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Without a paycheck, she can't afford her rent this month, let alone buy Christmas presents for her two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had a meeting with my kids two days ago, I sat down and met with them,\" she says. \"I told them, just understand that I'm not going to be able to get you anything but you're going to get some gifts from our family members. And be patient and be a little bit more non-complaining and whining because mom's stressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making a New Plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the Local Assistance Center's parking lot, the Blomquist family gets out of their truck. They're all wearing pink gas masks to protect from the smoke and ash in the air. The night before the fire, the family was making Christmas cookies. The gifts were nestled under the tree. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chadwick the African Lion gets up slowly from a late-morning nap in a spot of warm sunshine that has become somewhat of a rarity in these often smoke-filled days here at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbzoo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara Zoo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a very majestic older lion,” Dr. Julie Barnes, director of animal care and health at the Santa Barbara Zoo, tells a visitor. “He’s 19 years old, so he is definitely geriatric at this time. But he is very beloved here by the people who work at the zoo and by our visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/12/SBZooEvacsOneill171222.mp3\" title=\"Keeping the Santa Barbara Zoo Safe From Fire\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Chadwich-Credit-SheriHoriszny-1-e1513977223284.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thick-maned lion is among 500 residents of the zoo. Officials have been on standby for their evacuation, should flames from the massive \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a> get close to the zoo, which happened once already since the fire began on Dec. 4. Zoo officials have had their hands full, keeping the animals safe, even as evacuations have been lifted for the massive Thomas Fire still burning in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good job, buddy,” Chadwick’s handler, Kristen Wieners, says as she lures the big cat up to the fence with a toot of a training whistle and the promise of a meaty reward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chadwick shakes off sleep and slowly approaches the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is how a 19-year-old lion moves,” she says as she hands him a reward of raw meat stuffed into a cardboard paper towel tube. The lion grabs it and chews it between his giant paws, like a dog gnawing rawhide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639051\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-giraffe-calf-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giraffe calf at the Santa Barbara Zoo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Santa Barbara Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cardboard tube acts like “an extra source of fiber,” in Chadwick’s diet, says Wieners: “Every time they come over (to the fence) we want to reinforce the cats and tell them it’s a really good thing to come over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threat of wildfire has made that especially true. Chadwick and the zoo’s leopards, including a breeding pair of Amur leopards -- the rarest big cats in the world -- must be tranquilized before handlers can load them into sturdy steel evacuation crates lined up along the back side of the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says attracting big cats to the cage mesh allows keepers to inject them by hand rather than by dart gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes the process very calm, very quick,” Barnes says. “Very low stress on the animals and then they just go to sleep, within about 10 to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of efficiency is needed for a successful evacuation, especially at a zoo like this with about 150 species that would need capturing before they can be crated and carted to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says you can’t wait until the flames are in your backyard to prepare for something like this. And so, during this fire, they took quick action, focusing first on evacuating their endangered California condors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We moved our condors down to the Los Angeles Zoo,” Barnes says. \"They’re one of our priority species -- they’re highly endangered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And along for the ride were a few other vultures who Barnes says can be \"tricky to trap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So once we actually got our hands on them, we just decided to move them out as well,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handlers also led two visiting reindeer -- Lightning and Holiday -- into horse trailers. They’ve headed home for the holidays. An infant anteater who needs round-the-clock bottle feeding is now bunking at the Fresno Zoo, about four hours north of here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the evacuees-in-waiting: several fennec foxes, a rambunctious baby gibbon and her foster mother, two silverback Western lowland gorillas, Asian small-clawed otters, golden lion tamarins and a rather petite Chinese alligator who, it turns out, is pretty easy to capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They usually just throw a towel over her head so she can’t see them, and they just jump on her,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639049\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-520x650.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Barbara Zoo elephants \u003ccite>(Sheri Horiszny/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a different story, however, for the zoo’s two 46-year-old Asian elephants. Barnes says they suffer from age-related joint disease, and unlike circus elephants who routinely travel the country, these elderly pachyderms are not crate-trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To move them into crates is very stressful for them,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their best chance of survival, she says, is to leave them in place. Their exhibit includes concrete housing that would provide protection. What’s more, she says, firefighters have staged vehicles around the zoo to defend it if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same goes for the zoo’s five giraffes. Evacuating them would be a tall order, requiring a special truck and a carefully mapped out getaway route as giraffes can’t fit under freeway overpasses or under low-hanging power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Barnes says, the zoo’s flock of 50 fragile flamingos would probably stay put as they’re easily injured and catching them can be a bit like herding cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fire burned in the hills above Santa Barbara, Barnes considered it safest to keep most of the animals in their nighttime holding pens for easy evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well-behaved Chadwick being among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with evacuation orders lifted for humans in the county, zoo officials have proclaimed all their animal residents free to again roam their outdoor exhibits -- much to the pleasure of zoo visitors.