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He’s a fast-talking fellow who’s sharp as a tack and in tremendous shape. He eats right, doesn’t smoke or drink, and faithfully strides miles a day in boots he found in a garbage can 13 years ago, covering the trails he’s been visiting since Herbert Hoover was president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first encounter with the eastern Sierras was 1933,” says Dutcher. “My folks brought me here in a Model T Ford and I wandered off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living. I want to paint whenever I darn well please.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before he made the permanent move to the Sierra region, Dutcher put in his big-city time, receiving his master’s degree in fine art from Cal State Long Beach in 1957. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In February, 85-year-old artist Ray Dutcher fled a wall of fire three stories high as it roared down the mountain toward his cabin near Bishop, a town in the remote eastern Sierra south of Yosemite. The self-described hermit took one thing: a painting he’d been working on since 1982. The Round Fire sparked the artist’s rediscovery and his first show in four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230869006&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230869006'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stand on Ray Dutcher’s porch and you start to get the whole hermit thing. The view from his cabin in an area called Swall Meadows is a breathtaking panorama of stark mountains, deep valleys and sky. If sky can be measured in tons, this is tons of sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came up here just to get away from L.A. and find a better place to create,” says Dutcher. “I liked the back country. I didn’t enjoy myself down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10738716 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Glacier Lake,\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Glacier Lake,\" the only painting Dutcher took as the Round Fire blazed toward his cabin. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutcher is a wiry man with bright eyes, long gray hair and a white beard. He’s a fast-talking fellow who’s sharp as a tack and in tremendous shape. He eats right, doesn’t smoke or drink, and faithfully strides miles a day in boots he found in a garbage can 13 years ago, covering the trails he’s been visiting since Herbert Hoover was president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first encounter with the eastern Sierras was 1933,” says Dutcher. “My folks brought me here in a Model T Ford and I wandered off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living. I want to paint whenever I darn well please.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before he made the permanent move to the Sierra region, Dutcher put in his big-city time, receiving his master’s degree in fine art from Cal State Long Beach in 1957. That same year he co-founded the Exodus Gallery in San Pedro, exhibiting work by West Coast artists Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz and John Wesley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that affiliation, the art scene was not for him. “I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living,” he says. “I want to paint whenever I darn well please to paint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher’s last exhibition was in Encino in 1973. It sold out. After that, he moved to the Sierra, where he’s been working on his pieces -- often the same ones -- for decades in his backroom cabin studio facing western light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s where these works may have stayed, were it not for the Round Fire that swept through the area in February, consuming 7,000 acres and destroying over 40 homes and structures. Dutcher was forced to evacuate at the last minute, and took with him only one thing: a painting called \"Glacier Lake\" that he’s been working on since 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Ray’s 52-year-old son, Mark -- an artist in Los Angeles -- was unable to get in touch with his father, whose home was spared. He checked on him by way of Facebook and a Bishop-based gallery owner named Bruce Licher, who was a stranger to Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10740157\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg\" alt='\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. ' width=\"800\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10740157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-400x394.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1440x1418.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1180x1162.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-960x945.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t friends with him on Facebook,” Mark explains, “but I saw that he was posting images of the fire in Swall Meadows, so I contacted him in a message on Facebook and said, ‘My dad lives up there and I can’t get ahold of him. Can you check on him?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Licher and his wife, Karen, also lived in Swall Meadows at the time, “we didn’t even know that Ray existed,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he dutifully trekked up the hill in search of Mark’s father, found the cabin and knocked on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I saw on his walls were these amazing paintings,” Licher says. “I thought, wow, you know, these would be great to show in our space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent Project Press is the Lichers' “space.” The couple’s main business for the last 30 years has been creating unique printed material on vintage letterpress equipment, veritable works of art unto themselves. The space also houses The Project Room, a gallery that’s helped to galvanize the local art scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Licher’s enthusiasm, Dutcher was not thrilled with the idea. His first reaction was, \"Oh no, I’m done with showing my work in galleries. Galleries just want you to produce lots of work and I don’t do that. I don’t work fast and I don’t want to sell these anyway. I want to pass them on to my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher reluctantly agreed to an exhibition, after stipulating that none of the pieces would be for sale. Signed prints of the work are available, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it happened. The Sept. 25 opening night of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1495941167369951/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Adventures in Visual Thought,\"\u003c/a> a 40-year retrospective of Dutcher’s work, drew a significant chunk of tiny Bishop’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738726\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The adventures start here.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The adventures start here. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can see in his paintings, your mind’s eye would walk into the depth of them, so it’s pretty unique,” offers Karen Licher. “Ray’s got his own way to do this that I haven’t really seen with any other painter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group stood in front of \"Tundra Pond,\" an oil on canvas image of yes, a tundra pond, but Dutcher has captured the light, the water and the moss-covered stones in such an exact manner it would seem to define photorealism. Yet this entire exhibition might not have happened were it not for the fire and Dutcher’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for Mark, they’d never been shown,” says the artist. “And the Round Fire and Bruce. They all came together and got me down here. Otherwise, the paintings, maybe through selfishness, they’d never been shown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray left the family when Mark was 7 and, until recently, they saw each other only sporadically. But art is where they connect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that my dad is the reason that I’m an artist,” says Mark. “It gives me encouragement that he’s been painting all these years. It really inspires me to keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray’s art is what’s kept \u003cem>him\u003c/em> going. Each piece is continually evolving, and he doesn’t like to let them go. He still feels the sting of selling his work back in ’73.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just disappear,” he says. “What the hell have I got? Someone else has it. I have nothing to show for it but money. Money’s not that important to me. I’m not suffering for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his self-imposed four-decade absence from the gallery walls, Dutcher is glad to be back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy to have a show,” he says. “How long am I going to live? I’m a late bloomer, as they say, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Larry Duysen’s family has run Sierra Forest Products in the small town of Terra Bella, just west of the Sierra Nevada, for almost 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father, Glenn Duysen, founded the company in 1968. At that time, there were seven other sawmills in the region logging trees in the Sequoia National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as wood became less available, one by one, they went out of business,” he says. Logging was restricted and the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sequoia/home/?cid=stelprdb5394941\">Giant Sequoia National Monument \u003c/a>put large tracts of land off-limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217192855\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Sierra Forest Products is the only sawmill left in the entire southern Sierra. And it has gone from a two-shift operation to one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, because of wildfires and the drought, Duysen could easily use two shifts. His log deck outside -- where the logs are stacked several stories high before being milled -- is almost full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means for the first time in many years, he has to turn customers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624083\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1440x1059.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had so many years of, I’ll say famine, as far as supply goes,” Duysen says. “It’s really disheartening for me to have to answer a phone call and tell people we just cannot help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking mainly about private landowners who are hoping to sell wood from trees killed by the drought and bark beetles. But the company is already backlogged with fire salvage trees from two large wildfires in the Sierra National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could run the mill on that alone and have a surplus,” he says. Taking new contracts is out of the question right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The emergency or catastrophe is at such an extent that at this time we can’t take all the wood,” Duysen says of the fire and insect salvage. “We don’t have the capacity for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mill can take 36 million board-feet of lumber a year; the wood from the fires alone amounts to about 40 million board-feet, Duysen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2½ hours north of Terra Bella, logger Hudson Fisk knows all too well that there’s a glut at the mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been removing dead trees from private properties in Mariposa and Madera counties all summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1123\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624085\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-400x562.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1440x2022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1180x1657.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-960x1348.