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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated at 11 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023677/california-legislature-moves-toward-approving-aid-for-wildfire-recovery-and-legal-battles\">provide $2.5 billion in relief\u003c/a> to communities damaged by the Los Angeles fires ahead of President Donald Trump’s Friday tour of the Pacific Palisades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This money will be made available immediately,” Newsom said Thursday. “We want to get these dollars out in real-time, so there’s no anxiety and stress associated with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and fellow Democrats in California continue to search for the right balance between collaboration and confrontation with the new president, who has repeatedly threatened to condition federal reimbursement on major changes to the state’s water system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After approving bipartisan fire relief funding, the state Senate passed a more controversial proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023345/california-legislatures-special-session-fire-aid-trump-lawsuits-faces-1st-test\">finance legal battles against the federal government\u003c/a>, potentially including disputes over federal disaster aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here for the long haul, to support the president where we can, to defend our values where we must, to have the backs of diverse communities,” Newsom said. “At the same time, we work together on critical issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Joe Biden, in one of his final acts in office, pledged federal support for the next three months. But since the fires broke out earlier this month, Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021435/trumps-misinformation-la-fires-fuels-concerns-over-future-disaster-aid-california\">repeatedly insulted Newsom\u003c/a> and falsely blamed the fires on unrelated state water policy, including in a Wednesday interview with Fox News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Newsom said he had not had any direct contact with Trump in advance of his visit, the governor expressed confidence that federal aid would not be delayed. On Friday morning, his office confirmed that Newsom would meet Trump on the tarmac when he arrives in California. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other elected officials will join Trump for a fire briefing after his Pacific Palisades tour this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s threats to condition aid have already split Republicans, with some GOP House members from swing districts in California saying they \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-conditional-aid-washington-trump-johnson-12c779b96e04d564802d4d06348aa0fc\">oppose attaching strings\u003c/a> when families are displaced and suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills passed in Sacramento this week were part of a special session that Newsom initially called in the wake of the election to fund potential legal challenges against the Trump administration. In a special session, debate is limited to topics picked by the governor — and any bills signed can take effect more quickly. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021941/newsom-expands-special-session-speed-up-los-angeles-wildfire-relief-funds\">expanded the session\u003c/a> last week to include proposals related to fire response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relief bills Newsom signed passed both the Assembly and Senate without opposition. The money can be spent in a variety of ways, including on hazardous waste removal, shelter for evacuees and preparation for compounding disasters such as mudslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’ve made progress, there’s still a significant journey ahead as we transition from containment to recovery,” said state Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, who represents Altadena, which was heavily damaged by the Eaton Fire. “As we begin that process, I’m also appreciative that this bill is supporting the cleanup efforts regarding air quality, water and other environmental testing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1920x1358.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and State Sen. Alex Padilla while surveying damage during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Trump — as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans in Congress — have repeatedly said that they want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022111/republican-leaders-push-conditions-disaster-relief-california-wildfire-victims\">condition federal help\u003c/a> on changes to California policies. \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> reported that there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">internal GOP discussions\u003c/a> about linking fire aid to an increase in the national debt limit in order to garner Democratic support for a bill that will not pass with just Republicans. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday that Democrats would \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/23/congress/dems-fire-aid-debt-limit-00200221\">not support that plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the debt limit, it’s not exactly clear what sort of conditions Republicans are considering. Trump has repeatedly made false claims that firefighters were unable to battle the Los Angeles blazes because Newsom declined to send more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Los Angeles is not currently facing a water shortage.[aside postID=news_12021435 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192441530.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not what California Republican lawmakers have been pushing: Policy reforms introduced by state GOP legislators are more focused on increasing controlled burns and other wildfire prevention by suspending environmental laws. And some Republican Congress members who represent swing districts have flatly rejected any conditions on aid, including Orange County Republican Rep. Young Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When natural disaster hits your communities, it is not partisan, it is not a blue or red issue — we are talking about life and death,” Kim said in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepYoungKim/status/1881887004566114314\">interview\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Fox 11 Los Angeles\u003c/em>. “We are talking about communities that are hurting, so there shouldn’t be any conditions other than making sure we bring the resources and aid as soon as possible to our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. George Whitesides, who just flipped a Los Angeles swing district, called the idea of conditioning aid “absolutely unacceptable and really quite offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say to these people, because of politics, we need to slow down or reduce the aid of the type that we have given to North Carolina and Louisiana and Florida?” he said. “We need to get these people help in a huge amount as fast as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democrats are standing united on that issue, debate on Thursday over the Trump-related legal aid was more contentious in the state Capitol. The plan consisted of two bills: one to set aside $25 million for the state Department of Justice, which filed its first suit this week against Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship, and another to earmark $25 million for nonprofits to represent Californians facing detention or deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the people that take care of our kids, that work in the fields, that do the landscaping, that work in a number of different industries, whether it’s construction or hospitality,” said state Sen. Anna Caballero (D–Merced). “How are we going to get things done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans were joined in their opposition to the first proposal by Sen. 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For example, state prison officials have turned thousands of immigrants over to federal immigration authorities in recent years after they completed a state prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, sanctuary opponents argue that if state and local police aren’t allowed to work more closely with immigration agents, raids will be pushed into the broader community and result in more people who do not have criminal records being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has made clear he opposes sanctuary policies and wants to punish cities and states that have them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to get rid of them, and we’re trying to end them,” he said on Fox News this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if he’d cut off federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions entirely, the president responded, “I might have to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other elected officials will join Trump for a fire briefing after his Pacific Palisades tour this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s threats to condition aid have already split Republicans, with some GOP House members from swing districts in California saying they \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-conditional-aid-washington-trump-johnson-12c779b96e04d564802d4d06348aa0fc\">oppose attaching strings\u003c/a> when families are displaced and suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills passed in Sacramento this week were part of a special session that Newsom initially called in the wake of the election to fund potential legal challenges against the Trump administration. In a special session, debate is limited to topics picked by the governor — and any bills signed can take effect more quickly. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">wildfires\u003c/a> didn’t just leave torched homes and businesses in ruin. They also consumed spiritual centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least three houses of worship — Altadena Community Church, Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center and Masjid Al-Taqwa — burned in the Eaton Fire, destroying irreplaceable artifacts. The congregations are left with a major loss, but their leaders said they have felt an outpouring of generosity from the larger community, spurring hopes of rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 7, the fire ignited in Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains before swiftly moving toward urban areas such as Altadena and Pasadena, burning more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire\">14,000 acres and destroying more than 7,000 structures\u003c/a>. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Tellström, Altadena Community Church’s pastor, lives a few blocks from the fire evacuation line in Pasadena. Embers landed on the church, igniting the fire that consumed all but the arches and front wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that was left of the front door was the frame, which looked as if it were a window to a magnificent view of the San Gabriel mountains. Half of the front wall of what used to be a cream-colored church, now charred black, fell on top of Tellström’s old office. The word “church,” outlined in metal, is the only word that remains of an otherwise obliterated welcome sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg\" alt=\"The word 'CHURCH' in metal on a wall laying on top of a pile of debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena Community Church was completely destroyed by the Eaton Fire that ignited on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tellström has not been back to visit yet, but he said he hopes a clavichord — a stringed keyboard instrument he and his dad constructed many years ago — survived the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was played for the first time in public on Christmas Eve,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was constructed in the late 1940s. Tellström said the congregation of about 60 is just beginning the hard conversation about whether or not to rebuild. They’re proud of being an openly queer-affirming church, and he said they refuse to see their message of acceptance incinerated by the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will honor whatever they want to do,” said Tellström, who retires next month. “Churches are shrinking across America right now. They’re harder to maintain. On the other hand, [our congregation] loves what they stand for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1920x1262.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during the Eaton fire in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few miles from the church, the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center was also consumed by the Eaton Fire. Rabbi Jill Gold Wright said the temple, which was older than a century, boasts a large congregation with around 450 families. She was at the synagogue before the flames engulfed the church on Jan. 7, a night she described as harrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embers violently flared across the property as volunteers scrambled to determine what to save. The smoke was so thick inside the synagogue they could only rescue 11 Torah scrolls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no more time for them to rescue anything else,” Gold Wright said. “So they got into their cars with the Torah scrolls and drove away, and then our synagogue was on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at least one scroll dates back to the 17th century. Nine scrolls will be held indefinitely in the Huntington Library’s archives. The synagogue kept two for when the congregation gathers to worship online and at temporary venues. Gold Wright said at least 22 families lost their homes, and she is unsure if the congregation will decide to rebuild at the same site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m holding the grief and the loss and also holding a real confidence that the community will thrive and that we will stay together,” she said. “That is a very Jewish thing — to hold two seemingly opposing but actually very human experiences at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker with Southern California Edison walks through the ruins of the Masjid Al-Taqwa that was destroyed in the Eaton fire at 2183 N. Lake Avenue in Altadena on Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Masjid Al-Taqwa, the only mosque serving the area, was founded around 40 years ago by African-American Muslims, according to former Imam Jihad Saafir, who has been speaking to the media on the mosque’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This beautiful masjid that was beloved to us for years burnt down, and it broke all of our hearts,” he said, referring to the mosque in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the mosque’s board members lost their home and business, while another’s home is the only house left standing on its block. Saafir said the community hopes to rebuild, but they need time to heal before making a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022146 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a setback for a beautiful comeback, but we leave that up to the creator,” he said. “The future is looking bright even though we didn’t know what to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s aware that rebuilding on the same site could mean a repeat of a future fire, and he is cognizant that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">human-caused climate change\u003c/a> led to the dry conditions that caused the fire to burn out of control. However, he is unsure where else to rebuild. Like the other congregations in this story, the mosque is seeking financial donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beautiful part is that the day we found out it burned, we started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/help_restore_our_beloved_masjid_in_altadena\">GoFundMe and a LaunchGood\u003c/a>,” he said. “We’re almost at a million dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena Community Church is \u003ca href=\"https://altadenaucc.org/\">collecting donations through its website\u003c/a>. Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center has raised almost $150,000 of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pjtc-rebuild-after-the-eaton-canyon-fire\">$500,000 goal on GoFundMe\u003c/a>. Gold Wright said the temple is “raising funds more immediately for our families who have been impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three leaders said that even though their physical buildings are gone, the spiritual home that remains within the heart of the community is still very much alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The building is not the church,” Tellström said. “The people — that’s the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The word “church,” outlined in metal, is the only word that remains of an otherwise obliterated welcome sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg\" alt=\"The word 'CHURCH' in metal on a wall laying on top of a pile of debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena Community Church was completely destroyed by the Eaton Fire that ignited on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tellström has not been back to visit yet, but he said he hopes a clavichord — a stringed keyboard instrument he and his dad constructed many years ago — survived the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was played for the first time in public on Christmas Eve,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was constructed in the late 1940s. Tellström said the congregation of about 60 is just beginning the hard conversation about whether or not to rebuild. They’re proud of being an openly queer-affirming church, and he said they refuse to see their message of acceptance incinerated by the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will honor whatever they want to do,” said Tellström, who retires next month. “Churches are shrinking across America right now. They’re harder to maintain. On the other hand, [our congregation] loves what they stand for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1920x1262.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during the Eaton fire in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few miles from the church, the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center was also consumed by the Eaton Fire. Rabbi Jill Gold Wright said the temple, which was older than a century, boasts a large congregation with around 450 families. She was at the synagogue before the flames engulfed the church on Jan. 7, a night she described as harrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embers violently flared across the property as volunteers scrambled to determine what to save. The smoke was so thick inside the synagogue they could only rescue 11 Torah scrolls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no more time for them to rescue anything else,” Gold Wright said. “So they got into their cars with the Torah scrolls and drove away, and then our synagogue was on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at least one scroll dates back to the 17th century. Nine scrolls will be held indefinitely in the Huntington Library’s archives. The synagogue kept two for when the congregation gathers to worship online and at temporary venues. Gold Wright said at least 22 families lost their homes, and she is unsure if the congregation will decide to rebuild at the same site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m holding the grief and the loss and also holding a real confidence that the community will thrive and that we will stay together,” she said. “That is a very Jewish thing — to hold two seemingly opposing but actually very human experiences at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker with Southern California Edison walks through the ruins of the Masjid Al-Taqwa that was destroyed in the Eaton fire at 2183 N. 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"content": "\u003cp>So many people are jumping in to help \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/topanga-palisades-fire\">neighbors\u003c/a>, friends, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970214/supply-drives-mutual-aid-los-angeles-eaton-palisades-wildfires\">strangers\u003c/a> affected by the L.A. fires. Volunteering, donating, hosting people who’ve evacuated, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/food/la-restaurants-offering-free-meals-for-evacuees-and-first-responders\">providing meals\u003c/a> and organizing drives to collect toiletries and clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, science shows we humans are actually wired for this kind of kindness, connection and empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamil-zaki.com/\">Dr. Jamil Zaki\u003c/a> has discovered in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssnl.stanford.edu/\">Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab\u003c/a>. He’s a professor of psychology and the author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jamil-zaki/hope-for-cynics/9781538743065/?lens=grand-central-publishing\">\u003cem>Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He shared some data-driven reasons why we shouldn’t be cynical, even in really hard times. Zaki spoke about his research with The California Report Magazine’s host, Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below are excerpts from their conversation, edited for brevity and clarity. For the full interview on The California Report Magazine, listen to the audio at the top of this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSasha Khokha: What does the incredible outpouring of support for fire survivors show us about human kindness and human goodness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jamil Zaki:\u003c/strong> The last week in California has just been unthinkably tragic and difficult. And I don’t think it takes away anything from the suffering that many people are experiencing to also shine a light on the beauty that people are producing. It turns out that this is a perennial feature of disasters. Although they’re horrible in so many ways, they can also bring out people’s best. There is a lot of evidence throughout history and from the scientific literature that when people face disaster or trauma, oftentimes they respond not by falling apart but by coming together and by helping one another, stepping across lines of difference that sometimes divide them and trying to be there to support each other during the hardest times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people are at their most needy, when we’re all going through something together, there’s an urgent sense of togetherness. There’s an urgent sense that we all need to be there for each other. And so I think that’s what elevates these wonderful human tendencies during our darkest times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why can’t people show up for each other like this all the time, not just during disasters?