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Smith said there were dozens and possibly hundreds of hikers on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking those folks to leave it as quickly as they can and we’re providing resources to get them off the trail,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">⚠️HEAD FIRE SHELTER UPDATES ⚠️\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters are available at the following locations for those who have been displaced due to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/HEADFIRE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HEADFIRE\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\nKahtishraam Wellness Center – Yreka\u003cbr>\n1403 Kahtishraam, Yreka, CA 96097\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karuk Wellness Center – Happy Camp\u003cbr>\n357 Jacobs Way, Happy Camp, CA 96039 \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/ZJO3S9bkxF\">pic.twitter.com/ZJO3S9bkxF\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Siskiyou County OES (@SiskiyouOES) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SiskiyouOES/status/1691825370478305728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">🚨HEAD FIRE EVACUATIONS UPDATE 🚨\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>🚨EVACUATION ORDER for zone(s):\u003cbr>\n– 𝗭𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗜𝗦-1236, 1120, 1117, 1007\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>⚠️EVACUATION WARNING(S):\u003cbr>\n– 𝗭𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗜𝗦-1010, 1123, 3502, 2007, 2004, 2001, 1233, 1230-A, 1230-B, 1114, 1004\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details here: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/eLaA73Z4oN\">https://t.co/eLaA73Z4oN\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/dapinQXseb\">pic.twitter.com/dapinQXseb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Siskiyou County Sheriff (@SiskiyouSheriff) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SiskiyouSheriff/status/1691643933846294861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Head Fire was burning near \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-56690ce338be4d983ea619f240777022\">the site of the McKinney Fire\u003c/a>, which began on July 29 of last year. That fire started in the Klamath National Forest and exploded in size when a thunderstorm created winds up to 50 mph. It reduced much of Klamath River, a scenic community of about 200 people, to ash and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-science-fires-california-climate-and-environment-8e2e85f836d819b2ab808ab542c53e7f\">killed four people\u003c/a>, including two who may have been trying to flee the flames. Their bodies were found inside a charred vehicle in the driveway of a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters said weather would continue to be hot and dry but with instability caused by moist air being pulled into the region, bringing the threat of afternoon and evening dry thunderstorms with strong outflow winds. That pattern was expected to break down on Thursday, with cooler and calmer weather entering the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klamath National Forest sprawls over more than 2,650 square miles in Northern California and southern Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slew of other lightning-caused fires were reported Tuesday in Northern California, including in Mendocino County, Shasta-Trinity National Forest and the Tahoe area, although most were small and quickly contained, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SiskiyouAugustLightningComplex?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SiskiyouAugustLightningComplex\u003c/a> -(Update) Fires are actively burning in timber. Currently, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhiteFire\u003c/a> is 150 acres; \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/RanchFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RanchFire\u003c/a> is 400, and the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LongFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LongFire\u003c/a> is 30. Steep, inaccessible terrain and narrow winding roads continue to challenge firefighters. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CALFIRESKU2023?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CALFIRESKU2023\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/a8GvrQSffb\">pic.twitter.com/a8GvrQSffb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CAL FIRE SKU (@CALFIRESKU) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRESKU/status/1691705083103228171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Head Fire in Siskiyou County was one of at least 19 fires — most of them tiny — that erupted in the Klamath National Forest as thunderstorms rolled through the area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1692217698,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":695},"headData":{"title":"Head Fire Near Oregon Border Forces Evacuations | KQED","description":"The Head Fire in Siskiyou County was one of at least 19 fires — most of them tiny — that erupted in the Klamath National Forest as thunderstorms rolled through the area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Head Fire Near Oregon Border Forces Evacuations","datePublished":"2023-08-16T18:40:49.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-16T20:28:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11958312/head-fire-near-oregon-border-forces-evacuations","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rural areas near California’s border with Oregon were under evacuation orders Wednesday after gusty winds from a thunderstorm sent a lightning-sparked wildfire racing through national forest lands, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze in Siskiyou County, dubbed the Head Fire, was one of at least 20 fires — most of them tiny — that erupted in the Klamath National Forest as thunderstorms brought lightning and downdrafts that drove the flames through timber and rural lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a fire that has moved extremely quickly,” Forest Supervisor Rachel Smith told The Associated Press. “Just in a matter of a couple of minutes yesterday afternoon the fire grew from just 50 acres to nearly 1,500 acres. This is the kind of growth that historically we have not experienced on our forest prior to the last couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An overflight late Tuesday measured the fire at 4.2 square miles, slightly smaller than initial estimates after it grew rapidly in just a few hours. A forest statement said fire behavior also decreased during the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters were working to protect homes near the confluence of the Scott and Klamath rivers, a very lightly populated area about 20 miles from the California-Oregon state line and about 50 miles northwest of Mt. Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There weren’t any immediate reports of injuries or homes burned Tuesday night. However, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders for several areas, including one south of Hamburg, a riverside community of around 100 people. Additional areas were warned to be ready to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 96 was also closed, along with a section of the Pacific Crest Trail north to the Oregon border. Smith said there were dozens and possibly hundreds of hikers on the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking those folks to leave it as quickly as they can and we’re providing resources to get them off the trail,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">⚠️HEAD FIRE SHELTER UPDATES ⚠️\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters are available at the following locations for those who have been displaced due to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/HEADFIRE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HEADFIRE\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\nKahtishraam Wellness Center – Yreka\u003cbr>\n1403 Kahtishraam, Yreka, CA 96097\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karuk Wellness Center – Happy Camp\u003cbr>\n357 Jacobs Way, Happy Camp, CA 96039 \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/ZJO3S9bkxF\">pic.twitter.com/ZJO3S9bkxF\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Siskiyou County OES (@SiskiyouOES) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SiskiyouOES/status/1691825370478305728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">🚨HEAD FIRE EVACUATIONS UPDATE 🚨\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>🚨EVACUATION ORDER for zone(s):\u003cbr>\n– 𝗭𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗜𝗦-1236, 1120, 1117, 1007\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>⚠️EVACUATION WARNING(S):\u003cbr>\n– 𝗭𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗜𝗦-1010, 1123, 3502, 2007, 2004, 2001, 1233, 1230-A, 1230-B, 1114, 1004\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details here: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/eLaA73Z4oN\">https://t.co/eLaA73Z4oN\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/dapinQXseb\">pic.twitter.com/dapinQXseb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Siskiyou County Sheriff (@SiskiyouSheriff) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SiskiyouSheriff/status/1691643933846294861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Head Fire was burning near \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-56690ce338be4d983ea619f240777022\">the site of the McKinney Fire\u003c/a>, which began on July 29 of last year. That fire started in the Klamath National Forest and exploded in size when a thunderstorm created winds up to 50 mph. It reduced much of Klamath River, a scenic community of about 200 people, to ash and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-science-fires-california-climate-and-environment-8e2e85f836d819b2ab808ab542c53e7f\">killed four people\u003c/a>, including two who may have been trying to flee the flames. Their bodies were found inside a charred vehicle in the driveway of a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters said weather would continue to be hot and dry but with instability caused by moist air being pulled into the region, bringing the threat of afternoon and evening dry thunderstorms with strong outflow winds. That pattern was expected to break down on Thursday, with cooler and calmer weather entering the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klamath National Forest sprawls over more than 2,650 square miles in Northern California and southern Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slew of other lightning-caused fires were reported Tuesday in Northern California, including in Mendocino County, Shasta-Trinity National Forest and the Tahoe area, although most were small and quickly contained, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SiskiyouAugustLightningComplex?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SiskiyouAugustLightningComplex\u003c/a> -(Update) Fires are actively burning in timber. Currently, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhiteFire\u003c/a> is 150 acres; \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/RanchFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RanchFire\u003c/a> is 400, and the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LongFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LongFire\u003c/a> is 30. Steep, inaccessible terrain and narrow winding roads continue to challenge firefighters. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CALFIRESKU2023?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CALFIRESKU2023\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/a8GvrQSffb\">pic.twitter.com/a8GvrQSffb\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CAL FIRE SKU (@CALFIRESKU) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRESKU/status/1691705083103228171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11958312/head-fire-near-oregon-border-forces-evacuations","authors":["byline_news_11958312"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6383","news_33029","news_4337"],"featImg":"news_11958323","label":"news"},"news_11954879":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11954879","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11954879","score":null,"sort":[1688335233000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-californias-firefighter-union-could-get-guaranteed-raises-forever","title":"How California’s Firefighter Union Could Get Guaranteed Raises, Forever","publishDate":1688335233,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How California’s Firefighter Union Could Get Guaranteed Raises, Forever | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California wildfire firefighters could be in for a big pay raise soon through a rare legislative move that would require the state to boost their salaries automatically, effectively cutting the governor’s office out of negotiations over their wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the California Department of Forestry and Protection – or Cal Fire – has been unable to compete with local departments that offer better salaries and in turn has been losing its members at an escalating pace, union leaders say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have a world where you can work at Target and In-N-Out and make $22 an hour and our starting firefighter makes $15.56 an hour,” said Cal Fire Local 2881 president Tim Edwards. “Who’s gonna want to put their life on the line in a time where the state really needs firefighters when they can go work somewhere else and make more money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after several years of devastating wildfires, state lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1254\">advancing a bill\u003c/a> that would lock in automatic pay increases for them. It would compel the state human resources department to calculate wage increases for the 8,000 or so state firefighters every year based on what other 20 local fire departments pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would boost the salary for Cal Fire employees to within a 15% range of the top 20 highest-paying fire departments in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Heath Flora\"]‘If I learned anything in the past decade, it’s that our wildfire season is absolutely out of control. It really never ends.’[/pullquote]If the bill becomes law, the firefighter union would become just the second group of California public employees to gain automatic pay raises instead of having to bargain over wage increases with the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other is the union that represents \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecahp.org/\">California Highway Patrol officers\u003c/a>. The CHP contract sets officers’ pay on a formula that accounts for wages at other large California police departments. It’s a lucrative perk. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article266447621.html\">CHP officers received a 6.2% wage increase\u003c/a> — the biggest they have seen in 20 years and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article251983518.html\">more than double what Newsom\u003c/a> gave to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article264796239.html\">other public employee unions that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers, including Republicans, say it’s time for Cal Fire to gain the same kind of wage guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cal Fire is one of the greatest public safety organizations, in my opinion, in the world,” said Assemblymember Heath Flora, a Republican from Ripon who sponsored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really want the men and women in this state to be paid properly and for some reason we always felt like they’re overlooked. And I don’t really understand it,” said Flora, a former firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is moving forward as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-paychecks/\">Newsom administration bargains with unions\u003c/a> representing more than half of the state workforce, some of whom are demanding 30% raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter pay bill passed through the Assembly and is now headed to the Senate appropriations committee with no opposition even as the state faces \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-deal-what-you-need-to-know/\">a projected $32 billion defici\u003c/a>t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire itself has not weighed in on the bill. Edwards, the union leader, said the department lost 10% of its firefighters last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California wildfires strain overworked crews\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11949914,science_1980766\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Cal Fire is the state’s largest fire department. It’s responsible for fighting wildfires, as well as protecting urban areas in several parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensity of wildfires in California is projected to worsen. The state saw its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/07/california-fires-2020/\">worst wildfire season on record in 2020\u003c/a>, taking \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/series/california-firefighters-trauma-wildfires/\">a toll on firefighters\u003c/a> who spent weeks in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Professional Firefighters, an umbrella union that represents some 30,000 firefighters, is lobbying for the pay bill. The union in a written statement to lawmakers said the risks of short staffing compounds the dangers that come with the line of work and “also presents long-term health impacts from extended exposure to toxic smoke with no respiratory protection as well as the negative repercussions for behavioral health from lack of sleep, overwork, and months on end spent away from family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire union in its most recent contract attempted to address difficult working conditions by bargaining for a schedule that would give its members a better work-life balance. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2022/12/cal-fire-labor-contract/\">Cal Fire firefighters usually work four 72-hour shifts\u003c/a> each month. Local fire departments tend to operate on 54-hour shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I learned anything in the past decade, it’s that our wildfire season is absolutely out of control. It really never ends,” Flora said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Fire fighter salaries lag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, Cal Fire Local 2881 would still have to bargain with the governor over issues like discipline and working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire firefighters are paid through a complicated formula that accounts for their scheduled overtime hours. Their hourly wages are as low as minimum wage, but their take-home pay adds up through overtime and other compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe average monthly total compensation for a Cal Fire battalion chief was $29,697, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhr.ca.gov/state-hr-professionals/Documents/2020-California-Firefighter-Total-Compensation-Survey.pdf\">2020 salary survey\u003c/a>. That was about 40.7% below what 20 local fire departments of various sizes paid firefighters at that rank, the survey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-ranking firefighters earned $19,288 monthly in total monthly compensation, which was 15.8% below what local departments paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Legislature, critics of public employee unions characterize the bill as a reckless giveaway to a powerful labor organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters are already among the best-paid government workers in the state,” said Will Swaim, president of California Policy Center, an advocacy group that is critical of California public employee unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one else in California gets that deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Genest, the former finance director under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, also called promises of future raised “irresponsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Governors and legislators always regret having made such promises when our budget goes out of balance,” he wrote in an email. “The wise move is to make decisions about the allocation of state revenues each year and even then to be careful not to spend more on anything than is prudent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After several years of devastating wildfires, California lawmakers want to give hefty raises to Cal Fire firefighters. 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It would compel the state human resources department to calculate wage increases for the 8,000 or so state firefighters every year based on what other 20 local fire departments pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would boost the salary for Cal Fire employees to within a 15% range of the top 20 highest-paying fire departments in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If I learned anything in the past decade, it’s that our wildfire season is absolutely out of control. It really never ends.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Heath Flora","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If the bill becomes law, the firefighter union would become just the second group of California public employees to gain automatic pay raises instead of having to bargain over wage increases with the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other is the union that represents \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecahp.org/\">California Highway Patrol officers\u003c/a>. The CHP contract sets officers’ pay on a formula that accounts for wages at other large California police departments. It’s a lucrative perk. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article266447621.html\">CHP officers received a 6.2% wage increase\u003c/a> — the biggest they have seen in 20 years and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article251983518.html\">more than double what Newsom\u003c/a> gave to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article264796239.html\">other public employee unions that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers, including Republicans, say it’s time for Cal Fire to gain the same kind of wage guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cal Fire is one of the greatest public safety organizations, in my opinion, in the world,” said Assemblymember Heath Flora, a Republican from Ripon who sponsored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really want the men and women in this state to be paid properly and for some reason we always felt like they’re overlooked. And I don’t really understand it,” said Flora, a former firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is moving forward as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-paychecks/\">Newsom administration bargains with unions\u003c/a> representing more than half of the state workforce, some of whom are demanding 30% raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter pay bill passed through the Assembly and is now headed to the Senate appropriations committee with no opposition even as the state faces \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-deal-what-you-need-to-know/\">a projected $32 billion defici\u003c/a>t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire itself has not weighed in on the bill. Edwards, the union leader, said the department lost 10% of its firefighters last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California wildfires strain overworked crews\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11949914,science_1980766","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cal Fire is the state’s largest fire department. It’s responsible for fighting wildfires, as well as protecting urban areas in several parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensity of wildfires in California is projected to worsen. The state saw its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/07/california-fires-2020/\">worst wildfire season on record in 2020\u003c/a>, taking \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/series/california-firefighters-trauma-wildfires/\">a toll on firefighters\u003c/a> who spent weeks in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Professional Firefighters, an umbrella union that represents some 30,000 firefighters, is lobbying for the pay bill. The union in a written statement to lawmakers said the risks of short staffing compounds the dangers that come with the line of work and “also presents long-term health impacts from extended exposure to toxic smoke with no respiratory protection as well as the negative repercussions for behavioral health from lack of sleep, overwork, and months on end spent away from family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire union in its most recent contract attempted to address difficult working conditions by bargaining for a schedule that would give its members a better work-life balance. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2022/12/cal-fire-labor-contract/\">Cal Fire firefighters usually work four 72-hour shifts\u003c/a> each month. Local fire departments tend to operate on 54-hour shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I learned anything in the past decade, it’s that our wildfire season is absolutely out of control. It really never ends,” Flora said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Fire fighter salaries lag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, Cal Fire Local 2881 would still have to bargain with the governor over issues like discipline and working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire firefighters are paid through a complicated formula that accounts for their scheduled overtime hours. Their hourly wages are as low as minimum wage, but their take-home pay adds up through overtime and other compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe average monthly total compensation for a Cal Fire battalion chief was $29,697, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhr.ca.gov/state-hr-professionals/Documents/2020-California-Firefighter-Total-Compensation-Survey.pdf\">2020 salary survey\u003c/a>. That was about 40.7% below what 20 local fire departments of various sizes paid firefighters at that rank, the survey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-ranking firefighters earned $19,288 monthly in total monthly compensation, which was 15.8% below what local departments paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Legislature, critics of public employee unions characterize the bill as a reckless giveaway to a powerful labor organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters are already among the best-paid government workers in the state,” said Will Swaim, president of California Policy Center, an advocacy group that is critical of California public employee unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one else in California gets that deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Genest, the former finance director under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, also called promises of future raised “irresponsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Governors and legislators always regret having made such promises when our budget goes out of balance,” he wrote in an email. “The wise move is to make decisions about the allocation of state revenues each year and even then to be careful not to spend more on anything than is prudent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11954879/how-californias-firefighter-union-could-get-guaranteed-raises-forever","authors":["byline_news_11954879"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6383","news_32882","news_32883","news_27626","news_18512","news_154"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11705338","label":"news_18481"},"news_11933739":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11933739","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11933739","score":null,"sort":[1669933734000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"by-the-numbers-californias-mild-2022-wildfire-season","title":"It's Officially 'the End of Peak Fire Season.' So Why Did California Evade Huge Wildfires in 2022?","publishDate":1669933734,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As California emerges from its “peak” wildfire season, the state has managed to avoid its recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-wildfires-explained/\">plague of catastrophic wildfires\u003c/a>. So far in 2022, the fewest acres have burned since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said California had “a bit of luck” with weather this summer. Although enduring yet another drought year, much of the state was spared the worst of the heat and dryness that can spark fires. And in some instances, well-timed rain came to the rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire officials also attribute some of the mild wildfire season to their emphasis on clearing away vegetation that fuels fires. Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler said the $2.8 billion spent in the last two years on forest management made a difference, with the work “moderat(ing) fires approaching communities.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'We are not out of the woods yet.'