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And then his mother would have to wheel him back,” Hill said. “It didn’t seem right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he authored a bill that would permit California school districts — but not require them — to let parents or legal guardians administer cannabis meds inside school to kids who have a doctor’s recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jana Adams says that, for her daughter, there’s a hitch. When Brooke needs her THC oil as a rescue medicine, she needs it immediately. Someone who’s already at school would have to give it to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I don’t know when I’m gonna have to dose her,” Jana said as she and Brooke flip through picture books. “That’s the whole issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/BrookeAtPreschoolFall2017-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brooke Adams, now 5, spent two years at this private Santa Rosa preschool — with her cannabis rescue medication.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Adams, now 5, spent two years at this private Santa Rosa preschool — with her cannabis rescue medication. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some kids need their cannabis meds on an unpredictable schedule, and parents can’t always be on campus to administer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that’s a problem everywhere. \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/T2FLC4x9gPsBBQ7LhXtj8W?domain=ilga.gov\">Illinois\u003c/a> had to add a last-minute amendment that also allows a “designated caregiver” to dispense cannabis at school. \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/dL4UC5yWjXSZZQWqFjwf2j?domain=state.nj.us\">New Jersey\u003c/a> did something similar. And early this summer, Colorado tacked\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/9iW9C680k4srrAGQFlwl-E?domain=leg.colorado.gov\"> “Quintin’s Amendment”\u003c/a> onto its law. That allows school personnel to dispense the cannabis meds, or designate someone who can, like a contracted nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sen. Hill doesn’t think that will fly in California now. Marijuana is still against federal law, and the Association of California School Administrators lobbied against his bill out of concern that they’d lose federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like the other states, Hill said, California needs a starting point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to avoid having Brooke home-schooled, Jana and her family decided to take the school district to court. The special education hearing was held in late July before Administrative Law Judge Charles Marson. As Jana sees it, the question was: “Are you going to let a sick child take her medication so that she can go to school, or are you going to just keep people at home?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of hearings are usually private, but Brooke’s family petitioned to open theirs to the public in hopes of helping other families. Brooke’s preschool teacher testified about all the progress she made interacting with other kids during her two years there. And \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/u6khC829m0u66Zwnhgy7Q6?domain=ucsfbenioffchildrens.org\">Dr. Joseph Sullivan\u003c/a>, one of Brooke’s doctors and director of UCSF’s Pediatric Epilepsy Center, submitted a declaration on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for school district officials? They said they’re caught between two federal laws – the one that bans cannabis on school grounds and the one that requires accommodations for special education students. Rincon Valley Union Assistant Superintendent Cathy Myhers told me they want guidance — and some cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a district we just want a level of protection,” Myhers said. “If the judge tells us we can have a student on campus with their medical marijuana, we feel like, ‘OK, we can do it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marson on Friday ruled that not only can the district do it — it must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4928752-BrookeAdamsDecision.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">22-page ruling\u003c/a>, Marson said that by seeking to educate Brooke at home, the Rincon Valley Union School District had denied her a “free and appropriate public education” in the “least restrictive setting” — which federal special education law requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marson concluded that Brooke was in compliance with state medical marijuana law. Because her mom and her nurse were “authorized by law to possess and use the THC oil as they did, their conduct was exempt from another California statute specifically regulating the presence of cannabis on a public school campus,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for federal law? Marson called the chance that federal officials would come after the school district “remote” and said the district had already violated federal law for two years without consequences by transporting Brooke to and from her private preschool with her cannabis meds, and “should have reasonably concluded that it could continue to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district can appeal the ruling, which applies only to Brooke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jojo’s Act is now on the governor’s desk. The governor has until the end of this month to sign or veto it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that changed when the family discovered medical cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they give Brooke a tincture a few times a day to prevent seizures. That one’s mostly CBD — a cannabinoid in the marijuana plant that doesn’t make you high. Another — rubbed on her gums — stops the seizures once they start. That “rescue medication,” made from the psychoactive cannabinoid THC, works in about three minutes, according to Jana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been life-changing,” Jana said of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except when it came time to start preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11693935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32927_BrookeTakingMedsFall2017-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jana Adams, Brooke’s mom, administers a cannabis tincture to Brooke at their Santa Rosa home in fall 2017 \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The local public school district — \u003ca href=\"https://www.rvusd.org/\">Rincon Valley Union\u003c/a> — told Jana that both federal and state laws ban cannabis on school grounds. Violating that federal law can put school districts at risk of losing federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End of story, right? Well, no, because a different \u003ca href=\"https://ifap.ed.gov/regcomps/attachments/86.pdf\">federal law\u003c/a> guarantees students with special needs the right to a “\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/G21GCZ6W5Nu55VoOhPWJom?domain=www2.ed.gov\">free and appropriate public education\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11644339/one-santa-rosa-familys-fight-to-allow-medical-cannabis-in-california-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when I first reported on the Adams family\u003c/a>, the district was paying for Brooke to go to private preschool, and for a one-on-one nurse, who was always at Brooke’s side with those little vials of THC oil, her rescue medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jana wanted her daughter in public school come kindergarten. So she started lobbying her legislators last year “to get to Sacramento and get something passed before the fall, because I don’t know where her placement will be in the fall if she can’t go to public school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, shortly before the beginning of the school year, I went back to check on the family. Things haven’t gone quite as Jana had hoped, but there’s been movement on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws in seven other states now allow kids some access to their cannabis meds at school. California is trying something similar with \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/MGM_C1w95PSMMDEvFyQE7H?domain=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\">Jojo’s Act\u003c/a>. Jojo Jiminez lives in San Bruno, and the 19-year-old suffers from a different debilitating form of \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/ofeDC2k96QfppJEnu03wqg?domain=sfchronicle.com\">childhood epilepsy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His state senator, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/ofeDC2k96QfppJEnu03wqg?domain=sfchronicle.com\">Jerry Hill\u003c/a>, learned about him last year — and how, in order to get the regular cannabis tinctures that keep the teenager’s seizures in check, “he would have to be removed from school in a wheelchair and by law taken 1,000 feet away from the school where the drug could be administered. And then his mother would have to wheel him back,” Hill said. “It didn’t seem right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he authored a bill that would permit California school districts — but not require them — to let parents or legal guardians administer cannabis meds inside school to kids who have a doctor’s recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jana Adams says that, for her daughter, there’s a hitch. When Brooke needs her THC oil as a rescue medicine, she needs it immediately. Someone who’s already at school would have to give it to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I don’t know when I’m gonna have to dose her,” Jana said as she and Brooke flip through picture books. “That’s the whole issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/BrookeAtPreschoolFall2017-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brooke Adams, now 5, spent two years at this private Santa Rosa preschool — with her cannabis rescue medication.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Adams, now 5, spent two years at this private Santa Rosa preschool — with her cannabis rescue medication. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some kids need their cannabis meds on an unpredictable schedule, and parents can’t always be on campus to administer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that’s a problem everywhere. \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/T2FLC4x9gPsBBQ7LhXtj8W?domain=ilga.gov\">Illinois\u003c/a> had to add a last-minute amendment that also allows a “designated caregiver” to dispense cannabis at school. \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/dL4UC5yWjXSZZQWqFjwf2j?domain=state.nj.us\">New Jersey\u003c/a> did something similar. And early this summer, Colorado tacked\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/9iW9C680k4srrAGQFlwl-E?domain=leg.colorado.gov\"> “Quintin’s Amendment”\u003c/a> onto its law. That allows school personnel to dispense the cannabis meds, or designate someone who can, like a contracted nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sen. Hill doesn’t think that will fly in California now. Marijuana is still against federal law, and the Association of California School Administrators lobbied against his bill out of concern that they’d lose federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like the other states, Hill said, California needs a starting point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to avoid having Brooke home-schooled, Jana and her family decided to take the school district to court. The special education hearing was held in late July before Administrative Law Judge Charles Marson. As Jana sees it, the question was: “Are you going to let a sick child take her medication so that she can go to school, or are you going to just keep people at home?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of hearings are usually private, but Brooke’s family petitioned to open theirs to the public in hopes of helping other families. Brooke’s preschool teacher testified about all the progress she made interacting with other kids during her two years there. And \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/u6khC829m0u66Zwnhgy7Q6?domain=ucsfbenioffchildrens.org\">Dr. Joseph Sullivan\u003c/a>, one of Brooke’s doctors and director of UCSF’s Pediatric Epilepsy Center, submitted a declaration on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for school district officials? They said they’re caught between two federal laws – the one that bans cannabis on school grounds and the one that requires accommodations for special education students. Rincon Valley Union Assistant Superintendent Cathy Myhers told me they want guidance — and some cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a district we just want a level of protection,” Myhers said. “If the judge tells us we can have a student on campus with their medical marijuana, we feel like, ‘OK, we can do it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marson on Friday ruled that not only can the district do it — it must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4928752-BrookeAdamsDecision.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">22-page ruling\u003c/a>, Marson said that by seeking to educate Brooke at home, the Rincon Valley Union School District had denied her a “free and appropriate public education” in the “least restrictive setting” — which federal special education law requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marson concluded that Brooke was in compliance with state medical marijuana law. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds gathered Saturday at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa to do something that's pretty rare in this country: legally buy and consume marijuana products at the same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say the two-day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cannabiscup.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannabis Cup\u003c/a>, put on by the marijuana media company High Times, is just the second event in the country to allow visitors to buy and consume marijuana all in one place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make it happen, the Sonoma County Fairgrounds was turned into a farmers market of marijuana, smoking devices, clothing and even potting soil. There's also music featuring performances from Phil Lesh, Miguel and several others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In 1968 when I was born this was a wild dream,\" says Erin Hay, who says she's smoked marijuana for most of her adult life. \"There's a lot of people living their dreams who are in their 70s. There's a lot of people in their 20s and 30s taking it for granted that this is just the way we live now, and it's pretty cool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Ley traveled to Santa Rosa from Los Angeles to work at the Cannabis Cup. She gave festival attendees samples of strawberry-flavored cannabis wax. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Beck, who's working a booth that sells soil specially formulated for marijuana plants, says the industry has shifted from primarily mom-and-pop growers to large-scale farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's benefits and drawbacks,\" he says about legalization. \"There's stability for people, but there's a lot of people who had built family businesses and existed in this way for a long time before legalization came that aren't thriving in this environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Customers line up for some \"#designerweed\" from Connected Cannabis, one of the many corporate cannabis companies at the Cannabis Cup. Their booth had a DJ and a smoking lounge.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers line up for some \"#designerweed\" from Connected Cannabis, one of the many corporate cannabis companies at the Cannabis Cup. Their booth had a DJ and a smoking lounge. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's not the case for Jacob Richard, who says his family-run marijuana company in Humboldt County has exploded since legalization. He says his family has been growing for the past three years and received their recreational license last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's using the Cannabis Cup as a chance to learn from the more commercial companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Richard works at the booth for his family's marijuana business that they run out of Humboldt County on June 2, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Richard works at the booth for his family's marijuana business that they run out of Humboldt County on June 2, 2018. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It kinda feels like we're not as set up as everybody else, but you know, family run business, people respect that,\" Richard says. \"And I feel like we're doing alright. We're growing so fast, we've had to hire other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, he's excited to sell his favorite strain: McKinleyville Blackberry Kush. His family spent months scouring marijuana crops throughout McKinleyville before eventually finding it, and he's proud to show it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is off the chain,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis Cup attendees could also buy clothing alongside marijuana.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis Cup attendees could also buy clothing alongside marijuana. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds gathered Saturday at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa to do something that's pretty rare in this country: legally buy and consume marijuana products at the same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say the two-day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cannabiscup.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannabis Cup\u003c/a>, put on by the marijuana media company High Times, is just the second event in the country to allow visitors to buy and consume marijuana all in one place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make it happen, the Sonoma County Fairgrounds was turned into a farmers market of marijuana, smoking devices, clothing and even potting soil. There's also music featuring performances from Phil Lesh, Miguel and several others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In 1968 when I was born this was a wild dream,\" says Erin Hay, who says she's smoked marijuana for most of her adult life. \"There's a lot of people living their dreams who are in their 70s. There's a lot of people in their 20s and 30s taking it for granted that this is just the way we live now, and it's pretty cool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31239_IMG_5648-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Ley traveled to Santa Rosa from Los Angeles to work at the Cannabis Cup. She gave festival attendees samples of strawberry-flavored cannabis wax. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Beck, who's working a booth that sells soil specially formulated for marijuana plants, says the industry has shifted from primarily mom-and-pop growers to large-scale farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Their booth had a DJ and a smoking lounge.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31226_IMG_5661-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers line up for some \"#designerweed\" from Connected Cannabis, one of the many corporate cannabis companies at the Cannabis Cup. Their booth had a DJ and a smoking lounge. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's not the case for Jacob Richard, who says his family-run marijuana company in Humboldt County has exploded since legalization. He says his family has been growing for the past three years and received their recreational license last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's using the Cannabis Cup as a chance to learn from the more commercial companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Richard works at the booth for his family's marijuana business that they run out of Humboldt County on June 2, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31231_IMG_5656-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Richard works at the booth for his family's marijuana business that they run out of Humboldt County on June 2, 2018. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It kinda feels like we're not as set up as everybody else, but you know, family run business, people respect that,\" Richard says. \"And I feel like we're doing alright. 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His family spent months scouring marijuana crops throughout McKinleyville before eventually finding it, and he's proud to show it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is off the chain,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis Cup attendees could also buy clothing alongside marijuana.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31235_IMG_5652-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis Cup attendees could also buy clothing alongside marijuana. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003ch2>No More Ambulance Trips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four-year-old Brooke Adams is taking her morning medicine. Her mom, Jana Adams, squirts it into her mouth as Brooke sits on the kitchen counter of their Santa Rosa home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a cannabis tincture with a high ratio of CBD, one of the cannabinoids in the marijuana plant that doesn’t make you high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke has pale red hair that’s pulled into pigtails. She’s wearing raspberry colored eyeglasses. And she loves hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this recent morning, she reaches for a visitor and beckons: “Huuuug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke has \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/hGd6CVON1KCwRryhjLyTW?domain=epilepsy.com\">Dravet Syndrome\u003c/a> — a rare and severe genetic disorder that causes seizures and developmental delays. She’ll live with it for the rest of her life. 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Four at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SA8MTscR77UrhpSrwQViZFexCwQF3RTx”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those medicines are meant to prevent seizures, but Adams says they didn’t work for Brooke. As for stopping the seizures once they started — that required another drug, known as a “rescue” medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever they administered it, Adams says, Brooke “would be intubated because her breathing would slow down so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping for another way, Adams connected with a \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/MBGgCW682Xu9W7qcl0KKB?domain=facebook.com\">nationwide community of parents\u003c/a> using cannabis to treat their kids’ seizures. And a local doctor issued Brooke a medical marijuana card when she was just 15 months old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11644564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11644564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jana Adams prepares cannabis medication for her daughter, Brooke, 4. It’s a high-CDB tincture supplemented with THC to reduce seizures and THC oil as a “rescue medication” to stop them once they start. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Brooke takes that daily CBD tincture and a rescue drug made of cannabis oil that’s high in THC. (That’s the best-known cannabinoid in the marijuana plant, the one that does get you high.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams says those drops of THC oil dribbled between Brooke’s gums and teeth tend to stop her seizures within three minutes. Her doses come in little vials. Wherever she goes, they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke takes fewer prescription meds now, and her mom says she has fewer seizures. But the main change is that those long ones, known as status seizures, are really infrequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means no more ambulance trips with a breathing tube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her last status seizure was last August,” Adams says, “and before, she was every five weeks to the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drug-Free Schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But placing Brooke in preschool was tough. There’s a federal law — called the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/oGrKCXDM32F5zvKT2pswi?domain=idea.ed.gov\">Individuals with Disabilities Education Act\u003c/a> — which mandates that kids receive a “free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means districts need to make accommodations for kids like Brooke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, before the summer of 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/tHDeCYEM4Nt14RlFlWv-l?domain=rvusd.org\">the Rincon Valley Union School District\u003c/a> told Adams: Those vials of THC oil that are always with Brooke? They’re not allowed at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘here’s all the things that you could have,’” Adams recounts, “’but well, she can’t be on campus so you’ll have to just have her at home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But homeschooling is not what Adams thought was most appropriate for her daughter. And she knew the law. If the district couldn’t accommodate Brooke, they’d have to find another school that would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told the district: “She needs to go to a private school if you can’t have her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district got on board. Adams called dozens of private preschools before she found one that had space and would accept Brooke with her seizures — and cannabis meds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11644565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11644565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Adams, 4, cradles the face of Yolanda Brindis, her nurse, on the way to private preschool in Santa Rosa. The Rincon Valley Union School District covers the cost of the private placement, transports her there and provides Brooke’s nurse. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district pays for that placement. And a lot of other accommodations, like speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and adaptive physical education. As well as a one-on-one nurse, Yolanda Brindis, who stays with Brooke all day, riding to and from private preschool with her in a van that the district sends to fetch them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Adams knew her family would soon face a bigger hurdle: getting Brooke into kindergarten this coming fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we’re pushing to get to Sacramento and get something passed before the fall,” she says, “because I don’t know where her placement will be in the fall if she can’t go to public school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pushing to Change the Law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That “something” is a law, one that would allow Brooke and other kids like her to be in public school with their cannabis medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams hired Joe Rogoway, a cannabis-industry attorney, to help her press for that. And the school district quickly got on board with the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathy Myhers, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services for the Rincon Valley Union School District, can’t discuss the cases of individual students. But she says that, generally, federal law requires her district to offer “free and appropriate” public education to kids who are “identified as children that have special needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet cannabis prohibition prevents that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e feel as though our hands are tied,” Myhers says. “If we can’t provide her that rescue medication, we can’t serve her on a public school campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myhers and other school district officials met with a local state senator to see if California could do what a handful of other states have already done. \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/r07hCZ6W5Nu4pZghkhLsm?domain=legislature.maine.gov\">Maine\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qVTrC1w95PSz9yGFMa6aR?domain=legiscan.com\">New Jersey \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/XR3_C2k96Qfl9q3FqCwGu?domain=codes.findlaw.com\">Colorado \u003c/a>have all changed state law to require school districts to accommodate students who have medical-marijuana recommendations. They permit a parent, legal guardian, and in some cases a primary caregiver, to administer cannabis medication at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar legislation is pending in \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/L3JnC3197PSAE1KTX1sQY?domain=app.leg.wa.gov\">Washington State\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myhers has started to hear from other California districts with similar dilemmas. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/X5gwC4x9gPs0vN5h6WCzC?domain=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\">state health codes\u003c/a> forbid the practice, as does the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Jg8sC5yWjXSjDm9up_TRE?domain=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\">recent law that governs legal marijuana \u003c/a>for adults. It explicitly states: No cannabis at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those state laws could be modified. But there’s another problem: Federal law bars illegal drugs, marijuana among them, within 1,000 feet of any school or school district building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myhers says if the district violates that federal law, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/YhoJC680k4sOB2msVAUQ5?domain=ifap.ed.gov\">they risk losing millions of dollars in federal funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it turns out, all those other states that have passed school cannabis laws are taking a gamble that the feds won’t come after them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Illinois recently encouraged state officials to consider crafting a similar law after the state attorney general agreed not to prosecute school officials for giving an 11-year-girl her cannabis meds on campus. He gave officials until April to work out a statewide policy or craft state legislation that would apply to other families, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 12-year-old girl who uses medical cannabis for her seizures is among five plaintiffs who are \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/5uIKC73Al2SpJ5NsJWFJI?domain=rollingstone.com\">suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in federal court in New York\u003c/a>. They argue that the Controlled Substances Act, which classifies cannabis as illegal, infringes upon a whole bunch of constitutional rights. There’s a hearing in that longshot case next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether California will act remains to be seen. There’s no bill yet, just a conversation. One thing is clear though: Being able to go to school has been huge for four-year-old Brooke Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Brooke’s School Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, the district’s van driver greets Brooke warmly for the trip across town. She and her nurse arrive at preschool right in time for hugs — and speech therapy in the hall with one of