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We already are. Most people I’ve surveyed believed that the pandemic caused a decrease in human kindness. But the evidence goes the other way, that actually, in 2020, compared to the years before, people volunteered more, they donated more to charity, and they helped strangers more. But that elevated level of kindness didn’t stop after lockdown ended. Global kindness has remained higher than it did the decade or the years before the pandemic occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a sense that our world is more chaotic than it was several years ago. But in that adversity that we’re all facing collectively, I think there has been an elevated sense of social responsibility. I know that we don’t hear about this on the news all the time, but maybe we should hear about it more because it’s been there the whole time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLkSD1Jw5E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does the science tell us about human goodness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science is pretty clear that there is a lot of goodness in human beings. In some ways we are wired for connection with each other, to help each other, to be there for one another. That’s frankly what makes our species who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People tend to act kindly when they’re not thinking about it. So if you ask people to make decisions very quickly, they tend to make kinder decisions than if they spend a long time deliberating. Look at stories from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.carnegiehero.org/\">Carnegie Heroes Project\u003c/a>, people who have risked their lives to save strangers. If you look at interviews with them, which have been coded by scientists, they often say, “I didn’t think about it. I just ran into the burning building. I wasn’t trying to calculate whether this would be good for my reputation or whether, you know, I would become a hero. I just did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another level of analysis comes from our biology. In my lab, we found that when people donate to charity or give money to somebody in need, the same parts of their brain are active as when they eat chocolate, for instance, or experience something else pleasurable. There is a lot about us that seems to lead us naturally towards acts of kindness, helping and togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most powerful things about our species is that our response to suffering is to come together because that’s what we’re good at. If you think about us as animals, we’re not that impressive. Just medium-sized mammals. We can’t run that fast or swim that well. We certainly can’t fly. Our super skill is togetherness. That’s what has allowed us to hunt wooly mammoths and build suspension bridges and write arias. All of this comes from our ability to work together. And we do that most during difficult times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are struggling all around us all the time, and we are facing collective struggle all the time. So one thing to cultivate is what Viktor Frankl calls “tragic optimism.” Not shying away from, but looking directly into the pain that we are all going through at different times. Using that acknowledgment of our suffering as a way to keep us connected, to keep us showing up for one another the way that we do during awful disasters like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022767\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-2048x1367.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-1920x1282.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Jamil Zaki says he’s a ‘recovering cynic’ himself, even though he’s spent decades studying optimism and hope. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jamil Zaki)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We have this trope that it’s naive — or even privileged — to be optimistic or to be hopeful. That it’s cooler to be a cynic.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask people who would be smarter, a cynic or a non-cynic, about 70% of people think that cynics would outperform non-cynics on cognitive tests, for instance. But the opposite is true. People who trust others more, who have more faith in people, tend to actually do better on those tests than cynical people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also find in research that cynicism is not radical at all. Cynics actually are less likely to vote, less likely to take part in social movements, and in fact, they’re more likely to embrace authoritarian leaders. Because if you don’t trust the people around you; if you think that people are generally awful, what do you need? You need somebody to protect you from your fellow citizens. So authoritarianism actually benefits from a cynical population. Totalitarians and propagandists have been using cynicism to pit people against each other for decades if not centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want things to stay the same, one of the best things that you can do is encourage people to believe that nothing can get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Of course, a lot of people are feeling cynical about the divisions in this country. But your research shows we may not be as politically divided as we might think.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. But first, let’s stipulate we\u003cem> are\u003c/em> more divided than we were in the past. And something that’s really troubling about American division now is that it’s become personal. We’ve disagreed for decades about everything you can imagine. But now, people imagine that somebody they disagree with is stupid and evil, mean-spirited and violent. We hate the people we disagree with much more than we did before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what we imagine about the “other side” is wrong in basically every way that scientists can measure. For instance, Democrats think that a quarter of Republicans make more than $250,000 a year. The real number is 2%. We think that the average person we disagree with is much more extreme than they really are. Is twice as hateful, twice as anti-democratic and four times as violent as they really are. We also underestimate the amount of common ground that we have, even on specific issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not saying that America is a harmonious nation or that we could easily snap into some type of kumbaya situation on a national level. But I do think that there’s much more that we share than we realize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your lab actually did a very cool project where you had about 100 Americans talk with each other across divides over Zoom.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We brought these folks together to talk about gun control, abortion and climate change. We prepared them and made sure that they really disagreed on all three issues specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked them before the conversations, “How do you think this is going to go?” And on a 1 to 100 scale, where 1 is absolutely the worst conversation you could have and 100 is a delightful conversation. In general, people [predicted] somewhere between neutral and awful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12022790\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-1020x1540.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-scaled.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the conversations, we asked them [to rate the conversation] again. The most common response we got was a 100 out of 100. They were shocked at how positive these conversations were, and how reasonable the person they disagreed with was. That’s not to say that they agreed. I want to be really clear that empathy and connection is not the same as condoning what other people feel or agreeing with them. But these people found that they could at least respect each other’s humanity and have productive dialogue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterwards, they didn’t just feel better about the person that they talked with. They felt less prejudiced against outsiders in general. So Democrats felt better about Republicans. Republicans felt better about Democrats. And those effects lasted three months after the conversation. So we rarely have chances for dialogue like this, but when they occur, they are much better than we expect them to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, people don’t trust their fellow citizens, but they do trust the people who they see: their neighbors, their grocer, their bus driver. Generally speaking, the closer you get to humanity, the better you feel about it. And that, to me, is a really powerful data point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You admit that you actually are kind of a recovering cynic yourself! \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 20 years, I’ve studied empathy, kindness and connection. So people often assume that I must just go around blissed out by human goodness all the time. I really wanted to clarify right away in writing this book that that’s not where I’m coming from. I’m not some person who’s aspirational in terms of my inner life, and I’m going to teach you to be like me. I’m right there with you if you’re feeling cynicism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can people do on an everyday basis to fight cynicism? Tell us about your three-step plan.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step one is to fact check our cynical feelings. Oftentimes, I’ll meet somebody and I’ll just kind of not trust them for no reason. It’s a pretty bold claim to say they’re a bad person, though you know nothing about them. What \u003cem>evidence\u003c/em> do you have to draw this conclusion? Are you sure that this is a defensible position? Oftentimes, for me, at least, the answer is absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step two is to collect more data. I call this taking leaps of faith on people. Give people chances to show you who they are, just taking little chances on people and also paying attention to what they give back. One version of this is striking up conversations with strangers. The data are pretty clear. If you actually try to talk with strangers, people are way friendlier than we think they’ll be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step three is to monitor what we’re sharing. If we’ve had eight positive interactions during a day and then one person was sort of a jerk to us, who are we going to talk about later on? For me, it’s that jerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[A couple years ago] I was driving my kids to school and somebody cut me off in traffic. I started saying all sorts of things about them. And my daughter said, “Dad, you don’t talk about all the people who \u003cem>didn’t \u003c/em>cut you off.” Ever since then, [my family has] been trying something called positive gossip. We all gather one example of human goodness from that day and share it in the evening. When you know that you’re going to share something, you start to look for it more. Positive gossip has sort of popped up an antenna where I now look for more instances of people being friendly or kind. And it turns out that once you’re looking for that, they’re not at all hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSasha Khokha: What does the incredible outpouring of support for fire survivors show us about human kindness and human goodness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jamil Zaki:\u003c/strong> The last week in California has just been unthinkably tragic and difficult. And I don’t think it takes away anything from the suffering that many people are experiencing to also shine a light on the beauty that people are producing. It turns out that this is a perennial feature of disasters. Although they’re horrible in so many ways, they can also bring out people’s best. There is a lot of evidence throughout history and from the scientific literature that when people face disaster or trauma, oftentimes they respond not by falling apart but by coming together and by helping one another, stepping across lines of difference that sometimes divide them and trying to be there to support each other during the hardest times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people are at their most needy, when we’re all going through something together, there’s an urgent sense of togetherness. There’s an urgent sense that we all need to be there for each other. And so I think that’s what elevates these wonderful human tendencies during our darkest times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why can’t people show up for each other like this all the time, not just during disasters?