[/pullquote]Mindful that wildfires can spark at any time in an environment driven by climate change, California officials have their fingers crossed after Gov. Gavin Newsom pronounced “the end of peak fire season” in mid-November. While California has entered an age of year-round fire seasons, the bulk of its fires occur from April through October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom knows better than to tempt fate. So while reporting that the state had a relatively moderate fire season and praising fire managers and crews, he quickly added that anything can still happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not here with a sign, ‘Mission Accomplished,’ in any way, shape or form,” Newsom said. “We will continue to maintain our vigilance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at some of the stories behind the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">362,455\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\nThat’s how many \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/\">acres burned across the state\u003c/a> so far this year. Almost a quarter of those tore through remote El Dorado and Placer counties during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/9/6/mosquito-fire/\">Mosquito Fire\u003c/a> in September and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For perspective, last year’s acreage was about seven times larger — 2.5 million. And those years paled in comparison to record-breaking 2020, when more than 4.3 million acres were ablaze in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state still threw everything at the wildfires it faced this year, hiring 1,350 additional personnel, deploying a new fleet of bespoke firefighting helicopters, and putting satellites, drones and artificial intelligence to work to attack each blaze.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">772\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics about dramatically fewer structures destroyed by wildfires offer cold comfort when it’s your home that burned down. Still, there was much less damage done compared to recent years: Seven hundred seventy-two California structures were destroyed by fire this year, while 104 were damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The McKinney Fire in July leveled 185 structures, and the Oak Fire in Mariposa County destroyed 182, also in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/\">a challenging fire season\u003c/a>, was much worse, with 3,560 buildings destroyed — almost five times more than this year — and 286 damaged. And during the 2020 season, the benchmark for worst in nearly every statistical category, 11,116 buildings were lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 Camp Fire in the Butte County town of Paradise remains the most destructive fire in California history, wiping out nearly 19,000 structures — an entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">9\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ultimate cost was great, even in a quiet fire year: In 2022, fires claimed the lives of nine Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four people died in August in the McKinney Fire in rural Siskiyou County, a sprawling blaze that also injured 12 firefighters. Two people were found dead in a car in their driveway. Another victim was a woman in her 70s who worked as a fire lookout for nearly five decades; she was killed in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, three people died during the 2021 fire season, 33 in 2020 and three in 2019. The Camp Fire of 2018, which killed 85 people, retains the awful distinction as the state’s deadliest fire.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">256\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a small victory, but fire officials will take it: Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/stats-events/\">7,490 fires were sparked in California in 2022\u003c/a>, which is 256 fewer than the five-year average of 7,746. In the fire world, even modest gains (about 3% below average) are welcome.[aside postID=\"news_11925321,news_11925086,news_11924234\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Tree removal projects — and burn scars from previous wildfires — can often slow or stop the spread of new fires. That simple calculus of creating a less-combustible landscape should equate to fewer and smaller fires, even with the dozens of variables that go into sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a goal, in conjunction with the federal government — which owns the majority of the state’s forested land — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/smmeey5c/prescribed-fire-final08022022.pdf\">“treat” a million acres annually by 2025 (PDF)\u003c/a>. That entails setting and monitoring low-intensity small fires, building and extending fuel breaks and clearing rights-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s painstaking and slow: In the 2021–22 fiscal year, the state conducted nearly 600 \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/fuels-reduction/\">fuels-reduction projects\u003c/a> across 101,000 acres. An additional 21,000 acres have been cleared since July.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">76,788\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s largest wildfire of the year, the Mosquito Fire, which burned 76,788 acres in national forests, turned out to be puny by recent standards, especially when compared to 2020’s million-acre fires and last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/13/dixie-fire/\">963,000-acre Dixie Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Size isn’t everything. Although not huge, the Mosquito Fire, which ignited in early September, was stubborn in the extreme, abetted by its location in steep canyons where fighting the flames was difficult. The fire quadrupled in size in one day, and it took almost three months for firefighters to control it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scenario of that fire burning in a dense and dry landscape was sobering enough to prompt evacuations and weeks of defensive actions including closing parts of Tahoe and El Dorado national forests at peak camping season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sustained deluge of rain in October was credited with finally helping to suppress the blaze.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">3\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the Mosquito Fire, two other wildfires were also, in part, extinguished by an increasing rarity in California: rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters in the Rockies have an axiom: Snow puts out fires. California’s analogue occurred this summer when unexpected rainstorms doused two particularly nasty fires: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/9/5/fairview-fire/\">Fairview Fire\u003c/a> in Riverside County and the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/7/29/mckinney-fire/\">McKinney Fire\u003c/a> in Siskiyou County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moisture from Tropical Storm Kay bailed out the Fairview Fire in September, and thunderstorms doused some flames with three inches of rain on the McKinney Fire in August. But the storm also sparked lightning, which set off mud and debris flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just precipitation that influences the severity of the fire season. It’s also wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfires in the northern part of the state were tamped down at the end of summer, attention turned to the south, where fires often are triggered by dry Santa Ana winds. Perhaps to remind everyone who’s in charge, winds gusted through Southern California over the Thanksgiving weekend, setting off red flag alerts for brush fires. But no large fires erupted.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">12th\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If history is any guide, the 12th month of the year can’t be counted on to be quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017 Southern California exploded under strong Santa Ana conditions, sparking 29 wildfires, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2017/12/4/thomas-fire/\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a>, which burned 281,893 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, making it at the time the largest fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The month-long barrage started in December, ran across 440 square miles and destroyed more than 1,000 structures. It burned into January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020 more than a half-dozen wildfires started in December, a month that is reliably cool and moist — or sometimes hot and dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, to quote the governor, \"We are not out of the woods yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Moderate weather and well-timed rainstorms in much of California combined to curb the acreage and structures burned.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1670102015,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1327},"headData":{"title":"It's Officially 'the End of Peak Fire Season.' So Why Did California Evade Huge Wildfires in 2022? | KQED","description":"Moderate weather and well-timed rainstorms in much of California combined to curb the acreage and structures burned.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"It's Officially 'the End of Peak Fire Season.' 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So far in 2022, the fewest acres have burned since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said California had “a bit of luck” with weather this summer. Although enduring yet another drought year, much of the state was spared the worst of the heat and dryness that can spark fires. And in some instances, well-timed rain came to the rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire officials also attribute some of the mild wildfire season to their emphasis on clearing away vegetation that fuels fires. Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler said the $2.8 billion spent in the last two years on forest management made a difference, with the work “moderat(ing) fires approaching communities.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We are not out of the woods yet.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Gov. Gavin Newsom","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mindful that wildfires can spark at any time in an environment driven by climate change, California officials have their fingers crossed after Gov. Gavin Newsom pronounced “the end of peak fire season” in mid-November. While California has entered an age of year-round fire seasons, the bulk of its fires occur from April through October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom knows better than to tempt fate. So while reporting that the state had a relatively moderate fire season and praising fire managers and crews, he quickly added that anything can still happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not here with a sign, ‘Mission Accomplished,’ in any way, shape or form,” Newsom said. “We will continue to maintain our vigilance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at some of the stories behind the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">362,455\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\nThat’s how many \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/\">acres burned across the state\u003c/a> so far this year. Almost a quarter of those tore through remote El Dorado and Placer counties during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/9/6/mosquito-fire/\">Mosquito Fire\u003c/a> in September and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For perspective, last year’s acreage was about seven times larger — 2.5 million. And those years paled in comparison to record-breaking 2020, when more than 4.3 million acres were ablaze in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state still threw everything at the wildfires it faced this year, hiring 1,350 additional personnel, deploying a new fleet of bespoke firefighting helicopters, and putting satellites, drones and artificial intelligence to work to attack each blaze.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">772\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics about dramatically fewer structures destroyed by wildfires offer cold comfort when it’s your home that burned down. Still, there was much less damage done compared to recent years: Seven hundred seventy-two California structures were destroyed by fire this year, while 104 were damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The McKinney Fire in July leveled 185 structures, and the Oak Fire in Mariposa County destroyed 182, also in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/\">a challenging fire season\u003c/a>, was much worse, with 3,560 buildings destroyed — almost five times more than this year — and 286 damaged. And during the 2020 season, the benchmark for worst in nearly every statistical category, 11,116 buildings were lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 Camp Fire in the Butte County town of Paradise remains the most destructive fire in California history, wiping out nearly 19,000 structures — an entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">9\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ultimate cost was great, even in a quiet fire year: In 2022, fires claimed the lives of nine Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four people died in August in the McKinney Fire in rural Siskiyou County, a sprawling blaze that also injured 12 firefighters. Two people were found dead in a car in their driveway. Another victim was a woman in her 70s who worked as a fire lookout for nearly five decades; she was killed in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, three people died during the 2021 fire season, 33 in 2020 and three in 2019. The Camp Fire of 2018, which killed 85 people, retains the awful distinction as the state’s deadliest fire.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">256\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a small victory, but fire officials will take it: Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/stats-events/\">7,490 fires were sparked in California in 2022\u003c/a>, which is 256 fewer than the five-year average of 7,746. In the fire world, even modest gains (about 3% below average) are welcome.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11925321,news_11925086,news_11924234","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Tree removal projects — and burn scars from previous wildfires — can often slow or stop the spread of new fires. That simple calculus of creating a less-combustible landscape should equate to fewer and smaller fires, even with the dozens of variables that go into sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a goal, in conjunction with the federal government — which owns the majority of the state’s forested land — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/smmeey5c/prescribed-fire-final08022022.pdf\">“treat” a million acres annually by 2025 (PDF)\u003c/a>. That entails setting and monitoring low-intensity small fires, building and extending fuel breaks and clearing rights-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s painstaking and slow: In the 2021–22 fiscal year, the state conducted nearly 600 \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/fuels-reduction/\">fuels-reduction projects\u003c/a> across 101,000 acres. An additional 21,000 acres have been cleared since July.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">76,788\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s largest wildfire of the year, the Mosquito Fire, which burned 76,788 acres in national forests, turned out to be puny by recent standards, especially when compared to 2020’s million-acre fires and last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/13/dixie-fire/\">963,000-acre Dixie Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Size isn’t everything. Although not huge, the Mosquito Fire, which ignited in early September, was stubborn in the extreme, abetted by its location in steep canyons where fighting the flames was difficult. The fire quadrupled in size in one day, and it took almost three months for firefighters to control it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scenario of that fire burning in a dense and dry landscape was sobering enough to prompt evacuations and weeks of defensive actions including closing parts of Tahoe and El Dorado national forests at peak camping season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sustained deluge of rain in October was credited with finally helping to suppress the blaze.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">3\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the Mosquito Fire, two other wildfires were also, in part, extinguished by an increasing rarity in California: rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters in the Rockies have an axiom: Snow puts out fires. California’s analogue occurred this summer when unexpected rainstorms doused two particularly nasty fires: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/9/5/fairview-fire/\">Fairview Fire\u003c/a> in Riverside County and the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/7/29/mckinney-fire/\">McKinney Fire\u003c/a> in Siskiyou County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moisture from Tropical Storm Kay bailed out the Fairview Fire in September, and thunderstorms doused some flames with three inches of rain on the McKinney Fire in August. But the storm also sparked lightning, which set off mud and debris flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just precipitation that influences the severity of the fire season. It’s also wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfires in the northern part of the state were tamped down at the end of summer, attention turned to the south, where fires often are triggered by dry Santa Ana winds. Perhaps to remind everyone who’s in charge, winds gusted through Southern California over the Thanksgiving weekend, setting off red flag alerts for brush fires. But no large fires erupted.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\">12th\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If history is any guide, the 12th month of the year can’t be counted on to be quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017 Southern California exploded under strong Santa Ana conditions, sparking 29 wildfires, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2017/12/4/thomas-fire/\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a>, which burned 281,893 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, making it at the time the largest fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The month-long barrage started in December, ran across 440 square miles and destroyed more than 1,000 structures. It burned into January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020 more than a half-dozen wildfires started in December, a month that is reliably cool and moist — or sometimes hot and dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, to quote the governor, \"We are not out of the woods yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11933739/by-the-numbers-californias-mild-2022-wildfire-season","authors":["byline_news_11933739"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_31594","news_6383","news_20341","news_27626","news_25237"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11933754","label":"news_18481"},"news_11923117":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11923117","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11923117","score":null,"sort":[1661201817000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-untapped-pool-of-talent-why-isnt-california-hiring-more-formerly-incarcerated-firefighters","title":"'An Untapped Pool of Talent': Why Isn't California Hiring More Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters?","publishDate":1661201817,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As wildfires rage across California each year, often with increasing ferocity, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet one homegrown resource is rarely used: thousands of experienced firefighters who earned their chops in prison. Two state programs designed to get more formerly incarcerated firefighters hired professionally have barely made a dent, according to an Associated Press review. One of them, a $30 million effort, has netted jobs for just over 100 firefighters, accounting for little more than one-third of those enrolled in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clad in distinctive orange uniforms, scores of incarcerated crews fan out across the state each summer and fall to protect multimillion-dollar homes by cutting brush and trees with chain saws and scraping the earth to create barriers they hope will stop flames. For that sometimes life-threatening labor, most are paid just a few dollars a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once freed from prison, however, the formerly incarcerated have trouble getting hired professionally because of their criminal records, despite a first-in-the-nation, 18-month-old law designed to ease their way and a four-year-old training program that cost taxpayers at least $180,000 per graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Genevieve Rimer, Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program\"]'Thousands of people are coming back from California's fire camps annually. They have already been trained. They have a desire to go and put their lives on the line in order to ensure public safety.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely an untapped pool of talent,\" said Genevieve Rimer, director of supportive services at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestryfirerp.org/about-us\">Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program\u003c/a>, where she helps formerly incarcerated people try to clear their records. “Thousands of people are coming back from California’s fire camps annually. They have already been trained. They have a desire to go and put their lives on the line in order to ensure public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is hardly alone in needing seasoned firefighters, but the nation's most populous state faces different challenges from other more sparsely settled Western regions. A wildfire that nearly leveled the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Paradise nearly four years ago, for instance, was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-business-environment-and-nature-gavin-newsom-paradise-dbae2ef725b32d91ff4c612de38f01e2\">the nation’s deadliest wildfire in nearly a century\u003c/a>, killing 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6/4/645ad1b0-4842-4fe7-855e-f4d51239bdd0/380BFCC77F96A54AF618DCA07EDA2923.final-letter---firefighter-salaries-07.19.22.pdf\">U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department are short about 1,650 firefighters\u003c/a>, nearly 650 of them in California, according to Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, in a recent letter to Biden administration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California legislation in 2020, which \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147\">allows people who were formerly incarcerated for mostly nonviolent offenses to seek to withdraw guilty pleas or overturn convictions\u003c/a>. A judge can then dismiss those charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the law took effect, the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, started by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-california-forests-fires-ac38905f8f1edaf0f63ac04eedc8a683\">two formerly incarcerated firefighters\u003c/a>, has worked with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles to help other formerly incarcerated people clear their records and get hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet they have only been able to file 34 petitions, and just 12 had records expunged during what the program warns “can be a long and drawn out process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashleigh Dennis, one of at least three attorneys filing expungement petitions through the Oakland-based advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://live-rootandrebound.pantheonsite.io/\">Root & Rebound\u003c/a>, said she has only been able to file 23 requests, of which just 14 have been granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among \u003ca href=\"https://roadmap.rootandrebound.org/understanding-cleaning-up-your-criminal-record/expungement-appendix/petition-for-dismissal-california-expungement/\">other hurdles\u003c/a>, applicants must demonstrate to a judge that they have been rehabilitated. Furthermore, the expungement only applies to the specific convictions that led to their firefighting duties while incarcerated. Many people have unrelated convictions that must be separately expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been a learning curve to educate judges about the law and get the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to speed up the court certification process, said Dennis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Da’Ton Harris Jr. can attest to that. His record was finally cleared in August, about 18 months after starting the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here, a public servant, risking my life every day to try and better my community,\" said Harris. “I don’t think it was a smooth transaction at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his record, Harris obtained firefighting jobs with the U.S. Forest Service, the state's firefighting agency Cal Fire, and the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his initial advancement was limited because his criminal record made him ineligible for an emergency medical technician (EMT) certification, an obstacle that disappeared with the expungement. Outside of temporary federal and state firefighting agency jobs, most fire departments require applicants to be licensed EMTs — a certification the state bans certain incarcerated people from obtaining because \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2022/06/09/21-15414.pdf\">the job comes with access to narcotics and sharp objects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"inmate-firefighters\"]Rimer, of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, said California should automatically expunge records of eligible formerly incarcerated people, much as it does for those convicted of antiquated marijuana crimes. And, she added, it should include their entire criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it spearheaded opportunity for people, but I don’t think it’s good enough,” she said of the current expungement law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law's author, Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes, a Democrat from San Bernardino, has been struggling ever since the measure took effect to find out how many formerly incarcerated people it has helped. She said many beneficiaries of the program have contacted her office to praise “the life-changing impact of the legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/fire_camp_expungement/\">CDCR informs eligible incarcerated people about the law\u003c/a> but doesn't track expungements, said department spokesperson Tessa Outhyse. Cal Fire, the court system and the state Department of Justice also couldn't say how many have had their records expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another effort, California in 2018 created a training program to help formerly incarcerated people get hired professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program is run by Cal Fire, the California Conservation Corps, the state corrections department and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://antirecidivism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ARC-Brochure_Digital.11.30.2020.pdf\">Anti-Recidivism Coalition\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/ventura/\">Ventura Training Center\u003c/a> northwest of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants spend six months on life skills and \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/727783253/727783253\">firefighter training\u003c/a> and the next year fighting or preventing fires and doing other community service, for which they are paid $1,905 a month. The center has 60 participants, working on four fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four years the program has cost over $29.5 million, but has had just 106 graduates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all found a professional job: Ninety-eight are with Cal Fire, and three are with other agencies, including the Orange County Fire Authority and the U.S. Forest Service, according to CDCR officials. Cal Fire provided slightly different figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they're the fortunate ones among the 277 who have participated since the program's inception. Another 111 participants, or 40%, left before completing the program, said Outhyse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and destructive, so the shortage comes at a time when demand for wildfire crews is on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the state is turning more to professional wildland firefighters, largely because incarcerated crews are less available due to the growing number of lower-level incarcerated people who have been released early in recent years — the result of voter initiatives and measures to stem COVID outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This August, about 1,670 incarcerated people are in fire camps, doing work such as cooking and laundry, down about 40% from August 2019. CDCR was budgeted for 152 crews this year, but fielded just 51, each with about 15 to 18 firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fewer incarcerated crews, California is relying more on other agencies, including the conservation corps, and is creating what officials are calling the first all-hazards fire engine strike team, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mvyd6pym4n4hjpv/AABtto7DN7qMd4u7FpQjiNkXa?dl=0&preview=TRANSFER+AT+MATHER++VIDEO.mp4\">operated by a state National Guard unit\u003c/a>, and can respond both to wildfires and urban blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve recognized for a few years now that due to early release, due to COVID, a number of other reasons, we have to do something,” said Battalion Chief Isaac Sanchez, a Cal Fire spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">An earlier version of this story misstated the U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department firefighter shortage in California. It is about 650, not 1,000.