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He said his former school, Mill Valley Middle, was full of shiny new e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In] sixth grade, I remember right after Christmas, there were so many more,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like some adults who customize their cars, many of his middle school peers learned to trick out their e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051116\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An e-bike parked in Mill Valley on July 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I jail-broke my Sur-ron. It’s called ‘mudding’ it,” one of Nussbaum’s friends said, referring to overriding the speed limiter on e-bikes to reach speeds of 40 to 50 mph — far above the legal limit in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another kid, sitting atop an e-dirt bike, told me it’s capable of going 55 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The cops used to not care, but they’re enforcing the law now,” he said. “So I just avoid main roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nussbaum wants an e-bike, too. But his parents, worried about his safety, are reluctant to buy him one. As kids head back to school in the Bay Area, more of them are riding e-bikes, which have become \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-e-bike-market-report\">more accessible\u003c/a> in recent years. But Marin County policymakers have been trying to sound the alarm about one downside to this growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/bicycle-safety\">serious accidents\u003c/a> associated with e-bikes, particularly among 10- to 15-year-olds, have been on the rise for years, so the county began closely tracking the problem in 2023.[aside postID=news_12049286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-947735006-1020x682.jpg']In response, the county has enacted a pilot program that bans anyone under 16 years old from riding Class II e-bikes, which, in California, are classified as having a motor that boosts riders up to speeds of 20 mph and can be operated using a throttle or pedal-assist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids found in violation can expect a $25 ticket. Several school districts in the area have also moved to prohibit kids under 16 from parking Class II e-bikes on school property, implementing registration programs for the bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local police officers will enforce the law as a secondary infraction, meaning children will not be stopped based on their perceived age, according to Talia Smith, the director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot also mandates that anyone, regardless of age, wear a helmet on a Class II e-bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county law, which went into effect in June, applies only to unincorporated areas, copycat ordinances are already in effect in the majority of Marin’s towns, as well. Novato’s ordinance will go into effect on Friday. Ross and San Rafael are expected to have theirs in effect by mid-October, at which point the ban will reach the entire county. Municipalities will only hand out warnings for the first 60 days the law is in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot represents the latest attempt by local governments to regulate e-bikes. The effort has been building at the state level for years, amid concerns about safety risks. However, critics argue that the county law is premature, lacks sufficient data and threatens to hamstring a promising transportation alternative that has been gaining traction around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The crash heard around the county\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic was a boon for the bike industry. Many people, stuck at home and restricted by bans on indoor gatherings, turned to bikes as a way to recreate and socialize safely. Between 2019 and 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/03/electric-bicycles-sales-growth/\">e-bike sales rose 145%\u003c/a> in the United States. E-bikes can be pricier than traditional bikes, with models that cost anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More e-bikes hit the roads, especially in Marin County, where the median household income is $139,643 — 46% higher than the statewide average. Dr. John Maa, a general surgeon at MarinHealth Medical Center, said the rise in e-bike use precipitated two waves of crashes in the county: the first involving mainly people over 50, followed by an increase in injuries among minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young person rides an e-bike through Mill Valley on July 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/bicycle-safety\">county data\u003c/a> on crashes since October 2023, e-bike riders between 10 and 15 years old have had five times the accident rate compared to any other age group on e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One e-bike crash, in particular, galvanized the county to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, 15-year-old Amelia Stafford of San Rafael was riding a Class II e-bike when she fell off, suffering a severe head injury. She spent two months in intensive care units all around the Bay Area, undergoing three brain surgeries to save her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ She was actually the first teenage child that I had personally cared for, and she was clearly the most seriously injured of the children,” said Maa, who stressed that e-bike injuries tend to be more serious than those from a conventional bicycle accident.[aside postID=news_12051292 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-Casual-Carpool-MD-11.jpg']He and Stafford joined forces and helped advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1778\">AB 1778\u003c/a>, authored by North Bay Assemblymember Damon Connolly, which authorized Marin County to enact the E-bike Safety Pilot until Jan. 1, 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I don’t remember anything from my accident or from the first two months I spent in intensive care units. I know my family and friends had doubts I’d ever be back to normal, lift a finger or even survive,” Stafford, testifying before California’s Senate Transportation Committee in May 2024 in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dangerous aspect of some Class II e-bikes is that they can be easily manipulated to go well over the state-mandated 20 mph speed limit, Marin County’s Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There’s even some manufacturers that sell the bikes with a QR code to download an app to change the maximum speed,” the official said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=04-p1ekQJjM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Djailbreak%2Ba%2Bsuper%2B73%26sca_esv%3D5bd00a03620829d0%26rlz%3D1C1GCHA_enUS1144US1144%26ei%3DH1WeaMrbO8fG0PEPupKC&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY\">YouTube videos\u003c/a> that explain how to “jailbreak” some of the e-bikes that many kids are commonly riding across Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is Marin pedaling policy too fast?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Robin Pam, the San Francisco director for Streets For All, a nonprofit advocacy group, is among the critics who opposed AB 1778. She called the pilot “premature” and characterized the county’s data as incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pam said it’s not clear from the county’s data which kind of e-bike is involved in a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any evidence that kids on Class II e-bikes are sustaining injuries at a higher rate than any other group,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kid walks their bike in Mill Valley on Aug. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pam said kids and families need \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051245/deadly-electric-motor-vehicle-collisions-in-san-francisco-prompt-calls-for-regulation\">clear statewide standards rather than patchwork policies\u003c/a> that vary by jurisdiction. California has already commissioned a report, expected in November, which is charged with recommending best practices to promote the safe use of e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is a result of a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB381\">2023 bill\u003c/a> authored by Rep. Dave Min, D-Orange County, that directed the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University to analyze data on injuries, crashes, emergency room visits and deaths related to bicycles and e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asha Weinstein Agrawal, the principal investigator on the study, said some draft findings of the report contradict Marin County’s data: Drawing on a sample of emergency room patients nationwide between 2020 and 2022, e-bike patients were less likely to be children, and more likely to be older than 50, as compared to patients who rode bicycles or scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Agrawal, an analysis of 2023 California hospital patient data found that 4,757 patients were injured in incidents involving e-bikes, but nine times more were injured with conventional bicycles. (Patient-specific information, such as age, is not included in that publicly available data.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ [Worldwide] there’s very poor quality data on even just how many people use bicycles or e-bikes, let alone [whether they are] traveling one mile a week or 30 miles a day,” Agrawal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Asha Weinstein Agrawal stands near her home in Palo Alto on July 31, 2025. She researches e-bike safety and policy as part of her work at San José State University’s Mineta Transportation Institute. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without knowing the number of people who ride conventional bikes or e-bikes in Marin, it’s difficult to ascertain the exact cause for the rise in e-bike crashes, Agrawal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s possible that the number of e-bike injuries has gone up over three years, but there’s been an explosion 20 times greater of people using e-bikes,” she said. “It doesn’t tell us anything about how risky riding an e-bike is to a pedal-bike, comparatively. We just don’t have the data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In defining “rate of accidents,” Marin used the total number of bike accidents per 100,000 people in a given age category, which doesn’t indicate how many of those people use e-bikes specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, 44 children aged 10 to 15 have had an e-bike accident that sent them to the hospital, according to county data. For the 60 and older age group, that number is only slightly lower — at 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County also does not currently list which class of e-bike is involved in a crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child rides an electric moped along the Mill Valley Bike Path in Mill Valley on Aug. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our public health team has started working with first responders this past year, though, to collect e-bike class data, and while there is not enough data to publish yet, they’ve noted the vast majority of 911 accidents involved throttle e-bikes,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agrawal said one way to address the problem would be to modify the e-bike classification system in California from three classes, based on motor speed and operation, to a two-class system, like in some European countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One category would be for e-bikes that are only pedal-assist, and travel at a slower rate of speed — basically, similar to a conventional bicycle. These slower e-bikes would have similar regulations to conventional bicycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other category would be for e-bikes that are operated by a throttle and operate like motorcycles or mopeds. To operate these faster e-bikes, riders would need to follow similar rules, like a minimum age, insurance requirements and a licensing test.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The canary in the coal mine\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Smith admits the issue of children riding souped-up e-bikes, with price tags in the thousands of dollars, is more of a “wealthy, resourced community issue.” She warned, however, that as the technology becomes more widespread and affordable, more local governments could face the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, a rise in e-bike collisions has led Encinitas and Carlsbad in Southern California to declare states of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I just keep calling us the canary in the coal mine,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An electric bicycle sits on display at Tam Bikes in Mill Valley on July 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The E-bike Safety Pilot is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2029. A year before that, Marin County must submit a report to the state Legislature detailing the total number of traffic stops initiated for violations, among other metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parents like Todd Fitzgerald of San Anselmo, the county’s pilot ban means his 14-year-old son, Brooks, is stuck with a bike he can’t ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ He’s pretty bummed,” Fitzgerald said, adding that Brooks saved his own money to purchase the bike, which he used to ride around with his friends or get to lacrosse practice.