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The company claims it collected over 20,000 signatures, but the registrar’s office will spend the next five days counting each signature individually to make sure they have enough to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s announcement marked a turning point in a campaign that’s been controversial from the start. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972769/not-just-a-crazy-idea-california-forever-releases-ballot-details-for-new-bay-area-city\">revealing the ballot initiative\u003c/a> in mid-January, California Forever didn’t begin collecting signatures until late March due to back-and-forth with the registrar’s office over the ballot language. 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So if you have the resources to pay for all those mechanics, you’ll be fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Secretary of State’s Office did not confirm or deny whether it was investigating any formal complaints against California Forever, a spokesperson at the Solano County Registrar’s Office said at least nine people had emailed the office, complaining about misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacaville resident Tina Collins said she saw that conduct first-hand in early April from a signature gatherer standing outside a Walmart Supercenter in Dixon. She said the worker handed her several pieces of paper to sign, but she was confused about what she was approving. When she refused to sign the documents, she said the signature gatherer followed her to her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt extremely uncomfortable,” she said. “I haven’t heard much about [California Forever], but from what I’ve heard, I don’t think it’s promising.”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='housing']California Forever may have an uphill battle ahead of them as they seek approval from voters, who have been deeply skeptical of the plan since it was unveiled last August. It, along with its parent company, Flannery Associates, were forced to reveal their identities after spending the past six years \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970694/california-forever-lawsuit-looms-as-solano-county-farmers-fight-back\">discreetly buying about 60,000 acres of land\u003c/a> in the Montezuma Hills. Since going public, California Forever has been met with harsh criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976108/california-forever-faces-resistance-from-federal-lawmakers-and-local-leaders-in-solano-county\">several lawmakers\u003c/a>, affordable housing advocates and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A poll conducted in early March by FM3 Research on behalf of the Greenbelt Alliance, an organization staunchly opposed to the project, found that 60% of people aware of the company’s plan opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite vocal naysayers, some Solano County voters are supportive. Tyree Carrie lives in Suisun City, a few miles from the proposed new town. He said if it makes it to the November ballot, he’ll vote “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it’s something that’s very necessary,” he said. “There’s a lot of people who are struggling with housing in general, so I think it’s awesome when there are more options available and being able to generate income in an area, as far as giving people work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the myriad of promises California Forever has tied to its proposal, the company said it would bring 15,000 new jobs with higher-than-average pay. 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But while she’s is going for gold in Japan, there was a good decade when this moment didn’t seem likely at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Stevens developed an eating disorder in high school that made her step away from the sport in college. Stevens said a lot was happening at that time, including the late onset of puberty, as a result of her training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menstruation and breasts came late, and she feared they weighed her down on the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You read about it in health class, but to feel it is totally different,” she said. Stevens began to ratchet down how much she ate, and ratchet up how much she trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think about performance or anything. All I thought about is that I didn’t like what I saw in the mirror,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens was eventually diagnosed with the \u003ca>female athlete triad\u003c/a>, a term for those who struggle with an eating disorder, osteoporosis and amenorrhea, the absence of menstruation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Robyn Stevens\"]‘I didn’t think about performance or anything. All I thought about is that I didn’t like what I saw in the mirror.’[/pullquote]She spent her first two college years at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, where she battled with the feeling that she wasn’t performing up to her potential. Then she transferred to San Jose State University and joined the Spartans’ women’s cross-country team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, she quit race walking professionally to put distance between her and the toxic cycle of training, diet and struggling with her appearance. Stevens graduated San Jose State with an arts degree in 2007 and worked in a series of office jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens says her recovery began with the decision to remove herself from her sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, she was able to eat like a non-athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will always have to manage it, and be conscious that it’s something that can be slipped into easily,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, she took her golden retriever out for runs, and stayed in touch with friends and coaches from the race walking universe. A former teammate from San Jose State invited her to join the \u003ca href=\"https://runwolfpack.blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolfpack Running Club\u003c/a> in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11882015,news_11660424,news_11776340\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]“It was something fun to do. And then my youth coach Claudia [Wilde] invited me to pace her at a 15-meter race. And that’s when I got invited from that to do the 20K in Carmichael, and that’s where I accidentally qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic trials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right. She “accidentally qualified” at her first 20K since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew right then I had some decisions to make, cause it could be risky for my health. So I needed to assess if this is something I really wanted to pursue again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another coach, Susan Armenta, helped Stevens learn how to eat in a healthy fashion as an athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t until Stevens participated in the 2015 Pan American Race Walking Cup in Chile that she felt sure the time had come to step back in to race walking professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, putting on that uniform brought back all this nostalgic feeling,” Stevens said. “Also, and not incidentally, it’s where I met Nick for the first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11882489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1325601271.jpeg\" alt=\"Nick Christie, first place, crosses the finish line in the Men's 20km Racewalk Final as Robyn Stevens, first place, continues to compete in the Women's 20km Racewalk Final on day nine of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 26, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. \" width=\"1280\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1325601271.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1325601271-800x546.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1325601271-1020x696.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1325601271-160x109.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Christie, first place, crosses the finish line in the Men’s 20-km Race Walk Final as Robyn Stevens, first place, continues to compete in the Women’s 20-km Race Walk Final on day nine of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 26, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. \u003ccite>(Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stevens is referring to fellow professional race walker Nick Christie, who is now her boyfriend, training buddy and her personal chef — he cooks for them, which helps her avoid fixating on food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re both representing the U.S. in Japan this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life,” said Stevens. “I needed to step out before I could step back in. And just really heal and unite with a friendship with myself again, and value myself, my body and appreciate what it can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens can expect to keep race walking well into her 40s. There might even be another Olympics — or two — in her future. Whether she wins a medal in Sapporo, Japan, where race walking events are taking place, she made it to the starting line on Aug. 6, and for Stevens, that’s pretty golden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Find Robyn Stevens’ Summer Olympics schedule for race walking \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/olympic-schedule-and-results-date=2021-08-06.htm\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/\">contact the National Eating Disorders Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>Updated 5:00 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of wildfires sparked by lightning beginning Aug. 16 has spread rapidly across wide stretches of the outer Bay Area, as fire crews contend with high winds, dry air and triple-digit temperatures amid an extended heat wave. Tens of thousands of residents from the North Bay to the Peninsula have been forced to evacuate in the face of three major groupings — or complexes — of out-of-control fires blazing across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This post will be updated when new information is made available. Here's the latest on the three fire complexes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#LNU\">\u003cstrong>LNU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Yolo, Lake counties\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#SCU\">\u003cstrong>SCU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Stanislaus counties\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#CZU\">\u003cstrong>CZU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11833686 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Efos-IOVoAAccRm-1020x765.jpeg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"LNU\">\u003c/a>LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>24-hour information line: 707-967-4207\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16-walbridge/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Cal Fire LNU Twitter Feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU complex of fires\u003c/a>, ignited by a barrage of lightning strikes in Napa early on the morning of Aug. 17, consists of seven separate blazes burning in five different counties — including Sonoma, Napa, Solano and small sections of Yolo and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Evacuation orders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and law enforcement officials are asking people to closely follow evacuation orders. A “high-low” siren will be used to alert residents it is time to leave, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find updated evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">the Solano County Sheriff's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. See a \u003ca href=\"https://doitgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=85ff2f5b85574767905e8157576b8c47&extent=-13609268.342%2C4621030.036%2C-13545061.2382%2C4655388.4802%2C102100&fbclid=IwAR1uQfG3Eu52Dv6hRJYf3cXcuUX5BM7IV5I-lJQn_LZDRNT5cG12lNlX5G4\">map of evacuation orders here\u003c/a>. For evacuation questions call 707-784-1634 or 707-784-1635.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in Napa County can be found at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2966/LNU-Wildfires?fbclid=IwAR1OCqpsFKW5kovRRk9sssHcfHMTBax0t3oUBqNE7Pn22_rFXreo4OzWVd4\">county website here\u003c/a>, on an \u003ca href=\"https://napacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=83d73b75423c4201aecd08e15fa8e6e7\">evacuation map here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CountyofNapa\">via the county's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. For the most up-to-date information, county officials recommend residents reach out to the Cal Fire public information line at (707) 967-4207.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See updated county \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/evacuation-update/\">evacuation information here\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/8ca8296b14384a468c72e63fd6de766a\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Evacuation centers and animal shelters\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Padan School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3400794,-121.9852485,18z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!2s200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687!3b1!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232!3m4!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 Padan School Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fairmont School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1355+Marshall+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3461529,-121.9663376,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d15baf50f47:0x47badef1534e1d48!8m2!3d38.3461744!4d-121.9662407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1355 Marshall Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sierra Vista School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sierra+Vista+K-8+School/@38.3381069,-121.9584584,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!2sSierra+Vista+K-8+School!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697!3m4!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">301 Bel Air Dr., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Joseph Nelson Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/611+Village+Dr,+Suisun+City,+CA+94585/@38.2469366,-122.026825,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808515baf9ac806f:0xc2f842a2b069ddf7!8m2!3d38.2469324!4d-122.0246363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">611 Village Dr., Suisun\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ulatis Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1000+Ulatis+Dr,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3558069,-121.9656301,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d3bccd59483:0xa5dc67cd7fb83648!8m2!3d38.3558027!4d-121.9634414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1000 Ulatis Drive\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McBride Senior Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mc+Bride+Senior+Center/@38.3577804,-121.990451,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!2sMc+Bride+Senior+Center!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623!3m4!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">91 Town Square Place\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will C. Wood High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Will+C+Wood+High+School/@38.3455411,-121.9775024,17z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80853d6a074fee55:0x981f2c4f14f49901!2s998+Marshall+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687!3b1!8m2!3d38.3455369!4d-121.9753137!3m4!1s0x80853d41c219e5bb:0x34e677ee187efe01!8m2!3d38.3466192!4d-121.9777036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">998 Marshall Rd, Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lambrecht Fields: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Irving+H.+Lambrecht+Sports+Complex/@38.2450359,-121.9753004,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853fc9919d5909:0xd84721a789fef767!2sIrving+H.+Lambrecht+Sports+Complex!8m2!3d38.2450317!4d-121.9731117!3m4!1s0x80853fc9919d5909:0xd84721a789fef767!8m2!3d38.2450317!4d-121.9731117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petersen Road, Suisun City\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rodriguez High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rodriguez+High+School/@38.1995555,-122.1485833,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x808512589084b9db:0x530de1fc659448e3!2sRodriguez+High+School!8m2!3d38.1995513!4d-122.1463946!3m4!1s0x808512589084b9db:0x530de1fc659448e3!8m2!3d38.1995513!4d-122.1463946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5000 Red Top Rd, Fairfield\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fairfield High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fairfield+High+School/@38.2758675,-122.0332643,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8085167913fa3a4f:0xa3a5d3ea68d87965!8m2!3d38.2758633!4d-122.0310756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">205 E. Atlantic Ave, Fairfield\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service animals can be taken to Guru Nanak Sikh Temple at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Guru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple/@38.2478736,-122.0798616,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!2sGuru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729!3m4!