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabe Stern, of The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative, contributed to this story from Reno, Nevada.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Despite the urgent demand, two California programs designed to get more formerly incarcerated firefighters hired professionally have barely made a dent.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1661209230,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1397},"headData":{"title":"'An Untapped Pool of Talent': Why Isn't California Hiring More Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters? | KQED","description":"Despite the urgent demand, two California programs designed to get more formerly incarcerated firefighters hired professionally have barely made a dent.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'An Untapped Pool of Talent': Why Isn't California Hiring More Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters?","datePublished":"2022-08-22T20:56:57.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-22T23:00:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11923117 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11923117","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/22/an-untapped-pool-of-talent-why-isnt-california-hiring-more-formerly-incarcerated-firefighters/","disqusTitle":"'An Untapped Pool of Talent': Why Isn't California Hiring More Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters?","nprByline":"Don Thompson\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11923117/an-untapped-pool-of-talent-why-isnt-california-hiring-more-formerly-incarcerated-firefighters","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As wildfires rage across California each year, often with increasing ferocity, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet one homegrown resource is rarely used: thousands of experienced firefighters who earned their chops in prison. Two state programs designed to get more formerly incarcerated firefighters hired professionally have barely made a dent, according to an Associated Press review. One of them, a $30 million effort, has netted jobs for just over 100 firefighters, accounting for little more than one-third of those enrolled in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clad in distinctive orange uniforms, scores of incarcerated crews fan out across the state each summer and fall to protect multimillion-dollar homes by cutting brush and trees with chain saws and scraping the earth to create barriers they hope will stop flames. For that sometimes life-threatening labor, most are paid just a few dollars a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once freed from prison, however, the formerly incarcerated have trouble getting hired professionally because of their criminal records, despite a first-in-the-nation, 18-month-old law designed to ease their way and a four-year-old training program that cost taxpayers at least $180,000 per graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Thousands of people are coming back from California's fire camps annually. They have already been trained. They have a desire to go and put their lives on the line in order to ensure public safety.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Genevieve Rimer, Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely an untapped pool of talent,\" said Genevieve Rimer, director of supportive services at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestryfirerp.org/about-us\">Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program\u003c/a>, where she helps formerly incarcerated people try to clear their records. “Thousands of people are coming back from California’s fire camps annually. They have already been trained. They have a desire to go and put their lives on the line in order to ensure public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is hardly alone in needing seasoned firefighters, but the nation's most populous state faces different challenges from other more sparsely settled Western regions. A wildfire that nearly leveled the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Paradise nearly four years ago, for instance, was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-business-environment-and-nature-gavin-newsom-paradise-dbae2ef725b32d91ff4c612de38f01e2\">the nation’s deadliest wildfire in nearly a century\u003c/a>, killing 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6/4/645ad1b0-4842-4fe7-855e-f4d51239bdd0/380BFCC77F96A54AF618DCA07EDA2923.final-letter---firefighter-salaries-07.19.22.pdf\">U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department are short about 1,650 firefighters\u003c/a>, nearly 650 of them in California, according to Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, in a recent letter to Biden administration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California legislation in 2020, which \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147\">allows people who were formerly incarcerated for mostly nonviolent offenses to seek to withdraw guilty pleas or overturn convictions\u003c/a>. A judge can then dismiss those charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the law took effect, the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, started by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-california-forests-fires-ac38905f8f1edaf0f63ac04eedc8a683\">two formerly incarcerated firefighters\u003c/a>, has worked with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles to help other formerly incarcerated people clear their records and get hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet they have only been able to file 34 petitions, and just 12 had records expunged during what the program warns “can be a long and drawn out process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashleigh Dennis, one of at least three attorneys filing expungement petitions through the Oakland-based advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://live-rootandrebound.pantheonsite.io/\">Root & Rebound\u003c/a>, said she has only been able to file 23 requests, of which just 14 have been granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among \u003ca href=\"https://roadmap.rootandrebound.org/understanding-cleaning-up-your-criminal-record/expungement-appendix/petition-for-dismissal-california-expungement/\">other hurdles\u003c/a>, applicants must demonstrate to a judge that they have been rehabilitated. Furthermore, the expungement only applies to the specific convictions that led to their firefighting duties while incarcerated. Many people have unrelated convictions that must be separately expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been a learning curve to educate judges about the law and get the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to speed up the court certification process, said Dennis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Da’Ton Harris Jr. can attest to that. His record was finally cleared in August, about 18 months after starting the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here, a public servant, risking my life every day to try and better my community,\" said Harris. “I don’t think it was a smooth transaction at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his record, Harris obtained firefighting jobs with the U.S. Forest Service, the state's firefighting agency Cal Fire, and the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his initial advancement was limited because his criminal record made him ineligible for an emergency medical technician (EMT) certification, an obstacle that disappeared with the expungement. Outside of temporary federal and state firefighting agency jobs, most fire departments require applicants to be licensed EMTs — a certification the state bans certain incarcerated people from obtaining because \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2022/06/09/21-15414.pdf\">the job comes with access to narcotics and sharp objects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"inmate-firefighters"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rimer, of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, said California should automatically expunge records of eligible formerly incarcerated people, much as it does for those convicted of antiquated marijuana crimes. And, she added, it should include their entire criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it spearheaded opportunity for people, but I don’t think it’s good enough,” she said of the current expungement law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law's author, Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes, a Democrat from San Bernardino, has been struggling ever since the measure took effect to find out how many formerly incarcerated people it has helped. She said many beneficiaries of the program have contacted her office to praise “the life-changing impact of the legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/fire_camp_expungement/\">CDCR informs eligible incarcerated people about the law\u003c/a> but doesn't track expungements, said department spokesperson Tessa Outhyse. Cal Fire, the court system and the state Department of Justice also couldn't say how many have had their records expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another effort, California in 2018 created a training program to help formerly incarcerated people get hired professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program is run by Cal Fire, the California Conservation Corps, the state corrections department and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://antirecidivism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ARC-Brochure_Digital.11.30.2020.pdf\">Anti-Recidivism Coalition\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/ventura/\">Ventura Training Center\u003c/a> northwest of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants spend six months on life skills and \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/727783253/727783253\">firefighter training\u003c/a> and the next year fighting or preventing fires and doing other community service, for which they are paid $1,905 a month. The center has 60 participants, working on four fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four years the program has cost over $29.5 million, but has had just 106 graduates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all found a professional job: Ninety-eight are with Cal Fire, and three are with other agencies, including the Orange County Fire Authority and the U.S. Forest Service, according to CDCR officials. Cal Fire provided slightly different figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they're the fortunate ones among the 277 who have participated since the program's inception. Another 111 participants, or 40%, left before completing the program, said Outhyse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and destructive, so the shortage comes at a time when demand for wildfire crews is on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the state is turning more to professional wildland firefighters, largely because incarcerated crews are less available due to the growing number of lower-level incarcerated people who have been released early in recent years — the result of voter initiatives and measures to stem COVID outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This August, about 1,670 incarcerated people are in fire camps, doing work such as cooking and laundry, down about 40% from August 2019. CDCR was budgeted for 152 crews this year, but fielded just 51, each with about 15 to 18 firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fewer incarcerated crews, California is relying more on other agencies, including the conservation corps, and is creating what officials are calling the first all-hazards fire engine strike team, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mvyd6pym4n4hjpv/AABtto7DN7qMd4u7FpQjiNkXa?dl=0&preview=TRANSFER+AT+MATHER++VIDEO.mp4\">operated by a state National Guard unit\u003c/a>, and can respond both to wildfires and urban blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve recognized for a few years now that due to early release, due to COVID, a number of other reasons, we have to do something,” said Battalion Chief Isaac Sanchez, a Cal Fire spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">An earlier version of this story misstated the U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department firefighter shortage in California. It is about 650, not 1,000.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabe Stern, of The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative, contributed to this story from Reno, Nevada.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11923117/an-untapped-pool-of-talent-why-isnt-california-hiring-more-formerly-incarcerated-firefighters","authors":["byline_news_11923117"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_6383","news_20341","news_31491","news_21241","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11923127","label":"news"},"news_11833686":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11833686","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11833686","score":null,"sort":[1657754427000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind","title":"What to Pack in Your Emergency Bag to Prepare For a Wildfire","publishDate":1657754427,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What to Pack in Your Emergency Bag to Prepare For a Wildfire | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated on May 19, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834103/que-debo-traer-en-mi-mochila-de-emergencia-para-los-incendios-durante-covid-19\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, hot, dry and windy weather conditions immediately makes residents brace for wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increased wildfire risk also increases the likelihood that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778663/how-to-prepare-for-potential-pge-power-shutoffs\">power outages from public safety power shutoffs\u003c/a> may take place, to prevent fires from sparking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11834901\" \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">label=\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Evacuation 101\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve gathered on what should be in your emergency bag with advice from San Francisco’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT), \u003ca href=\"https://www.listoscalifornia.org/\">Listos\u003c/a> California Emergency Preparedness Campaign (guide available in \u003ca href=\"https://www.valleyvision.org/wp-content/uploads/Disaster-Ready-Guide-Digital-SelfPrint-Eng.pdf\">English\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.valleyvision.org/wp-content/uploads/Disaster-Ready-Guide-Digital-SelfPrint-Spa.pdf\"> Spanish\u003c/a>), \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-set/emergency-supply-kit/\">Cal Fire, \u003c/a>the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/survival-kit-supplies.html\">American Red Cross\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/covid-19/public-disaster-shelter-during-covid.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. And because the pandemic isn’t over, we have tips for COVID considerations when it comes to your “go bag” too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Have questions or advice on wildfire preparation during the pandemic? \u003ca href=\"#1\">Let us know here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What should be in my go bag?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An emergency bag list:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Map marked with at least two evacuation routes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medication, supplies and home-use medical devices\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medications list: include all prescriptions and other important medical information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An extra set of keys\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eyeglasses or contact lenses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A change of clothes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cash in small bills\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>First-aid kit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Flashlight\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A portable radio and batteries\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charging cables for your cellphone and a portable cellphone battery pack\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A copy of your ID and other important documents (birth certificates, passports, etc.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Baby supplies, if applicable\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Water: one gallon a person, per day (three-day supply for evacuation, two-week supply for home)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food: nonperishable, easy-to-prepare items (three-day supply for evacuation, two-week supply for home)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>COVID safety: N95 masks or similar, plus hand sanitizer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remember:\u003c/strong> You may have to walk to safety, so pack your emergency supplies in something that’s durable and easy to carry, such as a backpack or duffle bag. For heavier items, such as food and water, using a tub or chest on wheels may make it easier to transport — but make sure it’s still light enough to lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pet emergency bag\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>list: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/animal-evacuation/\">Cal Fire’s list of items for pet owners\u003c/a> includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A carrier for each pet\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vaccination and medical records, proof of ownership, a current photo, contact information for the pet’s veterinarian\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two week supply of food and water\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food and water bowls that are non-spill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A pet first aid kit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medications and instructions on dosing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A cat litter box and litter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Waste disposal bags\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paper towels and newspaper\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Disinfectant\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leashes/collars/harnesses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Blankets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toys and treats\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Make sure your pets have collars with identification, rabies and license tags. Check to make sure your contact information is up to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on transporting pets, larger animals and livestock, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/animal-evacuation/\">check Cal Fire’s animal evacuation guide\u003c/a>, and read our story on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840375/animal-evacuation-during-a-wildfire-how-to-plan-and-where-to-go\">how to plan for wildfires if you have pets or livestock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Items to take if time and space allow:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Easily carried valuables\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Personal computer information on hard drives and disks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Extra chargers for cellphones, laptops, etc.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Family photos and other irreplaceable items\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/store/survive-outdoors-longer-sol-emergency-blanket/0140-1222.html?utm_source=RCO&utm_medium=Referral&utm_term=1_emergency_blanket&utm_campaign=Anatomy_of_a_First_Aid_Kit\">Emergency blanket\u003c/a>, extra blankets or sleeping bags\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Can opener\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Games and activities for children\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where should I keep my go bag and other essentials?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAccording to Cal Fire PIO Heather Williams, keeping your bag by your front door or in your car is best. Anywhere you can easily grab it and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to evacuate your home due to threat of wildfire is a scary prospect — especially if you’ve never had to do it before. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">Read our guide to safely and swiftly leaving your home\u003c/a>, from when you should leave to what you should bring (and what you should wear.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can I prepare my home?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you live in a fire-prone area, it’s important to make sure your home is prepared though \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-ready/hardening-your-home/\">home hardening\u003c/a> and maintaining a\u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-ready/defensible-space/\"> defensible space \u003c/a>to increase the chance of your home’s survival in the case of a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you live, you can \u003ca href=\"https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/e659f03a6e8447af8663e42cf48f60fd\">request for a Cal Fire inspector\u003c/a> to come to your property and assess your home for defensible space. You can also conduct \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1965575/and-now-fire-season-heres-how-to-prepare\">a self-assessment of your home’s defensible space\u003c/a> that’ll help you identify where any weaknesses may lie, and address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Should we turn off our natural gas?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIf you need to evacuate immediately, you should follow evacuation orders and leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you have the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/evacuation\">FEMA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/pre-evacuation-preparation-steps/\">Cal Fire\u003c/a> recommend that you turn off the gas supply. First locate the shutoff valve, which is usually located close to your gas meter. Using a 12-15 inch wrench,\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/gas-safety/gas-safety-tips.page#p3\"> turn off the gas\u003c/a> by turning the hand wheel clockwise so that it is perpendicular to the pipe. You should also turn off any propane tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/426x304-gas-safety-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"how to turn off your gas safely\" width=\"426\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/426x304-gas-safety-diagram.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/426x304-gas-safety-diagram-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E diagram on how to turn off your gas safely. \u003ccite>(PG&E/https://www.pge.com/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do not turn your natural gas back on by yourself after an evacuation. PG&E crews will inspect each meter and turn it back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What should I know about COVID and evacuation centers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even though COVID precautions feel very different in 2023 to the measures imposed during the height of the pandemic, you may still want to consider your COVID risks during evacuation shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/covid-19/public-disaster-shelter-during-covid.html\">The CDC’s guidance on visiting an evacuation shelter\u003c/a> during the pandemic states that if you are preparing to go to a shelter and want to lower the risk of a possible COVID infection, make sure your go bag has items like a N95 mask and hand sanitizer that can help protect you and others from the virus. You should also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html\">staying up to date with COVID vaccines and the bivalent booster\u003c/a>, to reduce your risks of severe illness from COVID and making it less likely that you will need medical services while hospitals are under strain from the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do you get information on fires prior to evacuation?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You should monitor local alerting systems for the most up-to-date emergency information and instructions. It’s best to set up multiple ways to receive emergency weather alerts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sign up to get your county’s \u003ca href=\"http://calalerts.org\">wireless emergency alerts\u003c/a> from the governor’s Office of Emergency Services, which are also available in Spanish.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monitor Cal Fire’s online \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/\">incident map\u003c/a> and download its \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/more/ready-for-wildfire-app/\">app\u003c/a>, where you can create a readiness plan and learn about imminent threats to your area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Listen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/nwr&ln_desc=NOAA+Weather+Radio/\">NOAA Weather Radio\u003c/a>, which broadcasts information from the nearest National Weather Service station.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Follow the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Bay Area National Weather Service\u003c/a>’s Twitter alerts.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan#2\">consult our county-by-county list of regional safety alerts\u003c/a>, including Nixle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What can I do if I can’t use my smartphone to connect with family and friends?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“We’ve become so reliant on smartphones. And when it fails us, there is that panic moment,” said Capt. Erica Arteseros of San Francisco’s Fire Department, who is the program coordinator for NERT. “So, we always recommend to identify an out-of-state person to be a check-in contact.”[aside postID=\"science_1965575\" label=\"Here's How to Prepare for Fire Season\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/GettyImages-489836785.jpg\"]Arteseros said you should send a text message to that out-of-state person with the time and your location, even if you don’t have wireless service, because that text message will eventually get to that person. Phone calls will fail when cell towers are down for either you or your contact, but text messages work on a relay system between emergency beacons on cell towers, so they are more likely to reach people than voice messages and phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a good idea to update your social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram to let friends and family know your status, including where you are and when you will update your status again. This allows people to know when to expect information from you and will save cellphone battery, allowing you to go without cell service and Wi-Fi for a little while, if you must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, some smartphones allow you to change settings to make calls over Wi-Fi, and some apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp allow Wi-Fi phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840047/during-a-disaster-your-phone-might-stop-working-how-can-you-communicate\">how to keep communicating with loved ones during a disaster situation \u003c/a>in our guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will I miss important news because I don’t have a smartphone?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNot necessarily. Counties increasingly rely on the WEA system — wireless emergency alerts that by and large are delivered to cellphones through the IPAWS system, the federal integrated public alert and warning system. Those alerts also go to NOAA Weather Radios, which operate on emergency cranks or battery power. NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also sign up to get \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who does have a smartphone, set up a system so they can get you important info.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can I make sure I don’t lose treasured personal items in an evacuation situation?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Arteseros recommends building a special box that you can take with your go bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those items would include heirlooms, photos and scrapbooks — anything that you consider special in your life that you would be devastated to lose, but is not practical for the go bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What should I do about my neighbors?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Make a plan,” Arteseros said. She said it’s important to know who your neighbors are. You can help them make a go bag if they don’t have one, and make sure they have a way to escape, especially if they don’t have a car. (Keep your gas tank full.