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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Where are you likely to come across a coyote in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Increasingly, just about anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] There are different packs that control the green spaces. So anywhere from Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, to the Presidio, to Glen Canyon, to golf courses. That’s where they’re concentrated. But they’ve been getting more bold and they go out and explore the city. So you can see them walking up streets. One was found in a laundromat. Sam Altman found one in his backyard, lounging on patio furniture. So yeah, there’s about 100 of them now. I live in Glen Park, and I walk a lot in the canyon there and I see them. There are the warning signs up, and I saw one walking up and down a staircase there. They’re just like your neighbors, you say hi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] You mentioned you see them in your own neighborhood and it sounds like just depending where you live and where you hang out they’re basically part of daily life here in a weird way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] Yeah, people around the country who read my story could not believe that. It sounds so strange that these apex predators would just be out and about in a city, but they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] I mean, how would you describe people’s relationship to these coyotes in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] That’s where things are very divisive. Some people love them, they’ve become part of the culture in some ways. Some people love seeing them and consider it really cool that these wild creatures are just part of our city. They’re on murals now and there are talks at the libraries that just fill up like you can’t even get into them. They’re so popular. But then on the other hand people, especially those who have small dogs and walk them around the city, really do not like them. They can be very dangerous to small dogs especially those that are off leash and a number of them have been killed. They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. So then every spring more pups were born and now we have about a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] Are there any other theories about how these coyotes could have ended up back in San Francisco from the north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] It’s possible that they swam, but that is more of a challenge, of course, than walking across the bridge, as probably we could relate to. But interestingly, I learned after publication that there is a family living on Angel Island. So it seems like those probably did swim over, although that’s a shorter swim, so more feasible, unless maybe they hopped aboard a ferry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] I mean, I know you talked about this love-hate relationship that San Franciscans seem to have with these coyotes these days. And I know, you talked to a bunch of people. What are the range of feelings that you heard from folks about how they’re feeling about them these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] The scientists I talked to are very pro-coyote. They said, you know, you can’t do anything about them anyway. They’re going to be here as they proved they came back and repopulated. Some people say we should cull them, eradicate them again. But the scientists point out that would not work. They’re gonna come back. So there’s a lot of people who live in the city and think they’re majestic creatures. It’s kind a delightful little aspect of San Francisco that you see coyotes, you know, walking to your grocery store. Other people feel very differently, especially those who walk little dogs. I did interview a woman she talked about last fall walking her little eight pound pup at Chrissy Field and it is an off leash area although there were warning signs of coyotes. So she let her dog off leash but kept an eye on him and then a coyote came up and grabbed the dog in its mouth in front of her and ran off and she described screaming and chasing the coyote, eventually caught up to him and it was way too late for her dog. So to see that happen to your pet on a Saturday walk is pretty devastating, so obviously these emotions are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:41] Yeah, that’s traumatic. And there’s been a couple of more high profile incidents involving these coyotes in recent years, right, that’s, I think, really leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Right. So for example, there was one incident at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, I believe in the summer of 2024, where a five-year-old girl was bitten on the backside by a coyote and needed stitches. She was okay. But of course, that was traumatic as well. Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. And so there’s, you know, scientists are saying like, we need to better exist with these animals and be careful when we have little kids and little dogs in these wild spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] You talked earlier about the city’s approach to coyotes back in the 1900s, and basically the approach being get rid of the coyotes, but how would you describe the city approach to the coyote these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] So now they have a policy where if a coyote kills a little dog, they just consider that kind of the circle of life. That is prey. And it’s just, it can be traumatic to see it, you know, in a city and kind of feel strange and devastating, but it is also natural. But if they do go after children, then that’s when they will take action and discuss what has happened with federal agents and jointly decide when coyotes need to be taken out. So that really aggressive coyote who had killed a number of dogs, the city wasn’t going to do anything about that. But when the coyote did lunge at a school trip of children at Chrissy Field, they decided that the coyotes had to be eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Do we know whether San Francisco coyotes are in fact getting more aggressive? Like has their behavior changed over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Animal care and control gets reports about coyote behavior often. Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. 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What would it look like to live in harmony with these coyotes, which as you’ve described are natural to this part of California. They’re important to our ecology. I mean, what do the people you talk with say when it comes to how we can live with these coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah, so they said the big thing is the food. Do not leave food scraps out and about. That’s probably just good behavior generally. But another issue is just to be better aware of what their behavior is. One behavior they have is called escorting. So if a parent coyote has babies in a den, they will be very protective of that space in the area around it. This has happened a lot at Bernal Hill where people will be walking their dogs and the coyotes appear to be very threatening. Their face looks threatening, their ears go back, they bare their teeth. But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. 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It’s kind a delightful little aspect of San Francisco that you see coyotes, you know, walking to your grocery store. Other people feel very differently, especially those who walk little dogs. I did interview a woman she talked about last fall walking her little eight pound pup at Chrissy Field and it is an off leash area although there were warning signs of coyotes. So she let her dog off leash but kept an eye on him and then a coyote came up and grabbed the dog in its mouth in front of her and ran off and she described screaming and chasing the coyote, eventually caught up to him and it was way too late for her dog. So to see that happen to your pet on a Saturday walk is pretty devastating, so obviously these emotions are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:41] Yeah, that’s traumatic. 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So that really aggressive coyote who had killed a number of dogs, the city wasn’t going to do anything about that. But when the coyote did lunge at a school trip of children at Chrissy Field, they decided that the coyotes had to be eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Do we know whether San Francisco coyotes are in fact getting more aggressive? Like has their behavior changed over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Animal care and control gets reports about coyote behavior often. Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. And so coyotes are getting accustomed to associating humans with food. And that is a huge problem behind all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] It’s interesting. 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They described it as a real failure on their part to not better educate the public and the failure of humans who are leaving far too much food out and kind of messing with the way coyotes naturally behave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] And I mean, talking about the circle of life, we actually kind of need these coyotes too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Yes, so although pet owners can be very anti-coyote, which can be understandable, the scientists I talked to said that they’re actually really important to the ecology of San Francisco. They keep the rat population in check. And they also kill feral cats, which can protect birds. So there’s a lot of benefits to having the coyotes around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] Yeah, I guess that’s why our streets don’t look like New York with the rats. Shout out to the coyotes. What would it look like to live in harmony with these coyotes, which as you’ve described are natural to this part of California. They’re important to our ecology. I mean, what do the people you talk with say when it comes to how we can live with these coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah, so they said the big thing is the food. Do not leave food scraps out and about. That’s probably just good behavior generally. But another issue is just to be better aware of what their behavior is. One behavior they have is called escorting. So if a parent coyote has babies in a den, they will be very protective of that space in the area around it. This has happened a lot at Bernal Hill where people will be walking their dogs and the coyotes appear to be very threatening. Their face looks threatening, their ears go back, they bare their teeth. But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. Luckily it didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:20] I mean, other than, I guess, following these warning signs, are there any other precautions that pet owners are taking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:13:27] Yeah, there’s a new dog accessory these days, which is a vest with spikes on it. Some look kind of construction worker vest orange vibes where others are more punk looking with like black vests and silver spikes. But a lot of dog owners are doing that because coyotes, you know, are not gonna want to grab something with spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:51] What has the reader response been like to your story? You’re writing about San Francisco for the New York Times, and there’s a lot of people nationally talking about San Fransisco, but how are they feeling about the San Francisco Coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:14:04] We got a great response. It was really surprising to see how into this story people were, just really captivated by these amazing photos, somuch so that I wrote a follow-up piece describing how the photos were taken. So I got to interview Loren Elliott, the photographer, about how exactly he took these photos. He went out and heard a howl at Bernal Hill and found this coyote pretty early in the morning who was just stirring and he actually spotted it and he was able to take this just wonderful photo that really captured people’s attentions where the coyote is howling and his face is framed in sunlight and right outside the shadow is a car driving past and a woman jogging just feet from him. And when he saw that image on the little screen on his camera, he was like, “Oh, there’s something here. I’m going to keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:03] Yeah, the images in the story are incredible, they’re really cool to look at. Well, Heather Knight from the New York Times, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The era of soaring city budgets and deteriorating street conditions is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the jobs on the chopping block are currently vacant, according to the mayor’s office. Only about 100 positions are currently filled, and those include positions where employees are slated for retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not exactly clear which positions will be eliminated, but officials said vacant job cuts are spread across 40 departments, while filled positions to be cut will affect 17 departments\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most grant-making departments will face some level of reduction over the next two years, mayor’s office officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions have already fired back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Layoffs are totally unnecessary. 