[aside postID=news_12052424 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20241204-BART-JY-023_qed.jpg']Fitzgerald said he believes whether a bike is appropriate for a child is ultimately up to parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he admits he is surprised by how often he has seen packs of kids doing wheelies in the middle of busy roads in San Anselmo, traveling what he estimates could be 50 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stinks for my kid, because he rides his bike appropriately. But if kids are getting really hurt, something has to be done,” said Fitzgerald, who suggests a licensing test or a training course for youth to ride e-bikes might be an alternative to the countywide ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, Dylan Nussbaum and his family left Marin and moved farther north to Petaluma. His father, Aron, said his son faced a lot of peer pressure to get faster e-bikes. He said he didn’t feel safe putting his 12-year-old on one, despite Dylan’s pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aron Nussbaum hopes that Marin County’s law gets traction and expands to his new home and across the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Now that conversation comes back and we have to deal with it again,” Nussbaum said. “You can just say we’re not going to talk about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County is considered the birthplace of modern mountain biking. He said his former school, Mill Valley Middle, was full of shiny new e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In] sixth grade, I remember right after Christmas, there were so many more,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like some adults who customize their cars, many of his middle school peers learned to trick out their e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051116\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An e-bike parked in Mill Valley on July 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I jail-broke my Sur-ron. It’s called ‘mudding’ it,” one of Nussbaum’s friends said, referring to overriding the speed limiter on e-bikes to reach speeds of 40 to 50 mph — far above the legal limit in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another kid, sitting atop an e-dirt bike, told me it’s capable of going 55 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The cops used to not care, but they’re enforcing the law now,” he said. “So I just avoid main roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nussbaum wants an e-bike, too. But his parents, worried about his safety, are reluctant to buy him one. As kids head back to school in the Bay Area, more of them are riding e-bikes, which have become \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-e-bike-market-report\">more accessible\u003c/a> in recent years. But Marin County policymakers have been trying to sound the alarm about one downside to this growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/bicycle-safety\">serious accidents\u003c/a> associated with e-bikes, particularly among 10- to 15-year-olds, have been on the rise for years, so the county began closely tracking the problem in 2023.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In response, the county has enacted a pilot program that bans anyone under 16 years old from riding Class II e-bikes, which, in California, are classified as having a motor that boosts riders up to speeds of 20 mph and can be operated using a throttle or pedal-assist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids found in violation can expect a $25 ticket. Several school districts in the area have also moved to prohibit kids under 16 from parking Class II e-bikes on school property, implementing registration programs for the bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local police officers will enforce the law as a secondary infraction, meaning children will not be stopped based on their perceived age, according to Talia Smith, the director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot also mandates that anyone, regardless of age, wear a helmet on a Class II e-bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county law, which went into effect in June, applies only to unincorporated areas, copycat ordinances are already in effect in the majority of Marin’s towns, as well. Novato’s ordinance will go into effect on Friday. Ross and San Rafael are expected to have theirs in effect by mid-October, at which point the ban will reach the entire county. Municipalities will only hand out warnings for the first 60 days the law is in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot represents the latest attempt by local governments to regulate e-bikes. The effort has been building at the state level for years, amid concerns about safety risks. However, critics argue that the county law is premature, lacks sufficient data and threatens to hamstring a promising transportation alternative that has been gaining traction around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The crash heard around the county\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic was a boon for the bike industry. Many people, stuck at home and restricted by bans on indoor gatherings, turned to bikes as a way to recreate and socialize safely. Between 2019 and 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/03/electric-bicycles-sales-growth/\">e-bike sales rose 145%\u003c/a> in the United States. E-bikes can be pricier than traditional bikes, with models that cost anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More e-bikes hit the roads, especially in Marin County, where the median household income is $139,643 — 46% higher than the statewide average. Dr. John Maa, a general surgeon at MarinHealth Medical Center, said the rise in e-bike use precipitated two waves of crashes in the county: the first involving mainly people over 50, followed by an increase in injuries among minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young person rides an e-bike through Mill Valley on July 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/bicycle-safety\">county data\u003c/a> on crashes since October 2023, e-bike riders between 10 and 15 years old have had five times the accident rate compared to any other age group on e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One e-bike crash, in particular, galvanized the county to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, 15-year-old Amelia Stafford of San Rafael was riding a Class II e-bike when she fell off, suffering a severe head injury. She spent two months in intensive care units all around the Bay Area, undergoing three brain surgeries to save her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ She was actually the first teenage child that I had personally cared for, and she was clearly the most seriously injured of the children,” said Maa, who stressed that e-bike injuries tend to be more serious than those from a conventional bicycle accident.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He and Stafford joined forces and helped advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1778\">AB 1778\u003c/a>, authored by North Bay Assemblymember Damon Connolly, which authorized Marin County to enact the E-bike Safety Pilot until Jan. 1, 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I don’t remember anything from my accident or from the first two months I spent in intensive care units. I know my family and friends had doubts I’d ever be back to normal, lift a finger or even survive,” Stafford, testifying before California’s Senate Transportation Committee in May 2024 in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dangerous aspect of some Class II e-bikes is that they can be easily manipulated to go well over the state-mandated 20 mph speed limit, Marin County’s Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There’s even some manufacturers that sell the bikes with a QR code to download an app to change the maximum speed,” the official said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=04-p1ekQJjM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Djailbreak%2Ba%2Bsuper%2B73%26sca_esv%3D5bd00a03620829d0%26rlz%3D1C1GCHA_enUS1144US1144%26ei%3DH1WeaMrbO8fG0PEPupKC&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY\">YouTube videos\u003c/a> that explain how to “jailbreak” some of the e-bikes that many kids are commonly riding across Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is Marin pedaling policy too fast?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Robin Pam, the San Francisco director for Streets For All, a nonprofit advocacy group, is among the critics who opposed AB 1778. She called the pilot “premature” and characterized the county’s data as incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pam said it’s not clear from the county’s data which kind of e-bike is involved in a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any evidence that kids on Class II e-bikes are sustaining injuries at a higher rate than any other group,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250803-MARINEBIKES_00326_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kid walks their bike in Mill Valley on Aug. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pam said kids and families need \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051245/deadly-electric-motor-vehicle-collisions-in-san-francisco-prompt-calls-for-regulation\">clear statewide standards rather than patchwork policies\u003c/a> that vary by jurisdiction. California has already commissioned a report, expected in November, which is charged with recommending best practices to promote the safe use of e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is a result of a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB381\">2023 bill\u003c/a> authored by Rep. Dave Min, D-Orange County, that directed the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University to analyze data on injuries, crashes, emergency room visits and deaths related to bicycles and e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asha Weinstein Agrawal, the principal investigator on the study, said some draft findings of the report contradict Marin County’s data: Drawing on a sample of emergency room patients nationwide between 2020 and 2022, e-bike patients were less likely to be children, and more likely to be older than 50, as compared to patients who rode bicycles or scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Agrawal, an analysis of 2023 California hospital patient data found that 4,757 patients were injured in incidents involving e-bikes, but nine times more were injured with conventional bicycles. (Patient-specific information, such as age, is not included in that publicly available data.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ [Worldwide] there’s very poor quality data on even just how many people use bicycles or e-bikes, let alone [whether they are] traveling one mile a week or 30 miles a day,” Agrawal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-MARINEBIKES-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Asha Weinstein Agrawal stands near her home in Palo Alto on July 31, 2025. She researches e-bike safety and policy as part of her work at San José State University’s Mineta Transportation Institute. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without knowing the number of people who ride conventional bikes or e-bikes in Marin, it’s difficult to ascertain the exact cause for the rise in e-bike crashes, Agrawal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s possible that the number of e-bike injuries has gone up over three years, but there’s been an explosion 20 times greater of people using e-bikes,” she said. “It doesn’t tell us anything about how risky riding an e-bike is to a pedal-bike, comparatively. We just don’t have the data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In defining “rate of accidents,” Marin used the total number of bike accidents per 100,000 people in a given age category, which doesn’t indicate how many of those people use e-bikes specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, 44 children aged 10 to 15 have had an e-bike accident that sent them to the hospital, according to county data. For the 60 and older age group, that number is only slightly lower — at 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County also does not currently list which class of e-bike is involved in a crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805-MarinEBikes-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child rides an electric moped along the Mill Valley Bike Path in Mill Valley on Aug. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our public health team has started working with first responders this past year, though, to collect e-bike class data, and while there is not enough data to publish yet, they’ve noted the vast majority of 911 accidents involved throttle e-bikes,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agrawal said one way to address the problem would be to modify the e-bike classification system in California from three classes, based on motor speed and operation, to a two-class system, like in some European countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One category would be for e-bikes that are only pedal-assist, and travel at a slower rate of speed — basically, similar to a conventional bicycle. These slower e-bikes would have similar regulations to conventional bicycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other category would be for e-bikes that are operated by a throttle and operate like motorcycles or mopeds. To operate these faster e-bikes, riders would need to follow similar rules, like a minimum age, insurance requirements and a licensing test.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The canary in the coal mine\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Smith admits the issue of children riding souped-up e-bikes, with price tags in the thousands of dollars, is more of a “wealthy, resourced community issue.” She warned, however, that as the technology becomes more widespread and affordable, more local governments could face the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, a rise in e-bike collisions has led Encinitas and Carlsbad in Southern California to declare states of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I just keep calling us the canary in the coal mine,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250729-MARINEBIKES-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An electric bicycle sits on display at Tam Bikes in Mill Valley on July 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The E-bike Safety Pilot is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2029. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2019, a bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge added more options for cyclists. Now, the fate of the bike lane is a hot button issue as officials decide whether to limit access to weekends only, or keep the lane open seven days a week. Richmondside reporter Joel Umanzor joins us to talk about what’s next for the bridge, and the strong opinions on both sides of the bike lane. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2818777974\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/03/28/richmond-san-rafael-bridge-bike-lane-vote-delayed-again/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cyclists cheer as Richmond-San Rafael bridge bike lane vote is delayed again\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:49] \u003c/em>Joel, how would you describe the role that the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge plays for people living in Richmond?