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2948 Rockville Rd. in Fairfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large animals can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Fairgrounds\u003c/a> in Vallejo. Evacuees should enter via the Sage Street gate at the Fairgrounds and follow the signage to the livestock barn area. Questions: Please contact Solano County Animal Control at 707-784-4733\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small pets can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/sheriff/animalcare/gi.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Animal Shelter\u003c/a> 2510 Claybank Rd\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crosswalk Community Church: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/LXpAzvmEpbPQgsXs7\">2590 First Street in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Napa County Animal Shelter: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/C6ZdoyLHnAxucYLd6\">942 Hartle Court in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bodega Bay: Westside Park at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2400+Westshore+Rd,+Bodega+Bay,+CA+94923/@38.3222302,-123.058711,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80842872ac6e0015:0xb83469c3b575bb4f!8m2!3d38.322226!4d-123.0565223\">2400 Westshore Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Healdsburg: Vets Memorial Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/13839+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Healdsburg,+CA+95448/@38.6037451,-122.8592227,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808417211ab3c16b:0x54cd765ca4161e8a!8m2!3d38.6037409!4d-122.857034\">13839 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: A Place to Play at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2375+W+3rd+St,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95401/@38.4396181,-122.7637314,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8084382fe5e7b9d5:0x3796116ecf3ee1fa!8m2!3d38.4396139!4d-122.7615427\">2375 West 3\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> Street\u003c/a> and Schopflin Fields at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/4351+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95403/@38.491325,-122.7448965,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808438c7319ab431:0xa5cd709c9177c1b9!8m2!3d38.4913208!4d-122.7427078\">4351 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sebastopol: Ragle Ranch at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/500+Ragle+Rd,+Sebastopol,+CA+95472/@38.404478,-122.8480563,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80843a7b0330b0d3:0x9febeb55da219da4!8m2!3d38.4044738!4d-122.8458676\">500 Ragle Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal Shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Sonoma County Fairgrounds is sheltering large animals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Fire Sonoma-Napa-Lake Unit\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Sheriff's Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/VacavilleDist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vacaville Fire District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FairfieldPolice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fairfield Police Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marincountyfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/solano/\">Solano County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/sonoma/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/napa/\">Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"SCU\">\u003c/a>SCU Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>Information line: 669-247-7431\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Cal Fire SCU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SCU Lightning Complex is approximately 20 separate fires broken into three zones; the Canyon Zone, the Calaveras Zone and the Deer Zone. The fires continue to burn in steep, rugged terrain in multiple locations across Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the terrain has little to no fire history with ample fuel build up, conducive to extreme fire growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"california-wildfires\" label=\"more wildfire coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation orders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/fire/Pages/home.aspx\">the latest information on evacuations here\u003c/a>, and an official \u003ca href=\"https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=69fca73a82df4fefa7c0e48b66d0899d&extent=-123.2395,36.6849,-119.5618,38.1032\">map here\u003c/a>. The county's hotline for residents under evacuation orders is (408) 808-7778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find the latest evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire's incident site\u003c/a>, and by signing up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check the county's \u003ca href=\"https://cwsalerts.com\">Community Warning System\u003c/a> for new alerts, and sign up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation Centers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quinlan Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/iJ2EDVzJBAhbf1sx9\">10185 N Stelling Rd, Cupertino\u003c/a>. Includes RV parking, residents who may be interested in safe camping locations should bring tents and sleeping bags if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creekside Middle School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/u3sdJVTgZtvjRoMf8\">535 Peregrine Dr. Patterson, CA 94363\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ann Sobrato High School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/g4RRHmqxGL6u6WbVA\">401 Burnett Ave, Morgan Hill\u003c/a>. Not a shelter, but serves to assist residents with temporary housing needs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Cal Fire SCU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-clara/\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">Alameda County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"CZU\">\u003c/a>CZU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CZU August Lightning Complex fire consists of multiple smaller lightning-sparked fires in the Santa Cruz mountains which merged into a massive, dangerous blaze burning in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation orders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation updates can be found at the SMC Wildfire Response page \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-wildfire-response\">here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sanmateoco\">via the county's Twitter account\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents can find a map and list of current evacuation orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">here\u003c/a>, and can sign up for email alerts \u003ca href=\"https://tinyurl.com/czulightning\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Emergency shelters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>: Half Moon Bay High School \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/3TeomERcFJvRxiuH9\">1 Lewis Foster Dr in Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> \u003cem>(Note: Moved out of Pescadero due to fire risk)\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/fireresources.aspx\">Find up-to-date shelter status information here\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Note: the county fairgrounds site is now full.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No animal shelters have been listed yet. If you need assistance evacuating animals, call: 831-454-7200.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU (Twitter)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">County of Santa Cruz\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SantaCruzSO1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-cruz/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/218A80E36F49\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/892807736723485/notif\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>Updated 5:00 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of wildfires sparked by lightning beginning Aug. 16 has spread rapidly across wide stretches of the outer Bay Area, as fire crews contend with high winds, dry air and triple-digit temperatures amid an extended heat wave. Tens of thousands of residents from the North Bay to the Peninsula have been forced to evacuate in the face of three major groupings — or complexes — of out-of-control fires blazing across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This post will be updated when new information is made available. Here's the latest on the three fire complexes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#LNU\">\u003cstrong>LNU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Yolo, Lake counties\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#SCU\">\u003cstrong>SCU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Stanislaus counties\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#CZU\">\u003cstrong>CZU Complex\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"LNU\">\u003c/a>LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>24-hour information line: 707-967-4207\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16-walbridge/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Cal Fire LNU Twitter Feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU complex of fires\u003c/a>, ignited by a barrage of lightning strikes in Napa early on the morning of Aug. 17, consists of seven separate blazes burning in five different counties — including Sonoma, Napa, Solano and small sections of Yolo and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Evacuation orders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and law enforcement officials are asking people to closely follow evacuation orders. A “high-low” siren will be used to alert residents it is time to leave, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find updated evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">the Solano County Sheriff's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. See a \u003ca href=\"https://doitgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=85ff2f5b85574767905e8157576b8c47&extent=-13609268.342%2C4621030.036%2C-13545061.2382%2C4655388.4802%2C102100&fbclid=IwAR1uQfG3Eu52Dv6hRJYf3cXcuUX5BM7IV5I-lJQn_LZDRNT5cG12lNlX5G4\">map of evacuation orders here\u003c/a>. For evacuation questions call 707-784-1634 or 707-784-1635.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in Napa County can be found at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2966/LNU-Wildfires?fbclid=IwAR1OCqpsFKW5kovRRk9sssHcfHMTBax0t3oUBqNE7Pn22_rFXreo4OzWVd4\">county website here\u003c/a>, on an \u003ca href=\"https://napacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=83d73b75423c4201aecd08e15fa8e6e7\">evacuation map here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CountyofNapa\">via the county's Twitter feed\u003c/a>. For the most up-to-date information, county officials recommend residents reach out to the Cal Fire public information line at (707) 967-4207.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See updated county \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/evacuation-update/\">evacuation information here\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/8ca8296b14384a468c72e63fd6de766a\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Evacuation centers and animal shelters\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Padan School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3400794,-121.9852485,18z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!2s200+Padan+School+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687!3b1!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232!3m4!1s0x80853d67aacbc6f1:0x3f41905a3f663d3f!8m2!3d38.3398404!4d-121.9839232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 Padan School Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fairmont School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1355+Marshall+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3461529,-121.9663376,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d15baf50f47:0x47badef1534e1d48!8m2!3d38.3461744!4d-121.9662407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1355 Marshall Rd., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sierra Vista School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sierra+Vista+K-8+School/@38.3381069,-121.9584584,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!2sSierra+Vista+K-8+School!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697!3m4!1s0x80853d05c983208b:0x5dfb780dc4f91188!8m2!3d38.3381027!4d-121.9562697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">301 Bel Air Dr., Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Joseph Nelson Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/611+Village+Dr,+Suisun+City,+CA+94585/@38.2469366,-122.026825,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808515baf9ac806f:0xc2f842a2b069ddf7!8m2!3d38.2469324!4d-122.0246363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">611 Village Dr., Suisun\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ulatis Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/1000+Ulatis+Dr,+Vacaville,+CA+95687/@38.3558069,-121.9656301,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80853d3bccd59483:0xa5dc67cd7fb83648!8m2!3d38.3558027!4d-121.9634414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1000 Ulatis Drive\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McBride Senior Center: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mc+Bride+Senior+Center/@38.3577804,-121.990451,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!2sMc+Bride+Senior+Center!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623!3m4!1s0x80853d5460147dc3:0xf563cd1c2a4b3b06!8m2!3d38.3577762!4d-121.9882623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">91 Town Square Place\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will C. Wood High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Will+C+Wood+High+School/@38.3455411,-121.9775024,17z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80853d6a074fee55:0x981f2c4f14f49901!2s998+Marshall+Rd,+Vacaville,+CA+95687!3b1!8m2!3d38.3455369!4d-121.9753137!3m4!1s0x80853d41c219e5bb:0x34e677ee187efe01!8m2!3d38.3466192!4d-121.9777036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">998 Marshall Rd, Vacaville\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lambrecht Fields: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Irving+H.+Lambrecht+Sports+Complex/@38.2450359,-121.9753004,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80853fc9919d5909:0xd84721a789fef767!2sIrving+H.+Lambrecht+Sports+Complex!8m2!3d38.2450317!4d-121.9731117!3m4!1s0x80853fc9919d5909:0xd84721a789fef767!8m2!3d38.2450317!4d-121.9731117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petersen Road, Suisun City\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rodriguez High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rodriguez+High+School/@38.1995555,-122.1485833,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x808512589084b9db:0x530de1fc659448e3!2sRodriguez+High+School!8m2!3d38.1995513!4d-122.1463946!3m4!1s0x808512589084b9db:0x530de1fc659448e3!8m2!3d38.1995513!4d-122.1463946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5000 Red Top Rd, Fairfield\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fairfield High School: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fairfield+High+School/@38.2758675,-122.0332643,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8085167913fa3a4f:0xa3a5d3ea68d87965!8m2!3d38.2758633!4d-122.0310756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">205 E. Atlantic Ave, Fairfield\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service animals can be taken to Guru Nanak Sikh Temple at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Guru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple/@38.2478736,-122.0798616,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!2sGuru+Nanak+Sikh+Temple!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729!3m4!1s0x80851405f0d7d12f:0x764bff44811973dc!8m2!3d38.2478694!4d-122.0776729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2948 Rockville Rd. in Fairfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large animals can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Fairgrounds\u003c/a> in Vallejo. Evacuees should enter via the Sage Street gate at the Fairgrounds and follow the signage to the livestock barn area. Questions: Please contact Solano County Animal Control at 707-784-4733\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small pets can be taken to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/sheriff/animalcare/gi.