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The issue mirrored a similar case in 2022 when nearly 800 starving pelicans were rescued following severe storms in California that year. 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Hundreds of these birds were found beginning in mid-April. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bird Rescue has a banding program that will allow its researchers to monitor how the birds do in the wild after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As food on beaches has become harder to come by, brown pelicans have shown up in some unusual places, like ponds, backyards and even Giants stadium.[aside postID=science_1993017 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/DSC_0557-1-scaled-e1716592525607-1020x737.jpg']“Fans were excited to see that bird, but we knew that the bird was experiencing challenges and disorientation, that’s not normal behavior,” Bergeron said. “People are seeing more pelicans in places they don’t normally hang out, and that is the number one sign” that there is a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as some birds have recovered and are released, more pelicans are still showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t keep them in care forever, and we can’t fix what’s ailing the ocean,” Duerr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urges people to keep a safe distance from pelicans and not touch the birds. 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"content": "\u003cp>At Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz, Nikia Chaney stands out. You can spot her bright pink hair from a distance. She’s also the only Black professor out of the community college’s 165 tenured or tenure-track faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first got hired in 2019, I didn’t look up the demographics of the school or anything like that. I was just really happy I had a full-time job,” she said. But after arriving on campus, she started to feel isolated. “You don’t have faculty members who look like you,” she said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nikia Chaney, professor, Cabrillo College\"]‘You don’t have faculty members who look like you.’[/pullquote]The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, the agency representing all 116 of the state’s community colleges, wants “to have the makeup of our faculty and staff mirror the student population we serve,” spokesperson Melissa Villarin said. For years, the office has tried to increase diversity as state legislators pumped money into attempted solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faculty diversity has increased slightly over the past 15 years, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/docs/report/2021-equal-employment-opportunity-report-a11y.pdf?la=en&hash=A749704DB539925B90348A325C5F207819A0A912\">a report the chancellor’s office issued in November\u003c/a> acknowledged that “progress remains slow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villarin said that there is no single explanation why but that the problem often lies in recruitment, hiring and retention. For example, the application website for community college jobs is “outdated,” and panels that select candidates often need to be more diverse and better trained, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate \u003ca href=\"https://bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2022-113.pdf\">state audit\u003c/a> released in February 2023, some college districts said it’s hard to find qualified professors when few people in their communities have the necessary graduate degrees. In other cases, the report said, faculty find “higher-paying positions elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a nationwide problem. When everybody is focused on trying to diversify your faculty, it’s going to be your Harvards and Yales who are going to pay you the most,” said Olivia Cheche, a program associate in higher education at the nonprofit think tank New America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"See your college's demographics for tenured and tenure-track faculty\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Qy0qF\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Qy0qF/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"535\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Table: Erica Yee, CalMatters Source: \u003ca href=\"https://datamart.cccco.edu/Faculty-Staff/Default.aspx\">California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office\u003c/a>. Get the data: Created with \u003ca href=\"https://www.datawrapper.de/_/Qy0qF/\">Datawrapper\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest discrepancy across California’s community colleges is for Latino faculty. Latino students represent nearly half of community college students, but less than 20% of tenured or tenure-track faculty are Latino. The same disparity holds for Latino administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help, state lawmakers and the chancellor’s office have introduced new hiring initiatives and poured an estimated $90 million into reforms in the last 20 years. Half of that money has come in the last three years. But the audit said college districts still have a ways to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hostile and unwelcoming’ for Black students\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At her first English department meeting, a coworker handed Chaney \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y5EwESDU6GYgX9-B5YDtSrpVt4Z7IC8W/view\">a 2018 report\u003c/a> about diversity at the college. “African American students experience Cabrillo College as a hostile and unwelcoming environment,” the report said, citing interactions with other students, faculty and administrators. These students also noted a lack of representation across the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made my heart sink,” Chaney said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Olivia Cheche, program associate, New America\"]‘It’s that idea of having a role model that looks like you. That might be the encouragement a student needs to pursue a higher education.’[/pullquote]Numerous studies show that a more diverse faculty benefits students and can even help to close achievement gaps between white students and students of color. Using years of data from DeAnza College, a community college in Cupertino, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Community-College-Instructor-Like-Me-Race-and-Ethnicity-Interactions-in-the-Classroom.pdf\">one study\u003c/a> found that students who are Black, Latino, and Native American/Pacific Islander get better grades, are more likely to pass a course and are less likely to drop classes when they had a professor who looked like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s that idea of having a role model that looks like you. That might be the encouragement a student needs to pursue a higher education,” Cheche said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, the report from the chancellor’s office shows that the percentage of tenured or tenure-track community college professors identifying as Black is about the same as that of Black students: between 5% and 6% in 2022, the most recent data available. The percentage of community college administrators who identify as Black is even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But representation is uneven. At Lassen Community College in Susanville, there are no full-time Black faculty members, even though more than 1 in 10 students are Black. In San Luis Obispo and at other rural colleges across the state, similar disparities persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, just over 1% of Cabrillo College students identified as Black, according to data from the chancellor’s office. Chaney is committed to helping those students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know myself as an educator. I’m not going to be able to be in a place and not do anything. It’s what keeps me here, but I also really love it,” she said as she set up a classroom for an end-of-year celebration for students in Umoja, a state-funded academic program to support Black students, though anyone can participate. Umoja has existed on other campuses for years, but Chaney helped launch the first iteration at Cabrillo College last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11971637 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/CMEducation02.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher happily dancing in a classroom of community college students.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/CMEducation02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/CMEducation02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/CMEducation02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/CMEducation02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/CMEducation02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/CMEducation02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Nikia Chaney leads students and others in dance during an Umoja community event at Cabrillo College in Aptos on Dec. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing underneath a poster for Black History Month, she turned on the music to the sounds of a drum circle. “Do I have some volunteers who are going to get up and dance with me?” she said as people slowly trickled in. About 15 students and staff, most of whom were not Black, attended the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyla Kientzel, who is biracial and an Umoja student, said she appreciates the efforts that Chaney is making for students like her. “It kind of makes me more comfortable when there’s people that look like me around. I’ve never had a Black teacher before,” she said. One time in Chaney’s English class, Kientzel wrote about her first name, which was given to her by her father, who is Black. “I get to write about my experiences, and she understands,” Kientzel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Catching a flight to work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cabrillo College has two campuses, one in the wealthy seaside community of Aptos and another just 20 minutes away in the inland farming town of Watsonville. About 80% of residents in Watsonville identify as Latino, and Latino students there said it had a “welcoming” and “very communal” climate in the campus’ 2018 diversity report. In Aptos, which is 75% white, that welcoming spirit fades, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across both campuses, about 18% of faculty identify as Latino, compared to roughly 46% of Cabrillo students. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Adam Spickler, trustee, Cabrillo College\"]‘My heart really is there for Nikia [Chaney]. It’s not right, and it’s something we need to address.’