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joel Umanzor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:57] \u003c/em>I would say it’s definitely like a gateway to work. A lot of folks that work on the other side of the bridge in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:03] \u003c/em>Joelle Umanzor is a city reporter for Richmond side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joel Umanzor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:08] \u003c/em>It’s a pretty narrow stretch, and it goes pretty long, from Richmond all the way into San Rafael. It’s definitely one of those stretches that is highly used by not just people in Richmond, I think, but the greater East Bay that needs to get over to Marin County. It’s also one of these places where encroaching up on the bridge, traffic can tend to be congested and spill over into Richmond, whether that be on the Castro exit or the Garrard exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:35] \u003c/em>In 2019, I know a bike path opened on this bridge that’s, as we’ve been describing, is already very sort of narrow. Take us back to when this decision was made. What exactly changed on the bridge and why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joel Umanzor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:52] \u003c/em>So in 2019, the California Metropolitan Transit Commission, as well as the Bay Area Toll Authority and Marin County and Contra Costa County all developed this pilot that would open that bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. They were looking to kind of expand accessibility for folks using alternate modes of transportation, non-cars. It was fairly popular around COVID during the time we were all staying at home, stay at home orders, people wanted to get out a little bit more. There’s been a lot of advocates, whether that be local nonprofits, like Rich City Rides, that have promoted a lot more bicycle usage. Richmond Track, which is the folks who advocate for more bike lanes or improved safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. A lot of these organizations, as well as some local municipalities, were in favor of having this bike trail, in an area that is not necessarily known for its accessibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:04] \u003c/em>This all happened in 2019, the bike lane, but we’re talking about it now because there’s still a really big decision to make, it sounds like, about what to do with this bike lane. Tell us about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joel Umanzor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>Initially when they introduced this, it was a pilot program. It’s on the clock now. It was proposed on the agenda for the Bay Conservation Development Commission, the BCDC, to review and kind of vote on whether this pilot is going to continue or not. The debate currently right now on the bike lane is whether or not to keep it 24-7, as is, to reduce it to just the weekends and keeping the emergency lane open during rush hours and the normal traffic from Monday through Thursday. Or to just scrap it entirely, which is what some of the anti bike lane folks are hoping to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:00] \u003c/em>Who is making this decision?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joel Umanzor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:02] \u003c/em>This commission, the BCDC, is kind of comprised of a lot of different municipalities, elected officials. I know we have a couple council members from Richmond that are on that commission. There’s also those in Marin County who are part of that as well. And so I guess when we say who’s making these decisions, this commission is, but it’s a lot different people and it’s a fairly big group. They had this workshop in January to kind of talk about this. And there were just, it was like a four hour meeting and folks were really kind of invested into like how this directly impacts their communities. 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It was fairly popular around COVID during the time we were all staying at home, stay at home orders, people wanted to get out a little bit more. There’s been a lot of advocates, whether that be local nonprofits, like Rich City Rides, that have promoted a lot more bicycle usage. Richmond Track, which is the folks who advocate for more bike lanes or improved safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. A lot of these organizations, as well as some local municipalities, were in favor of having this bike trail, in an area that is not necessarily known for its accessibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:04] \u003c/em>This all happened in 2019, the bike lane, but we’re talking about it now because there’s still a really big decision to make, it sounds like, about what to do with this bike lane. Tell us about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joel Umanzor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>Initially when they introduced this, it was a pilot program. It’s on the clock now. It was proposed on the agenda for the Bay Conservation Development Commission, the BCDC, to review and kind of vote on whether this pilot is going to continue or not. The debate currently right now on the bike lane is whether or not to keep it 24-7, as is, to reduce it to just the weekends and keeping the emergency lane open during rush hours and the normal traffic from Monday through Thursday. Or to just scrap it entirely, which is what some of the anti bike lane folks are hoping to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:00] \u003c/em>Who is making this decision?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joel Umanzor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:02] \u003c/em>This commission, the BCDC, is kind of comprised of a lot of different municipalities, elected officials. I know we have a couple council members from Richmond that are on that commission. There’s also those in Marin County who are part of that as well. And so I guess when we say who’s making these decisions, this commission is, but it’s a lot different people and it’s a fairly big group. They had this workshop in January to kind of talk about this. And there were just, it was like a four hour meeting and folks were really kind of invested into like how this directly impacts their communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">Marin County\u003c/a> supervisors on Tuesday declared a shelter crisis in an effort to make it easier to build temporary housing for residents in unincorporated parts of the North Bay county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board said the move is especially needed for West Marin ranch and dairy workers, many of whom are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021426/point-reyes-ranching-will-all-but-end-under-new-deal-capping-decades-long-conflict\">poised to be displaced\u003c/a> as the vast majority of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/point-reyes\">Point Reyes\u003c/a> National Seashore’s ranches sunset operations in the next year and a half under a recent settlement. But temporary shelter won’t be enough, some residents say, arguing that new permanent affordable housing will be needed to keep the longstanding community of farmworkers and immigrants in West Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not enough,” said Enrique, who got emotional as he spoke on behalf of the Martinelli Ranch area of Point Reyes Station. He joined workers around the room donning the colors of the United Farm Workers flag during Tuesday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding this temporary housing solutions, I ask you to think of this analogy: What would you do if I were to tell you, ‘Carry this bit of ice and put this bit of ice to the fridge,’” he said. “Do you think that piece of ice will make it [in] the fridge? I ask of you a fair solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Enrique and many other speakers pressed supervisors to consider approving more long-term housing units — a longtime issue in Marin County — it was clear in the board chambers Tuesday that temporary housing is also sorely needed in West Marin. Many residents who have worked and lived on cattle and dairy ranches along the Point Reyes National Seashore for decades could lose that housing in the coming year as the ranching agreement takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These families represent a critical part of West Marin’s workforce, schools and community,” said Agnes Cho, who works for the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin. “If they lose their homes, they have nowhere to go. There is a longer-term need to create more affordable housing in West Marin where working families can live, and [the association] is actively working on this…. But these impacted families need housing in a matter of months, not years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors unanimously approved the crisis declaration as well as a related change to the county code, which expands the types of emergency shelters that can be set up on county-owned and leased land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current building codes require that structures have a permanent foundation, which precludes many “temporary solutions” that are easier to put in place and move, according to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002972 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-04-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Jones, the director of the county’s community development agency, said the change would allow mobile homes and relocatable cabins, such as tiny homes, to act as a “bridge” while the county brings more permanent units online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002972/west-marin-worker-housing-often-substandard-and-faulty-new-report-finds\">report on West Marin’s housing landscape\u003c/a> found at least 384 rental units on ranches are home to both agricultural workers and other community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even months before the settlement deal, which could eliminate some of those dwellings, the report estimated that West Marin needed to build more than 450 new housing units. The study says that upwards of 1,000 would be “more realistic to address the actual demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,090 unhoused people live in Marin County, according to its most recent point-in-time count. While about 300 currently reside in shelters, nearly 800 live on the street or in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelter crisis declaration and the alternate building codes are critical pieces to developing these interim housing solutions,” Cho said during public comment. “These policies will allow [the Community Land Trust Association] and the county to embrace really creative emergency housing solutions, such as using tiny homes on wheels or alternate housing structures, that are safe, quick and cost-efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two worker housing units on a ranch in Tomales, California, on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said that the association had already identified several potential sites for such interim housing, but Tuesday’s declaration was not affiliated with any specific projects. It also doesn’t allocate funding for new temporary homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a room with a combination of despair and hope, and what you’re doing today is actually loading the gun of expectation,” former Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey said during public comment. He said that for the resolution to make a difference, the board would need to incentivize landowners to pursue these temporary projects and also make strides in permanent housing over the next three years.[aside postID=news_12029950 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240502-CaliforniaForever-52-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Jones, the community development agency director, said the county is working on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/departments/cda/housing-and-grants/creating-housing/new-and-upcoming-affordable-housing/point-reyes-coast-guard-affordable-housing-project\">affordable housing development\u003c/a> on a former U.S. Coast Guard site in Point Reyes Station. The site will create 54 housing units for families that qualify as low-income and is expected to be finished in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Marin is also preparing to amend its local coastal program to support new affordable housing along the seashore. That could include changes to allow upzoning, multiple additional dwelling units on a single property, and project streamlining, similar to policy changes made in other unincorporated parts of the county, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones expects the amendment to come before the county planning commission next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll be back here in two years if we don’t find a way to create permanent housing,” Kinsey said during the meeting. “And the opportunities are quite limited in West Marin, so I just want to emphasize how important it is to figure out the next step, even as you’re taking this first one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding this temporary housing solutions, I ask you to think of this analogy: What would you do if I were to tell you, ‘Carry this bit of ice and put this bit of ice to the fridge,’” he said. “Do you think that piece of ice will make it [in] the fridge? I ask of you a fair solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Enrique and many other speakers pressed supervisors to consider approving more long-term housing units — a longtime issue in Marin County — it was clear in the board chambers Tuesday that temporary housing is also sorely needed in West Marin. Many residents who have worked and lived on cattle and dairy ranches along the Point Reyes National Seashore for decades could lose that housing in the coming year as the ranching agreement takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These families represent a critical part of West Marin’s workforce, schools and community,” said Agnes Cho, who works for the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin. “If they lose their homes, they have nowhere to go. There is a longer-term need to create more affordable housing in West Marin where working families can live, and [the association] is actively working on this…. But these impacted families need housing in a matter of months, not years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors unanimously approved the crisis declaration as well as a related change to the county code, which expands the types of emergency shelters that can be set up on county-owned and leased land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current building codes require that structures have a permanent foundation, which precludes many “temporary solutions” that are easier to put in place and move, according to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Jones, the director of the county’s community development agency, said the change would allow mobile homes and relocatable cabins, such as tiny homes, to act as a “bridge” while the county brings more permanent units online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002972/west-marin-worker-housing-often-substandard-and-faulty-new-report-finds\">report on West Marin’s housing landscape\u003c/a> found at least 384 rental units on ranches are home to both agricultural workers and other community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even months before the settlement deal, which could eliminate some of those dwellings, the report estimated that West Marin needed to build more than 450 new housing units. The study says that upwards of 1,000 would be “more realistic to address the actual demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,090 unhoused people live in Marin County, according to its most recent point-in-time count. While about 300 currently reside in shelters, nearly 800 live on the street or in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelter crisis declaration and the alternate building codes are critical pieces to developing these interim housing solutions,” Cho said during public comment. “These policies will allow [the Community Land Trust Association] and the county to embrace really creative emergency housing solutions, such as using tiny homes on wheels or alternate housing structures, that are safe, quick and cost-efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-Marin-Substandard-Ag-Worker-Housing-MD-16_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two worker housing units on a ranch in Tomales, California, on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said that the association had already identified several potential sites for such interim housing, but Tuesday’s declaration was not affiliated with any specific projects. It also doesn’t allocate funding for new temporary homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a room with a combination of despair and hope, and what you’re doing today is actually loading the gun of expectation,” former Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey said during public comment. He said that for the resolution to make a difference, the board would need to incentivize landowners to pursue these temporary projects and also make strides in permanent housing over the next three years.