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In past years, he would take the logs to Terra Bella or one of two sawmills in Sonora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no market for it anymore,” Fisk says of the insect salvage. “It’s hard to make a profit selling the wood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used to be able to give landowners a credit for their wood. But now he has to charge them to remove it. “We’re just stockpiling it back at our yard,” he says. “Some of it we process into firewood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some will be used for lumber, but most of it will go into a chipper. “I have a feeling in a couple years from now, a large portion of our log decks are gonna just end up getting chipped into mulch,” Fisk says. “We’ll make compost out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he had fresh green trees, he’d get more money. But the damaged trees bring in about 40 percent less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I can’t even get a contract to sell,\" Fisk says. \"But if I could, the price would be so low it wouldn’t even cover my trucking cost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people are benefiting from the surplus wood, at least in Mariposa County. Homeowners can donate their logs to the senior firewood program at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mariposafiresafe.net/\">Mariposa Fire Safe Council\u003c/a> -- and feel good about helping those on a fixed income stay warm in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Larry Duysen’s family has run Sierra Forest Products in the small town of Terra Bella, just west of the Sierra Nevada, for almost 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father, Glenn Duysen, founded the company in 1968. At that time, there were seven other sawmills in the region logging trees in the Sequoia National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as wood became less available, one by one, they went out of business,” he says. Logging was restricted and the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sequoia/home/?cid=stelprdb5394941\">Giant Sequoia National Monument \u003c/a>put large tracts of land off-limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217192855&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217192855'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Sierra Forest Products is the only sawmill left in the entire southern Sierra. And it has gone from a two-shift operation to one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, because of wildfires and the drought, Duysen could easily use two shifts. His log deck outside -- where the logs are stacked several stories high before being milled -- is almost full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means for the first time in many years, he has to turn customers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624083\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1440x1059.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had so many years of, I’ll say famine, as far as supply goes,” Duysen says. “It’s really disheartening for me to have to answer a phone call and tell people we just cannot help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking mainly about private landowners who are hoping to sell wood from trees killed by the drought and bark beetles. But the company is already backlogged with fire salvage trees from two large wildfires in the Sierra National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could run the mill on that alone and have a surplus,” he says. Taking new contracts is out of the question right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The emergency or catastrophe is at such an extent that at this time we can’t take all the wood,” Duysen says of the fire and insect salvage. “We don’t have the capacity for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mill can take 36 million board-feet of lumber a year; the wood from the fires alone amounts to about 40 million board-feet, Duysen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2½ hours north of Terra Bella, logger Hudson Fisk knows all too well that there’s a glut at the mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been removing dead trees from private properties in Mariposa and Madera counties all summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1123\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624085\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-400x562.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1440x2022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1180x1657.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-960x1348.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In past years, he would take the logs to Terra Bella or one of two sawmills in Sonora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no market for it anymore,” Fisk says of the insect salvage. “It’s hard to make a profit selling the wood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used to be able to give landowners a credit for their wood. But now he has to charge them to remove it. “We’re just stockpiling it back at our yard,” he says. “Some of it we process into firewood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some will be used for lumber, but most of it will go into a chipper. “I have a feeling in a couple years from now, a large portion of our log decks are gonna just end up getting chipped into mulch,” Fisk says. “We’ll make compost out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he had fresh green trees, he’d get more money. But the damaged trees bring in about 40 percent less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I can’t even get a contract to sell,\" Fisk says. \"But if I could, the price would be so low it wouldn’t even cover my trucking cost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people are benefiting from the surplus wood, at least in Mariposa County. Homeowners can donate their logs to the senior firewood program at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mariposafiresafe.net/\">Mariposa Fire Safe Council\u003c/a> -- and feel good about helping those on a fixed income stay warm in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "King Fire Update: Rain Tames Blaze Even as Warm, Dry Weather Returns",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148997\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (Lone Peak Hotshots via Twitter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (\u003ca href=\"//twitter.com/LonePeakIHC\">Lone Peak Hotshots\u003c/a> via Twitter)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:15 p.m. Monday (Sept. 29): \u003c/strong>Fire officials say that the King Fire will kick up a little this week as warm, dry weather returns to the Sierra Nevada. But as of Monday, they say they're confident that the fire in the forests west of Lake Tahoe has been pretty much stopped in its tracks by several days of rain. Here's the summary of the situation from the unified federal-state fire command:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After four days of precipitation with accumulations of 1 to 3 inches, fire spread has been halted, however heat remains in the heavier fuels and in the heavy duff sheltered from the rain under the dense timber canopy. As the weather turns warm and dry over the next several days, expect to see an increase in fire activity and smoke production; however spread potential is extremely low, due to the successful suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Allegedly the work of an arsonist, the King Fire has burned 97,000 acres -- about 150 square miles -- since starting Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the north, federal fire managers have issued \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">a final update on the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, which has earned a footnote in California wildfire history. The blaze -- actually the combination of several fires that started Aug. 12 and burned together in the following weeks -- has burned nearly 133,000 acres (about 210 square miles) of timber in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. According to Cal Fire, that makes it \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the 16th-biggest California fire in area\u003c/a> going back to 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 25) :\u003c/strong> Rain sounds like a great thing when you're facing the ravages of a wildfire. Right? But for those fighting the two biggest fires in California -- the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Camp Complex in Siskiyou County\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire in El Dorado and Placer\u003c/a> counties -- the state's first significant rain of the season was a little too much of a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm that moved slowly across the North Coast on Wednesday night, then over the central Sierra Nevada earlier Thursday, proved to be very wet, dumping more than 2 inches of rain over the Happy Camp blaze and less copious but still occasionally heavy rain on the King conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: Flash flood warnings were issued for the 210 square miles or so burned so far near Happy Camp in a blaze that started Aug. 12 and for the 145 square miles the King Fire has consumed since Sept. 13 in the Sierra forests west of Lake Tahoe. The heavy rain prompted fears of excessive runoff, debris flows and rock slides, especially on the steeper slopes seared by the fires. Those concerns led fire managers to pull crews off lines until the storm passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rains helped slow down the King Fire substantially, according to the latest event summary. \"The observed fire activity was minimal with smoldering in interior pockets of the heavier fuels,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially: As of Thursday evening, the King Fire is reported to have burned 95,347 acres and is 55 percent contained. The Happy Camp Fire is at 132,733 acres and 94 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>This morning, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> containment is at 38 percent, with about 93,000 acres burned. InciWeb reports that the fire \"remained relatively active throughout the night due to the poor relative humidity recovery and wind.\" Potential remains for \"extreme fire behavior if the winds, fuels, and topography come into alignment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/24/6732102/king-fire-burn-increases-3300.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, which reports community meetings will be held tonight at 7 p.m. at North Tahoe High School and Foresthill High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The good news on \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned almost 90,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests west of Lake Tahoe since it started Sept. 13: The force of nearly 7,500 fire personnel fighting the blaze, aided by several days of cool, damp weather, has achieved 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148394\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\" alt=\"The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"252\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bad news: Much warmer, drier and windier weather is sweeping across much of the northern Sierra, including the fire zone. The National Weather Service has issued a red-flag warning for the mountains from Yosemite clear up to the Oregon border. For El Dorado and Placer counties, where the fire is burning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/?latitude=&longitude=&wfo=sto&interface=fwzones&click.x=553&click.y=382\" target=\"_blank\">the forecast calls for winds\u003c/a> gusting up to 25 mph through Wednesday evening. After that, much of Northern California has a strong chance of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a second day in a row, the National Weather Service has issued\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ072&warncounty=CAC057&firewxzone=CAZ271&local_place1=6%20Miles%20NNW%20Devonshire%20CA&product1=Dense+Smoke+Advisory&lat=39.43421&lon=-120.11525#.VCHYWPldV8E\" target=\"_blank\"> a dense smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the city, surrounding towns and the Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities in the fire region have experienced extremely high levels of particulate pollution over the past several days. The reading for PM 2.5 -- fine particulates like those found in wood smoke -- was an astonishing 434 in parts of