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Animal Shelter\u003c/a> 2510 Claybank Rd\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crosswalk Community Church: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/LXpAzvmEpbPQgsXs7\">2590 First Street in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Napa County Animal Shelter: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/C6ZdoyLHnAxucYLd6\">942 Hartle Court in Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bodega Bay: Westside Park at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2400+Westshore+Rd,+Bodega+Bay,+CA+94923/@38.3222302,-123.058711,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80842872ac6e0015:0xb83469c3b575bb4f!8m2!3d38.322226!4d-123.0565223\">2400 Westshore Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Healdsburg: Vets Memorial Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/13839+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Healdsburg,+CA+95448/@38.6037451,-122.8592227,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808417211ab3c16b:0x54cd765ca4161e8a!8m2!3d38.6037409!4d-122.857034\">13839 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: A Place to Play at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/2375+W+3rd+St,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95401/@38.4396181,-122.7637314,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8084382fe5e7b9d5:0x3796116ecf3ee1fa!8m2!3d38.4396139!4d-122.7615427\">2375 West 3\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> Street\u003c/a> and Schopflin Fields at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/4351+Old+Redwood+Hwy,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95403/@38.491325,-122.7448965,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808438c7319ab431:0xa5cd709c9177c1b9!8m2!3d38.4913208!4d-122.7427078\">4351 Old Redwood Highway\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sebastopol: Ragle Ranch at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/500+Ragle+Rd,+Sebastopol,+CA+95472/@38.404478,-122.8480563,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80843a7b0330b0d3:0x9febeb55da219da4!8m2!3d38.4044738!4d-122.8458676\">500 Ragle Road\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Animal Shelters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Sonoma County Fairgrounds is sheltering large animals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Fire Sonoma-Napa-Lake Unit\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SolanoSheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County Sheriff's Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/VacavilleDist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vacaville Fire District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FairfieldPolice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fairfield Police Department\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marincountyfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/solano/\">Solano County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/sonoma/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/napa/\">Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation orders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/fire/Pages/home.aspx\">the latest information on evacuations here\u003c/a>, and an official \u003ca href=\"https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=69fca73a82df4fefa7c0e48b66d0899d&extent=-123.2395,36.6849,-119.5618,38.1032\">map here\u003c/a>. The county's hotline for residents under evacuation orders is (408) 808-7778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find the latest evacuation information on \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire's incident site\u003c/a>, and by signing up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check the county's \u003ca href=\"https://cwsalerts.com\">Community Warning System\u003c/a> for new alerts, and sign up for Nixle alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation Centers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quinlan Community Center: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/iJ2EDVzJBAhbf1sx9\">10185 N Stelling Rd, Cupertino\u003c/a>. Includes RV parking, residents who may be interested in safe camping locations should bring tents and sleeping bags if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creekside Middle School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/u3sdJVTgZtvjRoMf8\">535 Peregrine Dr. Patterson, CA 94363\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ann Sobrato High School: \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/g4RRHmqxGL6u6WbVA\">401 Burnett Ave, Morgan Hill\u003c/a>. Not a shelter, but serves to assist residents with temporary housing needs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Cal Fire SCU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sign up for Nixle Alerts for \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-clara/\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/alameda/\">Alameda County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/contra-costa/\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca id=\"CZU\">\u003c/a>CZU Lightning Complex\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">Cal Fire incident information page\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU Twitter feed\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CZU August Lightning Complex fire consists of multiple smaller lightning-sparked fires in the Santa Cruz mountains which merged into a massive, dangerous blaze burning in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Evacuation orders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation updates can be found at the SMC Wildfire Response page \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-wildfire-response\">here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sanmateoco\">via the county's Twitter account\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents can find a map and list of current evacuation orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">here\u003c/a>, and can sign up for email alerts \u003ca href=\"https://tinyurl.com/czulightning\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Emergency shelters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>: Half Moon Bay High School \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/3TeomERcFJvRxiuH9\">1 Lewis Foster Dr in Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> \u003cem>(Note: Moved out of Pescadero due to fire risk)\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/fireresources.aspx\">Find up-to-date shelter status information here\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Note: the county fairgrounds site is now full.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No animal shelters have been listed yet. If you need assistance evacuating animals, call: 831-454-7200.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Additional useful links with updated info\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Cal Fire CZU (Twitter)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">County of Santa Cruz\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SantaCruzSO1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/county/ca/santa-cruz/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/218A80E36F49\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo County residents can sign up for emergency alerts \u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/892807736723485/notif\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834086/what-you-need-to-know-bay-area-lightning-fires\">Find more details on evacuations and other essential wildfire information here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of wildfires sparked by lightning over the weekend continued to spread rapidly across large expanses of the outer Bay Area. The fires — in the North Bay, East Bay and Peninsula regions — remained largely uncontained as crews, already stretched thin, contend with high winds, rough terrain and triple-digit temperatures amid a week-long heat wave. One grouping of fires — dubbed the LNU Lightning Complex in Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties — more than doubled in area since Wednesday, blazing across 131,00 acres by Thursday morning and threatening some 30,500 houses and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Thursday, tens of thousands of residents from the North Bay to the Peninsula were ordered to evacuate in the face of three major groupings — or complexes — of fire blazing throughout the region. \u003ca href=\"#original\">Click here\u003c/a> to skip to our original post below the updates section.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The latest updates\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:15 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warning orders for the community of Platina in Shasta County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1296688405233848322\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, an evacuation warning has been issued by Cal Fire for the community of Platina, Calif. in Shasta County. Cal Fire officials are asking citizens of Platina to prepare in the event that evacuations become necessary. Citing \"fire behavior, no containment, lack of resources to include personnel and aircraft,\" Cal Fire advises residents to \"get ready, clear vegetation around your property, have your important documents and medications ready to go.\" For more information, refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4996/readysetgo_plan.pdf\">the READY, SET, GO program\u003c/a> at fire.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders for Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, Cal Fire issued additional evacuation orders in Santa Cruz County, which includes the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296633985586454529?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, the following orders apply to:\u003cbr>\n- All Scott’s Valley residents west of State Route 17.\u003cbr>\n- The Santa Cruz County area of east of Zayante Canyon, west of State Route 17 and south of State Route 35.\u003cbr>\n- University of California, Santa Cruz campus only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County evacuation centers are located at:\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz County Fairground, 2601 E. Lake Avenue in Watsonville\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz (At Capacity)\u003cbr>\n- Santa Cruz Seventh Day Adventist Camp Ground, 1931 Soquel San Jose Rd \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the most current evacuation map and information: \u003ca href=\"http://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\">www.smco.community.zonehaven.com\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders, warnings issued in Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued new evacuation orders and warnings to Santa Clara County residents late Thursday afternoon in response to the SCU Lightning Complex of fires that since Sunday has burned more than 137,000 acres across five counties and remained only 5% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1296537523510894592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following areas, previously under an evacuation warning, are now under a mandatory evacuation order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- East of Shingle Valley Road and everything east of Anderson Lake, east of Coyote Creek, east of Coyote Reservoir, east of Roop Road, east of Leavesly Road, east of Crews Road, east of Ferguson Road.\u003cbr>\n- East and north of state Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- West of the Merced County Line, north of Highway 152\u003cbr>\n- South of Metcalf Road at Shingle Valley Road, east to the\u003cbr>\nStanislaus County Line\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas now under an evacuation warning include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- South of Metcalf Road, east of Coyote Creek to the Anderson Lake\u003cbr>\nShore, east of Cochrane Road, east of Hill Road, and south of Main Avenue, north of Maple Avenue, east of Foothill Avenue, north of San Martin Avenue, east of New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- West of Shingle Valley Road and everything west of Anderson Lake, west of Coyote Creek, west of Coyote reservoir, north and west of Roop Road between Coyote Reservoir Road and New Avenue\u003cbr>\n- East of Lovers Lane and the Santa Cruz County line\u003cbr>\n- South of Highway 152 to the San Benito County Line\u003cbr>\n-West to the Merced County Line\u003cbr>\n- North of the San Benito County Line to Highway 152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are road closures at Holiday Drive at East Dunne Avenue; Coyote Reservoir Road at Roop Road; Canada Road at Highway 152; and Highway 152 at Belle Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter for Santa Clara County residents is available at Ann Sobrato High School in the Performing Arts Building at 401 Burnett Ave. in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees that need animal services can call Santa Clara County Animal Services at (408) 686-3900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4 p.m. Thursday: Santa Cruz County asks all visitors to leave to free up shelter capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center on Thursday afternoon requested that all visitors and tourists staying in local overnight accommodations like hotels and vacation rentals leave the county immediately in order to free up shelter capacity for wildfire evacuees. With local shelters nearing capacity, the EOC is working with local agencies, including cities and school districts, to provide more shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents set up inside a large exhibition hall at the Santa Cruz County Fairground evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county is also asking evacuees to first seek shelter with friends and family and is urging residents with extra bedrooms or even tents to share their information on social media platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those leaving the county should depart south on state Highway 1 or north on state Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of existing and anticipated evacuation orders because of the CZU August Lighting Complex of wildfires is unprecedented, officials said. As of Thursday morning, the fires had already burned 40,000 acres and were 0% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the most current \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f0121f7f2f0941afb3ed70529b2cee75.\">evacuation map here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3 p.m. Thursday: Evacuation warnings issued for UC Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Thursday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation warning for the entire UC Santa Cruz campus and the the nearby communities of Paradise Park and the area of Scotts Valley west of State Route 17 (encompassing the downtown area). Cal Fire said said an evacuation warning is issued when \"the threat is plausible for fire activity to increase and your residence may be in the affected area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gavin Earnest, 62, inside a tent at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds evacuation center on Aug. 20, 2020. He and his mother, Elizabeth Earnest, evacuated from their Boulder Creek home two days ago. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby evacuation centers include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County Fairground: 2601 E. Lake Ave. in Watsonville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist campground: Soquel San Jose Rd. in Soquel\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium: 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz (was at capacity as of Thursday afternoon).