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We already are. Most people I’ve surveyed believed that the pandemic caused a decrease in human kindness. But the evidence goes the other way, that actually, in 2020, compared to the years before, people volunteered more, they donated more to charity, and they helped strangers more. But that elevated level of kindness didn’t stop after lockdown ended. Global kindness has remained higher than it did the decade or the years before the pandemic occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a sense that our world is more chaotic than it was several years ago. But in that adversity that we’re all facing collectively, I think there has been an elevated sense of social responsibility. I know that we don’t hear about this on the news all the time, but maybe we should hear about it more because it’s been there the whole time.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gTLkSD1Jw5E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gTLkSD1Jw5E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does the science tell us about human goodness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science is pretty clear that there is a lot of goodness in human beings. In some ways we are wired for connection with each other, to help each other, to be there for one another. That’s frankly what makes our species who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People tend to act kindly when they’re not thinking about it. So if you ask people to make decisions very quickly, they tend to make kinder decisions than if they spend a long time deliberating. Look at stories from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.carnegiehero.org/\">Carnegie Heroes Project\u003c/a>, people who have risked their lives to save strangers. If you look at interviews with them, which have been coded by scientists, they often say, “I didn’t think about it. I just ran into the burning building. I wasn’t trying to calculate whether this would be good for my reputation or whether, you know, I would become a hero. I just did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another level of analysis comes from our biology. In my lab, we found that when people donate to charity or give money to somebody in need, the same parts of their brain are active as when they eat chocolate, for instance, or experience something else pleasurable. There is a lot about us that seems to lead us naturally towards acts of kindness, helping and togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most powerful things about our species is that our response to suffering is to come together because that’s what we’re good at. If you think about us as animals, we’re not that impressive. Just medium-sized mammals. We can’t run that fast or swim that well. We certainly can’t fly. Our super skill is togetherness. That’s what has allowed us to hunt wooly mammoths and build suspension bridges and write arias. All of this comes from our ability to work together. And we do that most during difficult times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are struggling all around us all the time, and we are facing collective struggle all the time. So one thing to cultivate is what Viktor Frankl calls “tragic optimism.” Not shying away from, but looking directly into the pain that we are all going through at different times. Using that acknowledgment of our suffering as a way to keep us connected, to keep us showing up for one another the way that we do during awful disasters like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022767\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-2048x1367.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-1-1920x1282.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Jamil Zaki says he’s a ‘recovering cynic’ himself, even though he’s spent decades studying optimism and hope. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jamil Zaki)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We have this trope that it’s naive — or even privileged — to be optimistic or to be hopeful. That it’s cooler to be a cynic.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask people who would be smarter, a cynic or a non-cynic, about 70% of people think that cynics would outperform non-cynics on cognitive tests, for instance. But the opposite is true. People who trust others more, who have more faith in people, tend to actually do better on those tests than cynical people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also find in research that cynicism is not radical at all. Cynics actually are less likely to vote, less likely to take part in social movements, and in fact, they’re more likely to embrace authoritarian leaders. Because if you don’t trust the people around you; if you think that people are generally awful, what do you need? You need somebody to protect you from your fellow citizens. So authoritarianism actually benefits from a cynical population. Totalitarians and propagandists have been using cynicism to pit people against each other for decades if not centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want things to stay the same, one of the best things that you can do is encourage people to believe that nothing can get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Of course, a lot of people are feeling cynical about the divisions in this country. But your research shows we may not be as politically divided as we might think.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. But first, let’s stipulate we\u003cem> are\u003c/em> more divided than we were in the past. And something that’s really troubling about American division now is that it’s become personal. We’ve disagreed for decades about everything you can imagine. But now, people imagine that somebody they disagree with is stupid and evil, mean-spirited and violent. We hate the people we disagree with much more than we did before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what we imagine about the “other side” is wrong in basically every way that scientists can measure. For instance, Democrats think that a quarter of Republicans make more than $250,000 a year. The real number is 2%. We think that the average person we disagree with is much more extreme than they really are. Is twice as hateful, twice as anti-democratic and four times as violent as they really are. We also underestimate the amount of common ground that we have, even on specific issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not saying that America is a harmonious nation or that we could easily snap into some type of kumbaya situation on a national level. But I do think that there’s much more that we share than we realize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your lab actually did a very cool project where you had about 100 Americans talk with each other across divides over Zoom.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We brought these folks together to talk about gun control, abortion and climate change. We prepared them and made sure that they really disagreed on all three issues specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked them before the conversations, “How do you think this is going to go?” And on a 1 to 100 scale, where 1 is absolutely the worst conversation you could have and 100 is a delightful conversation. In general, people [predicted] somewhere between neutral and awful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12022790\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-1020x1540.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Jamil-Zaki-book-cover-scaled.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the conversations, we asked them [to rate the conversation] again. The most common response we got was a 100 out of 100. They were shocked at how positive these conversations were, and how reasonable the person they disagreed with was. That’s not to say that they agreed. I want to be really clear that empathy and connection is not the same as condoning what other people feel or agreeing with them. But these people found that they could at least respect each other’s humanity and have productive dialogue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterwards, they didn’t just feel better about the person that they talked with. They felt less prejudiced against outsiders in general. So Democrats felt better about Republicans. Republicans felt better about Democrats. And those effects lasted three months after the conversation. So we rarely have chances for dialogue like this, but when they occur, they are much better than we expect them to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, people don’t trust their fellow citizens, but they do trust the people who they see: their neighbors, their grocer, their bus driver. Generally speaking, the closer you get to humanity, the better you feel about it. And that, to me, is a really powerful data point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You admit that you actually are kind of a recovering cynic yourself! \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 20 years, I’ve studied empathy, kindness and connection. So people often assume that I must just go around blissed out by human goodness all the time. I really wanted to clarify right away in writing this book that that’s not where I’m coming from. I’m not some person who’s aspirational in terms of my inner life, and I’m going to teach you to be like me. I’m right there with you if you’re feeling cynicism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can people do on an everyday basis to fight cynicism? Tell us about your three-step plan.