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Is bird flu the cause?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2783029169&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:31] I wanna thank all the people who filled in on the show throughout the month. That’s Cecilia Lei, Katrina Schwartz, Dana Cronin, Alex Gonzalez, and Tessa Paoli. If that feels like a long list of people filling in, it’s because both myself and Erica have been out for a good amount of the month. So thanks to all those folks for filling in and thank you both Mel and Jessica for holding it down. Okay, well, let’s jump into the news roundup. Let’s talk about some. stories that we’ve all been following. Actually, Mel, let’s start with you. What do you got for us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] I have this story that was originally reported by KQED reporter Katie DeBenedetti. And last week, the Trump administration signed an executive order to dramatically cut federal agencies, including the Presidio Trust. That would mean that that land, the park, would no longer be public land and could be up for grabs to be developed by private companies. and they’re even asking for the $200 million given to the park through the Inflation Reduction Act back. It’s really devastating. It’s the first park I ever visited in San Francisco as a kid, and that was like stunning. And I was like, one day I’m gonna live in San Francisco. So that was kind of like my first kind of my source of love for the city. All around, this is just pretty shocking news to most San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:04] Obviously the Presidio is beloved. I mean, I used to live nearby. What are people worried could happen to the Presidio now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:02:13] Yeah, so not only do people like really love this park, but they’re also worried that it could turn into a land grab for real estate developers to build city developments on. And this isn’t the first time that the Bayside has been like considered for more urban development. There is this idea for a city called Marincello in the Marin Headlands, and it was proposed in the 1960s. It was supposed to be a bustling city with 30 ,000 residents and tons of new developments. And the Marin County Board of Supervisors actually approved it, but the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was then established as a result of all the legal battles of environmental activists and environmental groups coming in and trying to push back against this proposed Maroncello. So then it just didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:15] So there’s this history of attempts to develop on this public land. Are there current plans to build stuff in this area? Are there people saying, Hey, if you get rid of the Presidio Trust, I would love to build something here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:03:32] Well, actually, Trump proposed an idea for this concept called freedom cities. It would be like 10 different cities built on federal land. I think this was just mentioned during his campaign, but there’s this guy, the founder of Charter Cities Institute, which pretty much advocates for new independent cities with like different… methods of governing. It’s a little vague, but that’s what I’ve found on it. His name is Mark Lutter, and he actually was urging Trump on X to start developing a freedom city in the Presidio, but it’s not anything that’s actually happening right now. It’s just being talked about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] Yeah, I mean, it’s interesting, you know, we’ve obviously seen a slew of executive orders. We’ve also seen pushback in the courts. We’ve seen things walked back. With the Presidio, do you think that, you know, this could actually happen? Like, do you think that, you know, it could dramatically change from being this like public park to something private or are there other, you know, mechanisms or laws in place that are protecting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:04:52] So because it’s such a beloved piece of land, like, this would take a really long time to happen and is unlikely that this will happen because of something passed in 1996 called the Presidio Trust Act, which incorporates the Presidio land into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which protects it from being developed, which includes that a previous proposed Marincello area, which is the Marin Headlands, or what we know to be the Marin Headlands. So the Presidio is a part of that, and it would be very hard to work around that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] Well, Mel, I appreciate you bringing this story to us and kind of like a history behind, you know, the sort of big headline grabby story about the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Of course, thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:52] We’re going to take a break. When we come back, we’ll talk about a fast track, scam texts, and where did the Falcons go in Berkeley? Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] And you’re listening to The Bay. I’m Alan Montesilio in for Erika Cruz Guevara. And this is our news roundup for the month of February. I’m here with intern Mel Velasquez and producer Jessica Carissa. And next up, we have a story that I’ve been following. FasTrak scam texts appear to be on the rise. I don’t know, have either of you gotten a text from a number saying, Hey, you didn’t pay your FasTrak bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:06:38] Oh, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:06:39] Literally, literally all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:42] Yeah, I mean, apparently they are increasing. They’re getting more aggressive and more sophisticated even. I mean, I got one about three weeks ago. It was from a number in the Philippines. So I could, you know, kind of tell that it was not. to tell that it was not. Not legit, but it does say, you know, pay your fast track lane tolls by February 1st to avoid a fine and your license you can pay at, and then there’s a URL. So more and more of these, I think, attempted scams in general, but fast track in particular seems to be on the rise lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] You know, I’ve noticed that I’ve gotten a lot of these texts. So how can you tell that this is a scam text?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] Well, currently there’s a few telltale signs. Um, one is, is oftentimes the phone number is, you know, from another country. A lot of times these messages will provide a URL to a website. Oftentimes those, that website URL will have like a series of numbers and letters. It’ll look kind of weird. Sometimes they’ll even try to imitate the URL of, you know, fast track or whatever the transit authorities try, you know, is in the region. The most recent ones I’ve gotten too, and not even just for fast track for, for texts I’ve gotten pretending to be the post office, they’ll say, please reply why then copy this link into your browser and activate it. So some of those signs are definitely there. One thing that folks have noticed recently is that the spelling in these texts has gotten much better. There are fewer mistakes. You know, usually you can tell if, if like the spelling is way off or the grammar is way off. This is probably not coming from, you know, Fast Track, but that’s gotten better. And the messaging has gotten more aggressive saying like, hey, if you don’t pay, you’re gonna lose your license. Hey, if you don’t pay, you know, you’re gonna pay a fine. But those are some of the signs, right? FasTrak has said, they will never ask you to pay over text. In fact, the only text I’ve ever gotten related to Fast Track come from 86557 and they’re only about when I’m trying to reset my online account. If it does happen to you, FasTrak says call your bank, call your credit card company. We know that law enforcement is obviously aware of this. And in fact, a spokesperson with Rob Bonta’s office, the attorney general said, don’t click on these, but they also couldn’t confirm or deny the existence of an investigation. So maybe they’re checking it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:09:07] Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten those scams before And it always freaks me out because I’m always dipping into the fast track lane I guess how do we even know that they’re increasing? I guess it’s only been anecdotal for me, but is there a way to actually report this stuff or track it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] I mean, data is a little hard, right? I mean, I just told you about a message I got. I did not report that to some agency. John Goodwin with Metropolitan Planning Commission, that’s the agency that handles transit, planning for regional projects. They also run the Bay Area seven bridges. He told the San Francisco Chronicle a few days ago that it’s been about nonstop for almost a year. There were also about 2000 reports to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center in about a two month span last year. So, you know, it is hard to, this is also a national thing. It’s not just a Bay area thing, right? In many states across the country, this is happening. So it is a little tough, but even just like having this conversation and even just in my own life, I’m noticing that I’m getting more of it. So, hard to be, you know, hard to put an exact number on it. But this is kind of, you know, I think just one of the features of our, you know, technological existence that we can get pinged by all these texts that say, you didn’t pay your bill. Have you ever like fallen for one of these or have you had to like help a relative sort of navigate this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] I haven’t, but I know that my grandpa has unfortunately fallen for one of those internet security scams. For people who didn’t grow up with the technology, it can be really scary to receive a message like that, especially threatening ones being like, you owe this much money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:52] Yeah. Stay vigilant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:10:54] Stay vigilant. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Okay, and for our last story for the roundup, we have producer Jessica Kariisa. Jessica, what do you got?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:06] Yeah, so there’s two Peregrine Falcons who live on top of the Bell Tower at UC Berkeley. Their names are Annie and Archie. And [2.1s] they haven’t been seen since January. I first saw this reported in Berkleyside, but quite a few other news outlets have picked it up at this point because it’s a big deal. They’re a big part of the campus community and they’re missing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Maybe remind folks maybe who don’t live in Berkeley, who don’t walk through UC Berkeley, who are these Peregrine Falcons and why do they mean so much to people who live nearby?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Annie has been there since 2016. [00:11:48]She’s had different partners over the years. Archie is her latest partner. [3.7s] And they’re just a really beloved part of the community. First of all, they’re peregrine falcons, which I learned are some of the fastest animals in the world. They can go over 200 miles per hour when they die. Um, you know, they’re just like amazing birds and you know, they’ve built a huge following over the years. [00:12:11]There’s a 24 hour webcam. [0.8s] There’s a dedicated website for them. They have an Instagram page with over 18,000 followers. Um, they’ve been part of the community for so long and, uh, people really care about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:26] Do we know anything about why they’re missing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:29] We don’t have a clear definitive answer. [00:12:34]You know, there’s a 24 -hour webcam [1.2s] on their nesting site and a few other perches that they like to hang out at on the bell tower. But unfortunately, the big elephant in the room is definitely bird flu. You know, bird flu has devastated, you know, avian communities all around the country, all around the Bay Area especially, you know, Newsom instituted a state of emergency towards the end of last year around bird flu. 