a> and conductor as a potential source of the Butte Fire. PG&E says a live tree, which was inspected six times in the past two years, may have contacted the power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From the Associated Press\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more bodies were found in the burned ruins of homes in California, bringing the death toll to five from two of the most destructive wildfires in the state in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both fires continued burning Thursday, but cooler weather and rain helped firefighters gain ground on the blazes that have destroyed more than 700 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official identifications have not yet been made, but the sheriff’s office said the two bodies found in Lake County were presumed to be those of Bruce Beven Burns and former San Jose Mercury News police reporter Leonard Neft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman was found dead Sunday in the blaze burning about 100 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Burns said her 65-year-old brother-in-law might have been sleeping in his trailer and didn’t realize the fire was speeding toward him on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It came in very fast, it was a monster,” she said from her home in Lodi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled Burns as a laid-back guy who sold items at a Clear Lake flea market and lived in a trailer at the family’s metal recycling yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He reminded me of a big teddy bear,” Shirley Burns said. “He was a real kind and gentle person. He had a beard and looked like a mountain man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s wife and daughter were not immediately available for comment on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He last spoke with his family on Saturday before authorities found his burned-out car on a route he would have used to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His daughter, Joselyn Neft, previously said Adela Neft repeatedly called her husband Saturday to tell him to leave the house, but he told her he didn’t think the fire was coming toward him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s house was in the same area where Barbara McWilliams, 72, was found dead. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown and would be fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cadaver dogs found the latest bodies on Wednesday in the Hidden Valley and Anderson Springs areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other bodies were found inside homes destroyed in a separate wildfire about 170 miles away in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was identified as Mark McCloud, 65, who was found Tuesday in the Mountain Ranch area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raggio wouldn’t release the name of the other victim because the family had not been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disclosures came as firefighters gained ground on the massive blazes amid cooler weather and rain on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Lake County had charred 115 square miles and was 35 percent contained. An estimated 585 homes and hundreds of other structures have burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Amador and Calaveras counties has burned 110 square miles. It was 49 percent contained after destroying 252 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that two people have died in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark McCloud, 67, was found near his home in Calaveras County. The second victim was a 65-year-old man who refused to heed a mandatory evacuation order, says Raggio. He declined to identify the second man, saying the family hasn’t been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say they are now using dogs to search for several other people who may have been killed in that fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> this morning that the fire now stands at 73,700 acres, with 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-power-line-may-have-sparked-deadly-Sierra-6509980.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that a power line coming into contact with a tree may have sparked the Butte Fire, which has now burned more than 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we don’t have all the facts yet, a live tree may have contacted a PG&E line in the vicinity of the ignition point,” Barry Anderson, PG&E vice president of emergency preparedness and operations, said Wednesday to the Chronicle. “We are cooperating fully with Cal Fire in an investigation of whether this could have been a source of ignition for the Butte Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> A second life has been claimed by massive wildfires that swept through Northern California this week. The Calaveras County Sheriff has confirmed a fatality resulting from the Butte Fire, according to an update posted on Twitter by Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant. More information is expected soon. The Butte Fire has predominantly impacted Calaveras County, and was 45 percent contained as of the most recent update. So far, the Butte Fire has destroyed just over 400 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are currently 14,000 firefighters across the state of California battling 10 active blazes, Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said in a Wednesday update. But crews are making progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire, which has already been designated as the most destructive wildfire in 2015, has caused one known fatality and scorched about 100 square miles, with more than 600 structures damaged in the blaze. That property toll doesn’t include barns or sheds that went up in flames along with homes burnt to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When all the other outbuildings are assessed and a full damage assessment is complete, it is likely that this fire will be in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/16/valley-and-butte-fires-are-among-californias-most-destructive-blazes\">the top five most destructive fires\u003c/a> that we have seen in our history,” Berlant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are making progress, thanks in part to cooler temperatures — the Valley Fire was 30 percent contained as of Wednesday morning. At the same time, another weather-related factor was working against their efforts. A number of hot spots continue to smolder throughout the fire zone, and these small fiery patches can be reignited by gusty winds. Those powerful gusts can spur flare-ups and threaten to reverse firefighters’ progress in bringing blazes under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther to the east, in Calaveras and Amador counties, firefighters were also making progress in gaining control of the Butte Fire, which has scorched 71,780 acres and already ranks as the state’s 14th most damaging blaze. The Butte Fire now stands at 45 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the affected areas, thousands of people who have been put up for days at evacuation centers are still waiting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still thousands of residents who have been evacuated from this fire,” Berlant said of the Valley Fire. “Many are asking when can they get back home, and we are hoping to get them back just as soon as possible. But you’ve got to remember, there are a lot of hazards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has caused at least $1 million in damage to California’s largest geothermal energy complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire disabled five cooling towers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.geysers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Geysers\u003c/a> network of power plants, northwest of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brett Kerr, a spokesman for Calpine, which runs the plant, said the fire may have also left it isolated from the power grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the non-Calpine-owned transmission lines that deliver the power that is produced to the Geysers to the actual market were also damaged, so while there might be the ability to generate capacity and energy at the Geysers, it may not be able to make it to the grid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials who manage the grid say damage at The Geysers will not have a significant impact on the state’s energy supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Valley-Fire-apparently-started-near-home-in-Cobb-6506658.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle is reporting\u003c/a> investigators are focusing on a burned-out shed in Cobb, where the fire started, in trying to pinpoint the cause of the conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update: 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this morning’s fire briefing, medical officials cautioned firefighters to watch out for signs of stress. A lot of firefighters are local, officials said, and they know plenty of fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”wVblom1dlwWUwMUv7AAvsEg0LzApJrtg”]Of course, the worst anxiety is being experienced by those who have had to leave their homes and belongings behind. From KQED health reporter April Dembosky’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/15/anxiety-taking-toll-on-fire-evacuees-and-exacerbating-other-health-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on our State of Health blog\u003c/a> today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For a lot of other people here, the anxiety of not knowing [the fate of their homes] is getting to them. Dr. Colleen Townsend, a family practice doctor in Napa, is helping to staff the makeshift medical center inside one of the buildings on the fairgrounds. She says anxiety is one of the main complaints. And that is making other health conditions worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many folks in this area are really affected by chronic illness,” Townsend says, especially diabetes and high blood pressure. Because people were evacuated so quickly, many didn’t have time to grab medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly in these settings their blood sugar and blood pressure are already rising just from the stress of the occasion,” Townsend said. “Without adequate supplies of their medicines, that can cause acute symptoms like feeling shaky, nausea, sometimes dehydration.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>People have also been worried about their pets. Some residents are being escorted back into evacuation zones to retrieve them. It’s dangerous out there for animals, as can be seen in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Wasson-Memorial-Veterinary-Clinic-121404277937611/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post\u003c/a> by a veterinary clinic in Lakeport. The clinic is treating a burned black cat that was rescued by firefighters near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" width=\"347\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s disturbing, yes, but fear not, the cat is doing much better. “Eyes are improving fast!! He’s purring and rubbing his head for kitty kisses!! Thanks for all the inquiries!!” the clinic wrote. If you know who the owner is, call 707-263-5380.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\" alt=\"cat2\" width=\"339\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:40 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa County, near Pope Valley and Angwin, advisory evacuations have been lifted for Summit Lake Drive, Howell Mountain Road North, North White Cottage Road and Ink Grade Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:40 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emotional \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4479072-181/valley-fire-lake-county-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to his colleagues\u003c/a> on Monday, Santa Rosa Press Democrat staff photographer Kent Porter captured the havoc caused by the fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am floored by the amount of devastation I’ve seen. Whole communities were wiped off the map in a matter of minutes. We all have friends up there, families and people we’ve met in passing. What struck me the most is the utter completeness of this disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually nothing is left above the proper of Cobb. The houses are down to foundations, even some chimneys are gone. Driving through the area is like looking at a ghost community. So much gone, so many ways of life disrupted, so much hardship remains for the people affected. In Middletown, you can draw a line where firefighters stopped the fire. They saved downtown. Anderson Springs is nearly 80% wiped out, same goes for the homes along Highway 175 in the canyon to Cobb. Hidden Valley suffered losses too, as did Hobergs and Adams Springs. I didn’t make it to Siegler Canyon, it was way too dangerous (but I did try).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re all journalists, we’ve all seen catastrophes and witnessed amazing, great things. If there is anything you can donate, especially for the children and seniors, now would be a good time. Overwhelmed is pretty good word to use when you think of what an uphill climb it will be for them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>: In this morning’s update from Cal Fire, the agency said more resources have been arriving to fight the Valley Fire. Firefighting aircraft are now in operation, and lower temperatures and higher humidity are aiding efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”xTaAGl4mar5Cp2knnBEelxGzW7oQ1TPL”]The toll of homes destroyed now stands at 585, and hundreds of other structures have also been destroyed. Nine thousand other structures are still threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has now scorched 67,000 acres — about 100 square miles — and is 15 percent contained. The hope is containment can be increased before the weather shifts again. About 13,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas surrounding the town of Cobb were hit hard yesterday, with about 100 homes burned. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/friendsofcobbmountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page\u003c/a> has been posting local reports of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the latest map of the Valley Fire from Cal Fire. You can see the small communities that have been swallowed up in red — places like Adams, Howard Springs, Whispering Pines, Hidden Valley Lake. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Click on the map\u003c/a> and you’ll be able to zoom in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10683549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg\" alt=\"firemap\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap-400x277.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in parts of Napa County have been made advisory instead of mandatory. From the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/fire-evacuations-eased-in-napa-county/article_603dcf63-69c3-5cec-bff2-35c9285061ad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The advisory evacuations cover Pope Valley Road between Aetna Springs Road and Howell Mountain Road, Ink Grade, Summit Lake Drive and North White Cottage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations remain in effect in Napa County along Butts Canyon Road, Berryessa Estates, Snell Valley Road and Pope Valley Road from Aetna Springs North to Lake County.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuation orders still remain in effect for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hwy 29 x Hwy 53, South on Hwy 29 to Tubbs Lane in Napa County, all of Hwy 175 in the Cobb area, Point Lakeview to Soda Bay on Hwy 281, all of Bottle Rock Road and High Valley Road. Butts Canyon Road from Hwy 29 to Napa County line (including all of Berryessa Estates). The communities of Twin Lakes, Hidden Valley Lake, Middletown, Aetna Springs, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, and the Riviera Areas.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said today some people are being allowed back into their homes to get pets and medication. A high school near Lower Lake is being used as a staging area to bring people to their homes, reports KQED’s Scott Shafer. Residents will have 15 minutes to check, feed and water animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VivianHo/status/643833151513489408\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday night in the Kelseyville High School cafeteria, now being used as an evacuation center, hundreds of people lined up for a dinner prepared and donated by celebrity chef Guy Fieri, who owns property nearby. The feast was small consolation for evacuees like Lela Prather, who lives in Loch Lomond, another Lake County community now threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t heard recently about our houses,” she told Scott Shafer, her voice cracking with emotion. “We don’t know if our houses are there right now. Because the wind has picked up and … I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people were similarly emotional as they waited and wondered what they’ll go home to — including the condition of pets, in some cases — when Cal Fire finally gives them the green light to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the severe stress and loss of property caused by the fire, some Lake County residents saw a silver lining, in that it has brought the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt Frazier Jr., vice president of the local Vietnam Veterans chapter, sheltered at Kelseyville High School last night. He said he was impressed by how people have united across cultural and economic barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had helicopters coming in, helping out, aircraft coming out,” he said. “But what I’m seeing are the citizens, the residents, including the ones who’ve been displaced, helping out with one another, calming each other down emotionally. Because this is an emotional impact on the whole county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also yesterday: Barbara McWilliams was identified as the lone fire-related fatality. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown, despite the nearby blaze. Her body was found late Sunday in her burned-out home after flames kept Lake County sheriff’s officials from reaching her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Hittson, McWilliams’ caregiver, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that she left McWilliams’ home around 3 p.m. Saturday, unaware of the fire’s seriousness or how quickly it would grow, even though officers were at that point turning drivers away from Highway 175, which leads to the Cobb Mountain area where McWilliams lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson said she called the sheriff’s office twice Saturday and Cal Fire on Sunday, only to be told by dispatchers, “We will get out there when we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson saiid McWilliams could walk slowly and that her hands were weak. “That I left her there, it haunts me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:45 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>According to the latest report from authorities stationed in Lakeport, the Valley Fire had grown to 62,000 acres as of Monday evening, 1,000 acres larger than its previous size, and was at 10 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-valley-fire-victim-20150914-story.html\">report\u003c/a> in the Los Angeles Times identified the woman who was killed in the Valley Fire as 72-year old Barbara McWilliams, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. The report includes an account from McWilliams’ caretaker, Jennifer Hittson, who said she’d phoned authorities more than once to alert them that McWilliams needed evacuation assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:35 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has released more information about the first victim killed in the Valley Fire. First responders received a phone call at 7:12 p.m. on Sept. 12 to help an elderly, disabled woman evacuate a subdivision on Hot Springs Road. Officers and deputies arrived to the area at 7:29 p.m., but were unable to make it to her home before the structure was engulfed in flames, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Valley Fire has damaged The Geysers, a network of 14 power plants run by Calpine and one of the largest geothermal complexes in the world. Calpine has confirmed that the blaze damaged five of its cooling towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">See more photos of the Valley Fire and the aftermath\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of the employees who would typically be working today were notified not to try to come to the site,” spokesman Brett Kerr told KQED’s Ted Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sells electricity produced in the area to PG&E and other utilities. Calpine reduced its operations in response to the damage, impacting roughly a third of its energy output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at a medical tent set up at an evacuation center in Calistoga, Red Cross volunteers and staff from a nearby clinic were working to treat evacuees experiencing health problems. While smoke inhalation was a more immediate medical concern yesterday, evacuees are now grappling with symptoms associated with chronic health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents who fled their homes left too quickly to take prescription medication along, volunteers working in the medical tent told KQED’s April Dembosky. Evacuees suffering from diabetes are more vulnerable to health impacts because stress and anxiety can exacerbate the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early Monday morning, the Valley Fire had scorched some 61,000 acres since Saturday and was only 5 percent contained. The Butte Fire, which has been burning for more than five days, was 30 percent contained with more than 71,000 acres scarred by flames. At a press conference held Monday morning, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/gov-sees-damn-serious-fire-situation-costs-top-212-million\">pegged the total cost of California wildfires at $212.6 million\u003c/a> through early last week, before factoring in the costs of this weekend’s devastating blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:06 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong> A total of 23,000 people had been displaced by the Valley and Butte fires as of Monday morning, according to the Associated Press. That includes 13,000 who were forced to leave their homes due to the Valley Fire and another 10,000 from the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:10 a.m., Monday, Sept 14: \u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has devastated Harbin Hot Springs, a popular nonprofit retreat and workshop center established in 1972 that has long attracted Bay Area residents seeking holistic health therapies. Michael Hardy of Posterity Productions \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PosterityProductions/photos/a.891054524322216.1073741881.137782922982717/891055514322117/?type=3&theater\">posted seven photographs on Facebook\u003c/a> showing a number of structures reduced to rubble, including gathering spaces where guests would practice yoga and walkways that led to soaking pools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An update posted to the retreat center’s Facebook page Sunday at 10 p.m. indicated that staff and residents were staying with friends, or being temporarily housed at evacuation centers. “As soon as we know specifics about damages on the property, we will post news here and on the Harbin website,” the message noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, about 800 people spent last night at the Red Cross evacuation center in Calistoga in campers, tents or just under tarps. Many of those who had to evacuate are still trying to get over the shock of leaving their homes as the flames encroached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could see it on the mountain. It just came, it came with a vengeance, it came so fast,” said Theresa DeGroat. “And then we knew. Winds came, it was strong winds, and we had to get out fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGroat says the only thing left of her Middletown home is the chimney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:15 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morning update\u003c/a> says the fire continues to grow and has now scorched 61,000 acres. The blaze is 5 percent contained. Still no word on the one fatality reported — Cal Fire says only that it’s being investigated by “law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-one-reported-dead?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> puts the evacuation count at 20,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:00 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire is raging through parts of Lake and Napa counties. It has burned through 50,000 acres and destroyed 400 homes, two apartment complexes, 1,000 outbuildings and 10 businesses, by last count. It has also taken the life of at least one person, Cal Fire says, and injured at least four firefighters. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a \u003ca href=\"http://cert1.mail-west.com/RyjkE/c7rmx/myuzjanm/rnev20t31xRgt/1hl/qvnqxRglb/31xR/v919u60t/uiilfxqv?_c=d%7Cze7pzanwmhlzgt%7C13g06h919isyvvh&_ce=1442157652.735aaa0b9af354ab236232be04d35747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state of emergency\u003c/a> in the two counties. About 17,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, KXTV-Sacramento is \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc10.com/story/news/local/2015/09/13/valley-fire-update-state--emergency-declared-mandatory-evacuations--napa-county--40000-acre-blaze/72203574/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a>, and containment is thus far zero percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin called the fire “the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen,” the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-hellish-blaze-grows?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two evacuation centers that have been established, officials estimated about 800 evacuees had been taken in tonight, sleeping in tents and trailers. Officials are warning those who have left their homes not to give their addresses online, as potential burglars are posing as members of the media who are offering to check on the status of abandoned residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are using the Internet to better ends: Here’s a \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=807293669388482&id=560613960723122\">damage report\u003c/a>, posted on the Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page, detailing the condition of various areas in Cobb — population under 2,000. “There are simply no words to express the terrible fullness of our loss,” reads a post from Saturday. “Many of us in the community have lost our homes, pets, property, and so much more. But let’s remember that a community is, at its heart, people. We will return, we will rebuild …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7831493,-122.7221946,11z/data=!4m2!6m1!1szp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for a map of the fire’s perimeter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10681340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png\" alt=\"perimeter\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-400x218.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-1180x643.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-960x523.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News accounts have also captured the sudden devastation that has swept through victims’ lives. “I’m standing in the middle of a bombed-out town,” a Cal Fire battalion chief told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/northern-california-wildfires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a>, speaking of 1,300-resident Middletown in Lake County, roughly 90 miles north of San Francisco. “I’m on a block of burned-down structures. There’s the frame of a mobile home — that’s all that’s left. The cars are burned-out hulks. The trees look like skeletons. There’s a porch swing, a bathtub. I’m seeing the remnants of somebody’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/F5ZI3\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/13/valleyfiremap.