four practitioners who comes to see Brooke every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11644566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11644566\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Adams, 4, gets a hug from a teacher at Humboldt Community Preschool in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, Brooke joins the other kids, for circle time. There’s singing, and imaginary games, followed by snack time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting Brooke into preschool has immersed her in a whole world of other kids. It’s also allowed her mom, Jana Adams, to go back to work as a real estate broker for the first time since Brooke was diagnosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what matters most now for Adams is what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My whole goal is to get her to public school by kindergarten,” she says at her downtown office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no bill yet, just a conversation. But Rogoway, Adams’ attorney, tells me he’ll work behind the scenes to help Adams — and her school district — move legislation forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado’s is called “\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/IExTC829m0uvKVqh3dIoF?domain=denverpost.com\">Jack’s Law\u003c/a>.” New Jersey’s was inspired by a girl named \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Y2ADC9r2nPT3pyqcrmxHi?domain=people.com\">Genny\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would have hour long seizures,” says Adams. “Every time, we’d have to call 911 to have her [taken by] ambulance to the ER, to load her up with all kinds of drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longest lasted three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time she turned one, Brooke was taking a hefty list of prescribed medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First up was Keppra. Next, phenobarbital. Then came Trileptal, eventually swapped out for another. On top of all that, Topamax. Four at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those medicines are meant to prevent seizures, but Adams says they didn’t work for Brooke. As for stopping the seizures once they started — that required another drug, known as a “rescue” medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever they administered it, Adams says, Brooke “would be intubated because her breathing would slow down so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping for another way, Adams connected with a \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/MBGgCW682Xu9W7qcl0KKB?domain=facebook.com\">nationwide community of parents\u003c/a> using cannabis to treat their kids’ seizures. And a local doctor issued Brooke a medical marijuana card when she was just 15 months old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11644564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11644564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29032_IMG_6136-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jana Adams prepares cannabis medication for her daughter, Brooke, 4. It’s a high-CDB tincture supplemented with THC to reduce seizures and THC oil as a “rescue medication” to stop them once they start. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Brooke takes that daily CBD tincture and a rescue drug made of cannabis oil that’s high in THC. (That’s the best-known cannabinoid in the marijuana plant, the one that does get you high.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams says those drops of THC oil dribbled between Brooke’s gums and teeth tend to stop her seizures within three minutes. Her doses come in little vials. Wherever she goes, they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke takes fewer prescription meds now, and her mom says she has fewer seizures. But the main change is that those long ones, known as status seizures, are really infrequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means no more ambulance trips with a breathing tube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her last status seizure was last August,” Adams says, “and before, she was every five weeks to the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drug-Free Schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But placing Brooke in preschool was tough. There’s a federal law — called the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/oGrKCXDM32F5zvKT2pswi?domain=idea.ed.gov\">Individuals with Disabilities Education Act\u003c/a> — which mandates that kids receive a “free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means districts need to make accommodations for kids like Brooke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, before the summer of 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/tHDeCYEM4Nt14RlFlWv-l?domain=rvusd.org\">the Rincon Valley Union School District\u003c/a> told Adams: Those vials of THC oil that are always with Brooke? They’re not allowed at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘here’s all the things that you could have,’” Adams recounts, “’but well, she can’t be on campus so you’ll have to just have her at home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But homeschooling is not what Adams thought was most appropriate for her daughter. And she knew the law. If the district couldn’t accommodate Brooke, they’d have to find another school that would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told the district: “She needs to go to a private school if you can’t have her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district got on board. Adams called dozens of private preschools before she found one that had space and would accept Brooke with her seizures — and cannabis meds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11644565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11644565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29031_IMG_6167-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Adams, 4, cradles the face of Yolanda Brindis, her nurse, on the way to private preschool in Santa Rosa. The Rincon Valley Union School District covers the cost of the private placement, transports her there and provides Brooke’s nurse. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district pays for that placement. And a lot of other accommodations, like speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and adaptive physical education. As well as a one-on-one nurse, Yolanda Brindis, who stays with Brooke all day, riding to and from private preschool with her in a van that the district sends to fetch them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Adams knew her family would soon face a bigger hurdle: getting Brooke into kindergarten this coming fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why we’re pushing to get to Sacramento and get something passed before the fall,” she says, “because I don’t know where her placement will be in the fall if she can’t go to public school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pushing to Change the Law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That “something” is a law, one that would allow Brooke and other kids like her to be in public school with their cannabis medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams hired Joe Rogoway, a cannabis-industry attorney, to help her press for that. And the school district quickly got on board with the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathy Myhers, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services for the Rincon Valley Union School District, can’t discuss the cases of individual students. But she says that, generally, federal law requires her district to offer “free and appropriate” public education to kids who are “identified as children that have special needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet cannabis prohibition prevents that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e feel as though our hands are tied,” Myhers says. “If we can’t provide her that rescue medication, we can’t serve her on a public school campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myhers and other school district officials met with a local state senator to see if California could do what a handful of other states have already done. \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/r07hCZ6W5Nu4pZghkhLsm?domain=legislature.maine.gov\">Maine\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qVTrC1w95PSz9yGFMa6aR?domain=legiscan.com\">New Jersey \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/XR3_C2k96Qfl9q3FqCwGu?domain=codes.findlaw.com\">Colorado \u003c/a>have all changed state law to require school districts to accommodate students who have medical-marijuana recommendations. They permit a parent, legal guardian, and in some cases a primary caregiver, to administer cannabis medication at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar legislation is pending in \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/L3JnC3197PSAE1KTX1sQY?domain=app.leg.wa.gov\">Washington State\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myhers has started to hear from other California districts with similar dilemmas. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/X5gwC4x9gPs0vN5h6WCzC?domain=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\">state health codes\u003c/a> forbid the practice, as does the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Jg8sC5yWjXSjDm9up_TRE?domain=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\">recent law that governs legal marijuana \u003c/a>for adults. It explicitly states: No cannabis at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those state laws could be modified. But there’s another problem: Federal law bars illegal drugs, marijuana among them, within 1,000 feet of any school or school district building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myhers says if the district violates that federal law, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/YhoJC680k4sOB2msVAUQ5?domain=ifap.ed.gov\">they risk losing millions of dollars in federal funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it turns out, all those other states that have passed school cannabis laws are taking a gamble that the feds won’t come after them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Illinois recently encouraged state officials to consider crafting a similar law after the state attorney general agreed not to prosecute school officials for giving an 11-year-girl her cannabis meds on campus. He gave officials until April to work out a statewide policy or craft state legislation that would apply to other families, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 12-year-old girl who uses medical cannabis for her seizures is among five plaintiffs who are \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/5uIKC73Al2SpJ5NsJWFJI?domain=rollingstone.com\">suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in federal court in New York\u003c/a>. They argue that the Controlled Substances Act, which classifies cannabis as illegal, infringes upon a whole bunch of constitutional rights. There’s a hearing in that longshot case next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether California will act remains to be seen. There’s no bill yet, just a conversation. One thing is clear though: Being able to go to school has been huge for four-year-old Brooke Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Brooke’s School Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, the district’s van driver greets Brooke warmly for the trip across town. She and her nurse arrive at preschool right in time for hugs — and speech therapy in the hall with one of four practitioners who comes to see Brooke every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11644566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11644566\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS29033_IMG_6184-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Adams, 4, gets a hug from a teacher at Humboldt Community Preschool in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, Brooke joins the other kids, for circle time. There’s singing, and imaginary games, followed by snack time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting Brooke into preschool has immersed her in a whole world of other kids. It’s also allowed her mom, Jana Adams, to go back to work as a real estate broker for the first time since Brooke was diagnosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what matters most now for Adams is what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My whole goal is to get her to public school by kindergarten,” she says at her downtown office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no bill yet, just a conversation. But Rogoway, Adams’ attorney, tells me he’ll work behind the scenes to help Adams — and her school district — move legislation forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado’s is called “\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/IExTC829m0uvKVqh3dIoF?domain=denverpost.com\">Jack’s Law\u003c/a>.” New Jersey’s was inspired by a girl named \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Y2ADC9r2nPT3pyqcrmxHi?domain=people.com\">Genny\u003c/a>. And Maine’s by young \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/JAs_C0R94PIoLOBhmNfhl?domain=pressherald.com\">Cyndimae\u003c/a>, also diagnosed with Dravet syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe, Rogoway says, if they’re successful in passing legislation that allows students to take their cannabis medication at school, California’s should be called “Brooke’s Law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Kathy Lampi’s mom died of cancer last June, she placed the velvet bag filled with her mom’s ashes on a shelf in her china cabinet. Lampi thought that was a fitting place for her mom to rest until she could plan a proper burial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in October the Wine Country fires reduced Lampi’s two-story Santa Rosa house to 6 inches of rubble. Her mom’s ashes were now mixed in with the ashes of her sofa and front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Well, geez, I better get somebody out here to try and find her,’ ” Lampi said when she thought of the Army Corps of Engineers coming to clear the wreckage from her lot. “I didn’t want her to go to a landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/01/DemboskyAshesFromAshes.mp3\" title=\"Dog Teams Hunt for Human Cremains in Wildfire Wreckage\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28818_Annie-sniffing-rubble-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the archaeologists and forensic search dogs. Alex DeGeorgey and Mike Newland, both archaeology consultants in the North Bay, joined forces with Echo, an English Labrador, and Annie, a Belgian Malinois, from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hhrdd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Canine Forensics\u003c/a>, to look for lost urns and human cremains in the wildfire wreckage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We start imprinting them at a very young age and introducing that target odor,” said Kris Black, Annie’s trainer. “I feed her when she finds what her target source is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, human bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The typical jobs for dogs from the institute have been on Native American tribal lands, looking for lost burial sites. They’ve been on special missions looking for the remains of Amelia Earhart and members of the Donner Party. This fall is the first time these kinds of dogs have been used to recover human ashes from wildfire disaster sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11640939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Echo, an English Labrador, narrows down the search for the ashes of Kathy Lampi’s mother. She died in June, but her cremains were lost in the wildfire in October. \u003ccite>(Thomas Nash/nashpix.