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And the Marin County Board of Supervisors actually approved it, but the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was then established as a result of all the legal battles of environmental activists and environmental groups coming in and trying to push back against this proposed Maroncello. So then it just didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:15] So there’s this history of attempts to develop on this public land. Are there current plans to build stuff in this area? Are there people saying, Hey, if you get rid of the Presidio Trust, I would love to build something here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:03:32] Well, actually, Trump proposed an idea for this concept called freedom cities. It would be like 10 different cities built on federal land. I think this was just mentioned during his campaign, but there’s this guy, the founder of Charter Cities Institute, which pretty much advocates for new independent cities with like different… methods of governing. It’s a little vague, but that’s what I’ve found on it. His name is Mark Lutter, and he actually was urging Trump on X to start developing a freedom city in the Presidio, but it’s not anything that’s actually happening right now. It’s just being talked about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] Yeah, I mean, it’s interesting, you know, we’ve obviously seen a slew of executive orders. We’ve also seen pushback in the courts. We’ve seen things walked back. With the Presidio, do you think that, you know, this could actually happen? Like, do you think that, you know, it could dramatically change from being this like public park to something private or are there other, you know, mechanisms or laws in place that are protecting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:04:52] So because it’s such a beloved piece of land, like, this would take a really long time to happen and is unlikely that this will happen because of something passed in 1996 called the Presidio Trust Act, which incorporates the Presidio land into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which protects it from being developed, which includes that a previous proposed Marincello area, which is the Marin Headlands, or what we know to be the Marin Headlands. So the Presidio is a part of that, and it would be very hard to work around that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] Well, Mel, I appreciate you bringing this story to us and kind of like a history behind, you know, the sort of big headline grabby story about the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Of course, thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:52] We’re going to take a break. When we come back, we’ll talk about a fast track, scam texts, and where did the Falcons go in Berkeley? Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] And you’re listening to The Bay. I’m Alan Montesilio in for Erika Cruz Guevara. And this is our news roundup for the month of February. I’m here with intern Mel Velasquez and producer Jessica Carissa. And next up, we have a story that I’ve been following. FasTrak scam texts appear to be on the rise. I don’t know, have either of you gotten a text from a number saying, Hey, you didn’t pay your FasTrak bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:06:38] Oh, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:06:39] Literally, literally all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:42] Yeah, I mean, apparently they are increasing. They’re getting more aggressive and more sophisticated even. I mean, I got one about three weeks ago. It was from a number in the Philippines. So I could, you know, kind of tell that it was not. to tell that it was not. Not legit, but it does say, you know, pay your fast track lane tolls by February 1st to avoid a fine and your license you can pay at, and then there’s a URL. So more and more of these, I think, attempted scams in general, but fast track in particular seems to be on the rise lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] You know, I’ve noticed that I’ve gotten a lot of these texts. So how can you tell that this is a scam text?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:20] Well, currently there’s a few telltale signs. Um, one is, is oftentimes the phone number is, you know, from another country. A lot of times these messages will provide a URL to a website. Oftentimes those, that website URL will have like a series of numbers and letters. It’ll look kind of weird. Sometimes they’ll even try to imitate the URL of, you know, fast track or whatever the transit authorities try, you know, is in the region. The most recent ones I’ve gotten too, and not even just for fast track for, for texts I’ve gotten pretending to be the post office, they’ll say, please reply why then copy this link into your browser and activate it. So some of those signs are definitely there. One thing that folks have noticed recently is that the spelling in these texts has gotten much better. There are fewer mistakes. You know, usually you can tell if, if like the spelling is way off or the grammar is way off. This is probably not coming from, you know, Fast Track, but that’s gotten better. And the messaging has gotten more aggressive saying like, hey, if you don’t pay, you’re gonna lose your license. Hey, if you don’t pay, you know, you’re gonna pay a fine. But those are some of the signs, right? FasTrak has said, they will never ask you to pay over text. In fact, the only text I’ve ever gotten related to Fast Track come from 86557 and they’re only about when I’m trying to reset my online account. If it does happen to you, FasTrak says call your bank, call your credit card company. We know that law enforcement is obviously aware of this. And in fact, a spokesperson with Rob Bonta’s office, the attorney general said, don’t click on these, but they also couldn’t confirm or deny the existence of an investigation. So maybe they’re checking it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:09:07] Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten those scams before And it always freaks me out because I’m always dipping into the fast track lane I guess how do we even know that they’re increasing? I guess it’s only been anecdotal for me, but is there a way to actually report this stuff or track it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] I mean, data is a little hard, right? I mean, I just told you about a message I got. I did not report that to some agency. John Goodwin with Metropolitan Planning Commission, that’s the agency that handles transit, planning for regional projects. They also run the Bay Area seven bridges. He told the San Francisco Chronicle a few days ago that it’s been about nonstop for almost a year. There were also about 2000 reports to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center in about a two month span last year. So, you know, it is hard to, this is also a national thing. It’s not just a Bay area thing, right? In many states across the country, this is happening. So it is a little tough, but even just like having this conversation and even just in my own life, I’m noticing that I’m getting more of it. So, hard to be, you know, hard to put an exact number on it. But this is kind of, you know, I think just one of the features of our, you know, technological existence that we can get pinged by all these texts that say, you didn’t pay your bill. Have you ever like fallen for one of these or have you had to like help a relative sort of navigate this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] I haven’t, but I know that my grandpa has unfortunately fallen for one of those internet security scams. For people who didn’t grow up with the technology, it can be really scary to receive a message like that, especially threatening ones being like, you owe this much money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:52] Yeah. Stay vigilant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Mel Velasquez \u003c/strong>[00:10:54] Stay vigilant. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Okay, and for our last story for the roundup, we have producer Jessica Kariisa. Jessica, what do you got?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:06] Yeah, so there’s two Peregrine Falcons who live on top of the Bell Tower at UC Berkeley. Their names are Annie and Archie. And [2.1s] they haven’t been seen since January. I first saw this reported in Berkleyside, but quite a few other news outlets have picked it up at this point because it’s a big deal. They’re a big part of the campus community and they’re missing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Maybe remind folks maybe who don’t live in Berkeley, who don’t walk through UC Berkeley, who are these Peregrine Falcons and why do they mean so much to people who live nearby?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Annie has been there since 2016. [00:11:48]She’s had different partners over the years. Archie is her latest partner. [3.7s] And they’re just a really beloved part of the community. First of all, they’re peregrine falcons, which I learned are some of the fastest animals in the world. They can go over 200 miles per hour when they die. Um, you know, they’re just like amazing birds and you know, they’ve built a huge following over the years. [00:12:11]There’s a 24 hour webcam. [0.8s] There’s a dedicated website for them. They have an Instagram page with over 18,000 followers. Um, they’ve been part of the community for so long and, uh, people really care about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:26] Do we know anything about why they’re missing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:29] We don’t have a clear definitive answer. [00:12:34]You know, there’s a 24 -hour webcam [1.2s] on their nesting site and a few other perches that they like to hang out at on the bell tower. But unfortunately, the big elephant in the room is definitely bird flu. You know, bird flu has devastated, you know, avian communities all around the country, all around the Bay Area especially, you know, Newsom instituted a state of emergency towards the end of last year around bird flu. So the longer that they go missing, it seems like that might be the culprit, but they also haven’t found them and it is possible that they could come back, but the longer the time goes, the less likely it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] So they’re obviously beloved figures in Berkeley, but have they gone missing before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:26] They have gone missing before. In fact, they’ve even, Berkeley’s even written an obituary before for Annie when she was gone for about a week. It’s not uncommon for them to go on hunting trips, sometimes really extended hunting trips, and there’s still the possibility that that’s what this could be. But you know, it is quite long, and I don’t think that they’ve been gone this long before. So, you know, people are getting a little bit worried. They haven’t. made any definitive statements yet about what happened to them. But yeah, we’ll just have to wait and see. Thoughts and prayers for the birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:03] Yeah, come home Archie and Annie or just be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Low-wage Latino workers who reside in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">Marin County\u003c/a>’s western region often live in substandard rentals with mold, mice and other serious problems because they have no other affordable options, according to a report released Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmhousingsolutions.org/\">study\u003c/a> on the West Marin housing landscape, which was funded by the county and philanthropic organizations, offers a glimpse into the living conditions of the population, relegated to a largely underground rental market that powers the agriculture and tourism industries in the bucolic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 80% of the study’s participants lived in units with several major health and safety violations, according to interviews with dozens of Latino workers, representing the experience of more than 280 adults and children. The conditions, ranging from non-functioning toilets to holes in the walls and leaky ceilings, were particularly acute at housing on ranches, where most of the respondents resided, according to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine Bravo, who lived as a child in local ranches where her father worked, remembers the smell of mold, which can be toxic, in the shower and while falling asleep. Rats scratched the walls. She hopes the findings stir the local community and county to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been aware of these conditions for so many years and have just looked away or have wanted to help, but nothing has come out of it,” said Bravo, 29, who was an interviewer for the report. “This survey is putting facts on paper. You cannot look away any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Bravo in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the report titled \u003cem>Growing Together: Advancing Housing Solutions for Workers in West Marin\u003c/em>, the area needs a bare minimum of 460 additional units of quality housing but likely closer to 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of decent housing for agricultural and other lower-income workers and their families is threatening the survival of local farms, restaurants and other businesses, according to employers surveyed for the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the land in West Marin, spanning from Stinson Beach in the south to Tomales in the north, is protected from development and dedicated to parks or agriculture. Restrictive land use policies, limited infrastructure for water and septic systems and community resistance to new developments have made housing scarce and very expensive, researchers concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Latino households in the rural area rent their homes. Researchers found that many long-term rentals are unpermitted, old and often mobile homes or conversions of buildings not designed for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranches are a top provider of affordable housing in West Marin. Most of the surveyed dairy and cattle workers lived in employer-provided housing. Other ranches have closed agricultural operations but continue to offer rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the 68 Latino workers who participated in the in-depth interviews had one or more household members working in agriculture, including oyster and vegetable farms. The rest had jobs in fields such as food service, landscaping and housekeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many reported reluctance to request repairs because they feared losing the only housing they could afford near their jobs. Half of the participants were undocumented immigrants, even though all reported living in the United States for 20 years on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Bravo’s case, rent for her family of six was taken out of her father’s paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s another reason a lot of these people don’t feel like they have the right to say something because it’s tied to their employment, and they fear losing their employment if they speak up about these conditions in their homes,” said Bravo, who became a community advocate with the Bolinas Community Land Trust and is pushing for fair and secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003104\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Coast Guard housing that CLAM, the Community Land Trust of West Marin, aims to turn into affordable housing in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the county found dozens of Latino families living with \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/10/21/bolinas-rv-camp-proposed-for-emergency-housing/?clearUserState=true\">raw sewage on the ground\u003c/a> and using water through garden hoses in unpermitted mobile homes at a Bolinas