Placer County, northeast of Sacramento, on Tuesday morning. By comparison, the measure in most of the Bay Area was in the low 30s. In Auburn, air quality earlier Tuesday was classified as \"hazardous\" under \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi\" target=\"_blank\">the EPA's rating system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Hobbs, an air quality specialist with the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, said the worst of the pollution in Auburn had cleared by midday as winds shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Cool, moist weather over the weekend, complete with occasional rain, has allowed the 5,500-person force fighting the King Fire to gain ground on the blaze burning across a large swath of the Sierra west of Lake Tahoe. The new acreage total for the King Fire released Monday: 87,592 acres, or 136 square miles, with about 18 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/cafw/display_product.php?sid=sto&pil=fwf\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service fire weather forecast for the stat\u003c/a>e says that warm and drier weather is due Monday and Tuesday. Forecasts call for a chance of rainy and windy weather later in the week into next weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire will continue to have an impact over a wide area. The National Weather Service has issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=rev&wwa=dense%20smoke%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">dense-smoke advisories\u003c/a> for Reno and the entire Tahoe basin. Concern about exposing students to poor air quality led several schools, including those in the towns of Colfax and Foresthill in Placer County, to cancel classes on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed 10 homes and 22 \"minor structures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> No surprise: All the numbers have gotten bigger for the King Fire today. Fire officials say -- \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">here, on Inciweb's King Fire page\u003c/a> -- that the area covered by the blaze is now 81,000 acres (that's the number released this morning, so it's bigger now). About 4,900 personnel are assigned to fight the blaze -- the largest contingent assigned to a fire in California this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still rated as 10 percent contained, unchanged from Friday. Fire officials say the contained edge of the fire is along its southern flank, along U.S. 50 near the community of Pollock Pines, where it began a week ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire's biggest impact away from the burned area is the heavy smoke that's settled over much of the southern Sacramento Valley and the northern and central Sierra and foothills. The EPA's AirNow monitoring site shows air quality in the foothills near \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&mapcenter=1&cityid=272\" target=\"_blank\">Auburn\u003c/a>, northeast of Sacramento on Interstate 80, has ranged from very unhealthy to hazardous for most of Saturday. Air pollution in most of the Bay Area has been rated as \"moderate\" most of Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Wayne Allen Huntsman, the 37-year-old suspect in the King Fire that's swept through more than 76,000 acres of Sierra forest this week, entered a not guilty plea Friday to a charge that he deliberately set the blaze. Huntsman's next hearing on a single count of forest arson was set for late October. He continues to be held on $10 million bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plea came as the first reports surfaced that homes have been destroyed in the fire. Sacramento's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sierra/crews-continue-fight-against-stillgrowing-king-fire/28148432\" target=\"_blank\">KCRA-Channel 3 reported Friday afternoon\u003c/a> that the fire destroyed at least four homes north of U.S. 50, in an area called White Meadows about 6 miles from where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said Friday they were assessing structures in the area and wanted to contact property owners before confirming losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntsman's plea in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville was made as media reports emerge detailing the suspect's past and offering clues about the fire's origin near the community of Pollock Pines last weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/auburn-grass-valley/2014/09/19/wayne-huntsman-king-fire-911/15873205/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento's News10 reported Friday\u003c/a> that police believe the arson suspect broke into a home in an apparent attempt to call 911 to report the fire. News10 says that account comes from a homeowner, Ralf Lorenz, whose front door was kicked in last Saturday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lorenz wasn't home at the time. He was working in the Bay Area when the King Fire broke out Saturday on the steep embankment behind his home. His first clue that something wasn't right was when he got a call from his home security company that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't know if my house was still standing,\" Lorenz said. \"I didn't know if it was pilfered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing was taken. But, Lorenz's front door was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perpetrator kicked it in,\" Lorenz said. \"He tried to call 911 to report the fire.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>News10 said that law enforcement officials declined comment on Lorenz's story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several news sources reported on interviews with Huntsman's sister and former girlfriend, who both expressed incredulity that he's been accused with setting the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Family-of-alleged-King-Fire-arsonist-shocked-5767241.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle's Kurtis Alexander\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There's no way he would have ever done this intentionally,\" Tami Criswell of Salinas said in a telephone interview, one day after her brother, Wayne Allen Huntsman, was charged with felony arson....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… (She) said her brother loves the outdoors and is not someone who would want to destroy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had everything going for him,\" she said. \"There's no reason he would ever do this.\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Huntsman has a criminal record that includes convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft in Santa Cruz County in 1997, public records show. None of his crimes relate to arson, and his sister said he cleaned up his act a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had been in good standing with the law and the community,\" said Criswell. \"He's always been part of my family and my kids. He's been helping take care of his elderly grandmother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criswell said Huntsman has enjoyed his life in the Sierra foothills, where he has friends and a few family members and where work has been steadier than in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>She told Alexander the last time she spoke to Huntsman was Saturday, the same day the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last update for now, by way of the Associated Press: Cal Fire says it set a record on Wednesday for the amount of retardant dropped on a wildfire in a single day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff says air tankers on Wednesday poured 203,375 gallons of the red slurry on an explosive Northern California wildfire that has now burned through nearly 120 square miles of timber and vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday, Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service together had dumped 530,000 gallons on the El Dorado County blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolmachoff says the fire is burning so fiercely it is running through the retardant lines because of the extreme drought conditions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The force of more than 4,000 firefighters trying to corral the massive King Fire in El Dorado and Placer counties have gotten some help from a powerful ally -- the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers report much cooler temperatures, along with humidity as high as 90 percent. That slowed the growth of the fire, which had raced north through the heavily forested terrain north of U.S. 50 on Wednesday, to a few thousand acres on Thursday. But the outlook may not be so good Friday: the return of dryer, warmer weather is expected to allow the fire to gain strength again today. So far, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a> has burned 76,376 acres and is 10 percent contained. That's about 120 square miles, roughly two-thirds the area of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators say the fire was deliberately set in steep terrain near the community of Pollock Pines last Saturday. The suspect in the case, identified Thursday as Wayne Allen Huntsman, 37, is scheduled to be arraigned in Placerville this afternoon on a single count of forest arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:15 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As we posted earlier (\u003ca href=\"#arsoncharges\">see below\u003c/a>) El Dorado County authorities announced the arrest of an arson suspect in the King Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">has burned 73,000 acres\u003c/a> and is 10 percent contained. That's about 115 square miles, or the equivalent of the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh news that emerged this afternoon is that the fire's rapid spread through the heavily forested American River watershed north of U.S. 50 is threatening power infrastructure in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Placer County Water Agency, which serves communities from suburban Sacramento through the Sierra foothills and all the way to Lake Tahoe, said that the King Fire is now threatening its power generation facilities and PG&E transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcwa.net/files/docs/king/09-18-2014_King_Fire_Threatens_PCWA_Power_System.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the agency's statement on the fire\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The mammoth King Fire spread rapidly into Placer County Wednesday night. ... The head of the fire has moved all the way to Placer County Water Agency’s Hell Hole Reservoir on the Rubicon River. It seriously threatens PCWA power generation and PG&E transmission facilities. The swath of fire in Placer County is 6 miles wide and fire officials report no containment after last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re extremely concerned and we’re monitoring the situation very closely. We’ve moved all of our employees out of the danger zone, so now our number one concern is protecting PCWA’s Middle Fork American River Project hydroelectric generation facilities and PG&E’s transmission lines. The agency and PG&E are coordinating with the fire command and emergency services officials in El Dorado and Placer counties,” said PCWA General Manager David Breninger.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Firefighting officials said the fire made a run of more than 10 miles to the north between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday. And according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/09/18/king-fire-thursday-update-wildfires-prompt-governor-to-declare-state-of-emergency/\" target=\"_blank\">a report from Capital Public Radio's Bob Moffitt\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mike Kaslin with the Cal Fire Amador County unit says the front of the fire is now about 14 miles west of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That area is fairly remote and we are sending resources up there to continue to flank it,\" says Kaslin. \"But, the lion's share of our efforts are still going to be on the south end where the infrastructure -the homes and residences are.