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want anyone waiting for a neighbor that just can’t get ready,” she said. “But it is important for everyone to look out for each other when something happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>We want to know what your questions and concerns are about wildfire preparation during the pandemic. Fill in the form below and let us know:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What questions you have about preparing for wildfires?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What you’re doing to prepare for power shutoffs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Anything else on your mind around wildfires, power shutoffs and COVID.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"6208\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/6208.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Molly Peterson, Danielle Venton and Michelle Wiley contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here's what to pack in your 'go bag' to prepare for evacuating from wildfires or other natural disasters during the coronavirus pandemic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684537672,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1791},"headData":{"title":"What to Pack in Your Emergency Bag to Prepare For a Wildfire | KQED","description":"Here's what to pack in your 'go bag' to prepare for evacuating from wildfires or other natural disasters during the coronavirus pandemic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What to Pack in Your Emergency Bag to Prepare For a Wildfire","datePublished":"2022-07-13T23:20:27.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-19T23:07:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Coronavirus","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirus","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated on May 19, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834103/que-debo-traer-en-mi-mochila-de-emergencia-para-los-incendios-durante-covid-19\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, hot, dry and windy weather conditions immediately makes residents brace for wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increased wildfire risk also increases the likelihood that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778663/how-to-prepare-for-potential-pge-power-shutoffs\">power outages from public safety power shutoffs\u003c/a> may take place, to prevent fires from sparking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11834901","label":"\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">label=\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Evacuation 101\""},"numeric":["\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan","style=\"font-weight:","400;\">label=\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan","style=\"font-weight:","400;\">\"Evacuation","101\""]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve gathered on what should be in your emergency bag with advice from San Francisco’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT), \u003ca href=\"https://www.listoscalifornia.org/\">Listos\u003c/a> California Emergency Preparedness Campaign (guide available in \u003ca href=\"https://www.valleyvision.org/wp-content/uploads/Disaster-Ready-Guide-Digital-SelfPrint-Eng.pdf\">English\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.valleyvision.org/wp-content/uploads/Disaster-Ready-Guide-Digital-SelfPrint-Spa.pdf\"> Spanish\u003c/a>), \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-set/emergency-supply-kit/\">Cal Fire, \u003c/a>the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/survival-kit-supplies.html\">American Red Cross\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/covid-19/public-disaster-shelter-during-covid.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. And because the pandemic isn’t over, we have tips for COVID considerations when it comes to your “go bag” too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Have questions or advice on wildfire preparation during the pandemic? \u003ca href=\"#1\">Let us know here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What should be in my go bag?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An emergency bag list:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Map marked with at least two evacuation routes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medication, supplies and home-use medical devices\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medications list: include all prescriptions and other important medical information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An extra set of keys\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eyeglasses or contact lenses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A change of clothes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cash in small bills\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>First-aid kit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Flashlight\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A portable radio and batteries\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charging cables for your cellphone and a portable cellphone battery pack\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A copy of your ID and other important documents (birth certificates, passports, etc.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Baby supplies, if applicable\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Water: one gallon a person, per day (three-day supply for evacuation, two-week supply for home)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food: nonperishable, easy-to-prepare items (three-day supply for evacuation, two-week supply for home)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>COVID safety: N95 masks or similar, plus hand sanitizer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remember:\u003c/strong> You may have to walk to safety, so pack your emergency supplies in something that’s durable and easy to carry, such as a backpack or duffle bag. For heavier items, such as food and water, using a tub or chest on wheels may make it easier to transport — but make sure it’s still light enough to lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pet emergency bag\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>list: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/animal-evacuation/\">Cal Fire’s list of items for pet owners\u003c/a> includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A carrier for each pet\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vaccination and medical records, proof of ownership, a current photo, contact information for the pet’s veterinarian\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two week supply of food and water\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food and water bowls that are non-spill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A pet first aid kit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medications and instructions on dosing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A cat litter box and litter\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Waste disposal bags\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paper towels and newspaper\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Disinfectant\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leashes/collars/harnesses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Blankets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toys and treats\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Make sure your pets have collars with identification, rabies and license tags. Check to make sure your contact information is up to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on transporting pets, larger animals and livestock, \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/animal-evacuation/\">check Cal Fire’s animal evacuation guide\u003c/a>, and read our story on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840375/animal-evacuation-during-a-wildfire-how-to-plan-and-where-to-go\">how to plan for wildfires if you have pets or livestock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Items to take if time and space allow:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Easily carried valuables\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Personal computer information on hard drives and disks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Extra chargers for cellphones, laptops, etc.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Family photos and other irreplaceable items\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/store/survive-outdoors-longer-sol-emergency-blanket/0140-1222.html?utm_source=RCO&utm_medium=Referral&utm_term=1_emergency_blanket&utm_campaign=Anatomy_of_a_First_Aid_Kit\">Emergency blanket\u003c/a>, extra blankets or sleeping bags\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Can opener\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Games and activities for children\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where should I keep my go bag and other essentials?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAccording to Cal Fire PIO Heather Williams, keeping your bag by your front door or in your car is best. Anywhere you can easily grab it and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to evacuate your home due to threat of wildfire is a scary prospect — especially if you’ve never had to do it before. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">Read our guide to safely and swiftly leaving your home\u003c/a>, from when you should leave to what you should bring (and what you should wear.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can I prepare my home?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you live in a fire-prone area, it’s important to make sure your home is prepared though \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-ready/hardening-your-home/\">home hardening\u003c/a> and maintaining a\u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-ready/defensible-space/\"> defensible space \u003c/a>to increase the chance of your home’s survival in the case of a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you live, you can \u003ca href=\"https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/e659f03a6e8447af8663e42cf48f60fd\">request for a Cal Fire inspector\u003c/a> to come to your property and assess your home for defensible space. You can also conduct \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1965575/and-now-fire-season-heres-how-to-prepare\">a self-assessment of your home’s defensible space\u003c/a> that’ll help you identify where any weaknesses may lie, and address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Should we turn off our natural gas?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIf you need to evacuate immediately, you should follow evacuation orders and leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you have the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/evacuation\">FEMA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/go-evacuation-guide/pre-evacuation-preparation-steps/\">Cal Fire\u003c/a> recommend that you turn off the gas supply. First locate the shutoff valve, which is usually located close to your gas meter. Using a 12-15 inch wrench,\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/gas-safety/gas-safety-tips.page#p3\"> turn off the gas\u003c/a> by turning the hand wheel clockwise so that it is perpendicular to the pipe. You should also turn off any propane tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/426x304-gas-safety-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"how to turn off your gas safely\" width=\"426\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/426x304-gas-safety-diagram.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/426x304-gas-safety-diagram-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E diagram on how to turn off your gas safely. \u003ccite>(PG&E/https://www.pge.com/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do not turn your natural gas back on by yourself after an evacuation. PG&E crews will inspect each meter and turn it back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What should I know about COVID and evacuation centers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even though COVID precautions feel very different in 2023 to the measures imposed during the height of the pandemic, you may still want to consider your COVID risks during evacuation shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/covid-19/public-disaster-shelter-during-covid.html\">The CDC’s guidance on visiting an evacuation shelter\u003c/a> during the pandemic states that if you are preparing to go to a shelter and want to lower the risk of a possible COVID infection, make sure your go bag has items like a N95 mask and hand sanitizer that can help protect you and others from the virus. You should also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html\">staying up to date with COVID vaccines and the bivalent booster\u003c/a>, to reduce your risks of severe illness from COVID and making it less likely that you will need medical services while hospitals are under strain from the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do you get information on fires prior to evacuation?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You should monitor local alerting systems for the most up-to-date emergency information and instructions. It’s best to set up multiple ways to receive emergency weather alerts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sign up to get your county’s \u003ca href=\"http://calalerts.org\">wireless emergency alerts\u003c/a> from the governor’s Office of Emergency Services, which are also available in Spanish.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monitor Cal Fire’s online \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/\">incident map\u003c/a> and download its \u003ca href=\"https://www.readyforwildfire.org/more/ready-for-wildfire-app/\">app\u003c/a>, where you can create a readiness plan and learn about imminent threats to your area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Listen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/nwr&ln_desc=NOAA+Weather+Radio/\">NOAA Weather Radio\u003c/a>, which broadcasts information from the nearest National Weather Service station.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Follow the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Bay Area National Weather Service\u003c/a>’s Twitter alerts.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan#2\">consult our county-by-county list of regional safety alerts\u003c/a>, including Nixle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What can I do if I can’t use my smartphone to connect with family and friends?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“We’ve become so reliant on smartphones. And when it fails us, there is that panic moment,” said Capt. Erica Arteseros of San Francisco’s Fire Department, who is the program coordinator for NERT. “So, we always recommend to identify an out-of-state person to be a check-in contact.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1965575","label":"Here's How to Prepare for Fire Season ","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/GettyImages-489836785.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Arteseros said you should send a text message to that out-of-state person with the time and your location, even if you don’t have wireless service, because that text message will eventually get to that person. Phone calls will fail when cell towers are down for either you or your contact, but text messages work on a relay system between emergency beacons on cell towers, so they are more likely to reach people than voice messages and phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a good idea to update your social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram to let friends and family know your status, including where you are and when you will update your status again. This allows people to know when to expect information from you and will save cellphone battery, allowing you to go without cell service and Wi-Fi for a little while, if you must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, some smartphones allow you to change settings to make calls over Wi-Fi, and some apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp allow Wi-Fi phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840047/during-a-disaster-your-phone-might-stop-working-how-can-you-communicate\">how to keep communicating with loved ones during a disaster situation \u003c/a>in our guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will I miss important news because I don’t have a smartphone?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNot necessarily. Counties increasingly rely on the WEA system — wireless emergency alerts that by and large are delivered to cellphones through the IPAWS system, the federal integrated public alert and warning system. Those alerts also go to NOAA Weather Radios, which operate on emergency cranks or battery power. NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also sign up to get \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who does have a smartphone, set up a system so they can get you important info.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can I make sure I don’t lose treasured personal items in an evacuation situation?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Arteseros recommends building a special box that you can take with your go bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those items would include heirlooms, photos and scrapbooks — anything that you consider special in your life that you would be devastated to lose, but is not practical for the go bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What should I do about my neighbors?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Make a plan,” Arteseros said. She said it’s important to know who your neighbors are. You can help them make a go bag if they don’t have one, and make sure they have a way to escape, especially if they don’t have a car. (Keep your gas tank full.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want anyone waiting for a neighbor that just can’t get ready,” she said. “But it is important for everyone to look out for each other when something happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>We want to know what your questions and concerns are about wildfire preparation during the pandemic. Fill in the form below and let us know:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What questions you have about preparing for wildfires?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What you’re doing to prepare for power shutoffs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Anything else on your mind around wildfires, power shutoffs and COVID.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"6208","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/6208.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Molly Peterson, Danielle Venton and Michelle Wiley contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind","authors":["11367","11382"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_6383","news_23099","news_27350","news_29029","news_27504","news_29857","news_27017","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11880255","label":"source_news_11833686"},"news_11916581":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11916581","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11916581","score":null,"sort":[1654822663000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fully-staffed-north-bay-fire-unit-bulks-up","title":"'Fully Staffed': North Bay Fire Unit Gears Up Ahead of Yet Another Potentially Rough Wildfire Season","publishDate":1654822663,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It's not even officially summer yet, and a wildfire has already scorched hundreds of acres in the North Bay, an ominous foreshadowing of what's in store for the hot, dry months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A brush fire in Napa County — called the Old Fire — was sparked on May 31, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/5/31/old-fire/\">and burned 570 acres\u003c/a> in the Soda Canyon area before firefighters were able to fully contain the blaze on Sunday, with no reported casualties or structures destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire's cause has not been determined, and Cal Fire\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/PG-E-power-line-under-investigation-for-possibly-17217947.php\"> is still investigating\u003c/a> whether it may have been sparked by a Pacific Gas and Electric power line.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erick Hernandez, spokesperson, Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit\"]'2020 obviously was a huge year with fires all over the state of California. Last year was just basically two to three major fires in the state. And this year, we're already seeing a huge increase.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, PG&E — no stranger to being a target of wildfire investigations — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910835/pge-reaches-55-million-deal-to-avoid-criminal-prosecution-in-counties-ravaged-by-recent-wildfires\">agreed to pay over $55 million\u003c/a> and submit to five years of oversight to avoid criminal prosecution for a series of massive wildfires sparked by its power lines in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With much of California bracing for another potentially active fire season, KQED's Annelise Finney recently checked in with Erick Hernandez, a public information officer with Cal Fire’s Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit. The unit, which battled last week's early season fire, is responsible for monitoring a huge six-county region (which also includes Colusa, Solano and Yolo counties) that has been hit by a spate of devastating blazes in recent years — including the 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840009/north-bay-fires-grow-rapidly-force-thousands-to-flee-in-santa-rosa-and-napa-valley\">Glass Fire\u003c/a> and the 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654027/my-world-was-burning-the-north-bay-fires-and-what-went-wrong\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>. Now, says Hernandez, crews are actively gearing up for the months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANNELISE FINNEY: I heard favorable conditions helped your crews quickly contain the Old Fire. Can you describe what that looked like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ERICK HERNANDEZ: \u003c/strong>The favorable weather was due to the stable wind conditions. The winds didn't pick up, which allowed us to be able to continue our operations with mop-up [extinguishing or removing burning material along the control line] and also put out hot spots. Obviously, being out in the rain and very steep terrain, and having high temperatures, makes it challenging. However, the temperatures weren't as high as expected that week. So, yeah, that made it a lot easier for our crews to continue with the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did the rainfall on Saturday affect the cleanup work that's happening? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps us out with putting out hot spots. Having more water on the burn scar definitely solidifies the containment. So it definitely assisted. Which is not to take anything away from our crews that worked tirelessly since Tuesday when the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know last year we saw more wildfires in this region at this point in the year. So how are we doing so far this year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in our unit, we didn't have major fires. We did have small fires that we were able to contain within a day or two. I know that in the state of California as a whole, we did have large fires, such as the Dixie and the Caldor fires, that exceeded 100,000 acres each. But last year is what we would consider, at least in our unit, a slow fire season and it allowed our crews to be able to prepare for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that since we didn't have a lot of rain, we were expecting an early start to the fire season this year. And that's exactly what we're seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2020 obviously was a huge year, with fires all over the state of California. Last year was just basically two to three major fires in the state. And this year, we're already seeing a huge increase. We had the Quail Fire just over in Winters a couple of weeks ago. Then two weeks ago, we had a fire in St. Helena in the burn scar of the Glass Fire. And then we had this fire, which was nearly 600 acres. So we are seeing an increase of fires already, at least in our unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is your unit thinking about this coming season?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the lack of rain, it's anticipated that it's going to be a busy fire season. So there's daily training at the fire stations and we’re working and engaging with local community members. An emergency preparedness group was initiated last year, with different departments in Napa County like fire, sheriff, public works and public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you fully staffed now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. We just concluded our third rehire academy last week. So it has allowed us to staff up more engines so we're able to be ready and deploy resources whenever they're needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many firefighters graduate out of every rehire academy? \u003c/strong>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-wildfires\"]So in the first rehire academy that we had over a month ago, there were 105 graduates. The second round, we had over 60. In the third round that just concluded, I believe we had a little bit over 40. So we started our rehire academy sooner than previous years and we've increased the number of recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you all adopting any different kinds of strategies this year than you have in the past?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, our Cal Fire Napa County training bureau hosts a volunteer academy. We had 13 graduates who went through the five-month process. They graduated in mid-May and can respond to situations including medical, wildlife and traffic collisions both in and out of Napa County. We're also creating more events to help the public receive information on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What has your unit been doing to educate and inform residents on how to prepare?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We offer a free consulting program for community members and offer a one-on-one walkthrough of homes for proper defensible space. Additional recommendations they benefit from are learning about the safety of structures and fuel mitigation techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media is also a good avenue to push information. What we started doing at the end of last year has been sending out our messaging in both English and Spanish so we can reach out to more people. We are seeing more engagement with it, too. Napa County is also hosting an \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=347\">Emergency Preparedness Day\u003c/a> [on June 21] in our parking lot. We’ve had additional requests for consulting, through phone calls and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a Cal Fire battalion chief who works as a liaison with the nonprofit Napa Communities Firewise Foundation. Together they look to identify areas in need of fuel reduction as well as to strategize and implement measures that will benefit community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What big lessons have you all learned from fires in recent years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires can happen at any time in many different ways. Preparedness is key, from evacuation routes to defensible space. We don’t have to be under red flag warnings to have those fires. Stay vigilant and stay prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Matthew Green contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"KQED's Annelise Finney spoke with Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit spokesperson Erick Hernandez about what Cal Fire is doing to prepare for a potentially devastating wildfire season.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654879076,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1221},"headData":{"title":"'Fully Staffed': North Bay Fire Unit Gears Up Ahead of Yet Another Potentially Rough Wildfire Season | KQED","description":"KQED's Annelise Finney spoke with Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit spokesperson Erick Hernandez about what Cal Fire is doing to prepare for a potentially devastating wildfire season.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Fully Staffed': North Bay Fire Unit Gears Up Ahead of Yet Another Potentially Rough Wildfire Season","datePublished":"2022-06-10T00:57:43.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-10T16:37:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11916581 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11916581","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/09/fully-staffed-north-bay-fire-unit-bulks-up/","disqusTitle":"'Fully Staffed': North Bay Fire Unit Gears Up Ahead of Yet Another Potentially Rough Wildfire Season","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11916581/fully-staffed-north-bay-fire-unit-bulks-up","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's not even officially summer yet, and a wildfire has already scorched hundreds of acres in the North Bay, an ominous foreshadowing of what's in store for the hot, dry months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A brush fire in Napa County — called the Old Fire — was sparked on May 31, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/5/31/old-fire/\">and burned 570 acres\u003c/a> in the Soda Canyon area before firefighters were able to fully contain the blaze on Sunday, with no reported casualties or structures destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire's cause has not been determined, and Cal Fire\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/PG-E-power-line-under-investigation-for-possibly-17217947.php\"> is still investigating\u003c/a> whether it may have been sparked by a Pacific Gas and Electric power line.