[/pullquote]The district is well aware of the lack of diversity, particularly when it comes to Black faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart really is there for Nikia [Chaney]. It’s not right, and it’s something we need to address,” said Adam Spickler, a trustee of the community college district’s board. “I feel like we’ve done fairly well increasing diversity in other ways. But we need to turn that attention to African American faculty — no doubt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an example of improvements, Spickler pointed to increased diversity among the college’s administration. Out of the 23 administrators this year, three are Black, and four are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spickler said the overall lack of diversity isn’t surprising given the demographics of Santa Cruz County. While the region has large and growing Latino and Asian communities, about 1.5% is Black, according to the most recent census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How the demographics of California's community college students compare to its faculty\" aria-label=\"Grouped Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cde3Q\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cde3Q/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"581\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in the area and now as a student, Kientzel doesn’t always feel safe. “When I’m by myself, I get treated fine, but when I’m with my brothers, we get followed in stores. We always make sure we have our hands out of our pockets so they don’t think we’re trying to steal anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mikias Abesha is the president of the Umoja club and a third-semester student at Cabrillo College. But as an international student from Ethiopia, he finds the lack of diversity isn’t the only challenge. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mikias Abesha, an international student from Ethiopia, Cabrillo College\"]‘Everything is different. In my first semester, I did not understand any of my teachers.’[/pullquote]“Everything is different,” he said. “In my first semester, I did not understand any of my teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first language is Amharic. He said Umoja was a respite for him, where he met advisors who made him feel at home. Now, his goal is to transfer to UCLA. “Los Angeles will be much more diverse,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chaney, the experience was untenable. 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Many arrived at the college within the last year or two and lived in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaney said it’s valuable to have mentors who live in the community, but it’s also important to have faculty who know Black culture, even if, like in her case, those two aren’t the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Umoja event ended, Chaney didn’t have time to clean up, so her colleagues carried the leftover food and supplies to their cars. “I’ve got to run,” she said, hugging each person as she said her goodbye. She drove to San José to catch a flight home that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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After being hunted to near extinction for their fur in the 1700s and 1800s, the population has rebounded since becoming a protected species and is a key predator in California’s coastal ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium is looking for the otter to catch and rehome her. Unfortunately once the otter is caught, Monterey Bay Aquarium spokesperson Kevin Connor told NPR, she won’t be able to return to the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animal, officially known as otter 841, was born in captivity — because it’s mother had also been too friendly with humans — and then successfully released into the wild in June 2020, Connor told NPR. It wasn’t until September 2022 that she started exhibiting her bizarre behavior at Steamer Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, CDFW and aquarium staff were able to drive the animal out of the area, a process called \u003ca href=\"https://icwdm.org/hazing/\">hazing\u003c/a>, in hopes of deterring her from interacting with people. 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"content": "\u003cp>For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tokyo Summer Games, which open July 23, serve as a proxy for that unresolved tension and resentment, according to the ethnic Hawaiians who lament that surfing and their identity have been culturally appropriated by white outsiders who now stand to benefit the most from the $10 billion industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had Native Hawaiians in the background being a part of the development of it and just not being really recognized,” said Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, a Hawaii historian and activist. “There’s an element of them taking over. 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I’m wearing it on my heart.’[/pullquote]Today, white people are still seen as the leaders and authorities of the sport globally, as surfing’s evolution is now a legacy shaped by white perspectives: from practically Native Hawaiian birthright to censured water activity, and California counterculture symbol to global professional sports league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine if the Hollywood version of yoga became an Olympic sport, and by default overshadowed its roots in India, whitewashing the original cultural flavor into a white Californian trope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the paradox and hypocrisy of colonization,” said Walker, a BYU-Hawaii history professor who is Native Hawaiian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White settlers first arrived on the island in the 1700s, bringing with them disease that nearly wiped out the Native Hawaiian population, conquest to take over the land and its bounty of natural resources, and racist attitudes that relegated the Indigenous population to second-class citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it was three Native Hawaiian princes who first showed off surfing to the mainland in 1885 during a visit to Santa Cruz, white businessmen are credited with selling surfing and Hawaii as an exotic tourism commodity for the wealthy. That trajectory has since manifested into a professional sports league largely fronted by white athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765719\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11765719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut-160x271.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Hawaiian princes – brothers David Kawānanakoa, Edward Keliʻiahonui and Jonah Kalanianaʻole – pictured while students at St. Matthews Hall in San Mateo. In July of 1885, they rode the first waves ever surfed in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hawaii State Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Native Hawaiians never gave up their sport, and by the 1970s, there was a full-blown racial clash around surfing with well-documented fights in the ocean. The issue pitted Native Hawaiians and some white residents who grew up among them against the white Californian and Australian surfers who sought to exclude locals from the world’s best waves on their very own turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An infamous brawl involved a trash-talking Australian surfer named Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, who was battered and humbled by the locals. The surfing world’s reverence for Hawaii and Native Hawaiians was cemented. Bartholomew would go on to run the Association of Surfing Professionals, an earlier iteration of the current pro league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I treaded lightly in light of what they went through because there was an internalization that this is something that was stolen from them,” said Richard Schmidt, who was among the white Californian pro surfers on the scene in that era. “You’re never a complete surfer until you prove yourself in Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet critics say the business and branding aspect of the sport and lifestyle largely remained white-centered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When surfing started to become really popular, that triggered money and that triggered business people and things we’d never thought we’d have to deal with as people who surf in Hawaii,” said Walter Ritte, a longtime Native Hawaiian activist. “There’s no doubt that the control is not here in Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Hawaii Kingdom National Team?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The effort to take back surfing’s narrative is why sovereignty activists applied for a Hawaii Kingdom national team to compete at the Olympics. Their longshot request hinges on the fact that they say there was no ratified treaty that ever formally dissolved Hawaii’s autonomy. The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy by U.S.-backed forces in 1893.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement from the International Olympic Committee, which has ignored the request, noted only that applicants must be an “independent state recognized by the international community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11765699]This geopolitical dynamic will be on display when Carissa Moore and John John Florence are in the surf zone to compete for the U.S. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither is eager to discuss their views on the matter but they are two of professional surfing’s biggest stars who have long competed under the Hawaii flag in the pro league, as the World Surf League recognizes Hawaii as a “sovereign surfing nation.” Moore as the reigning female world champion is also the only Olympic surfer who is ethnically Hawaiian. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hurt and the wounds go back really far,” Moore said. “I usually compete under the Hawaii flag all year with the WSL. … For me, that’s not a huge focus right now. I think that I can still represent both, even if I’m not wearing the flag on my sleeve. I’m wearing it on my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-1536x1046.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carissa Moore, pictured during a 2019 competition in Lemoore, California. \u003ccite>(Sean M. 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Like many surfing industry leaders, Aguerre, who is from Argentina, invokes the legend of Kahanamoku often, even noting that he named his son after the Native Hawaiian icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Duke_Kahanamoku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Duke_Kahanamoku.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Duke_Kahanamoku-160x143.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duke Kahanamoku, a Native Hawaiian swimmer who won five Olympic medals and is known as the godfather of modern surfing who introduced the sport in exhibitions in Australia and California, pictured circa 1912. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kahanamoku was an Olympic swimmer who won five medals and introduced the sport via surfing exhibitions in places like California, New Jersey, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. He lobbied the IOC at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm to include it in the Olympics, and was the ultimate waterman, whose legacy also includes popularizing flutter swimming kicks and spreading the concept of lifeguarding and water rescue to the masses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do has a connection to Hawaii. I think it’s impossible to detach Hawaiianness from surfing,” Aguerre said. “The ocean doesn’t really care about hate, war or governments. Surfing is that way, too.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Didi Robello, a descendant of Kahanamoku, said none of his family members have been contacted to participate in any Olympic celebrations. He said his grand-uncle’s name and legacy are exploited, which has become a great source of pain for the family because the trademark rights to the Kahanamoku name are owned by outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting ripped off,” Robello said. “It’s embarrassing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White settlers first arrived on the island in the 1700s, bringing with them disease that nearly wiped out the Native Hawaiian population, conquest to take over the land and its bounty of natural resources, and racist attitudes that relegated the Indigenous population to second-class citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it was three Native Hawaiian princes who first showed off surfing to the mainland in 1885 during a visit to Santa Cruz, white businessmen are credited with selling surfing and Hawaii as an exotic tourism commodity for the wealthy. That trajectory has since manifested into a professional sports league largely fronted by white athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765719\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11765719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut-160x271.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Hawaiian princes – brothers David Kawānanakoa, Edward Keliʻiahonui and Jonah Kalanianaʻole – pictured while students at St. Matthews Hall in San Mateo. In July of 1885, they rode the first waves ever surfed in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hawaii State Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Native Hawaiians never gave up their sport, and by the 1970s, there was a full-blown racial clash around surfing with well-documented fights in the ocean. The issue pitted Native Hawaiians and some white residents who grew up among them against the white Californian and Australian surfers who sought to exclude locals from the world’s best waves on their very own turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An infamous brawl involved a trash-talking Australian surfer named Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, who was battered and humbled by the locals. The surfing world’s reverence for Hawaii and Native Hawaiians was cemented. Bartholomew would go on to run the Association of Surfing Professionals, an earlier iteration of the current pro league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I treaded lightly in light of what they went through because there was an internalization that this is something that was stolen from them,” said Richard Schmidt, who was among the white Californian pro surfers on the scene in that era. “You’re never a complete surfer until you prove yourself in Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet critics say the business and branding aspect of the sport and lifestyle largely remained white-centered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When surfing started to become really popular, that triggered money and that triggered business people and things we’d never thought we’d have to deal with as people who surf in Hawaii,” said Walter Ritte, a longtime Native Hawaiian activist. “There’s no doubt that the control is not here in Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Hawaii Kingdom National Team?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The effort to take back surfing’s narrative is why sovereignty activists applied for a Hawaii Kingdom national team to compete at the Olympics. Their longshot request hinges on the fact that they say there was no ratified treaty that ever formally dissolved Hawaii’s autonomy. The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy by U.S.-backed forces in 1893.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement from the International Olympic Committee, which has ignored the request, noted only that applicants must be an “independent state recognized by the international community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This geopolitical dynamic will be on display when Carissa Moore and John John Florence are in the surf zone to compete for the U.S. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither is eager to discuss their views on the matter but they are two of professional surfing’s biggest stars who have long competed under the Hawaii flag in the pro league, as the World Surf League recognizes Hawaii as a “sovereign surfing nation.” Moore as the reigning female world champion is also the only Olympic surfer who is ethnically Hawaiian. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hurt and the wounds go back really far,” Moore said. “I usually compete under the Hawaii flag all year with the WSL. … For me, that’s not a huge focus right now. I think that I can still represent both, even if I’m not wearing the flag on my sleeve. I’m wearing it on my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50220_GettyImages-1176261337-qut-1536x1046.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carissa Moore, pictured during a 2019 competition in Lemoore, California. \u003ccite>(Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tatiana Weston-Webb, a white woman who grew up in Hawaii and will surf for her mother’s native Brazil at the Olympics, said Native Hawaiians deserve more recognition but rejected the idea that they are disrespected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that they’re being overshadowed,” Weston-Webb said. “It just depends on how you look at the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernando Aguerre as president of the International Surfing Association, the Olympic governing body for surfing, pledged to honor Hawaii and Duke Kahanamoku, the godfather of modern surfing, during the Games. Like many surfing industry leaders, Aguerre, who is from Argentina, invokes the legend of Kahanamoku often, even noting that he named his son after the Native Hawaiian icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Duke_Kahanamoku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Duke_Kahanamoku.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Duke_Kahanamoku-160x143.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duke Kahanamoku, a Native Hawaiian swimmer who won five Olympic medals and is known as the godfather of modern surfing who introduced the sport in exhibitions in Australia and California, pictured circa 1912. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kahanamoku was an Olympic swimmer who won five medals and introduced the sport via surfing exhibitions in places like California, New Jersey, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. He lobbied the IOC at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm to include it in the Olympics, and was the ultimate waterman, whose legacy also includes popularizing flutter swimming kicks and spreading the concept of lifeguarding and water rescue to the masses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do has a connection to Hawaii. I think it’s impossible to detach Hawaiianness from surfing,” Aguerre said. “The ocean doesn’t really care about hate, war or governments. Surfing is that way, too.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Didi Robello, a descendant of Kahanamoku, said none of his family members have been contacted to participate in any Olympic celebrations. He said his grand-uncle’s name and legacy are exploited, which has become a great source of pain for the family because the trademark rights to the Kahanamoku name are owned by outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting ripped off,” Robello said. “It’s embarrassing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ylvie Fraley describes the home she lived in with her mother and younger sister in the Santa Cruz Mountains community of Bonny Doon as “incredibly unique.” Her mom, Leigh-Anne Lehrman said “it was built by hippies, for sure.” Not only was it a beautiful home, but it had become a community gathering space — the place every high school after-prom party was hosted, every graduation, and every birthday, even special occasions for those outside their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of Aug. 15, 2020, the power went out at Fraley’s home as rare \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833586/photos-rare-august-thunderstorm-sees-lightning-streak-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lightning storms\u003c/a> approached. Then 18 years old, she was home with her younger sister while her mom stayed in Woodside undergoing cancer treatment. Fraley, bored without electricity, busied herself by walking through the house collecting items, just in case they would need to leave — if the lightning storms ignited a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only reason we took anything was because I was bored and had nothing else to do except to walk through the house and put stuff in a trash bag,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is familiar with fire — in 2017, Fraley’s grandfather lost his North Bay home in the deadly and massively destructive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire/\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>. Still, when Fraley and her sister left in the early hours of Aug. 16, after her mom sent a neighbor to look for them, they fully expected to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time many people woke up on Aug. 16, the widespread lightning storms had ignited numerous fires in and around the Santa Cruz Mountains, blazes that would later become known as the CZU Lightning Complex fires. In a March 2021 community meeting, Cal Fire said the CZU fires were the largest in the recorded history of Santa Cruz County. They killed one person, forced the evacuation of over 77,000 people in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties and destroyed 911 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after the CZU fires began, just a few miles away from Fraley’s home in the San Lorenzo Valley, Antoñia Bradford rushed around her house gathering her kids and dogs while frantically texting her husband who was in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I packed up my five kids and my two dogs and grabbed my father’s ashes and some paintings,” Bradford said, but, “the way that we were reading things, the fire was moving away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days later, Bradford’s home – and Fraley’s – had been transformed into rubble and ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Can’t Abandon This Community’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over 10 months after the CZU fires, many are still working to process and rebuild their lives — both physically and emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford, who has lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 13 years and appreciates how down-to-earth people are, is still mourning the losses. But she is committed to staying and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even express how challenging it is. The grief is so deep,” she said. “I can’t abandon this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leigh-Anne Lehrman, CZU fires survivor\"]‘Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there.’