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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110423\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/08/fire-east-of-mount-diablo-morgan-territory/mtdiablofire/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110423\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110423\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/MtDiablofire-e1378711145703.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan Fire, burning east of Mount Diablo, as seen from Lafayette late Sunday night. At least 800 acres have burned southeast of the town of Clayton. (Susan Welty)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Fire, burning east of Mount Diablo, as seen from Lafayette late Sunday night. At least 800 acres have burned southeast of the town of Clayton. (Susan Welty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday night and Monday, the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=908\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Fire\u003c/a> on Mount Diablo looked like it might run wild for days. But then the weather turned around, literally. Hot, dry conditions gave way to cooler, more humid weather, and the northeasterly wind that had driven the fire across more than 3,000 acres in its first 24 hours swung around to the west and southwest. The more than 1,400 firefighters brought in to combat the blaze quickly contained it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the fire is at 90 percent containment as of this morning, said Cal Fire spokesman Steve Kaufmann. Fire crews expect to have the blaze completely contained by Friday, and today a \"significant demobilization\" of fire crews is planned, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire started off of Morgan Territory Road near Mount Diablo State Park, southeast of Clayton, shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday. Since then, more than 1,370 fire personnel from more than a dozen agencies have responded to the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a body was \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/disasters/body-found-inside-perimeter-clover-fire/nZtJ6/\">discovered\u003c/a> inside the perimeter of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=910\">Clover Fire\u003c/a> in Shasta County, which has consumed nearly 8,000 acres and is not expected to be contained until Sunday. The coroner's office identified the victim, whose body was found inside a house, as Brian Stanley Henry, 56. The causes of both the Morgan and Clover fires remain under investigation.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on Mount Diablo, crews are focused on holding the perimeter around the blaze and ensuring that the winds that tend to blow through the area in the afternoon don't cause any flare-ups, Kaufmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because the humidity is so low, we just want to make sure everything is out before we leave the area,\" he said. \"We are being extra-cautious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since grasses, trees and other fuel in the area were already dried out, the fire was able to spread much more quickly than it would have during a year with more rainfall, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both in the Morgan Fire and in wildfires throughout the state, he said, \"We're seeing fire behavior that's super-extraordinary, because it's so dry and those fuel beds are so receptive to fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the cause of the fire remains under investigation, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Capt. Robert Marshall said fire investigators have ruled out natural causes, such as lightning strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, investigators are looking into causes related to human activity, which can range from discarded cigarette butts and unattended campfires to a dragging chain on a vehicle sparking flames, Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a million different things that could happen,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents from about 100 houses that were threatened by the fire have been allowed to return home since evacuations were ordered Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110598\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/morgan-fire-update-weather-helps-crews-corral-mount-diablo-blaze/rs6614_67715_87e1c720e23de9e685a85c9a82982e89_1b482184743ed40817a0d3f2b1e85bc8-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110598\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110598\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6614_67715_87e1c720e23de9e685a85c9a82982e89_1b482184743ed40817a0d3f2b1e85bc8-hpf-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Diablo burns in image taken Sunday evening, the first evening of the Morgan fire. (Photo courtesy of Karl Frankowski, @karlfrankowski)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo burns in image taken Sunday evening, the first evening of the Morgan fire. (Photo courtesy of Karl Frankowski, @karlfrankowski)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=908\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Fire updated\u003c/a> its acreage and containment estimates this morning. The agency now says the fire has burned 3,133 acres (that's down from estimates of 3,700 acres Monday evening and 3,243 acres Tuesday) and is 70 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous post (6 p.m. Tuesday): \u003c/strong>In a sign of the dramatic apparent progress made in the fight against the Morgan Fire east of Mount Diablo, Cal Fire says all evacuation orders have been lifted as of 6 p.m. tonight. About 100 residents of ranches and homes were ordered to leave Sunday evening as the fire advanced through the hilly terrain southeast of Clayton. Officials say the fire has burned across 3,243 acres, the same as reported early this morning. They report the fire is 60 percent contained compared to 45 percent this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Morganfire&src=hash\">#Morganfire\u003c/a> [update] As of 6:00 pm tonight, all evacuation orders and the remaining road closure will be lifted on the Morgan Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/statuses/377604961619562496\">September 11, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here's another sign that things have changed on the fire front: a photo tweeted by CBS San Francisco reporter Cate Caguiran. You might ask yourself: Where's all the fire and smoke we saw yesterday? One possible factor: Shifting winds last night pushed the fire back into areas that burned Sunday night and early Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>We're atop Mt. Diablo getting a look at the aftermath of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MorganFire&src=hash\">#MorganFire\u003c/a> Firefighters say most flames are out \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CBSSF\">@CBSSF\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/ietRS21tPH\">pic.twitter.com/ietRS21tPH\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Cate Cauguiran (@CateCauguiran) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CateCauguiran/statuses/377517548029632513\">September 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=908\" target=\"_blank\">is reporting \u003c/a>that crews have made significant progress overnight in containing the wildfire burning on and around Mount Diablo. Officials downsized their estimate of acreage burned to 3,243 acres and say the blaze, which started Sunday afternoon in an area of ranches and homes near Morgan Territory Road southeast of Clayton, is now 45 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooler, more humid weather overnight aided firefighters, who are busy this morning building new containment lines on the northeastern and western edges of the blaze. Cal Fire says 11 helicopters will be working on the fire today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the challenge isn't over. Officials say they're diverting some resources from the Mount Diablo blaze to fight the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=910\" target=\"_blank\">Clover Fire\u003c/a>, a 7,400-acre blaze near Redding (Shasta County). That fire started Monday afternoon. It has \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/2013/sep/10/tuesday-clover-fire-update-20-structures-destroyed/\" target=\"_blank\">destroyed 80 structures\u003c/a> and threatens 300 more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal Fire, the Clover Fire \"continues to move in a southwest direction and has potential to grow due to north winds and low humidity recovery. Structures in the area continue to be threatened and evacuations are in effect. Transmission and distribution power lines are at continued risk and the Clear Creek Water District Pump Station was damaged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clover Fire is reported to be about 40 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MorganFire&src=hash\">#MorganFire\u003c/a> [update] SE of Clayton (Contra Costa County) is now 3,243 acres & 45% contained. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/7NvIKq44z9\">http://t.co/7NvIKq44z9\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/statuses/377431378100355072\">September 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110423\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/08/fire-east-of-mount-diablo-morgan-territory/mtdiablofire/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110423\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110423\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/MtDiablofire-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan Fire, burning east of Mount Diablo, as seen from Lafayette late Sunday night. At least 3,700 acres have burned southeast of the town of Clayton. (Susan Welty) \" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Fire, burning east of Mount Diablo, as seen from Lafayette late Sunday night. At least 3,700 acres have burned southeast of the town of Clayton. (Susan Welty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our latest update:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/morgan-fire-update-weather-helps-crews-corral-mount-diablo-blaze/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather Helps Crews Corral Mount Diablo Blaze\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:45 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>The wildfire burning on and around Mount Diablo in central Contra Costa County has grown rapidly today. \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire says\u003c/a> the fire has covered 3,700 acres and is now 20 percent contained. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201308301630/b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DC-10 jumbo jets\u003c/a> outfitted to drop 100,000 pounds of fire retardant on a single run have reportedly been called in to help in the fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire has been visible in much of the Bay Area. The huge plume drifting south from the blaze prompted the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to issue \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/5CB24B9BABF040A4A01284A5631CF1D1.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a smoke advisory\u003c/a> this afternoon for residents of Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze began Sunday afternoon in a sparsely populated area of homes and small ranches southeast of the town of Clayton. The rapidly moving fire prompted \u003ca href=\"http://claycord.com/2013/09/08/urgent-evacuations-ordered-in-clayton-due-to-fire-on-morgan-territory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mandatory evacuations for residents of about 100 ranches and homes in the area. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tara Siler offered an update this morning from fire information officer Lewis Broschard of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The fire is burning in very steep, rugged terrain on the eastern slope of Mount Diablo. The fuel and topography is such that the fire will continue to spread. We are going to be working at getting additional containment. Approximately 500 firefighters are going to be working the lines today and we do have aircraft en route to the fire as we speak to support ground operations. But the fire is burning in an area of the park that hasn’t burned for a very long period of time and the fire is well established right now. The fire did burn actively all night and we did obviously see a large increase in the number of acres burned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire announced several road closures in the Clayton area and in the rural area east of the mountain (open to residents only, with photo identification). Marsh Creek Road closed from Camino Diablo to Regency Road in Clayton. Morgan Territory Road is closed from Marsh Creek Road to Highland Road (Alameda County).\u003cbr>\nPersons needing to evacuate large animals may take them to the Heather Farms Equestrian Center in Walnut Creek. For more information, please visit: www.ecwc.org or call 925-939-2929.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately below: a cool six-second time lapse of Mount Diablo as it burned Sunday night:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSFbUysN_I]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a Storify collection of fire coverage this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"storify\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//storify.com/danbrekke/morgan-fire-burns-east-of-mount-diablo/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\">\u003c/iframe>[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/danbrekke/morgan-fire-burns-east-of-mount-diablo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the story “Morgan Fire Burns East of Mount Diablo” on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>***\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Original post (5 p.m. Sunday):\u003c/strong> A wildfire that broke out earlier this afternoon near Morgan Territory Road southeast of the town of Clayton has burned about 300 acres in just three hours. \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire reports\u003c/a> the fire, burning in a relatively sparsely populated area near the eastern boundary of Mount Diablo State Park, is about 10 percent contained. Cal Fire says 50 to 75 structures are threatened. \u003ca href=\"http://claycord.com/2013/09/08/urgent-evacuations-ordered-in-clayton-due-to-fire-on-morgan-territory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County authorities broadcast orders\u003c/a> for an immediate evacuation for residents of the Oak Hill Lane and Curry Creek Road area. That’s about 5 miles southeast of downtown Clayton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MorganFire&src=hash\">#MorganFire\u003c/a> [update] off Morgan Territory Rd, near Clayton (Contra Costa County) is now 300 acres & 10% contained. Evacuations in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/statuses/376849066912534528\">September 8, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire also says that about 200 firefighters are on the scene, backed up by four fixed-wing air tankers and three helicopters. \u003ca href=\"http://dropc.am/p/fQd40N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A webcam \u003c/a>apparently positioned southwest of Mount Diablo shows the top of the peak enveloped in smoke, even though it’s apparently several miles from where the fire is burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For historical context: Mount Diablo was the scene of \u003ca href=\"http://claycord.com/2011/09/10/a-look-back-at-the-6000-acre-fire-on-mt-diablo-in-the-year-1977/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a major wildfire in August 1977\u003c/a>, when lightning ignited drought-parched chaparral and burned more than 6,000 acres on and around the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comments on the \u003ca title=\"http://claycord.com/\" href=\"http://claycord.com/2013/09/08/urgent-evacuations-ordered-in-clayton-due-to-fire-on-morgan-territory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claycord\u003c/a> community news site include this account of residents leaving the fire zone:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I called Camp 4 Paws at 5 PM to ask if they needed help evacuating the dogs. 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As the San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Yosemite-fire-threatening-SF-s-water-supply-4766176.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Wednesday\u003c/a>, ecologists say the real danger to Hetch Hetchy may be months or years ahead. Damage in the reservoir’s 450-square-mile watershed could lead to soil- and debris-laden runoff winding up in the lake. That in turn would force city officials to devise a way to filter the water it ships to 2.5 million residents in San Francisco, the Peninsula and parts of Alameda County.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Now, about that National Guard drone. 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(California National Guard/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rim Fire near Yosemite (California National Guard/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Dan Brekke\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest (8 a.m. Thursday): \u003c/strong>Fire officials say crews are making steady progress against the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> on the western boundary of Yosemite National Park. They say a California Air National Guard drone is playing a key role in helping firefighters respond to new outbreaks around the edge of the giant blaze, which has now consumed 192,737 acres, or 301 square miles. The fire is now the sixth largest on \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire’s list of the 20 largest wildfires\u003c/a> in the state since 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Key details: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Containment grows:\u003c/strong> The joint federal-state fire command says 4,840 firefighters are on the lines now. They report the fire is 30 percent contained and will probably take another three weeks to fully surround. The cost of fighting the fire so far? $39 million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Still threatened:\u003c/strong> The blaze continues to threaten about 4,500 homes. Eleven residences have burned so far, along with about 100 other structures, mostly tent cabins at Berkeley’s Tuolumne Family Camp.