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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha and Izzy Bloom visited a 38-acre farm in San Gregorio, 40 miles west of San José, to follow a new project aimed at returning land to the Ramaytush, the Indigenous people of the San Francisco Peninsula. The project is spearheaded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/\">Deep Medicine Circle\u003c/a>, a nonprofit group led by women of color, whose goal, according to its founder Rupa Marya, is to “heal the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We spoke with three of the women leading this land back effort.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a flat stick standing in field, behind the skull of an elk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramaytush elder Cata Gomes on the Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm in San Gregorio on Feb. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Catalina Gomes: Ramaytush Indigenous elder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Catalina Gomes was growing up in San José, she knew very little about her Indigenous roots. Gomes said her mother and grandmother wanted to protect her from the “trauma that we’ve suffered in the last 400 years,” so they didn’t speak about their heritage. The only thing they told her when she was a child was that she was a 12th-generation Californian. But Gomes said she always had a strong intuition that this wasn’t the full story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young adult, Gomes learned she was descended from the Salinan Tribe, from the Salinas Valley and the Santa Lucia coastal range. Then, four years ago, Gomes’s cousin unearthed records from the Spanish missions that revealed their family also has Ramaytush ancestry\u003cem>.\u003c/em> In those records, they discovered an ancestor named Muchia Te’. The Spanish recorded her baptismal date as Oct. 2, 1782, when she was about 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomes said she feels lucky to know Muchia Te’s Indigenous name, because it was common for the Spanish to record only the baptismal names of Indigenous people. Gomes is now creating a land trust, called the “Muchia Te’ Indigenous Land Trust,” named after her ancestors. The 38 acres of farmland, which are currently being held by \u003ca href=\"http://openspacetrust.org\">Peninsula Open Space Trust\u003c/a>, will soon be returned to Gomes and the Ramaytush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911825\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_doctors--scaled-e1650672672633.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911825 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_doctors--scaled-e1650672672633.jpeg\" alt=\"People gather in a farm structure, next to boxes of potatoes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF pediatricians-in-training learn about Indigenous foods from farm director Jibril Kyser at the Ramaytush Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm, on Jan. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rupa Marya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 1, Deep Medicine Circle will officially rename the farm Te Kwe A’naa Warep, which means “honoring Mother Earth” in the Ramaytush language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the farm include harvesting traditional indigenous herbs and medicines, setting up an herbal apothecary, and farming nutritious, organic food that will be available, for free, to communities in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>“We’re here to heal the land, and the land is here to heal us. So it’s a copacetic relationship that we have with the land and the creatures here, the creek, the plants. We’re all here working together, struggling to bring forward a better future than what we’ve been exposed to. … We’re hoping to grow this project and expand and get other land to hopefully get another property that we could open a health center and have an alternative approach to healing our bodies that have been so traumatized after the last 400 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What brings her joy\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“It is bringing me great joy to have a positive goal to look forward to. … It’s been a complete change of my mindset to go from COVID being the focus, to focusing on this land, healing the land and having the land heal us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911821 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-800x1071.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman with long hair in what looks like a wooden barn playing guitar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-800x1071.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1020x1365.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-160x214.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1148x1536.jpeg 1148w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1530x2048.jpeg 1530w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1920x2570.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-scaled.jpeg 1913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musician, physician and farmer Rupa Marya sowing seeds and songs in the barn at Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm. \u003ccite>(Bija Milagro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rupa Marya: executive instigator and founder of Deep Medicine Circle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Rupa Marya was 5 years old, she told her kindergarten teacher that she wanted to be “a ballerina and a surgeon.” Even then, she had a strong desire to heal. Art, she said, was a way for her to process and digest her experiences. Through art, everything made sense to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya’s career path didn’t veer too far from the one she imagined for herself as a child: She’s now an activist, physician and musician — the lead singer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theaprilfishes.com/\">Rupa and the April Fishes\u003c/a>. The polyglot band performs original songs in French, Spanish, English and Hindi, ranging in genre from jazz to punk to reggae. Their music also highlights Indigenous rights and social justice issues, like police violence and racism in the medical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 years ago, Marya, who also is an \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/rupa.marya\">associate professor of medicine\u003c/a> at UCSF, noticed many young people coming to see her with stomach problems, and she became fascinated with stool cultures. She made the connection between inflammation of the human gut and the way the soil and earth’s systems are “inflamed.” Marya sought to reject capitalist food systems by growing nutritious food to give away to oppressed groups, an effort that led her to create the nonprofit Deep Medicine Circle, which is managing the farm and oversees the Land Back Solidarity Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"land-back\"]The group is focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/restore\">growing organic, nutritious food\u003c/a> using a blend of agroecology and Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. It’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/nourish\">decommodifying food\u003c/a> by giving away what it grows to marginalized communities, partnering with organizations like the American Indian Cultural District and Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in San Francisco. The group also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/heal\">invites health care workers\u003c/a> to visit the farm and heal from the trauma of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya also co-authored the book “\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/inflamed-deep-medicine-and-the-anatomy-of-injustice/9780374602512\">Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice\u003c/a>” with economist Raj Patel, exploring how the earth’s gut — our soil — is causing diseases in the human gut and affecting community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“I would like to turn around and look at these hills and see tule elk grazing. I would love to see beaver back on the land, and the creek full of salmon, and the creek healthy. I would love to know that that whole valley and watershed has eliminated all the synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that are harmful to the soil. I would love to see young people learning this work, and people from many different cultures coming together to learn about Ramaytush heritage and culture and land stewardship and this model of farming. I would love to see people coming there to participate in growing food for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What brings her joy\u003c/b>:\u003cbr>\n“Knowing that I’m participating with my family in a great awakening and a great healing. My children aren’t waiting until they’re 20 to learn the truth about what happened to these lands, and they’re actively engaged in participating in that healing work. … Being together in this work in community is probably one of the best feelings I’ve had in a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A women with a cap standing outside next to a barn, and wearing a t-shirt that says 'Phenomenally Indigenous.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage La Pena, Deep Medicine Circle’s director of traditional ecological knowledge and an Indigenous plant medicine doctor, at the Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm on Feb. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Sage La Pena: Nomtipom Wintu ethnobotanist and certified medicinal herbalist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When she was a child, Sage La Pena began working with and learning from Mabel McKay, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiamuseum.org/inductee/mabel-mckay\">globally respected doctor and basket weaver \u003c/a>from the Pomo and Wintun tribes of Northern California. La Pena later discovered that what McKay had taught her also is considered “ethnobotany,” the study of traditional customs, and the medicinal, religious and other uses of plants, and went on to teach at the \u003ca href=\"https://cshs.com/\">California School of Herbal Studies\u003c/a>, founded by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me I was an herbalist, and I didn’t know what an herbalist was,” La Pena said. “I thought the knowledge that was given and passes through me now was the norm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pena now works with Deep Medicine Circle to preserve and pass on traditional ecological knowledge. She’s an expert in the medicinal uses of native plants, like elderberry and stinging nettle, which are grown and harvested on the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/b>:\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>“I feel a very close affinity to the plant life and the people, in turn. … We want beaver here and elk to participate in these landscapes. That is their birthright. And they’ve been kept from these places. So if there’s something that as a two-legged I can do to help that process, that is as it should be with balance, then that’s why I’m here. To do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What brings her joy\u003c/b>:\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>“My daughter Roxy, who’s my youngest birth child of five, and my grandchildren. I see within these generations, open minds that are often clouded in adults. … Just seeing how they’re so open and willing to learn. The vitality that they share with us, it’s very joyful.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha and Izzy Bloom visited a 38-acre farm in San Gregorio, 40 miles west of San José, to follow a new project aimed at returning land to the Ramaytush, the Indigenous people of the San Francisco Peninsula. The project is spearheaded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/\">Deep Medicine Circle\u003c/a>, a nonprofit group led by women of color, whose goal, according to its founder Rupa Marya, is to “heal the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We spoke with three of the women leading this land back effort.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a flat stick standing in field, behind the skull of an elk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramaytush elder Cata Gomes on the Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm in San Gregorio on Feb. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Catalina Gomes: Ramaytush Indigenous elder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Catalina Gomes was growing up in San José, she knew very little about her Indigenous roots. Gomes said her mother and grandmother wanted to protect her from the “trauma that we’ve suffered in the last 400 years,” so they didn’t speak about their heritage. The only thing they told her when she was a child was that she was a 12th-generation Californian. But Gomes said she always had a strong intuition that this wasn’t the full story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young adult, Gomes learned she was descended from the Salinan Tribe, from the Salinas Valley and the Santa Lucia coastal range. Then, four years ago, Gomes’s cousin unearthed records from the Spanish missions that revealed their family also has Ramaytush ancestry\u003cem>.