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None of these job cuts should be on the table, but the mayor has decided that tax breaks for Airbnb are more important than public services,” Sarah Perez, a city employee and San Francisco vice president for the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez added that “cutting public jobs often means handing over important work to for-profit companies, increasing costs and inviting corruption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many departments will see their overall budgets shrink, the mayor’s office will see an increase. Officials said that’s due to previously negotiated wage hikes, not new positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply disappointed that the mayor has chosen to cut crucial public services that San Francisco residents and small businesses rely on, rather than working with city workers on the pathway forward that we laid out five months ago,” SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, a moderate Democrat, acknowledged that there would be tough budget decisions ahead in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020613/daniel-lurie-hope-for-san-francisco-first-day-celebration\">his inaugural address\u003c/a> in January. Earlier this year, he directed each department to find up to 15% in spending reductions.[aside postID=news_12041112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_6619_qed-1020x599.jpg']“As we get our fiscal house in order, we are revisiting contracts across city government and bringing grants back in line with pre-pandemic levels,” Lurie said. “These are the steps we must take to responsibly manage our budget, not just this year but for years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Board of Supervisors are now contending with the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no good options, especially given the attacks and draconian cuts coming from the Trump administration, [which] certainly impact San Francisco,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the city’s Budget Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some departments were spared, including the district attorney’s and public defender’s offices. The Police Department, Fire Department and Sheriff’s Department will also not face dramatic cuts, along with 911 dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal also sets aside $400 million in reserves to prepare for potential federal funding clawbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the event that when we face federal cuts, particularly Medicaid, which we were anticipating, we can use that money to offset some of these cuts so that people can continue to have care,” Chan said. “This is really critical. People can die if they do not receive care. Now, will that be enough? No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reserve includes $1 million for city attorney litigation efforts “as uncertainty around the federal and state budget processes threatens to undermine San Francisco’s communities and undo the city’s progress,” a budget memo reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco receives billions in federal funding in the two-year budget for programs including homeless services, housing and human services. The Trump administration has threatened to pull money from so-called sanctuary cities such as San Francisco, and the city is now on the hook to pay back $141 million in COVID-era federal disaster funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s budget also allocates about $132 million in public facility maintenance, such as repairs for potholes, playground equipment, homeless shelters and fire stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two dozen technology improvement projects would get about $50 million earmarked, including efforts to upgrade the city’s street outreach client management tool, tax systems and a citywide data management system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office will review the budget, and the Board of Supervisors will hold hearings with city departments about the proposed cuts and can request amendments. The final budget is due at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040473/trouble-at-san-francisco-zoo-could-soon-lead-to-ceos-removal\">attempt to oust\u003c/a> the embattled CEO of the struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-zoo\">San Francisco Zoo\u003c/a>, it appears that she’s come out on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanya Peterson, who has been under fire for growing concerns over safety and alleged mismanagement at the facility in recent years, will remain CEO while the chair of the zoo’s board of directors, who supported the effort to remove her, resigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board chair Melinda Dunn is among five members of the San Francisco Zoological Society board who have left their posts since last week, according to Corey Hallman of Teamsters Local Union 856, which represents about 100 zookeepers, dieticians, gardeners and other zoo workers. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037340/sf-democrats-push-for-change-debate-age-limits-for-elected-officials\">San Francisco Democrats \u003c/a>scrambling to coalesce their base ahead of the 2026 midterm elections have a target group in mind: young men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Central Committee on Wednesday night overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on their fellow Democrats to do more to address “societal challenges facing boys and men,” emphasizing the need for more job training opportunities, paternal leave and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lost boys and men to the Republican Party. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:30 a.m. August 11\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you have a stack of old family photo albums in the attic? A cookbook by your grandmother, scrawled with her handwritten notes? Your parents’ love letters to each other that you treasure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so, consider yourself in possession of your family’s unique archives — and there are multiple tools and resources out there to help you preserve these important documents and memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cultural heritage is incredibly important to our society,” said Elise Hochhalter, a book conservator at the San Francisco Public Library. “Preserving physical collections and digital collections is part of how we tell our stories as a culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, SFPL held a workshop on safeguarding your family’s archives to mark \u003ca href=\"https://preservationweek.org/\">Preservation Week:\u003c/a> a national initiative from the American Library Association that’s chaired this year by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938083/the-coolest-place-on-earth-the-public-library\">Bay Area librarian Mychal Threets. \u003c/a>San Francisco resident Jim Fong attended the SFPL workshop, citing his interests in making documentaries. He made one in honor of his mother, screening it during her funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong stressed the importance of not waiting to start preserving your family’s history.[aside postID=forum_2010101910698 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/07/20250525_OralHistory_GC-6_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a project like his, “if you don’t have the source material from the early days, there’s nothing that you can count on,” Fong said. “So if anybody wants to make a documentary on their own life, or their family life, you have to start now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elise Hochhalter presents at the Preserving Your Personal Collections workshop at the Main Library in San Francisco on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The longer you wait to gather and preserve these kinds of documents, “you’re just missing out on all the family memories that you like,” Fong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wondering whether it’s “worth” taking action to preserve your own family’s archives? SFPL’s Hochhalter has a message for you: Something “may seem inconsequential or not substantial enough, but it actually is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Community archiving is a really important thing,” she said. “Things that happen outside of the institution — and in your family — do have value.” And when it comes to your own family, “you never know what will have value in 50 years, or what will help be evidence to fill in pieces of a puzzle later on,” Hochhalter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to experts on how to best preserve documents, digitize records and how best to connect with organizations who may be interested in your archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I safely store these physical materials?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://preservationweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/PWfirststep_nodate.pdf\">The American Library Association’s own guide to preservation\u003c/a> emphasizes that people shouldn’t let “the pursuit of perfection be an obstacle to getting started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Step one is just getting an overview of everything that you have: Collecting all of your materials, collecting the shoe boxes, the various closets’ worth of things,” said Emilie van der Hoorn, the head of the SFPL’s conservation unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emilie van der Hoorn greets attendees at the Preserving Your Personal Collections workshop at the Main Library in San Francisco on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Your next step will be assessing how and where each kind of material you’ve collected — paper, photos, books, etc. — should be stored, to preserve its life (more on this below). Make sure your hands are clean or wear gloves when handling your items generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPL recommends you create an inventory of your collection and regularly update it as you add more items. But stay realistic and don’t get overwhelmed, van der Hoorn said. “Don’t anticipate that you’re going to have everything digitized, cataloged, housed, and looking like the Library of Congress in a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is long-term work, she stressed, and “takes years to work on” — so “set yourself very small, manageable goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make digital copies of old photos when possible. This will reduce how much your originals get handled, lowering the potential for damage. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where should materials live in my home?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Store paper items like letters and folders in a clean part of your home, somewhere free from extreme temperatures, humidity or dust. This is why the ALA suggests archives should \u003cem>not \u003c/em>be stored in basements or attics, even though you might assume collections like these might naturally be housed in such locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be wary of areas with wild temperature swings, cautioned SFPL book conservator Savannah Adams. “You don’t want [the storage environment] to be getting really hot and really cold,” she said. “That could be worse than just it being in a consistently hot environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevent mold by storing materials in a place with humidity levels below 60% (you can purchase a low-cost humidity sensor to monitor this) and where items aren’t touching the ground.\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: What to do if materials get wet.