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bad air:\u003c/strong> A large swath of the Sierra Nevada and foothills continue to languish under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/28/rim-fire-air-quality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blanket of heavy smoke\u003c/a> from the fire. Unhealthy air is forecast for most of the Lake Tahoe-Carson City-Reno area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hetch Hetchy water and power: \u003c/strong>San Francisco utility officials continue to say they’ve seen no change in water quality in supplies shipped from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. The fire reached the southern edge of the reservoir earlier this week and ash has been falling on the surface. As the San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Yosemite-fire-threatening-SF-s-water-supply-4766176.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Wednesday\u003c/a>, ecologists say the real danger to Hetch Hetchy may be months or years ahead. Damage in the reservoir’s 450-square-mile watershed could lead to soil- and debris-laden runoff winding up in the lake. That in turn would force city officials to devise a way to filter the water it ships to 2.5 million residents in San Francisco, the Peninsula and parts of Alameda County.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Now, about that National Guard drone. Here’s what the Associated Press reports this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The California National Guard drone deployed Wednesday was being remotely piloted hundreds of miles away, allowing ground commanders to keep an eye out for new fires they otherwise wouldn’t have immediately seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drone is providing data directly back to the incident commander, allowing him to make quick decisions about which resources to deploy and where,” Berlant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, officials relied on helicopters that needed to refuel every two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While unmanned aircraft have mapped past fires, use of the Predator will be the longest sustained mission by a drone in California to broadcast information to firefighters in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plane, the size of a small Cessna, will remain over the burn zone for up to 22 hours at a time, allowing fire commanders to monitor fire activity, determine the fire’s direction of movement, the extent of containment and confirm new fires ignited by lightning or flying embers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drone is being flown by the 163rd Wing of the California National Guard at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside and is operating from Victorville Airport, both in Southern California. It generally flew over unpopulated areas on its 300-mile flight to the Rim Fire. Outside the fire area, it will be escorted by a manned aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials were careful to point out the images are being used only to aid in the effort to contain the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009 a NASA Predator equipped with an infrared imaging sensor helped the U.S. Forest Service assess damage from a fire in Angeles National Forest. In 2008, a drone capable of detecting hot spots helped firefighters assess movement of a series of wildfires stretching from Southern California’s Lake Arrowhead to San Diego.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/smokecloud082113a/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108350\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/smokecloud082113a.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Updates\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/2013/08/25/2884465/fighting-the-flames-residents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modesto Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.uniondemocrat.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonora Union Democrat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myMotherLode.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>SF not “scrambling” to relocate water supply, says SFPUC\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen some \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/08/26/officials-try-to-protect-giant-sequoias-from-california-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlines\u003c/a> out there about the Rim Fire threatening San Francisco’s water supply as it moves closer to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. AP wrote that water officials “were scrambling to fill area reservoirs with water from Hetch Hetchy before ash taints supplies.” This morning, on KQED’s “Forum,” SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly said the agency was indeed concerned that the ash produced by the fire would eventually work its way into the water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Sheehan, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told KQED’s Dan Brekke this afternoon that “there is some ash but most of the water is clear.” And he also emphatically denied the city was “scrambling” to move water into other reservoirs. Sheehan said that San Francisco had started to ship water from Hetch Hetchy to its Bay Area reservoirs as part of a seasonal move to begin to free up capacity at Hetch Hetchy in anticipation of the upcoming rainy season. He emphasized that those water shipments were standard practice for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan also told Brekke that water officials have seen no indication of a change in quality of Hetch Hetchy water. He said remote monitoring is ongoing all along the system, and so far there’s no sign of any change in the level of particles in the water. He mentioned, as many others from SFPUC have, that water from Hetch Hetchy is drawn through an outlet 270 feet below the lake surface. That’s relevant because it means the water there is more likely to be free of contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit too soon to speculate” on the longer-term impact on water quality or how the city would address it, Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can see the latest data on the \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/selectQuery?station_id=HHY&sensor_num=15&dur_code=E&start_date=&end_date=now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water level at Hetch Hetchy at this California Department of Water Resources link\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The latest from AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Containment of the Rim Fire more than doubled to 15 percent, although it was within a mile of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the source of San Francisco’s famously pure drinking water, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s the water supply of the city of San Francisco, so we’re paying a lot of attention to that,” said Glen Stratton, an operations section chief on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which has grown to 234 square miles in size, also posed a threat to giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park. Crews were using sprinklers and lighting fires to clear brush, though the fire remained several miles from the massive trees, Stratton said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Julie Hutchinson, battalion chief for Cal Fire in Riverside, said on KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201308260930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum”\u003c/a> this morning that the weather is the wild card in fighting the fire. “A wind shift in any direction can cause the fire to make runs in the direction that the wind is pushing it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on on “Forum” this morning, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly said that the fire’s close proximity to Hetch Hetchy has not affected the ability to deliver water and power to meet the city’s needs. But he also said the agency was concerned about the ash produced by the fire that would eventually work its way into the water supply. More from AP on this aspect of the story …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ash from the 234-square-mile fire has been falling on the reservoir, but so far hasn’t sunk far enough into the lake to reach intake pumps, Kelly said. Water quality remained good on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from Hetch Hetchy as well as power for municipal buildings, the international airport and San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kelly said on “Forum” that two of the three area plants used to generate power for the city have been taken offline. The remaining plant is producing less than a third of the power the city typically needs, he said, and power purchased on the open market is being used to make up the gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/rim-fire-destroys-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuolumne Family Camp was destroyed by the fire\u003c/a> (info on refunds at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Parks_Rec_Waterfront/Recreation/Tuolumne_Camp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city of Berkeley’s website\u003c/a>), San Francisco Rec & Park is reporting that the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/camp-mather-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Mather site has sustained only minor damage\u003c/a>. The Strawberry Music festival, however, scheduled for Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 at the camp, has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.strawberrymusic.com/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Yosemite National Park goes, the National Park Service says that as of 9:30 a.m. most of the park was not affected and is “relatively smoke free.” However, there are multiple closures of roads, campsites, trails and other attractions. Look at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/rimfire.htm\">National Park Service’s Rim Fire update page\u003c/a> to find out what those are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the White House announced today that President Obama had called Gov. Jerry Brown for an update on the fires. Brown got his own briefing at a fire base camp today. Said Brown …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov\">@JerryBrownGov\u003c/a> on costs of CA fires: “We’re going to ask the President to prob pitch in some more before the season is over.” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RimFire&src=hash\">#RimFire\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Myers (@johnmyers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/statuses/372064003784060930\">August 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In other fire news, some evacuated residents from communities like Pine Mountain Lake are now returning. Fire officials say crews defended the town with a fire break that slowed the spread of the blaze. Maggie Dowd, a Groveland district ranger for the Stanislaus National Forest, said residents had done a lot to minimize damage from fires by limbing trees and clearing brush around their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Pine Mountain Lake,” Dowd said, “and as a resident we are expected to do defensible space every year. We have a certain period of time to do that, and if we don’t, then we are fined. And I think that over the past couple of years they’ve had a lot of success with residents, and if fire was to come to that larger community it wouldn’t have engulfed it as it has in other populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Monday, 8:10 a.m.: \u003c/strong> Fire officials say the fire has now burned just under 150,000 acres. That moves the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> up to No.13 on Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list\u003c/a> of the biggest fires in state history. The blaze is also now the biggest recorded in the Sierra Nevada since at least the 1930s, the earliest date on the Cal Fire list. The state fire agency warned in an advisory early this morning that conditions today will continue to be tough: “Winds again today will pose a challenge with gusts of 26 mph out of the south, pushing the fire further to the northeast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news this morning: Cal Fire says containment on the fire doubled this morning from 7 percent to 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other developments early Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Berkeley’s much-loved Tuolumne Family Camp became a casualty of the fire. KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/breaking-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp-burns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside reports the fire swept through the 90-year-old camp on Sunday. KGO-TV just posted this video of the burned camp:\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Earlier update: (11:45 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 25):\u003c/strong> Federal and state fire officials say the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> has now burned about 144,000 acres, or 225 square miles. That makes it the 14th biggest fire in California history (or at least since 1932, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Cal Fire’s official list\u003c/a>). But that total also signals a slowdown in the growth of the fire, which trebled in size from Wednesday into Thursday, then more than doubled again from Thursday through Friday evening. More than 2,800 firefighters are battling the blaze, which is 7 percent contained. Crews made enough progress on securing firelines that officials Saturday evening lifted an evacuation advisory for two communities, Pine Mountain Lake and Buck Meadows. About 4,500 residences are still threatened. Officials say 23 structures have burned, including at least four homes. Despite tentative signs of progress in fighting the blaze, officials say the fire is far from tamed. From the latest Associated Press report:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Overnight the fire grew 7 square miles as firefighters gained little ground in slowing the now 207-square-mile blaze, said Daniel Berlant of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, unfortunately, we are expecting strong winds out of the south,” he said. “It’s going to allow the fire to advance to the northeast.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nFire officials are using bulldozers to clear contingency lines on the Rim Fire’s north side to protect the towns of Tuolumne City, Ponderosa Hills and Twain Hart. The lines are being cut a mile ahead of the fire in locations where fire officials hope they will help protect the communities should the fire jump containment lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high winds and movement of the fire from bone-dry brush on the ground to 100-foot oak and pine treetops have created dire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crown fire is much more difficult to fight,” Berlant told The Associated Press Sunday. “Our firefighters are on the ground having to spray up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco officials said Sunday the fire still has had no impact on the quality of water from the city’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>They added that utilities crews are returning today to the Kirkwood Powerhouse, shut down last week when the fire swept through the canyons downstream from the reservoir, to start repairs. A second generating facility, the Holm Powerhouse, was also shut down. Crews haven’t been able to make it back to that facility to assess any fire damage that occurred there. The generating stations normally supply power to the Municipal Railway transit system and a wide array of other municipal facilities, including San Francisco’s City Hall and San Francisco General Hospital. The city says it has spent $600,000 so far to buy power to replace the normal supply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tuolumne County education officials have \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/2224644/Silva-All-Tuolumne-County-Schools-Closed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled school\u003c/a> for tomorrow and Tuesday. That’s partly out of concern for the difficulty of traveling through some areas of the county and party because of smoky, unhealthy air in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials in Yosemite National Park are taking special steps to protect the two groves of giant sequoias that the fire could threaten. Crews have cleared brush from around trees and installed sprinklers in the Tuolumne and Merced groves just in case. “All of the plants and trees in Yosemite are important, but the giant sequoias are incredibly important both for what they are and as symbols of the National Park System,” park spokesman Scott Gediman told the Associated Press.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More on the fire:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC’s “Fire Tracker” graphic summary of the blaze:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/rim-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Saturday, Aug. 24): \u003c/strong>Acting on a request from San Francisco officials, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has issued an emergency declaration\u003c/a> to help the city cope with the Rim Fire’s potential impacts to the Hetch Hetchy water and hydropower system. City utility officials shut down two of the system’s three powerhouses and nearby electrical transmission lines last Saturday as the fire began to sweep through steep, heavily wooded terrain west of Yosemite National Park. The power generated in the system is used to run the Municipal Railway transit system, City Hall, police and fire stations, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco International Airport and other municipal facilities. For now the city is replacing that electricity by using power banked with PG&E or by buying it from other suppliers on the open market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, deputy general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told us this afternoon that there’s no suggestion in the emergency declaration — or in the potential damage to the city’s electricity-generating facilities near Yosemite — that power will be interrupted to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other developments Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The joint federal/state fire command says the fire has burned 125,620 acres—about 200 square miles. That’s more than four times the area of San Francisco or equivalent to the entire area of San Jose and Santa Clara.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fire officials reported the fire is 5 percent contained. They continue to rate the blaze’s growth potential as “extreme” due to inaccessible terrain and very dry conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials say 23 structures, including four homes, have burned. AP reports 5,500 homes are threatened, and officials have issued evacuation advisories for several towns and hamlets west of Yosemite. Resorts and summer camps in the area have also been shut down.