\u003c/em> In those records, they discovered an ancestor named Muchia Te’. The Spanish recorded her baptismal date as Oct. 2, 1782, when she was about 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomes said she feels lucky to know Muchia Te’s Indigenous name, because it was common for the Spanish to record only the baptismal names of Indigenous people. Gomes is now creating a land trust, called the “Muchia Te’ Indigenous Land Trust,” named after her ancestors. The 38 acres of farmland, which are currently being held by \u003ca href=\"http://openspacetrust.org\">Peninsula Open Space Trust\u003c/a>, will soon be returned to Gomes and the Ramaytush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911825\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_doctors--scaled-e1650672672633.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911825 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_doctors--scaled-e1650672672633.jpeg\" alt=\"People gather in a farm structure, next to boxes of potatoes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF pediatricians-in-training learn about Indigenous foods from farm director Jibril Kyser at the Ramaytush Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm, on Jan. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rupa Marya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 1, Deep Medicine Circle will officially rename the farm Te Kwe A’naa Warep, which means “honoring Mother Earth” in the Ramaytush language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The group is focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/restore\">growing organic, nutritious food\u003c/a> using a blend of agroecology and Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. It’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/nourish\">decommodifying food\u003c/a> by giving away what it grows to marginalized communities, partnering with organizations like the American Indian Cultural District and Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in San Francisco. The group also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/heal\">invites health care workers\u003c/a> to visit the farm and heal from the trauma of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya also co-authored the book “\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/inflamed-deep-medicine-and-the-anatomy-of-injustice/9780374602512\">Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice\u003c/a>” with economist Raj Patel, exploring how the earth’s gut — our soil — is causing diseases in the human gut and affecting community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“I would like to turn around and look at these hills and see tule elk grazing. I would love to see beaver back on the land, and the creek full of salmon, and the creek healthy. I would love to know that that whole valley and watershed has eliminated all the synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that are harmful to the soil. I would love to see young people learning this work, and people from many different cultures coming together to learn about Ramaytush heritage and culture and land stewardship and this model of farming. I would love to see people coming there to participate in growing food for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What brings her joy\u003c/b>:\u003cbr>\n“Knowing that I’m participating with my family in a great awakening and a great healing. My children aren’t waiting until they’re 20 to learn the truth about what happened to these lands, and they’re actively engaged in participating in that healing work. … Being together in this work in community is probably one of the best feelings I’ve had in a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A women with a cap standing outside next to a barn, and wearing a t-shirt that says 'Phenomenally Indigenous.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage La Pena, Deep Medicine Circle’s director of traditional ecological knowledge and an Indigenous plant medicine doctor, at the Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm on Feb. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Sage La Pena: Nomtipom Wintu ethnobotanist and certified medicinal herbalist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When she was a child, Sage La Pena began working with and learning from Mabel McKay, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiamuseum.org/inductee/mabel-mckay\">globally respected doctor and basket weaver \u003c/a>from the Pomo and Wintun tribes of Northern California. La Pena later discovered that what McKay had taught her also is considered “ethnobotany,” the study of traditional customs, and the medicinal, religious and other uses of plants, and went on to teach at the \u003ca href=\"https://cshs.com/\">California School of Herbal Studies\u003c/a>, founded by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me I was an herbalist, and I didn’t know what an herbalist was,” La Pena said. “I thought the knowledge that was given and passes through me now was the norm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pena now works with Deep Medicine Circle to preserve and pass on traditional ecological knowledge. 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Parts of southern San Mateo and northern Santa Cruz counties were under flash flood warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several roads in San Mateo County have been closed off due to flooding, including a mile-long stretch of Highway 92 near Half Moon Bay, between Highway 1 and Route 35, according to Caltrans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1470460558310711297\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo, Marin and Santa Cruz counties all have been soaked with more than 5 inches of rain, with more than 9 inches on Mt. Tamalpais. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Health care workers across California are bracing for difficult days ahead as the latest coronavirus surge pummels the state. \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More than 22,800\u003c/a> total people were hospitalized with COVID-19 across California as of Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we are on the brink and we are truly worried about how we’re going to be able to care for more patients,” said Dr. Julie Hersk in an interview with KQED’s Brian Watt this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hersk is an emergency medicine specialist and former chief of staff at San Mateo Medical Center, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/944379919/new-data-reveal-which-hospitals-are-dangerously-full-is-yours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than a third\u003c/a> of adult inpatient beds are being used to treat COVID-19 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834086/what-you-need-to-know-bay-area-lightning-fires\">Find more details on evacuations and other essential wildfire information here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of wildfires sparked by lightning over the weekend continued to spread rapidly across large expanses of the outer Bay Area. The fires — in the North Bay, East Bay and Peninsula regions — remained largely uncontained as crews, already stretched thin, contend with high winds, rough terrain and triple-digit temperatures amid a week-long heat wave. One grouping of fires — dubbed the LNU Lightning Complex in Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties — more than doubled in area since Wednesday, blazing across 131,00 acres by Thursday morning and threatening some 30,500 houses and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Thursday, tens of thousands of residents from the North Bay to the Peninsula were ordered to evacuate in the face of three major groupings — or complexes — of fire blazing throughout the region. \u003ca href=\"#original\">Click here\u003c/a> to skip to our original post below the updates section.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The latest updates\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:15 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warning orders for the community of Platina in Shasta County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1296688405233848322\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, an evacuation warning has been issued by Cal Fire for the community of Platina, Calif. in Shasta County. Cal Fire officials are asking citizens of Platina to prepare in the event that evacuations become necessary. Citing \"fire behavior, no containment, lack of resources to include personnel and aircraft,\" Cal Fire advises residents to \"get ready, clear vegetation around your property, have your important documents and medications ready to go.\" For more information, refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4996/readysetgo_plan.pdf\">the READY, SET, GO program\u003c/a> at fire.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders for Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, Cal Fire issued additional evacuation orders in Santa Cruz County, which includes the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296633985586454529?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, the following orders apply to:\u003cbr>\n- All Scott’s Valley residents west of State Route 17.\u003cbr>\n- The Santa Cruz County area of east of Zayante Canyon, west of State Route 17 and south of State Route 35.\u003cbr>\n- University of California, Santa Cruz campus only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County evacuation centers are located at:\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz County Fairground, 2601 E. Lake Avenue in Watsonville\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz (At Capacity)\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Seventh Day Adventist Camp Ground, 1931 Soquel San Jose Rd \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the most current evacuation map and information: \u003ca href=\"http://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders, warnings issued in Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued new evacuation orders and warnings to Santa Clara County residents late Thursday afternoon in response to the SCU Lightning Complex of fires that since Sunday has burned more than 137,000 acres across five counties and remained only 5% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1296537523510894592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following areas, previously under an evacuation warning, are now under a mandatory evacuation order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- East of Shingle Valley Road and everything east of Anderson Lake, east of Coyote Creek, east of Coyote Reservoir, east of Roop Road, east of Leavesly Road, east of Crews Road, east of Ferguson Road.\u003cbr>\n- East and north of state Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- West of the Merced County Line, north of Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- South of Metcalf Road at Shingle Valley Road, east to the\u003cbr>\nStanislaus County Line\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas now under an evacuation warning include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- South of Metcalf Road, east of Coyote Creek to the Anderson Lake\u003cbr>\nShore, east of Cochrane Road, east of Hill Road, and south of Main Avenue, north of Maple Avenue, east of Foothill Avenue, north of San Martin Avenue, east of New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- West of Shingle Valley Road and everything west of Anderson Lake, west of Coyote Creek, west of Coyote reservoir, north and west of Roop Road between Coyote Reservoir Road and New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- East of Lovers Lane and the Santa Cruz County line\u003cbr>\n- South of Highway 152 to the San Benito County Line\u003cbr>\n-West to the Merced County Line\u003cbr>\n- North of the San Benito County Line to Highway 152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are road closures at Holiday Drive at East Dunne Avenue; Coyote Reservoir Road at Roop Road; Canada Road at Highway 152; and Highway 152 at Belle Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter for Santa Clara County residents is available at Ann Sobrato High School in the Performing Arts Building at 401 Burnett Ave. in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees that need animal services can call Santa Clara County Animal Services at (408) 686-3900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4 p.m. Thursday: Santa Cruz County asks all visitors to leave to free up shelter capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center on Thursday afternoon requested that all visitors and tourists staying in local overnight accommodations like hotels and vacation rentals leave the county immediately in order to free up shelter capacity for wildfire evacuees. With local shelters nearing capacity, the EOC is working with local agencies, including cities and school districts, to provide more shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents set up inside a large exhibition hall at the Santa Cruz County Fairground evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county is also asking evacuees to first seek shelter with friends and family and is urging residents with extra bedrooms or even tents to share their information on social media platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those leaving the county should depart south on state Highway 1 or north on state Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of existing and anticipated evacuation orders because of the CZU August Lighting Complex of wildfires is unprecedented, officials said. As of Thursday morning, the fires had already burned 40,000 acres and were 0% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the most current \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75.