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire is having a dramatic impact on air quality in communities to the east and north. \u003ca href=\"http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/09/16/smoke-clear-reno-friday/15748185/\" target=\"_blank\">From the Reno Gazette-Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Heavy smoke ... has triggered a warning in Washoe County about the extremely poor air quality and prompted schools to cancel most athletic games and other outdoor events in the Reno area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washoe County Health District said the air quality index reached the \"very unhealthy\" range at 4 p.m. Thursday. That's one step away from \"hazardous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials say the \"very unhealthy\" air quality index reading of 221 means the general population may experience significant health effects. Its Reno's worst reading since 2008 when a string of Sierra fires pushed it to 211.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials earlier urged sensitive groups such as the elderly and people with respiratory conditions to remain indoors when the index climbed into the \"unhealthy\" range between 151 and 200.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:20 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong> El Dorado County authorities\u003ca id=\"arsoncharges\">\u003c/a> have filed arson charges in the King Fire, which has raged across 71,000 acres of forest near the community of Pollock Pines since it started Saturday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Thursday morning in Camino, the county's district attorney announced that 37-year-old Wayne Allen Huntsman has been charged with a single court of arson of forest land. His arraignment is scheduled for Friday. Multiple media sources report he's being held on $10 million bail. We've embedded the \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">district attorney's complaint\u003c/a> against Huntsman below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/santa-cruz/aptos-man-charged-with-intentionally-igniting-king-fire/28135656\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey's KSBW reports\u003c/a> that Huntsman is a resident of Aptos, near Santa Cruz. The charging document released Thursday shows four past felonies, including three 1997 convictions in Santa Cruz County. Those offenses include assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft and auto theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little on the investigation \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/wayne-huntsman-king-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was revealed at the news conference that the fire was set near Pollock Pines in very steep terrain. A Calfire investigator was the first to find the origin of the fire and begin the investigatory process that led to Huntsman’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson said that law enforcement had been in contact with the suspect in the days prior to his arrest in Placerville.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148011\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 228px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148011\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\" alt=\"King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities. \" width=\"228\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference to announce the cause of the huge and rapidly spreading King Fire in El Dorado County. The 71,000-acre fire started Saturday evening and the origin has been under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/mandatory-king-fire-evacuations-include-swansboro-crystal-basin-and-wentworth-springs-road/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mountain Democrat of Placerville is reporting\u003c/a> that El Dorado County authorities arrested a suspect Wednesday night on a single count of arson on forest land, though it's not known for sure whether the suspect was picked up for starting the King Fire. The Mountain Democrat says the suspect, whom we'll refrain from naming for the time being, is being held on $10 million bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Leikauf said his is withholding comment until the Cal Fire press conference. We'll note that sheriff's officials, the El Dorado County district attorney and U.S. Forest Service officials are scheduled to attend the press conference in the town of Camino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:40 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>YubaNet.com, based in Nevada City, has been providing some of the most comprehensive coverage of California fires all season long. \u003ca href=\"http://yubanet.com/nevada/King.php\" target=\"_blank\">YubaNet's page on the King Fire\u003c/a> includes an excellent map -- embedded below this update -- that shows the rapid progress of the fire through El Dorado National Forest and, possibly, into Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[googlemaps https://mapsengine.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zdKyl7kg4VB4.kzoGHac5DqbE&w=640&h=480]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The major wildfire burning north of the Bay Area's main route to Lake Tahoe has exploded in size, with state and federal officials now saying the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4108/24483/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> northeast of Placerville has covered nearly 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the blaze is threatening 2,000 homes and 1,500 \"minor structures\" near the El Dorado County community of Pollock Pines, which is in a sort of transition zone from the Sierra Nevada foothills into thickly timbered mountain ridges and canyons in the American River watershed. So far, there's no word that the fire has burned homes or structures. About 3,600 personnel have been assigned to the fire, which is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire, most of the blaze's spread over the last day has been to the north and northwest, toward the communities of Swansboro and Volcanoville and Stumpy Meadows Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second time since the blaze broke out over the weekend, U.S. 50 has been shut down to give firefighters full access to the fire zone. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/highway-50-closed-again-near-28000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details on the closure from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...Highway 50 is closed again in the Sierra Nevada as crews set backfires to stem the march of the King blaze that has charred a broad swath of timberland in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reports that [an 8-mile] stretch of the highway from Sly Park Road to Ice House Road closed again around midnight. Firefighters are busy setting backfires that they hope will burn into the main fire and provide a large burned buffer between flames and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure will be re-evaluated later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire is close to the roadway and they are trying to get crews in and out,” said CHP spokesman Officer Rich Wetzel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternate routes for trans-Sierra travelers are Interstate 80 and Highway 88.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of the King Fire -- which apparently quadrupled in size from early Wednesday to early Thursday -- has been breathtaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze started last Saturday evening on the outskirts of the community of Pollock Pines, about a dozen miles as the crow flies northeast of Placerville. That evening, it was reported to be 20 acres. Driven by hot, dry and occasionally windy weather and feeding on drought-parched forests, the fire has expanded rapidly since, covering 3,000 acres by Sunday evening, 8,600 by Monday night and 12,800 by Tuesday night and about 18,500 on Wednesday morning. After dark Wednesday, officials said the fire had grown to 28,000 acres, an estimate updated to 71,000 Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current acreage total is equivalent to abut 110 square miles. How would that area look on a Bay Area map? It's \u003cem>roughly\u003c/em> equal to the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate all the way down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials say that weather conditions Thursday, though a bit cooler and moister than earlier in the week, could feed \"extreme fire behavior\" in the continue to push the fire north, east and west. Fire managers also report the southern flank of the fire, near Pollock Pines and along U.S. 50, is the most secure at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/240196194/DA-Announces-Filing-of-Criminal-Complaint-Against-Wayne-Allen-Huntsman\">DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_2308\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/240196194/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148997\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (Lone Peak Hotshots via Twitter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots-640x503.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-hotshots.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Lone Peak Hotshots, a Utah fire crew, patrols the line on the King Fire. (\u003ca href=\"//twitter.com/LonePeakIHC\">Lone Peak Hotshots\u003c/a> via Twitter)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:15 p.m. Monday (Sept. 29): \u003c/strong>Fire officials say that the King Fire will kick up a little this week as warm, dry weather returns to the Sierra Nevada. But as of Monday, they say they're confident that the fire in the forests west of Lake Tahoe has been pretty much stopped in its tracks by several days of rain. Here's the summary of the situation from the unified federal-state fire command:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After four days of precipitation with accumulations of 1 to 3 inches, fire spread has been halted, however heat remains in the heavier fuels and in the heavy duff sheltered from the rain under the dense timber canopy. As the weather turns warm and dry over the next several days, expect to see an increase in fire activity and smoke production; however spread potential is extremely low, due to the successful suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Allegedly the work of an arsonist, the King Fire has burned 97,000 acres -- about 150 square miles -- since starting Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the north, federal fire managers have issued \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">a final update on the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, which has earned a footnote in California wildfire history. The blaze -- actually the combination of several fires that started Aug. 12 and burned together in the following weeks -- has burned nearly 133,000 acres (about 210 square miles) of timber in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. According to Cal Fire, that makes it \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the 16th-biggest California fire in area\u003c/a> going back to 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 25) :\u003c/strong> Rain sounds like a great thing when you're facing the ravages of a wildfire. Right? But for those fighting the two biggest fires in California -- the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Camp Complex in Siskiyou County\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire in El Dorado and Placer\u003c/a> counties -- the state's first significant rain of the season was a little too much of a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm that moved slowly across the North Coast on Wednesday night, then over the central Sierra Nevada earlier Thursday, proved to be very wet, dumping more than 2 inches of rain over the Happy Camp blaze and less copious but still occasionally heavy rain on the King conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: Flash flood warnings were issued for the 210 square miles or so burned so far near Happy Camp in a blaze that started Aug. 12 and for the 145 square miles the King Fire has consumed since Sept. 13 in the Sierra forests west of Lake Tahoe. The heavy rain prompted fears of excessive runoff, debris flows and rock slides, especially on the steeper slopes seared by the fires. Those concerns led fire managers to pull crews off lines until the storm passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rains helped slow down the King Fire substantially, according to the latest event summary. \"The observed fire activity was minimal with smoldering in interior pockets of the heavier fuels,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially: As of Thursday evening, the King Fire is reported to have burned 95,347 acres and is 55 percent contained. The Happy Camp Fire is at 132,733 acres and 94 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>This morning, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> containment is at 38 percent, with about 93,000 acres burned. InciWeb reports that the fire \"remained relatively active throughout the night due to the poor relative humidity recovery and wind.