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Get the latest details directly from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Cal Fire Web Site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\">#Valleyfire on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/resources-valley-fire-evacuation-centers-school-closures/982676/\">Donations, school closures, shelters\u003c/a> (ABC7)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelakecounty.org/\">Donation centers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My house burned down. Everything burned down,” 33-year-old Justin Olson told the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/wildfire-scorches-lake-county-towns-forces-evacuations-to-calistoga/article_c036c27b-2071-588c-a0d0-d73dc4a6e1a0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>. “All I have is just what I had on me. Didn’t even have a car — I hitchhiked down here; someone stopped and I jumped into the back of his pickup truck. All you could see was this big wall of fire coming toward us …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have posted devastating photos using the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ValleyFire hashtag \u003c/a>on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is one of the fastest-burning in decades. It took just 12 hours to burn through 40,000 acres, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-wildfire-spread-with-mind-boggling-speed-20150913-story.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t very many fires in California’s history that have done that. I don’t know if there really is a precedent for it,” climate scientist Daniel Swain told the paper. “This fire sort of broke the rules even relative to this incredible season that’s already occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t even a fire. It was like fluorescent evil,” Whispering Pines resident Bill Gavin told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4474770-181/valley-fire-evacuees-tell-of?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Democrat\u003c/a>. “I saw sections like football fields go up in four seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a hair-raising video posted by someone who said he was fleeing Anderson Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVPB3HI9Wg&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=mulletFive\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a Press Democrat video of the devastation in Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=X9mv9dJQoL4&ab_channel=ThePressDemocrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map of all the active fires in California\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>, burning in Amador & Calaveras Counties, is now at 65,300 acres, or about 102 square miles. That’s slightly larger than the city of Sacramento. The fire is 25 percent contained. So far, 135 residences and 79 outbuildings have been destroyed, Cal Fire says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAt a 5 p.m. briefing at the Napa Fairgrounds, Cal Fire officials said that most of the commercial business in Middletown and the high school remain intact, but many homes off the main drag have been impacted. Chris Childs of the Napa CHP said it will be at least two days before residents can return to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE\">@CAL_FIRE\u003c/a> firefighters rest in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/HiddenValley?src=hash\">#HiddenValley\u003c/a> after defending homes from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ValleyFire?src=hash\">#ValleyFire\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NorthBayNews\">@NorthBayNews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CDF_firefighter\">@CDF_firefighter\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/hIjf1MZAUm\">pic.twitter.com/hIjf1MZAUm\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kent Porter (@kentphotos) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/643225271802290176\">September 14, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:45 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nState fire officials are reporting the Valley Fire has increased to 50,000 acres, with containment remaining at zero percent. The Associated Press has called the Valley Fire one of the “fastest-burning wildfires in decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">have been ordered\u003c/a> for the following locations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Point Lakeview Hwy and Hwy 281, Rivera West and Clearlake Rivera, Hwy 29 (Kelseyville) at Hwy 175 south on Hwy 175 towards Cobb, Red Hills Road to Hwy 29, Hwy 29 X Hwy 175 south to Seigler Canyon Road (south side of Hwy 29), Hwy 29 Tubbs Lane (Calistoga, Napa County) to Hwy 29/Hwy 53(Lower Lake, Lake County) Butts Canyon Road to Napa County Line, including Berreyssa Estates, Butts Canyon Road to Pope Valley. Communities of Cobb, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, Middletown and Hidden Valley Lakes, Livermore Road, Summit Lake Road and north of the community of Angwin.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>According to KQED reporter Danielle Venton at the Napa Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two current evacuation centers, evacuees have begun arriving and are numbering in the hundreds. However, the evacuee team anticipates closer to 1,000 at the fairgrounds by dinner time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venton says that, for the most part, spirits are up among evacuees and a sense of community is noticeable throughout. Some have started pickup football and soccer games, while others have picked up instruments and started jamming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 12:15 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire and Lake County officials are surveying what’s believed to be a massive amount of destruction caused by the Valley Fire that’s prompted some 15,000 residents to flee their homes and sent smoke into nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be pretty devastating,” said Jill Ruzicka, spokeswoman for the Lake County Office of Emergency Services. “All of us know people who have lost their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is the third large wildfire to burn in Lake County in the last few months. Ruzicka said it is already, by far, the most destructive to people’s livelihoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult for us to come to full staff right now because so many of our people are either under evacuation notices or have lost their homes,” Ruzicka said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has yet to publish any official data on the number of structures damaged or destroyed by the blaze, but reports are coming in and it looks bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen some destruction in and around the Middletown area,” said Amy Head, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parts that I couldn’t even make into myself,” Head said from Hidden Valley, another community under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who fled from Middletown told the Associated Press the cars they were driving dodged smoldering telephone poles and billowing smoke as they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is believed to have started on Cobb Mountain, an area that normally gets lots of rain. The drought has obviously changed that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a fire to spread from there all the way to where it is now is very unprecedented,” Head said. The lack of rain, Saturday’s strong winds, and the area’s low humidity and hot temperatures were all factors that helped the fire spread so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are battling the blaze. Cal Fire says getting more of them to the scene is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re having to place orders for additional resources,” Head said. “We are spread pretty thin throughout Northern California with the other fires, so we’re having to pull resources from wherever we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has sent ash and smoke miles away. “It almost looks like Bay Area fog, we are so socked in with this smoke,” Ruzicka said from Lakeport, about 25 miles northwest of Middletown. “This morning when I woke up, my car was covered in ash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross has set up two shelters: one at Kelseyville High School at 5480 Main St. in Kelseyville and another at the Napa County Fairgrounds at 1435 N. Oak St. in Calistoga. According to the Red Cross, a community meeting is planned at the Kelseyville site at 2 p.m. and at the Calistoga one at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:40 a.m.:\u003c/strong> From the Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Lake and Napa counties after a wildfire charred more than 60 square miles within 12 hours, prompting \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4470252-181/thousands-under-order-to-flee?page=2?gallery=4470892\">thousands to flee\u003c/a> their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Sunday the declaration will expedite debris removal and waive fees to people who need to replace official documents lost in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, has destroyed an unconfirmed number of homes and other buildings and damaged highways and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown had earlier declared a state of emergency for a separate 101-square-mile wildfire about 70 miles southeast of Sacramento that has destroyed 86 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://instagram.com/p/7k0pZJsQ2d/\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Original Post: Bay City News Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> that started in \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/\">Lake County\u003c/a> Saturday has now burned an estimated 40,000 acres and is zero percent contained as of this morning, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional mandatory evacuations have been ordered in Lake County from state Highway 29 and state Highway 175 to Seigler Canyon Road, and for state Highway 29 at state Highway 175 toward Cobb, and Red Hills Road to state Highway 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are fighting the fire and getting people evacuated from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas of Napa County are under advisory and could be under mandatory evacuations later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire injured four firefighters who were part of a helicopter crew Saturday. The firefighters suffered burn injuries and were transported to an area burn center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire is reporting there have been an unconfirmed number of structures destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently more than 5,000 residents without power.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nDavid Weir, Don Clyde, Ted Goldberg, Alex Emslie, Danielle Venton and Sheri Quinn contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no silver bullet to this particular issue,” state Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said. “There is a patchwork of capability that we’re looking at. We’re looking at everything from hotels to what rental properties may be available, to opening an old resort — the Konocti Harbor [Resort], to also putting manufactured housing on the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s confirmed \u003ca href=\"#jump\">death toll\u003c/a> rose Wednesday morning when the Lake County Sheriff’s Department announced the discovery of a fourth body in ruins left by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts and minds and prayers go out to all of them,” Lake County Supervisor Jim Comstock said, “but we are very encouraged there are not more of them at this time. Our communities will rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county expects to lose $2.1 million in property tax revenue per year. The total cost of the fire is, of course, much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s conceivable and realistic that the cost overall when you take in loss of revenue, response cost and everything, clearly is in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Ghilarducci said. “We don’t have an exact figure yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials candidly described a fire that moved too quickly to control, with initial firefighters and other first responders on the scene quickly shifting from fighting the flames to attempting to evacuate communities in blaze’s path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re past the preparing for fire now,” Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott said. “It’s now being ready to go. People have to have evacuation plans in place. This fire spread miles just within a few hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents likely didn’t know they should evacuate until the fire was upon them, officials said, despite notifications sent via reverse-911 calls, among other methods.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"jump\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n“I don’t think people understand how rapid and how violent this fire was,” Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said. “In some cases those phone lines were burned down before the messages were delivered to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23:\u003c/strong> Officials in Lake County say they’ve found an apparent fourth victim of the Valley Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/5497628/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Wednesday\u003c/a> that searchers had discovered human remains in the community of Cobb, one of the areas the fire roared through shortly after it started the afternoon of Sept. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office said the victim is presumed to be Robert Taylor Fletcher, 66, who was last seen the day the fire started and was reported missing several days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies are still trying to locate another missing man, identified as Rob Litchman, 61, a resident of the Siegler Springs area near the town of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reported Wednesday that the 76,000-acre blaze is 80 percent contained. The firefighting agency also gave its latest report on the number of structures destroyed in the blaze: 1,238 homes and 672 outbuildings. With a total of 1,910 structures destroyed, the Valley Fire now ranks \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 3 on the agency’s list\u003c/a> of most damaging fires since 1923.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the number of structures incinerated in the Valley blaze, which has crossed into Sonoma and Napa counties, is likely to rise by several hundred when damage assessment teams are finally able to tour the entire fire area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has raised its estimate of homes destroyed in the Valley Fire to 1,050 — and warns the number could rise further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said that damage assessment teams have covered about 80 percent of the 76,000 acres — nearly 120 square miles — that have burned since Sept. 12. The number of residences destroyed makes the Valley Fire the state’s fourth-most-damaging fire on \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Damaging.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Cal Fire list\u003c/a> that goes back to the 1923 Berkeley Hills disaster, which destroyed 584 homes in a neighborhood just north of the University of California campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is now 70 percent contained with a huge force, more than 4,200 personnel, working to build lines around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the firefighting agency also issued a revised report on the number of homes burned in the Butte Fire, which has burned nearly 71,000 acres, or 111 square miles, in the foothills of Calaveras and Amador counties. With damage assessment continuing, the agency has documented 545 residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have confirmed three deaths so far in the Valley Fire and two in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, property losses in the two fires are the worst the state has seen since October 2003, when nearly 4,000 homes were lost in conflagrations that swept hundreds of square miles in San Diego and San Bernardino counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:20 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters advanced containment of the Valley Fire burning in Lake, Sonoma and Napa counties to 40 percent overnight, and one of two people still missing since the fire’s start was found safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reports that 56-year-old Edwin Null was discovered at a friend’s home Thursday night. Family members thought he was in the fire zone near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people are confirmed killed in the fast-moving, 115-square-mile fire that destroyed parts of Middletown, Cobb and other Lake County communities. Two people were found dead in the 110-square-mile Butte Fire burning in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte Fire was 60 percent contained Friday morning. More than 8,000 firefighters are battling the two blazes. Cal Fire says temperatures expected to break 90 degrees this weekend, with very low humidity, could present challenges to the firefighting effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Causes of the fires are under investigation. Cal Fire is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigating a PG&E power line\u003c/a> and conductor as a potential source of the Butte Fire. PG&E says a live tree, which was inspected six times in the past two years, may have contacted the power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From the Associated Press\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more bodies were found in the burned ruins of homes in California, bringing the death toll to five from two of the most destructive wildfires in the state in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both fires continued burning Thursday, but cooler weather and rain helped firefighters gain ground on the blazes that have destroyed more than 700 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official identifications have not yet been made, but the sheriff’s office said the two bodies found in Lake County were presumed to be those of Bruce Beven Burns and former San Jose Mercury News police reporter Leonard Neft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman was found dead Sunday in the blaze burning about 100 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Burns said her 65-year-old brother-in-law might have been sleeping in his trailer and didn’t realize the fire was speeding toward him on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It came in very fast, it was a monster,” she said from her home in Lodi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled Burns as a laid-back guy who sold items at a Clear Lake flea market and lived in a trailer at the family’s metal recycling yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He reminded me of a big teddy bear,” Shirley Burns said. “He was a real kind and gentle person. He had a beard and looked like a mountain man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s wife and daughter were not immediately available for comment on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He last spoke with his family on Saturday before authorities found his burned-out car on a route he would have used to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His daughter, Joselyn Neft, previously said Adela Neft repeatedly called her husband Saturday to tell him to leave the house, but he told her he didn’t think the fire was coming toward him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neft’s house was in the same area where Barbara McWilliams, 72, was found dead. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown and would be fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cadaver dogs found the latest bodies on Wednesday in the Hidden Valley and Anderson Springs areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other bodies were found inside homes destroyed in a separate wildfire about 170 miles away in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was identified as Mark McCloud, 65, who was found Tuesday in the Mountain Ranch area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raggio wouldn’t release the name of the other victim because the family had not been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disclosures came as firefighters gained ground on the massive blazes amid cooler weather and rain on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Lake County had charred 115 square miles and was 35 percent contained. An estimated 585 homes and hundreds of other structures have burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in Amador and Calaveras counties has burned 110 square miles. It was 49 percent contained after destroying 252 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that two people have died in the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark McCloud, 67, was found near his home in Calaveras County. The second victim was a 65-year-old man who refused to heed a mandatory evacuation order, says Raggio. He declined to identify the second man, saying the family hasn’t been notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say they are now using dogs to search for several other people who may have been killed in that fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> this morning that the fire now stands at 73,700 acres, with 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-power-line-may-have-sparked-deadly-Sierra-6509980.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that a power line coming into contact with a tree may have sparked the Butte Fire, which has now burned more than 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we don’t have all the facts yet, a live tree may have contacted a PG&E line in the vicinity of the ignition point,” Barry Anderson, PG&E vice president of emergency preparedness and operations, said Wednesday to the Chronicle. “We are cooperating fully with Cal Fire in an investigation of whether this could have been a source of ignition for the Butte Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> A second life has been claimed by massive wildfires that swept through Northern California this week. The Calaveras County Sheriff has confirmed a fatality resulting from the Butte Fire, according to an update posted on Twitter by Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant. More information is expected soon. The Butte Fire has predominantly impacted Calaveras County, and was 45 percent contained as of the most recent update. So far, the Butte Fire has destroyed just over 400 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are currently 14,000 firefighters across the state of California battling 10 active blazes, Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said in a Wednesday update. But crews are making progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire, which has already been designated as the most destructive wildfire in 2015, has caused one known fatality and scorched about 100 square miles, with more than 600 structures damaged in the blaze. That property toll doesn’t include barns or sheds that went up in flames along with homes burnt to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When all the other outbuildings are assessed and a full damage assessment is complete, it is likely that this fire will be in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/16/valley-and-butte-fires-are-among-californias-most-destructive-blazes\">the top five most destructive fires\u003c/a> that we have seen in our history,” Berlant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are making progress, thanks in part to cooler temperatures — the Valley Fire was 30 percent contained as of Wednesday morning. At the same time, another weather-related factor was working against their efforts. A number of hot spots continue to smolder throughout the fire zone, and these small fiery patches can be reignited by gusty winds. Those powerful gusts can spur flare-ups and threaten to reverse firefighters’ progress in bringing blazes under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther to the east, in Calaveras and Amador counties, firefighters were also making progress in gaining control of the Butte Fire, which has scorched 71,780 acres and already ranks as the state’s 14th most damaging blaze. The Butte Fire now stands at 45 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the affected areas, thousands of people who have been put up for days at evacuation centers are still waiting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still thousands of residents who have been evacuated from this fire,” Berlant said of the Valley Fire. “Many are asking when can they get back home, and we are hoping to get them back just as soon as possible. But you’ve got to remember, there are a lot of hazards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has caused at least $1 million in damage to California’s largest geothermal energy complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire disabled five cooling towers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.geysers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Geysers\u003c/a> network of power plants, northwest of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brett Kerr, a spokesman for Calpine, which runs the plant, said the fire may have also left it isolated from the power grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the non-Calpine-owned transmission lines that deliver the power that is produced to the Geysers to the actual market were also damaged, so while there might be the ability to generate capacity and energy at the Geysers, it may not be able to make it to the grid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials who manage the grid say damage at The Geysers will not have a significant impact on the state’s energy supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Valley-Fire-apparently-started-near-home-in-Cobb-6506658.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle is reporting\u003c/a> investigators are focusing on a burned-out shed in Cobb, where the fire started, in trying to pinpoint the cause of the conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update: 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this morning’s fire briefing, medical officials cautioned firefighters to watch out for signs of stress. A lot of firefighters are local, officials said, and they know plenty of fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Of course, the worst anxiety is being experienced by those who have had to leave their homes and belongings behind. From KQED health reporter April Dembosky’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/15/anxiety-taking-toll-on-fire-evacuees-and-exacerbating-other-health-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on our State of Health blog\u003c/a> today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For a lot of other people here, the anxiety of not knowing [the fate of their homes] is getting to them. Dr. Colleen Townsend, a family practice doctor in Napa, is helping to staff the makeshift medical center inside one of the buildings on the fairgrounds. She says anxiety is one of the main complaints. And that is making other health conditions worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many folks in this area are really affected by chronic illness,” Townsend says, especially diabetes and high blood pressure. Because people were evacuated so quickly, many didn’t have time to grab medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly in these settings their blood sugar and blood pressure are already rising just from the stress of the occasion,” Townsend said. “Without adequate supplies of their medicines, that can cause acute symptoms like feeling shaky, nausea, sometimes dehydration.