\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warnings issued for UC Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Thursday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation warning for the entire UC Santa Cruz campus and the the nearby communities of Paradise Park and the area of Scotts Valley west of State Route 17 (encompassing the downtown area). Cal Fire said said an evacuation warning is issued when \"the threat is plausible for fire activity to increase and your residence may be in the affected area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gavin Earnest, 62, inside a tent at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds evacuation center on Aug. 20, 2020. He and his mother, Elizabeth Earnest, evacuated from their Boulder Creek home two days ago. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby evacuation centers include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County Fairground: 2601 E. Lake Ave. in Watsonville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist campground: Soquel San Jose Rd. in Soquel\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium: 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz (was at capacity as of Thursday afternoon).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296561778038513664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:15 p.m. Thursday: Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County now top priority in North Bay\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe 14,500-acre Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County is now the top priority for firefighting efforts in the LNU Lightning Complex of fires burning in the North Bay, fire officials said. The lightning-ignited blaze, which merged overnight with the Stewart Fire, poses a serious threat to Guerneville and neighboring Russian River communities. See map of fire perimeters and evacuation zones \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=69a0e54e9e2b48c086d122027b21c961\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were hoping to make a lot better progress today. We are expecting better conditions than we had the last couple of days,\" said Santa Rosa Assistant Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal at a press briefing Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11 a.m. Thursday: LNU Complex has burned 131,000 acres, with 0% containment\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe LNU Lightning Complex of fires raging in the North Bay has collectively burned 131,000 acres, destroyed 105 structures and damaged 70 others as of Thursday morning, Cal Fire officials said.An estimated 30,500 structures remain threatened by the wildfires, which have prompted widespread evacuations in Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties, among other communities. Cal Fire says the fires are at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296469315705802752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the fires is the Hennessey Fire, which started near Hennessey Ridge Road in Napa County and has spread across 105,000 acres, according to Cal Fire. Another large blaze, the Walbridge Fire west of Healdsburg, has charred 14,500 acres while the Meyers Fire north of Jenner is at 3,000 acres as of Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10 a.m. Thursday: Nearly all East Bay regional parks closed\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDue to the extreme fire activity in the region, nearly all East Bay regional parks — except some shoreline locations — have been shut down closed until further notice, the \u003ca href=\"http://except%20some%20shoreline%20parks\">East Bay Regional Park District announced\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EBRPD/status/1296243710162862080\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is currently experiencing an unprecedented number of wildfires in parks, including Round Valley Regional Preserve, Morgan Territory Regional Preserve, Del Valle Regional Park, Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve, Ohlone Wilderness Regional Preserve, Mission Peak Regional Preserve, and Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. Paved regional trails are not affected by the closures and will remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following parks remain open:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crown Beach State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hayward Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>MLK Jr. Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McLaughlin Eastshore State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Point Isabel Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 a.m. Thursday: Entire town of Felton in Santa Cruz Mountains ordered to evacuate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\">has ordered\u003c/a> all Felton residents to evacuate immediately due to severe fire danger. That includes all six of Felton's evacuation zones. Evacuation centers have been established in San Mateo County at Half Moon Bay High School (1 Lewis Foster Dr.) and in Santa Cruz County at the Civic Auditorium (307 Church St., and 2601 East Lake Ave., Watsonville) and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incident information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8 a.m. Thursday: PG&E worker dies near Vacaville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PG&E worker was found unresponsive in his vehicle in the Gates Canyon area in Vacaville Wednesday, where he had been assisting first responders battling the Hennessey Fire, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409/photo/1\">Cal Fire confirmed\u003c/a> Thursday. CPR was performed and the employee was then brought to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The employee's name has not been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Original post (last updated Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of people were under orders to evacuate from the North Bay to the Peninsula early Wednesday as three major series of lightning-sparked wildfires blazed out of control across the Bay Area amid a heat wave now in its sixth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throughout the state of California right now, we are stretched thin for crews\" because of the fires, said Will Powers, a Cal Fire spokesman. \"Air resources have been stretched thin throughout the whole state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11833686 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Hennessey-fire-1020x609.jpg']Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed \"this extraordinary weather we’re experiencing and all of these lightning strikes” for a total of 367 known fires now burning across California. Newsom said the state had recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the outskirts of the Solano County city of Vacaville, police and firefighters went door to door late Tuesday and early Wednesday in a scramble to warn residents to evacuate as one of the eight blazes that are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> raced toward the residential areas from the northwest. Fire officials said at least 50 structures were destroyed and 50 were damaged and that four people were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LNU Lightning Complex includes lightning-sparked fires burning from the Sonoma County coast east across Napa County and Solano County. The blazes had burned a total 46,225 acres by early Wednesday. Most of the fires are burning in areas with limited access and steep terrain, making it difficult to get crews in. Fire crews were stretched too thin overnight to focus on more than immediate life-saving measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mgafni/status/1296046197409345537?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle reporter Matthias Gafni, who traveled down Pleasants Valley Road on the western outskirts of Vacaville shortly after 4:00 a.m., told KQED that houses were on fire when he arrived, but that most people had evacuated from that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It appeared the fire had just crossed the road and swept eastward towards the city proper,\" Gafni said. \"Houses were on fire. Structures, cars, explosions were being heard as propane tanks exploded and gas lines were whizzing. And it was a pretty chaotic scene when I when I first showed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Godley, Sonoma County's emergency management director, said about 10,000 people were under evacuation orders as crews battled two blazes and were working to set up an evacuation center with alternate locations for people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that resources are strapped statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to second guess what the fire commanders are doing with their aircraft. But it’s not like last year when we saw just a huge wealth of resources flowing into the county,\" he said. “It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents the area, said the fires burning in Napa and Sonoma counties were mostly affecting less populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the people around here, even the people that have structures in harm’s way, understand that they’re in a more rural area and that the people in more densely populated areas have to get the resources first,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation order for residents of the Hidden Valley Lake and Jerusalem Valley areas of Lake County, suggesting a potentially dangerous northward move into that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, about 22,000 people were ordered to evacuate overnight due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">CZU August Lightning Complex fire\u003c/a>, burning in the Santa Cruz mountains, Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fire – also comprised of multiple lightning-sparked blazes – quickly expanded to 10,000 acres overnight and is at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296005460022067200?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last night we saw a major increase in fire activity in both San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties,” Cox said Wednesday morning. “And we saw several of the fires merge together and make a significant run into Santa Cruz County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very active timber fire burning in two counties with a serious threat to both public safety and for structures that are out in front of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials issued evacuation orders late Tuesday night for people living in the Boulder Creek and Ben Lomond areas along Highway 9, and for Bonny Doon down towards Davenport on Highway 1 as multiple blazes merged together in the mountains between Big Basin State Park and Bonny Doon, threatening to move further south and east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased winds on Wednesday afternoon appeared to fuel the blaze's growth and cause the formation of a large pyrocumulus cloud - large, thunderhead-like clouds which top out at high altitudes and are themselves capable of producing lightning. All of the three major complex fires \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1296209917410455552?s=20\">were producing pyrocumulus clouds\u003c/a> Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RobMayeda/status/1296217706300022784?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued an additional evacuation warning for the Santa Cruz mountains at 2:00 p.m., requesting that all residents leave from areas west of Highway 9 to Empire Grade, and south from Bear Creek Road to Felton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Cecile Juliette said crews spent all night and all morning evacuating people with the help of the Santa Cruz County sheriff's office. She said the COVID-19 pandemic has created another challenging layer for evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Red Cross now can't put them all in one big gymnasium. You know, they'll have to get them hotel rooms, and so that just adds another layer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sanmateoco/status/1296105613399744515?