\" Potential remains for \"extreme fire behavior if the winds, fuels, and topography come into alignment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/24/6732102/king-fire-burn-increases-3300.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, which reports community meetings will be held tonight at 7 p.m. at North Tahoe High School and Foresthill High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The good news on \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned almost 90,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests west of Lake Tahoe since it started Sept. 13: The force of nearly 7,500 fire personnel fighting the blaze, aided by several days of cool, damp weather, has achieved 35 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148394\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay.jpg\" alt=\"The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"252\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sept. 22 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Peninsula and South Bay. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bad news: Much warmer, drier and windier weather is sweeping across much of the northern Sierra, including the fire zone. The National Weather Service has issued a red-flag warning for the mountains from Yosemite clear up to the Oregon border. For El Dorado and Placer counties, where the fire is burning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/?latitude=&longitude=&wfo=sto&interface=fwzones&click.x=553&click.y=382\" target=\"_blank\">the forecast calls for winds\u003c/a> gusting up to 25 mph through Wednesday evening. After that, much of Northern California has a strong chance of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a second day in a row, the National Weather Service has issued\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ072&warncounty=CAC057&firewxzone=CAZ271&local_place1=6%20Miles%20NNW%20Devonshire%20CA&product1=Dense+Smoke+Advisory&lat=39.43421&lon=-120.11525#.VCHYWPldV8E\" target=\"_blank\"> a dense smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the city, surrounding towns and the Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities in the fire region have experienced extremely high levels of particulate pollution over the past several days. The reading for PM 2.5 -- fine particulates like those found in wood smoke -- was an astonishing 434 in parts of Placer County, northeast of Sacramento, on Tuesday morning. By comparison, the measure in most of the Bay Area was in the low 30s. In Auburn, air quality earlier Tuesday was classified as \"hazardous\" under \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi\" target=\"_blank\">the EPA's rating system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Hobbs, an air quality specialist with the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, said the worst of the pollution in Auburn had cleared by midday as winds shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Cool, moist weather over the weekend, complete with occasional rain, has allowed the 5,500-person force fighting the King Fire to gain ground on the blaze burning across a large swath of the Sierra west of Lake Tahoe. The new acreage total for the King Fire released Monday: 87,592 acres, or 136 square miles, with about 18 percent containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/cafw/display_product.php?sid=sto&pil=fwf\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service fire weather forecast for the stat\u003c/a>e says that warm and drier weather is due Monday and Tuesday. Forecasts call for a chance of rainy and windy weather later in the week into next weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire will continue to have an impact over a wide area. The National Weather Service has issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=rev&wwa=dense%20smoke%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">dense-smoke advisories\u003c/a> for Reno and the entire Tahoe basin. Concern about exposing students to poor air quality led several schools, including those in the towns of Colfax and Foresthill in Placer County, to cancel classes on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed 10 homes and 22 \"minor structures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> No surprise: All the numbers have gotten bigger for the King Fire today. Fire officials say -- \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">here, on Inciweb's King Fire page\u003c/a> -- that the area covered by the blaze is now 81,000 acres (that's the number released this morning, so it's bigger now). About 4,900 personnel are assigned to fight the blaze -- the largest contingent assigned to a fire in California this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still rated as 10 percent contained, unchanged from Friday. Fire officials say the contained edge of the fire is along its southern flank, along U.S. 50 near the community of Pollock Pines, where it began a week ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire's biggest impact away from the burned area is the heavy smoke that's settled over much of the southern Sacramento Valley and the northern and central Sierra and foothills. The EPA's AirNow monitoring site shows air quality in the foothills near \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&mapcenter=1&cityid=272\" target=\"_blank\">Auburn\u003c/a>, northeast of Sacramento on Interstate 80, has ranged from very unhealthy to hazardous for most of Saturday. Air pollution in most of the Bay Area has been rated as \"moderate\" most of Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Wayne Allen Huntsman, the 37-year-old suspect in the King Fire that's swept through more than 76,000 acres of Sierra forest this week, entered a not guilty plea Friday to a charge that he deliberately set the blaze. Huntsman's next hearing on a single count of forest arson was set for late October. He continues to be held on $10 million bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plea came as the first reports surfaced that homes have been destroyed in the fire. Sacramento's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sierra/crews-continue-fight-against-stillgrowing-king-fire/28148432\" target=\"_blank\">KCRA-Channel 3 reported Friday afternoon\u003c/a> that the fire destroyed at least four homes north of U.S. 50, in an area called White Meadows about 6 miles from where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said Friday they were assessing structures in the area and wanted to contact property owners before confirming losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntsman's plea in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville was made as media reports emerge detailing the suspect's past and offering clues about the fire's origin near the community of Pollock Pines last weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/auburn-grass-valley/2014/09/19/wayne-huntsman-king-fire-911/15873205/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento's News10 reported Friday\u003c/a> that police believe the arson suspect broke into a home in an apparent attempt to call 911 to report the fire. News10 says that account comes from a homeowner, Ralf Lorenz, whose front door was kicked in last Saturday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lorenz wasn't home at the time. He was working in the Bay Area when the King Fire broke out Saturday on the steep embankment behind his home. His first clue that something wasn't right was when he got a call from his home security company that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't know if my house was still standing,\" Lorenz said. \"I didn't know if it was pilfered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing was taken. But, Lorenz's front door was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perpetrator kicked it in,\" Lorenz said. \"He tried to call 911 to report the fire.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>News10 said that law enforcement officials declined comment on Lorenz's story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several news sources reported on interviews with Huntsman's sister and former girlfriend, who both expressed incredulity that he's been accused with setting the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Family-of-alleged-King-Fire-arsonist-shocked-5767241.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle's Kurtis Alexander\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There's no way he would have ever done this intentionally,\" Tami Criswell of Salinas said in a telephone interview, one day after her brother, Wayne Allen Huntsman, was charged with felony arson....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… (She) said her brother loves the outdoors and is not someone who would want to destroy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had everything going for him,\" she said. \"There's no reason he would ever do this.\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Huntsman has a criminal record that includes convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft in Santa Cruz County in 1997, public records show. None of his crimes relate to arson, and his sister said he cleaned up his act a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had been in good standing with the law and the community,\" said Criswell. \"He's always been part of my family and my kids. He's been helping take care of his elderly grandmother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criswell said Huntsman has enjoyed his life in the Sierra foothills, where he has friends and a few family members and where work has been steadier than in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>She told Alexander the last time she spoke to Huntsman was Saturday, the same day the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last update for now, by way of the Associated Press: Cal Fire says it set a record on Wednesday for the amount of retardant dropped on a wildfire in a single day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff says air tankers on Wednesday poured 203,375 gallons of the red slurry on an explosive Northern California wildfire that has now burned through nearly 120 square miles of timber and vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday, Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service together had dumped 530,000 gallons on the El Dorado County blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolmachoff says the fire is burning so fiercely it is running through the retardant lines because of the extreme drought conditions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The force of more than 4,000 firefighters trying to corral the massive King Fire in El Dorado and Placer counties have gotten some help from a powerful ally -- the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers report much cooler temperatures, along with humidity as high as 90 percent. That slowed the growth of the fire, which had raced north through the heavily forested terrain north of U.S. 50 on Wednesday, to a few thousand acres on Thursday. But the outlook may not be so good Friday: the return of dryer, warmer weather is expected to allow the fire to gain strength again today. So far, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">the King Fire\u003c/a> has burned 76,376 acres and is 10 percent contained. That's about 120 square miles, roughly two-thirds the area of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators say the fire was deliberately set in steep terrain near the community of Pollock Pines last Saturday. The suspect in the case, identified Thursday as Wayne Allen Huntsman, 37, is scheduled to be arraigned in Placerville this afternoon on a single count of forest arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:15 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As we posted earlier (\u003ca href=\"#arsoncharges\">see below\u003c/a>) El Dorado County authorities announced the arrest of an arson suspect in the King Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">has burned 73,000 acres\u003c/a> and is 10 percent contained. That's about 115 square miles, or the equivalent of the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh news that emerged this afternoon is that the fire's rapid spread through the heavily forested American River watershed north of U.S. 50 is threatening power infrastructure in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Placer County Water Agency, which serves communities from suburban Sacramento through the Sierra foothills and all the way to Lake Tahoe, said that the King Fire is now threatening its power generation facilities and PG&E transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcwa.net/files/docs/king/09-18-2014_King_Fire_Threatens_PCWA_Power_System.