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to check on your materials once in a while to make sure everything is still in good condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I store papers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep loose paper items in folders, SFPL said — and label everything with what’s inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folders can then be stored in office file folders, plastic tubs or bank boxes. You can upgrade and get professional archival equipment from suppliers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.gaylord.com/\">Gaylord Archival\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://archival.com/\">Archival Products\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityproducts.com/\">University Products\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollingermetaledge.com/\">Hollinger Metal Edge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPL also suggests you avoid using Post-it notes, paper clips, staples, rubber bands or tape, which could damage your materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about photos?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you write on the back of photos and documents, be sure to include the full names of people involved, places and dates. Use a pencil, since pens can bleed and fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos can be extra sensitive in storage, so make sure any folders you’re using have passed the Photographic Activity Test — that is, that they’re made of \u003ca href=\"https://www.naa.gov.au/information-management/storing-and-preserving-information/preserving-information/preserving-photographs/about-photographic-activity-test\">material less likely\u003c/a> to damage negatives and delicate photos. (Yes, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityproducts.com/photo-products/photo-albums-and-pages?page=3#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20tried%20and,accommodate%20a%20variety%20of%20formats.\">photo albums do pass.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I store books?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every book you preserve needs to be a first edition, and can be anything that has sentimental value to you personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be your favorite cookbook,” Adams said. “It could be a stack of paper that your grandmother wrote on, and you want to preserve that just for handwriting’s sake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books specifically should be stored in an upright position or flat on the side — but never slumped or leaning to one side, Adams said. “Books are largely made up of organic material, so they will eventually start to deform based off what position they’re stored in for long periods of time,” she said. You can prevent this by using bookends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be careful also \u003cem>how \u003c/em>you take books off a shelf, Adams said. Pull from the middle of the spine, rather than from the top of the book: that upper part of the spine can be particularly vulnerable, especially if it’s a leather-bound book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dusting and tidying your books and shelves will also help prevent damage as well, Adams said. “The accumulation of dust that sits on the surface can actually become abrasive, depending on how long it’s there or what it’s sitting on,” she said — and dust can also be a food source for pests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prevent mold by storing materials in a place with humidity levels below 60% and where items aren’t touching the ground. \u003ccite>(Frank Rothe/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What to do with water damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your materials get wet, move them quickly: Mold settles after 48 hours in wet and humid conditions. Fan out the pages of wet books and stand them on their edge to dry out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there \u003cem>is \u003c/em>mold on your items, wear PPE like masks and goggles while you contain and quarantine the materials. At this point, you may need to \u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalheritage.org/about-conservation/find-a-conservator\">contact a professional conservator\u003c/a> to figure out options for restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Institute of Conservation also has several guides on storing \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/caring-treasures\">other physical materials,\u003c/a> including \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-8e53-4e34-ab3c-969471838713?ref_id=2039\">ceramic and glass objects\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-97dd-48e7-afda-f5abd51107c0?ref_id=2039\">metal items like jewelry\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-a8f4-4920-b81d-e2a04e9dc36a?ref_id=2039\">textiles and clothing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-9184-4e4f-8e13-b6ac788b4de5?ref_id=2039\">furniture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some importance to keeping tangible objects and sentimental materials in good condition,” Adams said. And a lot of that really just has to do with preventative care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can you digitize your personal archives?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After you’ve safely organized and stored your materials, making digital copies of these items where possible will reduce how much your originals get handled, lowering the potential for damage. It’ll also allow you to more easily share your collection with other family members and people online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can digitize items like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Documents, like letters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Photographs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>VHS videotapes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Floppy disks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Super 8 film\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Slides\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Photo negatives\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Audiocassettes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CDs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Digitizing materials can be a time-consuming process, so remember: you don’t have to do it for every single item you’re archiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for where to store these materials digitally, cloud-based options include \u003ca href=\"https://cloud.google.com/storage\">Google Cloud Storage\u003c/a>, Apple’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.icloud.com/\">iCloud\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://mega.io/\">Mega\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcloud.com/\">pCloud\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.synology.com/en-us\">Synology\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nextcloud.com/\">NextCloud\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.plex.com/platform/cloud-infrastructure-and-security\">Plex\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jackie Forsyte, audio-visual archivist with Teach Archive Preserve Exhibit in Los Angeles, emphasized on KQED Forum that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910698/how-to-create-a-family-archive\">the cloud is “just somebody else’s computer\u003c/a> … not this nebulous ‘in the air’ thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you are worried about the privacy of your items, you can also create your own backup system using hard drives – something that you exercise more control over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take a moment and assess what photos and videos are most important to you that are on your iPhone,” recommended Forsyte, then those items “to a physical device as a backup for that larger thing,” she said. “You’re not going be able to download everything, but having just those beautiful choices of what matters to you is essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider following \u003ca href=\"https://www.armstrongarchives.com/3-2-1-rule-data-backup/\">the “3-2-1 Rule,” which sees you make three copies of each item: for example, one copy stored in the cloud, another on a hard drive and the third saved as a\u003c/a> backup in a different geographical location, for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wherever you store items digitally, be sure to come up with an easy-to-follow and descriptive file-naming practice, so you can find documents after some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Library of Congress has a\u003ca href=\"https://digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/\"> thorough guide detailing the at-home digitizing process, including how best to scan your items \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/\">the recommended digital formats\u003c/a> in which you should save materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also seek help digitizing your materials – especially if you are worried about damage – from organizations including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/digicenter/diy-digi-lab\">DIY Digi Lab\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://bavc.org/\">Bay Area Video Coalition Media\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.digitalrevolution.tv/\">Digital Revolution\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sunsetmediapreservation.com/\">Sunset Media Preservation\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mementopress.com/\">Memento Press\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.analog-to-digital.net/\">Analog to Digital\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://av-workshop.com/\">Audio Video Workshop\u003c/a> in Redwood City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.denevi.com/\">Denevi Digital Imaging\u003c/a> in Sunnyvale\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.digitalrootsstudio.com/\">Digital Roots Studio\u003c/a> in Albany.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Your local library may also have a “memory lab” to help you archive materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, digital archives aren’t always confined to scans of analogue items. Consider also archiving sentimental materials that were born digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2023/01/15/how-save-those-important-voicemails-your-smartphone-forever/11048824002/\">your voicemails\u003c/a> would likely need to be re-saved as a .MP3 or .WAV file. Files can be saved as PDFs, and data as a .CSV document. Use a website crawler like the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/\">Wayback Machine\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://preservica.com/\">Preservica to \u003c/a>save websites and social media posts, which \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/computerscience_fac_pubs/153/\">you can also export as a WARC file\u003c/a>. Want to archive meaningful emails? You can store these messages through \u003ca href=\"https://www.mailstore.com/en/\">MailStore\u003c/a> or export them from your account as \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/mail/import-or-export-mailboxes-mlhlp1030/mac\">a .mbox file\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget about archiving digital photos either, SFPL’s van der Hoorn said: “It’s easy to overlook what you have on your phone, in your old drives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And keep in mind: a major part of digital preservation is knowing that something widely used today may be obsolete tomorrow, said Forsyte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep an eye on that technology, to really make informed and empowered choices about how you store things,” she said. “And be ready to migrate to the next thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More resources for starting a family archive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Preservation Week’s webinar on \u003ca href=\"https://preservationweek.org/past-webinars/collecting-and-preserving-after-tragedy-2-2-3-19/\">Disaster Preparedness and Planning\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/preservation/\">Library of Congress and Preservation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://digitalpreservation.gov/\">Library of Congress and Digital Preservation \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalheritage.org/\">American Institute for Conservation \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/preservation\">National Archives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ccaha.org/resources/caring-family-treasures\">Conversator Center for Art and Historic Artifacts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainableheritagenetwork.org/\">Sustainable Heritage Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/\">American Library Association\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.romoe.com/en/article/rap-arcc-org_k7v45vg9.html\">Regional Alliance for Preservation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalheritage.org/about-conservation/find-a-conservator\">a professional conservator\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Think: Could your family archives be valuable more widely?