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees from the CZU August Lightning Complex blazes were being sent to the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds in Watsonville, where \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296155025018720256?s=20\">tents were set up\u003c/a> inside an air conditioned building as a COVID-19 safety measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frightening to think maybe you don't have a home to go back to,\" said Toni Bravo, who evacuated from the Boulder Creek area with her son Josh at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296118724785651714?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com/\">evacuation center\u003c/a> has been set up at Pescadero High School in Pescadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, a cluster of 20 separate lightning-sparked fires dubbed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">SCU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> threatened about 1,400 structures in rugged terrain with dense brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fires, burning in Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties have now burned 85,000 acres and are 5% contained. Two people have been injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SCU Lightning Complex is burning in what's regarded as the Diablo Range, east of Mount Diablo, east of Fremont, and northeast of Mount Hamilton. The biggest fires are the Del Puerto, burning west of the town of Patterson along Del Puerto Canyon Road, and the Reservoir, just east of the Calaveras Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoFire/status/1295540694128287746?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the blazes are believed to have been sparked by lightning strikes from the unusual series of thunderstorms that rolled across the Bay Area beginning early last Sunday. Meteorologist Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services said the lightning storms and ongoing sizzling temperatures created a very dangerous combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the very dry fuels that we have, both from the temperatures and the fact it's been almost three months since there's been any significant rain in the state... 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, an evacuation warning has been issued by Cal Fire for the community of Platina, Calif. in Shasta County. Cal Fire officials are asking citizens of Platina to prepare in the event that evacuations become necessary. Citing \"fire behavior, no containment, lack of resources to include personnel and aircraft,\" Cal Fire advises residents to \"get ready, clear vegetation around your property, have your important documents and medications ready to go.\" For more information, refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4996/readysetgo_plan.pdf\">the READY, SET, GO program\u003c/a> at fire.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders for Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, Cal Fire issued additional evacuation orders in Santa Cruz County, which includes the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Assuming that all the agencies that must approve the ballot measure go along with the deal later this week, the levy still must win two-thirds approval at the ballot box. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, a member of the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority board that will vote on the tax measure Wednesday, said the deal was the result \"of many hours of phone calls, shuttle diplomacy and redrafting by several of us through nights and weekends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the agreement \"will enable Caltrain to expand its service with long-overdue reforms in governance that will enable greater accountability to taxpayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal provides the ballot measure will be \"clean,\" meaning that it will not include a series of last-minute conditions that San Francisco and Santa Clara officials had insisted upon to change how the rail agency is run. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions, approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week as part of its proposed ballot measure, would require the three-county Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board that oversees Caltrain to begin the process of enacting governance changes at the rail agency. Those provisions, authored by San Francisco Supervisors Shamann Walton and Aaron Peskin, would restrict the use of the sales tax proceeds while those governance talks were underway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County, whose SamTrans transit district has run Caltrain since 1991, resisted those ballot conditions and insisted they were illegal under the 2017 state law that authorized the ballot measure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has taken on added urgency with Caltrain facing a plunge in ridership and fare revenue due to the pandemic. System patronage plummeted as much as 98% after coronavirus shelter-at-home orders were imposed across the Bay Area in March. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ridership loss is especially problematic for Caltrain, which gets 70% of its operating funds from passenger fares. Unlike most other transit agencies, the railroad has no dedicated source of funding and has depended on federal pandemic relief funds to continue operations. Agency officials have warned that the system will run out of cash this fall and could be forced to drastically curtail or even suspend service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement will require a furious scramble by the seven different boards that, under the state law authorizing the tax measure, must act by Friday to put the measure on the ballot. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='caltrain']San Mateo County's Board of Supervisors and the SamTrans board approved a \"clean\" version of the tax measure earlier this year and don't need a further vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved the the tax measure on Tuesday morning, and the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority board will consider it on Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors will hold a special meeting Friday to pass a resolution without the Caltrain governance conditions approved last week. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency board, which voted down the tax measure last week, will meet Wednesday to reconsider it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Joint Powers Board overseeing Caltrain will meet Thursday to formally approve the tax measure and pass \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7013547/Caltrain-Joint-Powers-Board-Governance-Resolution.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a separate resolution\u003c/a> committing the agency to reforming its governance structure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Mateo County Transit District, or SamTrans, runs Caltrain — largely the result of the county paying for the line and never having been fully repaid. San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have argued that with their counties expected to pay about 80% of the estimated $108 million the tax will raise each year, they need to have a more meaningful voice in running the agency. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the changes sought by San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez — both of whom serve on the Caltrain board — is the power to hire and fire the agency's CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution will also incorporate language limiting use of the sales tax proceeds pending enactment of the governance changes — due by Dec. 31, 2021 — and provide for immediate retention of counsel and auditor independent of SamTrans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tuesday agreement also includes an undertaking by the parties to repay the $19.8 million San Mateo County is still owed for purchasing the Caltrain right-of-way from Southern Pacific in 1991. The source for that reimbursement is unclear. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Stone, vice mayor of Belmont and a member of the Caltrain board, expressed some reservations about the repayment language. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That section says the Caltrain board will \"initiate efforts\" to reimburse SamTrans, including by \"prioritizing the payment of the (SamTrans) investment ... if the Caltrain tax measure is approved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If that's meant to say the revenues from the one-eighth-cent sales tax should be used to pay back the SamTrans investment, that's saying that San Mateo County taxpayer money should be used to pay back the San Mateo County taxpayers,\" Stone said. \"I hope that's not what it's meant to say. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions, approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week as part of its proposed ballot measure, would require the three-county Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board that oversees Caltrain to begin the process of enacting governance changes at the rail agency. Those provisions, authored by San Francisco Supervisors Shamann Walton and Aaron Peskin, would restrict the use of the sales tax proceeds while those governance talks were underway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County, whose SamTrans transit district has run Caltrain since 1991, resisted those ballot conditions and insisted they were illegal under the 2017 state law that authorized the ballot measure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has taken on added urgency with Caltrain facing a plunge in ridership and fare revenue due to the pandemic. System patronage plummeted as much as 98% after coronavirus shelter-at-home orders were imposed across the Bay Area in March. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ridership loss is especially problematic for Caltrain, which gets 70% of its operating funds from passenger fares. Unlike most other transit agencies, the railroad has no dedicated source of funding and has depended on federal pandemic relief funds to continue operations. Agency officials have warned that the system will run out of cash this fall and could be forced to drastically curtail or even suspend service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement will require a furious scramble by the seven different boards that, under the state law authorizing the tax measure, must act by Friday to put the measure on the ballot. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Mateo County's Board of Supervisors and the SamTrans board approved a \"clean\" version of the tax measure earlier this year and don't need a further vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved the the tax measure on Tuesday morning, and the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority board will consider it on Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors will hold a special meeting Friday to pass a resolution without the Caltrain governance conditions approved last week. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency board, which voted down the tax measure last week, will meet Wednesday to reconsider it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Joint Powers Board overseeing Caltrain will meet Thursday to formally approve the tax measure and pass \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7013547/Caltrain-Joint-Powers-Board-Governance-Resolution.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a separate resolution\u003c/a> committing the agency to reforming its governance structure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Mateo County Transit District, or SamTrans, runs Caltrain — largely the result of the county paying for the line and never having been fully repaid. San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have argued that with their counties expected to pay about 80% of the estimated $108 million the tax will raise each year, they need to have a more meaningful voice in running the agency. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the changes sought by San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez — both of whom serve on the Caltrain board — is the power to hire and fire the agency's CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution will also incorporate language limiting use of the sales tax proceeds pending enactment of the governance changes — due by Dec. 31, 2021 — and provide for immediate retention of counsel and auditor independent of SamTrans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tuesday agreement also includes an undertaking by the parties to repay the $19.8 million San Mateo County is still owed for purchasing the Caltrain right-of-way from Southern Pacific in 1991. The source for that reimbursement is unclear. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Stone, vice mayor of Belmont and a member of the Caltrain board, expressed some reservations about the repayment language. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That section says the Caltrain board will \"initiate efforts\" to reimburse SamTrans, including by \"prioritizing the payment of the (SamTrans) investment ... if the Caltrain tax measure is approved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If that's meant to say the revenues from the one-eighth-cent sales tax should be used to pay back the SamTrans investment, that's saying that San Mateo County taxpayer money should be used to pay back the San Mateo County taxpayers,\" Stone said. \"I hope that's not what it's meant to say. If it is, it's a real problem.