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the agency's statement on the fire\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The mammoth King Fire spread rapidly into Placer County Wednesday night. ... The head of the fire has moved all the way to Placer County Water Agency’s Hell Hole Reservoir on the Rubicon River. It seriously threatens PCWA power generation and PG&E transmission facilities. The swath of fire in Placer County is 6 miles wide and fire officials report no containment after last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re extremely concerned and we’re monitoring the situation very closely. We’ve moved all of our employees out of the danger zone, so now our number one concern is protecting PCWA’s Middle Fork American River Project hydroelectric generation facilities and PG&E’s transmission lines. The agency and PG&E are coordinating with the fire command and emergency services officials in El Dorado and Placer counties,” said PCWA General Manager David Breninger.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Firefighting officials said the fire made a run of more than 10 miles to the north between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday. And according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/09/18/king-fire-thursday-update-wildfires-prompt-governor-to-declare-state-of-emergency/\" target=\"_blank\">a report from Capital Public Radio's Bob Moffitt\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mike Kaslin with the Cal Fire Amador County unit says the front of the fire is now about 14 miles west of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That area is fairly remote and we are sending resources up there to continue to flank it,\" says Kaslin. \"But, the lion's share of our efforts are still going to be on the south end where the infrastructure -the homes and residences are.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire is having a dramatic impact on air quality in communities to the east and north. \u003ca href=\"http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/09/16/smoke-clear-reno-friday/15748185/\" target=\"_blank\">From the Reno Gazette-Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Heavy smoke ... has triggered a warning in Washoe County about the extremely poor air quality and prompted schools to cancel most athletic games and other outdoor events in the Reno area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washoe County Health District said the air quality index reached the \"very unhealthy\" range at 4 p.m. Thursday. That's one step away from \"hazardous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials say the \"very unhealthy\" air quality index reading of 221 means the general population may experience significant health effects. Its Reno's worst reading since 2008 when a string of Sierra fires pushed it to 211.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials earlier urged sensitive groups such as the elderly and people with respiratory conditions to remain indoors when the index climbed into the \"unhealthy\" range between 151 and 200.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:20 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong> El Dorado County authorities\u003ca id=\"arsoncharges\">\u003c/a> have filed arson charges in the King Fire, which has raged across 71,000 acres of forest near the community of Pollock Pines since it started Saturday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Thursday morning in Camino, the county's district attorney announced that 37-year-old Wayne Allen Huntsman has been charged with a single court of arson of forest land. His arraignment is scheduled for Friday. Multiple media sources report he's being held on $10 million bail. We've embedded the \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">district attorney's complaint\u003c/a> against Huntsman below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/santa-cruz/aptos-man-charged-with-intentionally-igniting-king-fire/28135656\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey's KSBW reports\u003c/a> that Huntsman is a resident of Aptos, near Santa Cruz. The charging document released Thursday shows four past felonies, including three 1997 convictions in Santa Cruz County. Those offenses include assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft and auto theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little on the investigation \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/wayne-huntsman-king-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was revealed at the news conference that the fire was set near Pollock Pines in very steep terrain. A Calfire investigator was the first to find the origin of the fire and begin the investigatory process that led to Huntsman’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson said that law enforcement had been in contact with the suspect in the days prior to his arrest in Placerville.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148011\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 228px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148011\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/huntsman-mug-shot.jpg\" alt=\"King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities. \" width=\"228\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Fire arson suspect Wayne Allen Huntsman in photo released by El Dorado County authorities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference to announce the cause of the huge and rapidly spreading King Fire in El Dorado County. The 71,000-acre fire started Saturday evening and the origin has been under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/mandatory-king-fire-evacuations-include-swansboro-crystal-basin-and-wentworth-springs-road/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mountain Democrat of Placerville is reporting\u003c/a> that El Dorado County authorities arrested a suspect Wednesday night on a single count of arson on forest land, though it's not known for sure whether the suspect was picked up for starting the King Fire. The Mountain Democrat says the suspect, whom we'll refrain from naming for the time being, is being held on $10 million bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Leikauf said his is withholding comment until the Cal Fire press conference. We'll note that sheriff's officials, the El Dorado County district attorney and U.S. Forest Service officials are scheduled to attend the press conference in the town of Camino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:40 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>YubaNet.com, based in Nevada City, has been providing some of the most comprehensive coverage of California fires all season long. \u003ca href=\"http://yubanet.com/nevada/King.php\" target=\"_blank\">YubaNet's page on the King Fire\u003c/a> includes an excellent map -- embedded below this update -- that shows the rapid progress of the fire through El Dorado National Forest and, possibly, into Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n src='https://mapsengine.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zdKyl7kg4VB4.kzoGHac5DqbE&w=640&h=480'\n title='https://mapsengine.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zdKyl7kg4VB4.kzoGHac5DqbE&w=640&h=480'\n width='640'\n height='480'\n scrolling='no'\n frameborder='no'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The major wildfire burning north of the Bay Area's main route to Lake Tahoe has exploded in size, with state and federal officials now saying the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4108/24483/\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a> northeast of Placerville has covered nearly 71,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the blaze is threatening 2,000 homes and 1,500 \"minor structures\" near the El Dorado County community of Pollock Pines, which is in a sort of transition zone from the Sierra Nevada foothills into thickly timbered mountain ridges and canyons in the American River watershed. So far, there's no word that the fire has burned homes or structures. About 3,600 personnel have been assigned to the fire, which is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire, most of the blaze's spread over the last day has been to the north and northwest, toward the communities of Swansboro and Volcanoville and Stumpy Meadows Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second time since the blaze broke out over the weekend, U.S. 50 has been shut down to give firefighters full access to the fire zone. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/18/6717007/highway-50-closed-again-near-28000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details on the closure from the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...Highway 50 is closed again in the Sierra Nevada as crews set backfires to stem the march of the King blaze that has charred a broad swath of timberland in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reports that [an 8-mile] stretch of the highway from Sly Park Road to Ice House Road closed again around midnight. Firefighters are busy setting backfires that they hope will burn into the main fire and provide a large burned buffer between flames and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure will be re-evaluated later today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire is close to the roadway and they are trying to get crews in and out,” said CHP spokesman Officer Rich Wetzel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternate routes for trans-Sierra travelers are Interstate 80 and Highway 88.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of the King Fire -- which apparently quadrupled in size from early Wednesday to early Thursday -- has been breathtaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze started last Saturday evening on the outskirts of the community of Pollock Pines, about a dozen miles as the crow flies northeast of Placerville. That evening, it was reported to be 20 acres. Driven by hot, dry and occasionally windy weather and feeding on drought-parched forests, the fire has expanded rapidly since, covering 3,000 acres by Sunday evening, 8,600 by Monday night and 12,800 by Tuesday night and about 18,500 on Wednesday morning. After dark Wednesday, officials said the fire had grown to 28,000 acres, an estimate updated to 71,000 Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current acreage total is equivalent to abut 110 square miles. How would that area look on a Bay Area map? It's \u003cem>roughly\u003c/em> equal to the San Francisco Peninsula from the Golden Gate all the way down to Pacifica and Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials say that weather conditions Thursday, though a bit cooler and moister than earlier in the week, could feed \"extreme fire behavior\" in the continue to push the fire north, east and west. Fire managers also report the southern flank of the fire, near Pollock Pines and along U.S. 50, is the most secure at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/240196194/DA-Announces-Filing-of-Criminal-Complaint-Against-Wayne-Allen-Huntsman\">DA Announces Filing of Criminal Complaint Against Wayne Allen Huntsman\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With California’s reservoir levels dropping, just about everyone is wishing the state had gotten more water this year. That doesn’t just depend on the weather, according to a team of scientists. Sierra Nevada forests play a big role in the state’s water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like crops, trees consume water. And Sierra Nevada forests are denser than they once were after decades of fire suppression. That could be reducing the amount of runoff coming from the snowpack — runoff that provides water for most of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call the Sierra Nevada our water towers for California,” says Roger Bales, a hydrologist with UC Merced. “About 60 percent of our consumable water comes from the Sierra Nevada.