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dogs are brought into each wreckage site one at a time. At the remains of Kathy Lampi’s home, Echo, the English Labrador, went first. She sniffed around, her nose gliding over the ground with the speed and grace of an ice skater. When she found what she was looking for, she lay down next to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s my alert,” said Karen Atkinson, Echo’s handler, as Echo rested by the remaining bricks of the front stairway. “So she’s telling me she’s made her decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echo went back to the truck, and Annie, the Belgian Malinois, did the search again from scratch, to try and guard against false positives. She lay down in the same spot Echo picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the dogs have narrowed down the site, the archeologists zero in. DeGeorgey and Newland zipped up their full-body Tyvex suits, grabbed their trowels and started digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking for a pocket of ash that’s homogenous,” DeGeorgey said through a protective face mask. “It’s usually kind of a reddish brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, they find it. A discrete pile of red ash, with bits of bone or teeth in it. But 10 minutes in, DeGeorgey sighed. He said this is one of the hardest recoveries they’ve worked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deal here is, we’re trying to find ashes within ashes,” he said. “It’s not always that definitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11640941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex DeGeorgey (left) and Mike Newland survey the search area of Lampi’s home after the dogs narrowed the location of where Lampi’s mother’s ashes were likely to be found. They use delicate archaeological digging methods to recover the ashes without disturbing them. \u003ccite>(Thomas Nash/nashpix.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the archeologist-canine teams have recovered nearly 50 sets of ashes from the wreckage of the Wine Country fires. But their efforts are all volunteer and they’ve been limited to working on the weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure the scale of this issue is really an epidemic,” DeGeorgey said. “There are hundreds, if not thousands, of cremains in these burnt-out homes that are ending up in toxic waste sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process they’ve developed to identify cremains is new and not part of the cleanup protocol for FEMA or the Army Corps of Engineers. DeGeorgey said it should be. He wants these services to be available to victims of the wildfires in Ventura and San Diego counties, and any future fire, hurricane or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGeorgey said when a disaster happens and people start filling out paperwork associated with insurance claims, one question should be: Did you have human remains in the house? If yes, he said it should trigger the cremains search process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On site, DeGeorgey noticed Newland sweeping a lighter pocket of ash from Kathy Lampi’s stairway into a dustpan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11640942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-375x562.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-520x779.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Lampi and her brother, Bryan Musco, hold the recovered ashes of their mother. She died from cancer in June, and then her ashes were lost when the wildfires burned down Lampi’s home in October. \u003ccite>(Thomas Nash/nashpix.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What Michael’s showing us looks pretty good,” DeGeorgey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of it’s almost a texture thing,” Newland said, rubbing some ash between his fingers. “You can see how finely powdered this is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGeorgey scooped the ash into a gallon-size Ziploc bag. Annie came out for one last sniff around the site and immediately plopped down next to the bag. Kathy and her family cheered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re hired!” DeGeorgey joked, then walked the bag over to Lampi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s your mom,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you very much,” Lampi said. “There she is. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We start imprinting them at a very young age and introducing that target odor,” said Kris Black, Annie’s trainer. “I feed her when she finds what her target source is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, human bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The typical jobs for dogs from the institute have been on Native American tribal lands, looking for lost burial sites. They’ve been on special missions looking for the remains of Amelia Earhart and members of the Donner Party. This fall is the first time these kinds of dogs have been used to recover human ashes from wildfire disaster sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11640939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Echo-at-Kathy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Echo, an English Labrador, narrows down the search for the ashes of Kathy Lampi’s mother. She died in June, but her cremains were lost in the wildfire in October. \u003ccite>(Thomas Nash/nashpix.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dogs are brought into each wreckage site one at a time. At the remains of Kathy Lampi’s home, Echo, the English Labrador, went first. She sniffed around, her nose gliding over the ground with the speed and grace of an ice skater. When she found what she was looking for, she lay down next to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s my alert,” said Karen Atkinson, Echo’s handler, as Echo rested by the remaining bricks of the front stairway. “So she’s telling me she’s made her decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echo went back to the truck, and Annie, the Belgian Malinois, did the search again from scratch, to try and guard against false positives. She lay down in the same spot Echo picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the dogs have narrowed down the site, the archeologists zero in. DeGeorgey and Newland zipped up their full-body Tyvex suits, grabbed their trowels and started digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking for a pocket of ash that’s homogenous,” DeGeorgey said through a protective face mask. “It’s usually kind of a reddish brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, they find it. A discrete pile of red ash, with bits of bone or teeth in it. But 10 minutes in, DeGeorgey sighed. He said this is one of the hardest recoveries they’ve worked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deal here is, we’re trying to find ashes within ashes,” he said. “It’s not always that definitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11640941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Alex-and-Mike-sweeping-steps.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex DeGeorgey (left) and Mike Newland survey the search area of Lampi’s home after the dogs narrowed the location of where Lampi’s mother’s ashes were likely to be found. They use delicate archaeological digging methods to recover the ashes without disturbing them. \u003ccite>(Thomas Nash/nashpix.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the archeologist-canine teams have recovered nearly 50 sets of ashes from the wreckage of the Wine Country fires. But their efforts are all volunteer and they’ve been limited to working on the weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure the scale of this issue is really an epidemic,” DeGeorgey said. “There are hundreds, if not thousands, of cremains in these burnt-out homes that are ending up in toxic waste sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process they’ve developed to identify cremains is new and not part of the cleanup protocol for FEMA or the Army Corps of Engineers. DeGeorgey said it should be. He wants these services to be available to victims of the wildfires in Ventura and San Diego counties, and any future fire, hurricane or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGeorgey said when a disaster happens and people start filling out paperwork associated with insurance claims, one question should be: Did you have human remains in the house? If yes, he said it should trigger the cremains search process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On site, DeGeorgey noticed Newland sweeping a lighter pocket of ash from Kathy Lampi’s stairway into a dustpan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11640942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-375x562.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes-520x779.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Kathy-and-Bryan-with-ashes.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Lampi and her brother, Bryan Musco, hold the recovered ashes of their mother. She died from cancer in June, and then her ashes were lost when the wildfires burned down Lampi’s home in October. \u003ccite>(Thomas Nash/nashpix.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What Michael’s showing us looks pretty good,” DeGeorgey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of it’s almost a texture thing,” Newland said, rubbing some ash between his fingers. “You can see how finely powdered this is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGeorgey scooped the ash into a gallon-size Ziploc bag. Annie came out for one last sniff around the site and immediately plopped down next to the bag. Kathy and her family cheered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re hired!” DeGeorgey joked, then walked the bag over to Lampi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s your mom,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you very much,” Lampi said. “There she is. Wow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lampi tucked the Ziploc bag under her arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to know that she’s been found, and now we can do the right burial for her,” she said. “I think everybody in the family wants to be able to go where she is and be with her.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>What was once a crowded row of houses along Hopper Avenue in Santa Rosa is now a vast dirt plain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in empty lot after empty lot, people have put up Christmas trees. Red ribbons and shimmering silver tinsel defy the apocalyptic landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spirit of Christmas isn’t gone, even though the rest of my neighborhood is gone,” said Louis Pell, as he and his 8-year-old daughter, Lilly, staked a 10-foot noble fir in the spot where their front door used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody here is the happiest they’ve been in months, doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working-class neighborhood of Coffey Park was razed by October’s deadly \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/north-bay-fires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Bay fires\u003c/a>. Pell was born in the house that stood here, and he’s been coming back regularly to visit the ruins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/12/XmasTreeDembosky.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/12/20/LillyAUd.jpg\" Title=\"A Tree Where Our House Once Stood: Christmas Spirit Survives in Santa Rosa\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, a local disaster response team was in the neighborhood handing out free trees and decorations. Community groups have also hung battery-powered Christmas lights, and organized neighborhood Christmas parties, with sleigh rides and Santa visits. They even hauled in a pile of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids were having snowball fights,” said Kadyn Schumann, director for the community and disaster response team. “It was really magical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s not like we can’t ever see our house again. It will always be there. You just can’t see it, but I can feel it.’\u003ccite>8-year-old Lilly Pell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The night the fires broke out in October, flames closed in on Pell’s house from both sides. Lilly and her dad’s girlfriend fled, but her dad stayed behind to help rescue their neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was scary because my dad’s phone was dead,” Lilly remembers. “We didn’t know if he was dead or if he was alive, or if he was hurt or if he wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pell and Lilly have been staying with friends in south Santa Rosa since the fire. Their host put up a tree a couple of weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But this one will be ours,” Pell said, “and she gets to decorate it, which is going to be the fun part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Xmas-tree-truck-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local disaster response groups gave free Christmas trees and decorations to fire victims in Coffey Park. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pell’s neighbor, Wayne Sims from across the street, comes over with a sledgehammer to help secure the tree. Sims’ house and a few next to his survived the fire. But everything he once saw from his front window is gone. Until now, at night, it was pitch black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty eerie for a while because it was just light enough that you could see all these dead trees. It’s like watching a scary movie,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, for us to have some light here makes a huge difference. You can feel that energy. I love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilly hangs one of the glittery blue Christmas balls on a low branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives me happy feelings. I feel like we’re at the staircase again,” she said. “This is where we usually would put our tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pell didn’t have insurance, and he can’t afford to rebuild right now. He’s not sure what they’ll do for Christmas. But at some point, he says, they’ll definitely stop by here to visit the tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me feel like our house is still standing,” Lilly said. “It’s not like we can’t ever see our house again. It will always be there. You just can’t see it but I can feel it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Christmas tree stands in front of a home destroyed by October's fires in Santa Rosa. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SantaRosaTree-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Christmas tree stands in front of a home destroyed by October’s fires in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>With wildfires \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/14/colossal-southern-california-fire-now-4th-largest-in-state-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still raging\u003c/a> across parts of Southern California, dozens of schools have been closed. Many will stay that way until the new year. That gives educators valuable time to think about what they can do, when school resumes, to help students who have been traumatized by these fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One answer can be found a few hundred miles north, in Santa Rosa. In late October, students there returned to class after three weeks away. A massive wildfire had swept through the city of 175,000 and the surrounding county, killing at least 22 people and destroying or damaging at least 5,500 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”X9s6qAuDuuRDhp4WjSfIXGWwmZfxkYhU”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> took the homes of many students at Northwest Prep Charter School, a small secondary school in northwestern Santa Rosa. Given the trauma their community had just experienced, teachers knew they couldn’t dive right back into algebra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day back, all 75 students at Northwest Prep gathered in a community circle and spoke about the fire’s impact on their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think every one of the students who lost a home spoke during that discussion, which we didn’t expect,” says Jessica Hadid, the language and communication teacher there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those kids was 12-year-old Clark Howe. The seventh-grader remembers Oct. 9 clearly: He woke up to a chaotic scene around 1:30 a.m. His dad told him they needed to leave right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Nothing was left. Everybody lost something.