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Walton said that's not the resolution's intention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the resolution that leads me to believe we are discussing sales tax money going toward reimbursement for San Mateo County,\" he said. \"We're going to focus on a solution to make SamTrans and San Mateo County whole.\" He added that repaying San Mateo County for the initial investment that made Caltrain possible \"has never been a point of contention for me.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his push for a new governance agreement is \"really about making sure that all three (Caltrain) counties have an equitable say in management.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A small, nine-acre plot of public land in San Mateo County has been abandoned for almost 60 years. It's safe to say the fenced-in area, which sits along the San Francisco Bay in Burlingame, is neglected. Overgrown with weeds and invasive plants, the plot is used as an illegal dumping ground for trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One day we came to work and there was a tow truck pulling a car out,\" said Greg Boro, Director of Business Operations at the nonprofit policy firm SPHERE, which has offices across from the parcel. \"At times we've seen the police get people out that were kind of setting up a little camp there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the illegal dumping, and the use of the space by people who may be homeless, the plot is still prime bayfront real estate and is now at the center of a bidding war between hotel developers and open space advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.slc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California State Lands Commission\u003c/a> (SLC), the agency that manages the state's waterways and some public lands, is tasked with deciding what happens to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area came under its jurisdiction in the early 1970s after the state found a now-defunct company had illegally filled that part of the bay for development. Since then, the small parcel has been mostly forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Burlingame did not begin officially exploring development options for the space until 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38651_IMG_3214-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Besides a few fishermen who try to catch striped bass and halibut, this area has been largely forgotten by the public. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because the land is held in public trust by the SLC, whatever development is done on it must be publicly accessible. That rules out any kind of residential housing, office parks, schools or hospitals. But both a public park and a hotel fit that bill since hotels are deemed publicly accessible at cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burlingame Vice-Mayor Emily Beach said the city's general fund would benefit from taxes from another hotel, but balance is needed. Currently, there are three parks and 14 hotels in the surrounding areas of the contested land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of other hotels and we just don't have very many opportunities to create a new, large park,\" said Beach. \"That is almost unheard of in the San Francisco Bay area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent public needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.slc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Exhibit-B-Staff-Report-and-Public-Trust-Needs-Assessment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assessment\u003c/a> conducted by the SLC found that over 95 percent of respondents from the area want a park or open space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SLC has received three proposals for the area and is currently reviewing them. Two proposals are for hotels and one is for a public park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Burlingame Shoreline Park proposal would be a public-private partnership between the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District and SPHERE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It includes plans to clean up and reconnect the parts of the San Francisco Bay Trail that run through the plot and add picnic areas, kayak and kite surfing launches and a wetland area that will act as a sponge against sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38652_burlingame-park-qut-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Park proposal map has a boardwalk space, a trail, and a central lawn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38652_burlingame-park-qut-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38652_burlingame-park-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38652_burlingame-park-qut.jpg 953w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SPHERE’s park proposal envisions several opportunities for water activities like kayaking and kite surfing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SPHERE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boro said SPHERE saw an opening to do something more with the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought the best use of the land was to preserve it as open space and create a park that would best serve both local residents and visitors to the area,\" he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two proposals for hotels from Burlingame Bay Park Hotel, LLC and Zibasara, LLC, also include public park areas in addition to hotel lodging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SLC could make a decision on who gets to lease the property at the agency's next meeting in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News previously reported that the parcel could be voted on at the SLC's August 23rd meeting. 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"content": "\u003cp>To the west of Interstate 280 along the Peninsula south of San Francisco, there’s a long stretch of beautiful greenery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hills are carpeted with trees, a thick bank of coastal fog hugs the ridge line, and nestled in the middle sit two crystal clear lakes. It all looks so pristine, untouched even.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s entirely man made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jackie Nuñez moved to San Mateo from Santa Barbara, she couldn’t help but notice the Crystal Springs reservoirs. Jackie studied environmental science in college, and she asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>: “What’s the story behind Crystal Springs? There’s not that much information about it online, other than that it’s a man-made reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s actually two reservoirs: The Upper and Lower Crystal Springs Reservoirs are two of four reservoirs in the Crystal Springs watershed that once belonged to a private monopoly built to serve San Francisco after the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may recall from history class that, after gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in early 1848, it took only a couple of years for San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.org/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transform\u003c/a> from a sleepy dock town of a few hundred people into a city with more than 20,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this unlikely boomtown sat on a tiny spit of land surrounded by salt water on three sides, and the new denizens of San Francisco couldn’t survive on whiskey alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were quite a few freshwater creeks amid the sand dunes of early San Francisco, but nowhere near enough to satisfy the needs of 21,000 people. Clever businessmen made personal fortunes bringing water in from Marin County by barge and then sending horses and donkeys around the city dragging water barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"The San Francisquito Creek on the Stanford campus. Creeks like this were tempting to San Franciscans thirsty for San Mateo County's fresh water in the years after the Gold Rush.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-1200x671.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisquito Creek on the Stanford campus. Creeks like this were tempting to San Franciscans thirsty for San Mateo County’s fresh water in the years after the Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That Marin water was expensive. During dry times, a mere bucket could cost you a gold dollar, which would be worth about $300 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a big entrepreneurial opportunity,” said Mitch Postel, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://historysmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County Historical Association\u003c/a>. He said it wasn’t long before a handful of speculators started looking to make money by bringing water in from south of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Peninsula was sparsely populated with a series of farms and a stagecoach road running through the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, the only outstanding thing that you would have found was the stagecoach stop, which became a pretty elaborate hotel for its day: the Crystal Springs Hotel,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-1200x971.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only known drawing of the Crystal Springs Hotel, from which historians believe the area around it was named. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Mateo County Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A man by the name of George Ensign took in this picture postcard of a scene and realized it could become a vast watershed for San Francisco. Thus began a masterful plan to divert the region’s freshwater creeks and put much of this acreage under water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1858, Ensign joined a group of like-minded investors who pushed for a change in state law that allowed for the formation of corporations to supply cities, counties and towns with water. These \u003cem>water\u003c/em> companies were empowered to acquire lands and waters by eminent domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Ensign incorporated the Spring Valley Water Works (later changed to Company), which proceeded to buy up those farms and the hotel in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747167\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-800x1125.jpg\" alt='From the June 25, 1881 edition of \"The Wasp,\" a political cartoon with the caption \"The modern alchemists turning water into gold.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-800x1125.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-160x225.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-1020x1434.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-853x1200.jpg 853w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-1920x2700.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the June 25, 1881, edition of ‘The Wasp,’ a political cartoon skewering the fortunes being made by a select few in selling water to San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the times they would enlist the aid of the courts when people got wise to what they were doing, and might have the land condemned at 10 cents on a dollar,” Postel said. “They weren’t above any method in order to get the land that they needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the watershed has grown to 23,000 acres, a massive protected natural space in an age when much of the San Francisco Bay Area has been paved over for housing, office spaces and freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the enormity of the service provided to San Francisco, the company was hated by its customers. For one thing, there was the ever-present, fetid stench of political corruption and dubious land deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a monopoly. It probably had even more latitude in what it could do than PG&E,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the water quality and service in San Francisco were said to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=WATER!_WATER!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awful, and expensive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As time went on, the greater Bay Area’s appetite for water continued to grow with the population, and the reservoirs of the Crystal Springs watershed were not enough. So the Spring Valley Water Company expanded into the Alameda Creek watershed on the other side of the bay, making farmers there angry, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians in San Francisco schemed for decades to take the company out of private hands, and they finally succeeded in 1930. That’s when the city started bringing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">water from Yosemite\u003c/a> to the Bay Area, through what is known today as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Crystal Springs reservoirs are part of this water system, but only a small percentage of the drinking water consumed by the Bay Area today comes from San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from “San Francisco Water” Vol. II No. 1 published in January, 1923. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Mateo County Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>More Crystal Springs Questions Answered\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackie Nuñez isn’t the only person who’s asked Bay Curious about Crystal Springs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“There is a group of private homes on Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir. How was that allowed?”\u003c/strong> — Rupi Singh\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These homes could easily be considered the greatest municipal perk in the Bay Area: residences for the families of \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/the-keeper-of-the-waters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watershed keepers and supervisors\u003c/a>. The rent is reportedly not market rate, but they’ll tell you somebody’s got to live on the land to watch and protect it from trespassers and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir Dam keeps the water from flowing to the city of San Mateo. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“With all the beautiful open space and hills around the west side of Crystal Springs Reservoir, why isn’t the area open to hiking and biking?”\u003c/strong> — Raoul Wertz\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public can enjoy the \u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/crystal-springs-regional-trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal Springs Regional Trail\u003c/a>, a 15.3-mile trail, which will eventually run 17.5 miles from San Bruno to Woodside when it’s finished. Currently, the trail serves more than 325,000 visitors annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, most of the watershed is not open to the public, especially that stretch on the western side of the water. A local group called \u003ca href=\"https://openthewatershed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open the SF Watershed\u003c/a> has been lobbying for years to expand public access, but they haven’t been able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10472738/hikers-bikers-press-for-more-public-trails-in-peninsula-watershed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crack the resistance\u003c/a>, which includes not just the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which runs the watershed, but also a number of local environmental groups who would rather keep human interference on the land to a bare minimum.\u003cbr>\n[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may recall from history class that, after gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in early 1848, it took only a couple of years for San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.org/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transform\u003c/a> from a sleepy dock town of a few hundred people into a city with more than 20,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this unlikely boomtown sat on a tiny spit of land surrounded by salt water on three sides, and the new denizens of San Francisco couldn’t survive on whiskey alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were quite a few freshwater creeks amid the sand dunes of early San Francisco, but nowhere near enough to satisfy the needs of 21,000 people. Clever businessmen made personal fortunes bringing water in from Marin County by barge and then sending horses and donkeys around the city dragging water barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"The San Francisquito Creek on the Stanford campus. Creeks like this were tempting to San Franciscans thirsty for San Mateo County's fresh water in the years after the Gold Rush.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut-1200x671.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37099_Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-2.54.09-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisquito Creek on the Stanford campus. Creeks like this were tempting to San Franciscans thirsty for San Mateo County’s fresh water in the years after the Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That Marin water was expensive. During dry times, a mere bucket could cost you a gold dollar, which would be worth about $300 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a big entrepreneurial opportunity,” said Mitch Postel, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://historysmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County Historical Association\u003c/a>. He said it wasn’t long before a handful of speculators started looking to make money by bringing water in from south of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Peninsula was sparsely populated with a series of farms and a stagecoach road running through the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, the only outstanding thing that you would have found was the stagecoach stop, which became a pretty elaborate hotel for its day: the Crystal Springs Hotel,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut-1200x971.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37105_1971-156B-001_2019mar03_010_P-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only known drawing of the Crystal Springs Hotel, from which historians believe the area around it was named. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Mateo County Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A man by the name of George Ensign took in this picture postcard of a scene and realized it could become a vast watershed for San Francisco. Thus began a masterful plan to divert the region’s freshwater creeks and put much of this acreage under water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1858, Ensign joined a group of like-minded investors who pushed for a change in state law that allowed for the formation of corporations to supply cities, counties and towns with water. These \u003cem>water\u003c/em> companies were empowered to acquire lands and waters by eminent domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Ensign incorporated the Spring Valley Water Works (later changed to Company), which proceeded to buy up those farms and the hotel in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747167\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-800x1125.jpg\" alt='From the June 25, 1881 edition of \"The Wasp,\" a political cartoon with the caption \"The modern alchemists turning water into gold.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-800x1125.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-160x225.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-1020x1434.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-853x1200.jpg 853w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold-1920x2700.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/The_Wasp_1881-06-25_The_modern_alchemists-_turning_water_into_gold.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the June 25, 1881, edition of ‘The Wasp,’ a political cartoon skewering the fortunes being made by a select few in selling water to San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the times they would enlist the aid of the courts when people got wise to what they were doing, and might have the land condemned at 10 cents on a dollar,” Postel said. “They weren’t above any method in order to get the land that they needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the watershed has grown to 23,000 acres, a massive protected natural space in an age when much of the San Francisco Bay Area has been paved over for housing, office spaces and freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the enormity of the service provided to San Francisco, the company was hated by its customers. For one thing, there was the ever-present, fetid stench of political corruption and dubious land deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a monopoly. It probably had even more latitude in what it could do than PG&E,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the water quality and service in San Francisco were said to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=WATER!_WATER!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awful, and expensive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As time went on, the greater Bay Area’s appetite for water continued to grow with the population, and the reservoirs of the Crystal Springs watershed were not enough. So the Spring Valley Water Company expanded into the Alameda Creek watershed on the other side of the bay, making farmers there angry, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians in San Francisco schemed for decades to take the company out of private hands, and they finally succeeded in 1930. That’s when the city started bringing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">water from Yosemite\u003c/a> to the Bay Area, through what is known today as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Crystal Springs reservoirs are part of this water system, but only a small percentage of the drinking water consumed by the Bay Area today comes from San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37102_springvalley-lg2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from “San Francisco Water” Vol. II No. 1 published in January, 1923. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Mateo County Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>More Crystal Springs Questions Answered\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackie Nuñez isn’t the only person who’s asked Bay Curious about Crystal Springs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“There is a group of private homes on Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir. How was that allowed?”\u003c/strong> — Rupi Singh\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These homes could easily be considered the greatest municipal perk in the Bay Area: residences for the families of \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/the-keeper-of-the-waters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watershed keepers and supervisors\u003c/a>. The rent is reportedly not market rate, but they’ll tell you somebody’s got to live on the land to watch and protect it from trespassers and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11747688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11747688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/CrystalSprings2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir Dam keeps the water from flowing to the city of San Mateo. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“With all the beautiful open space and hills around the west side of Crystal Springs Reservoir, why isn’t the area open to hiking and biking?”\u003c/strong> — Raoul Wertz\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public can enjoy the \u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/crystal-springs-regional-trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal Springs Regional Trail\u003c/a>, a 15.3-mile trail, which will eventually run 17.5 miles from San Bruno to Woodside when it’s finished. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Mateo County residents packed a hearing Monday on the use of Tasers by law enforcement, some calling for immediate moratorium on the electric weapon following the deaths of three men stunned by officers in the county last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Carlos Bolanos said at the Board of Supervisors hearing in Redwood City that his deputies have been armed with Tasers since 2008 and receive six hours of initial training on the weapon. They’re taught to use them sparingly, he said, and look for how a person is responding before delivering another electric shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that can be difficult during an arrest, Bolanos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re trying to subdue a subject who’s resisting,” he said. “There might be one, two more deputies. You really don’t know when you’re in the midst of that situation how many times you or someone else may be activating the Taser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinedu Okobi, 36, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696828/san-mateo-d-a-says-man-who-died-after-deputy-tased-him-was-unarmed\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died Oct. 3\u003c/a> in a struggle with five sheriff deputies. In a dispatch recording of the incident an officer reports multiple Taser deployments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County prosecutors have said Okobi was unarmed at the time of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office described Okobi as “running in and out of traffic” on El Camino Real, a busy thoroughfare in Millbrae, and reported he that he assaulted a deputy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family and their attorney have disputed that account after viewing footage of the incident compiled by the District Attorney’s Office. The DA has not yet released the videos to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Facebook post, Okobi's sister, Ebele Okobi, wrote that the footage showed her brother walking down the sidewalk when deputies first approached him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696828/san-mateo-d-a-says-man-who-died-after-deputy-tased-him-was-unarmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">San Mateo DA Says Man Who Died After Deputy Tased Him Was Unarmed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696828/san-mateo-d-a-says-man-who-died-after-deputy-tased-him-was-unarmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Okobi.