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bales is working in a pine forest about 20 miles west of Lake Tahoe, to understand the balance between and trees and runoff. 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About 40 fires have been allowed to burn there over several decades, reducing the number of trees per acre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like there’s 20 percent more surface water leaving the streams in that area since the fire program began in the mid-1970s,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widely spaced trees also make the forest more resistant to high-severity fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ebfC6eGZE6wvva0IQjLqdbheiT23eRrP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call it a potential win-win,” Stephens says. “It’s a win from a fire standpoint to have more resilient forests and also maybe a win in terms of being able to provide a critical resource for California, which is water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But leaving naturally caused fires to burn over large areas of the Sierra Nevada is tricky, he says, especially near houses and communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Letting fire work in those lands is risky,” Stephens says. “Sometimes it’s going to go as expected and once in a while it goes wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is to allow timber companies to cut small trees, thinning the forest. 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(NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A storm approaching California on February 24 had large amounts of dust at the center, as shown by the highlighted orange areas. (NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s recent rainstorms, as welcome as they were, haven’t been enough to save the state from a serious drought this year. The rainy season typically winds down by late March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are trying to understand why some storms unload lots of rain and snow in California and others don’t. They’re finding it could be linked to dust storms thousands of miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeds of a Storm\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a windy bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Kim Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, eyes a bank of dark clouds in the distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s coming in,” she says. “I think it’s the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain is what Prather and her team have been waiting for. They’ve set up a large truck trailer full of scientific equipment at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, about an hour north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouds are made up of water vapor, but that’s not the only ingredient needed for rain. Tiny particles like pollution, sea spray, dust and smoke, are the seeds of a rainstorm. The water inside a cloud condenses on these aerosols, growing larger and larger until it becomes a raindrop or snowflake that’s heavy enough to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large pumps on the trailer next to us are pulling in millions of these particles, so Prather and her team can examine them one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t expect there to be much dust here, but in fact, there are parcels of dust continuously coming across the Pacific right now,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dust has made its way from the deserts of Asia and Africa. Dust storms send particles miles into the air, then they drift to California in 7 to 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15133\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Prather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Prather.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Prather watches are air particles are tested, inside a research trailer in Bodega Bay. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Prather watches as her mobile lab tests air particles inside a research trailer in Bodega Bay. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prather has studied dust like this before, when she \u003ca href=\"http://atofms.ucsd.edu/content/calwater-2009-2011\">flew through Sierra Nevada snowstorms\u003c/a> in a small research plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So days with dust, we found, were days where you had the most snow on the ground consistently,” she says. “And it’s not a lot of dust. It’s just the right amount of dust that comes in and seeds the very top of the clouds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one study, Prather found that the right kind of dust storm \u003ca href=\"http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/intercontinental_rainmakers\">could boost snowfall\u003c/a> in the Sierra Nevada by 40 percent. It happens because dust helps ice crystals grow. Ice formation appears to be the magic recipe for producing lots of precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ice is a very picky process,” Prather says. “Ice only likes to form on certain surfaces. Dust seems to be very good. Bacteria—biological particles seem to be very good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep—bacteria. “Dust will come out of the ground with microbes on it and so there are microbes that are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/01/29/170459317/bird-plane-bacteria-microbes-thrive-in-storm-clouds\">still alive in those clouds\u003c/a>,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”e2d0ec59e2858dd0f66f678a2f5178d7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other particles appear to have the opposite effect. Urban air pollution, both from California and coming over from Asia, seems to reduce precipitation in the Sierra. The particles are small, creating a lot of water droplets that aren’t quite heavy enough to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prather says there’s still a lot to understand about the effects that particles have on the weather, but the information could help improve weather forecasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we getting more precipitation?” she says. “Are we getting less precipitation? The ultimate goal is to be able to feed this into weather forecast models and improve those models, where they actually take into account the seeds. Right now, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating Weather Models\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From an operational perspective, we are giving that very serious consideration,” says Bill Lapenta, who runs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/\">weather forecasting division\u003c/a> of the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily weather forecasts come from giant simulations that run on supercomputers. Adding more dynamics, like the behavior of dust storms, increases costs for the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It adds an additional amount of complexity which then requires more computational resources,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dust and Particles Transported Around the Globe://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyxFpQCs7U\n\nWeather models are updated generally only once a year, because changes can have far-reaching consequences. “The models have to be run on time, every time,” Lapenta says. The information is key for preparing the public for extreme weather and floods.\n\nStill, Lapenta says he’s hoping to start including dust storms and other sources of particles in the next five years. “I do believe that in the end, including the effects of dust particles in these complex models will help improve the precipitation forecast,” he says.\n\n\u003cstrong>Storing More Water for Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An improved forecast could help California manage its water supplies better, leading to fuller reservoirs that help buffer California against drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The storms that provide the beneficial water that we really need badly this year?” says Marty Ralph, director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It often comes in just a few events each winter, and that’s really the make or break thing for the season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action\">network of reservoirs\u003c/a> stores that runoff. 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Adding more dynamics, like the behavior of dust storms, increases costs for the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It adds an additional amount of complexity which then requires more computational resources,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dust and Particles Transported Around the Globe://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyxFpQCs7U\n\nWeather models are updated generally only once a year, because changes can have far-reaching consequences. “The models have to be run on time, every time,” Lapenta says. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/23/108082/rs6254_177354257-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108101\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108101\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/RS6254_177354257-scr-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Fire crews near Groveland, a community west of Yosemite National Park threatened by the Rim Fire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \" width=\"300\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews near Groveland, a community west of Yosemite National Park threatened by the Rim Fire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latest post:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/24/rim-fire-update/\" target=\"_blank\">Blaze Slows But Remains Extremely Dangerous\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Details, as of 10:30 p.m. PDT Friday:\u003c/strong> The fire that's been burning all week just west of Yosemite took another giant leap in size Friday, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Forest Service\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/CaliforniaStatewideFireSummary2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CalFire\u003c/a> reporting the blaze, named the Rim Fire, has now covered more than 125,000 acres (more below on how big that really is). The conflagration is just 5 percent contained, and a force of nearly 2,700 firefighters, backed by big aerial tankers, is struggling to stop the blaze as gusty winds drive it through rugged, hard-to-reach terrain. Fire officials say the blaze threatens 5,500 homes. So far, four homes have burned along with about a dozen other structures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Early Friday, the fire crossed the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, burning in a remote area near Lake Eleanor. The blaze remains far from iconic park destinations like Yosemite Valley.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Later in the day, officials said the fire had spread west toward the Highway 108, the route between the town of Sonora and Sonora Pass, and that aerial tankers were flying missions to try to slow the spread of the blaze in that direction. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So far, the gated resort town of Pine Mountain Lake (population 2,800) and rural settlement of Buck Meadows (50 people) are the only communities facing a mandatory evacuation. But authorities issued evacuation advisories for several other towns, including Tuolumne City (population 1,800), Groveland (600) and Ponderosa Hills.