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clark grabbed some of his things and rounded up the family dogs. After picking up a neighbor who couldn’t drive, his family headed out onto the packed roads, full of other people evacuating their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all really nervous. There were just cars everywhere, people driving on the wrong side of the road, fires starting on lawns,” Clark says. “We were all just really scared for what could happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his family made it to safety, but their home, located in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood, was completely destroyed. They lost some of their most prized possessions: a classic Mustang in the garage, some favorite stuffed animals left behind in Clark’s bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing was left,” Clark says. “Everybody lost something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view shows the devastation of the Coffey Park neighborhood after the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-960x608.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-375x238.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows the devastation of the Coffey Park neighborhood after the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California National Guard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before returning to school, Northwest Prep’s teaching staff received trauma-based training to help students cope with the aftermath of the fires. But the teachers also wanted to do something in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized we needed to do something, as a school, to help our students and really our whole community process what we’d all been through,” says Alyssa Dossat, a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”03oVDL7rz1YmZLhdOyE5KxVEgZzMGNla”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was evacuated from her own home, Dossat took her kids to a museum. Her 7-year-old was looking at an exhibit about earthquakes that struck California in 1906 and 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was reading it going, ‘Mom, who, who wrote this? Who are these quotes from?’ ” Dossat says. “I said, ‘They’re just from people, sweetie, that’s how it works. That’s how we record history that way.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment, Dossat had an idea: This could be done in her school. An oral history assignment was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the project, Northwest Prep students will use their smartphones and tablets to record stories from the Tubbs Fire and its impact on the Santa Rosa community. From there, students will curate and archive the firsthand accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”HK6RVMjpfOan8wSEsC3chFPbsFeNJHI7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has brought the community together, says Adam Napoleon, a social systems teacher. He hopes the project will go beyond storytelling and provide a “sense of healing” to both the students and their interviewees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can provide not only this historical record, but this emotional healing aspect that a lot of people in our community need right now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Clark was eager to get back to school and be with his friends — many of whom also lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he returned, he sometimes found it hard to talk about the fire and remember all that was lost. But, Clark says, it has also been really helpful to talk about it — and he can’t believe the support he has received from his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family received many donations and has since been able to relocate to an apartment building. They plan to rebuild their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Howe family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Howe family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michelle Howe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, Clark’s family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not struggling very much anymore. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With wildfires \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/14/colossal-southern-california-fire-now-4th-largest-in-state-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still raging\u003c/a> across parts of Southern California, dozens of schools have been closed. Many will stay that way until the new year. That gives educators valuable time to think about what they can do, when school resumes, to help students who have been traumatized by these fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One answer can be found a few hundred miles north, in Santa Rosa. In late October, students there returned to class after three weeks away. A massive wildfire had swept through the city of 175,000 and the surrounding county, killing at least 22 people and destroying or damaging at least 5,500 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> took the homes of many students at Northwest Prep Charter School, a small secondary school in northwestern Santa Rosa. Given the trauma their community had just experienced, teachers knew they couldn’t dive right back into algebra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day back, all 75 students at Northwest Prep gathered in a community circle and spoke about the fire’s impact on their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think every one of the students who lost a home spoke during that discussion, which we didn’t expect,” says Jessica Hadid, the language and communication teacher there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those kids was 12-year-old Clark Howe. The seventh-grader remembers Oct. 9 clearly: He woke up to a chaotic scene around 1:30 a.m. His dad told him they needed to leave right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Nothing was left. Everybody lost something.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clark grabbed some of his things and rounded up the family dogs. After picking up a neighbor who couldn’t drive, his family headed out onto the packed roads, full of other people evacuating their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all really nervous. There were just cars everywhere, people driving on the wrong side of the road, fires starting on lawns,” Clark says. “We were all just really scared for what could happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his family made it to safety, but their home, located in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood, was completely destroyed. They lost some of their most prized possessions: a classic Mustang in the garage, some favorite stuffed animals left behind in Clark’s bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing was left,” Clark says. “Everybody lost something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view shows the devastation of the Coffey Park neighborhood after the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-960x608.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-375x238.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows the devastation of the Coffey Park neighborhood after the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California National Guard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before returning to school, Northwest Prep’s teaching staff received trauma-based training to help students cope with the aftermath of the fires. But the teachers also wanted to do something in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized we needed to do something, as a school, to help our students and really our whole community process what we’d all been through,” says Alyssa Dossat, a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was evacuated from her own home, Dossat took her kids to a museum. Her 7-year-old was looking at an exhibit about earthquakes that struck California in 1906 and 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was reading it going, ‘Mom, who, who wrote this? Who are these quotes from?’ ” Dossat says. “I said, ‘They’re just from people, sweetie, that’s how it works. That’s how we record history that way.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment, Dossat had an idea: This could be done in her school. An oral history assignment was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the project, Northwest Prep students will use their smartphones and tablets to record stories from the Tubbs Fire and its impact on the Santa Rosa community. From there, students will curate and archive the firsthand accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has brought the community together, says Adam Napoleon, a social systems teacher. He hopes the project will go beyond storytelling and provide a “sense of healing” to both the students and their interviewees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can provide not only this historical record, but this emotional healing aspect that a lot of people in our community need right now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Clark was eager to get back to school and be with his friends — many of whom also lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he returned, he sometimes found it hard to talk about the fire and remember all that was lost. But, Clark says, it has also been really helpful to talk about it — and he can’t believe the support he has received from his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family received many donations and has since been able to relocate to an apartment building. They plan to rebuild their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Howe family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Howe family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michelle Howe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, Clark’s family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not struggling very much anymore. 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"content": "\u003cp>For the 120 students at Santa Rosa’s Anova Center for Education, the past two months have been tough. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire that raged through wine country \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/12/fire-destroys-santa-rosa-school-for-students-with-autism/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">burned the school down\u003c/a>, and nine families lost their houses, too. This school for high-functioning kids with autism was a home away from home for them. One 12-year-old boy takes us on the journey to recovery, for him and his school. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unsettled\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a mid-October morning, not long after the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and school, Jaco Sodhi sits down to play the piano at the Santa Rosa home of family friends. He, his twin sister, and his parents are staying here – for now. It’s the fourth place they’ve landed since the disaster upended their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635595\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s playing from memory because all his sheet music burned. His dad, Raj Sodhi, helps him work through a piece of music. It helps them feel a little bit normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family had to evacuate their own home not far from here in the early hours of October 9. Jaco’s dad, who plays jazz, loaded his double bass into the family minivan. His mom, Lucia Cascio, a portrait photographer, grabbed her camera bag. And his sister, Sofia, managed to take her trombone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jaco ran out of time. He left without much besides his Star Wars shirt — the one that’s got Darth Vader on it playing baseball with a light saber. He says it all happened too fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”8UGsw3iGUvWTEZrO2PooVKZzB2GHR3h9″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sister said, ‘We are evacuating, Jaco, just get out of your dang bed’ — yeah my sister was cruel that way — and I was able to grab, literally my toothbrush, toothpaste and only one pair of clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s pretty unhappy about that. The family thought they were just being cautious, that they’d be able to return soon. But their house, and everything in it, burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could have grabbed more,” Jaco says, “I probably would have grabbed all my fencing gear, which costs like hundreds of dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s got big brown eyes, braces and a very rational mind. He was diagnosed with autism when he was three-and-a-half years old. Kids on the autism spectrum don’t tend to do well with big changes — and a lot is up in the air for him right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635597\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He puts on a good face, but he’s clearly struggling with his feelings. He talks about riding an imaginary lion into his devastated neighborhood — to chase off looters. And he tells his mom — three times — how mad he is “that I was able to grab, basically nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rental housing market here is so tight that Jaco’s parents have even been talking about leaving the county. Jaco says “necessity beats friends” so he’ll go if he has to. But his mom says the upheaval is taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She explains how low he seemed after two recent tours of other schools for autistic kids in San Mateo and Contra Costa counties, saying the thought of changing was “heavy for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco interrupts. “We’re probably not gonna change schools,” he asks, “are we?