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Okobi’s sister did not go into the details of her brother’s death when she spoke at Monday’s hearing, but following roughly three hours of PowerPoint presentations from law enforcement officials, doctors and legal experts, she reminded supervisors why the discussion matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve talked about suspects, subjects, deaths,” Ebele Okobi said. “And I think what is useful for me to do, is to remind this board, that behind all those statistics, behind those words, ‘subjects’ there are people, there are families, there are fathers, there are sons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the public comment period that followed, one of Okobi's former high school classmates, Jennifer Sisson, wept as she recalled his gentle smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was his crime, besides being black and walking down the street in Millbrae?” she asked. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe has said his office is still investigating Okobi's death to determine whether deputies used excessive force. Wagstaffe now says he expects to release his findings and all the supporting evidence by the end of February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA has determined that police officers involved in the other two deaths were justified in using force. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen residents at the hearing urged supervisors to tighten policies on the use of Tasers, or issue a moratorium on the weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from Taser manufacturer Axon argued that the devices were the safest intermediate force option, causing less serious injuries than pepper spray, dogs or batons, and had never conclusively led to a fatal electrocution, an assertion that drew jeers and laughter from the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699375/family-of-man-killed-after-san-mateo-sheriffs-taser-shocks-demands-video-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Family of Peninsula Man Tasered by Deputies Seeks Video of Fatal Encounter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699375/family-of-man-killed-after-san-mateo-sheriffs-taser-shocks-demands-video-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33277_alt_784-1180x661.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When asked by Supervisor Dave Pine about the extensive warnings that are distributed with Tasers, including that for certain vulnerable people Tasers \"may cause or contribute to sudden death,\" Axon attorney Michael Brave minimized the importance of the warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just like ladders and acetaminophen, if you read all of the warnings you'll never use any of those things,\" Brave told the supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people expressed dismay that all three of the men who died after altercations involving Tasers suffered from mental illness, despite warnings from the company that the weapons pose a greater risk of sudden death to people in psychiatric distress. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren Ragudo, who died on the night of Jan. 16, 2018, was sweating profusely and growling when he tried to jump out of a second-story window, according to the district attorney's investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His sister called 911 for help and told dispatch that her brother was “on drugs” and “freaking out,” the report says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Daly City police arrived, the 34-year-old's family was holding him down. The DA's report says that when officers took over, Ragudo continued to struggle and one officer shocked him with a Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s attorney, Fulvio Cajina, said in a recent interview that the officer should have known better than to use the weapon on a person in a psychotic state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Warren went into shock, or went into cardiac arrest,” Cajina said. “This all happened in the family's living room with his father and sister and uncle watching as he died.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramzi Saad, a 55-year-old man with schizophrenia, died Aug. 13 after being tased by a Redwood City police officer. The DA's report says he had shoved his mother over and slugged the responding officer when he tried talk to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former police captain involved with early adoption of Tasers decades ago said in a recent interview that the manufacturer's warnings don't always align with how officers actually use the weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guess what, you cannot communicate with everybody when they're in a psychotic state,” retired Los Angeles police Capt. Greg Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When used correctly, he said, a Taser is one of the least dangerous ways to incapacitate someone in psychiatric distress even though the company warns against doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm sorry but that's exactly what the device was invented for in the first place was to use on these hyper-agitated people,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The DA has not yet released the videos to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Facebook post, Okobi's sister, Ebele Okobi, wrote that the footage showed her brother walking down the sidewalk when deputies first approached him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696828/san-mateo-d-a-says-man-who-died-after-deputy-tased-him-was-unarmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">San Mateo DA Says Man Who Died After Deputy Tased Him Was Unarmed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696828/san-mateo-d-a-says-man-who-died-after-deputy-tased-him-was-unarmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Okobi.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Okobi’s sister did not go into the details of her brother’s death when she spoke at Monday’s hearing, but following roughly three hours of PowerPoint presentations from law enforcement officials, doctors and legal experts, she reminded supervisors why the discussion matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve talked about suspects, subjects, deaths,” Ebele Okobi said. “And I think what is useful for me to do, is to remind this board, that behind all those statistics, behind those words, ‘subjects’ there are people, there are families, there are fathers, there are sons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the public comment period that followed, one of Okobi's former high school classmates, Jennifer Sisson, wept as she recalled his gentle smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was his crime, besides being black and walking down the street in Millbrae?” she asked. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe has said his office is still investigating Okobi's death to determine whether deputies used excessive force. Wagstaffe now says he expects to release his findings and all the supporting evidence by the end of February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA has determined that police officers involved in the other two deaths were justified in using force. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen residents at the hearing urged supervisors to tighten policies on the use of Tasers, or issue a moratorium on the weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from Taser manufacturer Axon argued that the devices were the safest intermediate force option, causing less serious injuries than pepper spray, dogs or batons, and had never conclusively led to a fatal electrocution, an assertion that drew jeers and laughter from the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699375/family-of-man-killed-after-san-mateo-sheriffs-taser-shocks-demands-video-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Family of Peninsula Man Tasered by Deputies Seeks Video of Fatal Encounter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699375/family-of-man-killed-after-san-mateo-sheriffs-taser-shocks-demands-video-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33277_alt_784-1180x661.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When asked by Supervisor Dave Pine about the extensive warnings that are distributed with Tasers, including that for certain vulnerable people Tasers \"may cause or contribute to sudden death,\" Axon attorney Michael Brave minimized the importance of the warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just like ladders and acetaminophen, if you read all of the warnings you'll never use any of those things,\" Brave told the supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people expressed dismay that all three of the men who died after altercations involving Tasers suffered from mental illness, despite warnings from the company that the weapons pose a greater risk of sudden death to people in psychiatric distress. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren Ragudo, who died on the night of Jan. 16, 2018, was sweating profusely and growling when he tried to jump out of a second-story window, according to the district attorney's investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His sister called 911 for help and told dispatch that her brother was “on drugs” and “freaking out,” the report says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Daly City police arrived, the 34-year-old's family was holding him down. The DA's report says that when officers took over, Ragudo continued to struggle and one officer shocked him with a Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s attorney, Fulvio Cajina, said in a recent interview that the officer should have known better than to use the weapon on a person in a psychotic state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Warren went into shock, or went into cardiac arrest,” Cajina said. “This all happened in the family's living room with his father and sister and uncle watching as he died.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramzi Saad, a 55-year-old man with schizophrenia, died Aug. 13 after being tased by a Redwood City police officer. The DA's report says he had shoved his mother over and slugged the responding officer when he tried talk to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former police captain involved with early adoption of Tasers decades ago said in a recent interview that the manufacturer's warnings don't always align with how officers actually use the weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guess what, you cannot communicate with everybody when they're in a psychotic state,” retired Los Angeles police Capt. Greg Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When used correctly, he said, a Taser is one of the least dangerous ways to incapacitate someone in psychiatric distress even though the company warns against doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm sorry but that's exactly what the device was invented for in the first place was to use on these hyper-agitated people,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Thursday, 300 volunteers across San Mateo County came out in the rain—arriving at 5 a.m. at places like \u003ca href=\"https://samaritanhousesanmateo.org/what-we-do/shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Harbor House\u003c/a> in South San Francisco—to help put together this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsa.smcgov.org/center-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">point-in-time homeless count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers were divided into groups, and spent the day walking and driving along U.S. Census tracts, taking care not to disturb people who appeared to be sleeping. The goal was simply to count the individuals supine on the streets, underestimating if the number of people seemed unclear from a distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If volunteers found someone awake and willing to talk, they were allowed ask a series of survey questions, aimed at understanding how the homeless people became homeless, and what they might need to get housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the individuals counted in these surveys stay anonymous, the information gathered is used to determine the resources that San Mateo County receives to help with homeless services, and to aid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u003c/a> (HUD) in developing a clear, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2018-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data-driven snapshot\u003c/a> of the national population. The report from the 2019 count will come out later this year—likely in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I set out to learn about the process with Melissa Liotti, a case worker at the non-profit \u003ca href=\"https://www.abodeservices.