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296561778038513664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:15 p.m. Thursday: Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County now top priority in North Bay\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe 14,500-acre Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County is now the top priority for firefighting efforts in the LNU Lightning Complex of fires burning in the North Bay, fire officials said. The lightning-ignited blaze, which merged overnight with the Stewart Fire, poses a serious threat to Guerneville and neighboring Russian River communities. See map of fire perimeters and evacuation zones \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=69a0e54e9e2b48c086d122027b21c961\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were hoping to make a lot better progress today. We are expecting better conditions than we had the last couple of days,\" said Santa Rosa Assistant Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal at a press briefing Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11 a.m. Thursday: LNU Complex has burned 131,000 acres, with 0% containment\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe LNU Lightning Complex of fires raging in the North Bay has collectively burned 131,000 acres, destroyed 105 structures and damaged 70 others as of Thursday morning, Cal Fire officials said.An estimated 30,500 structures remain threatened by the wildfires, which have prompted widespread evacuations in Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties, among other communities. Cal Fire says the fires are at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296469315705802752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the fires is the Hennessey Fire, which started near Hennessey Ridge Road in Napa County and has spread across 105,000 acres, according to Cal Fire. Another large blaze, the Walbridge Fire west of Healdsburg, has charred 14,500 acres while the Meyers Fire north of Jenner is at 3,000 acres as of Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10 a.m. Thursday: Nearly all East Bay regional parks closed\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDue to the extreme fire activity in the region, nearly all East Bay regional parks — except some shoreline locations — have been shut down closed until further notice, the \u003ca href=\"http://except%20some%20shoreline%20parks\">East Bay Regional Park District announced\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EBRPD/status/1296243710162862080\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is currently experiencing an unprecedented number of wildfires in parks, including Round Valley Regional Preserve, Morgan Territory Regional Preserve, Del Valle Regional Park, Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve, Ohlone Wilderness Regional Preserve, Mission Peak Regional Preserve, and Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. Paved regional trails are not affected by the closures and will remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following parks remain open:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Crown Beach State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hayward Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>MLK Jr. Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>McLaughlin Eastshore State Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Point Isabel Regional Shoreline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 a.m. Thursday: Entire town of Felton in Santa Cruz Mountains ordered to evacuate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\">has ordered\u003c/a> all Felton residents to evacuate immediately due to severe fire danger. That includes all six of Felton's evacuation zones. Evacuation centers have been established in San Mateo County at Half Moon Bay High School (1 Lewis Foster Dr.) and in Santa Cruz County at the Civic Auditorium (307 Church St., and 2601 East Lake Ave., Watsonville) and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incident information line: 831-335-6717\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296467128464310273\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8 a.m. Thursday: PG&E worker dies near Vacaville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PG&E worker was found unresponsive in his vehicle in the Gates Canyon area in Vacaville Wednesday, where he had been assisting first responders battling the Hennessey Fire, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409/photo/1\">Cal Fire confirmed\u003c/a> Thursday. CPR was performed and the employee was then brought to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The employee's name has not been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU/status/1296470631194726409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Original post (last updated Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of people were under orders to evacuate from the North Bay to the Peninsula early Wednesday as three major series of lightning-sparked wildfires blazed out of control across the Bay Area amid a heat wave now in its sixth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throughout the state of California right now, we are stretched thin for crews\" because of the fires, said Will Powers, a Cal Fire spokesman. \"Air resources have been stretched thin throughout the whole state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11833686 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Hennessey-fire-1020x609.jpg']Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed \"this extraordinary weather we’re experiencing and all of these lightning strikes” for a total of 367 known fires now burning across California. Newsom said the state had recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the outskirts of the Solano County city of Vacaville, police and firefighters went door to door late Tuesday and early Wednesday in a scramble to warn residents to evacuate as one of the eight blazes that are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16/\">LNU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> raced toward the residential areas from the northwest. Fire officials said at least 50 structures were destroyed and 50 were damaged and that four people were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LNU Lightning Complex includes lightning-sparked fires burning from the Sonoma County coast east across Napa County and Solano County. The blazes had burned a total 46,225 acres by early Wednesday. Most of the fires are burning in areas with limited access and steep terrain, making it difficult to get crews in. Fire crews were stretched too thin overnight to focus on more than immediate life-saving measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mgafni/status/1296046197409345537?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle reporter Matthias Gafni, who traveled down Pleasants Valley Road on the western outskirts of Vacaville shortly after 4:00 a.m., told KQED that houses were on fire when he arrived, but that most people had evacuated from that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It appeared the fire had just crossed the road and swept eastward towards the city proper,\" Gafni said. \"Houses were on fire. Structures, cars, explosions were being heard as propane tanks exploded and gas lines were whizzing. And it was a pretty chaotic scene when I when I first showed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Godley, Sonoma County's emergency management director, said about 10,000 people were under evacuation orders as crews battled two blazes and were working to set up an evacuation center with alternate locations for people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that resources are strapped statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to second guess what the fire commanders are doing with their aircraft. But it’s not like last year when we saw just a huge wealth of resources flowing into the county,\" he said. “It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents the area, said the fires burning in Napa and Sonoma counties were mostly affecting less populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the people around here, even the people that have structures in harm’s way, understand that they’re in a more rural area and that the people in more densely populated areas have to get the resources first,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation order for residents of the Hidden Valley Lake and Jerusalem Valley areas of Lake County, suggesting a potentially dangerous northward move into that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, about 22,000 people were ordered to evacuate overnight due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">CZU August Lightning Complex fire\u003c/a>, burning in the Santa Cruz mountains, Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fire – also comprised of multiple lightning-sparked blazes – quickly expanded to 10,000 acres overnight and is at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1296005460022067200?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last night we saw a major increase in fire activity in both San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties,” Cox said Wednesday morning. “And we saw several of the fires merge together and make a significant run into Santa Cruz County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very active timber fire burning in two counties with a serious threat to both public safety and for structures that are out in front of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials issued evacuation orders late Tuesday night for people living in the Boulder Creek and Ben Lomond areas along Highway 9, and for Bonny Doon down towards Davenport on Highway 1 as multiple blazes merged together in the mountains between Big Basin State Park and Bonny Doon, threatening to move further south and east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased winds on Wednesday afternoon appeared to fuel the blaze's growth and cause the formation of a large pyrocumulus cloud - large, thunderhead-like clouds which top out at high altitudes and are themselves capable of producing lightning. All of the three major complex fires \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1296209917410455552?s=20\">were producing pyrocumulus clouds\u003c/a> Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RobMayeda/status/1296217706300022784?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire issued an additional evacuation warning for the Santa Cruz mountains at 2:00 p.m., requesting that all residents leave from areas west of Highway 9 to Empire Grade, and south from Bear Creek Road to Felton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokeswoman Cecile Juliette said crews spent all night and all morning evacuating people with the help of the Santa Cruz County sheriff's office. She said the COVID-19 pandemic has created another challenging layer for evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Red Cross now can't put them all in one big gymnasium. You know, they'll have to get them hotel rooms, and so that just adds another layer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sanmateoco/status/1296105613399744515?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuees from the CZU August Lightning Complex blazes were being sent to the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds in Watsonville, where \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296155025018720256?s=20\">tents were set up\u003c/a> inside an air conditioned building as a COVID-19 safety measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frightening to think maybe you don't have a home to go back to,\" said Toni Bravo, who evacuated from the Boulder Creek area with her son Josh at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hannah_hagemann/status/1296118724785651714?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.smco.community.zonehaven.com/\">evacuation center\u003c/a> has been set up at Pescadero High School in Pescadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, a cluster of 20 separate lightning-sparked fires dubbed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">SCU Lightning Complex\u003c/a> threatened about 1,400 structures in rugged terrain with dense brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fires, burning in Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties have now burned 85,000 acres and are 5% contained. Two people have been injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SCU Lightning Complex is burning in what's regarded as the Diablo Range, east of Mount Diablo, east of Fremont, and northeast of Mount Hamilton. The biggest fires are the Del Puerto, burning west of the town of Patterson along Del Puerto Canyon Road, and the Reservoir, just east of the Calaveras Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoFire/status/1295540694128287746?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the blazes are believed to have been sparked by lightning strikes from the unusual series of thunderstorms that rolled across the Bay Area beginning early last Sunday. Meteorologist Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services said the lightning storms and ongoing sizzling temperatures created a very dangerous combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the very dry fuels that we have, both from the temperatures and the fact it's been almost three months since there's been any significant rain in the state... 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Effective immediately, an evacuation warning has been issued by Cal Fire for the community of Platina, Calif. in Shasta County. Cal Fire officials are asking citizens of Platina to prepare in the event that evacuations become necessary. Citing \"fire behavior, no containment, lack of resources to include personnel and aircraft,\" Cal Fire advises residents to \"get ready, clear vegetation around your property, have your important documents and medications ready to go.\" For more information, refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4996/readysetgo_plan.pdf\">the READY, SET, GO program\u003c/a> at fire.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:30 p.m. Thursday: New evacuation orders for Santa Cruz County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, Cal Fire issued additional evacuation orders in Santa Cruz County, which includes the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Godley, Sonoma County's emergency management director, said about 10,000 people were under evacuation orders as crews battled two blazes and were working to set up an evacuation center with alternate locations for people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that resources are strapped statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to second guess what the fire commanders are doing with their aircraft. But it’s not like last year when we saw just a huge wealth of resources flowing into the county,\" he said. “It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11834110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/LNU-fire-vacaville-burned-cars-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles burned by the LNU Lightning Complex sit off Pleasants Valley Road near Vacaville on Aug. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents the area, said the fires burning in Napa and Sonoma counties were mostly affecting less populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the people around here, even the people that have structures in harm’s way, understand that they’re in a more rural area and that the people in more densely populated areas have to get the resources first,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire issued an evacuation order for residents of the Hidden Valley Lake and Jerusalem Valley areas of Lake County, suggesting a potentially dangerous northward move into that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, about 22,000 people were ordered to evacuate overnight due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/czu-august-lightning-complex/\">CZU August Lightning Complex fire\u003c/a>, burning in the Santa Cruz mountains, Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU\">Find the latest evacuation orders here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fire – also comprised of multiple lightning-sparked blazes – quickly expanded to 10,000 acres overnight and is at 0% containment.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Reader advisory: \u003ci>Some accounts of violence in this story contain explicit details and strong language that some may find upsetting. This \u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003ci>story is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11794221/could-changing-how-transgender-inmates-are-housed-make-prison-safer-for-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">larger piece\u003c/a> on transgender prisoners. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Yekaterina Wesa Patience found herself in a prison crisis bed. She said she could no longer play the tough guy — or any guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t do it no more. I kind of started having a little mental breakdown. … It was too painful,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patience, 44, an inmate at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, said she’d known she was a girl since her childhood in North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 14, she moved to California. There, she said she found herself on the streets of Los Angeles, a victim of child sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Ava Fey, transgender prisoner at California Medical Facility']‘Prison is not the optimal place to go through a transition, especially the beginning. People are thinking you’re one thing and then all of a sudden you’re not. … On the streets that might break friendships. Here, it might get you stabbed.’