ranch. The property, which was cited about 30 years ago for unsanitary living conditions, now hosts a temporary recreational vehicle park secured by the Bolinas Community Land Trust while it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/marin-bolinas-housing-workers-19717600.php\">attempts to build\u003c/a> permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its natural coastal beauty and uninhabited open space, West Marin draws millions of visitors each year and most likely don’t see where the people shucking oysters, milking cows or making organic cheese live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more workers in West Marin commute from Sonoma and East Bay counties, local employers face increased competition from other businesses that are also recruiting for jobs, according to the researchers, who surveyed a total of 150 workers and 17 agricultural employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Hicks closes a gate to a pasture where goats are grazing on her ranch in Tomales on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tamara Hicks, co-owner of Toluma Farms & Tomales Farmstead Creamery, bought permitted Airstream and Park Model trailers to house four of her 10 employees at the 160-acre property. They share a kitchen with all the amenities in a separate building. But that’s not a long-term solution, she said. She expects her workers, currently single and in their 20s, to move on to have families and better housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest rate-limiting factor of maintaining great people is the housing by far. And so, I’ve lost most of our really fantastic people to Vermont, to Maine, to Arizona,” said Hicks, who has owned the certified-organic goat and sheep farm with her husband for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said many farms and ranches in the region are more than a century old. Some landowners now fear that trying to fix or build units could lead to inspections that open the door to costly penalties due to other code violations, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a good, streamlined, affordable, fast, easy way for people to either rehab existing housing or build new housing,” Hicks, 56, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband have plans that were drawn a decade ago to build a couple of units for workers on their land. But the biggest obstacles have been permits and the money to do it, Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Hicks’ home on her ranch in Tomales on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study makes several recommendations to counteract what authors call decades of inaction limiting affordable housing. They include, among other things, proposed reforms to zoning and permitting and a code amnesty and financial assistance for landowners who want to improve housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish there was one solution. I’d say housing is a team sport,” said Cassandra Benjamin, who led the study and is interim director of housing at the Marin Community Foundation. “The way to solve this is through everybody flexing and doing more than they’re doing now — from the county to the local foundations, to the nonprofits, to businesses, to residents. So everybody has to be in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002081 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/014_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends that foundations invest in strengthening Latino organizing and advocacy so that agricultural workers and other residents can participate in housing solutions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine Bravo, who lived as a child in local ranches where her father worked, remembers the smell of mold, which can be toxic, in the shower and while falling asleep. Rats scratched the walls. She hopes the findings stir the local community and county to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been aware of these conditions for so many years and have just looked away or have wanted to help, but nothing has come out of it,” said Bravo, 29, who was an interviewer for the report. “This survey is putting facts on paper. You cannot look away any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Bravo in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the report titled \u003cem>Growing Together: Advancing Housing Solutions for Workers in West Marin\u003c/em>, the area needs a bare minimum of 460 additional units of quality housing but likely closer to 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of decent housing for agricultural and other lower-income workers and their families is threatening the survival of local farms, restaurants and other businesses, according to employers surveyed for the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the land in West Marin, spanning from Stinson Beach in the south to Tomales in the north, is protected from development and dedicated to parks or agriculture. Restrictive land use policies, limited infrastructure for water and septic systems and community resistance to new developments have made housing scarce and very expensive, researchers concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Latino households in the rural area rent their homes. Researchers found that many long-term rentals are unpermitted, old and often mobile homes or conversions of buildings not designed for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranches are a top provider of affordable housing in West Marin. Most of the surveyed dairy and cattle workers lived in employer-provided housing. Other ranches have closed agricultural operations but continue to offer rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the 68 Latino workers who participated in the in-depth interviews had one or more household members working in agriculture, including oyster and vegetable farms. The rest had jobs in fields such as food service, landscaping and housekeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many reported reluctance to request repairs because they feared losing the only housing they could afford near their jobs. Half of the participants were undocumented immigrants, even though all reported living in the United States for 20 years on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Bravo’s case, rent for her family of six was taken out of her father’s paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s another reason a lot of these people don’t feel like they have the right to say something because it’s tied to their employment, and they fear losing their employment if they speak up about these conditions in their homes,” said Bravo, who became a community advocate with the Bolinas Community Land Trust and is pushing for fair and secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003104\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Coast Guard housing that CLAM, the Community Land Trust of West Marin, aims to turn into affordable housing in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the county found dozens of Latino families living with \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/10/21/bolinas-rv-camp-proposed-for-emergency-housing/?clearUserState=true\">raw sewage on the ground\u003c/a> and using water through garden hoses in unpermitted mobile homes at a Bolinas ranch. The property, which was cited about 30 years ago for unsanitary living conditions, now hosts a temporary recreational vehicle park secured by the Bolinas Community Land Trust while it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/marin-bolinas-housing-workers-19717600.php\">attempts to build\u003c/a> permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its natural coastal beauty and uninhabited open space, West Marin draws millions of visitors each year and most likely don’t see where the people shucking oysters, milking cows or making organic cheese live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more workers in West Marin commute from Sonoma and East Bay counties, local employers face increased competition from other businesses that are also recruiting for jobs, according to the researchers, who surveyed a total of 150 workers and 17 agricultural employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Hicks closes a gate to a pasture where goats are grazing on her ranch in Tomales on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tamara Hicks, co-owner of Toluma Farms & Tomales Farmstead Creamery, bought permitted Airstream and Park Model trailers to house four of her 10 employees at the 160-acre property. They share a kitchen with all the amenities in a separate building. But that’s not a long-term solution, she said. She expects her workers, currently single and in their 20s, to move on to have families and better housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest rate-limiting factor of maintaining great people is the housing by far. And so, I’ve lost most of our really fantastic people to Vermont, to Maine, to Arizona,” said Hicks, who has owned the certified-organic goat and sheep farm with her husband for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said many farms and ranches in the region are more than a century old. Some landowners now fear that trying to fix or build units could lead to inspections that open the door to costly penalties due to other code violations, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a good, streamlined, affordable, fast, easy way for people to either rehab existing housing or build new housing,” Hicks, 56, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband have plans that were drawn a decade ago to build a couple of units for workers on their land. 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In recent decades, agencies across the state have started to address common barriers for underrepresented communities, including the time and cost of training to qualify for many full-time job openings.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lupe Duran\"]‘It was a feeling of wanting to do more, wanting to actually help and give back to the community.’[/pullquote]But for Duran, what got him on his way was a comprehensive workforce development program that seeks to diversify the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.firefoundry.org/about-fire-foundry\">FIRE Foundry\u003c/a>, a nonprofit collaboration of the Marin County Fire Department and local organizations and universities, offers free educational services and support aimed at propelling women and people of color into sustainable careers in the fire service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants get a paid job in fire prevention with the county, so they can afford to fully engage in the one-year program, which covers the cost of fire academy prerequisite classes, counseling services, housing at fire stations, hands-on skills training, mentorship and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’ll see that it’s like the perfect job’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Duran and about a dozen other FIRE Foundry recruits participated in a mock rescue training in a forested area near Mount Tamalpais. Wearing firefighting uniforms, the team practiced how to use ropes and carabiners to help pull hikers who fall into ravines back to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recruits took turns rappelling off a vertical drop about 50 feet high, while connected to a rope system they had set up around a redwood tree. Once at the bottom, they helped a colleague playing the “victim” start the tough climb up the rocky wall, while the rest of the team pulled on the rope from the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that, by showing them all the aspects of what we do in fire service, be it rope rescue or wildland fires, they’ll see that it’s like the perfect job,” said Marin County Fire Captain Rick Wonneberger, one of the instructors supervising the training. “The FIRE Foundry program gives people who may never have considered a career in public safety, who never had a direct \u003cem>in \u003c/em>with it, a way to get their feet wet, see if they really like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949933\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino trainee smiles as he works the rope controls with a female trainee looking on and smiling in a forest setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Duran holds the rope that connects the rescuer and rescuee to the team pulling them over a small cliff during a FIRE Foundry rope rescue training in Marin on April 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the calls U.S. fire departments get are not about fires, but about medical emergencies. Medical aid comprised more than 70% of those emergency calls in 2021, while actual fires were just 4%, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/Emergency-Responders/Fire-department-calls\">National Fire Protection Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, many job openings in the field are for firefighter paramedics or emergency medical technicians (EMTs). The expense and years it can take to get certified are prohibitive for candidates with lower incomes and less time to spend training and studying, such as caretakers of young children — often women — or those already working full-time in other occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the profession has a strong family tradition — children and other relatives of firefighters apply with a leg up on cultural knowledge, plus valuable information on how to pass tests and requirements, according to experts on diversity in the fire service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those on the outside, the process can look intimidating and unfamiliar. This helps explain why a profession that historically has been mostly white and male has largely stayed that way: Nearly all the 307,000 firefighters in the country are men, and about 85% identify as white, according to the most recent \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">estimates\u003c/a> by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency does not publish demographic information about the occupation at the state level. While a number of statistics point to a more racially and ethnically diverse firefighting workforce in California, diversity experts said fire departments have more work to do to better reflect the communities they are sworn to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve made some progress, but we have such a long way to go,” said Reginald Freeman, with the International Association of Fire Chiefs. He added that he became a champion for diversity, inclusion and belonging after experiencing intense mistreatment as an African American while at his first firefighter job in Mississippi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64877_046_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man and a Latino man wearing fire gear and helmets with goggles smile at the camera in the woods with a rope running behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64877_046_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64877_046_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64877_046_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64877_046_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64877_046_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Field Supervisor Darrell Galli and Lupe Duran pose for a portrait during a FIRE Foundry rope rescue training in Marin on April 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman stuck it out. And a challenge throughout his more than 22 years of service, he said, has been the erroneous notion among fire ranks that they must compromise quality in pursuit of candidates from different backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s malarkey. You can have a great diverse applicant pool and not ‘lower your standards,’ to join the profession,” said Freeman, the fire chief in Oakland, who is set to retire next month. “What we are trying to do is increase the standard of equity, social justice, and rightful access to these great jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Increasing diversity in California’s firefighting workforce\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, where white and Latino workers comprise similar proportions of the labor force at about 40% each, white firefighters continue to be overrepresented while less than a third are Latino, according to U.S. Census estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, nearly 64% of the state’s firefighters identified as white. Other groups, such as Asians and women, together totaled less than 7% of the firefighting workforce.