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'2020 obviously was a huge year with fires all over the state of California. Last year was just basically two to three major fires in the state. And this year, we're already seeing a huge increase.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Erick Hernandez, spokesperson, Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, PG&E — no stranger to being a target of wildfire investigations — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910835/pge-reaches-55-million-deal-to-avoid-criminal-prosecution-in-counties-ravaged-by-recent-wildfires\">agreed to pay over $55 million\u003c/a> and submit to five years of oversight to avoid criminal prosecution for a series of massive wildfires sparked by its power lines in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With much of California bracing for another potentially active fire season, KQED's Annelise Finney recently checked in with Erick Hernandez, a public information officer with Cal Fire’s Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit. The unit, which battled last week's early season fire, is responsible for monitoring a huge six-county region (which also includes Colusa, Solano and Yolo counties) that has been hit by a spate of devastating blazes in recent years — including the 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840009/north-bay-fires-grow-rapidly-force-thousands-to-flee-in-santa-rosa-and-napa-valley\">Glass Fire\u003c/a> and the 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654027/my-world-was-burning-the-north-bay-fires-and-what-went-wrong\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>. Now, says Hernandez, crews are actively gearing up for the months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANNELISE FINNEY: I heard favorable conditions helped your crews quickly contain the Old Fire. Can you describe what that looked like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ERICK HERNANDEZ: \u003c/strong>The favorable weather was due to the stable wind conditions. The winds didn't pick up, which allowed us to be able to continue our operations with mop-up [extinguishing or removing burning material along the control line] and also put out hot spots. Obviously, being out in the rain and very steep terrain, and having high temperatures, makes it challenging. However, the temperatures weren't as high as expected that week. So, yeah, that made it a lot easier for our crews to continue with the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did the rainfall on Saturday affect the cleanup work that's happening? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps us out with putting out hot spots. Having more water on the burn scar definitely solidifies the containment. So it definitely assisted. Which is not to take anything away from our crews that worked tirelessly since Tuesday when the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know last year we saw more wildfires in this region at this point in the year. So how are we doing so far this year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in our unit, we didn't have major fires. We did have small fires that we were able to contain within a day or two. I know that in the state of California as a whole, we did have large fires, such as the Dixie and the Caldor fires, that exceeded 100,000 acres each. But last year is what we would consider, at least in our unit, a slow fire season and it allowed our crews to be able to prepare for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that since we didn't have a lot of rain, we were expecting an early start to the fire season this year. And that's exactly what we're seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2020 obviously was a huge year, with fires all over the state of California. Last year was just basically two to three major fires in the state. And this year, we're already seeing a huge increase. We had the Quail Fire just over in Winters a couple of weeks ago. Then two weeks ago, we had a fire in St. Helena in the burn scar of the Glass Fire. And then we had this fire, which was nearly 600 acres. So we are seeing an increase of fires already, at least in our unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is your unit thinking about this coming season?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the lack of rain, it's anticipated that it's going to be a busy fire season. So there's daily training at the fire stations and we’re working and engaging with local community members. An emergency preparedness group was initiated last year, with different departments in Napa County like fire, sheriff, public works and public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you fully staffed now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. We just concluded our third rehire academy last week. So it has allowed us to staff up more engines so we're able to be ready and deploy resources whenever they're needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many firefighters graduate out of every rehire academy? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"california-wildfires"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So in the first rehire academy that we had over a month ago, there were 105 graduates. The second round, we had over 60. In the third round that just concluded, I believe we had a little bit over 40. So we started our rehire academy sooner than previous years and we've increased the number of recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you all adopting any different kinds of strategies this year than you have in the past?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, our Cal Fire Napa County training bureau hosts a volunteer academy. We had 13 graduates who went through the five-month process. They graduated in mid-May and can respond to situations including medical, wildlife and traffic collisions both in and out of Napa County. We're also creating more events to help the public receive information on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What has your unit been doing to educate and inform residents on how to prepare?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We offer a free consulting program for community members and offer a one-on-one walkthrough of homes for proper defensible space. Additional recommendations they benefit from are learning about the safety of structures and fuel mitigation techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media is also a good avenue to push information. What we started doing at the end of last year has been sending out our messaging in both English and Spanish so we can reach out to more people. We are seeing more engagement with it, too. Napa County is also hosting an \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=347\">Emergency Preparedness Day\u003c/a> [on June 21] in our parking lot. We’ve had additional requests for consulting, through phone calls and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a Cal Fire battalion chief who works as a liaison with the nonprofit Napa Communities Firewise Foundation. Together they look to identify areas in need of fuel reduction as well as to strategize and implement measures that will benefit community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What big lessons have you all learned from fires in recent years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires can happen at any time in many different ways. Preparedness is key, from evacuation routes to defensible space. We don’t have to be under red flag warnings to have those fires. 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Some Have Died","publishDate":1632319232,"format":"standard","headTitle":"LAist | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Even as he lay dying on the side of a Southern California mountain — his lips blue, the color gone from his face — wildland firefighter Yaroslav Katkov wanted to push on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting to the top. We’re finishing,” his captain recalled Katkov saying after collapsing atop a ridge during a training hike in hot weather, according to state records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katkov’s speech was garbled. He tried to stand, but couldn’t find his footing. His body temperature was reaching dangerous levels. He was suffering from heat illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened on that sun-soaked July day in 2019 is one thread in a larger story about firefighter training in an era of intensifying heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the past 18 months, more than 150 firefighters were sickened by heat exposure while working for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a quarter of heat-related incidents — the largest category — involve firefighters who fell ill during routine training exercises, Columbia Journalism Investigations, KPCC and LAist found. Like Katkov, nearly all of these firefighters worked part time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889335\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1390px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889335 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of a red firefighter helmet and goggles above five blurry white dots, on a black background.\" width=\"1390\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration.jpg 1390w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1390px) 100vw, 1390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interviews with current and former Cal Fire employees, medical personnel and wildland firefighting experts reveal multiple issues involving workplace safety during Cal Fire training activities. This is true especially for those who don’t work year-round, such as seasonal and incarcerated firefighters. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Alborz Kamalizad / Photography courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incidents, documented in Cal Fire’s workplace-injury logs, were specifically classified as heat related and occurred between Jan. 1, 2020, and Aug. 3, 2021. CJI and LAist were unable to ascertain how typical the case numbers are. Cal Fire refused to say whether they were unusual or in line with annual totals for heat illnesses among workers over the past decade. The department declined to provide data that could put the numbers into a broader context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJI and LAist compiled less comprehensive data from internal Cal Fire reports on employee training injuries dating back to 2001, in addition to other state records. These documents show at least 14 other incidents that bear what some experts say are hallmarks of heat-related illness. In five of these incidents, the firefighters died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Over the past 18 months, more than 150 firefighters were sickened by heat exposure while working for Cal Fire.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the firefighters succumbed to injuries not on the fire line in some remote California wilderness, but during required training. Many were decked out in full wildland gear — wearing long-sleeve jackets, pants and helmets while carrying heavy tools — and doing activities meant to simulate wildfire fighting — taking short hikes into the woods, for instance, or laying hoses up a mountainside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All but one of the deaths occurred in temperatures ranging from 70 to 87 degrees. Four of the victims were incarcerated, participating in a state program meant to bolster firefighting forces that dates back to WWII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts and federal workplace regulators agree that heat-related illnesses and deaths are 100% preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviews with current and former Cal Fire employees, medical personnel and wildland firefighting experts, a review of hundreds of pages of government records detailing firefighter injuries and deaths and an analysis of worker heat death cases reveal multiple issues involving workplace safety during Cal Fire training activities. This is true especially for those who don’t work year-round, such as seasonal and incarcerated firefighters. Combined, they make up about half of the agency’s nearly 10,000-strong firefighting force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katkov’s death was exceptional in just how many institutional failures occurred during his hike, records show. But many of the other cases of heat-related injuries and deaths indicate the same underlying problems — a punitive culture that can endanger firefighters’ health, a lackluster physical screening process and an ineffective plan for building up firefighters’ tolerance for heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889384\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1380px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889384 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration composed of nine black-and-white squares that include images of the Lippe Hike, overlaid with a red outline of the trail.\" width=\"1380\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration.jpg 1380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1380px) 100vw, 1380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaroslav Katkov collapsed on his second lap of the 1.45 mile Lippe Hike in Fallbrook, California, a mountain town ringed by ranches just outside of Temecula. According to documents related to the hike, Katkov's captain ignored signs from Katkov of potential illness. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Alborz Kamalizad / Photography courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Warning signs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the day of Katkov’s hike, Cal Fire officials later found that his captain, Joe Ekblad, had missed opportunities to act on several telltale signs of heat illness. Not until Katkov collapsed at the top of that ridge did Ekblad begin emergency procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain later explained he believed that they could cool Katkov down if they moved fast enough. They stripped off his jacket and drenched him in water. But it didn’t work. Katkov took several deep “gulpy breaths,” according to documents obtained from the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA. Still, Ekblad delayed calling for emergency help because he thought Katkov “would snap back out of it,” the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Statement from Cal Fire\"]'[Cal Fire] vigorously rejects the notion that a punitive culture exists in relation to the fitness, safety, or wellbeing of our workforce.'[/pullquote]Katkov died of hyperthermia at a hospital the next day. Cal Fire demoted Ekblad. The department found he had “failed to identify a crew member … in physical and/mental distress.” Ekblad didn’t respond to requests for comment. Records show he told investigators that Katkov was a willing participant in the exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire didn’t respond to several requests to interview the department’s head of safety. In a statement, it said it “vigorously rejects the notion that a punitive culture exists in relation to the fitness, safety, or wellbeing of our workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department says it trains all its firefighters — seasonal, incarcerated or otherwise — on the dangers associated with wildland firefighting, “including methods to prevent, recognize and respond to symptoms of heat related illnesses.” It described its efforts to combat heat-related injuries and deaths as “a partnership” with individual firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each must do his/her part year-round to ensure that they are preparing for the upcoming fire season,” the department wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 28, 2019, Katkov embarked on a training exercise called the Lippe Hike, a 1.45-mile loop at Cal Fire’s Station 16 in Fallbrook, California, a mountain town ringed by ranches just outside of Temecula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gavin Bledsoe, one of the station’s other fire captains, later told Cal/OSHA investigators that “he had concerns with Joe pushing Yaro hard,” and that Ekblad had pushed other firefighters without giving them enough time for breaks in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889386\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889386 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A view from Lippe Hike: several hills and a light cloudy sky.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lippe Hike winds through the hills just behind Cal Fire Station 16 in northern San Diego County. \u003ccite>(Jacob Margolis/LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to documents related to Ekblad’s demotion, the hike that preceded Katkov’s death had never been timed before that morning, and Bledsoe believed the standard for finishing it was set “specifically with Yaro in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joe has been pushing really hard to get Yaro to quit or up to his standards,” Bledsoe told Cal/OSHA investigators about the rookie firefighter who regularly hiked the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bledsoe didn’t respond to multiple phone calls and text messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889397\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889397 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A studio portrait of a man in a Cal Fire uniform smiling at the camera.\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-1.jpeg 427w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-1-160x240.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire firefighter Yaroslav Katkov. Katkov died of hyperthermia at a hospital the day after embarking on a training exercise called the Lippe Hike. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ashley Vallario)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A quarter-mile into the hike, seasonal firefighter Matthew Guerrero told investigators, Katkov was breathing heavily. At one point, as the hike wound from mountains alongside a road, Katkov was slow to move out of oncoming traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ekblad wrote in his notebook, “Road Hazard - Cognitive Question.” This was an early sign of heat illness that Ekblad ignored, Cal Fire documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trio completed the hike in about 40 minutes — 10 minutes slower than the time Ekblad had set for the station that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're gonna do it again. The first hike was unacceptable,” Ekblad said, according to the Cal/OSHA investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ekblad later told the agency’s investigators that doing the hike twice wasn’t standard practice. Cal Fire concluded that it was “clearly unnecessary” given the signs of distress Katkov had exhibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trio rested for 20 minutes, drank some water and set off to do the hike again. By then, the temperature had climbed to nearly 88 degrees — five degrees hotter than the 40-year average for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the steep, often-shadeless path, Katkov told Ekblad he was exhausted — another symptom of heat illness that Ekblad should have recognized, Cal Fire documents said. Rather than seek emergency care, however, the captain encouraged both firefighters to press on, and they pushed up the hill. Guerrero helped steady Katkov’s balance, but Katkov stumbled and had to pause at least 20 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atop the 650-foot ridge, Katkov fell forward and sat down. Ekblad told him to take off some of his wildland gear, and Guerrero tried to shade him with a jacket. They poured water on him, but his eyes rolled back. He eventually passed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly an hour after starting the hike a second time, Ekblad called for help. Katkov began to shake uncontrollably. It took another hour for an air ambulance to get to the remote location and transport Katkov to Temecula Valley Hospital. He died the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors found that Cal Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hadn’t provided enough water or shade on the hike.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Failed to monitor Katkov for preexisting sensitivities to heat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Didn’t prepare Katkov for the intensity of the job, as required under Cal Fire’s heat-illness prevention plan.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Didn’t initiate an emergency medical response until it was too late.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA fined the department $80,875 — almost five times the average Cal/OSHA fine of $17,000 for all types of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 'toughness mentality'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ashley Vallario, Katkov’s longtime girlfriend, said she was shocked after reading the investigation. It was clear that Cal Fire hadn’t done everything it should have done to protect Katkov, she said. Its safeguards against workplace heat appear to have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me that everything that could have been done was done, and that there was no waste of time,” Vallario said. “I believed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire didn’t respond to written questions about Katkov’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889399\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11889399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that reads, 'Cal Fire De Luz Station 16' next to a country road.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-2048x1357.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaroslav Katkov worked at Cal Fire De Luz Station 16 located in the hills just outside of Temecula.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rank matters at Cal Fire. Impressing superiors can help a seasonal firefighter move on to a coveted full-time spot. But a tough paramilitary culture often pushes Cal Fire employees to their physical limits, even in hot temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, that culture has contributed to serious heat-related injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, for instance, a Cal Fire firefighter was at a “rehire” training session in Riverside, meant for seasonal employees about to rejoin their crews. He and the other trainees were forced to do “extra rigorous” exercises after someone had arrived late, according to a Cal/OSHA investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the group practiced a simulated fire attack, the firefighter complained about feeling ill and asked his supervisor if he could take off his jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructor said no and told the firefighter to sit down in the sun, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886628\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50596_019_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]About 10 minutes later, a colleague reported that the firefighter did “not look good.” His legs cramped, and he was gasping for breath — both symptoms of heat illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter was hospitalized for two days, and Cal/OSHA fined the department $18,560 for violating California’s heat standard by failing to allow the employee to take an adequate rest break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar case in 2017, another Cal Fire firefighter was working in full wildland gear while moving a hose for a training exercise, according to Cal/OSHA records. After a break, a new instructor took over another round of the activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter later told Cal/OSHA that the work was more strenuous the second time, and that the instructor had “pushed the employee to do more.” The firefighter struggled to finish the task. He was so confused that he couldn’t answer questions, Cal/OSHA records show. An altered mental state is a red flag for heat illness, medical experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructor mocked the firefighter and suggested he “go to Orange County since their training is easier,” the inspector wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in the earlier case, the firefighter spent two days in the hospital. Cal Fire was fined another $2,430 for failing to educate employees about heat’s threats and not providing ready access to water and shade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Robert Salgado, Former Cal/OSHA inspector and wildland firefighter\"]'We don’t want the smartest guy … we just want a guy who can throw on a pack and hike hills.'[/pullquote]Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie, who leads several fire stations based in San Diego, including Katkov’s former station, said the department is working to root out the “toughness” mentality that has pervaded its ranks. Some heat-related incidents “have been an unfortunate wake-up call that maybe that culture needs to change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may be difficult. Robert Salgado, a former Cal/OSHA inspector and wildland firefighter, notes that Cal Fire’s do-or-die attitude is one of the “very deep-rooted cultural practices in the fire service” that is passed from department to department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want the smartest guy … we don’t want the most trained guy,” Salgado said. “We just want a guy who can throw on a pack and hike hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire union president Tim Edwards of Local 2881 recalls a recent incident in which supervisors pushed firefighters in training activities beyond their limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll admit it, we had problems in San Diego in the last four months,” he said, explaining that one supervisor was warned about the way he was treating firefighters after a union member filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor was pushing firefighters to hike “when they weren’t feeling good,” Edwards said, “making them hike thinking if he pushed them a little bit further, it would help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire, for its part, acknowledges that the department spoke with the supervisor but said he was not reprimanded. It describes the incident as an example of how the department and the union can work together to address potential health issues before they get worse.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Don't blame the firefighters'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another problem, insiders say, is that Cal Fire doesn’t have a physical fitness standard that makes clear what kind of shape seasonal and incarcerated firefighters must be in when they return to duty after months off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11836399\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/44642_transform-1.jpg\"]Without such a standard, firefighters may not realize they’re not fit enough until they’re on training hikes or in the field on hot days. At that point, it’s up to individual supervisors to say whether it’s a problem for any firefighter, and what that firefighter needs to do to improve. And that can make for trouble when those supervisors push their employees too hard, especially on hot days, to reach whatever level they deem correct, insiders say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards, of Cal Fire Local 2881, notes that the union has “been pushing for years to have a minimal physical fitness standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the union wants seasonal firefighters to have their fitness tested over a week, with intense physical exercise and step-by-step goals to measure their progress. If they fail to pass those tests, he said, they could be set on a remedial path or let go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards blames the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for issues involving incarcerated firefighters. He argues that Cal Fire has little control over these abilities when they arrive at fire camps, even though the 11 heat-related incidents involving incarcerated people identified by CJI and LAist occurred during official Cal Fire trainings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Corrections Department said Cal Fire has always trained incarcerated firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, when a firefighter falls behind on fitness requirements, Cal Fire’s system leaves it up to individual stations to determine how that firefighter will move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889391 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A line of firefighters wearing bright orange uniforms and carrying equipment walk alongside a forest in front of a firefighter wearing a traditional yellow uniform.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated firefighters on a training hike with Cal Fire. Incarcerated individuals make up a big chunk of California's firefighters during wildfire season, but some firefighter union officials point out that incarcerated firefighters don't receive enough physical training from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation before they join a crew. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When firefighters are assigned to a crew for the season, they are allotted an hour each day for personal training, and given access to wellness coordinators and workout gear. Supervisors are required to sign off on each firefighter’s monthly progress as part of a “Physical Fitness Documentation Log.