[/pullquote]Patience said she had been homeless for nearly four years when she committed the crimes — first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and cruelty to a child — that sent her to prison at 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really have a hard time reconciling that I did something like that,” she said. “It seemed like I could have stopped everything and I didn’t — like my heart was too cold to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d do anything she could to change the past: “That was a damaging tragedy that ruined a whole lot of lives, and I was directly responsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison was no place to be openly transgender. Two rapes in less than two years forced her into the closet, she said. There she stayed until about four years ago, when she found herself in the crisis bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite knowing myself, the world told me different, and if I wanted to avoid problems I had to give the world what it wanted to see — and the world wanted to see a boy,” Patience said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. Patience is an avid reader, estimating she has read thousands of books while in prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. Patience is an avid reader, estimating she has read thousands of books while in prison. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She finally confided her secret to a nurse: “I have to admit, I’m a girl. … It’s the first time I’m really just admitting it and saying that this is who I’m going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it seemed like she had it together, “I would cry almost every night. … Because I never felt like I would ever get a chance to be me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of other transgender inmates, Patience began to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m becoming more and more of me, and the more I am, the less angry I am, the more able I am to just kind of love myself and be gentler to other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Patience, known as Kat, wrote about her struggles and transition over decades in prison, from her teen years to her 40s, in a short story she called “Platinum Linings” for the LGBTQ writing group at CMF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>” … my decisions, born and died in rage, put me so far away from where I started from. I never heard I’m proud of you as a child. In pain, my anger rose as I struggled to stand. To be more than I was ever allowed to imagine. Forced to live as a man …\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>… I desperately needed to be locked away — jailed and be moved for the safety of all involved. It provided me time to reflect and change. To be a better person, grow and evolve. …\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If only those thoughts would have molded me as a child I may now be reading a better page. But then I wouldn’t be me, the woman, the Kat, that my transformation has made.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Just Jumped In’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a child growing up in West Covina, Ava Fey knew she was different. In private, she would dress up in her mother’s and then stepmother’s clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a pretty good idea I wasn’t like the other little boys,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794276\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_transition_ava-11-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_transition_ava-11-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_transition_ava-11-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_transition_ava-11-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_transition_ava-11-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_transition_ava-11-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Patience, Fey, 58, ended up homeless and a victim of child sex trafficking on the streets around L.A., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fey said she first went to federal prison at age 20 for robbing banks. After a few years, she came out as transgender. After she was released, Fey lived as a woman until she landed in California state prison in 1995 for the arson death of her adopted father. His death haunts her to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Worst thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she said. “I didn’t mean for him to come to any harm. So when he did, it was even worse. … I’m not complaining about being in prison. I deserve to have come here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in maximum security lockup in California, she tried to keep her gender identity under the radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to get used and abused,” Fey said. “Once I got out of there, then I kind of loosened up. It took me a minute. And I just jumped in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11794221 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_bikes7-qut-1020x574.jpg'] Fey shaved her beard and ordered makeup. In January 2019, a month after she transferred to the state prison in Vacaville, she started taking hormones. Still, it wasn’t easy going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prison is not the optimal place to go through a transition, especially the beginning. People are thinking you’re one thing and then all of a sudden you’re not,” she said. “Some people get pissed off and it’s like, ‘Oh, you’ve been tricking me or lying to me.’ On the streets that might break friendships. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Patience said she had been homeless for nearly four years when she committed the crimes — first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and cruelty to a child — that sent her to prison at 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really have a hard time reconciling that I did something like that,” she said. “It seemed like I could have stopped everything and I didn’t — like my heart was too cold to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d do anything she could to change the past: “That was a damaging tragedy that ruined a whole lot of lives, and I was directly responsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison was no place to be openly transgender. Two rapes in less than two years forced her into the closet, she said. There she stayed until about four years ago, when she found herself in the crisis bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite knowing myself, the world told me different, and if I wanted to avoid problems I had to give the world what it wanted to see — and the world wanted to see a boy,” Patience said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. Patience is an avid reader, estimating she has read thousands of books while in prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/TP_Transition_kat-reading-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. Patience is an avid reader, estimating she has read thousands of books while in prison. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She finally confided her secret to a nurse: “I have to admit, I’m a girl. … It’s the first time I’m really just admitting it and saying that this is who I’m going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it seemed like she had it together, “I would cry almost every night. … Because I never felt like I would ever get a chance to be me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of other transgender inmates, Patience began to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m becoming more and more of me, and the more I am, the less angry I am, the more able I am to just kind of love myself and be gentler to other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Patience, known as Kat, wrote about her struggles and transition over decades in prison, from her teen years to her 40s, in a short story she called “Platinum Linings” for the LGBTQ writing group at CMF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>” … my decisions, born and died in rage, put me so far away from where I started from. I never heard I’m proud of you as a child. In pain, my anger rose as I struggled to stand. To be more than I was ever allowed to imagine. Forced to live as a man …\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>… I desperately needed to be locked away — jailed and be moved for the safety of all involved. It provided me time to reflect and change. To be a better person, grow and evolve. …\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If only those thoughts would have molded me as a child I may now be reading a better page. But then I wouldn’t be me, the woman, the Kat, that my transformation has made.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Just Jumped In’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a child growing up in West Covina, Ava Fey knew she was different. 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After a few years, she came out as transgender. After she was released, Fey lived as a woman until she landed in California state prison in 1995 for the arson death of her adopted father. His death haunts her to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Worst thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she said. “I didn’t mean for him to come to any harm. So when he did, it was even worse. … I’m not complaining about being in prison. I deserve to have come here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in maximum security lockup in California, she tried to keep her gender identity under the radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to get used and abused,” Fey said. “Once I got out of there, then I kind of loosened up. It took me a minute. And I just jumped in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Fey shaved her beard and ordered makeup. In January 2019, a month after she transferred to the state prison in Vacaville, she started taking hormones. Still, it wasn’t easy going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prison is not the optimal place to go through a transition, especially the beginning. People are thinking you’re one thing and then all of a sudden you’re not,” she said. “Some people get pissed off and it’s like, ‘Oh, you’ve been tricking me or lying to me.’ On the streets that might break friendships. Here, it might get you stabbed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Fey said she could feel a difference from the hormones even if she wasn’t sure it showed all that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794380\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility, Fey asked officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who were accompanying reporters on a media visit, to provide transgender inmates with treatments like electrolysis and voice therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is more than hormones and getting a vagina,” Fey said. “If you do just a part, what are you going to do, create a bearded lady? … That’s a circus freak show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Reader advisory: \u003ci>Some accounts of violence in this story contain explicit details and strong language that some may find upsetting.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Guerrero spent less than nine hours with her new cellmate before he murdered her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jonathan Wilson, boyfriend of Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman killed by her prison cellmate']‘Carmen died being who she wanted to be as a woman and it cost her her life.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Crespo had told corrections officers at Kern Valley State Prison that he would kill Guerrero, a transgender woman who wore her hair long and tweezed her eyebrows, if he was forced to share a cell with her, according to an inmate who witnessed the incident and testified at Crespo’s murder trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Crespo moved in, Guerrero, 48, began filling out a form that prosecutors believe she intended to use as part of a transfer request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He stated he is not compatible with me. I’m worried to be raped again,” Guerrero wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11794398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_GuerreroK06560-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A prison photo of Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman killed by her cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison in late 2013. Her cellmate, Miguel Crespo, was sentenced to death in her murder in December 2019. Her family said in court that they didn't have any photos of Carmen because they were lost in a house fire.\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_GuerreroK06560-qut.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_GuerreroK06560-qut-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prison photo of Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman killed by her cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison in late 2013. Her cellmate, Miguel Crespo, was sentenced to death in her murder in December 2019. Her family said in court that they didn’t have any photos of Carmen because they were lost in a house fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prison guards told Crespo the move would be temporary, the other inmate testified. Later that night, after Crespo strangled Guerrero, he called the guards over and said, “You didn’t believe me. I told you I was gonna kill [Guerrero],” according to the inmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crespo, who told the trial judge he had previously attacked a gay prisoner, argued in court he shouldn’t have been housed with Guerrero. In December, the judge sentenced Crespo to death for the 2013 murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a> would not comment specifically on the Guerrero case, but said it is “committed to addressing the safety concerns” of transgender, intersex and nonbinary prisoners. The department also said it introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A031dfb3b-7149-4fc0-97db-82b5323c027a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screening form\u003c/a> in 2017 intended to prevent potential abusers and victims from residing in the same cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jennifer Levi, director of advocacy group GLAD’s Transgender Rights Project']‘We are seeing a trend towards a greater understanding of the need to provide humane housing and treatment of transgender people who are incarcerated.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates backing a bill pending in the California State Legislature on safe housing for transgender prisoners said the killing was an example of how CDCR has failed transgender inmates. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 132\u003c/a> would allow prisoners to live with those who match the gender they identify with — not the one they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Crespo] should never have been in the cell with the girl,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatima-shabazz-b5058a176/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fatima Shabazz\u003c/a>, a former inmate and transgender prisoner activist who is working on SB 132. “The whole point in the bill is to prevent things like this from happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Meerkamper, an attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>, agreed the pair should not have been housed together and said the U.S. Constitution requires prisons to protect inmates they know to be in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to get a lot clearer than having someone saying, ‘I am going to kill this person,’ and then doing it,” Meerkamper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Greater Understanding’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Transgender inmates have long been identified as a vulnerable population. Neither California nor the federal government tracks prison homicides by gender identity, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svpjri1112.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent federal data\u003c/a>, from 2011-12, found 40% of transgender prisoners reported being the victim of a sexual assault within the previous 12 months — 10 times the percentage of non-transgender inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 132 is the latest in a growing number of efforts nationwide to drive those numbers down and make prison less overtly hostile for transgender people. Spurred by advocates, inmates, state lawmakers and some corrections officials, the initiatives include gender-affirming housing, medical care, clothing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a trend towards a greater understanding of the need to provide humane housing and treatment of transgender people who are incarcerated,” said Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project for advocacy group GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (\u003ca href=\"https://www.glad.