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>People have also been worried about their pets. Some residents are being escorted back into evacuation zones to retrieve them. It’s dangerous out there for animals, as can be seen in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Wasson-Memorial-Veterinary-Clinic-121404277937611/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post\u003c/a> by a veterinary clinic in Lakeport. The clinic is treating a burned black cat that was rescued by firefighters near Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" width=\"347\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s disturbing, yes, but fear not, the cat is doing much better. “Eyes are improving fast!! He’s purring and rubbing his head for kitty kisses!! Thanks for all the inquiries!!” the clinic wrote. If you know who the owner is, call 707-263-5380.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10683839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg\" alt=\"cat2\" width=\"339\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/cat2-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:40 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa County, near Pope Valley and Angwin, advisory evacuations have been lifted for Summit Lake Drive, Howell Mountain Road North, North White Cottage Road and Ink Grade Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:40 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emotional \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4479072-181/valley-fire-lake-county-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to his colleagues\u003c/a> on Monday, Santa Rosa Press Democrat staff photographer Kent Porter captured the havoc caused by the fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am floored by the amount of devastation I’ve seen. Whole communities were wiped off the map in a matter of minutes. We all have friends up there, families and people we’ve met in passing. What struck me the most is the utter completeness of this disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually nothing is left above the proper of Cobb. The houses are down to foundations, even some chimneys are gone. Driving through the area is like looking at a ghost community. So much gone, so many ways of life disrupted, so much hardship remains for the people affected. In Middletown, you can draw a line where firefighters stopped the fire. They saved downtown. Anderson Springs is nearly 80% wiped out, same goes for the homes along Highway 175 in the canyon to Cobb. Hidden Valley suffered losses too, as did Hobergs and Adams Springs. I didn’t make it to Siegler Canyon, it was way too dangerous (but I did try).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re all journalists, we’ve all seen catastrophes and witnessed amazing, great things. If there is anything you can donate, especially for the children and seniors, now would be a good time. Overwhelmed is pretty good word to use when you think of what an uphill climb it will be for them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15\u003c/strong>: In this morning’s update from Cal Fire, the agency said more resources have been arriving to fight the Valley Fire. Firefighting aircraft are now in operation, and lower temperatures and higher humidity are aiding efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The toll of homes destroyed now stands at 585, and hundreds of other structures have also been destroyed. Nine thousand other structures are still threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has now scorched 67,000 acres — about 100 square miles — and is 15 percent contained. The hope is containment can be increased before the weather shifts again. About 13,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas surrounding the town of Cobb were hit hard yesterday, with about 100 homes burned. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/friendsofcobbmountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page\u003c/a> has been posting local reports of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the latest map of the Valley Fire from Cal Fire. You can see the small communities that have been swallowed up in red — places like Adams, Howard Springs, Whispering Pines, Hidden Valley Lake. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Click on the map\u003c/a> and you’ll be able to zoom in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10683549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg\" alt=\"firemap\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/firemap-400x277.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in parts of Napa County have been made advisory instead of mandatory. From the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/fire-evacuations-eased-in-napa-county/article_603dcf63-69c3-5cec-bff2-35c9285061ad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The advisory evacuations cover Pope Valley Road between Aetna Springs Road and Howell Mountain Road, Ink Grade, Summit Lake Drive and North White Cottage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations remain in effect in Napa County along Butts Canyon Road, Berryessa Estates, Snell Valley Road and Pope Valley Road from Aetna Springs North to Lake County.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuation orders still remain in effect for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hwy 29 x Hwy 53, South on Hwy 29 to Tubbs Lane in Napa County, all of Hwy 175 in the Cobb area, Point Lakeview to Soda Bay on Hwy 281, all of Bottle Rock Road and High Valley Road. Butts Canyon Road from Hwy 29 to Napa County line (including all of Berryessa Estates). The communities of Twin Lakes, Hidden Valley Lake, Middletown, Aetna Springs, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, and the Riviera Areas.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said today some people are being allowed back into their homes to get pets and medication. A high school near Lower Lake is being used as a staging area to bring people to their homes, reports KQED’s Scott Shafer. Residents will have 15 minutes to check, feed and water animals.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Monday night in the Kelseyville High School cafeteria, now being used as an evacuation center, hundreds of people lined up for a dinner prepared and donated by celebrity chef Guy Fieri, who owns property nearby. The feast was small consolation for evacuees like Lela Prather, who lives in Loch Lomond, another Lake County community now threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t heard recently about our houses,” she told Scott Shafer, her voice cracking with emotion. “We don’t know if our houses are there right now. Because the wind has picked up and … I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people were similarly emotional as they waited and wondered what they’ll go home to — including the condition of pets, in some cases — when Cal Fire finally gives them the green light to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the severe stress and loss of property caused by the fire, some Lake County residents saw a silver lining, in that it has brought the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt Frazier Jr., vice president of the local Vietnam Veterans chapter, sheltered at Kelseyville High School last night. He said he was impressed by how people have united across cultural and economic barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had helicopters coming in, helping out, aircraft coming out,” he said. “But what I’m seeing are the citizens, the residents, including the ones who’ve been displaced, helping out with one another, calming each other down emotionally. Because this is an emotional impact on the whole county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also yesterday: Barbara McWilliams was identified as the lone fire-related fatality. She told her caretaker she didn’t want to leave her home near Middletown, despite the nearby blaze. Her body was found late Sunday in her burned-out home after flames kept Lake County sheriff’s officials from reaching her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Hittson, McWilliams’ caregiver, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that she left McWilliams’ home around 3 p.m. Saturday, unaware of the fire’s seriousness or how quickly it would grow, even though officers were at that point turning drivers away from Highway 175, which leads to the Cobb Mountain area where McWilliams lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson said she called the sheriff’s office twice Saturday and Cal Fire on Sunday, only to be told by dispatchers, “We will get out there when we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hittson saiid McWilliams could walk slowly and that her hands were weak. “That I left her there, it haunts me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:45 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>According to the latest report from authorities stationed in Lakeport, the Valley Fire had grown to 62,000 acres as of Monday evening, 1,000 acres larger than its previous size, and was at 10 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-valley-fire-victim-20150914-story.html\">report\u003c/a> in the Los Angeles Times identified the woman who was killed in the Valley Fire as 72-year old Barbara McWilliams, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. The report includes an account from McWilliams’ caretaker, Jennifer Hittson, who said she’d phoned authorities more than once to alert them that McWilliams needed evacuation assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:35 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has released more information about the first victim killed in the Valley Fire. First responders received a phone call at 7:12 p.m. on Sept. 12 to help an elderly, disabled woman evacuate a subdivision on Hot Springs Road. Officers and deputies arrived to the area at 7:29 p.m., but were unable to make it to her home before the structure was engulfed in flames, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>The Valley Fire has damaged The Geysers, a network of 14 power plants run by Calpine and one of the largest geothermal complexes in the world. Calpine has confirmed that the blaze damaged five of its cooling towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">See more photos of the Valley Fire and the aftermath\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/photos-scenes-from-the-lake-county-valley-fire\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of the employees who would typically be working today were notified not to try to come to the site,” spokesman Brett Kerr told KQED’s Ted Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sells electricity produced in the area to PG&E and other utilities. Calpine reduced its operations in response to the damage, impacting roughly a third of its energy output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at a medical tent set up at an evacuation center in Calistoga, Red Cross volunteers and staff from a nearby clinic were working to treat evacuees experiencing health problems. While smoke inhalation was a more immediate medical concern yesterday, evacuees are now grappling with symptoms associated with chronic health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents who fled their homes left too quickly to take prescription medication along, volunteers working in the medical tent told KQED’s April Dembosky. Evacuees suffering from diabetes are more vulnerable to health impacts because stress and anxiety can exacerbate the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early Monday morning, the Valley Fire had scorched some 61,000 acres since Saturday and was only 5 percent contained. The Butte Fire, which has been burning for more than five days, was 30 percent contained with more than 71,000 acres scarred by flames. At a press conference held Monday morning, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/14/gov-sees-damn-serious-fire-situation-costs-top-212-million\">pegged the total cost of California wildfires at $212.6 million\u003c/a> through early last week, before factoring in the costs of this weekend’s devastating blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:06 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong> A total of 23,000 people had been displaced by the Valley and Butte fires as of Monday morning, according to the Associated Press. That includes 13,000 who were forced to leave their homes due to the Valley Fire and another 10,000 from the Butte Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:10 a.m., Monday, Sept 14: \u003c/strong> The Valley Fire has devastated Harbin Hot Springs, a popular nonprofit retreat and workshop center established in 1972 that has long attracted Bay Area residents seeking holistic health therapies. Michael Hardy of Posterity Productions \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PosterityProductions/photos/a.891054524322216.1073741881.137782922982717/891055514322117/?type=3&theater\">posted seven photographs on Facebook\u003c/a> showing a number of structures reduced to rubble, including gathering spaces where guests would practice yoga and walkways that led to soaking pools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An update posted to the retreat center’s Facebook page Sunday at 10 p.m. indicated that staff and residents were staying with friends, or being temporarily housed at evacuation centers. “As soon as we know specifics about damages on the property, we will post news here and on the Harbin website,” the message noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, about 800 people spent last night at the Red Cross evacuation center in Calistoga in campers, tents or just under tarps. Many of those who had to evacuate are still trying to get over the shock of leaving their homes as the flames encroached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could see it on the mountain. It just came, it came with a vengeance, it came so fast,” said Theresa DeGroat. “And then we knew. Winds came, it was strong winds, and we had to get out fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGroat says the only thing left of her Middletown home is the chimney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:15 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morning update\u003c/a> says the fire continues to grow and has now scorched 61,000 acres. The blaze is 5 percent contained. Still no word on the one fatality reported — Cal Fire says only that it’s being investigated by “law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-one-reported-dead?