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In more than half of heat-illness cases examined by CJI and LAist, the firefighters didn’t have a fitness plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with a Cal/OSHA investigator, some of Katkov’s former colleagues raised concerns about his physical fitness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Statement from Cal Fire\"]'Just as a runner cannot expect to run a marathon without months of preparation, a firefighter cannot show up for the beginning of fire season … without preparing their body for the tasks ahead.'[/pullquote]But Cal/OSHA found that Ekblad had not created a fitness plan or any documentation to measure Katkov’s progress, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement, Cal Fire said it has no control over its firefighters’ “fitness efforts, caffeine intake, eating habits, water intake, sun exposure, alcohol consumption, or other factors that may impact their ability to perform their job functions” when they are off-duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can take weeks or months for firefighters to safely build up their fitness, and experts say it’s not something that can be forced with strenuous exercise in a short period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as a runner cannot expect to run a marathon without months of preparation, a firefighter cannot show up for the beginning of fire season … without preparing their body for the tasks ahead,” Cal Fire said in its statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Ruby, a University of Montana professor who has studied the physical demands of wildland firefighting, said ad hoc training is not the ideal way to train because there’s “a tendency to try to push” new or young recruits. As these firefighters press on, he said, the strain on their body builds up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They hike faster, they produce more heat,” Ruby said, “but the environment is still bearing down on them and pushing back on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Thomas Ferguson, Consultant for Cal Fire\"]'We've got to educate the supervisors to recognize that they need to pay attention to this.'[/pullquote]Dr. Thomas Ferguson, a consultant who says he reviews 8,000 medical files for Cal Fire each year, has seen how firefighters who are pushed too hard can get blamed for not meeting physical expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferguson told Cal/OSHA investigators that seasonal firefighters like Katkov are most vulnerable to heat illness. According to Cal/OSHA’s investigative file on Katkov’s death, Ferguson urged the department to adopt a fitness standard for seasonal and incarcerated firefighters partly for this reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don't blame the firefighters,” he said in a recent interview. “We've got to educate the supervisors to recognize that they need to pay attention to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889395\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11889395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two firefighters seem to be pulling a long hose through the forest.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters with Cal Fire San Diego practice a progressive hose lay during training. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Identifying the hidden risks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before starting the job, Cal Fire’s health screening processes may miss conditions that could jeopardize firefighters’ lives, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seasonal and incarcerated firefighters get little more than a basic physical, which experts say doesn’t always screen for potentially problematic health conditions. That has had dire consequences on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, eight firefighters with underlying health problems have died during training — five of them likely from heat exposure, experts say. All of them were incarcerated except for Katkov. Four died from cardiovascular issues, such as heart attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not all of those cases were directly tied to heat, researchers say high temperatures often play a hidden role in injuries and deaths, especially in workers who have underlying or preexisting health conditions, such as heart or kidney disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said its screening policy requires “an annual medical evaluation for all applicants and employees who are required to be medically cleared.” Tests intended to check for preexisting conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders and some cancers, are voluntary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview with CJI and LAist, Ferguson said Cal Fire has a hard time keeping up with the basic screenings for thousands of seasonal and incarcerated firefighters each year. “It’s an operational issue for them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s Edwards goes further. “When the State of California is hiring a temporary employee, and this is just the sad truth of it, they're not going to want to invest a whole lot of time and money,” he said. “We don't agree with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not until age 40 that full-time Cal Fire employees are required to take heart and blood tests, according to the union. Seasonal firefighters are offered the opportunity, but it’s not mandatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heart issues, which could be caught by more extensive tests, are among the preexisting conditions exacerbated by heat. When a firefighter dies, heat can be overlooked as the primary factor, creating a pattern of uneven enforcement, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']It’s not until age 40 that full-time Cal Fire employees are required to take heart and blood tests.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2015, Raymond Araujo, a 37-year-old incarcerated man assigned to work in the Bautista Conservation Camp, set off on a training hike in Banning, California, about 30 miles from Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal/OSHA records, Araujo covered two miles of steep terrain. The temperature reached 81 degrees — 10 degrees hotter for the area for that time of year. He stumbled during the exercise. His colleagues tried to carry him to the finish but eventually he lost his vision and fell to his knees. About an hour after the hike began, paramedics declared him dead, according to the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11889336\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg\"]A Cal/OSHA investigation named heat as a contributing factor in Araujo’s death, but the Riverside County coroner determined the cause was “hypertensive cardiovascular disease,” according to an autopsy report. Cal/OSHA’s medical unit, noting the preexisting condition, concluded that “it did not appear likely that a heat illness or other work-related illness or injury played any role in Araujo’s sudden death,” records show. The agency closed the case without issuing any citations for violating the state’s heat standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrett Brown, a Cal/OSHA inspector from 1994 to 2014, investigated more than 100 work sites for heat issues. He reviewed the Araujo case at our request and said it was impossible to know why the agency chose not to address the heat standard violations. Despite that decision, Brown said the incident resembled many heat cases he had handled, in which workers suffered heart or kidney failure because of hot temperatures, and likely should’ve been handled as possible heat standard violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal/OSHA spokesperson defended the agency’s handling of Araujo’s death. “Cal/OSHA Enforcement relied on the Medical Unit's opinion,” the spokesperson, Frank Polizzi, wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferguson isn’t the only one who’s raised concerns about Cal Fire’s health-screening process. During the Cal/OSHA investigation into Katkov’s death, Tammy Stout, manager of the Cal Fire medical unit, was blunt in her assessment of the process, explaining that she had received medical clearance even though she believed she was physically incapable of doing a firefighter’s job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Captain Cesar Nerey put it simply. “You could get a better physical playing high school football than the one required by Cal Fire,” he told the Cal/OSHA investigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A gap in existing heat protections\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s another concerning factor in how Cal Fire brings new firefighters onto the job: a lack of a department-wide regimented acclimatization plan that would ease employees into the heat. Instead, as with fitness training, Cal Fire leaves it up to individual stations to craft their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886402\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/DSCF1773-1020x680.jpg\"]Here’s why that matters. Acclimatization — building up a tolerance for heat — is a crucial part of training firefighters to operate in extreme conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Easing firefighters into the work in hot temperatures is widely viewed as one of the best ways to prevent heat illnesses and deaths. It should happen during a new or newly returned firefighter’s two weeks of training, health experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly 25 years, since the death of a California firefighter from heat exposure while constructing a fire line in 1997, a federal agency has recommended the state follow specific protocols for acclimatization of firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protocols, from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), call for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>New employees working in heat no more than 20% of their first shift, with a daily increase of the same percentage until fully acclimated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Experienced firefighters returning from an extended break working in heat more than 50% of the first day, with a gradual increase over the course of a week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said that it is considering those recommendations, but it “may not be achievable in all situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said following them “could cause issues in protecting the people and resources of California,” since firefighters often are thrust into emergency situations when a fire erupts and may come from areas across the state and be used to different climates. Cal Fire did not address non-emergency training scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1976705\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/09/MexicanCrew-Casimiro-1020x765.jpg\"]Some heat-related incidents have occurred early in a firefighter’s tenure and during training. Of all the incidents identified by CJI and LAist, records show at least 14 employees were sickened by heat at the Cal Fire training academy during their first weeks. Dozens more suffered from heat illnesses on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a two-month period in the summer of 2014, three firefighters were hospitalized after they had trained in the heat. Two of these incidents occurred in the same week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA considers an acclimatization plan the pinnacle of heat awareness — indeed, it is one of the four pillars of heat safety in the state’s standard. Yet the agency leaves the details on how to acclimate employees up to individual employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Cal/OSHA said “the acclimatization period, when employees are introduced to high heat, is the most critical in terms of illness prevention.” The agency rarely cites employers for failing to acclimatize their employees, as compared to other heat-related violations, having done so only 68 times since 2015, as of July 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What can prevent a tragedy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While heat continues to be an issue during Cal Fire training activities, a responsive supervisor can make the difference between life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a year after Katkov’s death, yet another firefighter came close to dying on a training hike in Mariposa, 150 miles east of San José. The firefighter had suffered leg cramps and vomited on the same trail just two weeks earlier, according to Cal Fire documents. A physician cleared him for work, but people with prior injuries can be more susceptible to heat stress, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hike in July 2020, the temperature reached 87 degrees. According to Cal Fire records, the captain, who said he’d been aware of the firefighter’s medical issues, watched his progress during the 60-minute exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the firefighter gasped for breath, the captain implored him to slow down. When his legs cramped, a colleague helped him down a hill. The captain called an ambulance, and the crew gave him oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airlifted to a trauma center, the firefigher was treated for heat stroke and a heat-related condition known as rhabdomyolysis, which causes muscle tissue to break down and leak toxins into the blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889393\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 623px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889393 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-5.jpeg\" alt=\"A smiling couple in formal dress sit together at a table at a party.\" width=\"623\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-5.jpeg 623w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-5-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaroslav Katkov with his longtime partner, Ashley Vallario. Vallario considered filing a lawsuit after Katkov's death but later decided against it. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ashley Vallario)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ashley Vallario, Yaroslav Katkov’s partner, who considered filing a lawsuit but decided against it, still can’t understand why Katkov wasn’t given the same level of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katkov was selfless, she said, someone who would help others even to his detriment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in their relationship, Vallario remembers Katkov taking her on a date to pick up trash on the beach. Initially, that gave her pause, but she’s come to realize it was Katkov’s way of giving back. “It definitely made me, like, a better person,” Vallario said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Katkov’s death, she has pushed Cal Fire to demand more of its leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're supposed to have faith that those people would keep them safe,” she said. “It shows what kind of leadership that they're willing to allow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brian Edwards reported this story as a fellow for Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School in New York, along with Jacob Margolis, a science reporter at KPCC and LAist, and a member of The California Newsroom.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Extensive interviews with current and former members of Cal Fire and reviews of hundreds of government records reveal multiple issues involving workplace safety that put at risk those who fight California's wildfires.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1632346272,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":117,"wordCount":5192},"headData":{"title":"California's Firefighters Keep Getting Injured While Training. Some Have Died | KQED","description":"Extensive interviews with current and former members of Cal Fire and reviews of hundreds of government records reveal multiple issues involving workplace safety that put at risk those who fight California's wildfires.","ogTitle":"California Firefighters Keep Getting Injured During Training and Some Have Lost Their Lives","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"California Firefighters Keep Getting Injured During Training and Some Have Lost Their Lives","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California's Firefighters Keep Getting Injured While Training. Some Have Died","datePublished":"2021-09-22T14:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2021-09-22T21:31:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11889263 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11889263","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/22/california-firefighters-keep-getting-injured-during-training-and-some-have-died/","disqusTitle":"California's Firefighters Keep Getting Injured While Training. Some Have Died","source":"The California Newsroom","nprByline":"Brian Edwards and Jacob Margolis","path":"/news/11889263/california-firefighters-keep-getting-injured-during-training-and-some-have-died","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even as he lay dying on the side of a Southern California mountain — his lips blue, the color gone from his face — wildland firefighter Yaroslav Katkov wanted to push on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting to the top. We’re finishing,” his captain recalled Katkov saying after collapsing atop a ridge during a training hike in hot weather, according to state records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katkov’s speech was garbled. He tried to stand, but couldn’t find his footing. His body temperature was reaching dangerous levels. He was suffering from heat illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened on that sun-soaked July day in 2019 is one thread in a larger story about firefighter training in an era of intensifying heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the past 18 months, more than 150 firefighters were sickened by heat exposure while working for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a quarter of heat-related incidents — the largest category — involve firefighters who fell ill during routine training exercises, Columbia Journalism Investigations, KPCC and LAist found. Like Katkov, nearly all of these firefighters worked part time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889335\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1390px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889335 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of a red firefighter helmet and goggles above five blurry white dots, on a black background.\" width=\"1390\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration.jpg 1390w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/firefighter-hat-illustration-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1390px) 100vw, 1390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interviews with current and former Cal Fire employees, medical personnel and wildland firefighting experts reveal multiple issues involving workplace safety during Cal Fire training activities. This is true especially for those who don’t work year-round, such as seasonal and incarcerated firefighters. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Alborz Kamalizad / Photography courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incidents, documented in Cal Fire’s workplace-injury logs, were specifically classified as heat related and occurred between Jan. 1, 2020, and Aug. 3, 2021. CJI and LAist were unable to ascertain how typical the case numbers are. Cal Fire refused to say whether they were unusual or in line with annual totals for heat illnesses among workers over the past decade. The department declined to provide data that could put the numbers into a broader context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJI and LAist compiled less comprehensive data from internal Cal Fire reports on employee training injuries dating back to 2001, in addition to other state records. These documents show at least 14 other incidents that bear what some experts say are hallmarks of heat-related illness. In five of these incidents, the firefighters died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Over the past 18 months, more than 150 firefighters were sickened by heat exposure while working for Cal Fire.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the firefighters succumbed to injuries not on the fire line in some remote California wilderness, but during required training. Many were decked out in full wildland gear — wearing long-sleeve jackets, pants and helmets while carrying heavy tools — and doing activities meant to simulate wildfire fighting — taking short hikes into the woods, for instance, or laying hoses up a mountainside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All but one of the deaths occurred in temperatures ranging from 70 to 87 degrees. Four of the victims were incarcerated, participating in a state program meant to bolster firefighting forces that dates back to WWII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts and federal workplace regulators agree that heat-related illnesses and deaths are 100% preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviews with current and former Cal Fire employees, medical personnel and wildland firefighting experts, a review of hundreds of pages of government records detailing firefighter injuries and deaths and an analysis of worker heat death cases reveal multiple issues involving workplace safety during Cal Fire training activities. This is true especially for those who don’t work year-round, such as seasonal and incarcerated firefighters. Combined, they make up about half of the agency’s nearly 10,000-strong firefighting force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katkov’s death was exceptional in just how many institutional failures occurred during his hike, records show. But many of the other cases of heat-related injuries and deaths indicate the same underlying problems — a punitive culture that can endanger firefighters’ health, a lackluster physical screening process and an ineffective plan for building up firefighters’ tolerance for heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889384\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1380px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889384 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration composed of nine black-and-white squares that include images of the Lippe Hike, overlaid with a red outline of the trail.\" width=\"1380\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration.jpg 1380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Warning-signs-illustration-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1380px) 100vw, 1380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaroslav Katkov collapsed on his second lap of the 1.45 mile Lippe Hike in Fallbrook, California, a mountain town ringed by ranches just outside of Temecula. According to documents related to the hike, Katkov's captain ignored signs from Katkov of potential illness. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Alborz Kamalizad / Photography courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Warning signs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the day of Katkov’s hike, Cal Fire officials later found that his captain, Joe Ekblad, had missed opportunities to act on several telltale signs of heat illness. Not until Katkov collapsed at the top of that ridge did Ekblad begin emergency procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain later explained he believed that they could cool Katkov down if they moved fast enough. They stripped off his jacket and drenched him in water. But it didn’t work. Katkov took several deep “gulpy breaths,” according to documents obtained from the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA. Still, Ekblad delayed calling for emergency help because he thought Katkov “would snap back out of it,” the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'[Cal Fire] vigorously rejects the notion that a punitive culture exists in relation to the fitness, safety, or wellbeing of our workforce.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Statement from Cal Fire","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Katkov died of hyperthermia at a hospital the next day. Cal Fire demoted Ekblad. The department found he had “failed to identify a crew member … in physical and/mental distress.” Ekblad didn’t respond to requests for comment. Records show he told investigators that Katkov was a willing participant in the exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire didn’t respond to several requests to interview the department’s head of safety. In a statement, it said it “vigorously rejects the notion that a punitive culture exists in relation to the fitness, safety, or wellbeing of our workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department says it trains all its firefighters — seasonal, incarcerated or otherwise — on the dangers associated with wildland firefighting, “including methods to prevent, recognize and respond to symptoms of heat related illnesses.” It described its efforts to combat heat-related injuries and deaths as “a partnership” with individual firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each must do his/her part year-round to ensure that they are preparing for the upcoming fire season,” the department wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 28, 2019, Katkov embarked on a training exercise called the Lippe Hike, a 1.45-mile loop at Cal Fire’s Station 16 in Fallbrook, California, a mountain town ringed by ranches just outside of Temecula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gavin Bledsoe, one of the station’s other fire captains, later told Cal/OSHA investigators that “he had concerns with Joe pushing Yaro hard,” and that Ekblad had pushed other firefighters without giving them enough time for breaks in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889386\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889386 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A view from Lippe Hike: several hills and a light cloudy sky.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Lippe-Hike-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lippe Hike winds through the hills just behind Cal Fire Station 16 in northern San Diego County. \u003ccite>(Jacob Margolis/LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to documents related to Ekblad’s demotion, the hike that preceded Katkov’s death had never been timed before that morning, and Bledsoe believed the standard for finishing it was set “specifically with Yaro in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joe has been pushing really hard to get Yaro to quit or up to his standards,” Bledsoe told Cal/OSHA investigators about the rookie firefighter who regularly hiked the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bledsoe didn’t respond to multiple phone calls and text messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889397\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889397 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A studio portrait of a man in a Cal Fire uniform smiling at the camera.\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-1.jpeg 427w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-1-160x240.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire firefighter Yaroslav Katkov. Katkov died of hyperthermia at a hospital the day after embarking on a training exercise called the Lippe Hike. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ashley Vallario)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A quarter-mile into the hike, seasonal firefighter Matthew Guerrero told investigators, Katkov was breathing heavily. At one point, as the hike wound from mountains alongside a road, Katkov was slow to move out of oncoming traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ekblad wrote in his notebook, “Road Hazard - Cognitive Question.” This was an early sign of heat illness that Ekblad ignored, Cal Fire documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trio completed the hike in about 40 minutes — 10 minutes slower than the time Ekblad had set for the station that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're gonna do it again. The first hike was unacceptable,” Ekblad said, according to the Cal/OSHA investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ekblad later told the agency’s investigators that doing the hike twice wasn’t standard practice. Cal Fire concluded that it was “clearly unnecessary” given the signs of distress Katkov had exhibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trio rested for 20 minutes, drank some water and set off to do the hike again. By then, the temperature had climbed to nearly 88 degrees — five degrees hotter than the 40-year average for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the steep, often-shadeless path, Katkov told Ekblad he was exhausted — another symptom of heat illness that Ekblad should have recognized, Cal Fire documents said. Rather than seek emergency care, however, the captain encouraged both firefighters to press on, and they pushed up the hill. Guerrero helped steady Katkov’s balance, but Katkov stumbled and had to pause at least 20 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atop the 650-foot ridge, Katkov fell forward and sat down. Ekblad told him to take off some of his wildland gear, and Guerrero tried to shade him with a jacket. They poured water on him, but his eyes rolled back. He eventually passed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly an hour after starting the hike a second time, Ekblad called for help. Katkov began to shake uncontrollably. It took another hour for an air ambulance to get to the remote location and transport Katkov to Temecula Valley Hospital. He died the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors found that Cal Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hadn’t provided enough water or shade on the hike.