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GLAD\u003c/a>). “There’s also a growing understanding within corrections systems of the need to respond to transgender people humanely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the situation portrayed by transgender prisoners and their advocates is complex, with the acknowledgment of progress tempered by violent incidents and allegations they say are indicative of how far the penitentiary system still has to go in providing a safe environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDCR is like trying to push a boulder uphill,” said one inmate, Ava Fey. “There’s that inertia principle where once it’s stopped and it’s happy with how it is, it does not want to change or move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Fought Constantly’: Pushing for Change From Inside Prison\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the California Medical Facility, a state prison in Vacaville, one of the new transgender-related accommodations is a workout club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Amy Miller, associate director of CDCR’s Female Offender Programs and Services, adult division']‘The sentence in coming to state prison, that’s the punishment. Right? You shouldn’t be required to identify a different way simply because you committed a crime and you’ve been given a sentence.’[/pullquote]Last summer, a group of transgender women, who were wearing sports bras, leggings, shorts and tank tops, shot hoops, walked laps, peddled on stationary bikes and paused to gossip in what looked like an ordinary high school gym. The women are among the state’s 1,200 inmates who identify as transgender, gender-nonconforming or intersex — a little less than 1% of the prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fought constantly and constantly with staff to do something for the girls here at CMF,” inmate Jazzie Paradize Scott, serving time for second-degree robbery, said to a soundtrack of hip-hop and buzzing black fans. “I wanted them to have a safe place where they can wear their shorts, their bras and their tops and their little tennis shoes and come out and just be ladies and be able to work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a circle of women stretching, Mark Peaches Cates, 58, said she’d never had the chance to exercise with just transgender women. Gym time with men had made her uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You couldn’t be yourself,” said Cates, who is in prison for second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dallas Rachael Goosen, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dallas Rachael Goosen, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, many transgender-related services have been implemented after an inmate sued the state prison system over its refusal to provide her with gender-affirmation surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Candice Destiny-Rene Love, who accuses CDCR of failing to protect gay and transgender inmates']‘I love who I am and I love being me, but after the rape and attack, I wondered, if I wasn’t trans, would I still be going through what I’m going through? I don’t think so.’[/pullquote]CDCR \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A02f599b4-42fc-40d2-8764-6bcf65de4ad5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled\u003c/a> with the prisoner, Shiloh Heavenly Quine, in 2015, agreeing to perform the surgery and becoming the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-inmate-says-women-s-prison-torture-n737676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first prison system\u003c/a> in the nation to set \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A4dace6e8-5ad9-481f-912c-91f7ebd25398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guidelines\u003c/a> for other transgender inmates to seek approval for the operation. As of September, CDCR said at least four prisoners had undergone the surgery. About 175 have applied and 19 have been approved as of November, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge in the Quine case also \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ac3321e30-eed1-4ead-b908-67ebf68f59db\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered\u003c/a> California prisons to make available to transgender inmates such gender-affirming items as clothing, jewelry and makeup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefits of that order could be seen at a transgender support group at the prison in Vacaville, where women put makeup on one another and talked about having to previously resort to DIY tricks in order to fashion cosmetics — using pastels, wax pencils, Kool-Aid, cocoa and coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794368\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"James Star Henderson (left) puts makeup on Dallas Rachael Goosen during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Star Henderson (left) puts makeup on Dallas Rachael Goosen during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One hack, according to 59-year-old Cary Smith: Running a Q-tip over baby oil pooled on a Colgate toothpaste box. The result: pink eyeshadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing makeup “makes me feel like I’m a step closer to being who I really am. … I feel like I can keep going,” said Smith, who is serving time for assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794371\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jarrett Angel Williams, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarrett Angel Williams, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘You Were Here to Serve Others’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CDCR said it doesn’t track violence in California prisons for any subset of inmates, including those who are transgender. A rare data point comes from a \u003ca href=\"https://ucicorrections.seweb.uci.edu/files/2013/06/BulletinVol2Issue2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2007 study\u003c/a> that included interviews with 39 transgender prisoners at a single state prison: 59% reported being sexually assaulted, 13 times the rate for non-transgender prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when being a transgender in prison, it was pretty hopeless. It was dark. You were here to serve others,” Cary Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transgender prisoners at CMF had plenty of traumatic incidents to recount. Yekaterina Wesa Patience said she was playing dominoes and smoking a joint with her cellmate in Pelican Bay State Prison in the late 1990s when he suddenly got on top of her and raped her. That sent her into the closet for nearly 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Yekaterina West Patience, who said she was twice raped in prison in the 1990s']‘I immediately cut all my hair off, kept my head bald … I grew a mustache and a goatee, and tried to adopt the hardest walk I could on the yard. I was terrified of it happening again, and I was not going to be out for somebody else to do it.’[/pullquote]“I immediately cut all my hair off, kept my head bald … I grew a mustache and a goatee, and tried to adopt the hardest walk I could on the yard,” said Patience, imprisoned for first-degree murder and other crimes. “I was terrified of it happening again, and I was not going to be out for somebody else to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Patience said, she was raped again, about 18 months later at Mule Creek State Prison. (KQED could not verify most of the alleged attacks reported by Patience and the other prisoners in this story; CDCR said it investigates allegations, but federal law prevents it from sharing details about specific cases.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Bella Birrell, imprisoned for first-degree murder, also said she’d been sexually assaulted in prison. “They had a motto back in those days: It was either fight or fuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794370\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"David Bella Birrell (left) and Jarrett Angel Williams, transgender women housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on June 11, 2019, in the prison gym.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bella Birrell (left) and Jarrett Angel Williams, transgender women housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on June 11, 2019, in the prison gym. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Life-Saving Legislation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent years, a flurry of laws and \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/8/18618926/transgender-inmate-seeks-clemency-cites-retaliation-after-reporting-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuits\u003c/a>, many from prisoners like Quine, have forced systemic \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/01/26/transgender-inmate-transferred-womens-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changes\u003c/a> in the way penal systems in some states treat transgender prisoners. In\u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/8/18618926/transgender-inmate-seeks-clemency-cites-retaliation-after-reporting-abuse\"> Illinois, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/en/news/kanautica-zayre-brown-transferred-womens-facility\"> North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/01/24/transgender-inmate-moved-women-prison/Nf2k5Oqa3Ojnh1yH1IwWkL/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts\u003c/a>, transgender inmates have won in court the right to transfer to women’s prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, transgender prisoners in Colorado \u003ca href=\"http://transgenderlawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Class-Action-Trans-Women-Complaint.pdf\"> brought a class action against\u003c/a> state prison officials over a lack of safe housing; and three transgender inmates in Texas filed a lawsuit seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/12/06/transgender-women-fight-texas-law-that-restricts-inmates-from-changing-name/\"> legally change their names.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a law allowing prisoners to change their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/news/news/275618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender and name\u003c/a> took effect in late 2018. SB 132, the California bill that would let transgender inmates choose, with some exceptions, whether to be imprisoned in a men’s or women’s facility, is similar to measures enacted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/connecticut-transgender-prisoners-first-us-win-right-be-housed-according-947312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connecticut\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/mass-general-laws-c127-ss-32a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender inmates are some of the most marginalized members of society,” said \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, D-San Francisco, SB 132’s sponsor. “They need more support. The housing aspect is one piece of the puzzle. And it’s a really significant one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passage of Wiener’s bill would be “lifesaving,” said \u003ca href=\"http://bambysalcedo.com\">Bamby Salcedo\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based transgender activist who spent 14 years in California jails and prisons. Salcedo said the measure would allow transgender inmates to do their time “away from harassment and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the state Senate last year, but did not get a floor vote in the Assembly. Wiener, who put the measure on hold until this year to discuss the issue with prisoners, believes it will pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal Standards Not Met\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener’s bill would also bring California in line with federal standards laid out in the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA. These regulations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/06/20/2012-12427/national-standards-to-prevent-detect-and-respond-to-prison-rape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which took effect in August 2012\u003c/a>, recognize transgender inmates as a vulnerable population and stipulate that transgender housing assignments must ensure prisoners’ health and safety. Audits for each facility must be conducted every three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/186/2019/06/cmf-2017-prea-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal audit\u003c/a> found that CDCR’s policy of housing transgender inmates based solely on their biological sex ran afoul of PREA guidelines and that the department didn’t take into account the prisoners’ own views about their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, CDCR said, it implemented a \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A031dfb3b-7149-4fc0-97db-82b5323c027a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screening tool\u003c/a> used to assess risk of victimization. The agency also said its current housing policy requires every inmate receive a case-by-case review of where they are imprisoned, with no restriction on living in a men’s or women’s facility based solely on anatomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that when we’re dealing with our transgender men and women, that our staff need much more guidance when they’re looking at what appropriate housing looks like,” said Amy Miller, associate director of CDCR’s Female Offender Programs and Services, adult division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794375\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"James Star Henderson (right) and Mark Peaches Cate, two transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, take their pulse after exercising in the prison gym on June 11, 2019. Pictured left is their coach, Jeremiah Holland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Star Henderson (right) and Mark Peaches Cate, two transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, take their pulse after exercising in the prison gym on June 11, 2019. Pictured left is their coach, Jeremiah Holland. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, CDCR couldn’t point to any transgender prisoners, besides the few who had undergone gender-affirmation surgery, who had been allowed to switch facilities. The department said it doesn’t track that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harper Jean Tobin, policy director at the \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Center for Transgender Equality\u003c/a>, said while some states have improved their rules on transgender housing, frequently the policies “only exist on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, contrary to the federal PREA rules, most transgender prisoners continue to be housed automatically with the sex they were assigned at birth, which is often dangerous for them,” Tobin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You Never Feel Safe’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At CMF, transgender women had mixed reactions to the idea of changing living facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birrell, 67, called Wiener’s housing bill “insanity” and worried about potential conflicts with the existing female prisoner population. She already likes the community resulting from CDCR’s present system of transgender hubs — 14 prisons that offer special medical and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inmate Ava Fey said she would likely “run” to a women’s prison for reasons of safety. Living with women would also offer something that’s eluded her for decades: women whom she could emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been hiding so long — the mannerisms — I’ve kind of tucked them in and locked it away,” said Fey, who was convicted of first-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794380\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yekaterina Wesa Patience, 44, said she’d “love” to transfer to a women’s prison as well: “I think that would eliminate a lot of the problems of being sexually assaulted or being raped, pressured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just never feel safe here,” she said. “You never feel like you can let your guard down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other women, many who live on their own in single cells, said they were fine staying at CMF. Jazzie Paradize Scott, 47, who said she lives in a dorm with 150 men and a few other transgender women, sees the benefits of moving to a women’s prison, but views her current housing choice as a form of activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to be able to see me for who I [am],” she said. “I thought it would be a good idea for me to come out and mingle — not just for the trans women and to show that we can conquer even in the dorm living situation — but just to be able to exist with the males in CMF.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794377\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jazzie Paradize Scott, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazzie Paradize Scott, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Transgender men at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla had a different take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='State Sen. Scott Wiener on SB 132, housing legislation he has proposed for transgender prisoners']‘Transgender inmates are some of the most marginalized members of society. They need more support. The housing aspect is one piece of the puzzle. And it’s a really significant one.’