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> puts the evacuation count at 20,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10:00 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong> The Valley Fire is raging through parts of Lake and Napa counties. It has burned through 50,000 acres and destroyed 400 homes, two apartment complexes, 1,000 outbuildings and 10 businesses, by last count. It has also taken the life of at least one person, Cal Fire says, and injured at least four firefighters. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a \u003ca href=\"http://cert1.mail-west.com/RyjkE/c7rmx/myuzjanm/rnev20t31xRgt/1hl/qvnqxRglb/31xR/v919u60t/uiilfxqv?_c=d%7Cze7pzanwmhlzgt%7C13g06h919isyvvh&_ce=1442157652.735aaa0b9af354ab236232be04d35747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state of emergency\u003c/a> in the two counties. About 17,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, KXTV-Sacramento is \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc10.com/story/news/local/2015/09/13/valley-fire-update-state--emergency-declared-mandatory-evacuations--napa-county--40000-acre-blaze/72203574/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a>, and containment is thus far zero percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin called the fire “the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen,” the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4473834-181/valley-fire-hellish-blaze-grows?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two evacuation centers that have been established, officials estimated about 800 evacuees had been taken in tonight, sleeping in tents and trailers. Officials are warning those who have left their homes not to give their addresses online, as potential burglars are posing as members of the media who are offering to check on the status of abandoned residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are using the Internet to better ends: Here’s a \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=807293669388482&id=560613960723122\">damage report\u003c/a>, posted on the Friends of Cobb Mountain Facebook page, detailing the condition of various areas in Cobb — population under 2,000. “There are simply no words to express the terrible fullness of our loss,” reads a post from Saturday. “Many of us in the community have lost our homes, pets, property, and so much more. But let’s remember that a community is, at its heart, people. We will return, we will rebuild …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7831493,-122.7221946,11z/data=!4m2!6m1!1szp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for a map of the fire’s perimeter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10681340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png\" alt=\"perimeter\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-800x436.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-400x218.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-1180x643.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter-960x523.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/perimeter.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News accounts have also captured the sudden devastation that has swept through victims’ lives. “I’m standing in the middle of a bombed-out town,” a Cal Fire battalion chief told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/northern-california-wildfires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a>, speaking of 1,300-resident Middletown in Lake County, roughly 90 miles north of San Francisco. “I’m on a block of burned-down structures. There’s the frame of a mobile home — that’s all that’s left. The cars are burned-out hulks. The trees look like skeletons. There’s a porch swing, a bathtub. I’m seeing the remnants of somebody’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/F5ZI3\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/13/valleyfiremap.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Get the latest details directly from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Cal Fire Web Site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\">#Valleyfire on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/resources-valley-fire-evacuation-centers-school-closures/982676/\">Donations, school closures, shelters\u003c/a> (ABC7)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelakecounty.org/\">Donation centers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My house burned down. Everything burned down,” 33-year-old Justin Olson told the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/wildfire-scorches-lake-county-towns-forces-evacuations-to-calistoga/article_c036c27b-2071-588c-a0d0-d73dc4a6e1a0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>. “All I have is just what I had on me. Didn’t even have a car — I hitchhiked down here; someone stopped and I jumped into the back of his pickup truck. All you could see was this big wall of fire coming toward us …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have posted devastating photos using the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/valleyfire?f=tweets&vertical=default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ValleyFire hashtag \u003c/a>on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is one of the fastest-burning in decades. It took just 12 hours to burn through 40,000 acres, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-wildfire-spread-with-mind-boggling-speed-20150913-story.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t very many fires in California’s history that have done that. I don’t know if there really is a precedent for it,” climate scientist Daniel Swain told the paper. “This fire sort of broke the rules even relative to this incredible season that’s already occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t even a fire. It was like fluorescent evil,” Whispering Pines resident Bill Gavin told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4474770-181/valley-fire-evacuees-tell-of?gallery=4475505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Democrat\u003c/a>. “I saw sections like football fields go up in four seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a hair-raising video posted by someone who said he was fleeing Anderson Springs.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0lVPB3HI9Wg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0lVPB3HI9Wg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Here’s a Press Democrat video of the devastation in Middletown.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/X9mv9dJQoL4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/X9mv9dJQoL4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Below is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map of all the active fires in California\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en&usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butte Fire\u003c/a>, burning in Amador & Calaveras Counties, is now at 65,300 acres, or about 102 square miles. That’s slightly larger than the city of Sacramento. The fire is 25 percent contained. So far, 135 residences and 79 outbuildings have been destroyed, Cal Fire says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zp8nK_5H0MFQ.kzTmU5XK-qJQ&hl=en\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAt a 5 p.m. briefing at the Napa Fairgrounds, Cal Fire officials said that most of the commercial business in Middletown and the high school remain intact, but many homes off the main drag have been impacted. Chris Childs of the Napa CHP said it will be at least two days before residents can return to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE\">@CAL_FIRE\u003c/a> firefighters rest in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/HiddenValley?src=hash\">#HiddenValley\u003c/a> after defending homes from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ValleyFire?src=hash\">#ValleyFire\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NorthBayNews\">@NorthBayNews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CDF_firefighter\">@CDF_firefighter\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/hIjf1MZAUm\">pic.twitter.com/hIjf1MZAUm\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kent Porter (@kentphotos) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/643225271802290176\">September 14, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:45 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nState fire officials are reporting the Valley Fire has increased to 50,000 acres, with containment remaining at zero percent. The Associated Press has called the Valley Fire one of the “fastest-burning wildfires in decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuations \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">have been ordered\u003c/a> for the following locations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Point Lakeview Hwy and Hwy 281, Rivera West and Clearlake Rivera, Hwy 29 (Kelseyville) at Hwy 175 south on Hwy 175 towards Cobb, Red Hills Road to Hwy 29, Hwy 29 X Hwy 175 south to Seigler Canyon Road (south side of Hwy 29), Hwy 29 Tubbs Lane (Calistoga, Napa County) to Hwy 29/Hwy 53(Lower Lake, Lake County) Butts Canyon Road to Napa County Line, including Berreyssa Estates, Butts Canyon Road to Pope Valley. Communities of Cobb, Seigler Canyon, Loch Lomond, Middletown and Hidden Valley Lakes, Livermore Road, Summit Lake Road and north of the community of Angwin.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>According to KQED reporter Danielle Venton at the Napa Fairgrounds in Calistoga, one of two current evacuation centers, evacuees have begun arriving and are numbering in the hundreds. However, the evacuee team anticipates closer to 1,000 at the fairgrounds by dinner time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venton says that, for the most part, spirits are up among evacuees and a sense of community is noticeable throughout. Some have started pickup football and soccer games, while others have picked up instruments and started jamming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0132.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents for Valley Fire evacuees being set up at the Napa County Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10681085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10681085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DSCF0111.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney, age 8, rescued her favorite stuffed animal, Fireheart, and her bow and arrow. She’s posed with her neighbors chickens and her friend, Zack. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 12:15 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire and Lake County officials are surveying what’s believed to be a massive amount of destruction caused by the Valley Fire that’s prompted some 15,000 residents to flee their homes and sent smoke into nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be pretty devastating,” said Jill Ruzicka, spokeswoman for the Lake County Office of Emergency Services. “All of us know people who have lost their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Fire is the third large wildfire to burn in Lake County in the last few months. Ruzicka said it is already, by far, the most destructive to people’s livelihoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult for us to come to full staff right now because so many of our people are either under evacuation notices or have lost their homes,” Ruzicka said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has yet to publish any official data on the number of structures damaged or destroyed by the blaze, but reports are coming in and it looks bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen some destruction in and around the Middletown area,” said Amy Head, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parts that I couldn’t even make into myself,” Head said from Hidden Valley, another community under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who fled from Middletown told the Associated Press the cars they were driving dodged smoldering telephone poles and billowing smoke as they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is believed to have started on Cobb Mountain, an area that normally gets lots of rain. The drought has obviously changed that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a fire to spread from there all the way to where it is now is very unprecedented,” Head said. The lack of rain, Saturday’s strong winds, and the area’s low humidity and hot temperatures were all factors that helped the fire spread so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are battling the blaze. Cal Fire says getting more of them to the scene is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re having to place orders for additional resources,” Head said. “We are spread pretty thin throughout Northern California with the other fires, so we’re having to pull resources from wherever we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has sent ash and smoke miles away. “It almost looks like Bay Area fog, we are so socked in with this smoke,” Ruzicka said from Lakeport, about 25 miles northwest of Middletown. “This morning when I woke up, my car was covered in ash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross has set up two shelters: one at Kelseyville High School at 5480 Main St. in Kelseyville and another at the Napa County Fairgrounds at 1435 N. Oak St. in Calistoga. According to the Red Cross, a community meeting is planned at the Kelseyville site at 2 p.m. and at the Calistoga one at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 8:40 a.m.:\u003c/strong> From the Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Lake and Napa counties after a wildfire charred more than 60 square miles within 12 hours, prompting \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4470252-181/thousands-under-order-to-flee?page=2?gallery=4470892\">thousands to flee\u003c/a> their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Sunday the declaration will expedite debris removal and waive fees to people who need to replace official documents lost in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, has destroyed an unconfirmed number of homes and other buildings and damaged highways and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown had earlier declared a state of emergency for a separate 101-square-mile wildfire about 70 miles southeast of Sacramento that has destroyed 86 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://instagram.com/p/7k0pZJsQ2d/\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Original Post: Bay City News Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> that started in \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/\">Lake County\u003c/a> Saturday has now burned an estimated 40,000 acres and is zero percent contained as of this morning, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional mandatory evacuations have been ordered in Lake County from state Highway 29 and state Highway 175 to Seigler Canyon Road, and for state Highway 29 at state Highway 175 toward Cobb, and Red Hills Road to state Highway 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 firefighters are fighting the fire and getting people evacuated from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas of Napa County are under advisory and could be under mandatory evacuations later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire injured four firefighters who were part of a helicopter crew Saturday. 