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Maybe a family member lived through a notable period of history. Or perhaps you are part of \u003ca href=\"https://densho.org/collections/\">an underrepresented community\u003c/a> that you want to help build its own historical collections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is the case, you could consider donating your items to a library, local historical society, museum or archive. You can also donate physical \u003ca href=\"https://help.archive.org/\">materials to online platforms\u003c/a> like the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-internet-archive/\">Internet Archive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decline in many areas of archiving online might also spur you to share your family’s collection in pursuit of a bigger cause. According to the Pew Research Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/\">“a quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible,”\u003c/a> as lawsuits threaten \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark\">the Internet Archive’s work\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the federal level, agencies have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5317567/federal-websites-lgbtq-diversity-erased#:~:text=Race-,Trans%20people%2C%20women%2C%20people%20of%20color%20erased%20from%20federal%20sites,women%20and%20people%20of%20color.\">rapidly scrubbing\u003c/a> visual and written references to people from historically marginalized communities from government websites, including women, people of color and LGBT+ communities — as the White House has attacked \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307904/black-history-month-dei-teachers\">diversity, equity and inclusion curriculums\u003c/a> in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking about donating materials? Reach out to an organization \u003cem>first \u003c/em>to see if they can even accept them, and if so, how they accept donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Think: Whose information is this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating archives relating to other people can frequently raise issues of copyright — and privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/donations-acquisitions\">The GBLT Historical Society in San Francisco’s Castro district reminds potential donors \u003c/a>that they “share a responsibility with archival staff” about whose privacy you might inadvertently be affecting by sharing family archives (for example, around a person’s medical history or their out status.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woy75PQBpZ0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The logistics of donating your archives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theblackivists.com/five-tips-for-donating-your-materials\">The Blackivists\u003c/a>, an archival organization dedicated to Black American history, recommends that you always research any organization you’re thinking about donating to. Do your materials fit their mission? Are they even looking for donations right now? Do they have “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theblackivists.com/five-tips-for-donating-your-materials\">a history of building community-based relationships and preserving their materials?”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure you can answer questions about your collection, like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Who created the materials?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What types of materials are you donating? What are the formats or file types?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When were these items created?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Where and how is the material currently being stored?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Why do you consider your materials to be important or significant?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intent, trauma and care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.theblackivists.com/five-tips-for-donating-your-materials\">The Blackivists’s guide notes\u003c/a>, many communities are underrepresented in archival collections, including people of color, religious minorities and people experiencing homelessness — and that your materials could be “reflective of an important moment in history,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that, the organization said, “They should be given to a repository that will be a good steward of what you’ve captured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you shouldn’t rush yourself, either. “There is potential trauma and grief attached to materials, and it may be too difficult and challenging to grapple with right now,” the Blacktivists’ guide said. “You can donate materials when you’re ready. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a project like his, “if you don’t have the source material from the early days, there’s nothing that you can count on,” Fong said. “So if anybody wants to make a documentary on their own life, or their family life, you have to start now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elise Hochhalter presents at the Preserving Your Personal Collections workshop at the Main Library in San Francisco on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The longer you wait to gather and preserve these kinds of documents, “you’re just missing out on all the family memories that you like,” Fong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wondering whether it’s “worth” taking action to preserve your own family’s archives? SFPL’s Hochhalter has a message for you: Something “may seem inconsequential or not substantial enough, but it actually is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Community archiving is a really important thing,” she said. “Things that happen outside of the institution — and in your family — do have value.” And when it comes to your own family, “you never know what will have value in 50 years, or what will help be evidence to fill in pieces of a puzzle later on,” Hochhalter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to experts on how to best preserve documents, digitize records and how best to connect with organizations who may be interested in your archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I safely store these physical materials?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://preservationweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/PWfirststep_nodate.pdf\">The American Library Association’s own guide to preservation\u003c/a> emphasizes that people shouldn’t let “the pursuit of perfection be an obstacle to getting started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Step one is just getting an overview of everything that you have: Collecting all of your materials, collecting the shoe boxes, the various closets’ worth of things,” said Emilie van der Hoorn, the head of the SFPL’s conservation unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-FAMILY-DOCUMENTS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emilie van der Hoorn greets attendees at the Preserving Your Personal Collections workshop at the Main Library in San Francisco on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Your next step will be assessing how and where each kind of material you’ve collected — paper, photos, books, etc. — should be stored, to preserve its life (more on this below). Make sure your hands are clean or wear gloves when handling your items generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPL recommends you create an inventory of your collection and regularly update it as you add more items. But stay realistic and don’t get overwhelmed, van der Hoorn said. “Don’t anticipate that you’re going to have everything digitized, cataloged, housed, and looking like the Library of Congress in a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is long-term work, she stressed, and “takes years to work on” — so “set yourself very small, manageable goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/153079734_qed-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make digital copies of old photos when possible. This will reduce how much your originals get handled, lowering the potential for damage. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where should materials live in my home?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Store paper items like letters and folders in a clean part of your home, somewhere free from extreme temperatures, humidity or dust. This is why the ALA suggests archives should \u003cem>not \u003c/em>be stored in basements or attics, even though you might assume collections like these might naturally be housed in such locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be wary of areas with wild temperature swings, cautioned SFPL book conservator Savannah Adams. “You don’t want [the storage environment] to be getting really hot and really cold,” she said. “That could be worse than just it being in a consistently hot environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevent mold by storing materials in a place with humidity levels below 60% (you can purchase a low-cost humidity sensor to monitor this) and where items aren’t touching the ground.\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: What to do if materials get wet.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to check on your materials once in a while to make sure everything is still in good condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I store papers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep loose paper items in folders, SFPL said — and label everything with what’s inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folders can then be stored in office file folders, plastic tubs or bank boxes. You can upgrade and get professional archival equipment from suppliers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.gaylord.com/\">Gaylord Archival\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://archival.com/\">Archival Products\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityproducts.com/\">University Products\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollingermetaledge.com/\">Hollinger Metal Edge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPL also suggests you avoid using Post-it notes, paper clips, staples, rubber bands or tape, which could damage your materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about photos?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you write on the back of photos and documents, be sure to include the full names of people involved, places and dates. Use a pencil, since pens can bleed and fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos can be extra sensitive in storage, so make sure any folders you’re using have passed the Photographic Activity Test — that is, that they’re made of \u003ca href=\"https://www.naa.gov.au/information-management/storing-and-preserving-information/preserving-information/preserving-photographs/about-photographic-activity-test\">material less likely\u003c/a> to damage negatives and delicate photos. (Yes, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityproducts.com/photo-products/photo-albums-and-pages?page=3#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20tried%20and,accommodate%20a%20variety%20of%20formats.\">photo albums do pass.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I store books?