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The lion grabs it and chews it between his giant paws, like a dog gnawing rawhide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639051\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-giraffe-calf-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giraffe calf at the Santa Barbara Zoo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Santa Barbara Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cardboard tube acts like “an extra source of fiber,” in Chadwick’s diet, says Wieners: “Every time they come over (to the fence) we want to reinforce the cats and tell them it’s a really good thing to come over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threat of wildfire has made that especially true. Chadwick and the zoo’s leopards, including a breeding pair of Amur leopards -- the rarest big cats in the world -- must be tranquilized before handlers can load them into sturdy steel evacuation crates lined up along the back side of the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says attracting big cats to the cage mesh allows keepers to inject them by hand rather than by dart gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes the process very calm, very quick,” Barnes says. “Very low stress on the animals and then they just go to sleep, within about 10 to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of efficiency is needed for a successful evacuation, especially at a zoo like this with about 150 species that would need capturing before they can be crated and carted to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says you can’t wait until the flames are in your backyard to prepare for something like this. 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"content": "\u003cp>A lot of things about the Thomas Fire surprised veteran Ventura County firefighter Steve Kaufmann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that it burned 70 square miles in 12 hours. The fact that it nearly incinerated City Hall in downtown Ventura. But perhaps the most shocking to him was that by daybreak on the first full day of the fire, more than 150 homes had been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t normally see major structure devastation on our wildland fires,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura County has long been known for its strict enforcement of fire protection rules. So it's surprising to Kaufmann and other fire officials that most of the roughly thousand structures that have burned so far in the Thomas Fire have been within its borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, Ventura County has experienced just a single wildfire that burned more than 18 homes, according to data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (It was the Simi Fire, which burned during \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/2003FireStoryInternet.pdf\">the epic 2003 wildfire season.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WL5A8ZeLFCmX3Ltkp2kgzwdJwMA61elQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Bernardino counties all had multiple fires that were more destructive during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, residents in areas of high wildfire risk have to maintain 100 feet of clearing around their homes. It's what's known as \"defensible space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But counties have a lot of discretion on how to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, if you don’t clear your brush, officials will fine you $1,658 (it goes up to $1,800 in 2018). They’ll also do the yard work themselves and then bill you for the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Roper, the former fire chief of Ventura County who retired in 2012, said numerous fire officials have called to ask him what they can learn from Ventura’s approach. When he tells them about the high fines, “They say, thanks for the information, but if I tried that in my jurisdiction, we’d be shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Ventura County is much more aggressive than most of its neighbors. San Bernardino charges only $100 for failing to clear brush. And Orange County doesn’t have the authority to remove brush on private property at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the back of Roper’s mind, he always knew that one out of control, wind-blown wildfire could upend his county’s track record of success. Because in those situations, even people who have done everything right can lose their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To show me what he meant, he invited me up to Ojai for a drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Day 10 of the Thomas Fire, Dec. 13, and the Ojai Valley looked the way I imagine a smoggy Los Angeles did in the 1960s. The sun was a blood orange, and the mountains were a gradient of hazy pastels. The smoke got worse over the course of the day, and after a few hours of driving around, I felt nauseous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1020x598.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1180x691.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-960x563.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-520x305.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we climbed into the Upper Ojai Valley, most of the houses we saw along Highway 150 had burned. I saw the charred skeletons of stationary bicycles and the rims of cars melted into silvery puddles. As we pulled into the ash-speckled driveway of another destroyed home, Roper told me the residents had done a great job clearing brush from around their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happened to be when the wind blows hard enough, you end up with what we call a firestorm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the face of the Thomas Fire, and it has raised a question across Ventura County: Are its policies actually doing enough to protect homes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Moritz says no. He's a wildfire expert with the UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defensible space has a very specific use. It’s to provide a place for firefighters to do their work. It doesn’t actually necessarily in and of itself protect the home from ignition,” he said. “We also have to think of the structure itself. What if nobody is there to defend it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1180x726.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-960x591.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-240x148.