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Brown’s Friday night declaration, which cited the possibility of a temporary interruption to power and water deliveries from the Hetch Hetchy system, frees state resources to help the city deal with any damage to its infrastructure. The state declaration also makes it possible for the city to ask for federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, the SFPUC’s deputy general manager, said that utility crews are in the fire zone today to try to assess the condition of power facilities shut down last weekend after the fire started. Carlin said a full assessment of 12.5 miles of transmission lines and two powerhouses probably won’t be finished until Monday or Tuesday. Crews are visiting the Kirkwood powerhouse, 12 miles below O’Shaughnessy Dam, to see how much damage it sustained as the fire burned in the area. Inspection of power lines and the Holm Powerhouse, downstream of the system’s Cherry Lake reservoir, is on hold today. Carlin said crews are checking the condition of service roads and other forest routes and waiting for an all-clear from fire officials to access the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the city’s Hetch Hetchy water supply goes, Carlin said there’s no sign yet the fire has affected water from the system’s main reservoir behind O’Shaugnessy Dam. He said the reservoir has been off-limits to everyone but fire personnel, “So we’ve had no eyes on the water there.” But he said remote monitoring of the water supply at the Kirkwood Powerhouse and at other downstream locations has shown no change in the water’s clarity. City officials have noted that Hetch Hetchy water is transported toward the Bay Area in underground pipelines and should be safe from ash and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlin said if Hetch Hetchy water quality is seriously degraded, the city would tap its water resources closer to the Bay Area—San Antonio and Calaveras reservoirs in Alameda County and the Crystal Springs reservoirs in San Mateo County. Customers would get at least 36 hours’ notice if that happens, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interruption of the flow of Hetch Hetchy water would reach far beyond San Francisco. The system serves not only the city’s businesses and 800,000 residents, but also 1.7 million people on the Peninsula and Alameda County.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/smokecloud082113a/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108350\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/smokecloud082113a.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Updates\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/2013/08/25/2884465/fighting-the-flames-residents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modesto Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.uniondemocrat.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonora Union Democrat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myMotherLode.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>SF not “scrambling” to relocate water supply, says SFPUC\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen some \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/08/26/officials-try-to-protect-giant-sequoias-from-california-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlines\u003c/a> out there about the Rim Fire threatening San Francisco’s water supply as it moves closer to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. AP wrote that water officials “were scrambling to fill area reservoirs with water from Hetch Hetchy before ash taints supplies.” This morning, on KQED’s “Forum,” SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly said the agency was indeed concerned that the ash produced by the fire would eventually work its way into the water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Sheehan, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told KQED’s Dan Brekke this afternoon that “there is some ash but most of the water is clear.” And he also emphatically denied the city was “scrambling” to move water into other reservoirs. Sheehan said that San Francisco had started to ship water from Hetch Hetchy to its Bay Area reservoirs as part of a seasonal move to begin to free up capacity at Hetch Hetchy in anticipation of the upcoming rainy season. He emphasized that those water shipments were standard practice for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan also told Brekke that water officials have seen no indication of a change in quality of Hetch Hetchy water. He said remote monitoring is ongoing all along the system, and so far there’s no sign of any change in the level of particles in the water. He mentioned, as many others from SFPUC have, that water from Hetch Hetchy is drawn through an outlet 270 feet below the lake surface. That’s relevant because it means the water there is more likely to be free of contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit too soon to speculate” on the longer-term impact on water quality or how the city would address it, Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can see the latest data on the \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/selectQuery?station_id=HHY&sensor_num=15&dur_code=E&start_date=&end_date=now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water level at Hetch Hetchy at this California Department of Water Resources link\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The latest from AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Containment of the Rim Fire more than doubled to 15 percent, although it was within a mile of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the source of San Francisco’s famously pure drinking water, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s the water supply of the city of San Francisco, so we’re paying a lot of attention to that,” said Glen Stratton, an operations section chief on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which has grown to 234 square miles in size, also posed a threat to giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park. Crews were using sprinklers and lighting fires to clear brush, though the fire remained several miles from the massive trees, Stratton said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Julie Hutchinson, battalion chief for Cal Fire in Riverside, said on KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201308260930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum”\u003c/a> this morning that the weather is the wild card in fighting the fire. “A wind shift in any direction can cause the fire to make runs in the direction that the wind is pushing it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on on “Forum” this morning, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly said that the fire’s close proximity to Hetch Hetchy has not affected the ability to deliver water and power to meet the city’s needs. But he also said the agency was concerned about the ash produced by the fire that would eventually work its way into the water supply. More from AP on this aspect of the story …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ash from the 234-square-mile fire has been falling on the reservoir, but so far hasn’t sunk far enough into the lake to reach intake pumps, Kelly said. Water quality remained good on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from Hetch Hetchy as well as power for municipal buildings, the international airport and San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kelly said on “Forum” that two of the three area plants used to generate power for the city have been taken offline. The remaining plant is producing less than a third of the power the city typically needs, he said, and power purchased on the open market is being used to make up the gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/rim-fire-destroys-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuolumne Family Camp was destroyed by the fire\u003c/a> (info on refunds at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Parks_Rec_Waterfront/Recreation/Tuolumne_Camp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city of Berkeley’s website\u003c/a>), San Francisco Rec & Park is reporting that the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/camp-mather-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Mather site has sustained only minor damage\u003c/a>. The Strawberry Music festival, however, scheduled for Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 at the camp, has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.strawberrymusic.com/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Yosemite National Park goes, the National Park Service says that as of 9:30 a.m. most of the park was not affected and is “relatively smoke free.” However, there are multiple closures of roads, campsites, trails and other attractions. Look at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/rimfire.htm\">National Park Service’s Rim Fire update page\u003c/a> to find out what those are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the White House announced today that President Obama had called Gov. Jerry Brown for an update on the fires. Brown got his own briefing at a fire base camp today. Said Brown …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov\">@JerryBrownGov\u003c/a> on costs of CA fires: “We’re going to ask the President to prob pitch in some more before the season is over.” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RimFire&src=hash\">#RimFire\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Myers (@johnmyers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/statuses/372064003784060930\">August 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In other fire news, some evacuated residents from communities like Pine Mountain Lake are now returning. Fire officials say crews defended the town with a fire break that slowed the spread of the blaze. Maggie Dowd, a Groveland district ranger for the Stanislaus National Forest, said residents had done a lot to minimize damage from fires by limbing trees and clearing brush around their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Pine Mountain Lake,” Dowd said, “and as a resident we are expected to do defensible space every year. We have a certain period of time to do that, and if we don’t, then we are fined. And I think that over the past couple of years they’ve had a lot of success with residents, and if fire was to come to that larger community it wouldn’t have engulfed it as it has in other populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Monday, 8:10 a.m.: \u003c/strong> Fire officials say the fire has now burned just under 150,000 acres. That moves the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> up to No.13 on Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list\u003c/a> of the biggest fires in state history. The blaze is also now the biggest recorded in the Sierra Nevada since at least the 1930s, the earliest date on the Cal Fire list. The state fire agency warned in an advisory early this morning that conditions today will continue to be tough: “Winds again today will pose a challenge with gusts of 26 mph out of the south, pushing the fire further to the northeast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news this morning: Cal Fire says containment on the fire doubled this morning from 7 percent to 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other developments early Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Berkeley’s much-loved Tuolumne Family Camp became a casualty of the fire. KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/breaking-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp-burns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside reports the fire swept through the 90-year-old camp on Sunday. KGO-TV just posted this video of the burned camp:\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Earlier update: (11:45 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 25):\u003c/strong> Federal and state fire officials say the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> has now burned about 144,000 acres, or 225 square miles. That makes it the 14th biggest fire in California history (or at least since 1932, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Cal Fire’s official list\u003c/a>). But that total also signals a slowdown in the growth of the fire, which trebled in size from Wednesday into Thursday, then more than doubled again from Thursday through Friday evening. More than 2,800 firefighters are battling the blaze, which is 7 percent contained. Crews made enough progress on securing firelines that officials Saturday evening lifted an evacuation advisory for two communities, Pine Mountain Lake and Buck Meadows. About 4,500 residences are still threatened. Officials say 23 structures have burned, including at least four homes. Despite tentative signs of progress in fighting the blaze, officials say the fire is far from tamed. From the latest Associated Press report:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Overnight the fire grew 7 square miles as firefighters gained little ground in slowing the now 207-square-mile blaze, said Daniel Berlant of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, unfortunately, we are expecting strong winds out of the south,” he said. “It’s going to allow the fire to advance to the northeast.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nFire officials are using bulldozers to clear contingency lines on the Rim Fire’s north side to protect the towns of Tuolumne City, Ponderosa Hills and Twain Hart. The lines are being cut a mile ahead of the fire in locations where fire officials hope they will help protect the communities should the fire jump containment lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high winds and movement of the fire from bone-dry brush on the ground to 100-foot oak and pine treetops have created dire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crown fire is much more difficult to fight,” Berlant told The Associated Press Sunday. “Our firefighters are on the ground having to spray up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco officials said Sunday the fire still has had no impact on the quality of water from the city’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>They added that utilities crews are returning today to the Kirkwood Powerhouse, shut down last week when the fire swept through the canyons downstream from the reservoir, to start repairs. A second generating facility, the Holm Powerhouse, was also shut down. Crews haven’t been able to make it back to that facility to assess any fire damage that occurred there. The generating stations normally supply power to the Municipal Railway transit system and a wide array of other municipal facilities, including San Francisco’s City Hall and San Francisco General Hospital. The city says it has spent $600,000 so far to buy power to replace the normal supply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tuolumne County education officials have \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/2224644/Silva-All-Tuolumne-County-Schools-Closed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled school\u003c/a> for tomorrow and Tuesday. That’s partly out of concern for the difficulty of traveling through some areas of the county and party because of smoky, unhealthy air in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials in Yosemite National Park are taking special steps to protect the two groves of giant sequoias that the fire could threaten. Crews have cleared brush from around trees and installed sprinklers in the Tuolumne and Merced groves just in case. “All of the plants and trees in Yosemite are important, but the giant sequoias are incredibly important both for what they are and as symbols of the National Park System,” park spokesman Scott Gediman told the Associated Press.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More on the fire:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC’s “Fire Tracker” graphic summary of the blaze:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/rim-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Saturday, Aug. 24): \u003c/strong>Acting on a request from San Francisco officials, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has issued an emergency declaration\u003c/a> to help the city cope with the Rim Fire’s potential impacts to the Hetch Hetchy water and hydropower system. City utility officials shut down two of the system’s three powerhouses and nearby electrical transmission lines last Saturday as the fire began to sweep through steep, heavily wooded terrain west of Yosemite National Park. The power generated in the system is used to run the Municipal Railway transit system, City Hall, police and fire stations, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco International Airport and other municipal facilities. For now the city is replacing that electricity by using power banked with PG&E or by buying it from other suppliers on the open market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, deputy general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told us this afternoon that there’s no suggestion in the emergency declaration — or in the potential damage to the city’s electricity-generating facilities near Yosemite — that power will be interrupted to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other developments Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The joint federal/state fire command says the fire has burned 125,620 acres—about 200 square miles. That’s more than four times the area of San Francisco or equivalent to the entire area of San Jose and Santa Clara.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fire officials reported the fire is 5 percent contained. They continue to rate the blaze’s growth potential as “extreme” due to inaccessible terrain and very dry conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials say 23 structures, including four homes, have burned. AP reports 5,500 homes are threatened, and officials have issued evacuation advisories for several towns and hamlets west of Yosemite. Resorts and summer camps in the area have also been shut down.