[/pullquote]“I already fight for my life in this prison. How do you think I’m going to fare in a male institution even before surgery?” said 52-year-old Diamond Vargas, serving time for assault with a semiautomatic firearm. “There’s not a hormone shot in the world [we could take so that] we’re going to make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shiloh Heavenly Quine, 60, whose lawsuit spurred many of the changes around incarcerating transgender inmates in the state, is one of a few prisoners to have lived in both men’s and women’s prisons. Despite experiencing some bullying that she said landed her in administrative segregation, she feels much safer in the women’s facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People get sliced every now and then. … People get hit with locks every now and then, you have that, but all in all it’s pretty mellow here,” said Quine, who is incarcerated at CCWF for first-degree murder. “This is easy time. I call it Prisneyland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State Prisons Adapt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California prison officials say they’re trying to stay part of the national conversation on transgender issues. Besides creating support groups, \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A0a3108af-70bc-4032-9efc-54290f73af5d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changes in recent years\u003c/a> include directives to prison staff to use preferred pronouns and the hosting of events like a post-release transgender resource fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Quine settlement, CDCR polled transgender inmates about preferred cosmetic and hygenic items and then mandated that prison canteens carry them. \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Af24b92e1-6def-406b-9978-c651981f9dc5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Options for clothing\u003c/a> have expanded: Available items now include scoop-necked shirts for transgender women and chest-flattening binders for transgender men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sentence in coming to state prison, that’s the punishment. Right?” said CDCR’s Miller. “You shouldn’t be required to identify a different way simply because you committed a crime and you’ve been given a sentence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794369\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"James Star Henderson (left) and Cary Smith, share a laugh during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Star Henderson (left) and Cary Smith, share a laugh during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a number of the transgender prisoners at CMF said conditions for them have improved. Birrell said the situation took a positive turn in the mid-2000s: “It’s been a long process. But things are a lot better today than they have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates said they expect that lawsuits and laws will continue to force changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will have to continue because of just so much pervasive lack of information across correction systems,” said Levi of GLAD. “But I’m also hopeful that won’t be the exclusive way in which we see things move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794372\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘If I Wasn’t Trans …’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite these changes, transgender prisoners have continued to allege mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody hit me in the side and then just choked me out, just choked me out,” Fey said of an attack earlier this year in the kitchen at CMF, which she attributed to her gender identity. Fey provided KQED with documentation of the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A2a0aab67-79b7-4295-b7cc-d4f2478ac864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transgender woman\u003c/a> and a gender-fluid person have filed \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ac96c3d9c-a558-4e9f-b3d2-750bf5aaf3ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal lawsuits\u003c/a> alleging they were physically assaulted and verbally harassed by officers in 2017 at CCWF because of their gender identity (CDCR declined to comment on pending litigation). And a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/186/2019/06/svsp-2018-prea-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal prison audit\u003c/a> in 2018 noted reports from transgender inmates in Salinas Valley State Prison that they had been sexually abused and “targeted” because of their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at Salinas Valley State Prison, a transgender woman was found dead in her cell in April 2017, with a pencil shoved through her ear and down her neck. The Monterey County coroner’s office said the cause of death is \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A11627193-07a9-4d73-9f40-ed93c62aba08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">undetermined\u003c/a>; the county’s district attorney, Jeannine Pacioni, said it had rejected the case due to lack of evidence indicating a murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11794850,news_11795125]At CMF, a transgender woman, Candice Destiny-Rene Love, \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Abe0f3c18-4fef-4c13-9008-f64e502a503f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleged in a federal lawsuit\u003c/a> that she was slashed in the head and face with a box cutter by a former boyfriend in 2016, and raped at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran a year earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love, 34, accuses CDCR of failing to protect gay and transgender inmates and of not giving her adequate medical care after the 2016 attack led to the development of keloids, bulbous folds of scar tissue she said have caused painful nerve damage and hearing loss. CDCR declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love who I am and I love being me, but after the rape and attack, I wondered, if I wasn’t trans, would I still be going through what I’m going through? I don’t think so,” wrote Love, who is serving time for vehicle theft, in a letter to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Complete Me’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the prison system attempts to adapt to the transgender rights movement in society at large, a number of transgender prisoners can finally transition, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly two decades closeted in prison, Patience came out as transgender in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite hearing that some transgender women had difficulties going into a women’s prison, she said: “It still wouldn’t detract or turn me away from trying to be the complete me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fey feels the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody has got to be the forerunner for this stuff. If somebody goes in and acts right … it opens the door for the next girl behind you. And after a while, if you’re acceptable, you’ll be accepted,” Fey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Resources' link1='https://www.blackandpink.org/penpal-newsletter, Black and Pink' link2='https://transequality.org/about-transgender, National Center for Transgender Equality' link3='http://www.tgijp.org/, TGI Justice Project' link4='https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/center/programs/access-to-justice/project-for-transgender-incarcerated-survivors/, Project for Transgender Incarcerated Survivors' link5='https://transgenderlawcenter.org/volunteer, Transgender Law Center']For Carmen Guerrero’s family, there isn’t much solace. At her killer’s trial, her mom, Mary Talamantez Flores, testified that the youngest of her six kids liked to bake, and that she was beloved by an older sister, who watched out for her at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in prison, Guerrero, serving time for second-degree murder, often wrote home and seemed OK, Flores said. She learned via telegram that Guerrero had been killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My baby was gone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero’s boyfriend, Jonathan Wilson, also an inmate, said he has struggled with grief and depression after her death. At the trial, he confirmed her handwriting on the form where she said she feared being raped by her killer. What she wrote told him she was pleading for her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson wrote KQED in August: “Carmen died being who she wanted to be as a woman and it cost her her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>KQED News’ Monica Lam contributed to this report.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Questions? Comments for the reporter? Contact her: mleitsinger@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Crespo had told corrections officers at Kern Valley State Prison that he would kill Guerrero, a transgender woman who wore her hair long and tweezed her eyebrows, if he was forced to share a cell with her, according to an inmate who witnessed the incident and testified at Crespo’s murder trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Crespo moved in, Guerrero, 48, began filling out a form that prosecutors believe she intended to use as part of a transfer request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He stated he is not compatible with me. I’m worried to be raped again,” Guerrero wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11794398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_GuerreroK06560-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A prison photo of Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman killed by her cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison in late 2013. Her cellmate, Miguel Crespo, was sentenced to death in her murder in December 2019. Her family said in court that they didn't have any photos of Carmen because they were lost in a house fire.\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_GuerreroK06560-qut.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_GuerreroK06560-qut-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prison photo of Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman killed by her cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison in late 2013. Her cellmate, Miguel Crespo, was sentenced to death in her murder in December 2019. Her family said in court that they didn’t have any photos of Carmen because they were lost in a house fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prison guards told Crespo the move would be temporary, the other inmate testified. Later that night, after Crespo strangled Guerrero, he called the guards over and said, “You didn’t believe me. I told you I was gonna kill [Guerrero],” according to the inmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crespo, who told the trial judge he had previously attacked a gay prisoner, argued in court he shouldn’t have been housed with Guerrero. In December, the judge sentenced Crespo to death for the 2013 murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a> would not comment specifically on the Guerrero case, but said it is “committed to addressing the safety concerns” of transgender, intersex and nonbinary prisoners. The department also said it introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A031dfb3b-7149-4fc0-97db-82b5323c027a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screening form\u003c/a> in 2017 intended to prevent potential abusers and victims from residing in the same cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates backing a bill pending in the California State Legislature on safe housing for transgender prisoners said the killing was an example of how CDCR has failed transgender inmates. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 132\u003c/a> would allow prisoners to live with those who match the gender they identify with — not the one they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Crespo] should never have been in the cell with the girl,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatima-shabazz-b5058a176/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fatima Shabazz\u003c/a>, a former inmate and transgender prisoner activist who is working on SB 132. “The whole point in the bill is to prevent things like this from happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Meerkamper, an attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>, agreed the pair should not have been housed together and said the U.S. Constitution requires prisons to protect inmates they know to be in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to get a lot clearer than having someone saying, ‘I am going to kill this person,’ and then doing it,” Meerkamper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Greater Understanding’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Transgender inmates have long been identified as a vulnerable population. Neither California nor the federal government tracks prison homicides by gender identity, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svpjri1112.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent federal data\u003c/a>, from 2011-12, found 40% of transgender prisoners reported being the victim of a sexual assault within the previous 12 months — 10 times the percentage of non-transgender inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 132 is the latest in a growing number of efforts nationwide to drive those numbers down and make prison less overtly hostile for transgender people. Spurred by advocates, inmates, state lawmakers and some corrections officials, the initiatives include gender-affirming housing, medical care, clothing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a trend towards a greater understanding of the need to provide humane housing and treatment of transgender people who are incarcerated,” said Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project for advocacy group GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (\u003ca href=\"https://www.glad.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GLAD\u003c/a>). “There’s also a growing understanding within corrections systems of the need to respond to transgender people humanely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the situation portrayed by transgender prisoners and their advocates is complex, with the acknowledgment of progress tempered by violent incidents and allegations they say are indicative of how far the penitentiary system still has to go in providing a safe environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDCR is like trying to push a boulder uphill,” said one inmate, Ava Fey. “There’s that inertia principle where once it’s stopped and it’s happy with how it is, it does not want to change or move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Fought Constantly’: Pushing for Change From Inside Prison\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the California Medical Facility, a state prison in Vacaville, one of the new transgender-related accommodations is a workout club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last summer, a group of transgender women, who were wearing sports bras, leggings, shorts and tank tops, shot hoops, walked laps, peddled on stationary bikes and paused to gossip in what looked like an ordinary high school gym. The women are among the state’s 1,200 inmates who identify as transgender, gender-nonconforming or intersex — a little less than 1% of the prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fought constantly and constantly with staff to do something for the girls here at CMF,” inmate Jazzie Paradize Scott, serving time for second-degree robbery, said to a soundtrack of hip-hop and buzzing black fans. “I wanted them to have a safe place where they can wear their shorts, their bras and their tops and their little tennis shoes and come out and just be ladies and be able to work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Mikayla-bball3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makayla Fennell, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, plays basketball with two other transgender women, including Yekaterina Wesa Patience (right), on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a circle of women stretching, Mark Peaches Cates, 58, said she’d never had the chance to exercise with just transgender women. Gym time with men had made her uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You couldn’t be yourself,” said Cates, who is in prison for second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dallas Rachael Goosen, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_stretch-6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dallas Rachael Goosen, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, many transgender-related services have been implemented after an inmate sued the state prison system over its refusal to provide her with gender-affirmation surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "‘I love who I am and I love being me, but after the rape and attack, I wondered, if I wasn’t trans, would I still be going through what