[aside postID=science_1980766 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/11/RS58620_002_KQED_FireFoundryMarin_09152022-sfi-2.jpeg']Mirroring the state’s population, larger agencies in cities tend to be more diverse, compared to smaller ones located in rural or suburban areas. People of color represent slightly more than half of the firefighting personnel in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Then again, both of those agencies were forced to diversify decades ago under court consent decrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Marin County Fire Department, which launched the FIRE Foundry program last year, more than 80% of firefighters identify as white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More departments are now proactively trying to recruit in communities that historically haven’t considered the fire service as an occupation, said Yvonne de la Peña, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caljac.org/\">California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee\u003c/a>, which offers financial aid for education and help connecting with jobs at more than 190 agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen as many fire departments so interested in trying to reach out to a diverse group of candidates,” said de la Peña, who has worked 37 years for the employment training program. “They recognize that diverse individuals really enhance what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64871_031_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of trainees wearing firefighting gear hold a rope as they stand in line behind each other, all but one wearing yellow helmets and goggles, trainees are male and female of different ethnicities.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64871_031_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64871_031_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64871_031_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64871_031_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64871_031_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Alfredo Campos, Lupe Duran, Rafael Sanchez and FIRE Foundry students train in rope rescue during a class in Marin on April 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Fire Captain Wonneberger, diversifying his department will help better serve people in need, including a growing Latino population in the county, and visitors from around the world who flock to local state parks and recreation areas. For him, diversity means cultural competency as well as language proficiency on his team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my engine currently they are all English speakers. Some of us can speak a little bit of Spanish,” said Wonneberger. “But how much better would it be if I truly was fluent? How much that person would feel truly at ease?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Program’s future uncertain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of the 18 recruits who graduated from the FIRE Foundry its first year — most of them women and people of color — some have gone on to accept seasonal positions with Cal Fire, the Marin County Fire Department and agencies outside the state, said Mimi Choudhury, who coordinates the program.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Yvonne de la Peña, executive director, California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee\"]‘I’ve never seen as many fire departments so interested in trying to reach out to a diverse group of candidates. They recognize that diverse individuals really enhance what they do.’[/pullquote]But even with that success and a promising 2023 class, the program’s future is in question without long-term funding to continue its wraparound services and support. The FIRE Foundry is partially funded through a California Volunteers state grant, as well as private donations, said Thomas Azwell, a UC Berkeley professor who co-founded the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those grants are going to run out. They all have an expiration date,” said Azwell, who guides recruits to test and research fire technology innovations through the university’s \u003ca href=\"https://disasterlab.berkeley.edu/\">Disaster Lab\u003c/a>. “I believe that we’ve created an effective model, and if it has the funding that it needs, it could be replicated across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Lupe Duran worries others won’t get the chance he got when he found the FIRE Foundry by chance, through an advertisement he saw while reading the news, and applied. Getting a paid job in fuel reduction, while he focuses on getting certified as an EMT and taking care of other requirements, has been a game changer for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also values the opportunity to learn directly from professional firefighters, who expose him to the profession’s culture and demystify the process to get into and succeed in the field, Duran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64874_036_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino man with a blue tshirt with a FIRE Foundry logo smiles as he looks away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64874_036_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64874_036_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64874_036_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64874_036_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64874_036_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Duran poses for a portrait during a FIRE Foundry rope rescue training in Marin on April 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The fire captains you meet, the battalion chiefs you meet, you can’t really get that exposure just walking in off the street, unless you know somebody who’s in the fire department, which really makes a difference,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran, the first in his family to attend college, is now set to graduate with an associate degree in fire technology. He recently got a job with the Marin County Fire Department, as a wildfire defensible space inspector. And he believes he is now on a path to achieve his dream of working as a firefighter paramedic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very exciting. I mean, it’s all I’ve wanted for the past six years,” said Duran. “It took some time, but it’s paying off now. And the FIRE Foundry helped a lot. It’s a great push forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But for Duran, what got him on his way was a comprehensive workforce development program that seeks to diversify the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.firefoundry.org/about-fire-foundry\">FIRE Foundry\u003c/a>, a nonprofit collaboration of the Marin County Fire Department and local organizations and universities, offers free educational services and support aimed at propelling women and people of color into sustainable careers in the fire service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants get a paid job in fire prevention with the county, so they can afford to fully engage in the one-year program, which covers the cost of fire academy prerequisite classes, counseling services, housing at fire stations, hands-on skills training, mentorship and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’ll see that it’s like the perfect job’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Duran and about a dozen other FIRE Foundry recruits participated in a mock rescue training in a forested area near Mount Tamalpais. Wearing firefighting uniforms, the team practiced how to use ropes and carabiners to help pull hikers who fall into ravines back to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recruits took turns rappelling off a vertical drop about 50 feet high, while connected to a rope system they had set up around a redwood tree. Once at the bottom, they helped a colleague playing the “victim” start the tough climb up the rocky wall, while the rest of the team pulled on the rope from the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that, by showing them all the aspects of what we do in fire service, be it rope rescue or wildland fires, they’ll see that it’s like the perfect job,” said Marin County Fire Captain Rick Wonneberger, one of the instructors supervising the training. “The FIRE Foundry program gives people who may never have considered a career in public safety, who never had a direct \u003cem>in \u003c/em>with it, a way to get their feet wet, see if they really like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949933\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino trainee smiles as he works the rope controls with a female trainee looking on and smiling in a forest setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64855_011_KQED_FireFoundryRescueTraining_04212023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Duran holds the rope that connects the rescuer and rescuee to the team pulling them over a small cliff during a FIRE Foundry rope rescue training in Marin on April 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the calls U.S. fire departments get are not about fires, but about medical emergencies. Medical aid comprised more than 70% of those emergency calls in 2021, while actual fires were just 4%, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/Emergency-Responders/Fire-department-calls\">National Fire Protection Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, many job openings in the field are for firefighter paramedics or emergency medical technicians (EMTs). The expense and years it can take to get certified are prohibitive for candidates with lower incomes and less time to spend training and studying, such as caretakers of young children — often women — or those already working full-time in other occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the profession has a strong family tradition — children and other relatives of firefighters apply with a leg up on cultural knowledge, plus valuable information on how to pass tests and requirements, according to experts on diversity in the fire service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those on the outside, the process can look intimidating and unfamiliar. This helps explain why a profession that historically has been mostly white and male has largely stayed that way: Nearly all the 307,000 firefighters in the country are men, and about 85% identify as white, according to the most recent \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">estimates\u003c/a> by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency does not publish demographic information about the occupation at the state level. While a number of statistics point to a more racially and ethnically diverse firefighting workforce in California, diversity experts said fire departments have more work to do to better reflect the communities they are sworn to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve made some progress, but we have such a long way to go,” said Reginald Freeman, with the International Association of Fire Chiefs. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally published on June 13, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout its history, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of military activity, from the original Army prison on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/learn/historyculture/alcatraz-military-timeline.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcatraz Island\u003c/a>, to the building of nuclear submarines in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(One of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mareislandmuseum.org/about_x404/lcs-mariano-vallejo/mariano-g-vallejo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nuclear subs\u003c/a> built there was named after Mariano Vallejo, one of California’s early statesmen. You can see the vertical “sail” of that sub on Mare Island today.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a mere shadow of what it was during World War II or even up until the mid-1990s, when you could still catch sight of subs slinking to and from the Mare Island shipyard or aircraft carriers putting in at Alameda Naval Air Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But did you know we also had missiles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Chris Johanson has done a little bit of reading about the old Nike missile base in the Marin Headlands, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now a museum\u003c/a> run by the National Park Service, and he knew that it had the ability to be equipped with nuclear missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I wasn’t sure if they ever actually had nuclear missiles in the Headlands themselves,” Chris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, yeah there were nuclear missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Last Line of Defense\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s and ’60s, there were Nike Ajax and \u003ca href=\"http://nikemissile.org/IFC/nike_hercules.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hercules missiles\u003c/a> based all over the Bay Area, not just in the Marin Headlands. There were batteries in Pacifica, Fremont, San Rafael and on Angel Island. They were built to be a last line of defense against air attack during the Cold War.