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Brown’s Friday night declaration, which cited the possibility of a temporary interruption to power and water deliveries from the Hetch Hetchy system, frees state resources to help the city deal with any damage to its infrastructure. The state declaration also makes it possible for the city to ask for federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, the SFPUC’s deputy general manager, said that utility crews are in the fire zone today to try to assess the condition of power facilities shut down last weekend after the fire started. Carlin said a full assessment of 12.5 miles of transmission lines and two powerhouses probably won’t be finished until Monday or Tuesday. Crews are visiting the Kirkwood powerhouse, 12 miles below O’Shaughnessy Dam, to see how much damage it sustained as the fire burned in the area. Inspection of power lines and the Holm Powerhouse, downstream of the system’s Cherry Lake reservoir, is on hold today. Carlin said crews are checking the condition of service roads and other forest routes and waiting for an all-clear from fire officials to access the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the city’s Hetch Hetchy water supply goes, Carlin said there’s no sign yet the fire has affected water from the system’s main reservoir behind O’Shaugnessy Dam. He said the reservoir has been off-limits to everyone but fire personnel, “So we’ve had no eyes on the water there.” But he said remote monitoring of the water supply at the Kirkwood Powerhouse and at other downstream locations has shown no change in the water’s clarity. City officials have noted that Hetch Hetchy water is transported toward the Bay Area in underground pipelines and should be safe from ash and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlin said if Hetch Hetchy water quality is seriously degraded, the city would tap its water resources closer to the Bay Area—San Antonio and Calaveras reservoirs in Alameda County and the Crystal Springs reservoirs in San Mateo County. Customers would get at least 36 hours’ notice if that happens, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interruption of the flow of Hetch Hetchy water would reach far beyond San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/23/rim-fire-update-smoke-spreads-from/smokesaturday/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108360\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-108360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/smokesaturday.png\" alt=\"NASA satellite image of smoke from the Rim Fire, in Tuolumne County west of Yosemite National Park, drifting over Lake Tahoe, Reno, and beyond. (NASA Worldview)\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA satellite image of smoke from the Rim Fire, in Tuolumne County west of Yosemite National Park, drifting over Lake Tahoe, Reno, and beyond. (NASA Worldview)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Wednesday Aug. 28:\u003c/strong> Latest \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/28/rim-fire-air-quality/\" target=\"_blank\">air quality and smoke information here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Monday, Aug. 26: \u003c/strong>From the local website \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/2226178/Tuolumne-County-Air-Quality-Alert-Extended.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyMotherLode\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Tuolumne County Air Pollution Control District has extended the Air Quality Alert for Tuolumne County due to smoke impacts from the Rim Fire. The Air Quality Alert is now in effect until 12 PM on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Sunday, Aug. 25:\u003c/strong> As the 200-square-mile \u003ca>Rim Fire\u003c/a> burns west of Yosemite National Park, smoke continues to be a problem for areas to the north and northeast—notably the Lake Tahoe basin and the Reno-Carson City area. Heavy smoke \u003ca href=\"http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/7835425-113/airport-quality-visibility-due\" target=\"_blank\">forced cancellation\u003c/a> of a popular Lake Tahoe air show on Saturday, partly out of concern about visibility, partly out of concern for spectators who would be outdoors breathing unhealthy levels of particulate matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the smoke just keeps coming. Air-quality officials in Tuolumne County, where the Rim Fire was raged for more than a week, today issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=air%20quality%20alert\" target=\"_blank\">an air-quality alert\u003c/a> warning all residents to avoid prolonged outdoor activity. (Of course, that's a problem for wildland firefighters, who may spend days or even weeks at a time in the midst of heavy smoke.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther from the center of the fire, the \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5&mapcenter=0&tabs=1\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's AirNow site shows\u003c/a> a large swath of smoky air rated as unhealthy stretching from the central San Joaquin Valley, across the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe region into northwestern Nevada. And the smoke forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration promises a spike of smoky air in the Lake Tahoe and Reno areas early Monday morning and only a slow improvement over the next several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday, Aug. 23): \u003c/strong>The fire racing through forests on the western boundary of Yosemite National Park is causing serious air-quality issues around the Lake Tahoe basin and in Washoe County, Nev., which includes Reno, and in the Nevada state capital, Carson City. NOAA satellite photographs (above) show massive smoke plumes spreading northeast from the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/23/rim-fire-yosemite-national-park\" target=\"_blank\">Rim Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned 105,000 acres since it ignited earlier this week due to as-yet-undetermined causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.washoecounty.us/health/aqm/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washoe County Air Quality Management District\u003c/a> issued an advisory for air with high levels of particulate and ozone pollution. \u003ca>The agency rates the air today\u003c/a> as \"unhealthy\" for all groups—both the general population as well as sensitive groups such as children, seniors, and those who suffer from long-term heart and lung conditions. Unhealthy air conditions are expected to last at least through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/#\" target=\"_blank\">American Fire\u003c/a>, burning in heavily forested hills northeast of Auburn, also spread smoke across the Tahoe-Reno area. That fire has burned about 20,000 acres and is 66 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/23/108082/rs6254_177354257-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108101\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108101\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/RS6254_177354257-scr-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Fire crews near Groveland, a community west of Yosemite National Park threatened by the Rim Fire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \" width=\"300\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews near Groveland, a community west of Yosemite National Park threatened by the Rim Fire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latest post:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/24/rim-fire-update/\" target=\"_blank\">Blaze Slows But Remains Extremely Dangerous\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Details, as of 10:30 p.m. PDT Friday:\u003c/strong> The fire that's been burning all week just west of Yosemite took another giant leap in size Friday, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Forest Service\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/CaliforniaStatewideFireSummary2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CalFire\u003c/a> reporting the blaze, named the Rim Fire, has now covered more than 125,000 acres (more below on how big that really is). The conflagration is just 5 percent contained, and a force of nearly 2,700 firefighters, backed by big aerial tankers, is struggling to stop the blaze as gusty winds drive it through rugged, hard-to-reach terrain. Fire officials say the blaze threatens 5,500 homes. So far, four homes have burned along with about a dozen other structures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Early Friday, the fire crossed the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, burning in a remote area near Lake Eleanor. The blaze remains far from iconic park destinations like Yosemite Valley.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Later in the day, officials said the fire had spread west toward the Highway 108, the route between the town of Sonora and Sonora Pass, and that aerial tankers were flying missions to try to slow the spread of the blaze in that direction. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So far, the gated resort town of Pine Mountain Lake (population 2,800) and rural settlement of Buck Meadows (50 people) are the only communities facing a mandatory evacuation. But authorities issued evacuation advisories for several other towns, including Tuolumne City (population 1,800), Groveland (600) and Ponderosa Hills.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco, which has major water and hydropower resources in the fire area. The declaration makes state funds available to the city to respond to the threat to the facilities and could free federal funding to help offset the city's costs in replacing electrical power it's been unable to generate during the fire. Earlier, Brown declared a state of emergency for Tuolumne County to help local officials with their emergency response. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Highway 120 west of Yosemite, the main route to the park from the Bay Area, remains closed. Travelers can still get into the park on Highway 140 (via Merced), Highway 41 (via Oakhurst) and on Highway 120 \u003cem>\u003cstrong>east\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> of the park (via Lee Vining and Tioga Pass).