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step one is to fact check our cynical feelings. Oftentimes, I’ll meet somebody and I’ll just kind of not trust them for no reason. It’s a pretty bold claim to say they’re a bad person, though you know nothing about them. What \u003cem>evidence\u003c/em> do you have to draw this conclusion? Are you sure that this is a defensible position? Oftentimes, for me, at least, the answer is absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step two is to collect more data. I call this taking leaps of faith on people. Give people chances to show you who they are, just taking little chances on people and also paying attention to what they give back. One version of this is striking up conversations with strangers. The data are pretty clear. 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And it turns out that once you’re looking for that, they’re not at all hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I definitely feel spiritually and emotionally exhausted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only a few days after arriving in Moss Landing, Floyd-Carroll was forced to pack up and leave once again after a huge fire erupted at a nearby battery plant on Thursday afternoon. She said she began packing family relics and an emergency bag as soon as she heard sirens in the distance. A formal evacuation order was issued for her neighborhood around 7 p.m., Floyd-Carroll said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire at a facility operated by Vistra Corporation, an electricity company that helps supply energy to the power grid, has closed schools and roads and forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 Moss Landing residents as it sends up a plume of smoke, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of flames at Moss Landing Power Plant located on Pacific Coast Highway in Monterey Bay, California, on Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plant at Moss Landing is one of the world’s largest storage facilities for lithium batteries, which are used to store solar power and other forms of electricity. The facility, a vital part of California’s effort to shift toward renewable energy and sustainability, contains over 100,000 batteries and can store up to 750 megawatts of electricity, according to a Vistra Corporation press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Energy Commission said 52,000 megawatts of storage is needed to meet its green energy goals by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials warned that because the fire involves batteries, it’s impossible to manually stop the burn. All residents could do was wait for the fire to burn itself out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas in Moss Landing currently under mandatory evacuation orders include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>South of Elkhorn Slough.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>North of Molera Road and Monterey Dunes Way.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West of Castroville Boulevard and Elkhorn Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Monterey County authorities are also advising residents in neighboring areas, including Watsonville and Marina, to take protective measures such as remaining indoors and closing windows and vents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 1 has been shut down between Molera Road and Struve Road, in addition to several local roads. The North Monterey County Unified School District, which services several cities in the area, also announced a closure in response to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Friday morning, county officials said the fire is beginning to slow down and that the imminent danger for residents has passed. No casualties have been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021911 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_01810_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to county officials, there were some concerns about toxic hydrofluoride fumes being released into the air by the fire and smoke. But on Friday morning, officials informed residents that there had been no signs of dangerous toxins in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very little active flame. We have very little products of combustion being put into the atmosphere,” said Joel Mendoza, chief of the North Monterey County Fire Protection District. “There was no hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas being emitted by the batteries. At no point did I get a report back that there was any of that being picked up by the monitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advanced monitoring equipment will be brought in to provide emergency responders and officials with more detailed information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church said the fire should be a wake-up call to industry leaders in sustainable energy. He echoed concerns shared with him by constituents about the battery plant’s proximity to environmentally significant areas like Elkhorn Slough and Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the fourth fire at that site since 2019,” Church said at a press conference. “This transition to a more sustainable energy source should not come before the safety of our families and our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, and nearly 40% of the building has been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd-Carroll said the experience has left her feeling uneasy. She’s preparing to return to Los Angeles County to avoid the smoke and possible fumes that may linger as a result of the Moss Landing fire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to county officials, there were some concerns about toxic hydrofluoride fumes being released into the air by the fire and smoke. But on Friday morning, officials informed residents that there had been no signs of dangerous toxins in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very little active flame. We have very little products of combustion being put into the atmosphere,” said Joel Mendoza, chief of the North Monterey County Fire Protection District. “There was no hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas being emitted by the batteries. At no point did I get a report back that there was any of that being picked up by the monitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advanced monitoring equipment will be brought in to provide emergency responders and officials with more detailed information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church said the fire should be a wake-up call to industry leaders in sustainable energy. He echoed concerns shared with him by constituents about the battery plant’s proximity to environmentally significant areas like Elkhorn Slough and Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the fourth fire at that site since 2019,” Church said at a press conference. “This transition to a more sustainable energy source should not come before the safety of our families and our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, and nearly 40% of the building has been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd-Carroll said the experience has left her feeling uneasy. She’s preparing to return to Los Angeles County to avoid the smoke and possible fumes that may linger as a result of the Moss Landing fire. Fortunately, emergency responders were able to preserve the area around her home in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the moment, we’re still waiting for guidance as if it’s safe to return to that area of Moss Landing and Castroville,” Floyd-Carroll said. “It’s been hard to maintain a sense of safety and to go about business as usual time and time again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials told the press on Friday that they would be calling for an independent investigation into what caused the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> signed an executive order suspending environmental review processes for victims looking to rebuild after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">Los Angeles wildfires\u003c/a> destroyed over 40,000 acres of land and more than 12,000 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, which effectively waives the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act, comes as a surprise in a state that boasts some of the strictest building regulations and environmental review processes. California has received criticism for the difficulty of getting building projects approved, a process that is also notoriously expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the order Newsom signed Sunday, state and local agencies are directed to help the residents of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties by expediting processes that would hinder reconstruction. They have also been tasked with identifying additional building codes that can be safely suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the fires are extinguished, victims who have lost their homes and businesses must be able to rebuild quickly and without roadblocks,” Newsom said in a Sunday \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/12/governor-newsom-signs-executive-order-to-help-los-angeles-rebuild-faster-and-stronger/\">press release\u003c/a>. “The executive order I signed today will help cut permitting delays, an important first step in allowing our communities to recover faster and stronger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental safety restrictions that govern construction projects are an obstacle for anyone looking to build in the state. Legislators have also expanded regulations aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">improving fire and earthquake resilience\u003c/a> in fire-prone neighborhoods. These requirements, like installing sprinkler systems and external water tanks, can be cost-prohibitive for homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some state residents have also questioned why the process for rebuilding was not streamlined after other wildfires. Republican Assemblymember David Tangipa, who represents the Central Valley, said that wildfire victims are still recovering from the Creek Fire in 2020 in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DavidTangipa/status/1878470719161700812\">social media post\u003c/a> and called on the state government to address the disparity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Sedlar, a climate analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the issue is more complex than simply rebuilding. He said he’s worried that Newsom’s order may come with unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA review is something that’s been a thorn in the side of many housing advocates because a lot of localities use that to hold up development,” Sedlar said. “My concern is that there’s a bullet point that directs state agencies to identify additional permanent requirements, including provisions of the building code, that can safely be suspended to accelerate rebuilding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedlar noted that in areas like Los Angeles County, a high risk of wildfires necessitates resiliency measures when it comes to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buildings are destroyed along Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to rebuild as things were before because that’s the opposite of adaptive resilience,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus instead should be on mitigating the costs associated with making these neighborhoods safer, whether that’s through state or federal assistance, according to Sedlar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, experts and state officials are working together to find solutions that account for rising building costs, environmental safety and the need for hardened homes. In 2006, Florida legislators introduced \u003ca href=\"https://mysafeflhome.com/\">My Safe Florida Home\u003c/a>, a program that distributes funds to applicants looking to improve the resiliency of their homes against natural disasters like hurricanes. The program is wildly popular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022375 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild2-1020x827.