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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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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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This year, though, our collective ability to fend off fiery Armageddon is hampered by a hoary beast that roams Excel spreadsheets up and down the state: Budget Cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the local agencies across the state have been struggling to just provide the basic level of fire protection for their own communities,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/fire/\">Alameda County Fire\u003c/a> Chief Demetrious Shaffer. He’s also the president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calchiefs.org/index.cfm?Section=1\">California Fire Chiefs Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Speaking with KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org\">California Report\u003c/a> for our Monday morning broadcast, Shaffer explained that many of California’s more than 900 fire departments have cut back in a variety of ways in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>attrition through retirement\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>layoffs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>closing stations\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201009140850/b\">brownouts\u003c/a>” (i.e., rolling company closures)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>merging/consolidating/cost sharing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>shutting down/contracting out\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Anybody who’s ever seen a Victorian go up in San Francisco knows even a small residential fire can require more than one crew. So, budget cuts that reduce a department down to the bone reduce its ability to respond to emergency requests from elsewhere in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a wildfire grows big, and does so quickly, “a lot of resources are needed in a very short period of time,” Shaffer said. “The state’s mutual aid system is fully dependent on local resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=208523333872813891131.0004c02beb4f2788337d0&source=embed&t=m&ll=37.055177,-120.454102&spn=10.514855,13.183594&z=5&output=embed&w=300&h=300]\u003cbr>\nView \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=208523333872813891131.0004c02beb4f2788337d0&source=embed&t=m&ll=37.055177,-120.454102&spn=10.514855,13.183594&z=5\">California Fire Map\u003c/a> in a larger map\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Springs Fire in Ventura County: 28,000 acres\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Summit Fire in Riverside County: 3,166 acres\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Panther Fire in Tehama County: 6,864 acres\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those are just the big fires I’m pulling from the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current?sort=incident_priority%20&pc=5&cp=0\">Current Incidents\u003c/a> page on Cal Fire’s website. Although the weather has cooled, and these fires are now fully or mostly contained, it’s fair to say that this year’s California wildfire season has started in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaffer won’t name names in terms of pointing out which local agencies can’t step up to the plate this year. And he said no Californian should assume wildfires are some other region’s problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that you can characterize any one area of the state as more at risk than another. We’ve seen some extremely large wildfires in Southern California. We’ve also had them in Northern California. You know, don’t forget the Oakland hills fire of 1991. That wasn’t the first Oakland hills fire, and it probably will not be the last. And there are more areas throughout the state that are urban interface just like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/03/firefighters-ru/oakland-aftermath/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96044\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96044 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Oakland-Aftermath-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters overlook the damaged structures after the Oakland Hills fire burned dozens of neighborhoods and thousands of homes. (Credit: CalEMA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters review the damage after the Oakland Hills fire of 1991. (Credit: CalEMA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of Californians live surrounded by heavy brush, nestled below hills or sitting atop ridges. The same factors that provide a pretty view make those homes vulnerable to flames eating up the landscape. Indeed, the more it rains in winter, the more greenery springs up, then dries out when the weather turns hot. Firefighters call that dry stuff “fuel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve had a few light fire years recently, but that only worries Shaffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m seeing is a lot of fuel, a lot of fuel growth, in a lot of areas,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last note from the head of the California Fire Chiefs Association: Shaffer begs people to heed evacuation orders. Technically, they’re not mandatory in that you could choose not to heed them. But when you do that, you make your personal protection an additional, heavily stressful priority for firefighters while they’re fighting a bigger battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If authorities ask you to leave an area, Shaffer said, “We’re doing it for a reason. Allow our folks to do their job the best that they can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, there are plenty of stories of people who stayed behind and saved their homes with a garden hose after the first embers hit the roof. Or you might be thinking you’re in a great position to take the YouTube video that will catapult you to fame and fortune. But you could also be failing to gauge the risk you’re taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, the story of Chuck Henry of KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. His narrow brush with death is now the second paragraph in his \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Henry\">Wikipedia\u003c/a> entry. He and the cameraman with him were nearly killed during the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Fire_%282003%29\">Old Fire of 2003\u003c/a> in the San Bernardino Mountains. They stayed too long, or maybe it was a sudden change in wind direction, but the fire engines had been ordered to leave the area (hint: always a good sign it’s time to get out). Henry was unsuccessfully trying to start the news van – already on fire – when NPS Strike Team Leader Steven Elenburg from Joshua Tree National Park plucked him from impending doom and drove Henry and the cameramen away from the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elenburg received a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=844\">Department of Interior Valor Award\u003c/a> for saving the news crew. Henry is now known by the California press corps as That Guy Who Stayed Too Long, Too Close to the Lines and Became the Story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In defense of Henry, a zoom lens doesn’t deliver the dramatic video of angry flames the public has come to expect from wildfire coverage. Unlike TV reporters, those of us in radio and print can back a respectful distance away from a fire line and still feed our respective news beasts. I’ve seen a lot of TV people take tremendous risks. Heroism? Idiocy? Both? Whatever the case, we’re all tuning in or clicking on the play button for the promise of a dramatic inferno.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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