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every book you preserve needs to be a first edition, and can be anything that has sentimental value to you personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be your favorite cookbook,” Adams said. “It could be a stack of paper that your grandmother wrote on, and you want to preserve that just for handwriting’s sake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books specifically should be stored in an upright position or flat on the side — but never slumped or leaning to one side, Adams said. “Books are largely made up of organic material, so they will eventually start to deform based off what position they’re stored in for long periods of time,” she said. You can prevent this by using bookends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be careful also \u003cem>how \u003c/em>you take books off a shelf, Adams said. Pull from the middle of the spine, rather than from the top of the book: that upper part of the spine can be particularly vulnerable, especially if it’s a leather-bound book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dusting and tidying your books and shelves will also help prevent damage as well, Adams said. “The accumulation of dust that sits on the surface can actually become abrasive, depending on how long it’s there or what it’s sitting on,” she said — and dust can also be a food source for pests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-143925280-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prevent mold by storing materials in a place with humidity levels below 60% and where items aren’t touching the ground. \u003ccite>(Frank Rothe/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What to do with water damage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your materials get wet, move them quickly: Mold settles after 48 hours in wet and humid conditions. Fan out the pages of wet books and stand them on their edge to dry out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there \u003cem>is \u003c/em>mold on your items, wear PPE like masks and goggles while you contain and quarantine the materials. At this point, you may need to \u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalheritage.org/about-conservation/find-a-conservator\">contact a professional conservator\u003c/a> to figure out options for restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Institute of Conservation also has several guides on storing \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/caring-treasures\">other physical materials,\u003c/a> including \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-8e53-4e34-ab3c-969471838713?ref_id=2039\">ceramic and glass objects\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-97dd-48e7-afda-f5abd51107c0?ref_id=2039\">metal items like jewelry\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-a8f4-4920-b81d-e2a04e9dc36a?ref_id=2039\">textiles and clothing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://learning.culturalheritage.org/files/9cde3532-9184-4e4f-8e13-b6ac788b4de5?ref_id=2039\">furniture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some importance to keeping tangible objects and sentimental materials in good condition,” Adams said. And a lot of that really just has to do with preventative care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can you digitize your personal archives?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After you’ve safely organized and stored your materials, making digital copies of these items where possible will reduce how much your originals get handled, lowering the potential for damage. It’ll also allow you to more easily share your collection with other family members and people online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can digitize items like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Documents, like letters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Photographs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>VHS videotapes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Floppy disks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Super 8 film\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Slides\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Photo negatives\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Audiocassettes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CDs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Digitizing materials can be a time-consuming process, so remember: you don’t have to do it for every single item you’re archiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for where to store these materials digitally, cloud-based options include \u003ca href=\"https://cloud.google.com/storage\">Google Cloud Storage\u003c/a>, Apple’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.icloud.com/\">iCloud\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://mega.io/\">Mega\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcloud.com/\">pCloud\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.synology.com/en-us\">Synology\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nextcloud.com/\">NextCloud\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.plex.com/platform/cloud-infrastructure-and-security\">Plex\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jackie Forsyte, audio-visual archivist with Teach Archive Preserve Exhibit in Los Angeles, emphasized on KQED Forum that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910698/how-to-create-a-family-archive\">the cloud is “just somebody else’s computer\u003c/a> … not this nebulous ‘in the air’ thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you are worried about the privacy of your items, you can also create your own backup system using hard drives – something that you exercise more control over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take a moment and assess what photos and videos are most important to you that are on your iPhone,” recommended Forsyte, then those items “to a physical device as a backup for that larger thing,” she said. “You’re not going be able to download everything, but having just those beautiful choices of what matters to you is essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider following \u003ca href=\"https://www.armstrongarchives.com/3-2-1-rule-data-backup/\">the “3-2-1 Rule,” which sees you make three copies of each item: for example, one copy stored in the cloud, another on a hard drive and the third saved as a\u003c/a> backup in a different geographical location, for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wherever you store items digitally, be sure to come up with an easy-to-follow and descriptive file-naming practice, so you can find documents after some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Library of Congress has a\u003ca href=\"https://digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/\"> thorough guide detailing the at-home digitizing process, including how best to scan your items \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/\">the recommended digital formats\u003c/a> in which you should save materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also seek help digitizing your materials – especially if you are worried about damage – from organizations including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/digicenter/diy-digi-lab\">DIY Digi Lab\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://bavc.org/\">Bay Area Video Coalition Media\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.digitalrevolution.tv/\">Digital Revolution\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sunsetmediapreservation.com/\">Sunset Media Preservation\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mementopress.com/\">Memento Press\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.analog-to-digital.net/\">Analog to Digital\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://av-workshop.com/\">Audio Video Workshop\u003c/a> in Redwood City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.denevi.com/\">Denevi Digital Imaging\u003c/a> in Sunnyvale\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.digitalrootsstudio.com/\">Digital Roots Studio\u003c/a> in Albany.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Your local library may also have a “memory lab” to help you archive materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, digital archives aren’t always confined to scans of analogue items. Consider also archiving sentimental materials that were born digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2023/01/15/how-save-those-important-voicemails-your-smartphone-forever/11048824002/\">your voicemails\u003c/a> would likely need to be re-saved as a .MP3 or .WAV file. Files can be saved as PDFs, and data as a .CSV document. Use a website crawler like the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/\">Wayback Machine\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://preservica.com/\">Preservica to \u003c/a>save websites and social media posts, which \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/computerscience_fac_pubs/153/\">you can also export as a WARC file\u003c/a>. Want to archive meaningful emails? You can store these messages through \u003ca href=\"https://www.mailstore.com/en/\">MailStore\u003c/a> or export them from your account as \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/mail/import-or-export-mailboxes-mlhlp1030/mac\">a .mbox file\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget about archiving digital photos either, SFPL’s van der Hoorn said: “It’s easy to overlook what you have on your phone, in your old drives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And keep in mind: a major part of digital preservation is knowing that something widely used today may be obsolete tomorrow, said Forsyte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep an eye on that technology, to really make informed and empowered choices about how you store things,” she said. “And be ready to migrate to the next thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More resources for starting a family archive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Preservation Week’s webinar on \u003ca href=\"https://preservationweek.org/past-webinars/collecting-and-preserving-after-tragedy-2-2-3-19/\">Disaster Preparedness and Planning\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/preservation/\">Library of Congress and Preservation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://digitalpreservation.gov/\">Library of Congress and Digital Preservation \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalheritage.org/\">American Institute for Conservation \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/preservation\">National Archives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ccaha.org/resources/caring-family-treasures\">Conversator Center for Art and Historic Artifacts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainableheritagenetwork.org/\">Sustainable Heritage Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/\">American Library Association\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.romoe.com/en/article/rap-arcc-org_k7v45vg9.html\">Regional Alliance for Preservation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalheritage.org/about-conservation/find-a-conservator\">a professional conservator\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Think: Could your family archives be valuable more widely?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Maybe a family member lived through a notable period of history. Or perhaps you are part of \u003ca href=\"https://densho.org/collections/\">an underrepresented community\u003c/a> that you want to help build its own historical collections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is the case, you could consider donating your items to a library, local historical society, museum or archive. You can also donate physical \u003ca href=\"https://help.archive.org/\">materials to online platforms\u003c/a> like the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-internet-archive/\">Internet Archive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decline in many areas of archiving online might also spur you to share your family’s collection in pursuit of a bigger cause. According to the Pew Research Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/\">“a quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible,”\u003c/a> as lawsuits threaten \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark\">the Internet Archive’s work\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the federal level, agencies have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5317567/federal-websites-lgbtq-diversity-erased#:~:text=Race-,Trans%20people%2C%20women%2C%20people%20of%20color%20erased%20from%20federal%20sites,women%20and%20people%20of%20color.