\u003cbr>\n[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tSIlMdZok&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They weren’t standing in vertical silos, as we think of land-based missiles today, but rather laid out horizontally in underground magazines, known as “the pit.” Each one was about the length of a school bus but much more sleek, like a set of lawn darts on steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missiles are essentially shells now, but until the 1970s they carried nuclear warheads with a maximum yield of 40 to 60 kilotons. One kiloton is equivalent to the energy force of 1,000 tons of dynamite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people think we exaggerate destruction,” said Jerry Feight, a former Air Force missileman who now leads tours of the site, “but it was not an exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/w31.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W31 nuclear warheads\u003c/a> on the Nike were “variable yield;” crews could literally dial up the size of the detonation. At 40 kilotons, the young soldiers stationed at the Marin Headlands battery, designated SF-88, could with a single missile unleash an atomic force greater than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people think that’s kind of a bit of overkill,” Feight recently told a tour group, “but if we had to fire, effectively you’re already at World War III because the target had been identified, the Navy and Air Force hadn’t been able to bring him down, and we’re goin’ to war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘If It Flies, It Dies’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“You had this responsibility at a very young age,” said Dave Kreutzinger. He was stationed at SF-88 from 1967 to 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here when I was 18,” he remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753257\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1806px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11753257\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Dave Kreutzinger in the missile magazine at SF-88\" width=\"1806\" height=\"1263\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003.jpeg 1806w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-800x559.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-1020x713.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-1200x839.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1806px) 100vw, 1806px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired car dealer Dave Kreutzinger was among the young GIs who manned Marin’s Nike missile batteries in the 1960s. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time he was 19, he was the launch officer, though as a specialist 4, he held the rank equivalent of a corporal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The oldest guy out here was 28,” he said matter-of-factly. “Most of us were 19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their job was to shoot down incoming Soviet bombers — most likely whole squadrons carrying atomic bombs in the 20-megaton range. That was the perceived threat when the Nikes were rolled out in 1954, less than a decade after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan to force surrender and end World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Army cohort of 120 or so crewing the Nike battery had one primary mission: to try to save the Bay Area from the same fate by launching a single missile that would vaporize anything in the air for a radius of 30 miles around the intercept — a statistic that gave rise to the unit’s charming motto: “If it flies, it dies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1950px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11753261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: warhead housing\" width=\"1950\" height=\"1463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011.jpeg 1950w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2011-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1950px) 100vw, 1950px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing for the W-31 nuclear warhead carried by the Nike Hercules missiles. These were “enhanced fission” devices that could release more than twice the energy of the bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time Dave Kreutzinger was there, the primary threat had shifted to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). But for years after the whole setup was obsolete, radar at SF-88 still swept the skies for 150 miles out, looking for Russian “Bear” bombers carrying nuclear weapons, something that Kreutzinger and his crew kind of took for granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, you didn’t think about it very much,” he said. “There was so much training, a lot of education went into being here. We knew the responsibility of it, but you practiced and practiced and practiced, and there’s a lot of testing involved to be sure that you have the mental ability to launch this weapon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time that would ever happen, of course, the U.S. would already be facing a nuclear attack from those incoming planes and/or missiles. It was taken for granted that a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union would be the end of the world as we know it, a concept \u003ca href=\"http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/cold-war/strategy/strategy-mutual-assured-destruction.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">known as MAD\u003c/a> for “mutual assured destruction.” So, launching one of these Nike Hercules missiles would essentially mean that the apocalypse was already underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of knew,” Kreutzinger said, “but it wasn’t on the top of our minds that this was pretty much the end. It wasn’t something you thought about all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Nike crews also knew that launching one of their supersonic spears in anger would likely be their last living act. The Army didn’t mince around this fact. They told Kreutzinger and his fellow GIs flat-out what their life expectancy would be after an actual launch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thirty minutes,” said Kreutzinger. “That was the thing that every crewman knew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Prepared but Never Put Into Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since Kreutzinger was still around to talk to us, that pretty well answers another question that Bay Curious listener Chris Johanson had: Were any of these missiles ever launched?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, no — except for training flights in New Mexico — though the crews were called to battle stations with regularity when worrisome “bogeys” appeared on the radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site was finally decommissioned in 1974 and the Park Service took it over. Since then, a small cadre of Cold War missile veterans has spent years cobbling parts together, often catching them just before they were scrapped, so that visitors can watch an actual Nike Hercules missile raised ominously on a giant elevator and hoisted into launch position at SF-88. Few visitors leave unimpressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more eerie was the feeling it gave Chris when Jerry Feight handed him the actual launch keys from 50 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had those in your hand and it was of that era,” Feight calmly explained, “you could be part of sending the world to destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, no pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No pressure,” agreed Chris, laughing nervously, “no pressure whatsoever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can see veteran docents walk you through a mock launch sequence and answer all of your nuclear annihilation questions at the SF-88 site in the Marin Headlands on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday afternoons\u003c/a> from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there are no tours.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Chris Johanson has done a little bit of reading about the old Nike missile base in the Marin Headlands, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now a museum\u003c/a> run by the National Park Service, and he knew that it had the ability to be equipped with nuclear missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I wasn’t sure if they ever actually had nuclear missiles in the Headlands themselves,” Chris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, yeah there were nuclear missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Last Line of Defense\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s and ’60s, there were Nike Ajax and \u003ca href=\"http://nikemissile.org/IFC/nike_hercules.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hercules missiles\u003c/a> based all over the Bay Area, not just in the Marin Headlands. There were batteries in Pacifica, Fremont, San Rafael and on Angel Island. They were built to be a last line of defense against air attack during the Cold War.\u003cbr>\n\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/D_tSIlMdZok'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/D_tSIlMdZok'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They weren’t standing in vertical silos, as we think of land-based missiles today, but rather laid out horizontally in underground magazines, known as “the pit.” Each one was about the length of a school bus but much more sleek, like a set of lawn darts on steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missiles are essentially shells now, but until the 1970s they carried nuclear warheads with a maximum yield of 40 to 60 kilotons. One kiloton is equivalent to the energy force of 1,000 tons of dynamite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people think we exaggerate destruction,” said Jerry Feight, a former Air Force missileman who now leads tours of the site, “but it was not an exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/w31.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W31 nuclear warheads\u003c/a> on the Nike were “variable yield;” crews could literally dial up the size of the detonation. At 40 kilotons, the young soldiers stationed at the Marin Headlands battery, designated SF-88, could with a single missile unleash an atomic force greater than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people think that’s kind of a bit of overkill,” Feight recently told a tour group, “but if we had to fire, effectively you’re already at World War III because the target had been identified, the Navy and Air Force hadn’t been able to bring him down, and we’re goin’ to war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘If It Flies, It Dies’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“You had this responsibility at a very young age,” said Dave Kreutzinger. He was stationed at SF-88 from 1967 to 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here when I was 18,” he remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753257\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1806px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11753257\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Dave Kreutzinger in the missile magazine at SF-88\" width=\"1806\" height=\"1263\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003.jpeg 1806w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-800x559.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-1020x713.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2003-1200x839.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1806px) 100vw, 1806px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired car dealer Dave Kreutzinger was among the young GIs who manned Marin’s Nike missile batteries in the 1960s. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time he was 19, he was the launch officer, though as a specialist 4, he held the rank equivalent of a corporal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The oldest guy out here was 28,” he said matter-of-factly. “Most of us were 19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their job was to shoot down incoming Soviet bombers — most likely whole squadrons carrying atomic bombs in the 20-megaton range. 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These were “enhanced fission” devices that could release more than twice the energy of the bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time Dave Kreutzinger was there, the primary threat had shifted to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). But for years after the whole setup was obsolete, radar at SF-88 still swept the skies for 150 miles out, looking for Russian “Bear” bombers carrying nuclear weapons, something that Kreutzinger and his crew kind of took for granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, you didn’t think about it very much,” he said. “There was so much training, a lot of education went into being here. We knew the responsibility of it, but you practiced and practiced and practiced, and there’s a lot of testing involved to be sure that you have the mental ability to launch this weapon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time that would ever happen, of course, the U.S. would already be facing a nuclear attack from those incoming planes and/or missiles. It was taken for granted that a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union would be the end of the world as we know it, a concept \u003ca href=\"http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/cold-war/strategy/strategy-mutual-assured-destruction.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">known as MAD\u003c/a> for “mutual assured destruction.” So, launching one of these Nike Hercules missiles would essentially mean that the apocalypse was already underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of knew,” Kreutzinger said, “but it wasn’t on the top of our minds that this was pretty much the end. It wasn’t something you thought about all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Nike crews also knew that launching one of their supersonic spears in anger would likely be their last living act. The Army didn’t mince around this fact. They told Kreutzinger and his fellow GIs flat-out what their life expectancy would be after an actual launch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thirty minutes,” said Kreutzinger. “That was the thing that every crewman knew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Prepared but Never Put Into Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since Kreutzinger was still around to talk to us, that pretty well answers another question that Bay Curious listener Chris Johanson had: Were any of these missiles ever launched?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, no — except for training flights in New Mexico — though the crews were called to battle stations with regularity when worrisome “bogeys” appeared on the radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site was finally decommissioned in 1974 and the Park Service took it over. 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