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco has shut down two powerhouses in the fire zone and is waiting to get the all-clear from fire officials before sending crews in to inspect them. The facilities are part of the city's Hetch Hetchy water and power system and can generate 160 megawatts of power. The city uses that electricity to run Muni, light City Hall, and for the rest of its municipal needs. For the time being, it's replacing the power with energy \"banked\" with PG&E and by buying electricity from other providers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hotels and resorts in the area have been shut down, along with several municipal high-country vacation retreats such as San Francisco's Camp Mather. We haven't seen any hard numbers on how many people have actually been evacuated from the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/23/cal-alumni-bear-of-the-lair-camp-evacuates-due-to-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside reports\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley has closed its popular camp, Lair of the Bear. The city of Berkeley's Tuolumne Family Camp, San Jose's city camp and the Jewish \u003ca href=\"http://www.tawonga.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Tawonga\u003c/a> have also been evacuated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Air quality regulators in Reno have issued \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/?action=airnow.local_city&zipcode=89512\" target=\"_blank\">an alert\u003c/a> for unhealthy air for the next several days as \u003ca href=\"http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">smoke\u003c/a> from the Rim Fire and a second blaze farther north in the Sierra, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/#\" target=\"_blank\">American Fire\u003c/a>, is carried to the northeast.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Now, how big is 125,000 acres? Some news organizations, like NPR, have taken to reporting the size of fires in square miles instead of acres, apparently in the belief that listeners and readers can better grasp the magnitude of the events that way. So, 105,000 acres is 196 square miles. Here's still another way to think of the size of this fire, which has grown eightfold in area since early Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hundred ninety-six square miles is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About four times the area of San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly equivalent to the combined area of Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland—in other words, nearly everything between the bay shore and crest of the East Bay hills from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge down to the Oakland Airport.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All of San Jose's sprawling 180 square miles, with the city of Santa Clara thrown in for good measure.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Here's KPCC's graphic summary of the Rim Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/rim-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's the latest (9:45 p.m. Friday) on the fire from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FRESNO — A giant wildfire raging out of control grew to nearly 200 square miles and spread into Yosemite National Park on Friday, as California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the city of San Francisco 150 miles away because of the threat to the city's utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire hit the park at the height of summer season, as officials geared up for a busy Labor Day weekend. It has closed some backcountry hiking but was not threatening the Yosemite Valley region, one of California's most popular tourist destinations that features such iconic sights as the Half Dome and El Capitan rock formations and Bridalveil and Yosemite falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze did, however, pose a threat to the lines and stations that pipe power to the city of San Francisco, so Brown, who had declared an emergency for the fire area earlier in the week, made the unusual move of extending the emergency declaration to the city across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from the Yosemite-area Hetch Hetchy reservoir that is about 4 miles from the fire, though that had yet to be affected. But it was forced to shut down two of its three hydroelectric power stations in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has so far been able to buy power on the open market and use existing supplies, but further disruptions or damage could have an effect, according to city power officials and the governor's statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declaration frees funding and resources to help the city and makes it eligible for more federal funds to help with power shortages and outages or water problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeklong blaze on the timbered slopes of the Western Sierra Nevada has spread to 196 square miles and was only 5 percent contained. It continued to grow in several directions, although \"most of the fire activity is pushing to the east right into Yosemite,\" said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke blowing across the Sierra into the state of Nevada forced officials in several counties to cancel outdoor school activities and issue health advisories, especially for people with respiratory problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities urged more evacuations in nearby communities where thousands have already been forced out by flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was threatening about 5,500 residences, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The blaze has destroyed four homes and 12 outbuildings in several different areas. More than 2,000 firefighters were on the lines and one sustained a heat-related injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remained open, the blaze closed a 4-mile stretch of State Route 120, one of three entrances into Yosemite on the west side. Two other western routes and an eastern route were open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the park, the blaze was burning on about 17 square miles in a remote area around Lake Eleanor, Yosemite spokeswoman Kari Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backcountry permits are required to hike in that area, Cobb said. The park was no longer issuing those and had contacted every person who had received a permit to go there. Two roads into that area were closed and occupants of a campground near the Route 120 west entrance were relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have anybody we know of in that area based on the permits we have out now,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was more than 20 miles from Yosemite Valley and skies there were \"crystal clear,\" Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there are no closures, and no visitor services are being affected in the park,\" he said. \"We just have to take one day at a time depending on fire activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, officials issued voluntary evacuation advisories for two new towns — Tuolumne City, population 1,800, and Ponderosa Hills, a community of several hundred — which are about five miles from the fire line, Forest Service spokesman Jerry Snyder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mandatory evacuation order remained in effect for part of Pine Mountain Lake, a summer gated community a few miles from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels a little bit like a war zone, with helicopters flying overhead, bombers dropping retardant and 10 engine companies stationed on our street,\" said Ken Codeglia, a retired Pine Mountain Lake resident who decided to stay to protect his house with his own hoses and fire retardant system. \"But if the fire gets very hot and firefighters evacuate, I will run with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials previously advised voluntary evacuations of more than a thousand other homes, several organized camps and at least two campgrounds in the area outside the park's boundary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More homes, businesses and hotels are threatened in nearby Groveland, a community of 600 about 5 miles from the fire and 25 miles from the entrance of Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually filled with tourists, the streets are now swarming with firefighters, evacuees, and news crews, said Doug Edwards, owner of Hotel Charlotte on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We usually book out six months solid with no vacancies and turn away 30-40 people a night. That's all changed,\" Edwards said. \"All we're getting for the next three weeks is cancellations. It's a huge impact on the community in terms of revenue dollars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park fire crews are working to clear brush and other fire fuels from the Merced and Tuolumne Groves of Giant Sequoias as a precaution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is raging in the same region where a 1987 fire killed a firefighter, burned hundreds of thousands of acres, and forced several thousand people out of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press writers Jason Dearen, Lisa Leff and Andrew Dalton in San Francisco also contributed to this report.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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