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio tries to soothe him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying really hard to stay here, right?” she says. “That’s what mommy and daddy are trying really hard to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Got it,” Jaco says, sighing heavily. “That’s what I was just waiting to hear, that we’re actually trying to stay and we’re not just trying to move away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand just how hard this is, it helps to know what things were like for Jaco before Anova. He spent kindergarten, first and second grades at a public school, but he struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio says there were instances when Jaco was aggressive with his peers, “pulling down the shelves in the library where they were trying to keep him away from the other kids, and it was just getting worse and worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole time, she and her husband were pushing to find the right classroom environment and behavior plan for him at his public school, but Jaco started having suicidal thoughts. And his outbursts were regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia, Jaco’s sister, says it was hard to see how misunderstood he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco and Sofia Sodhi, who are twins, relax on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kids would approach her, “not as Sofia but, like, ‘You’re Jaco’s sister,” she says. “‘You’re the one who’s related to the guy that pulled my hair’ or something. It’s like: No! He’s Jaco. He’s not just a hair-puller. He can learn stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jaco got to Anova, everything changed. He speaks softly when he talks about it, gazing down at the table. It’s clearly painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t treating me as if I was a bad person,” he says, “for like the first time in a while … It hasn’t happened in a while for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova’s students come from as far as 80 miles away. Like Jaco, most are referred by their public school districts, which cover the costs. When Jaco got in, he skipped a grade. And his outbursts? They dwindled to almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can leave class whenever they need a break. There are quiet rooms for calming down, rooms where they can jump on a trampoline or swing, to help stimulate their vestibular systems. Plus, counselors to talk to. And there’s a therapy dog, named Larry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco loves his Larry breaks. Sometimes, he grabs some of Larry’s toys and plays with him. He gives him belly rubs. And he likes to “just flop his ears around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time he just sleeps on his bed,” Jaco adds, “which hopefully wasn’t, which probably might have been burned in the fire.” He pauses. “Hopefully wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding Temporary Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andrew Bailey is Anova’s CEO and director of educational services. He also co-founded the school 17 years ago. As a therapist, he had come to realize that high-functioning kids with autism, the ones who often test at grade level, were falling through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us really started understanding that the students like the ones we serve are not misbehaving because they’re bad or manipulative, and that is a game-changer for our students,” he says in an interview at the school’s administrative offices, which didn’t burn. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re understood and they’re addressed with sensory sensitivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Bailey, Anova Center for Education’s CEO and co-founder, surveys the charred remains of his Santa Rosa school, which serves high-functioning kids with autism. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bailey knows that sensitivity will be more important than ever when classes start up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do understand the dangers in life,” he says, so when something like a fire comes along, the stresses in the students’ lives become exacerbated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s therapists know all that, and when school gets back in session, Bailey says, they’ll be ready to help students like Jaco assess how they’re feeling and calm down using techniques such as “breathing and imagination and rationalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova was able to lease extra space in its administrative building, and a suite of rooms in a new wing is buzzing with teachers and therapists finishing lesson plans and ordering supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anova Center for Education found temporary space for its students in three separate locations. Jaco’s class is here, in borrowed rooms at a Healdsburg Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The older students will come here. The rest will be split between two other schools in the county with classrooms to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s team of therapists will split up too, so each site will be staffed all day. The only rover will be Larry, the golden retriever Labrador mix. He’ll make his rounds with Principal Heidi Adler. And yes, his bed did burn. But he seems to be doing ok. He sits on his hind legs and gives Bailey a hug. Then, on command, he speaks and executes a perfect twirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School Starts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just before Halloween, school starts up again. Jaco’s class and two others are in borrowed space in Healdsburg for now. A counselor spent the morning talking to students about what they’ve been through. Now they’re making art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few kids listen to music on headphones. One hums. Jaco sits near the front of the classroom, drawing a picture of a dog that looks a lot like his. She’s been staying with a pet sitter since the fire, and Jaco really misses her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova staff tried to replicate the students’ old classroom as much as possible, down to the posters on the wall and the type of box that holds the headphones. All the Chromebooks and textbooks, every single pencil and paper folder, everything had to be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, the kids mill around in the unfamiliar parking lot, waiting for a ride home. Jaco’s teacher, Alicia Honn, says the new space is an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had more tables in the back so they could spread out, and a nice library, and the nook in the back with big bean-bag chairs,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for these kids with autism, just getting back to routine is a huge relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could just feel the positivity from all of them, just seeing their friends and seeing their teachers,” she says, “and just being like, ‘ahhhhhh, normalcy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A New Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco Sodhi plays video games in early December at his newly-rented house, in Healdsburg, not far from his temporary school. On Oct. 9, the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and his school, the Anova Center for Education, both in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a stroke of luck, Jaco’s family finds a rental house through a friend. And it happens to be in Healdsburg, just a few miles from Jaco’s temporary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia celebrate their 12th birthdays there in mid-November. By early December, they’re just starting to get settled. The kids have new beds. And the landlord has loaned the family some furniture, a big TV, and plenty of games. Jaco’s playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed when his father Raj Sodhi tells him his screen time is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nooooooooooo,” he protests, before helping to set the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia show off the library of books – also on temporary loan from the landlord. But it’s been hard to settle into a new routine. Jaco’s mom and dad have longer commutes now, because their old office was smoke damaged. They’re overwhelmed with fire recovery: meeting with builders, dealing with insurance, hunting for a new car to replace the burned one. With so little time, they had to cancel Jaco’s weekly meetings with an outside psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over dinner, Jaco says he’s warmed up to his temporary school. He likes the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may not be playing there much longer. Anova could reopen at the old location as soon as next month — in portable classrooms, while the school awaits a full rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some things in Jaco’s life are already back to normal – like old-fashioned twin rivalry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ogling a shelf full of video games, Jaco boasts that he’s the only one in the house who knows how to work the home entertainment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not anymore,” Sofia practically yells with happy defiance. “I figured it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait, what?” Jaco stammers, foiled. “Do you even know how, you know how to turn on the TV?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her yes leaves him deflated. But then he’s on to the next thing, chattering away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally aired on KALW’s \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/after-fires-north-bay-school-autistic-children-seeks-new-normal#stream/0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crosscurrents\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the 120 students at Santa Rosa’s Anova Center for Education, the past two months have been tough. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire that raged through wine country \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/12/fire-destroys-santa-rosa-school-for-students-with-autism/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">burned the school down\u003c/a>, and nine families lost their houses, too. This school for high-functioning kids with autism was a home away from home for them. One 12-year-old boy takes us on the journey to recovery, for him and his school. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unsettled\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a mid-October morning, not long after the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and school, Jaco Sodhi sits down to play the piano at the Santa Rosa home of family friends. He, his twin sister, and his parents are staying here – for now. It’s the fourth place they’ve landed since the disaster upended their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635595\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s playing from memory because all his sheet music burned. His dad, Raj Sodhi, helps him work through a piece of music. It helps them feel a little bit normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family had to evacuate their own home not far from here in the early hours of October 9. Jaco’s dad, who plays jazz, loaded his double bass into the family minivan. His mom, Lucia Cascio, a portrait photographer, grabbed her camera bag. And his sister, Sofia, managed to take her trombone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jaco ran out of time. He left without much besides his Star Wars shirt — the one that’s got Darth Vader on it playing baseball with a light saber. He says it all happened too fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sister said, ‘We are evacuating, Jaco, just get out of your dang bed’ — yeah my sister was cruel that way — and I was able to grab, literally my toothbrush, toothpaste and only one pair of clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s pretty unhappy about that. The family thought they were just being cautious, that they’d be able to return soon. But their house, and everything in it, burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could have grabbed more,” Jaco says, “I probably would have grabbed all my fencing gear, which costs like hundreds of dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s got big brown eyes, braces and a very rational mind. He was diagnosed with autism when he was three-and-a-half years old. Kids on the autism spectrum don’t tend to do well with big changes — and a lot is up in the air for him right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635597\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He puts on a good face, but he’s clearly struggling with his feelings. He talks about riding an imaginary lion into his devastated neighborhood — to chase off looters. And he tells his mom — three times — how mad he is “that I was able to grab, basically nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rental housing market here is so tight that Jaco’s parents have even been talking about leaving the county. Jaco says “necessity beats friends” so he’ll go if he has to. But his mom says the upheaval is taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She explains how low he seemed after two recent tours of other schools for autistic kids in San Mateo and Contra Costa counties, saying the thought of changing was “heavy for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco interrupts. “We’re probably not gonna change schools,” he asks, “are we?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio tries to soothe him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying really hard to stay here, right?” she says. “That’s what mommy and daddy are trying really hard to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Got it,” Jaco says, sighing heavily. “That’s what I was just waiting to hear, that we’re actually trying to stay and we’re not just trying to move away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand just how hard this is, it helps to know what things were like for Jaco before Anova. He spent kindergarten, first and second grades at a public school, but he struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio says there were instances when Jaco was aggressive with his peers, “pulling down the shelves in the library where they were trying to keep him away from the other kids, and it was just getting worse and worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole time, she and her husband were pushing to find the right classroom environment and behavior plan for him at his public school, but Jaco started having suicidal thoughts. And his outbursts were regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia, Jaco’s sister, says it was hard to see how misunderstood he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco and Sofia Sodhi, who are twins, relax on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kids would approach her, “not as Sofia but, like, ‘You’re Jaco’s sister,” she says. “‘You’re the one who’s related to the guy that pulled my hair’ or something. It’s like: No! He’s Jaco. He’s not just a hair-puller. He can learn stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jaco got to Anova, everything changed. He speaks softly when he talks about it, gazing down at the table. It’s clearly painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t treating me as if I was a bad person,” he says, “for like the first time in a while … It hasn’t happened in a while for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova’s students come from as far as 80 miles away. Like Jaco, most are referred by their public school districts, which cover the costs. When Jaco got in, he skipped a grade. And his outbursts? They dwindled to almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can leave class whenever they need a break. There are quiet rooms for calming down, rooms where they can jump on a trampoline or swing, to help stimulate their vestibular systems. Plus, counselors to talk to. And there’s a therapy dog, named Larry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco loves his Larry breaks. Sometimes, he grabs some of Larry’s toys and plays with him. He gives him belly rubs. And he likes to “just flop his ears around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time he just sleeps on his bed,” Jaco adds, “which hopefully wasn’t, which probably might have been burned in the fire.” He pauses. “Hopefully wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding Temporary Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andrew Bailey is Anova’s CEO and director of educational services. He also co-founded the school 17 years ago. As a therapist, he had come to realize that high-functioning kids with autism, the ones who often test at grade level, were falling through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us really started understanding that the students like the ones we serve are not misbehaving because they’re bad or manipulative, and that is a game-changer for our students,” he says in an interview at the school’s administrative offices, which didn’t burn. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re understood and they’re addressed with sensory sensitivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Bailey, Anova Center for Education’s CEO and co-founder, surveys the charred remains of his Santa Rosa school, which serves high-functioning kids with autism. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bailey knows that sensitivity will be more important than ever when classes start up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do understand the dangers in life,” he says, so when something like a fire comes along, the stresses in the students’ lives become exacerbated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s therapists know all that, and when school gets back in session, Bailey says, they’ll be ready to help students like Jaco assess how they’re feeling and calm down using techniques such as “breathing and imagination and rationalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova was able to lease extra space in its administrative building, and a suite of rooms in a new wing is buzzing with teachers and therapists finishing lesson plans and ordering supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anova Center for Education found temporary space for its students in three separate locations. Jaco’s class is here, in borrowed rooms at a Healdsburg Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The older students will come here. The rest will be split between two other schools in the county with classrooms to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s team of therapists will split up too, so each site will be staffed all day. The only rover will be Larry, the golden retriever Labrador mix. He’ll make his rounds with Principal Heidi Adler. And yes, his bed did burn. But he seems to be doing ok. He sits on his hind legs and gives Bailey a hug. Then, on command, he speaks and executes a perfect twirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School Starts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just before Halloween, school starts up again. Jaco’s class and two others are in borrowed space in Healdsburg for now. A counselor spent the morning talking to students about what they’ve been through. Now they’re making art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few kids listen to music on headphones. One hums. Jaco sits near the front of the classroom, drawing a picture of a dog that looks a lot like his. She’s been staying with a pet sitter since the fire, and Jaco really misses her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova staff tried to replicate the students’ old classroom as much as possible, down to the posters on the wall and the type of box that holds the headphones. All the Chromebooks and textbooks, every single pencil and paper folder, everything had to be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, the kids mill around in the unfamiliar parking lot, waiting for a ride home. Jaco’s teacher, Alicia Honn, says the new space is an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had more tables in the back so they could spread out, and a nice library, and the nook in the back with big bean-bag chairs,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for these kids with autism, just getting back to routine is a huge relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could just feel the positivity from all of them, just seeing their friends and seeing their teachers,” she says, “and just being like, ‘ahhhhhh, normalcy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A New Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco Sodhi plays video games in early December at his newly-rented house, in Healdsburg, not far from his temporary school. On Oct. 9, the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and his school, the Anova Center for Education, both in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a stroke of luck, Jaco’s family finds a rental house through a friend. And it happens to be in Healdsburg, just a few miles from Jaco’s temporary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia celebrate their 12th birthdays there in mid-November. By early December, they’re just starting to get settled. The kids have new beds. And the landlord has loaned the family some furniture, a big TV, and plenty of games. Jaco’s playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed when his father Raj Sodhi tells him his screen time is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nooooooooooo,” he protests, before helping to set the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia show off the library of books – also on temporary loan from the landlord. But it’s been hard to settle into a new routine. Jaco’s mom and dad have longer commutes now, because their old office was smoke damaged. They’re overwhelmed with fire recovery: meeting with builders, dealing with insurance, hunting for a new car to replace the burned one. With so little time, they had to cancel Jaco’s weekly meetings with an outside psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over dinner, Jaco says he’s warmed up to his temporary school. He likes the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may not be playing there much longer. Anova could reopen at the old location as soon as next month — in portable classrooms, while the school awaits a full rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some things in Jaco’s life are already back to normal – like old-fashioned twin rivalry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ogling a shelf full of video games, Jaco boasts that he’s the only one in the house who knows how to work the home entertainment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not anymore,” Sofia practically yells with happy defiance. “I figured it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait, what?” Jaco stammers, foiled. “Do you even know how, you know how to turn on the TV?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her yes leaves him deflated. But then he’s on to the next thing, chattering away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ate the night of Oct. 8, Jean Schulz got a call from a neighbor on the northeast outskirts of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to leave,” the neighbor told the wife of the late “Peanuts” creator, Charles M. Schulz, because of a fire on Mark West Springs Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I thought, ‘Well, Mark West Springs Road is a long way away,’ ” Schulz said in an interview last week at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa. She pulled on sweatpants, a sweatshirt and tennis shoes and got ready to depart. She didn’t think she’d be gone for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually looked at my wedding rings and thought, ‘Oh, I’ll come back for them.’ I absolutely didn’t think anything was going to happen,” Schulz said. Though she didn’t see flames when she left, the gusting breeze from the northeast got her attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought to myself, ‘That’s the sort of wind someone in Hollywood would create if they wanted to signal a disaster was about to take place,'” Schulz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/11/SchulzHome2way.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final.jpg\" Title=\"Trying to Bring a Measure of Joy to Community Devastated by Wildfires\" program=\"News Fix\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schulz spent the next few hours gathering with others who had been uprooted from their homes in the middle of the night — first in a church parking lot about a mile away, then relocating as the fire moved into Santa Rosa proper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I began to hear how much destruction there was, that the fire had leaped the freeway,” she said. “I thought that was impossible — six lanes of freeway? How can that happen? How can that be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Schulz says, she maintained some hope — she refers to it as “a bubble of naïveté” — that her home had been spared. It hadn’t been, and “Peanuts” fans around the world expressed sadness at the home’s destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s concern has been touching — concern for Charlie Brown’s house,” Schulz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11623195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Good Grief by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An October 2017 cartoon by KQED’s Mark Fiore reacted to news that the home of Jean Schulz and her late husband, ‘Peanuts’ cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, had been destroyed in North Bay fires.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even so, Schulz put off talking publicly about the fire and its aftermath until there was some sort of “good news” story to tell. That story, for her, revolves around the Schulz Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house fire destroyed some items associated with Schulz’s career, including a drawing table he occasionally used. But the bulk of the cartoonist’s artistic legacy was housed at the museum, which opened two years after his death in February 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which Cal Fire named the Tubbs Fire, burned more than 4,600 homes and about 100 commercial buildings in and around Santa Rosa. At one point, the fire burned to within a mile of the museum. The facility was closed, first because of evacuations in the area and then so workers could clean up the effects of smoke that had infiltrated the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in as soon as they could, took everything off the walls and put it in safe storage,” Schulz says. Air scrubbers were installed. The air-conditioning system needed to be cleaned. Every level surface — floors, rugs, furniture and upholstery — had to be vacuumed and washed. Finally, the facility reopened Nov. 4, with a free day for the community staged a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schulz, who serves as the president of the museum’s board of directors, says the free day was intended as a gesture to help her traumatized community recover. The museum hired professional photographers to take pictures of visitors in various “Peanuts” settings or with characters from the strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people said, ‘This is our first family picture — we lost all our pictures, and this is our first fun day since the fires happened,'” Schulz said. “It makes me feel good that the museum can bring some happiness, even in a tragedy, with something as simple as a photograph.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a more personal good news story for Schulz in the fire’s aftermath, too. Returning to the ruins of her home with someone experienced in searching burned buildings, she hunted for the wedding rings she’d left behind on a bathroom counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The funny thing was they were in a small, 5-inch ashtray or something from Paris — I think from Maxim’s,” Schulz said. “That survived. The rings were there, and I could actually put them on.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schulz spent the next few hours gathering with others who had been uprooted from their homes in the middle of the night — first in a church parking lot about a mile away, then relocating as the fire moved into Santa Rosa proper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I began to hear how much destruction there was, that the fire had leaped the freeway,” she said. “I thought that was impossible — six lanes of freeway? How can that happen? How can that be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Schulz says, she maintained some hope — she refers to it as “a bubble of naïveté” — that her home had been spared. It hadn’t been, and “Peanuts” fans around the world expressed sadness at the home’s destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s concern has been touching — concern for Charlie Brown’s house,” Schulz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11623195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Good Grief by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/schulz_101317_final-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An October 2017 cartoon by KQED’s Mark Fiore reacted to news that the home of Jean Schulz and her late husband, ‘Peanuts’ cartoonist Charles M. 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The facility was closed, first because of evacuations in the area and then so workers could clean up the effects of smoke that had infiltrated the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in as soon as they could, took everything off the walls and put it in safe storage,” Schulz says. Air scrubbers were installed. The air-conditioning system needed to be cleaned. Every level surface — floors, rugs, furniture and upholstery — had to be vacuumed and washed. Finally, the facility reopened Nov. 4, with a free day for the community staged a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schulz, who serves as the president of the museum’s board of directors, says the free day was intended as a gesture to help her traumatized community recover. The museum hired professional photographers to take pictures of visitors in various “Peanuts” settings or with characters from the strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people said, ‘This is our first family picture — we lost all our pictures, and this is our first fun day since the fires happened,'” Schulz said. “It makes me feel good that the museum can bring some happiness, even in a tragedy, with something as simple as a photograph.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a more personal good news story for Schulz in the fire’s aftermath, too. Returning to the ruins of her home with someone experienced in searching burned buildings, she hunted for the wedding rings she’d left behind on a bathroom counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The funny thing was they were in a small, 5-inch ashtray or something from Paris — I think from Maxim’s,” Schulz said. “That survived. The rings were there, and I could actually put them on.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The following was originally published as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SantaRosaPoliceDepartment/posts/1333721786750348:0\">a Facebook post on the Santa Rosa Police Department’s page\u003c/a>, and was expanded in \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/homeland-security/the-fires-of-october-7798c6d3e299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a post on Medium\u003c/a>. It is republished here with permission from police Capt. Craig Schwartz.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening of Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, started off as a pretty normal night, with the exception of the wind. It was howling, making it hard to sleep with the noise of trees blowing and things banging into my house in northeast Santa Rosa. I would later learn that the record-setting winds that night were blowing at 50 mph, with gusts near 70 mph around my city. At the highest peaks north of town the sustained winds blew at a hurricane force of 84 mph, with gusts around 100 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 15 minutes before 10 p.m. that night, a fire started near Tubbs Lane outside the town of Calistoga, 12 miles northeast of Santa Rosa. The strong, dry winds blew the fires at us with shocking speed, and within four hours much of the city was on fire. Before the night ended at least 19 people had died and over 5,100 structures were reduced to ash. Over 3,000 homes were lost in the city of Santa Rosa alone in a matter of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11632761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_HxT8w5SiQprTypX8gBHY_w-520x346.