[/pullquote]A few days before KQED spoke to her, Bradford said a neighbor had dropped off soup for her — someone she had never met before. “The people here are amazing, and I feel like I would be really hard pressed to find that anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leigh-Anne Lehrman, Fraley’s mom, ranked the loss of community as the one she feels most keenly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Priced Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fraley and Lehrman, who were renters, said they were priced out after losing their home to the CZU fires. Lehrman said they had a hard time finding a place, even though they had financial assistance in the form of insurance money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rent’s just shot up,” she said, adding that they were lucky to have found the place they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrman said it was the 40th place she contacted before someone responded. If they didn’t have the insurance money, she said there’s no way they would be able to afford it. Since the fire, she’s been renting a place in Aptos for $6,500 per month. The Bonny Doon home she rented before it burned cost $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the cost of rent that’s kept her away from her close-knit community. Lehrman said she hasn’t been back to the neighborhood since the fires for personal reasons. “I’ve chosen not to ever go back up there,” she said. She doesn’t want to ruin the memories she has.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Gone in an Instant’ – Loss of Home, and Income\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For others, the fires took away not only a home, but a source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am 76 years old, disabled, a lung cancer survivor, and I will probably end up living in a trailer,” said CZU fires survivor Catherine Wilson. She has owned her home since she was 23. “I worked my whole life to have the property I had in Boulder Creek,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Wilson, CZU fires survivor\"]‘I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people.’[/pullquote]Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kirsten Flynn, CZU fire survivor on the complicated rebuilding process\"]‘It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played.’[/pullquote]In addition to the geologic survey, homeowners must also pass a county-conducted fire safety check to ensure the fire department would be able to safely access the building in a future emergency, in addition to an environmental health assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the fire safety, environmental and geologic pre-clearances cost her $1,254. But for final clearances it can cost much more. Bradford said costs can skyrocket to over $5,000 if the county requires advanced surveys by an outside geologist in addition to the county review fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s issues beyond what we can control,” Flynn said. “It’s not like just getting a plan and building something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things slightly more complicated, the environmental health assessment is conducted by the same overburdened county department that has been handling the county’s response to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A catastrophe [the fire] occurred, on top of a global pandemic,” said Flynn. “For different reasons. The county is struggling and the fire victims are struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to clearly track all of the labyrinthine steps she’s had to go through, Flynn created a graphic to share with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played,” she said, describing the nightmare process of getting all the checks needed to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11876469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg 631w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CZU fires survivor Kirsten Flynn created this flow chart to illustrate the complexity of the rebuilding process. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kirsten Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For others, like Brian and Emma Dean, who lost their Boulder Creek home to the CZU fires, the cost of materials is proving another barrier to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Deans got insurance money and are in the process of rebuilding – but because of the significant increase in the cost of lumber (\u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-price-outlook-futures-shortage-demand-commodity-inflation-2021-6-1030537230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up 400% at some points over the past year\u003c/a>), the insurance doesn’t cover their current rebuilding cost estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of June, Brian Dean estimated they’re short up to $300,000 – almost double the original rebuilding estimate they received. They’re waiting for lumber prices to go down before they attempt to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Emma Dean hold a photo of their house at the property in Boulder Creek on April 9, 2021, where the home stood before it was destroyed by the CZU Lighting Complex fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of all of this are proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/03/06/santa-cruz-community-pushes-for-answers-on-fire-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft fire safety rules from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finalized, those regulations could significantly impact how fire survivors across the state can rebuild. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the regulations could result in new guidelines on how wide the region’s notoriously narrow, winding residential roads need to be in order to safely accommodate emergency vehicles – and additional costs could wind up being the responsibility of homeowners. Public comment on the draft regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/04/27/coast-line-comment-period-opened-on-fire-safe-regs/\">just closed on June 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that the longer you wait, the more politics there will be,” Brian Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California’s drought continues to worsen and temperatures increase over the summer, fuel moisture levels in many areas are far lower than usual for this time of year. Researchers who have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975505/bone-dry-bay-area-forests-portend-fierce-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measuring moisture levels\u003c/a> in the forest and chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains said levels are lower than they’ve ever seen since they began measuring eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1975505 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/06/RS50133_GettyImages-610889522-qut-1020x627.jpg']In mid-April, Santa Cruz County launched a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>, which provides resources and information on ongoing recovery efforts, as well as how to prepare for a disaster. The site will also be a home for information on county efforts on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Chief Nate Armstrong said San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties have taken proactive steps regarding prevention efforts. And one of the biggest local efforts is through education, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=311054987312700&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online webinars\u003c/a> as well as an increase in defensible space inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bradford, who is still mourning the loss of her home while working to rebuild, she would like to see more community efforts for fire preparation. With this in mind, she started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/735503167085946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook group\u003c/a> dedicated to fire prevention in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re choosing to live here,” she said. “We need to be proactive about what fire safety means and really engaging with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford feels like the county and state have already forgotten the people that lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of my anxiety around all of this — I’m not seeing a proactive stance taken by the state, taken by the county to protect us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to Help: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3/About/HowYouCanHelp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information on donating and volunteering\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/680978849295753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SLV Support Group for Home Loss-CZU Lightning Complex fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In addition to the geologic survey, homeowners must also pass a county-conducted fire safety check to ensure the fire department would be able to safely access the building in a future emergency, in addition to an environmental health assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the fire safety, environmental and geologic pre-clearances cost her $1,254. But for final clearances it can cost much more. Bradford said costs can skyrocket to over $5,000 if the county requires advanced surveys by an outside geologist in addition to the county review fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s issues beyond what we can control,” Flynn said. “It’s not like just getting a plan and building something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things slightly more complicated, the environmental health assessment is conducted by the same overburdened county department that has been handling the county’s response to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A catastrophe [the fire] occurred, on top of a global pandemic,” said Flynn. “For different reasons. The county is struggling and the fire victims are struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to clearly track all of the labyrinthine steps she’s had to go through, Flynn created a graphic to share with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played,” she said, describing the nightmare process of getting all the checks needed to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11876469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg 631w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CZU fires survivor Kirsten Flynn created this flow chart to illustrate the complexity of the rebuilding process. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kirsten Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For others, like Brian and Emma Dean, who lost their Boulder Creek home to the CZU fires, the cost of materials is proving another barrier to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Deans got insurance money and are in the process of rebuilding – but because of the significant increase in the cost of lumber (\u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-price-outlook-futures-shortage-demand-commodity-inflation-2021-6-1030537230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up 400% at some points over the past year\u003c/a>), the insurance doesn’t cover their current rebuilding cost estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of June, Brian Dean estimated they’re short up to $300,000 – almost double the original rebuilding estimate they received. They’re waiting for lumber prices to go down before they attempt to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Emma Dean hold a photo of their house at the property in Boulder Creek on April 9, 2021, where the home stood before it was destroyed by the CZU Lighting Complex fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of all of this are proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/03/06/santa-cruz-community-pushes-for-answers-on-fire-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft fire safety rules from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finalized, those regulations could significantly impact how fire survivors across the state can rebuild. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the regulations could result in new guidelines on how wide the region’s notoriously narrow, winding residential roads need to be in order to safely accommodate emergency vehicles – and additional costs could wind up being the responsibility of homeowners. Public comment on the draft regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/04/27/coast-line-comment-period-opened-on-fire-safe-regs/\">just closed on June 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that the longer you wait, the more politics there will be,” Brian Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California’s drought continues to worsen and temperatures increase over the summer, fuel moisture levels in many areas are far lower than usual for this time of year. Researchers who have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975505/bone-dry-bay-area-forests-portend-fierce-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measuring moisture levels\u003c/a> in the forest and chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains said levels are lower than they’ve ever seen since they began measuring eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In mid-April, Santa Cruz County launched a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>, which provides resources and information on ongoing recovery efforts, as well as how to prepare for a disaster. The site will also be a home for information on county efforts on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Chief Nate Armstrong said San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties have taken proactive steps regarding prevention efforts. And one of the biggest local efforts is through education, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=311054987312700&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online webinars\u003c/a> as well as an increase in defensible space inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bradford, who is still mourning the loss of her home while working to rebuild, she would like to see more community efforts for fire preparation. With this in mind, she started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/735503167085946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook group\u003c/a> dedicated to fire prevention in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re choosing to live here,” she said. “We need to be proactive about what fire safety means and really engaging with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford feels like the county and state have already forgotten the people that lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of my anxiety around all of this — I’m not seeing a proactive stance taken by the state, taken by the county to protect us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to Help: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3/About/HowYouCanHelp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information on donating and volunteering\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/680978849295753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SLV Support Group for Home Loss-CZU Lightning Complex fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the CZU Lightning Complex fires ripped through the Santa Cruz mountains, triggering widespread mandatory evacuations, a patchwork army of civilians created their own impromptu firefighting team in Bonny Doon, defying county orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no Cal Fire up here for two and a half days,” said Mark Kuchler, a longtime resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuchler and his husband Glen Hanson say they felt they didn’t have a choice but to stay and fight as the fire quickly approached their home early last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple’s Bonny Doon home has been in Kuchler’s family since 1975. The mountain hamlet community sits northwest of Santa Cruz and is traditionally home to hippies and farmers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuchler used to be the neighborhood groundskeeper, taking care of thousands of acres of land. That deep understanding and knowledge of how to protect properties from fire damage, Kuchler said, helped him attack the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the couple is patrolling, surveying damage, wetting down smoldering embers and putting out spot fires here and there. They’re also stripping brush and clearing roofs, trying to create natural fire barriers for their neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler use a fire hose to put out a hot spot on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, after the fires receded from their neighborhood, Kuchler and Hanson drove past some of the homes that survived, amid charred manzanitas and madrones. A blanket of gray-white ash covers the ground where fire-resistant redwoods still stand tall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t here, these houses that are here, none of them would be here,” Kuchler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler successfully defended their neighbor’s cabin, pictured. (Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During those first days of the firefight, the couple used their tractor to clear brush and cut fire lines. They also commandeered their neighbor’s fully outfitted fire truck to quench the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple said they saved 10 homes in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the effort wasn’t without major risk. Hanson recounted a particularly perilous moment on a nearby hillside when they sprang into action to protect a group of vulnerable properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was all a wall of fire. The smoke was so thick, it was like acid,” he said, gesturing to the area. “I could just feel my skin singeing, and my eyelashes burning, that’s when I said we can’t be here. I thought that we would die in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the kind of scenario that Cal Fire is most worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation that they put themselves in, it’s a very dangerous position,” Edwin Zuniga, a Cal Fire spokesperson said. “We prioritize life over property. We don’t want anyone being trapped in a fire situation like that. We want them to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the frustration people had during that time,” Zuniga added, “and we were just completely stripped across the state. We’re sorry we couldn’t be there all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dave Gillotte, a captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department who’s been in Bonny Doon working the blaze with his crew, said they’ve been able to collaborate with citizen firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the brigades that were here from the neighborhood had already put in lines,” he said. “They had tanks and pumps and they were working to do what they could. And they were, of course, overwhelmed in certain areas. So when we came in, we already had something to work with and we improved what they did, and we didn’t have any issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the danger, Kuchler and Hanson say they were protecting more than just homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a hold of the school teacher to say that ‘we saved your house,’ ” Kuchler recounted. “And she was just so joyful and happy. She was crying. And it was just like, ‘Wow, you know, we did that.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without her home, Kuchler asks, “Would she have been able to stay a teacher in this area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that’s left of one property is a walkway and remnants of a garden. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s something the couple, who met at San Francisco Pride over 20 years ago, is worried about: that the fabric of their tight-knit community will be changed by this fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"https://sccgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5461c7f372e24ab68ca386e73d58e35a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary damage map\u003c/a> shows that more than 100 homes in Bonny Doon were likely destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just down the road from the teacher’s house, the fire tore through two properties off of Shake Mill Road. All that’s left on one parcel is a lone chimney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121438984_HDR-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that’s left on one parcel is a chimney, which rises into the sky, meeting towering redwoods and Douglas fir. Pictured on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a cute little cabin,” Hanson said, pointing to the remains, “No one’s really doing that anymore. There’s not little old woodworkers up here building their place in the ’70s, and having weird hippie drum circles.