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-375x231.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-520x320.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most houses that burn in a wildfire ignite not from a wall of fire, but\u003ca href=\"http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8393.pdf\"> from windblown embers that can travel up to 4 miles.\u003c/a> That means fireproofing a home really depends on how it's built. If a hot ember lands on the roof or deck, will it catch? Can embers blow into attic vents or crawl spaces? Are gutters cleared out, or full of pine needles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_protection/fire_protection_wildland\">requires all new houses in the highest-risk wildfire zones\u003c/a> to be built using fire-resistant materials. But there are many older homes in these areas that aren’t required to meet the code unless they're renovated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"pkyBq5rmkJkTtRIZbl40liU6j8JjzFoa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Modern building codes are great for new construction,” said Roper. “But the majority of the homes in the wildfire-prone area are already built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Richard Halsey, director of the Chaparral Institute, the problem isn’t just \u003cem>what\u003c/em> the houses are made of, but \u003cem>where\u003c/em> they’re built. He believes elected officials who permit construction in fire-prone areas should be held liable when they burn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot keep putting people out in dangerous conditions, like we’re doing, we just can’t,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/12/12/60649/three-ways-housing-can-be-better-developed-to-mini/\">he told KPCC’s Take Two\u003c/a>. “I know there’s a housing crisis, but we’re going to have a mortality crisis if we keep doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roper thinks even the strictest policies in the world won’t stop every firestorm. In 70 mph winds, the most fireproof homes can burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes Mother Nature is more powerful than us,” he said, as we drove down from the Upper Ojai Valley in thickening smoke. “We can’t win every fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A lot of things about the Thomas Fire surprised veteran Ventura County firefighter Steve Kaufmann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that it burned 70 square miles in 12 hours. The fact that it nearly incinerated City Hall in downtown Ventura. But perhaps the most shocking to him was that by daybreak on the first full day of the fire, more than 150 homes had been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t normally see major structure devastation on our wildland fires,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura County has long been known for its strict enforcement of fire protection rules. So it's surprising to Kaufmann and other fire officials that most of the roughly thousand structures that have burned so far in the Thomas Fire have been within its borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, Ventura County has experienced just a single wildfire that burned more than 18 homes, according to data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (It was the Simi Fire, which burned during \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/2003FireStoryInternet.pdf\">the epic 2003 wildfire season.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Bernardino counties all had multiple fires that were more destructive during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, residents in areas of high wildfire risk have to maintain 100 feet of clearing around their homes. It's what's known as \"defensible space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But counties have a lot of discretion on how to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, if you don’t clear your brush, officials will fine you $1,658 (it goes up to $1,800 in 2018). They’ll also do the yard work themselves and then bill you for the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Roper, the former fire chief of Ventura County who retired in 2012, said numerous fire officials have called to ask him what they can learn from Ventura’s approach. When he tells them about the high fines, “They say, thanks for the information, but if I tried that in my jurisdiction, we’d be shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Roper-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Roper, former fire chief with Ventura County Fire Department, at the site of a burned home in the Upper Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Ventura County is much more aggressive than most of its neighbors. San Bernardino charges only $100 for failing to clear brush. And Orange County doesn’t have the authority to remove brush on private property at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the back of Roper’s mind, he always knew that one out of control, wind-blown wildfire could upend his county’s track record of success. Because in those situations, even people who have done everything right can lose their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To show me what he meant, he invited me up to Ojai for a drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Day 10 of the Thomas Fire, Dec. 13, and the Ojai Valley looked the way I imagine a smoggy Los Angeles did in the 1960s. The sun was a blood orange, and the mountains were a gradient of hazy pastels. The smoke got worse over the course of the day, and after a few hours of driving around, I felt nauseous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-800x469.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1020x598.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-1180x691.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-960x563.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/OjaiSmoke-520x305.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Thomas Fire fills the Ojai Valley on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we climbed into the Upper Ojai Valley, most of the houses we saw along Highway 150 had burned. I saw the charred skeletons of stationary bicycles and the rims of cars melted into silvery puddles. As we pulled into the ash-speckled driveway of another destroyed home, Roper told me the residents had done a great job clearing brush from around their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happened to be when the wind blows hard enough, you end up with what we call a firestorm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the face of the Thomas Fire, and it has raised a question across Ventura County: Are its policies actually doing enough to protect homes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Moritz says no. He's a wildfire expert with the UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defensible space has a very specific use. It’s to provide a place for firefighters to do their work. It doesn’t actually necessarily in and of itself protect the home from ignition,” he said. “We also have to think of the structure itself. What if nobody is there to defend it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. December 13, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-800x492.