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Failed to monitor Katkov for preexisting sensitivities to heat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Didn’t prepare Katkov for the intensity of the job, as required under Cal Fire’s heat-illness prevention plan.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Didn’t initiate an emergency medical response until it was too late.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA fined the department $80,875 — almost five times the average Cal/OSHA fine of $17,000 for all types of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 'toughness mentality'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ashley Vallario, Katkov’s longtime girlfriend, said she was shocked after reading the investigation. It was clear that Cal Fire hadn’t done everything it should have done to protect Katkov, she said. Its safeguards against workplace heat appear to have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me that everything that could have been done was done, and that there was no waste of time,” Vallario said. “I believed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire didn’t respond to written questions about Katkov’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889399\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11889399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that reads, 'Cal Fire De Luz Station 16' next to a country road.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-2048x1357.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Cal-Fire-Station-Sign-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaroslav Katkov worked at Cal Fire De Luz Station 16 located in the hills just outside of Temecula.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rank matters at Cal Fire. Impressing superiors can help a seasonal firefighter move on to a coveted full-time spot. But a tough paramilitary culture often pushes Cal Fire employees to their physical limits, even in hot temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, that culture has contributed to serious heat-related injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, for instance, a Cal Fire firefighter was at a “rehire” training session in Riverside, meant for seasonal employees about to rejoin their crews. He and the other trainees were forced to do “extra rigorous” exercises after someone had arrived late, according to a Cal/OSHA investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the group practiced a simulated fire attack, the firefighter complained about feeling ill and asked his supervisor if he could take off his jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructor said no and told the firefighter to sit down in the sun, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886628","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50596_019_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>About 10 minutes later, a colleague reported that the firefighter did “not look good.” His legs cramped, and he was gasping for breath — both symptoms of heat illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter was hospitalized for two days, and Cal/OSHA fined the department $18,560 for violating California’s heat standard by failing to allow the employee to take an adequate rest break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar case in 2017, another Cal Fire firefighter was working in full wildland gear while moving a hose for a training exercise, according to Cal/OSHA records. After a break, a new instructor took over another round of the activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter later told Cal/OSHA that the work was more strenuous the second time, and that the instructor had “pushed the employee to do more.” The firefighter struggled to finish the task. He was so confused that he couldn’t answer questions, Cal/OSHA records show. An altered mental state is a red flag for heat illness, medical experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructor mocked the firefighter and suggested he “go to Orange County since their training is easier,” the inspector wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in the earlier case, the firefighter spent two days in the hospital. Cal Fire was fined another $2,430 for failing to educate employees about heat’s threats and not providing ready access to water and shade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We don’t want the smartest guy … we just want a guy who can throw on a pack and hike hills.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Robert Salgado, Former Cal/OSHA inspector and wildland firefighter","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie, who leads several fire stations based in San Diego, including Katkov’s former station, said the department is working to root out the “toughness” mentality that has pervaded its ranks. Some heat-related incidents “have been an unfortunate wake-up call that maybe that culture needs to change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may be difficult. Robert Salgado, a former Cal/OSHA inspector and wildland firefighter, notes that Cal Fire’s do-or-die attitude is one of the “very deep-rooted cultural practices in the fire service” that is passed from department to department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want the smartest guy … we don’t want the most trained guy,” Salgado said. “We just want a guy who can throw on a pack and hike hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire union president Tim Edwards of Local 2881 recalls a recent incident in which supervisors pushed firefighters in training activities beyond their limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll admit it, we had problems in San Diego in the last four months,” he said, explaining that one supervisor was warned about the way he was treating firefighters after a union member filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor was pushing firefighters to hike “when they weren’t feeling good,” Edwards said, “making them hike thinking if he pushed them a little bit further, it would help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire, for its part, acknowledges that the department spoke with the supervisor but said he was not reprimanded. It describes the incident as an example of how the department and the union can work together to address potential health issues before they get worse.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Don't blame the firefighters'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another problem, insiders say, is that Cal Fire doesn’t have a physical fitness standard that makes clear what kind of shape seasonal and incarcerated firefighters must be in when they return to duty after months off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11836399","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/44642_transform-1.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Without such a standard, firefighters may not realize they’re not fit enough until they’re on training hikes or in the field on hot days. At that point, it’s up to individual supervisors to say whether it’s a problem for any firefighter, and what that firefighter needs to do to improve. And that can make for trouble when those supervisors push their employees too hard, especially on hot days, to reach whatever level they deem correct, insiders say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards, of Cal Fire Local 2881, notes that the union has “been pushing for years to have a minimal physical fitness standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the union wants seasonal firefighters to have their fitness tested over a week, with intense physical exercise and step-by-step goals to measure their progress. If they fail to pass those tests, he said, they could be set on a remedial path or let go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards blames the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for issues involving incarcerated firefighters. He argues that Cal Fire has little control over these abilities when they arrive at fire camps, even though the 11 heat-related incidents involving incarcerated people identified by CJI and LAist occurred during official Cal Fire trainings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Corrections Department said Cal Fire has always trained incarcerated firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, when a firefighter falls behind on fitness requirements, Cal Fire’s system leaves it up to individual stations to determine how that firefighter will move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889391 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A line of firefighters wearing bright orange uniforms and carrying equipment walk alongside a forest in front of a firefighter wearing a traditional yellow uniform.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Incarcerated-Hike-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated firefighters on a training hike with Cal Fire. Incarcerated individuals make up a big chunk of California's firefighters during wildfire season, but some firefighter union officials point out that incarcerated firefighters don't receive enough physical training from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation before they join a crew. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When firefighters are assigned to a crew for the season, they are allotted an hour each day for personal training, and given access to wellness coordinators and workout gear. Supervisors are required to sign off on each firefighter’s monthly progress as part of a “Physical Fitness Documentation Log.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In more than half of heat-illness cases examined by CJI and LAist, the firefighters didn’t have a fitness plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with a Cal/OSHA investigator, some of Katkov’s former colleagues raised concerns about his physical fitness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Just as a runner cannot expect to run a marathon without months of preparation, a firefighter cannot show up for the beginning of fire season … without preparing their body for the tasks ahead.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Statement from Cal Fire","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Cal/OSHA found that Ekblad had not created a fitness plan or any documentation to measure Katkov’s progress, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement, Cal Fire said it has no control over its firefighters’ “fitness efforts, caffeine intake, eating habits, water intake, sun exposure, alcohol consumption, or other factors that may impact their ability to perform their job functions” when they are off-duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can take weeks or months for firefighters to safely build up their fitness, and experts say it’s not something that can be forced with strenuous exercise in a short period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as a runner cannot expect to run a marathon without months of preparation, a firefighter cannot show up for the beginning of fire season … without preparing their body for the tasks ahead,” Cal Fire said in its statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Ruby, a University of Montana professor who has studied the physical demands of wildland firefighting, said ad hoc training is not the ideal way to train because there’s “a tendency to try to push” new or young recruits. As these firefighters press on, he said, the strain on their body builds up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They hike faster, they produce more heat,” Ruby said, “but the environment is still bearing down on them and pushing back on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We've got to educate the supervisors to recognize that they need to pay attention to this.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Dr. Thomas Ferguson, Consultant for Cal Fire","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dr. Thomas Ferguson, a consultant who says he reviews 8,000 medical files for Cal Fire each year, has seen how firefighters who are pushed too hard can get blamed for not meeting physical expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferguson told Cal/OSHA investigators that seasonal firefighters like Katkov are most vulnerable to heat illness. According to Cal/OSHA’s investigative file on Katkov’s death, Ferguson urged the department to adopt a fitness standard for seasonal and incarcerated firefighters partly for this reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don't blame the firefighters,” he said in a recent interview. “We've got to educate the supervisors to recognize that they need to pay attention to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889395\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11889395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two firefighters seem to be pulling a long hose through the forest.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Progressive-Hoselay-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters with Cal Fire San Diego practice a progressive hose lay during training. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Identifying the hidden risks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before starting the job, Cal Fire’s health screening processes may miss conditions that could jeopardize firefighters’ lives, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seasonal and incarcerated firefighters get little more than a basic physical, which experts say doesn’t always screen for potentially problematic health conditions. That has had dire consequences on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, eight firefighters with underlying health problems have died during training — five of them likely from heat exposure, experts say. All of them were incarcerated except for Katkov. Four died from cardiovascular issues, such as heart attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not all of those cases were directly tied to heat, researchers say high temperatures often play a hidden role in injuries and deaths, especially in workers who have underlying or preexisting health conditions, such as heart or kidney disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said its screening policy requires “an annual medical evaluation for all applicants and employees who are required to be medically cleared.” Tests intended to check for preexisting conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders and some cancers, are voluntary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview with CJI and LAist, Ferguson said Cal Fire has a hard time keeping up with the basic screenings for thousands of seasonal and incarcerated firefighters each year. “It’s an operational issue for them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s Edwards goes further. “When the State of California is hiring a temporary employee, and this is just the sad truth of it, they're not going to want to invest a whole lot of time and money,” he said. “We don't agree with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not until age 40 that full-time Cal Fire employees are required to take heart and blood tests, according to the union. Seasonal firefighters are offered the opportunity, but it’s not mandatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heart issues, which could be caught by more extensive tests, are among the preexisting conditions exacerbated by heat. When a firefighter dies, heat can be overlooked as the primary factor, creating a pattern of uneven enforcement, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"It’s not until age 40 that full-time Cal Fire employees are required to take heart and blood tests.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2015, Raymond Araujo, a 37-year-old incarcerated man assigned to work in the Bautista Conservation Camp, set off on a training hike in Banning, California, about 30 miles from Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal/OSHA records, Araujo covered two miles of steep terrain. The temperature reached 81 degrees — 10 degrees hotter for the area for that time of year. He stumbled during the exercise. His colleagues tried to carry him to the finish but eventually he lost his vision and fell to his knees. About an hour after the hike began, paramedics declared him dead, according to the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11889336","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A Cal/OSHA investigation named heat as a contributing factor in Araujo’s death, but the Riverside County coroner determined the cause was “hypertensive cardiovascular disease,” according to an autopsy report. Cal/OSHA’s medical unit, noting the preexisting condition, concluded that “it did not appear likely that a heat illness or other work-related illness or injury played any role in Araujo’s sudden death,” records show. The agency closed the case without issuing any citations for violating the state’s heat standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrett Brown, a Cal/OSHA inspector from 1994 to 2014, investigated more than 100 work sites for heat issues. He reviewed the Araujo case at our request and said it was impossible to know why the agency chose not to address the heat standard violations. Despite that decision, Brown said the incident resembled many heat cases he had handled, in which workers suffered heart or kidney failure because of hot temperatures, and likely should’ve been handled as possible heat standard violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal/OSHA spokesperson defended the agency’s handling of Araujo’s death. “Cal/OSHA Enforcement relied on the Medical Unit's opinion,” the spokesperson, Frank Polizzi, wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferguson isn’t the only one who’s raised concerns about Cal Fire’s health-screening process. During the Cal/OSHA investigation into Katkov’s death, Tammy Stout, manager of the Cal Fire medical unit, was blunt in her assessment of the process, explaining that she had received medical clearance even though she believed she was physically incapable of doing a firefighter’s job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Captain Cesar Nerey put it simply. “You could get a better physical playing high school football than the one required by Cal Fire,” he told the Cal/OSHA investigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A gap in existing heat protections\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s another concerning factor in how Cal Fire brings new firefighters onto the job: a lack of a department-wide regimented acclimatization plan that would ease employees into the heat. Instead, as with fitness training, Cal Fire leaves it up to individual stations to craft their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886402","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/DSCF1773-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Here’s why that matters. Acclimatization — building up a tolerance for heat — is a crucial part of training firefighters to operate in extreme conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Easing firefighters into the work in hot temperatures is widely viewed as one of the best ways to prevent heat illnesses and deaths. It should happen during a new or newly returned firefighter’s two weeks of training, health experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly 25 years, since the death of a California firefighter from heat exposure while constructing a fire line in 1997, a federal agency has recommended the state follow specific protocols for acclimatization of firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protocols, from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), call for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>New employees working in heat no more than 20% of their first shift, with a daily increase of the same percentage until fully acclimated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Experienced firefighters returning from an extended break working in heat more than 50% of the first day, with a gradual increase over the course of a week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said that it is considering those recommendations, but it “may not be achievable in all situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said following them “could cause issues in protecting the people and resources of California,” since firefighters often are thrust into emergency situations when a fire erupts and may come from areas across the state and be used to different climates. Cal Fire did not address non-emergency training scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1976705","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/09/MexicanCrew-Casimiro-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some heat-related incidents have occurred early in a firefighter’s tenure and during training. Of all the incidents identified by CJI and LAist, records show at least 14 employees were sickened by heat at the Cal Fire training academy during their first weeks. Dozens more suffered from heat illnesses on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a two-month period in the summer of 2014, three firefighters were hospitalized after they had trained in the heat. Two of these incidents occurred in the same week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA considers an acclimatization plan the pinnacle of heat awareness — indeed, it is one of the four pillars of heat safety in the state’s standard. Yet the agency leaves the details on how to acclimate employees up to individual employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Cal/OSHA said “the acclimatization period, when employees are introduced to high heat, is the most critical in terms of illness prevention.” The agency rarely cites employers for failing to acclimatize their employees, as compared to other heat-related violations, having done so only 68 times since 2015, as of July 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What can prevent a tragedy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While heat continues to be an issue during Cal Fire training activities, a responsive supervisor can make the difference between life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a year after Katkov’s death, yet another firefighter came close to dying on a training hike in Mariposa, 150 miles east of San José. The firefighter had suffered leg cramps and vomited on the same trail just two weeks earlier, according to Cal Fire documents. A physician cleared him for work, but people with prior injuries can be more susceptible to heat stress, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hike in July 2020, the temperature reached 87 degrees. According to Cal Fire records, the captain, who said he’d been aware of the firefighter’s medical issues, watched his progress during the 60-minute exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the firefighter gasped for breath, the captain implored him to slow down. When his legs cramped, a colleague helped him down a hill. The captain called an ambulance, and the crew gave him oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airlifted to a trauma center, the firefigher was treated for heat stroke and a heat-related condition known as rhabdomyolysis, which causes muscle tissue to break down and leak toxins into the blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889393\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 623px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11889393 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-5.jpeg\" alt=\"A smiling couple in formal dress sit together at a table at a party.\" width=\"623\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-5.jpeg 623w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Yaro-5-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaroslav Katkov with his longtime partner, Ashley Vallario. Vallario considered filing a lawsuit after Katkov's death but later decided against it. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ashley Vallario)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ashley Vallario, Yaroslav Katkov’s partner, who considered filing a lawsuit but decided against it, still can’t understand why Katkov wasn’t given the same level of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katkov was selfless, she said, someone who would help others even to his detriment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in their relationship, Vallario remembers Katkov taking her on a date to pick up trash on the beach. Initially, that gave her pause, but she’s come to realize it was Katkov’s way of giving back. “It definitely made me, like, a better person,” Vallario said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Katkov’s death, she has pushed Cal Fire to demand more of its leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're supposed to have faith that those people would keep them safe,” she said. “It shows what kind of leadership that they're willing to allow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brian Edwards reported this story as a fellow for Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School in New York, along with Jacob Margolis, a science reporter at KPCC and LAist, and a member of The California Newsroom.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11889263/california-firefighters-keep-getting-injured-during-training-and-some-have-died","authors":["byline_news_11889263"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_6383","news_6145","news_4807","news_20341","news_5043","news_23831","news_18512","news_21241","news_4463","news_29880","news_20600","news_23063"],"affiliates":["news_7055","news_24117"],"featImg":"news_11889298","label":"source_news_11889263"},"news_11887660":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11887660","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11887660","score":null,"sort":[1631060171000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"going-home-after-caldor-fire-evacuation-a-checklist-for-tahoe-communities","title":"Going Home After Caldor Fire Evacuation: A Checklist for Tahoe Communities","publishDate":1631060171,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On Sunday, the 22,000 residents of South Lake Tahoe were allowed to return to their homes a week after being ordered to evacuate as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886590/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin\">the Caldor Fire crossed the Sierra Nevada\u003c/a>. And as fire crews continue working to contain the fire, more evacuation orders may be lifted in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if a community is spared from a fire's direct path, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835665/evacuated-by-wildfire-heres-how-to-check-your-home-when-you-return-even-if-everything-seems-fine\">returning to one's home after a wildfire\u003c/a> can be tough — practically and emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some may not want to return because of the difficulty of seeing your home and possessions in ashes,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11624355/post-disaster-checklist-returning-home-after-evacuation-order-lifted\">wildfire survivor Rob Goodman, who lost his home in the 2015 Valley Fire\u003c/a> in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a fire has burned through an area, many dangers remain. Damage to buildings can make structures unstable, debris and downed trees can block roads and downed utility lines pose serious electrical and other hazards. Fire officials also warn that the risk of flooding remains high for weeks and months after a wildfire, due to the amount of destroyed vegetation that once stabilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you do decide to return, I must urge great caution,\" Goodman told KQED in 2017. \"Your site will be toxic — containing everything from metals to plastics to wiring, plumbing, etcetera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for homes that are only partially damaged or even seemingly intact, there are numerous precautions residents should take when returning after evacuation orders are lifted — precautions that may not be immediately obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you are a full-time South Lake Tahoe resident planning your return home — or if, like many others, you own property in the Tahoe region and want to check in on your cabin or holiday home — we have expert advice on what to keep in mind before, during and after your trip back.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On your way back home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before heading out to your home or cabin, confirm that your destination is under an evacuation \u003cem>warning \u003c/em>— not a mandatory \u003cem>order\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan#1\">Read more on the difference between an evacuation order and an evacuation warning.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado provides daily updates on their \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">@CALFireAEU Twitter account\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU\">CAL Fire AEU Facebook page\u003c/a>, about which areas are now under a warnings and which roads are operational. As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">Highway 50 from the Nevada state line to the South Lake Tahoe city limits has reopened\u003c/a> to traffic heading back to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't live full-time in South Lake Tahoe and want to check on your property home, it's important to remember just how delicate the repopulation process can be for a city or town, and to the people who call that place home. Same for if you don't live in South Lake Tahoe and are wondering when you can visit again. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886903/caldor-fire-how-to-support-tahoe-wildfire-survivors\">Read how to help Caldor Fire evacuees, which includes staying away from Tahoe right now.