\">rapidly scrubbing\u003c/a> visual and written references to people from historically marginalized communities from government websites, including women, people of color and LGBT+ communities — as the White House has attacked \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307904/black-history-month-dei-teachers\">diversity, equity and inclusion curriculums\u003c/a> in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking about donating materials? Reach out to an organization \u003cem>first \u003c/em>to see if they can even accept them, and if so, how they accept donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Think: Whose information is this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating archives relating to other people can frequently raise issues of copyright — and privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/donations-acquisitions\">The GBLT Historical Society in San Francisco’s Castro district reminds potential donors \u003c/a>that they “share a responsibility with archival staff” about whose privacy you might inadvertently be affecting by sharing family archives (for example, around a person’s medical history or their out status.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Woy75PQBpZ0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Woy75PQBpZ0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The logistics of donating your archives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theblackivists.com/five-tips-for-donating-your-materials\">The Blackivists\u003c/a>, an archival organization dedicated to Black American history, recommends that you always research any organization you’re thinking about donating to. Do your materials fit their mission? Are they even looking for donations right now? Do they have “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theblackivists.com/five-tips-for-donating-your-materials\">a history of building community-based relationships and preserving their materials?”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure you can answer questions about your collection, like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Who created the materials?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What types of materials are you donating? What are the formats or file types?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When were these items created?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Where and how is the material currently being stored?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Why do you consider your materials to be important or significant?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intent, trauma and care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.theblackivists.com/five-tips-for-donating-your-materials\">The Blackivists’s guide notes\u003c/a>, many communities are underrepresented in archival collections, including people of color, religious minorities and people experiencing homelessness — and that your materials could be “reflective of an important moment in history,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that, the organization said, “They should be given to a repository that will be a good steward of what you’ve captured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you shouldn’t rush yourself, either. “There is potential trauma and grief attached to materials, and it may be too difficult and challenging to grapple with right now,” the Blacktivists’ guide said. “You can donate materials when you’re ready. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than seven years ago, Christian Rose was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cycling\">cycling\u003c/a> down his usual route in San Francisco’s Richmond District on his way to a tune-up when the day he had long feared became a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A car was barreling toward the bike lane on Arguello Boulevard. He yelled out, but the car hit him and sent him flying over its hood. His bike crushed and helmet scraped from the gravelly street, he landed on his right hip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose was freshly through his emergency medicine residency at UCSF, and he said he had an immediate and sinking feeling that the hip that took the brunt of the impact was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being an emergency physician training at San Francisco General, seeing tons of bike crashes, pedestrian crashes, car crashes, I used to leave those shifts sometimes joking … ‘Hopefully, today is not the day that I’ll come back to work before I’m supposed to,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, just at the time I remember the sort of collapsing world of being like, ‘I expected this, I knew this would come at some point, and I just can’t believe it’s today,’” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intersection where Rose was hit is on San Francisco’s high-injury network, which indicates streets that have the highest percentage of severe and fatal injuries from vehicle crashes, and where the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it should invest the majority of its resources to prevent future crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose’s crash occurred three years into the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vision-zero\">Vision Zero campaign\u003c/a>, a 10-year effort to end traffic fatalities by making changes to infrastructure and driver behavior. That campaign officially ended in December, far from its goal. Now, transportation safety advocates are pushing Mayor Daniel Lurie and city officials to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic safety advocates from Walk San Francisco, Families for Safe Streets and the Vision Zero Coalition gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eight years into Vision Zero, another cyclist was struck and killed less than half a mile north of where Rose was on Arguello Boulevard, at another intersection marked high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both crashes, the intersection at Cornwall and Arguello, Rose said, looked exactly the same when he rode past it Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed on the entire section,” he told KQED. “There’s only construction going on right now on the upper section, and the lower section hasn’t had any adjustments made either. There are no new traffic signs or anything in that intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A commitment to ending traffic deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-Supervisor Norman Yee, who had survived a crash himself in 2006, shepherded Vision Zero into San Francisco, promising to coordinate city agencies around creating safer intersections for pedestrians and cyclists, and redesigning city streets to curb crash deaths.[aside postID=news_12039914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The policy’s first action plan the following year had lofty goals: implement safety treatments along at least 13 miles of roadways on the high-injury network each year; assess which speed humps or signage slowed traffic and prevented accidents most effectively; and slow road speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vision Zero was introduced in San Francisco, the city struggled with an average of about 20 pedestrian deaths and hundreds of critical injuries due to vehicle crashes each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The result of this collaborative, citywide effort will be safer, more livable streets as we work to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024,” the plan reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite high hopes, when the policy sunsetted in December, it came at the end of one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">deadliest years yet\u003c/a> on San Francisco streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vision Zero expires with little to celebrate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The biggest tragedy is that 2024 was the worst year for traffic violence, and particularly for pedestrians, it was the worst year for traffic deaths for pedestrians since 2007,” said Jodie Medeiros, the executive director of pedestrian advocacy group Walk SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the nonprofit, 24 people were killed in crashes while walking last year, including a family of four who were waiting at a bus stop when they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992918/san-francisco-driver-78-arrested-months-after-crash-that-killed-family-of-4\">hit by a vehicle\u003c/a> that veered off the road in West Portal and onto the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, 42 people died in vehicle crashes while walking, biking and driving in 2024, and hundreds were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Vc9hv/8/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros said that since 2014, the city has made progress redesigning streets and adding traffic-slowing measures, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032036/sf-speed-cameras-first-in-state-turn-on-today-heres-where-they-are\">speed cameras\u003c/a> that began to go online last month. But one of the reasons she believes San Francisco is continuing to have a high number of injuries and deaths is because policy change has moved at a glacial pace, and agencies aren’t collaborating the way they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to know that the city is not organized. The agencies haven’t been well coordinated,” Medeiros told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a street safety hearing in the city’s Land Use and Transportation Committee this month, the Department of Public Health presented traffic death and injury data from 2023 — the most recent the agency had completed, representatives told supervisors. Its most recent high-injury network map is from 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA also revealed that it is lagging on safety improvements that were supposed to be complete along those streets last December, Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next 10 years of Vision Zero\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the morning of the hearing, Medeiros and other traffic safety advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to place white sneakers, flats and boots in rows in a somber protest. The 10 pairs of “ghost shoes” represented 10 people who have already died in vehicle crashes in 2025, since Vision Zero expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group held signs calling out the lapse in street safety policy and urging Lurie to take up the task of reviving it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter Walk SF sent to Lurie the same day, advocates demanded that he finalize a new policy by July 30, and have an interagency traffic safety plan codified by the end of September for the five agencies responsible for carrying it out: SFMTA, the departments of public health and public works, and the police and fire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director of Walk San Francisco, places flowers on a memorial of white shoes during a rally with traffic safety advocates from Walk SF, Families for Safe Streets, and the Vision Zero Coalition on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. The white shoes symbolize the pedestrians who have lost their lives in traffic crashes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel like this is a fair amount of time for him to be in office, to understand the agencies, to understand the challenges, what’s worked, what’s not worked, and to really create and have a robust, thoughtful new Vision Zero,” Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also lays out what Walk SF and Bay Area Families for Safer Streets, another advocacy group made up of crash survivors, want to see prioritized in the new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their main focuses is speeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dangerous speeding is a risk factor,” said advocate Jenny Yu, whose mother was in a severe crash in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was crossing the street on Park Presidio and Anza in Golden Gate Park, and a driver was turning left, speeding,” she recalled. “The SUV struck her body and swung her body across the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City data shows that 1 in 5 crashes are related to excessive speed, and as speed increases, so does the risk of severe injury and death. If a car traveling 20 mph hits a pedestrian, the risk of a fatality is 10%. If that car is going 40 mph, the risk surges to 80%.