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-1180x726.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-960x591.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-240x148.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-375x231.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/BurnedHomeVentura-520x320.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the houses that burned in Ventura County, like this one off Highway 150 in the Upper Ojai Valley, complied with the county's strict brush clearing policies. Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Emily Guerin/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most houses that burn in a wildfire ignite not from a wall of fire, but\u003ca href=\"http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8393.pdf\"> from windblown embers that can travel up to 4 miles.\u003c/a> That means fireproofing a home really depends on how it's built. If a hot ember lands on the roof or deck, will it catch? Can embers blow into attic vents or crawl spaces? Are gutters cleared out, or full of pine needles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_protection/fire_protection_wildland\">requires all new houses in the highest-risk wildfire zones\u003c/a> to be built using fire-resistant materials. But there are many older homes in these areas that aren’t required to meet the code unless they're renovated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Modern building codes are great for new construction,” said Roper. “But the majority of the homes in the wildfire-prone area are already built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Richard Halsey, director of the Chaparral Institute, the problem isn’t just \u003cem>what\u003c/em> the houses are made of, but \u003cem>where\u003c/em> they’re built. He believes elected officials who permit construction in fire-prone areas should be held liable when they burn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot keep putting people out in dangerous conditions, like we’re doing, we just can’t,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/12/12/60649/three-ways-housing-can-be-better-developed-to-mini/\">he told KPCC’s Take Two\u003c/a>. “I know there’s a housing crisis, but we’re going to have a mortality crisis if we keep doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roper thinks even the strictest policies in the world won’t stop every firestorm. In 70 mph winds, the most fireproof homes can burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes Mother Nature is more powerful than us,” he said, as we drove down from the Upper Ojai Valley in thickening smoke. “We can’t win every fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>LOS ANGELES -- Crews trying to corral Southern California's enormous wildfire hope to take advantage of a two-day window of calmer winds before potentially dangerous gusts return at midweek, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze that broke out two weeks ago still threatens communities northwest of Los Angeles, where thousands remain under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooler temperatures, slightly higher humidity and light winds forecast for Monday and Tuesday will be \"critical\" for firefighters hoping to make progress against the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a>, said fire spokesman Capt. Rick Crawford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1QT3h5ioycmbF0xoB6XPilRGeM5iSdkn7\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For right now the winds seem very favorable,\" he said. \"We're always looking out for those unpredictable gusts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hot, gusty winds that caused a huge flare-up and forced more residents to flee over the weekend are expected to come back Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire churning through brush in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties has burned more than 1,000 structures, including at least 750 homes. Some 18,000 more residences are still threatened. The 270,500-acre (422-square-mile) blaze, the third largest in state history, is 45 percent contained, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television news footage showed at least one structure burned on property in the wealthy enclave of Montecito, and authorities said damage assessments could take days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael and Sonia Behrman told KABC-TV they fled their hillside home when heavy smoke blew in and returned to find it in ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just hard to put into words,\" Michael Behrman said. \"It's where we live. It's just smoke and ruin right now.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Winds Fuel Thomas Fire as it Pushes Toward Santa Barbara and Montecito",
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"content": "\u003cp>Firefighters trying to prevent one of the largest fires in California’s history from consuming homes in the wealthy enclaves of Santa Barbara and Montecito are hoping less powerful winds will help them after they managed to stop the Thomas Fire from burning thousands of residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thomas Fire, which has been burning since Dec. 4 in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, grew overnight to 269,000 acres. It remains 40 percent contained. It has destroyed more than 750 structures, most of them homes, and damaged almost 250 others. Another 18,000 buildings remain in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is now the third-largest fire in California history. If it surpasses 273,000 acres, it will become the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Acres.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest in the state’s history\u003c/a>, surpassing the 2003 Cedar Fire in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Napa City firefighter Nick Rizzo pulls a hose up a steep hill to protect structures from the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637746\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183518-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napa City firefighter Nick Rizzo pulls a hose up a steep hill to protect structures from the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After winds roared at around 30 mph, with gusts up to 60 mph on Saturday, they are expected to ease Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even the lower intensity winds, with gusts of up to 35 mph, are still extremely dangerous, said fire spokesman Jude Olivas. He said 400 fire engines were sent to protect homes in the area and firefighters saved thousands of homes on Saturday as they dealt with “extreme and erratic” fire behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winds “will go down a little bit, hopefully we can do the same job (Sunday) that we did (Saturday),” Olivas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Sunday morning, Ventura County officials lifted evacuation orders for Highway 150 between Santa Ana and Highway 192. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/countyofsb/status/942437931398115330\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the mandatory evacuation orders issued Saturday for Santa Barbara county remain in effect. They include: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>All areas east of Highway 154, south of East Camino Cielo, west of Toro Canyon and north of Highway 101 at Toro Canyon to South Salinas then north of Alameda Padre Serra and to Highway 192 west to 154.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The previous evacuation order for the area east of Toro Canyon to Casitas Pass Road north of Highway 192 and south of East Camino Cielo remains in effect.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/16/78964/thomas-fire-is-now-the-state-s-third-largest-as-it/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">residents piled into cars and fled Santa Barbara\u003c/a>, turning the city’s downtown area into what one resident described as “a ghost town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A strong wind blows embers from smoldering trees at the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A strong wind blows embers from smoldering trees at the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \u003ccite>(DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pierre Henry, owner of the Bree’osh Bakery in Montecito, said he got a text to evacuate Saturday morning as the fire approached homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst was the smoke,” Henry said. “You couldn’t breathe at all, and it became worse when the wind started. All the ashes and the dust on the street were in the air. It was very, very frightening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandatory evacuations around Montecito and neighboring Summerland came as firefighters sprayed water onto hot spots sparked by blowing embers. They also drove to the historic San Ysidro Ranch in yellow firetrucks as heavy smoke rose from the coastal hills, blotting out blue skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Hot Shot crew marches through a canyon between homes to fight the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hot Shot crew marches through a canyon between homes to fight the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \u003ccite>(DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 95,000 people have been placed under mandatory evacuation. The evacuation zone near Santa Barbara on Saturday was 17 miles long and up to 5 miles wide. The newly expanded evacuation orders encompassed about 3,300 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Santa Barbara, Maya Schoop-Rutten, owner of Chocolate Maya, said she saw through the window of her chocolate shop smoke suddenly appear after strong winds blew through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was absolutely incredible,” she said. “There was a huge mushroom of smoke that happened in just a matter of a few minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The mid-afternoon view of the Pacific Ocean from a hillside in Montecito, California is orange due to smoke from the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mid-afternoon view of the Pacific Ocean from a hillside in Montecito, California is orange due to smoke from the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Restaurants and small stores on normally bustling State Street were shuttered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a ghost town. Everything is shut down,” Schoop-Rutten said. “It’s very, very eerie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schoop-Rutten said the fire is taking an economic toll, even if it doesn’t invade the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tragic for businesses at this time of the year because this is when we make the money,” she said. “Imagine all the restaurants, all the Christmas parties have been cancelled. People lost a ton of revenue in the past few days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the Thomas Fire's progression as of early Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-960x709.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-520x384.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the Thomas Fire’s progression as of early Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017. \u003ccite>(CAL FIRE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Santa Barbara Zoo, which was in a voluntary evacuation zone on Saturday, workers began putting some animals into crates and kennels, to ready them for possible evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zoo has about 150 species of animals, including a pair of Amur leopards, a critically endangered species. Workers began putting vultures, California condors and some smaller animals into crates and kennels in case the fire approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SantaBarbaraZoo/status/942201765054705664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is fine right now. The wind has shifted in our favor,” spokesman Dean Noble said. “However, we just don’t want to get caught by something unexpected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other zoos are ready to accept the evacuated animals, he said. The Fresno zoo has an incubator available for a baby giant anteater, and the San Diego zoo is prepared to accept the Amur leopards and other cats, Noble said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The lights of a firetruck illuminate a firefighter dowsing a hot spot at the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183534-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lights of a firetruck illuminate a firefighter dowsing a hot spot at the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \u003ccite>(DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 101, coming up the coast from Los Angeles, were closed for a few hours south of Santa Barbara, with cars stopped on the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 418-square-mile Thomas Fire was moving rapidly westward and crested Montecito Peak, just north of Montecito. Known for its star power, the enclave boasts the mansions of Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and many other celebrities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Oprah/status/942447178697633792\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is right above the homes,” Olivas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey expressed her dismay on her Twitter account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Still praying for our little town. Winds picked up this morning creating a perfect storm of bad for firefighters,” Winfrey tweeted on Saturday. It was not clear if the former talk show host was in Montecito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Oprah/status/942088572122800128\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the northerly “sundowner” wind was driving the fire south and west, firefighters could only hope it would calm back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the sundowners surface in that area and the fire starts running down slopes, you are not going to stop it,” Mark Brown, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told a news conference. “And we are not going to stand in front of it and put firefighters in untenable situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter puts out hotspots on a smoldering hillside in Montecito, California as strong winds blow smoke and embers inland on December 16, 2017 at the Thomas Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637752\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183546-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter puts out hotspots on a smoldering hillside in Montecito, California as strong winds blow smoke and embers inland on December 16, 2017 at the Thomas Fire. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One firefighter has been killed battling the blaze. Cory Iverson, 32, of San Diego, died of burns and smoke inhalation, according to autopsy results announced Saturday. Officials previously said an accident led to his death but have not released more details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything about the fire has been massive, from the sheer scale of destruction that cremated entire neighborhoods to the legions attacking it: about 8,300 firefighters from nearly a dozen states, aided by 78 bulldozers and 29 helicopters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the Thomas Fire remains under investigation. So far, firefighting costs have surpassed $116 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Fire burns in the hills behind a home at the Thomas Fire, December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-960x648.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full-520x351.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183519-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire burns in the hills behind a home at the Thomas Fire, December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>All of the mandatory evacuation orders issued Saturday for Santa Barbara county remain in effect. They include: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>All areas east of Highway 154, south of East Camino Cielo, west of Toro Canyon and north of Highway 101 at Toro Canyon to South Salinas then north of Alameda Padre Serra and to Highway 192 west to 154.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The previous evacuation order for the area east of Toro Canyon to Casitas Pass Road north of Highway 192 and south of East Camino Cielo remains in effect.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/16/78964/thomas-fire-is-now-the-state-s-third-largest-as-it/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">residents piled into cars and fled Santa Barbara\u003c/a>, turning the city’s downtown area into what one resident described as “a ghost town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A strong wind blows embers from smoldering trees at the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183530-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A strong wind blows embers from smoldering trees at the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \u003ccite>(DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pierre Henry, owner of the Bree’osh Bakery in Montecito, said he got a text to evacuate Saturday morning as the fire approached homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst was the smoke,” Henry said. “You couldn’t breathe at all, and it became worse when the wind started. All the ashes and the dust on the street were in the air. It was very, very frightening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandatory evacuations around Montecito and neighboring Summerland came as firefighters sprayed water onto hot spots sparked by blowing embers. They also drove to the historic San Ysidro Ranch in yellow firetrucks as heavy smoke rose from the coastal hills, blotting out blue skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Hot Shot crew marches through a canyon between homes to fight the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183539-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hot Shot crew marches through a canyon between homes to fight the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017 in Montecito, California. \u003ccite>(DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 95,000 people have been placed under mandatory evacuation. The evacuation zone near Santa Barbara on Saturday was 17 miles long and up to 5 miles wide. The newly expanded evacuation orders encompassed about 3,300 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Santa Barbara, Maya Schoop-Rutten, owner of Chocolate Maya, said she saw through the window of her chocolate shop smoke suddenly appear after strong winds blew through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was absolutely incredible,” she said. “There was a huge mushroom of smoke that happened in just a matter of a few minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The mid-afternoon view of the Pacific Ocean from a hillside in Montecito, California is orange due to smoke from the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183537-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mid-afternoon view of the Pacific Ocean from a hillside in Montecito, California is orange due to smoke from the Thomas Fire on December 16, 2017. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Restaurants and small stores on normally bustling State Street were shuttered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a ghost town. Everything is shut down,” Schoop-Rutten said. “It’s very, very eerie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schoop-Rutten said the fire is taking an economic toll, even if it doesn’t invade the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tragic for businesses at this time of the year because this is when we make the money,” she said. “Imagine all the restaurants, all the Christmas parties have been cancelled. People lost a ton of revenue in the past few days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the Thomas Fire's progression as of early Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-960x709.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full-520x384.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/183555-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the Thomas Fire’s progression as of early Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017. \u003ccite>(CAL FIRE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Santa Barbara Zoo, which was in a voluntary evacuation zone on Saturday, workers began putting some animals into crates and kennels, to ready them for possible evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zoo has about 150 species of animals, including a pair of Amur leopards, a critically endangered species. 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