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abode Services\u003c/a>, and Ed Kiryczun of San Mateo County’s Human Services Agency\u003ca href=\"http://www.cacvso.org/san-mateo-county-office/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11722800 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35049_IMG_5376-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Kirycuzuno of San Mateo County’s Veterans Services Office on the 2019 point-in-time homeless count.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35049_IMG_5376-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35049_IMG_5376-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35049_IMG_5376-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35049_IMG_5376-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35049_IMG_5376-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Kiryczun of San Mateo County’s Human Services Agency on the 2019 point-in-time homeless count.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Understanding the population is the first step to helping the population,” said Kirycuzuno, a veteran himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For awhile, we don’t see anyone as we walk along the rain-soaked residential streets in South San Francisco. Then we arrive at Airport Boulevard, where we meet two men who had sought shelter on the doorstep of an office building. One tells us he became homeless two years ago, but previously owned his own business.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721460/why-do-these-4-myths-about-homelessness-persist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Do These 4 Myths About Homelessness Persist?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721460/why-do-these-4-myths-about-homelessness-persist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19958_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs01-qut-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Another man we met during this year’s count said he stayed in his RV for three years before the city took it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the housing crisis increases, I see middle class folks who got sick, and now they’re homeless,” said Liotti, who helps people transition from homelessness to housing. “It can be intimidating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721460/why-do-these-4-myths-about-homelessness-persist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many reasons\u003c/a> why people become homeless initially, and many more why they stay homeless. But if there’s one hardship tying all their experiences together, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnlihc.org%2Foor%2Fcalifornia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the high cost of housing\u003c/a> in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a person drops out of the rental market, getting back in can be close to impossible, according to Nicole Pollack, Director of the County’s Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of housing in San Mateo County, the availability of affordable housing opportunities, and then finding landlords who are willing to accept housing vouchers… are our three biggest challenges locally,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 8, 4:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Mateo County district attorney said Tuesday that he is considering reopening a criminal investigation into a fired Burlingame police officer after information about his past misconduct was made public under a new state transparency law designed to shine a light on bad cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer, David W. Granucci, offered to help a woman he arrested under suspicion of drunken driving last March if she had sex with him. The woman rebuffed Granucci and reported his solicitation. After the officer was fired in June 2018, two other women came forward with similar stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716343/police-records-law-burlingame-cop-fired-for-asking-woman-to-trade-sex-for-help-with-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">Police Records Law: Burlingame Cop Fired for Asking Woman to Trade Sex for Help With Charges\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716343/police-records-law-burlingame-cop-fired-for-asking-woman-to-trade-sex-for-help-with-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/David-Granucci-Screenshot-1-Lifesaving-Award-San-Bernadino-City-Council-Oct.-17-2011-1180x848.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, whose office declined to file criminal charges against Granucci for the March incident, said his staff was not aware of the two additional allegations until they were reported Monday by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/07/police-records-law-burlingame-cop-fired-for-asking-woman-to-trade-sex-for-help-with-charges/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area News Group\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716343/police-records-law-burlingame-cop-fired-for-asking-woman-to-trade-sex-for-help-with-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED News\u003c/a> after Burlingame police provided records under the new law. It was one of the first releases of disciplinary documents in California after decades of secrecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe praised the new law as a vehicle for potentially bringing corrupt police officers to justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there are police agencies around this state that have not been turning over potentially criminal conduct and just kept it behind closed doors, then this law is going to be a very good sunlight provision,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not for that law and the reporting that uncovered additional information, “I can't think of the circumstance in which it would have come to our attention,” Wagstaffe said in an interview Tuesday morning. “I think reporting that we had from (KQED and the Bay Area News Group) is what has prompted us at least to reopen the inquiry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering there were two other instances where Granucci allegedly asked women for sex in exchange for using his authority to help them, Wagstaffe said it’s possible that Granucci solicited bribes. Had they known, they could have reviewed past arrests the officer made to try to uncover additional victims or witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lawyer for the officer disputed the department's version of events on Tuesday, calling it \"false and incomplete.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former office never solicited sex from the woman charged with DUI, attorney Lina Balciunas Cockrell wrote in an email. 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According to records released under the new law, Granucci tried to coerce her into sex in 2015, and \"led her to believe she was being released from custody because he did her a favor (which police said he didn't do) and used this as leverage to solicit a sexual relationship with the woman. The woman refused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cockrell wrote that her client didn't attempt to initiate a sexual relationship with that woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer did not comment on another allegation in the records: that Granucci met a woman in 2017 while trying to arrest her son, and maintained a sexual relationship with her for several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Burlingame police officer since 2000, Granucci was fired after an internal investigation found he “surreptitiously obtained” the phone number of a woman he had arrested in March 2018 under suspicion of drunken driving, according to the records. He went to her house the next day, after she was released from a “sobering center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department presented information about the DUI case to prosecutors, but the district attorney’s subsequent criminal investigation found no provable charges, and the case was closed in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations show the new law is working, said its sponsor, state Sen. 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Had they known, they could have reviewed past arrests the officer made to try to uncover additional victims or witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lawyer for the officer disputed the department's version of events on Tuesday, calling it \"false and incomplete.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former office never solicited sex from the woman charged with DUI, attorney Lina Balciunas Cockrell wrote in an email. 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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara and San Mateo County leaders are hoping to keep the doors open at four Bay Area hospitals owned by financially embattled Verity Health System, which filed for bankruptcy in late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to authorize its staff to move forward with a process to purchase O’Connor Hospital in San Jose and Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, both operated by Verity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In neighboring San Mateo County, where Verity owns Seton Medical Center in Daly City and Seton Coastside in Moss Beach, a town hall is scheduled for Wednesday night in San Francisco to discuss ways to prevent the closure of those hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These hospitals are huge assets to the community in general, but specifically, they provide health care to an enormous number of low-income people in the community,\" said state Sen. Scott Wiener, who will attend the meeting. \"And if these hospitals either shut down or are significantly scaled back, many, many low-income families will suffer, many children will suffer, many seniors will suffer. And our community will be less healthy. We need to avoid that at all costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verity CEO Rich Adcock wrote in a statement that the hospitals will remain open throughout the Chapter 11 process and that patient care remains a top priority. The statement said that an additional $185 million has been secured \"to continue care for patients, pay employee wages and salaries and honor employee benefits and other workforce obligations.\" Verity owns six hospitals in California, including two in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa said last month following the bankruptcy filing that the Bay Area hospitals have traditionally served low-income patients and communities. He said 87 percent of Seton’s patients receive either Medicare or Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a big issue. You’re talking six hospitals. And these hospitals are located in communities that need them most,\" Canepa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s initial bid for O'Connor Hospital and Saint Louise Regional, according to Verity, is $235 million. The board also voted to create 1,379 positions to hire the employees at the two Santa Clara County facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there’s a lot of excitement and a lot of good energy in purchasing these hospitals that I think will serve the county and our residents very well in the future,\" Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Board President Joe Simitian was more cautious, calling the purchase a \"very big lift.\" He warned that difficult decisions on how to fund the purchase and operation of the hospitals still lie ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors plan to hold a public hearing on the purchase next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other companies could bid on the Santa Clara County hospitals, and Verity Health is still seeking buyers for its San Mateo hospitals as well as its two Southern California facilities, St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Integrity Healthcare, which manages Verity, took over the hospitals from Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in July 2015. The Daughters of Charity had tried to sell the hospitals to two for-profit systems, \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150310/NEWS/303109979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including Prime Healthcare Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, NantWorks, the Culver City company controlled by billionaire physician and entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-soon-shiong-st-vincent-20170704-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bought Integrity Healthcare with the goal of revitalizing the hospitals\u003c/a>. Soon-Shiong also purchased the Los Angeles Times this year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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