[aside postID=news_12028444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS13995_5682289311_963280efff_o-1440x961.jpg']“Now, there’s people going more than 20 miles an hour over the speed limit,” Yu said. “So speeding is definitely a factor that [the new] traffic safety plan has to have elements to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this week, San Francisco released the data from its first month operating speed-monitoring cameras that are meant to ticket drivers traveling more than 10 mph above the speed limit on certain roads. About 20 cameras sent out a collective 31,000 warnings to drivers on high-injury network streets in April, SFMTA reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once all 33 of the city’s cameras have been active for 60 days, the cameras will start administering tickets, which Medeiros said she believed can have a real effect on driver behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the success of similar technology in New York: “The cameras have reduced crashes, reduced speeds, and have been part of their program for Vision Zero,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walk SF’s letter to Lurie also requests that the new Vision Zero policy lower the speed limits on all high-injury network and commercial streets by 5 mph by 2027 and pursue state legislation to reduce speed limits on residential streets across the city to 20 mph the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also reiterates the importance of redesigning high-injury network streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great example is to look at the Tenderloin,” Medeiros said. “In the current high-injury network map, every single street on the Tenderloin is considered a dangerous street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides in the street by parked cars and stores.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by the Tilted Brim in the Tenderloin neighborhood, a part of the 5th Supervisorial District, in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, she said, the Tenderloin saw speed limits reduced to 20 mph; added pedestrian safety zones and daylighting, which makes it illegal to park a car within 20 feet of a pedestrian crosswalk; and removed lanes from the widest streets with the worst speeding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were applied universally in the neighborhood. They were applied at scale. And what we’ve really seen is crash rates and close calls have dropped, and speeds have come down,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those results to be more widespread throughout the city, Medeiros said, there needs to be better collaboration and accountability between city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been missing so far, she said, is a mayoral administration that makes Vision Zero a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vision Zero cities are where the mayors have embraced it and held agencies accountable for citywide change,” she said. “We are really looking at Mayor Lurie for taking a stand, embracing Vision Zero and holding these agencies accountable to make citywide changes to intersections and bringing down dangerous speeds and designing our streets for the most vulnerable people that are using them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘In leading Vision Zero cities, it’s the mayors’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Vision Zero has plenty of promises that remain unrealized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles of the high-injury network remain dangerous. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039914/just-over-half-sfs-speed-cameras-operational-whats-with-slowdown\">21 of the city’s 33 speed cameras have been set up\u003c/a>, despite the original March launch date. And while safety advocates had championed taking cars off Market Street in 2020, earlier this year, Lurie announced that autonomous vehicle company Waymo would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035348/mayor-lurie-allows-waymo-on-sfs-car-free-market-street\">begin operating\u003c/a> on the downtown thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city also scrapped plans to begin enforcing daylighting in March, after California passed legislation requiring the buffer zones at all intersections in 2023. SFMTA said it would hold off issuing citations until it was able to paint red all of the curbs the daylighting law applies to, which it estimated will take 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who has been held accountable? I have no evidence that anyone has been held accountable for any of the safe street issues,” Rose said. “Someone has to ultimately be responsible for enacting the changes and making sure that they happen, otherwise it just falls on deaf ears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates hope that person will be Lurie, who assured them at the unveiling of the first speed cameras in April that pedestrian safety is part of his public safety agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a leadership void on this, to be frank,” Medeiros said. “We really did advocate for this with Mayor Breed, and we’re back advocating this for Mayor Lurie … the ingredient that is currently missing is Mayor Lurie holding these agencies accountable in getting the work done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, just at the time I remember the sort of collapsing world of being like, ‘I expected this, I knew this would come at some point, and I just can’t believe it’s today,’” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intersection where Rose was hit is on San Francisco’s high-injury network, which indicates streets that have the highest percentage of severe and fatal injuries from vehicle crashes, and where the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it should invest the majority of its resources to prevent future crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose’s crash occurred three years into the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vision-zero\">Vision Zero campaign\u003c/a>, a 10-year effort to end traffic fatalities by making changes to infrastructure and driver behavior. That campaign officially ended in December, far from its goal. Now, transportation safety advocates are pushing Mayor Daniel Lurie and city officials to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic safety advocates from Walk San Francisco, Families for Safe Streets and the Vision Zero Coalition gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eight years into Vision Zero, another cyclist was struck and killed less than half a mile north of where Rose was on Arguello Boulevard, at another intersection marked high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both crashes, the intersection at Cornwall and Arguello, Rose said, looked exactly the same when he rode past it Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has changed on the entire section,” he told KQED. “There’s only construction going on right now on the upper section, and the lower section hasn’t had any adjustments made either. There are no new traffic signs or anything in that intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A commitment to ending traffic deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-Supervisor Norman Yee, who had survived a crash himself in 2006, shepherded Vision Zero into San Francisco, promising to coordinate city agencies around creating safer intersections for pedestrians and cyclists, and redesigning city streets to curb crash deaths.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But one of the reasons she believes San Francisco is continuing to have a high number of injuries and deaths is because policy change has moved at a glacial pace, and agencies aren’t collaborating the way they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to know that the city is not organized. The agencies haven’t been well coordinated,” Medeiros told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a street safety hearing in the city’s Land Use and Transportation Committee this month, the Department of Public Health presented traffic death and injury data from 2023 — the most recent the agency had completed, representatives told supervisors. Its most recent high-injury network map is from 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA also revealed that it is lagging on safety improvements that were supposed to be complete along those streets last December, Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next 10 years of Vision Zero\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the morning of the hearing, Medeiros and other traffic safety advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to place white sneakers, flats and boots in rows in a somber protest. The 10 pairs of “ghost shoes” represented 10 people who have already died in vehicle crashes in 2025, since Vision Zero expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group held signs calling out the lapse in street safety policy and urging Lurie to take up the task of reviving it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter Walk SF sent to Lurie the same day, advocates demanded that he finalize a new policy by July 30, and have an interagency traffic safety plan codified by the end of September for the five agencies responsible for carrying it out: SFMTA, the departments of public health and public works, and the police and fire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250519-VISIONZEROACTIVISM-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director of Walk San Francisco, places flowers on a memorial of white shoes during a rally with traffic safety advocates from Walk SF, Families for Safe Streets, and the Vision Zero Coalition on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on May 19, 2025, to demand the adoption of a new Vision Zero policy by July 30. The white shoes symbolize the pedestrians who have lost their lives in traffic crashes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We feel like this is a fair amount of time for him to be in office, to understand the agencies, to understand the challenges, what’s worked, what’s not worked, and to really create and have a robust, thoughtful new Vision Zero,” Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also lays out what Walk SF and Bay Area Families for Safer Streets, another advocacy group made up of crash survivors, want to see prioritized in the new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their main focuses is speeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dangerous speeding is a risk factor,” said advocate Jenny Yu, whose mother was in a severe crash in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was crossing the street on Park Presidio and Anza in Golden Gate Park, and a driver was turning left, speeding,” she recalled. “The SUV struck her body and swung her body across the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City data shows that 1 in 5 crashes are related to excessive speed, and as speed increases, so does the risk of severe injury and death. 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About 20 cameras sent out a collective 31,000 warnings to drivers on high-injury network streets in April, SFMTA reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once all 33 of the city’s cameras have been active for 60 days, the cameras will start administering tickets, which Medeiros said she believed can have a real effect on driver behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the success of similar technology in New York: “The cameras have reduced crashes, reduced speeds, and have been part of their program for Vision Zero,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walk SF’s letter to Lurie also requests that the new Vision Zero policy lower the speed limits on all high-injury network and commercial streets by 5 mph by 2027 and pursue state legislation to reduce speed limits on residential streets across the city to 20 mph the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also reiterates the importance of redesigning high-injury network streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great example is to look at the Tenderloin,” Medeiros said. “In the current high-injury network map, every single street on the Tenderloin is considered a dangerous street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides in the street by parked cars and stores.