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Glen Hanson, Bonny Doon resident\"]‘If you get out of Santa Cruz County, you really can’t get back in — unless you’re really rich … So, there’s a lot of people living out here that when they lose that [their home], it’s done for them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple says over the years they’ve seen the neighborhood shift; increasingly it’s those who work in tech and commute over the hill buying properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, the average home price was $501,000 in 2012, as compared to $947,000 today, according to the real estate site Redfin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As housing prices skyrocket, the couple says they’re concerned that the fire will displace renters and long-time locals who live on family property. 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We do have a community here and we have a community spirit, and we could possibly lose that,” Kuchler said, “There’s not too many places like that left in California that have that community spirit close to the ocean.” [aside tag=\"wildfire\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting off tears, Hanson considered how many community members would be displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the most beautiful place on earth. Every time I leave I say, ‘I just want to go home, I don’t need to be anywhere else,’ ” he said. “Everyone else here feels that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, roads into and out of the couple’s Bonny Doon neighborhood are blocked off. Once residents leave, they are unable to come back in until evacuation orders are lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuchler only has a few days of his medication left. The couple is trying to figure out how to get a refill. Besides that, they say they’re doing OK on supplies for the time being and plan to stay up on the mountain to help gradually rebuild their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the kind of neighbors we are, we really do care about each other,” Kuchler said. “Some of us may not agree with this, that and the other thing. But at the end of the day, we love our neighbors. We love all of them. You know, even the ones we don’t love, we still kind of love them.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the couple is patrolling, surveying damage, wetting down smoldering embers and putting out spot fires here and there. They’re also stripping brush and clearing roofs, trying to create natural fire barriers for their neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_120909528-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler use a fire hose to put out a hot spot on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, after the fires receded from their neighborhood, Kuchler and Hanson drove past some of the homes that survived, amid charred manzanitas and madrones. A blanket of gray-white ash covers the ground where fire-resistant redwoods still stand tall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t here, these houses that are here, none of them would be here,” Kuchler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/CABIN-PIC-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanson and Kuchler successfully defended their neighbor’s cabin, pictured. (Hannah Hagemann/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During those first days of the firefight, the couple used their tractor to clear brush and cut fire lines. They also commandeered their neighbor’s fully outfitted fire truck to quench the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple said they saved 10 homes in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the effort wasn’t without major risk. Hanson recounted a particularly perilous moment on a nearby hillside when they sprang into action to protect a group of vulnerable properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was all a wall of fire. The smoke was so thick, it was like acid,” he said, gesturing to the area. “I could just feel my skin singeing, and my eyelashes burning, that’s when I said we can’t be here. I thought that we would die in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the kind of scenario that Cal Fire is most worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation that they put themselves in, it’s a very dangerous position,” Edwin Zuniga, a Cal Fire spokesperson said. “We prioritize life over property. We don’t want anyone being trapped in a fire situation like that. We want them to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the frustration people had during that time,” Zuniga added, “and we were just completely stripped across the state. We’re sorry we couldn’t be there all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dave Gillotte, a captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department who’s been in Bonny Doon working the blaze with his crew, said they’ve been able to collaborate with citizen firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the brigades that were here from the neighborhood had already put in lines,” he said. “They had tanks and pumps and they were working to do what they could. And they were, of course, overwhelmed in certain areas. So when we came in, we already had something to work with and we improved what they did, and we didn’t have any issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the danger, Kuchler and Hanson say they were protecting more than just homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a hold of the school teacher to say that ‘we saved your house,’ ” Kuchler recounted. “And she was just so joyful and happy. She was crying. And it was just like, ‘Wow, you know, we did that.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without her home, Kuchler asks, “Would she have been able to stay a teacher in this area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11835972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/IMG_20200826_121853546-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that’s left of one property is a walkway and remnants of a garden. \u003ccite>(Hannah Hagemann/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s something the couple, who met at San Francisco Pride over 20 years ago, is worried about: that the fabric of their tight-knit community will be changed by this fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"https://sccgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5461c7f372e24ab68ca386e73d58e35a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary damage map\u003c/a> shows that more than 100 homes in Bonny Doon were likely destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just down the road from the teacher’s house, the fire tore through two properties off of Shake Mill Road. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a decade ago, Santa Cruz was one of the first cities in the U.S. to adopt what’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201201171000/predictive-policing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predictive policing\u003c/a>.” Now it’s one of the first to enact a ban. That may be because police departments are beginning to quietly back away from the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the Santa Cruz Police Department dropped predictive policing in 2017, when Andy Mills started as police chief. From the beginning, he spoke of a more community focused approach to the job. Interviewed for a story about his first day on the job, he told local TV news station \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruzs-new-top-cop-andrew-mills/10394315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSBW\u003c/a> he wanted to focus on “tactical deescalation.” He was one of a number of California police chiefs to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SantaCruzPolice/status/1266841397497221120?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take a knee\u003c/a> with Black Lives Matter protestors this past spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SantaCruzPolice/status/1266841397497221120?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Santa Cruz city council took up a new ordinance banning predictive policing and facial recognition software on June 23, 2020, Chief Mills expressed unreserved support. “Predictive policing has been shown over time to put officers in conflict with communities rather than working with the communities,” he said. He spoke in support of the mayor to ban the technologies “until such time that it can be peer reviewed and scientifically proven.” The vote for the ban was unanimous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those watching from elsewhere in the Bay was Brian Hofer, who chairs Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/boards-commissions/privacy-advisory-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy commission\u003c/a> and heads the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://secure-justice.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secure Justice\u003c/a>. He sees the vote in Santa Cruz as the latest referendum on the effectiveness of predictive policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys told us this was going to save lives. Where’s the data?” he said, noting conversations bubbling up in Oakland and San Diego that may evolve into efforts to ban predictive policing elsewhere in California. Hofer helped craft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761849/oakland-city-council-votes-to-ban-facial-recognition-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland’s ban on facial recognition\u003c/a> technology, and consults with other cities reassessing their policing contracts and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828595\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg\" alt=\"Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1020x1304.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-160x205.