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco, which has major water and hydropower resources in the fire area. The declaration makes state funds available to the city to respond to the threat to the facilities and could free federal funding to help offset the city's costs in replacing electrical power it's been unable to generate during the fire. Earlier, Brown declared a state of emergency for Tuolumne County to help local officials with their emergency response. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Highway 120 west of Yosemite, the main route to the park from the Bay Area, remains closed. Travelers can still get into the park on Highway 140 (via Merced), Highway 41 (via Oakhurst) and on Highway 120 \u003cem>\u003cstrong>east\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> of the park (via Lee Vining and Tioga Pass).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco has shut down two powerhouses in the fire zone and is waiting to get the all-clear from fire officials before sending crews in to inspect them. The facilities are part of the city's Hetch Hetchy water and power system and can generate 160 megawatts of power. The city uses that electricity to run Muni, light City Hall, and for the rest of its municipal needs. For the time being, it's replacing the power with energy \"banked\" with PG&E and by buying electricity from other providers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hotels and resorts in the area have been shut down, along with several municipal high-country vacation retreats such as San Francisco's Camp Mather. We haven't seen any hard numbers on how many people have actually been evacuated from the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/23/cal-alumni-bear-of-the-lair-camp-evacuates-due-to-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside reports\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley has closed its popular camp, Lair of the Bear. The city of Berkeley's Tuolumne Family Camp, San Jose's city camp and the Jewish \u003ca href=\"http://www.tawonga.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Tawonga\u003c/a> have also been evacuated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Air quality regulators in Reno have issued \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/?action=airnow.local_city&zipcode=89512\" target=\"_blank\">an alert\u003c/a> for unhealthy air for the next several days as \u003ca href=\"http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">smoke\u003c/a> from the Rim Fire and a second blaze farther north in the Sierra, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/#\" target=\"_blank\">American Fire\u003c/a>, is carried to the northeast.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Now, how big is 125,000 acres? Some news organizations, like NPR, have taken to reporting the size of fires in square miles instead of acres, apparently in the belief that listeners and readers can better grasp the magnitude of the events that way. So, 105,000 acres is 196 square miles. Here's still another way to think of the size of this fire, which has grown eightfold in area since early Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hundred ninety-six square miles is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About four times the area of San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly equivalent to the combined area of Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland—in other words, nearly everything between the bay shore and crest of the East Bay hills from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge down to the Oakland Airport.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All of San Jose's sprawling 180 square miles, with the city of Santa Clara thrown in for good measure.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Here's KPCC's graphic summary of the Rim Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/rim-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's the latest (9:45 p.m. Friday) on the fire from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FRESNO — A giant wildfire raging out of control grew to nearly 200 square miles and spread into Yosemite National Park on Friday, as California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the city of San Francisco 150 miles away because of the threat to the city's utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire hit the park at the height of summer season, as officials geared up for a busy Labor Day weekend. It has closed some backcountry hiking but was not threatening the Yosemite Valley region, one of California's most popular tourist destinations that features such iconic sights as the Half Dome and El Capitan rock formations and Bridalveil and Yosemite falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze did, however, pose a threat to the lines and stations that pipe power to the city of San Francisco, so Brown, who had declared an emergency for the fire area earlier in the week, made the unusual move of extending the emergency declaration to the city across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from the Yosemite-area Hetch Hetchy reservoir that is about 4 miles from the fire, though that had yet to be affected. But it was forced to shut down two of its three hydroelectric power stations in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has so far been able to buy power on the open market and use existing supplies, but further disruptions or damage could have an effect, according to city power officials and the governor's statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declaration frees funding and resources to help the city and makes it eligible for more federal funds to help with power shortages and outages or water problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeklong blaze on the timbered slopes of the Western Sierra Nevada has spread to 196 square miles and was only 5 percent contained. It continued to grow in several directions, although \"most of the fire activity is pushing to the east right into Yosemite,\" said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke blowing across the Sierra into the state of Nevada forced officials in several counties to cancel outdoor school activities and issue health advisories, especially for people with respiratory problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities urged more evacuations in nearby communities where thousands have already been forced out by flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was threatening about 5,500 residences, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The blaze has destroyed four homes and 12 outbuildings in several different areas. More than 2,000 firefighters were on the lines and one sustained a heat-related injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remained open, the blaze closed a 4-mile stretch of State Route 120, one of three entrances into Yosemite on the west side. Two other western routes and an eastern route were open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the park, the blaze was burning on about 17 square miles in a remote area around Lake Eleanor, Yosemite spokeswoman Kari Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backcountry permits are required to hike in that area, Cobb said. The park was no longer issuing those and had contacted every person who had received a permit to go there. Two roads into that area were closed and occupants of a campground near the Route 120 west entrance were relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have anybody we know of in that area based on the permits we have out now,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was more than 20 miles from Yosemite Valley and skies there were \"crystal clear,\" Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there are no closures, and no visitor services are being affected in the park,\" he said. \"We just have to take one day at a time depending on fire activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, officials issued voluntary evacuation advisories for two new towns — Tuolumne City, population 1,800, and Ponderosa Hills, a community of several hundred — which are about five miles from the fire line, Forest Service spokesman Jerry Snyder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mandatory evacuation order remained in effect for part of Pine Mountain Lake, a summer gated community a few miles from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels a little bit like a war zone, with helicopters flying overhead, bombers dropping retardant and 10 engine companies stationed on our street,\" said Ken Codeglia, a retired Pine Mountain Lake resident who decided to stay to protect his house with his own hoses and fire retardant system. \"But if the fire gets very hot and firefighters evacuate, I will run with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials previously advised voluntary evacuations of more than a thousand other homes, several organized camps and at least two campgrounds in the area outside the park's boundary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More homes, businesses and hotels are threatened in nearby Groveland, a community of 600 about 5 miles from the fire and 25 miles from the entrance of Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually filled with tourists, the streets are now swarming with firefighters, evacuees, and news crews, said Doug Edwards, owner of Hotel Charlotte on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We usually book out six months solid with no vacancies and turn away 30-40 people a night. That's all changed,\" Edwards said. \"All we're getting for the next three weeks is cancellations. It's a huge impact on the community in terms of revenue dollars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park fire crews are working to clear brush and other fire fuels from the Merced and Tuolumne Groves of Giant Sequoias as a precaution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is raging in the same region where a 1987 fire killed a firefighter, burned hundreds of thousands of acres, and forced several thousand people out of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press writers Jason Dearen, Lisa Leff and Andrew Dalton in San Francisco also contributed to this report.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The city uses that electricity to run Muni, light City Hall, and for the rest of its municipal needs. For the time being, it's replacing the power with energy \"banked\" with PG&E and by buying electricity from other providers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hotels and resorts in the area have been shut down, along with several municipal high-country vacation retreats such as San Francisco's Camp Mather. We haven't seen any hard numbers on how many people have actually been evacuated from the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/23/cal-alumni-bear-of-the-lair-camp-evacuates-due-to-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside reports\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley has closed its popular camp, Lair of the Bear. The city of Berkeley's Tuolumne Family Camp, San Jose's city camp and the Jewish \u003ca href=\"http://www.tawonga.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Tawonga\u003c/a> have also been evacuated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Air quality regulators in Reno have issued \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/?action=airnow.local_city&zipcode=89512\" target=\"_blank\">an alert\u003c/a> for unhealthy air for the next several days as \u003ca href=\"http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">smoke\u003c/a> from the Rim Fire and a second blaze farther north in the Sierra, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/#\" target=\"_blank\">American Fire\u003c/a>, is carried to the northeast.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Now, how big is 125,000 acres? Some news organizations, like NPR, have taken to reporting the size of fires in square miles instead of acres, apparently in the belief that listeners and readers can better grasp the magnitude of the events that way. 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