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"content": "\u003cp>The wildfires ravaging Lake County this summer might have an impact unnoticed by most people: the increased looting of ancient Native American artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Pomo residents worry that the fires, which have cleared trees and structures off land, and the drought, which has lowered water levels at Clear Lake, are making it easier for looters to unearth relics that belonged to their ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225040171\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although theft at Native American sites is nothing new, local sheriff's deputies are being trained for the first time in how to identify and investigate these crimes. That led to the arrest last month of a man suspected of stealing obsidian arrowheads and other artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case may be the first arrest of its kind in Lake County, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. Lake County leads the state's 58 counties in terms of drug-induced deaths, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Documents/OHIRProfiles2015.pdf\">figures\u003c/a> from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that drought conditions and wildfires are exposing archaeological sites around Clear Lake that were not visible, making these potential troves more accessible than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires and drought increase access in Lake County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires raging in the area since July have burned vegetation and structures in 171,000 acres so far. At the same time, the state’s four-year drought is making Clear Lake’s shoreline recede as water levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Clear Lake’s water levels were about 2 feet higher than today, says Andrew Watson, field office chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Ukiah branch. During a wet year such as 1984, water levels were 10 feet higher than today, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tv6V4uHzKsYZriZwzLbfJiFDY0J1FgoL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dino Beltran, from the Koi Nation, says the theft of Native American relics has occurred for many decades, regardless of the weather. He first alerted authorities to these crimes after he spotted a pair of suspicious diggers on marshland near his ancestral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People trying to benefit from somebody else's belongings that should be left on the ground,” says Beltran, who pushed for the training with local law enforcement. “I mean they are sacred objects. You don’t see Native Americans going to a cemetery and digging up the cemetery, so why would anyone want to do anything sacrilegious to a Native American site?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the looting case in Lake County is still under investigation, the sheriff’s office and Beltran believe that the items recovered by Kreutzer are most likely from the Koi Nation. The suspect was released on bail a few days after the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Valley Fire started shortly after noon on Saturday. Since then, it has raged to more than 60,000 acres. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/13/valley-fire-forcing-residents-to-evacuate-injures-firefighters-in-lake-county\" target=\"_blank\">Hundreds of homes have been destroyed\u003c/a> and thousands have been evacuated. Roads are closed, relief centers are filling up and donations are arriving as firefighting personnel try to contain the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stunning images of the blaze and aftermath are pouring in as those affected by the fire are taking to social media to share their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest information from Cal Fire can be found \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters with the Marin County Fire Department's Tamalpais Fire Crew monitor a backfire as they battle the Valley Fire on September 13. (Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158900-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters with the Marin County Fire Department's Tamalpais Fire Crew monitor a backfire as they battle the Valley Fire on Sept. 13. (Stephen Lam/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682119\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on September 13, 2015 (Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13, 2015. (Stephen Lam/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Jeff_Frost/status/643264896046530560\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters with the Marin County Fire Department's Tamalpais Fire Crew monitor a backfire as they battle the Valley Fire. (Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488158896-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters with the Marin County Fire Department's Tamalpais Fire Crew monitor a backfire as they battle the Valley Fire. (Stephen Lam/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters with the CalFire Santa Clara Unit rest along Highway 29 during the Valley Fire Middletown, California. (Photo by Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488140464-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters with the Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit rest along Highway 29 during the Valley Fire in Middletown, California. (Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Melted metal flows from a burned out car abandoned on a highway during the Valley fire in Middletown, California. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158-1440x957.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158-1920x1276.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16635_GettyImages-488103158-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melted metal flows from a burned-out car abandoned on a highway during the Valley Fire in Middletown, California. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Melted garbage containers damaged by the Valley Fire sit near homes in Middletown, California. (Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488041614-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melted garbage containers damaged by the Valley Fire sit near homes in Middletown, California. (Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lake County's famous Harbin Hot Springs appears to have been destroyed in the fire.\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/TurfgrassZealot/status/643449130547703809\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/kurtisalexander/status/643472730902269952\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682111\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An abandoned vehicle sits along Highway 29 during the Valley Fire on September 13, 2015 in Middletown, California. (Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096114-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An abandoned vehicle sits along Highway 29 during the Valley Fire on Sept. 13, 2015, in Middletown, California. (Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jpbutta/status/643206757527846912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KaroleKurnow/status/643234675163402240\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ilike_mike/status/643268680919322625\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10682110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096090.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10682110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GettyImages-488096090-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vehicle damaged by the Valley Fire is seen on September 13, 2015 in Middletown, California. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m., Monday, Aug. 17: \u003c/strong>Firefighters made significant progress on the Jerusalem Fire over the weekend, despite hot temperatures and gusty winds, and now have it 90 percent contained, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the agency is “not letting our guard down, nor should anybody in that area,” said Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean. The fire has grown to 25,118 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, an evacuation order was lifted, allowing about 150 residents to return home, said McLean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed out that most of the smoke that drifted into the Bay Area over the weekend was not from the Jerusalem Fire, but from two forest fires burning in Humboldt and Trinity counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/communications_statewidefiresummary.php\">the statewide update\u003c/a> from Cal Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"c0\">Over 13,000 firefighters are battling 19 active wildfires across California. After today, temperatures will decrease back to a more seasonable normal level. Winds in many parts of Northern California \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"c0 c8\">will continue at lighter speeds early in the week with very low humidity. In Southern California westerly winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph will surface across the Tehachapi Mountains, Antelope Valley, and Banning Pass. While temperatures will begin to be cooler statewide, very warm and dry conditions will maintain an elevated threat for large fire across the foothills and mountains.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m., Friday, Aug. 14: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire officials say they have the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a> 52 percent contained but remain very concerned about triple-digit heat and strong winds forecast for the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If things go south, there’s still a lot of assets up here and we’ll hit it as hard as we can,” said Cal Fire’s Steve Swindle. More than 2,200 firefighters remain on the scene, with crews focused on the eastern flank of the blaze, which has now burned more than 24,555 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s today, says Swindle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:05 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 13:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire’s morning update reports that containment has doubled on the Jerusalem Fire, burning in southeastern Lake County at the border with Napa and Yolo counties. The agency says the blaze has burned 23,500 acres and that firefighters have thrown control lines around 33 percent of the fire’s perimeter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big concern today and tonight: much windier weather that will threaten control lines on the fire’s eastern edge. Read on for details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 12:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire’s latest report on its progress against the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a> in Lake County: The fire increased in size by 4,000 acres during the day to 20,500 acres, or 32 square miles. Crews increased containment on the blaze from 6 percent to 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10641603\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10641603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42-400x270.png\" alt=\"Cal Fire's map of the Jerusalem and Rocky fires. Perimeters shown as of early Thursday, Aug. 13. Click for larger image. \" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42-400x270.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42.png 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire’s map of the Jerusalem and Rocky fires. Perimeters shown as of early Thursday, Aug. 13. Click for larger image.