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1201x1536.jpeg 1201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000.jpeg 1493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the City of Santa Cruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We fall for the marketing hype, go release this stuff out into the wild without understanding it, and then never really demand a cost benefit analysis,” Hofer said, noting a number of studies and audits in recent years have found predictive policing and other data-driven policing solutions sold by Silicon Valley companies like PredPol and Palantir have yet to deliver on their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/strategies/predictive-policing/Pages/welcome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Predictive policing\u003c/a> uses computer modeling to anticipate crime and to manage when and where police officers are deployed. Algorithms analyze historical data to predict where certain crimes may occur (aka “hotspots”) and possibly who may be involved in a future crime. That, at least, is the promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a common fallacy that police data is objective and reflects actual criminal behavior, patterns, or other indicators of concern to public safety in a given jurisdiction,” researchers from New York University wrote in a 2019 study they titled \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dirty Data, Bad Predictions\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “In reality, police data reflects the practices, policies, biases, and political and financial accounting needs of a given department,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings referenced this consensus growing among academics as well as activists when he brought the ban proposal forward in June. “If policing itself is biased, then the data that’s informing those models will be biased,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not Just Santa Cruz\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former LAPD Chief and New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was the biggest early booster of predictive policing on the national stage, starting in 1994. First, with the crime tracking system CompStat, later with a host of analytical software products and strategies, he’s championed what he describes as the “evolution of policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton was brought in first to consult and later to head the LAPD in 2002 by then-Mayor Jim Hahn. A decade later, he led an investigation into Oakland’s implementation of CompStat, and issued a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/96648/bratton-report-findings-highly-critical-of-oakland-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critique\u003c/a> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while his data-driven reforms were praised at the time, the NYPD has since been \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/court-public-deserves-know-how-nypd-uses-predictive-policing-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court-ordered\u003c/a> to produce records about testing, development, and use of predictive analytics tools, and just a few months ago, the LAPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/los-angeles-police-department-dumping-predpol-predictive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled out of two of its predictive policing contracts\u003c/a>, including one with \u003ca href=\"https://www.predpol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PredPol\u003c/a>, the same company Santa Cruz was using.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAPD publicly blamed pandemic era budget restrictions for ending the contract, but as \u003ca href=\"https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/mar/12/algorithms-lapd-predpol/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muckrock reported\u003c/a>, internal auditing couldn’t determine the programs were effective. The 48-page report from the office of Inspector General Mark Smith issued last March, found the department needs tougher standards for data collection, record keeping, and communicating its policies to the public to guard against targeting minorities and certain neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After ten years, with enough public pressure and community concern, it was an easy decision to just pull the plug,” said Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University and author of \u003cem>The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether one takes issue with data-driven policing itself or the way it’s implemented, there have been a host of issues with the way many California police departments have gathered and maintained databases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2016 state audit of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3010637-CalGang-Audit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalGang database\u003c/a>, for instance, found a multitude of errors, unsubstantiated claims of gang involvement, and hundreds of files lingering long after their legally mandated purge date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PredPol CEO Brian Macdonald took issue with the way predictive policing has been characterized in recent debates. “It should be noted that the ‘predictive’ aspect is only a small part of what we do,” Macdonald said. “PredPol is all about bringing greater transparency to patrol operations… We allow departments to set missions — crime types to focus on — so the community can see what police resources are focused on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macdonald clarified what they do by saying they never use arrest data in predictions, and “never predict for crime types that allow for the possibility of officer bias (e.g. drug crimes).” He said they only work with crimes involving “a clear victim” such as vehicle theft, break-ins, and robberies. “We never use any demographic, racial, or personally identifiable information,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if appraisals on predictive policing are popping up on city council agendas across California this summer, Andrew Ferguson at American University warns many police officers, politicians and members of the public are still fascinated with the idea that technology is the ticket to 21st century crime fighting, and he has this prediction for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next thing we’re going to see is a response to this demand for police accountability to sort of turn the surveillance gaze on police,” Ferguson said. “It’s sort of the Silicon Valley way to see an opening and try to pitch it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly a decade ago, Santa Cruz was one of the first cities in the U.S. to adopt what’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201201171000/predictive-policing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predictive policing\u003c/a>.” Now it’s one of the first to enact a ban. That may be because police departments are beginning to quietly back away from the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the Santa Cruz Police Department dropped predictive policing in 2017, when Andy Mills started as police chief. From the beginning, he spoke of a more community focused approach to the job. Interviewed for a story about his first day on the job, he told local TV news station \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruzs-new-top-cop-andrew-mills/10394315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSBW\u003c/a> he wanted to focus on “tactical deescalation.” He was one of a number of California police chiefs to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SantaCruzPolice/status/1266841397497221120?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take a knee\u003c/a> with Black Lives Matter protestors this past spring.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>When the Santa Cruz city council took up a new ordinance banning predictive policing and facial recognition software on June 23, 2020, Chief Mills expressed unreserved support. “Predictive policing has been shown over time to put officers in conflict with communities rather than working with the communities,” he said. He spoke in support of the mayor to ban the technologies “until such time that it can be peer reviewed and scientifically proven.” The vote for the ban was unanimous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those watching from elsewhere in the Bay was Brian Hofer, who chairs Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/boards-commissions/privacy-advisory-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy commission\u003c/a> and heads the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://secure-justice.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secure Justice\u003c/a>. He sees the vote in Santa Cruz as the latest referendum on the effectiveness of predictive policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys told us this was going to save lives. Where’s the data?” he said, noting conversations bubbling up in Oakland and San Diego that may evolve into efforts to ban predictive policing elsewhere in California. Hofer helped craft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761849/oakland-city-council-votes-to-ban-facial-recognition-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland’s ban on facial recognition\u003c/a> technology, and consults with other cities reassessing their policing contracts and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828595\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg\" alt=\"Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1020x1304.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-160x205.