I’m going through? I don’t think so.’",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>CDCR \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A02f599b4-42fc-40d2-8764-6bcf65de4ad5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled\u003c/a> with the prisoner, Shiloh Heavenly Quine, in 2015, agreeing to perform the surgery and becoming the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-inmate-says-women-s-prison-torture-n737676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first prison system\u003c/a> in the nation to set \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A4dace6e8-5ad9-481f-912c-91f7ebd25398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guidelines\u003c/a> for other transgender inmates to seek approval for the operation. As of September, CDCR said at least four prisoners had undergone the surgery. About 175 have applied and 19 have been approved as of November, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge in the Quine case also \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ac3321e30-eed1-4ead-b908-67ebf68f59db\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered\u003c/a> California prisons to make available to transgender inmates such gender-affirming items as clothing, jewelry and makeup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefits of that order could be seen at a transgender support group at the prison in Vacaville, where women put makeup on one another and talked about having to previously resort to DIY tricks in order to fashion cosmetics — using pastels, wax pencils, Kool-Aid, cocoa and coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794368\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"James Star Henderson (left) puts makeup on Dallas Rachael Goosen during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Rachel-makeup-Star-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Star Henderson (left) puts makeup on Dallas Rachael Goosen during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One hack, according to 59-year-old Cary Smith: Running a Q-tip over baby oil pooled on a Colgate toothpaste box. The result: pink eyeshadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing makeup “makes me feel like I’m a step closer to being who I really am. … I feel like I can keep going,” said Smith, who is serving time for assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794371\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jarrett Angel Williams, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-lipstick-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarrett Angel Williams, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘You Were Here to Serve Others’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CDCR said it doesn’t track violence in California prisons for any subset of inmates, including those who are transgender. A rare data point comes from a \u003ca href=\"https://ucicorrections.seweb.uci.edu/files/2013/06/BulletinVol2Issue2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2007 study\u003c/a> that included interviews with 39 transgender prisoners at a single state prison: 59% reported being sexually assaulted, 13 times the rate for non-transgender prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when being a transgender in prison, it was pretty hopeless. It was dark. You were here to serve others,” Cary Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transgender prisoners at CMF had plenty of traumatic incidents to recount. Yekaterina Wesa Patience said she was playing dominoes and smoking a joint with her cellmate in Pelican Bay State Prison in the late 1990s when he suddenly got on top of her and raped her. That sent her into the closet for nearly 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "‘I immediately cut all my hair off, kept my head bald … I grew a mustache and a goatee, and tried to adopt the hardest walk I could on the yard. I was terrified of it happening again, and I was not going to be out for somebody else to do it.’",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I immediately cut all my hair off, kept my head bald … I grew a mustache and a goatee, and tried to adopt the hardest walk I could on the yard,” said Patience, imprisoned for first-degree murder and other crimes. “I was terrified of it happening again, and I was not going to be out for somebody else to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Patience said, she was raped again, about 18 months later at Mule Creek State Prison. (KQED could not verify most of the alleged attacks reported by Patience and the other prisoners in this story; CDCR said it investigates allegations, but federal law prevents it from sharing details about specific cases.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Bella Birrell, imprisoned for first-degree murder, also said she’d been sexually assaulted in prison. “They had a motto back in those days: It was either fight or fuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794370\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"David Bella Birrell (left) and Jarrett Angel Williams, transgender women housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on June 11, 2019, in the prison gym.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Angel-Bella-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bella Birrell (left) and Jarrett Angel Williams, transgender women housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, on June 11, 2019, in the prison gym. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Life-Saving Legislation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent years, a flurry of laws and \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/8/18618926/transgender-inmate-seeks-clemency-cites-retaliation-after-reporting-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuits\u003c/a>, many from prisoners like Quine, have forced systemic \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/01/26/transgender-inmate-transferred-womens-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changes\u003c/a> in the way penal systems in some states treat transgender prisoners. In\u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/8/18618926/transgender-inmate-seeks-clemency-cites-retaliation-after-reporting-abuse\"> Illinois, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/en/news/kanautica-zayre-brown-transferred-womens-facility\"> North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/01/24/transgender-inmate-moved-women-prison/Nf2k5Oqa3Ojnh1yH1IwWkL/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts\u003c/a>, transgender inmates have won in court the right to transfer to women’s prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, transgender prisoners in Colorado \u003ca href=\"http://transgenderlawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Class-Action-Trans-Women-Complaint.pdf\"> brought a class action against\u003c/a> state prison officials over a lack of safe housing; and three transgender inmates in Texas filed a lawsuit seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/12/06/transgender-women-fight-texas-law-that-restricts-inmates-from-changing-name/\"> legally change their names.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a law allowing prisoners to change their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/news/news/275618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender and name\u003c/a> took effect in late 2018. SB 132, the California bill that would let transgender inmates choose, with some exceptions, whether to be imprisoned in a men’s or women’s facility, is similar to measures enacted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/connecticut-transgender-prisoners-first-us-win-right-be-housed-according-947312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connecticut\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/mass-general-laws-c127-ss-32a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender inmates are some of the most marginalized members of society,” said \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, D-San Francisco, SB 132’s sponsor. “They need more support. The housing aspect is one piece of the puzzle. And it’s a really significant one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passage of Wiener’s bill would be “lifesaving,” said \u003ca href=\"http://bambysalcedo.com\">Bamby Salcedo\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based transgender activist who spent 14 years in California jails and prisons. Salcedo said the measure would allow transgender inmates to do their time “away from harassment and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the state Senate last year, but did not get a floor vote in the Assembly. Wiener, who put the measure on hold until this year to discuss the issue with prisoners, believes it will pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal Standards Not Met\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener’s bill would also bring California in line with federal standards laid out in the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA. These regulations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/06/20/2012-12427/national-standards-to-prevent-detect-and-respond-to-prison-rape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which took effect in August 2012\u003c/a>, recognize transgender inmates as a vulnerable population and stipulate that transgender housing assignments must ensure prisoners’ health and safety. Audits for each facility must be conducted every three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/186/2019/06/cmf-2017-prea-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal audit\u003c/a> found that CDCR’s policy of housing transgender inmates based solely on their biological sex ran afoul of PREA guidelines and that the department didn’t take into account the prisoners’ own views about their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, CDCR said, it implemented a \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A031dfb3b-7149-4fc0-97db-82b5323c027a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screening tool\u003c/a> used to assess risk of victimization. The agency also said its current housing policy requires every inmate receive a case-by-case review of where they are imprisoned, with no restriction on living in a men’s or women’s facility based solely on anatomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that when we’re dealing with our transgender men and women, that our staff need much more guidance when they’re looking at what appropriate housing looks like,” said Amy Miller, associate director of CDCR’s Female Offender Programs and Services, adult division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794375\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"James Star Henderson (right) and Mark Peaches Cate, two transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, take their pulse after exercising in the prison gym on June 11, 2019. Pictured left is their coach, Jeremiah Holland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Coach-Star-Peaches-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Star Henderson (right) and Mark Peaches Cate, two transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, take their pulse after exercising in the prison gym on June 11, 2019. Pictured left is their coach, Jeremiah Holland. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, CDCR couldn’t point to any transgender prisoners, besides the few who had undergone gender-affirmation surgery, who had been allowed to switch facilities. The department said it doesn’t track that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harper Jean Tobin, policy director at the \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Center for Transgender Equality\u003c/a>, said while some states have improved their rules on transgender housing, frequently the policies “only exist on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, contrary to the federal PREA rules, most transgender prisoners continue to be housed automatically with the sex they were assigned at birth, which is often dangerous for them,” Tobin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You Never Feel Safe’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At CMF, transgender women had mixed reactions to the idea of changing living facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birrell, 67, called Wiener’s housing bill “insanity” and worried about potential conflicts with the existing female prisoner population. She already likes the community resulting from CDCR’s present system of transgender hubs — 14 prisons that offer special medical and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inmate Ava Fey said she would likely “run” to a women’s prison for reasons of safety. Living with women would also offer something that’s eluded her for decades: women whom she could emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been hiding so long — the mannerisms — I’ve kind of tucked them in and locked it away,” said Fey, who was convicted of first-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794380\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Ava-table-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yekaterina Wesa Patience, 44, said she’d “love” to transfer to a women’s prison as well: “I think that would eliminate a lot of the problems of being sexually assaulted or being raped, pressured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just never feel safe here,” she said. “You never feel like you can let your guard down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other women, many who live on their own in single cells, said they were fine staying at CMF. 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Besides creating support groups, \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A0a3108af-70bc-4032-9efc-54290f73af5d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changes in recent years\u003c/a> include directives to prison staff to use preferred pronouns and the hosting of events like a post-release transgender resource fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Quine settlement, CDCR polled transgender inmates about preferred cosmetic and hygenic items and then mandated that prison canteens carry them. \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Af24b92e1-6def-406b-9978-c651981f9dc5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Options for clothing\u003c/a> have expanded: Available items now include scoop-necked shirts for transgender women and chest-flattening binders for transgender men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sentence in coming to state prison, that’s the punishment. Right?” said CDCR’s Miller. “You shouldn’t be required to identify a different way simply because you committed a crime and you’ve been given a sentence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794369\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"James Star Henderson (left) and Cary Smith, share a laugh during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_CJ-Star-laughing-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Star Henderson (left) and Cary Smith, share a laugh during a transgender support group meeting at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a number of the transgender prisoners at CMF said conditions for them have improved. Birrell said the situation took a positive turn in the mid-2000s: “It’s been a long process. But things are a lot better today than they have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates said they expect that lawsuits and laws will continue to force changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will have to continue because of just so much pervasive lack of information across correction systems,” said Levi of GLAD. “But I’m also hopeful that won’t be the exclusive way in which we see things move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11794372\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11794372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/PHOTO_Kat-ID-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yekaterina Wesa Patience, a transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on July 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘If I Wasn’t Trans …’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite these changes, transgender prisoners have continued to allege mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody hit me in the side and then just choked me out, just choked me out,” Fey said of an attack earlier this year in the kitchen at CMF, which she attributed to her gender identity. Fey provided KQED with documentation of the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A2a0aab67-79b7-4295-b7cc-d4f2478ac864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transgender woman\u003c/a> and a gender-fluid person have filed \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ac96c3d9c-a558-4e9f-b3d2-750bf5aaf3ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal lawsuits\u003c/a> alleging they were physically assaulted and verbally harassed by officers in 2017 at CCWF because of their gender identity (CDCR declined to comment on pending litigation). 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