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Coffey Park looking to the northeast, from where the fire came. Over 1,000 homes were destroyed in this neighborhood alone. \u003ccite>(Santa Rosa Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are many stories to tell from the morning of Oct. 9. Tales of tragedy and heroism, lives lost and many more lives saved. I served as the Operations Section Chief in the city’s emergency operations center that night and in the days to come, and I can tell you that it was the most traumatic and terrifying night of my 25-year career, even though I was in no danger myself. Listening to my officers’ radio traffic about the rescues they were carrying out across wide swaths of northern Santa Rosa had me convinced that hundreds of people, including some of our officers, would not survive the night. The fire was just coming too fast in the middle of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My wife had evacuated our house as the fire approached from nearby Calistoga Road, and for the first time in my career I was working an incident in which my own home and family were threatened. Many of our employees faced far worse and actually lost their homes that night. Even so, they showed up and went to work protecting others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632760\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_68c-aK3bE9nieEWCyx0KWg.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11632760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_68c-aK3bE9nieEWCyx0KWg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_68c-aK3bE9nieEWCyx0KWg.jpeg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_68c-aK3bE9nieEWCyx0KWg-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_68c-aK3bE9nieEWCyx0KWg-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_68c-aK3bE9nieEWCyx0KWg-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1_68c-aK3bE9nieEWCyx0KWg-520x693.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sky behind my house at 3 a.m. on Oct. 9, 2017. It survived, bringing feelings of gratitude and guilt. \u003ccite>(Craig Schwartz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The heroism on display from police officers, firefighters, sheriff’s deputies, bus drivers, residents and many others was amazing to witness. Every one was a first responder that night, and many of our citizens went above and beyond to protect their friends, family and neighbors. I believe it is because of these extraordinary efforts that so many were saved. The stories from that night deserve to be told, and this first recounting brings you just a small portion of the events of Oct. 8 and 9 by telling of the actions of a few of the Santa Rosa police officers who were on duty or came in to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Andy Adams is a Santa Rosa patrol officer who was working the swing shift the night of the fires, and began evacuating people from the area of Skyfarm and St. Andrews drives about 11:30 p.m. As he tells it, the fire moved so quickly that it engulfed the area where he and Officer Eric St. Germain were driving. As they worked to evacuate residents, they found a woman, who lived in the 3900 block of St. Andrews Drive, trying to escape the firestorm. They told her to follow them out by driving her car between their patrol cars. The fire was blowing across the road in their path, however, and they had to turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoke was so thick that it was nearly impossible to see, and the woman ran into the curb on one side of the road and then the other. Officer Adams passed her and led the way out by driving with the reflective center-line markers between his tires. Even then, a burning tree had fallen across the road and almost prevented their escape. The two officers got the woman out of harm’s way, then went back into the fire to rescue more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">They got to the bottom of the hill and jumped out, quickly grabbing the computer, rifle and shotgun, before the car was completely engulfed in flames.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the 3700 block of Skyfarm Drive, Officer Adams and Officer Dave Pedersen found several people at a house down a long driveway. The first man they encountered there said he couldn’t get out, so they told him to get in Officer Pedersen’s car. The man said his family was inside but they couldn’t get out because the power was out and the garage door wouldn’t open. Officer Adams ran into the house, popped the emergency release on the garage door and opened it so the family could escape in their own car. The officers continued their work and evacuated residents from the Hopper Lane Apartments and Coffey Park once the fire had jumped Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one home on Keoke Court, Officer Adams, Officer St. Germain and others carried a number of wheelchair-bound elderly residents to their patrol cars as “fire whirls,” or tornados of burning embers, blew around them. Near the end of what would have been Officer Adams’ 12½-hour shift his radio battery died and he had to go back to the police department for a replacement, where he met up with Sgt. Pehlke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steve Pehlke was not supposed to work that night, but came in at about 3 a.m. when he got the call about the firestorm. He met Officer Adams at the Police Department and, since patrol cars were getting scarce, they paired up to rescue more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first call together was to the Varenna Senior Living Apartments. As they drove up Fountaingrove Parkway, the fire had burned many of the buildings in the area and was burning within feet of the road. They had to dodge burning trees that had blown down in the heavy winds and blocked the road. When they got to Varenna they found a woman trying to evacuate her mother from a building that was already on fire. They found dozens of elderly residents in the lobby of the smoke-filled building and, along with other officers, checked the building for any other people. The heroic woman they had encountered loaded four or five of the residents into her car, while Sgt. Pehlke and Officer Adams were able to get more officers and city buses there to evacuate the rest of the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”mTpXqhGUCYU5o1DAJNOULmsjfL8STbdR”]After completing those rescues, they had to help rescue an elderly woman who was trapped in a motel room near the bottom of Fountaingrove Parkway, and then were sent back to Varenna and eventually to an address on Tall Pine Circle. A woman had called 911 to say she had evacuated her house there, but her husband was trapped inside and the house was on fire. Sgt. Pehlke and Officer Adams found the whole neighborhood engulfed in flames, with fire a mere 3 to 4 feet from their patrol car as they drove in. They got to the house in question, and although all the houses around it were burning, it had not yet caught fire. They found the elderly man in his bedroom and walked him to their patrol car as burning embers blew all around them. Sgt. 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Pehlke snapped the photo shown at the top of this story about 30 seconds after he and Andy Adams got out of the burning car. This is the kind of extraordinary work that we saw over and over during the fires of October. We look forward to sharing more of these stories with you, and invite you to share your stories with us. As I said, people looking out for their friends, family and neighbors showed incredible selflessness and heroism. Their stories should be told as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For an idea of what people in the path of the fire faced that night, you can see this video released by the Berkeley Fire Department:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCNSDk7fyYE&t=2s\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The following was originally published as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SantaRosaPoliceDepartment/posts/1333721786750348:0\">a Facebook post on the Santa Rosa Police Department’s page\u003c/a>, and was expanded in \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/homeland-security/the-fires-of-october-7798c6d3e299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a post on Medium\u003c/a>. It is republished here with permission from police Capt. Craig Schwartz.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening of Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, started off as a pretty normal night, with the exception of the wind. It was howling, making it hard to sleep with the noise of trees blowing and things banging into my house in northeast Santa Rosa. I would later learn that the record-setting winds that night were blowing at 50 mph, with gusts near 70 mph around my city. 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Over 1,000 homes were destroyed in this neighborhood alone. \u003ccite>(Santa Rosa Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are many stories to tell from the morning of Oct. 9. Tales of tragedy and heroism, lives lost and many more lives saved. I served as the Operations Section Chief in the city’s emergency operations center that night and in the days to come, and I can tell you that it was the most traumatic and terrifying night of my 25-year career, even though I was in no danger myself. Listening to my officers’ radio traffic about the rescues they were carrying out across wide swaths of northern Santa Rosa had me convinced that hundreds of people, including some of our officers, would not survive the night. The fire was just coming too fast in the middle of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My wife had evacuated our house as the fire approached from nearby Calistoga Road, and for the first time in my career I was working an incident in which my own home and family were threatened. Many of our employees faced far worse and actually lost their homes that night. 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It survived, bringing feelings of gratitude and guilt. \u003ccite>(Craig Schwartz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The heroism on display from police officers, firefighters, sheriff’s deputies, bus drivers, residents and many others was amazing to witness. Every one was a first responder that night, and many of our citizens went above and beyond to protect their friends, family and neighbors. I believe it is because of these extraordinary efforts that so many were saved. The stories from that night deserve to be told, and this first recounting brings you just a small portion of the events of Oct. 8 and 9 by telling of the actions of a few of the Santa Rosa police officers who were on duty or came in to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Even then, a burning tree had fallen across the road and almost prevented their escape. The two officers got the woman out of harm’s way, then went back into the fire to rescue more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">They got to the bottom of the hill and jumped out, quickly grabbing the computer, rifle and shotgun, before the car was completely engulfed in flames.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the 3700 block of Skyfarm Drive, Officer Adams and Officer Dave Pedersen found several people at a house down a long driveway. The first man they encountered there said he couldn’t get out, so they told him to get in Officer Pedersen’s car. The man said his family was inside but they couldn’t get out because the power was out and the garage door wouldn’t open. Officer Adams ran into the house, popped the emergency release on the garage door and opened it so the family could escape in their own car. The officers continued their work and evacuated residents from the Hopper Lane Apartments and Coffey Park once the fire had jumped Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one home on Keoke Court, Officer Adams, Officer St. Germain and others carried a number of wheelchair-bound elderly residents to their patrol cars as “fire whirls,” or tornados of burning embers, blew around them. Near the end of what would have been Officer Adams’ 12½-hour shift his radio battery died and he had to go back to the police department for a replacement, where he met up with Sgt. Pehlke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steve Pehlke was not supposed to work that night, but came in at about 3 a.m. when he got the call about the firestorm. He met Officer Adams at the Police Department and, since patrol cars were getting scarce, they paired up to rescue more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first call together was to the Varenna Senior Living Apartments. As they drove up Fountaingrove Parkway, the fire had burned many of the buildings in the area and was burning within feet of the road. They had to dodge burning trees that had blown down in the heavy winds and blocked the road. When they got to Varenna they found a woman trying to evacuate her mother from a building that was already on fire. They found dozens of elderly residents in the lobby of the smoke-filled building and, along with other officers, checked the building for any other people. The heroic woman they had encountered loaded four or five of the residents into her car, while Sgt. Pehlke and Officer Adams were able to get more officers and city buses there to evacuate the rest of the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>After completing those rescues, they had to help rescue an elderly woman who was trapped in a motel room near the bottom of Fountaingrove Parkway, and then were sent back to Varenna and eventually to an address on Tall Pine Circle. A woman had called 911 to say she had evacuated her house there, but her husband was trapped inside and the house was on fire. Sgt. Pehlke and Officer Adams found the whole neighborhood engulfed in flames, with fire a mere 3 to 4 feet from their patrol car as they drove in. They got to the house in question, and although all the houses around it were burning, it had not yet caught fire. They found the elderly man in his bedroom and walked him to their patrol car as burning embers blew all around them. Sgt. Pehlke saw the man had no clothes, so he ran back into the house and grabbed some clothing as well as several pictures hanging on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three fled the house, driving through the blowing embers and fire, to deliver the man safely to the Veterans Memorial Building shelter before they drove back into Fountaingrove to conduct more rescues. As they drove up the hill from Brush Creek Road, though, they smelled the odor of burning rubber and saw smoke pouring through the air vents on their dashboard. Sgt. Pehlke made a quick U-turn to get out of the fire zone and then saw flames licking up at his feet from the floor of the car. They got to the bottom of the hill and jumped out, quickly grabbing the computer, rifle and shotgun, before the car was completely engulfed in flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though their car burned, their work continued and they were back out in a different vehicle to continue the evacuations. Sgt. Pehlke snapped the photo shown at the top of this story about 30 seconds after he and Andy Adams got out of the burning car. This is the kind of extraordinary work that we saw over and over during the fires of October. We look forward to sharing more of these stories with you, and invite you to share your stories with us. As I said, people looking out for their friends, family and neighbors showed incredible selflessness and heroism. Their stories should be told as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For an idea of what people in the path of the fire faced that night, you can see this video released by the Berkeley Fire Department:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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