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1201x1536.jpeg 1201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000.jpeg 1493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the City of Santa Cruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We fall for the marketing hype, go release this stuff out into the wild without understanding it, and then never really demand a cost benefit analysis,” Hofer said, noting a number of studies and audits in recent years have found predictive policing and other data-driven policing solutions sold by Silicon Valley companies like PredPol and Palantir have yet to deliver on their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/strategies/predictive-policing/Pages/welcome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Predictive policing\u003c/a> uses computer modeling to anticipate crime and to manage when and where police officers are deployed. Algorithms analyze historical data to predict where certain crimes may occur (aka “hotspots”) and possibly who may be involved in a future crime. That, at least, is the promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a common fallacy that police data is objective and reflects actual criminal behavior, patterns, or other indicators of concern to public safety in a given jurisdiction,” researchers from New York University wrote in a 2019 study they titled \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dirty Data, Bad Predictions\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “In reality, police data reflects the practices, policies, biases, and political and financial accounting needs of a given department,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings referenced this consensus growing among academics as well as activists when he brought the ban proposal forward in June. “If policing itself is biased, then the data that’s informing those models will be biased,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not Just Santa Cruz\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former LAPD Chief and New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was the biggest early booster of predictive policing on the national stage, starting in 1994. First, with the crime tracking system CompStat, later with a host of analytical software products and strategies, he’s championed what he describes as the “evolution of policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton was brought in first to consult and later to head the LAPD in 2002 by then-Mayor Jim Hahn. A decade later, he led an investigation into Oakland’s implementation of CompStat, and issued a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/96648/bratton-report-findings-highly-critical-of-oakland-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critique\u003c/a> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while his data-driven reforms were praised at the time, the NYPD has since been \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/court-public-deserves-know-how-nypd-uses-predictive-policing-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court-ordered\u003c/a> to produce records about testing, development, and use of predictive analytics tools, and just a few months ago, the LAPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/los-angeles-police-department-dumping-predpol-predictive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled out of two of its predictive policing contracts\u003c/a>, including one with \u003ca href=\"https://www.predpol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PredPol\u003c/a>, the same company Santa Cruz was using.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAPD publicly blamed pandemic era budget restrictions for ending the contract, but as \u003ca href=\"https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/mar/12/algorithms-lapd-predpol/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muckrock reported\u003c/a>, internal auditing couldn’t determine the programs were effective. The 48-page report from the office of Inspector General Mark Smith issued last March, found the department needs tougher standards for data collection, record keeping, and communicating its policies to the public to guard against targeting minorities and certain neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After ten years, with enough public pressure and community concern, it was an easy decision to just pull the plug,” said Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University and author of \u003cem>The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether one takes issue with data-driven policing itself or the way it’s implemented, there have been a host of issues with the way many California police departments have gathered and maintained databases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2016 state audit of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3010637-CalGang-Audit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalGang database\u003c/a>, for instance, found a multitude of errors, unsubstantiated claims of gang involvement, and hundreds of files lingering long after their legally mandated purge date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PredPol CEO Brian Macdonald took issue with the way predictive policing has been characterized in recent debates. “It should be noted that the ‘predictive’ aspect is only a small part of what we do,” Macdonald said. “PredPol is all about bringing greater transparency to patrol operations… We allow departments to set missions — crime types to focus on — so the community can see what police resources are focused on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macdonald clarified what they do by saying they never use arrest data in predictions, and “never predict for crime types that allow for the possibility of officer bias (e.g. drug crimes).” He said they only work with crimes involving “a clear victim” such as vehicle theft, break-ins, and robberies. “We never use any demographic, racial, or personally identifiable information,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if appraisals on predictive policing are popping up on city council agendas across California this summer, Andrew Ferguson at American University warns many police officers, politicians and members of the public are still fascinated with the idea that technology is the ticket to 21st century crime fighting, and he has this prediction for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Dellums Federal Building during the first night of major demonstrations in Oakland over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pat Underwood was murdered because he wore a uniform,” David Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, said at a Tuesday morning news conference at the Dellums building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6948994/USA-v-Carrillo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a criminal complaint\u003c/a> filed in U.S. District Court, Carrillo and his alleged getaway driver, Robert A. Justus Jr., 30, of Millbrae, parked a white Ford Econoline van at 12th and Jefferson streets, near the building’s guard post, just before 9:30 p.m. the night of May 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 22-page complaint says that Justus, who turned himself in to the FBI in San Francisco last week, exited the van and walked around the area for about 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes after he returned and got back in the driver’s seat, the van rolled through the intersection and its passenger-side sliding door opened. The complaint says that Carrillo fired a “privately made” AR-15-style rifle through the open door at the guard post where Underwood and his partner were located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After shooting the two officers, Justus told agents, Carrillo “said words to the effect of, ‘Did you see how they fucking fell?'” The complaint says Justus described Carrillo as being “excited and thrilled after the shooting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justus told agents that he was an unwilling participant in the attack but stayed with Carrillo because he felt “trapped.” The complaint says that when an agent pointed out that Justus had gotten out of the van and that he could have walked away at that point, he responded “that he … was trying to think of ways to talk Carrillo out of his plan. Justus said Carrillo expressed an interest multiple times in shooting a helicopter, police officers and civilians, but that Justus talked him out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justus faces charges of aiding and abetting murder and attempted murder of federal officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint quotes several social media posts Carrillo made in the 48 hours before the attack suggesting he intended to target federal officers. Those posts included a Facebook comment on the morning of the attack that urged people to take advantage of the protests responding to Floyd’s killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go to the riots and support our own cause,” the complaint quotes Carrillo as saying. “Show them the real targets. Use their anger to fuel our fire. … We have mobs of angry people to use to our advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo’s attorney, Jeffrey Stotter, did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/12/santa-cruz-deputy-killing-defense-lawyer-says-steven-carrillo-suffered-traumatic-brain-injury/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stotter said\u003c/a> after a court hearing last week that Carrillo suffers from a non-service-related traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint indicates that investigators connected Carrillo to the Oakland attack only after the June 6 fatal shooting of Santa Cruz County sheriff’s Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller and the wounding of four other officers in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated community in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Among other evidence, the complaint says that tests conducted by examiners from the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded the same weapon was used in the Oakland and Santa Cruz County shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SantaCruzSO1/status/1269509768021815297?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo is being held without bail in jail in Monterey County. He is expected to enter a plea next month to 19 felony counts, including murder, arising from the Ben Lomond incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges disclosed Tuesday also cited evidence that Carrillo is part of the “boogaloo” movement, whose anti-government adherents derived the term from the 1984 movie “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” and use it as a code word for a second U.S. civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another derivation of “boogaloo” is “big luau” and Hawaiian garb is common among members’ clothing. Officials found an American flag-like patch on Carrillo’s bulletproof vest that depicted an igloo and a Hawaiian-style print, themes commonly associated with the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Boogaloo-Patch.jpg\" alt=\"A patch with symbols associated with the far-right 'Boogaloo' movement was found sewn onto Steven Carrillo's ballistic vest following a search of his van by law enforcement.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Boogaloo-Patch.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Boogaloo-Patch-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Boogaloo-Patch-800x629.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Boogaloo-Patch-1020x802.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A patch with symbols associated with the far-right ‘Boogaloo’ movement was found sewn onto Steven Carrillo’s ballistic vest following a search of his van by law enforcement. \u003ccite>(U.S. District Court)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carrillo also wrote — using his own blood — phrases associated with the movement onto a vehicle he had carjacked before he was taken into custody following the killing of the Santa Cruz deputy, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities do not believe Carrillo and Justus coordinated to make attack plans with three Nevada men who had plotted to spark violence during recent protests in Las Vegas and also identify with the “boogaloo” movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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