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis allocated $200 million to the program in July, funding ran out in less than 10 days, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox13news.com/news/part-my-safe-florida-home-program-runs-out-funding-2-weeks-after-applications-open\">news reports\u003c/a>. Because applications were divided into five groups based on need, only lower-income applicants aged 60 were eligible for consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given California’s large population size, Sedlar said, the state would face similar difficulties in creating a grant program that covers all interested homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge risk of wildfire throughout the state,” Sedlar said. “How do you allocate enough money to cover everyone? Obviously, there are areas that are less susceptible to fires — urban fires, wildfires — than others, but it’s still going to be extremely competitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the wildfires broke, several conservative politicians, pundits and donors have spread misinformation and criticized state leaders, alleging that inept policymaking led to disaster. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments have caused some state officials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021435/trumps-misinformation-la-fires-fuels-concerns-over-future-disaster-aid-california\">worry over how a Trump administration may affect future federal aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Congressional leaders have touted the idea of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022111/republican-leaders-push-conditions-disaster-relief-california-wildfire-victims\">placing conditions\u003c/a> on federal assistance for California wildfire victims. At a Monday press conference, House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed, without evidence, that state and local officials were complicit in the scope of the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter studies the charred remains of St. Mark’s School, a preschool and K-6 grade school on Altadena Drive, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson and other conservatives have also suggested that federal assistance be made contingent upon California Democrats agreeing to raise the national debt ceiling, an issue that Trump has been vocal about in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do we need to do to reduce the risk and make the Pacific Palisades buildable again?” said Bill Jackson, who leads the San Francisco Republican Party. “Our national governments are not piggy banks for communities that do not have a realistic approach toward sustaining themselves and defending themselves in the event of a natural disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California leaders have introduced several proposals to address fire mitigation. On Monday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021941/newsom-expands-special-session-speed-up-los-angeles-wildfire-relief-funds\">expanded the special session\u003c/a> that began in December to include $1.5 billion for fire preparedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Insurance also introduced plans for a statewide home-hardening grant program that would fund projects such as installing fire-resistant roofs and defensible spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making homes and communities safer from wildfires needs to be a top priority for our state,” Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said during a press conference last week. “Looking forward, I will also work with the state Legislature and the Governor’s Administration to support my proposal to provide consumers with home hardening grants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco on Thursday morning welcomed its two newest “fire girls,” as founder Sherri Franklin has dubbed the shelter’s latest additions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now wagging their tails in the main playroom, the six senior dogs Muttville has taken in from the Los Angeles area so far have been in rescue centers since before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022540/windy-flame-fanning-weather-eases-up-as-progress-made-on-la-area-fires\">Eaton and Palisades fires\u003c/a> broke out. Franklin said Bay Area organizations are bringing the animals north to make room in overwhelmed Southern California shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior pit bulls Lola and Cherry wagged their tails as they walked through the gates to the “Home of New Beginnings,” Muttville’s intake center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Lombark Street, curviest dog path in the world,” volunteer Craig Hermes said as he guided a timid and slow-moving Cherry up the winding path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cherry and Lola — now bounding ahead — had just made the 400-mile trip up Interstate 5 on Wednesday afternoon from Downey Animal Care Center in Los Angeles to San Francisco’s Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-13_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-13_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-13_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-13_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-13_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-13_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-13_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherry, a pit bull, arrives at Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, after being brought from a shelter in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muttville volunteers plan to drive down to Ventura for four more senior dogs next week, hoping to relieve pressure on L.A.-area shelters for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020808/as-la-fires-rage-harrowing-evacuations-play-out-on-traffic-choked-roads\">evacuated owners\u003c/a> looking to reunite in the coming days with pets they were separated from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay SPCA has also taken in 10 dogs, and San Francisco’s branch brought 20 dogs and 10 cats to the city on Wednesday, including Lola and Cherry. They have been working with three shelters in the L.A. area since the fires began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muttville’s in-house veterinary staff could also head down to L.A. in the coming days to help shelters treating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021824/how-pasadena-humane-mobilized-take-in-pets-wildlife-escaping-eaton-fire\">burned and injured animals\u003c/a> there, and all of the locations are busy making room for more incoming pups since the fires’ impact will likely last weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022595\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra, a 7-year-old Shih Tzu Maltese mix, arrived at Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco on Monday from Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not all at the front,” Franklin told KQED. “Some of this will be a few months out, which will be very sad because some of the people will realize they can’t keep these animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters generally work hard to post potentially displaced animals on social media to help them find their families, and Los Angeles is in the process of setting up a website to reunite microchipped pets with their owners, according to Franklin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021824 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-046-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As weeks go by, though, there will likely be some who can’t be reconnected. Even before the blazes, many of the shelters in Southern California were already overflowing, according to Anne Moellering, the San Francisco SPCA’s chief of rescue and welfare. She said the best way people here can help is by taking in a rescue pet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re filling our shelter with the animals that are coming up here, as are some of the partner shelters that we’re working with to take more of the animals, so adoption is the number one [way people] can pull animals out of a shelter,” she told KQED. “Another great way to go is foster. That’s just a short-term hold of the animal, and that helps us to have more capacity for bringing in animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the East Bay and San Francisco SPCAs are participating in free adoption events for puppies through Sunday to help clear their shelters. Both centers have adoption hours Wednesday through Sunday, and San Francisco’s is also open Tuesday afternoons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come on down and talk to us and meet the animals,” Moellering said. “There’s no pressure, but we have an amazing team of adoption counselors here that can help you find exactly the right animal for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As weeks go by, though, there will likely be some who can’t be reconnected. Even before the blazes, many of the shelters in Southern California were already overflowing, according to Anne Moellering, the San Francisco SPCA’s chief of rescue and welfare. She said the best way people here can help is by taking in a rescue pet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re filling our shelter with the animals that are coming up here, as are some of the partner shelters that we’re working with to take more of the animals, so adoption is the number one [way people] can pull animals out of a shelter,” she told KQED. “Another great way to go is foster. That’s just a short-term hold of the animal, and that helps us to have more capacity for bringing in animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the East Bay and San Francisco SPCAs are participating in free adoption events for puppies through Sunday to help clear their shelters. Both centers have adoption hours Wednesday through Sunday, and San Francisco’s is also open Tuesday afternoons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come on down and talk to us and meet the animals,” Moellering said. “There’s no pressure, but we have an amazing team of adoption counselors here that can help you find exactly the right animal for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Among the army of firefighters trying to contain the blazes in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> area are over 1,000 incarcerated individuals hacking out fire lines with hand tools in rugged terrain for just dollars a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the experience they gain, those who want to be hired as firefighters after their release will face an uphill battle. Now, lawmakers are considering legislation to make it easier for them to have their records cleared, smoothing their path to firefighting work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Herrera Jr. served 18 years in state and county correctional facilities. After demonstrating good behavior, he was allowed to work as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, he was called to the burning home of a correctional officer from the prison where he was housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saved it,” Herrera said. “And I just remember them coming and shaking our hands afterwards. And I was like, ‘Whoa, this is surreal.