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by the Tilted Brim in the Tenderloin neighborhood, a part of the 5th Supervisorial District, in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, she said, the Tenderloin saw speed limits reduced to 20 mph; added pedestrian safety zones and daylighting, which makes it illegal to park a car within 20 feet of a pedestrian crosswalk; and removed lanes from the widest streets with the worst speeding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were applied universally in the neighborhood. They were applied at scale. And what we’ve really seen is crash rates and close calls have dropped, and speeds have come down,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those results to be more widespread throughout the city, Medeiros said, there needs to be better collaboration and accountability between city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been missing so far, she said, is a mayoral administration that makes Vision Zero a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vision Zero cities are where the mayors have embraced it and held agencies accountable for citywide change,” she said. “We are really looking at Mayor Lurie for taking a stand, embracing Vision Zero and holding these agencies accountable to make citywide changes to intersections and bringing down dangerous speeds and designing our streets for the most vulnerable people that are using them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘In leading Vision Zero cities, it’s the mayors’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Vision Zero has plenty of promises that remain unrealized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles of the high-injury network remain dangerous. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039914/just-over-half-sfs-speed-cameras-operational-whats-with-slowdown\">21 of the city’s 33 speed cameras have been set up\u003c/a>, despite the original March launch date. And while safety advocates had championed taking cars off Market Street in 2020, earlier this year, Lurie announced that autonomous vehicle company Waymo would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035348/mayor-lurie-allows-waymo-on-sfs-car-free-market-street\">begin operating\u003c/a> on the downtown thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city also scrapped plans to begin enforcing daylighting in March, after California passed legislation requiring the buffer zones at all intersections in 2023. SFMTA said it would hold off issuing citations until it was able to paint red all of the curbs the daylighting law applies to, which it estimated will take 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who has been held accountable? I have no evidence that anyone has been held accountable for any of the safe street issues,” Rose said. “Someone has to ultimately be responsible for enacting the changes and making sure that they happen, otherwise it just falls on deaf ears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates hope that person will be Lurie, who assured them at the unveiling of the first speed cameras in April that pedestrian safety is part of his public safety agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a leadership void on this, to be frank,” Medeiros said. “We really did advocate for this with Mayor Breed, and we’re back advocating this for Mayor Lurie … the ingredient that is currently missing is Mayor Lurie holding these agencies accountable in getting the work done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A series of fires that have destroyed two playgrounds in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown\">Outer Richmond\u003c/a> in the last week have frightened residents and raised suspicions of foul play, with little known about who or what started the blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco firefighters and police officers are investigating four fires that have broken out in the neighborhood this month, but no suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent two fires burned down playgrounds at Lafayette Elementary School and Lincoln Park just a few days before summer vacation begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just unreasonable to believe that these could be random, unassociated acts when they are so close together in location and temporal proximity,” said Hallie Albert, vice president of Lafayette’s Parent Teacher Association. “It raises the very reasonable suspicion that they are connected, and that leaves us all very concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert, who is also the parent of a fourth-grader at Lafayette, said a sense of fear and anxiety has pervaded the school community, although it varies from person to person. If someone did intentionally start the fires, parents are mostly worried that it could happen again at other play structures and areas frequented by children, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041527 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The playground at Lafayette Elementary School in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond was destroyed in a suspicious fire, one of four blazes under investigation in the neighborhood this month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hallie Albert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fires’ causes have not been determined. Samuel Menchaca, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-fire-department\">San Francisco Fire Department\u003c/a>, said firefighters and officers are taking their investigations seriously and urged people to report anything suspicious or abnormal in the area right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first fire broke out on May 1, when firefighters responded around 1:30 a.m. to calls of a storage container burning outside Lafayette Elementary School. The container, which stored thousands of dollars’ worth of PTA merchandise, games, decorations and other event supplies, was completely destroyed, Albert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 10, a small fire was reported at the playground at Lincoln Park around 11 p.m. It burned a hole through a slide, but there was no further damage.[aside postID=news_12041112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_6619_qed-1020x599.jpg']Earlier this week, a second fire broke out at Lafayette Elementary School around 10:30 p.m. on May 18, completely destroying the school’s playground. All that was left of the structure when devastated parents arrived at the school the next morning was twisted metal, rubble and ash. Fortunately, no one was hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few days, parents and school staff helped to clean up the site. Many of them also volunteered to decorate the fence surrounding the playground. It is now adorned with a colorful display of ribbons and flowers, Albert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, community members met with school officials and local authorities to discuss the fire and to figure out the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents expressed concern over the safety of their children, some of whom were coming home from school with soot and ash on their clothes. The school assured them that emergency procedures were in place, and a cleaning crew was sent out to clear away the debris, Albert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041532\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12041532\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and school staff spent several days cleaning up the site and transforming the playground fence into a vibrant display adorned with colorful ribbons and flowers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Erin Montoya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another parent asked whether the fire at Lafayette had any connection to the one at Lincoln Park. According to Albert, it was the first time any of them had heard the word “arson” being used to describe what may have happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that two incidents in a short time are concerning, and we are working closely with the Fire Department to investigate both cases,” Katrina Kincade, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, said in a statement to KQED. “Until the investigation is complete, we are not making assumptions about the causes of the fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours after the community meeting ended on Wednesday, firefighters responded to another emergency call at Lincoln Park around 11 p.m. A second fire had occurred at the park’s play structure, and the damage was far worse than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Daniel Montes, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, the playground was almost entirely destroyed. All that remains is a small play area for toddlers that was untouched by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s disheartening to see vandalism in any park,” Montes said. “The play area has been effectively destroyed, and this is a treasured space for kids and families in the Richmond neighborhood. We are still trying to assess the damage, but it is closed off to the public for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As summer vacation starts, Albert said she’s trying to figure out new ways to keep her children entertained outdoors without some of the play structures that were previously available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons many of us live and love living in Outer Richmond is because we have a more mellowed feel while still being in the city. Our kids are able to go out and be in the neighborhood and play,” she said. “It’s really quite sad and disheartening that they no longer have the spaces that have been burned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Earlier this week, a second fire broke out at Lafayette Elementary School around 10:30 p.m. on May 18, completely destroying the school’s playground. All that was left of the structure when devastated parents arrived at the school the next morning was twisted metal, rubble and ash. Fortunately, no one was hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few days, parents and school staff helped to clean up the site. Many of them also volunteered to decorate the fence surrounding the playground. It is now adorned with a colorful display of ribbons and flowers, Albert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, community members met with school officials and local authorities to discuss the fire and to figure out the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents expressed concern over the safety of their children, some of whom were coming home from school with soot and ash on their clothes. The school assured them that emergency procedures were in place, and a cleaning crew was sent out to clear away the debris, Albert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041532\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12041532\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFPlayground3-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and school staff spent several days cleaning up the site and transforming the playground fence into a vibrant display adorned with colorful ribbons and flowers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Erin Montoya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another parent asked whether the fire at Lafayette had any connection to the one at Lincoln Park. According to Albert, it was the first time any of them had heard the word “arson” being used to describe what may have happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that two incidents in a short time are concerning, and we are working closely with the Fire Department to investigate both cases,” Katrina Kincade, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, said in a statement to KQED. “Until the investigation is complete, we are not making assumptions about the causes of the fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours after the community meeting ended on Wednesday, firefighters responded to another emergency call at Lincoln Park around 11 p.m. A second fire had occurred at the park’s play structure, and the damage was far worse than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Daniel Montes, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, the playground was almost entirely destroyed. All that remains is a small play area for toddlers that was untouched by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s disheartening to see vandalism in any park,” Montes said. “The play area has been effectively destroyed, and this is a treasured space for kids and families in the Richmond neighborhood. We are still trying to assess the damage, but it is closed off to the public for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As summer vacation starts, Albert said she’s trying to figure out new ways to keep her children entertained outdoors without some of the play structures that were previously available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons many of us live and love living in Outer Richmond is because we have a more mellowed feel while still being in the city. Our kids are able to go out and be in the neighborhood and play,” she said. “It’s really quite sad and disheartening that they no longer have the spaces that have been burned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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