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fire agency also says the force fighting the fire has grown to more than 2,000, including some crews transferred from the adjoining Rocky Fire — which burned nearly 70,000 acres between July 29 and the end of last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progress containing the Jerusalem Fire came as the meteorologist and fire behavior analysts assigned to the incident issued a forecast for critical fire conditions with winds expected to gust as high as 30 mph Thursday afternoon. The forecast warns that the gusty westerly wind, aligned with ridges and canyons in the area, will make it more difficult to stop the fire’s spread on to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds are supposed to be calmer after midnight Thursday with another windy period Friday evening. The next weather challenge for firefighters will come from temperatures that may reach triple digits over the weekend along with critically low relative humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:55 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 12:\u003c/strong> Here’s our semi-daily acreage update from Cal Fire: The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a> has grown to 16,500 acres, or 26 square miles, and is 6 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s latest \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/cdf/images/incidentfile1193_1711.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public fire map\u003c/a>, depicting conditions about 9 p.m. Tuesday, shows the main growth of the fire during the day Tuesday was to the east and northeast, crossing the northwestern border of Yolo County and the extreme northeastern edge of Napa County. While crews managed to more or less hold containment on the north, west and south borders of the fire, the blaze burned across Knoxville-Berryessa Road, which managers had hoped to hold as the eastern edge of the fire. Their new goal is to keep the fire west of Blue Ridge, just west of Highway 16 and the northern end of the Capay Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:55 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11:\u003c/strong> Earlier this evening, Cal Fire updated its estimate of the acreage burned in the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a>, which started in Lake County on Sunday afternoon, to 14,000 — roughly 22 square miles. Containment is 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lower rate of growth — 2,000 acres since early Tuesday — than had been seen on the fire since it broke out. But the agency said it’s facing several big challenges in getting a handle on the blaze, which started just as crews gained the upper hand on the Rocky Fire that had threatened communities at the southeast end of Clear Lake last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says it’s had trouble getting at the blaze due to a lack of roads in the fire zone. And, as with the Rocky Fire, the fire is burning fiercely through areas with a heavy cover of drought-stressed brush. The advance of the fire Tuesday caused crews to pull back from a section one main route into the hills of southeastern Lake County, Morgan Valley Road and prompted local officials to order new evacuations in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage for firefighters Tuesday and Wednesday: Cooler temperatures and higher humidities, especially at night. Warmer, drier weather is expected by the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire now says it has about 1,700 personnel fighting the Jerusalem blaze. Full containment is estimated by next Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire says the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a>, burning in Lake County south of the sprawling area scorched last week by the Rocky Fire, doubled in size overnight to 12,000 acres (18.75 square miles). The firefighting agency continues to give a 0 percent containment figure for the fire — though on its northern edge it’s moving toward an area already burned by the Rocky Fire, which should limit its spread in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, now in its third day in the hills northeast of Middletown, threatens about 50 homes. Cal Fire says it has shifted some firefighting crews from the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a>, which started July 29, burned just under 70,000 acres and is reported to be 88 percent contained. Crews on that fire have been completing containment lines, mopping up smoldering areas around the perimeter and beginning the job of repairing damage caused by the heavy equipment brought in to limit the fire’s spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,100 firefighters are battling the Jerusalem Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire announced Monday that law enforcement officers had made an arrest on one count of arson and allegedly starting a backfire, but the incident was not tied to the cause of the Jerusalem Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Ramos Silva was booked in Lake County jail Sunday evening on suspicion of starting a backfire, Cal Fire reported in a news release, making him the fifth individual to be arrested on arson-related charges in two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Lake County Sheriff’s office did not immediately return calls seeking comment, but the Los Angeles Times\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-jerusalem-fire-20150810-story.html\"> is reporting\u003c/a> that deputies suspected Silva of attempting to stage a small controlled burn, to protect marijuana plants from being scorched by the nearby Jerusalem Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially now with the dry conditions from the drought, we will absolutely not tolerate arson of any type,” said Chief Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigations into the cause of both the Rocky Fire and the Jerusalem Fire are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Aug. 10:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as fire crews managed to gain control of the massive Rocky Fire, which whipped through Lake County last week, a new wildfire is sweeping through the same area. As of Monday morning, the Jerusalem Fire had already scorched 5,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_PIO/status/630739287399477248\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Rocky Fire evacuation orders had been lifted as of Saturday. But the relief didn’t last long. The Jerusalem Fire prompted a new round of evacuations, in some cases affecting some of the same residents who had just weathered the impacts of the Rocky Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got 150 people that have been evacuated out of 50 homes,” Cal Fire spokesman Paul Lowenthal told KQED’s Guy Marzorati in an interview. In many cases, “These people have been through it now twice, where they were evacuated and then re-evacuated for a new fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowenthal said a nearby high school had been opened as an evacuation shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/630740102411456513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jerusalem Fire was at zero percent containment and moving to the east and southeast, Lowenthal added, and 545 firefighters had been deployed to fight the blaze, with more on the way. Some crews were diverted from the effort already in place to fight the Rocky Fire, which was at 85 percent containment as of Sunday night. The Rocky Fire has scorched nearly 70,000 acres. Cal Fire estimated that it would be fully contained by Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowenthal said fire crews wouldn’t necessarily view it as a bad thing if the Jerusalem Fire were to merge with the Rocky Fire. “It would run out of fuels, because then it would burn into something that’s already been burned before,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of the latest reports, that hadn’t happened — and as firefighters’ experience with the Rocky Fire showed, erratic daytime winds can defy firefighters’ expectations for typical wind flow patterns, adding to the challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a Cal Fire update posted Sunday morning, small flare ups could still occur within the interior of the Rocky Fire even as crews make progress on containment. And residents should remain vigilant, the bulletin noted, since “fire activity and direction can change at any time.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If things go south, there’s still a lot of assets up here and we’ll hit it as hard as we can,” said Cal Fire’s Steve Swindle. More than 2,200 firefighters remain on the scene, with crews focused on the eastern flank of the blaze, which has now burned more than 24,555 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s today, says Swindle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:05 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 13:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire’s morning update reports that containment has doubled on the Jerusalem Fire, burning in southeastern Lake County at the border with Napa and Yolo counties. The agency says the blaze has burned 23,500 acres and that firefighters have thrown control lines around 33 percent of the fire’s perimeter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big concern today and tonight: much windier weather that will threaten control lines on the fire’s eastern edge. Read on for details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 12:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire’s latest report on its progress against the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a> in Lake County: The fire increased in size by 4,000 acres during the day to 20,500 acres, or 32 square miles. Crews increased containment on the blaze from 6 percent to 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10641603\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10641603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42-400x270.png\" alt=\"Cal Fire's map of the Jerusalem and Rocky fires. Perimeters shown as of early Thursday, Aug. 13. Click for larger image. \" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42-400x270.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-13-07.21.42.png 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire’s map of the Jerusalem and Rocky fires. Perimeters shown as of early Thursday, Aug. 13. Click for larger image.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fire agency also says the force fighting the fire has grown to more than 2,000, including some crews transferred from the adjoining Rocky Fire — which burned nearly 70,000 acres between July 29 and the end of last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progress containing the Jerusalem Fire came as the meteorologist and fire behavior analysts assigned to the incident issued a forecast for critical fire conditions with winds expected to gust as high as 30 mph Thursday afternoon. The forecast warns that the gusty westerly wind, aligned with ridges and canyons in the area, will make it more difficult to stop the fire’s spread on to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds are supposed to be calmer after midnight Thursday with another windy period Friday evening. The next weather challenge for firefighters will come from temperatures that may reach triple digits over the weekend along with critically low relative humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:55 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 12:\u003c/strong> Here’s our semi-daily acreage update from Cal Fire: The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a> has grown to 16,500 acres, or 26 square miles, and is 6 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s latest \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/cdf/images/incidentfile1193_1711.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public fire map\u003c/a>, depicting conditions about 9 p.m. Tuesday, shows the main growth of the fire during the day Tuesday was to the east and northeast, crossing the northwestern border of Yolo County and the extreme northeastern edge of Napa County. While crews managed to more or less hold containment on the north, west and south borders of the fire, the blaze burned across Knoxville-Berryessa Road, which managers had hoped to hold as the eastern edge of the fire. Their new goal is to keep the fire west of Blue Ridge, just west of Highway 16 and the northern end of the Capay Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:55 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11:\u003c/strong> Earlier this evening, Cal Fire updated its estimate of the acreage burned in the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a>, which started in Lake County on Sunday afternoon, to 14,000 — roughly 22 square miles. Containment is 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lower rate of growth — 2,000 acres since early Tuesday — than had been seen on the fire since it broke out. But the agency said it’s facing several big challenges in getting a handle on the blaze, which started just as crews gained the upper hand on the Rocky Fire that had threatened communities at the southeast end of Clear Lake last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says it’s had trouble getting at the blaze due to a lack of roads in the fire zone. And, as with the Rocky Fire, the fire is burning fiercely through areas with a heavy cover of drought-stressed brush. The advance of the fire Tuesday caused crews to pull back from a section one main route into the hills of southeastern Lake County, Morgan Valley Road and prompted local officials to order new evacuations in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage for firefighters Tuesday and Wednesday: Cooler temperatures and higher humidities, especially at night. Warmer, drier weather is expected by the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire now says it has about 1,700 personnel fighting the Jerusalem blaze. Full containment is estimated by next Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire says the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Fire\u003c/a>, burning in Lake County south of the sprawling area scorched last week by the Rocky Fire, doubled in size overnight to 12,000 acres (18.75 square miles). The firefighting agency continues to give a 0 percent containment figure for the fire — though on its northern edge it’s moving toward an area already burned by the Rocky Fire, which should limit its spread in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, now in its third day in the hills northeast of Middletown, threatens about 50 homes. 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