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, works to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera, who worked on a county crew, said his top pay was $56 a month. Wildland firefighters make between \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/faq-conservation-fire-camp-program/#:~:text=Are%20camp%20participants%20paid%20for,FIRE%2C%20regardless%20of%20skill%20level.\">$5.80 and $10.24 per day\u003c/a> from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, plus $1 an hour from Cal Fire while working active emergencies like the current Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them say the experience alone is worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even do it for the money,” said Herrera. “Because at the end of the day, giving back to the community, knowing you’re providing a service … you can’t put a price on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those who wish to continue the work after their release often find that their criminal record poses a major obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal Ramey, who co-founded the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program to help people through the process, said it’s especially difficult to get municipal firefighting jobs like the one Herrera trained in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs require EMT certification. That’s a particular hurdle because \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/22-CCR-100214.3\">California law\u003c/a> prohibits people with felony convictions from getting certified, effectively blocking many formerly incarcerated firefighters from jobs at county or city fire stations — jobs that tend to provide good benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, work to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To try to ease some of those barriers, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/11/governor-newsom-signs-bill-eliminating-barriers-that-block-former-inmate-fire-crews-from-becoming-career-firefighters-after-serving-their-sentences/\">AB 2147\u003c/a> in 2020. It allows nonviolent offenders who fought fires with prison crews to petition to get their records expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not a sure thing, said Ramey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are eligible for expungement, but it’s up to the judge’s discretion. So it all depends on the situation, the crime, how long they’ve been out, have they been rehabilitated, what have they been doing since they’ve been home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esteban Núñez, a member of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, has been communicating with state Sen. Eloise Reyes (D–San Bernardino) and Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office about follow-up legislation to AB 2147 to simplify and expedite the record-clearing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to have CDCR automatically provide the attorney general’s office with a record showing that a person has completed the fire camp program and then notify the person of their eligibility for having their record expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would make it so that the responsibility doesn’t solely fall on the individual to have to file and either seek out a public defender or an attorney to help them file,” Núñez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021720 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192478140-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge would still have the final say in whether to grant the expungement petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Núñez expects the new bill to be introduced within the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping more formerly incarcerated firefighters enter the workforce could be a boon for California, whose need for firefighters is only expected to grow as wildfires become bigger and more common with the effects of human-caused climate change. The Nature Conservancy estimates that the state will face a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scienceforconservation.org/assets/downloads/Building_CAs_Forest_Resilience_Workforce.pdf\">labor shortage\u003c/a> of close to 10,000 forestry workers by 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, Newsom granted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2020/07/10/cdcr-announces-additional-actions-to-reduce-population-and-maximize-space-systemwide-to-address-covid-19/\">early release\u003c/a> to some incarcerated firefighters, and he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inmate-fire-crew-civilian-recruitment-20160914-snap-story.html\">scaled back\u003c/a> the CDCR fire crew program while building up the civilian California Conservation Corps for young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott McLean, a spokesperson for Cal Fire, said he’s noticed the reduction in the state’s use of incarcerated fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are fewer crews,” he said. “But we fill that void with our seasonal firefighter hand crews as well as [having] the CCC on board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who are released, the new legislation being considered by state officials would make it easier for them to help fill that shortage — and continue their rehabilitation in the process, Núñez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no better way to demonstrate restorative justice,” he said, “than to have folks who have previously harmed their communities really go out to preserve and protect other communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And I was like, ‘Whoa, this is surreal.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, works to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera, who worked on a county crew, said his top pay was $56 a month. Wildland firefighters make between \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/faq-conservation-fire-camp-program/#:~:text=Are%20camp%20participants%20paid%20for,FIRE%2C%20regardless%20of%20skill%20level.\">$5.80 and $10.24 per day\u003c/a> from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, plus $1 an hour from Cal Fire while working active emergencies like the current Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them say the experience alone is worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even do it for the money,” said Herrera. “Because at the end of the day, giving back to the community, knowing you’re providing a service … you can’t put a price on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those who wish to continue the work after their release often find that their criminal record poses a major obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal Ramey, who co-founded the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program to help people through the process, said it’s especially difficult to get municipal firefighting jobs like the one Herrera trained in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs require EMT certification. That’s a particular hurdle because \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/22-CCR-100214.3\">California law\u003c/a> prohibits people with felony convictions from getting certified, effectively blocking many formerly incarcerated firefighters from jobs at county or city fire stations — jobs that tend to provide good benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, work to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To try to ease some of those barriers, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/11/governor-newsom-signs-bill-eliminating-barriers-that-block-former-inmate-fire-crews-from-becoming-career-firefighters-after-serving-their-sentences/\">AB 2147\u003c/a> in 2020. It allows nonviolent offenders who fought fires with prison crews to petition to get their records expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not a sure thing, said Ramey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are eligible for expungement, but it’s up to the judge’s discretion. So it all depends on the situation, the crime, how long they’ve been out, have they been rehabilitated, what have they been doing since they’ve been home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esteban Núñez, a member of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, has been communicating with state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles — \u003c/strong>Many Pacific Palisades locals, current and former, have been following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kent.steffes.5\">Facebook feed of 56-year-old Kent Steffes\u003c/a>. He lives in nearby Brentwood now and hasn’t lost his home, but perhaps that’s given him the emotional bandwidth to share more effectively with others what’s happened to their old neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overlooking the Pacific Ocean like its neighbors Malibu and Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades is an affluent neighborhood by any measure. It’s home to celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hanks. Median home values often exceed $3 million. Luxury homes sell for tens of millions. But many of the families who’ve lost their homes are not fabulously wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What most people don’t know is that a lot of the homes are owned by people who can’t afford to live here anymore. They won’t be able to rebuild,” Steffes said. That’s because many family members can’t afford to buy the homes they own at the current market rate. “They couldn’t afford to get a mortgage on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his 20-year-old daughter, Katharine Steffes, who also attended Palisades High (partially burned), we toured the neighborhood as it lay smoking. “All my friends live here,” the sophomore at the University of Notre Dame said. “I don’t know if this place will ever be the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kent Steffes’ family moved to the Pacific Palisades highlands in 1973 when he was 5. His dad, an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Co., bought a home for $75,000, which would be around $533,000 in today’s dollars. The house had five bedrooms, although many homes built in “Pali” in the 1960s and ’70s featured two or three bedrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“What most people don’t know is that a lot of the homes are owned by people who can’t afford to live here anymore. They won’t be able to rebuild,” said Kent Steffes, 56, who grew up in Pacific Palisades. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You were always outside biking or riding skateboards around town,” said Steffes, who grew up to win the inaugural beach volleyball gold medal at the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics\">1996 Summer Olympics\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta\">Atlanta\u003c/a>. He works in finance now. “There was always someplace to explore and have fun and plenty of friends to do it with. We ran out of the house in the morning and didn’t come home until the street lights came on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the decades passed, the neighborhood grew wealthier. By the time Steffes was in his 30s, many modest three- to four-bedroom homes were giving way to “McMansions,” double the size, on the same small lots. Big or small, the original owners aged and died and passed on their homes to their children, as Kent Steffes’ parents did. “We just sold that home last year for $2.5 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, passed in 1978, family members who inherited properties were essentially given the original property tax rate. Steffes’ parents paid about $4,000 in property taxes. Steffes said the people who bought the house last year pay about $37,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the much higher tax rate, a lot of insurance plans cover only the value of the house as it is, not the cost to rebuild according to modern building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’ll say, ‘Hey, your house is worth $300,000,’” Steffes said hypothetically. “But it’ll cost you $1 million to rebuild that same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Wallace, a real estate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/the-situation-is-dire-why-prof-nancy-wallace-researches-wildfire-risk/\">lost her own home\u003c/a> to the Oakland Hills fire of 1991. She’s now considered an expert in price modeling and wildfire “mispricing,” as she puts it, in the insurance market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1216px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1216\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3.jpg 1216w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1216px) 100vw, 1216px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquez Charter Elementary School was destroyed in the Palisades fire, erasing cherished childhood memories for countless individuals. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kent Steffes )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Insurance adjusters are not your friends,” she said. “They’re not there to sympathize. They’re there to minimize the payout of their company. It might be dressed up with nice words, but that is the challenge that you’re facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due in large part to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020835/southern-california-fires-could-be-most-expensive-us-history\">climate-change-driven wildfires\u003c/a>, hundreds of thousands of Californians have lost their insurance policies altogether in 2024. This has forced many homeowners to turn to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992401/homeowners-insurance-market-stretched-even-thinner-as-2-more-companies-leave-california\">California FAIR Plan\u003c/a>, a state-mandated insurance market of last resort, which often provides more expensive and limited coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Farm, the largest insurer group in California,\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-insurance-e31bef0ed7eeddcde096a5b8f2c1768f\"> announced a halt\u003c/a> to new homeowner insurance policies in the state in 2023 and began canceling or non-renewing policies for tens of thousands of properties in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021911 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_01810_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a spokesman told KQED State Farm still insures 250,000 homes and “As of Tuesday, Jan. 14, we’ve begun to process over 6,700 home and auto claims, already putting tens of millions of dollars back into customers’ hands. We are prepared to address the growing number of claims expected as residents return and assess damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allstate paused the sale of homeowners insurance policies for new customers in 2022. “We continue to offer coverage to most existing homeowners insurance customers,” an Allstate spokesperson wrote KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on Wallace’s analysis, about 1 million California homes are in high- or very high-risk areas, with 2 million to 4.5 million more in vulnerable wildland-urban interface zones. The time it takes to rebuild a home after a wildfire varies significantly depending on the severity of the damage, availability of contractors, and compliance with updated building codes, but Wallace estimates it could take up to four years to rebuild a home destroyed by a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four years is a lifetime for many people,” she said but noted the incentives in the current system are to rebuild, and for those with the money to rebuild, build back bigger and more expensively. That’s if they have insurance policies that will meet the demand now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/los-angeles-fire-losses-reach-30-billion-insurers/story?id=117653563\">how expensive\u003c/a> the Palisades Fire is expected to be, Wallace warned the California insurance market could fail because many insurance policies are too generous given the actual risks, and the state insurance commissioner’s office has only recently begun to allow the industry to adjust for the changing reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these factors exacerbate the trend toward gentrification in Pacific Palisades and neighborhoods like it, meaning home ownership in those places is becoming infeasible for any but the most wealthy Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Wallace said, many homeowners in Pacific Palisades will choose to do what she did after the Oakland Hills fire took her home: move out of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The house had five bedrooms, although many homes built in “Pali” in the 1960s and ’70s featured two or three bedrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“What most people don’t know is that a lot of the homes are owned by people who can’t afford to live here anymore. They won’t be able to rebuild,” said Kent Steffes, 56, who grew up in Pacific Palisades. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You were always outside biking or riding skateboards around town,” said Steffes, who grew up to win the inaugural beach volleyball gold medal at the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics\">1996 Summer Olympics\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta\">Atlanta\u003c/a>. He works in finance now. “There was always someplace to explore and have fun and plenty of friends to do it with. We ran out of the house in the morning and didn’t come home until the street lights came on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the decades passed, the neighborhood grew wealthier. By the time Steffes was in his 30s, many modest three- to four-bedroom homes were giving way to “McMansions,” double the size, on the same small lots. Big or small, the original owners aged and died and passed on their homes to their children, as Kent Steffes’ parents did. “We just sold that home last year for $2.5 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, passed in 1978, family members who inherited properties were essentially given the original property tax rate. Steffes’ parents paid about $4,000 in property taxes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a spokesman told KQED State Farm still insures 250,000 homes and “As of Tuesday, Jan. 14, we’ve begun to process over 6,700 home and auto claims, already putting tens of millions of dollars back into customers’ hands. We are prepared to address the growing number of claims expected as residents return and assess damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allstate paused the sale of homeowners insurance policies for new customers in 2022. “We continue to offer coverage to most existing homeowners insurance customers,” an Allstate spokesperson wrote KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on Wallace’s analysis, about 1 million California homes are in high- or very high-risk areas, with 2 million to 4.5 million more in vulnerable wildland-urban interface zones. The time it takes to rebuild a home after a wildfire varies significantly depending on the severity of the damage, availability of contractors, and compliance with updated building codes, but Wallace estimates it could take up to four years to rebuild a home destroyed by a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four years is a lifetime for many people,” she said but noted the incentives in the current system are to rebuild, and for those with the money to rebuild, build back bigger and more expensively. That’s if they have insurance policies that will meet the demand now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/los-angeles-fire-losses-reach-30-billion-insurers/story?id=117653563\">how expensive\u003c/a> the Palisades Fire is expected to be, Wallace warned the California insurance market could fail because many insurance policies are too generous given the actual risks, and the state insurance commissioner’s office has only recently begun to allow the industry to adjust for the changing reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these factors exacerbate the trend toward gentrification in Pacific Palisades and neighborhoods like it, meaning home ownership in those places is becoming infeasible for any but the most wealthy Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Wallace said, many homeowners in Pacific Palisades will choose to do what she did after the Oakland Hills fire took her home: move out of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The suggestion that Congress should place conditions on relief aid needed by thousands of Californians provoked a mixed response from state leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Jackson, who leads the San Francisco Republican Party, said it would be appropriate to put stipulations on federal assistance. 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Californians, Jackson claimed, should consider how much risk is associated with building in certain areas and what measures can be taken to make sure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">a neighborhood is more resilient to wildfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021435 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAPalisadesFireAP-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he disagrees with tying relief considerations to political issues like the country’s debt ceiling, which Johnson and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">other Republican politicians\u003c/a> have suggested, Jackson said state officials should feel the pressure to be fiscally responsible when it comes to recovering from the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rules and policies have to change to force the state and localities to make shifts that dramatically reduce the chances that people are going to come back to the federal government for a large bailout in the future,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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This is a time for all of us to come together and take care of our fellow Californians who have lost everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office did not immediately respond to questions about whether Newsom’s proposals will be included in the existing Trump-related legislation or if he fully agrees with legislative leaders on the Trump-related legal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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