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the evacuation orders were lifted, Tamara Wallace, mayor of South Lake Tahoe, spoke with KQED about what was happening on the ground as folks returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's limited services,\" she said, sharing that as of Monday morning, only one grocery store had reopened. Wallace added that she was planning to hold off her own return for a few days so as not to take up scarce resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wallace and Cal Fire recommend that residents currently allowed to return to their homes first stock up on groceries, gas and other essential supplies before making the trip back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us a minute to get our services back up and running and get people resettled,\" said Wallace. \"And then we welcome you back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're worried that your home did not survive the fire, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office has created a \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/OWqsfCJCY2?amp=1\">searchable online map showing the status of every structure within the Caldor Fire \u003c/a>that uses information from field damage inspections. These inspections are ongoing and the information shown is subject to change — so if you don't see your property on the map, keep checking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rdillon\">KQED's Raquel Maria Dillon\u003c/a> also compiled a list of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RaquelMDillon/status/1433839739019284481\">available online resources and maps for keeping track of the status of roads and ski resorts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Listeners \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDForum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KQEDForum\u003c/a> asked how tech can help with wildfires & evacs. At this point, people just want to know if their home/cabin/favorite ski run is OK. But that's a slow process, where an official has to document each structure. Resources in thread: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KQEDnews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/caldorfire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#caldorfire\u003c/a> 1/? \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/TECnb2PpJm\">https://t.co/TECnb2PpJm\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Raquel Mª Dillon (@RaquelMDillon) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RaquelMDillon/status/1433839739019284481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What if you evacuated South Lake Tahoe but don't currently have access to a car to return to the city? Lake Tahoe Unified School District and the Tahoe Transportation District are providing free transportation services from the Reno evacuation shelter (located at 4590 South Virginia Street in Reno) back to the Stateline Transit Center to connect with existing Tahoe Transportation District routes to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Once you've arrived at your home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Disasters like wildfires and floods create additional safety hazards, often leaving behind toxic chemicals, gas leaks, broken glass, exposed rebar or nails and tripping hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check for the smell of gas. Don't enter if you smell gas, and call your utility company immediately.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inspect your home for hot embers or material that may still be burning — in gutters, attics, crawl spaces or even holes in the ground.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Be aware of slippery floors or broken material that could stab or puncture you.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If there is any visible damage to gas lines, propane tanks or electrical wiring and meters, DO NOT attempt to turn them on or repair them. Contact your local utility immediately.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the utilities look undamaged, turn off power until you’ve completed your inspection.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When you're ready to turn the power on, first turn off all appliances and make sure the meter is not damaged before turning on the main circuit breaker.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep an eye out for sparks, broken wires, or cracks in the roof, foundation or chimney, as well as plumbing and sewage system damage, household chemical spills and damaged appliances.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Do not drink water from the faucet until officials say it’s safe to drink. Water supply systems can be damaged or become polluted during disasters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Discard all food that’s been exposed to heat, smoke, fumes, soot or flood waters. If the power has been out, discard food that could be spoiling.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>What to bring/wear when you return home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sturdy shoes and clothing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Heavy-duty gloves\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Heavy-duty mask, like an N95\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Battery-powered radio to monitor for emergency updates, weather reports, flash flood warnings and news reports\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Battery-powered flashlight\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stick or gardening implement to sift through ashes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5-gallon bucket for any possessions\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Health and safety considerations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Public health officials recommend that you refrain from cleaning ash and fire debris, and instead let professional hazardous material removal services do so. The ash and debris can contain asbestos, heavy metals, fire retardants, pesticides and toxic airborne particles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do return to a fire-damaged site that hasn't been cleaned up yet, keep the following in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Pace yourself. Be aware of exhaustion. Stay hydrated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wear protective gear if handling any fire-damaged items, sifting through ash or being exposed to soot. Sturdy shoes, clothing, work gloves and respirator masks like N95s are recommended.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wash your hands frequently.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep children and pets away.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Remember that large-scale movement of materials or removal of debris and ash should be coordinated with government agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/29ds9nFgEpo\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If your home suffered damages or was entirely destroyed, your options depend on whether you're the property owner or the tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886903\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg\"]If you are a renter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/\">Tenants Together\u003c/a> — a statewide nonprofit that advocates for tenants' rights — has compiled \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17.10.27-Fire-Disaster-Tenants-Rights-FAQ-English.pdf\">a guide to your rights and the responsibilities of your landlord if your home was destroyed\u003c/a> in its entirety or red-tagged (when a home has been labeled by local authorities as too dangerous to inhabit). \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17.10.27-Fire-Disaster-Tenants-Rights-FAQ-English.pdf\">Get the Tenants Together guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide also specifies that if the property you have been renting was destroyed, your lease contract is immediately terminated. Your landlord is not legally obliged to provide you with a relocation payment in the case of natural disasters, like a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your home is red-tagged, your landlord cannot charge you rent while the structure is being rehabilitated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you owned your home and had wildfire insurance, call your insurance company to check how much your policy covers. Take pictures of all the damage, and keep good records of repair and cleaning costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some policies cover both the main dwelling of the property and other structures, like a barn or garden shed, while others provide only for the main living structure. If you believe that your insurance company is not providing the coverage you are entitled to, you can call the Consumer Hotline of the California Department of Insurance at (800) 927-4357 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/101-help/\">file a complaint about your insurance provider online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of your situation, it’s important to remember that flash floods and mudslides are a common and deadly hazard after a wildfire, so be sure to have an evacuation plan and monitor weather reports for flood warnings. It's also a good idea to start arranging for inspections if you think there’s potential damage to electrical, heating or solar power systems or to the structural integrity of your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And keep an eye on the social media channels of local and county authorities, as they should eventually provide information about efforts to coordinate proper disposal of rubble, debris and hazardous waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Miranda Leitsinger and Michelle Cheng contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many residents of South Lake Tahoe and other areas in El Dorado County can now return home after evacuating from the Caldor Fire. Learn how to check your home on the structure damage map, make sure your home is safe and more. 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And as fire crews continue working to contain the fire, more evacuation orders may be lifted in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if a community is spared from a fire's direct path, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835665/evacuated-by-wildfire-heres-how-to-check-your-home-when-you-return-even-if-everything-seems-fine\">returning to one's home after a wildfire\u003c/a> can be tough — practically and emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some may not want to return because of the difficulty of seeing your home and possessions in ashes,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11624355/post-disaster-checklist-returning-home-after-evacuation-order-lifted\">wildfire survivor Rob Goodman, who lost his home in the 2015 Valley Fire\u003c/a> in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a fire has burned through an area, many dangers remain. Damage to buildings can make structures unstable, debris and downed trees can block roads and downed utility lines pose serious electrical and other hazards. Fire officials also warn that the risk of flooding remains high for weeks and months after a wildfire, due to the amount of destroyed vegetation that once stabilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you do decide to return, I must urge great caution,\" Goodman told KQED in 2017. \"Your site will be toxic — containing everything from metals to plastics to wiring, plumbing, etcetera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for homes that are only partially damaged or even seemingly intact, there are numerous precautions residents should take when returning after evacuation orders are lifted — precautions that may not be immediately obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you are a full-time South Lake Tahoe resident planning your return home — or if, like many others, you own property in the Tahoe region and want to check in on your cabin or holiday home — we have expert advice on what to keep in mind before, during and after your trip back.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On your way back home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before heading out to your home or cabin, confirm that your destination is under an evacuation \u003cem>warning \u003c/em>— not a mandatory \u003cem>order\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan#1\">Read more on the difference between an evacuation order and an evacuation warning.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado provides daily updates on their \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">@CALFireAEU Twitter account\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU\">CAL Fire AEU Facebook page\u003c/a>, about which areas are now under a warnings and which roads are operational. As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">Highway 50 from the Nevada state line to the South Lake Tahoe city limits has reopened\u003c/a> to traffic heading back to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't live full-time in South Lake Tahoe and want to check on your property home, it's important to remember just how delicate the repopulation process can be for a city or town, and to the people who call that place home. Same for if you don't live in South Lake Tahoe and are wondering when you can visit again. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886903/caldor-fire-how-to-support-tahoe-wildfire-survivors\">Read how to help Caldor Fire evacuees, which includes staying away from Tahoe right now.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the evacuation orders were lifted, Tamara Wallace, mayor of South Lake Tahoe, spoke with KQED about what was happening on the ground as folks returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's limited services,\" she said, sharing that as of Monday morning, only one grocery store had reopened. Wallace added that she was planning to hold off her own return for a few days so as not to take up scarce resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wallace and Cal Fire recommend that residents currently allowed to return to their homes first stock up on groceries, gas and other essential supplies before making the trip back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us a minute to get our services back up and running and get people resettled,\" said Wallace. \"And then we welcome you back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're worried that your home did not survive the fire, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office has created a \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/OWqsfCJCY2?amp=1\">searchable online map showing the status of every structure within the Caldor Fire \u003c/a>that uses information from field damage inspections. These inspections are ongoing and the information shown is subject to change — so if you don't see your property on the map, keep checking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rdillon\">KQED's Raquel Maria Dillon\u003c/a> also compiled a list of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RaquelMDillon/status/1433839739019284481\">available online resources and maps for keeping track of the status of roads and ski resorts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Listeners \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDForum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KQEDForum\u003c/a> asked how tech can help with wildfires & evacs. At this point, people just want to know if their home/cabin/favorite ski run is OK. But that's a slow process, where an official has to document each structure. Resources in thread: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KQEDnews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/caldorfire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#caldorfire\u003c/a> 1/? \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/TECnb2PpJm\">https://t.co/TECnb2PpJm\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Raquel Mª Dillon (@RaquelMDillon) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RaquelMDillon/status/1433839739019284481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What if you evacuated South Lake Tahoe but don't currently have access to a car to return to the city? Lake Tahoe Unified School District and the Tahoe Transportation District are providing free transportation services from the Reno evacuation shelter (located at 4590 South Virginia Street in Reno) back to the Stateline Transit Center to connect with existing Tahoe Transportation District routes to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Once you've arrived at your home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Disasters like wildfires and floods create additional safety hazards, often leaving behind toxic chemicals, gas leaks, broken glass, exposed rebar or nails and tripping hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check for the smell of gas. Don't enter if you smell gas, and call your utility company immediately.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inspect your home for hot embers or material that may still be burning — in gutters, attics, crawl spaces or even holes in the ground.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Be aware of slippery floors or broken material that could stab or puncture you.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If there is any visible damage to gas lines, propane tanks or electrical wiring and meters, DO NOT attempt to turn them on or repair them. Contact your local utility immediately.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the utilities look undamaged, turn off power until you’ve completed your inspection.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When you're ready to turn the power on, first turn off all appliances and make sure the meter is not damaged before turning on the main circuit breaker.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep an eye out for sparks, broken wires, or cracks in the roof, foundation or chimney, as well as plumbing and sewage system damage, household chemical spills and damaged appliances.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Do not drink water from the faucet until officials say it’s safe to drink. Water supply systems can be damaged or become polluted during disasters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Discard all food that’s been exposed to heat, smoke, fumes, soot or flood waters. If the power has been out, discard food that could be spoiling.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>What to bring/wear when you return home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sturdy shoes and clothing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Heavy-duty gloves\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Heavy-duty mask, like an N95\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Battery-powered radio to monitor for emergency updates, weather reports, flash flood warnings and news reports\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Battery-powered flashlight\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stick or gardening implement to sift through ashes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5-gallon bucket for any possessions\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Health and safety considerations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Public health officials recommend that you refrain from cleaning ash and fire debris, and instead let professional hazardous material removal services do so. The ash and debris can contain asbestos, heavy metals, fire retardants, pesticides and toxic airborne particles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do return to a fire-damaged site that hasn't been cleaned up yet, keep the following in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Pace yourself. Be aware of exhaustion. Stay hydrated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wear protective gear if handling any fire-damaged items, sifting through ash or being exposed to soot. Sturdy shoes, clothing, work gloves and respirator masks like N95s are recommended.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wash your hands frequently.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep children and pets away.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Remember that large-scale movement of materials or removal of debris and ash should be coordinated with government agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/29ds9nFgEpo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/29ds9nFgEpo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Looking ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If your home suffered damages or was entirely destroyed, your options depend on whether you're the property owner or the tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886903","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you are a renter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/\">Tenants Together\u003c/a> — a statewide nonprofit that advocates for tenants' rights — has compiled \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17.10.27-Fire-Disaster-Tenants-Rights-FAQ-English.pdf\">a guide to your rights and the responsibilities of your landlord if your home was destroyed\u003c/a> in its entirety or red-tagged (when a home has been labeled by local authorities as too dangerous to inhabit). \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17.10.27-Fire-Disaster-Tenants-Rights-FAQ-English.pdf\">Get the Tenants Together guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide also specifies that if the property you have been renting was destroyed, your lease contract is immediately terminated. Your landlord is not legally obliged to provide you with a relocation payment in the case of natural disasters, like a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your home is red-tagged, your landlord cannot charge you rent while the structure is being rehabilitated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you owned your home and had wildfire insurance, call your insurance company to check how much your policy covers. Take pictures of all the damage, and keep good records of repair and cleaning costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some policies cover both the main dwelling of the property and other structures, like a barn or garden shed, while others provide only for the main living structure. If you believe that your insurance company is not providing the coverage you are entitled to, you can call the Consumer Hotline of the California Department of Insurance at (800) 927-4357 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/101-help/\">file a complaint about your insurance provider online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of your situation, it’s important to remember that flash floods and mudslides are a common and deadly hazard after a wildfire, so be sure to have an evacuation plan and monitor weather reports for flood warnings. It's also a good idea to start arranging for inspections if you think there’s potential damage to electrical, heating or solar power systems or to the structural integrity of your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And keep an eye on the social media channels of local and county authorities, as they should eventually provide information about efforts to coordinate proper disposal of rubble, debris and hazardous waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Miranda Leitsinger and Michelle Cheng contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11887660/going-home-after-caldor-fire-evacuation-a-checklist-for-tahoe-communities","authors":["11708","244"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_29668","news_6383","news_29842","news_21959","news_20341","news_16959","news_21788","news_1430","news_25259","news_25347","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11887737","label":"news"},"news_11886590":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11886590","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11886590","score":null,"sort":[1631037675000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin","title":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots","publishDate":1631037675,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Find \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">the latest on evacuation orders and warnings\u003c/a>, including a map from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">current shelter information for evacuees\u003c/a>. Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire AEU on Twitter\u003c/a> for up-to-date information. This post, originally published on Aug. 27, was continually updated through Sept. 7. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 11 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite rising temperatures and low humidity, fire crews made steady progress in an ongoing quest to subdue the massive Caldor Fire, with almost 50% of the voracious blaze contained as of Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which means we don't expect any movement of the fire outside those containment lines,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst, proudly pointing to the solid black containment lines ringing most of the southern and southwestern sections of the perimeter, nearly up the Highway 50 corridor to Kyburz. \"As a matter of fact, yesterday we didn't have any significant runs of the fire that pushed any of those containment lines, nor did we have any significant spots. So that's a great accomplishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png 1392w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-800x468.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-1020x596.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-160x94.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of Cal Fire Incident Commander Tim Ernst during Tuesday morning's Caldor Fire update, as he points to hard-fought black containment lines along the blaze's southern and southwestern flank. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even as communities in the South Lake Tahoe basin and other recently evacuated areas returned home this weekend, Ernst noted the blaze was far from quenched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crews were still contending with \"troublesome\" areas in its northern and eastern reaches, including near Wrights Lake, northwest of Highway 50, where a tenacious offshoot of the blaze had entered Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LakeTahoeUSFS/status/1434942634544361473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while crews in the basin made incremental progress beefing up containment efforts near Heavenly Mountain Resort, staving off any major structural damage in the vicinity, the eastern flank of the blaze continued to push against the Highway 88 corridor, posing a lingering threat to the Kirkwood Mountain Resort community. Ernst, though, said crews had just done firing operations near homes in that area — referring to the tactic of intentionally burning brush and other fuels as a preventive measure — and were now\u003cbr>\n\"seeing much better results there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which first sparked on Aug. 14 near Grizzly Flats, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1435245060136652804\">has destroyed at least 776 homes\u003c/a> and devoured more than 216,000 acres. Full containment of the blaze is expected by Sept. 27, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Explore a map of current Caldor Fire activity:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003csmall>\u003ca style=\"color: #0000ff;text-align: left\" href=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=true&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clear here to view larger map (or if not loading on mobile)\u003c/a>\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" title=\"Current Wildfire Perimeters\" src=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&previewImage=false&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Containment on the Caldor Fire improved over Labor Day weekend to 44% as fire officials let people return to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repopulation of South Lake Tahoe began on Sunday afternoon after the evacuation order for the city of more than 20,000 people was downgraded to an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes everything within the city limits, the area north of State Highway 50 between the Nevada state line and the Lake Tahoe airport, and all properties on both sides of Highway 89 from Emerald Bay north through Tahoma, among a few other spots in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887662\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887662 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the southern shore of Lake Tahoe. Tahoma, Fallen Leaf A, South Lake Tahoe, and Lower and Upper Kingsbury are in yellow.\" width=\"1288\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg 1288w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While South Lake Tahoe has been downgraded to an evacuation warning, many other parts of El Dorado County remain under an evacuation order. On Sept. 5, Cal Fire AED published this map to show which areas remain under an evacuation order (violet) and which are now under an evacuation warning (yellow). \u003ccite>(Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, fire crews made progress in containing the flames along the northwest and northeast sections of the perimeter, including the section closest to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\"A lot of great work has gone on there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Monday morning community briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning of Labor Day, fire officials also signaled that conditions on Monday are a lot drier, which could make the work of containing what is left of the Caldor Fire much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot emphasize how dry things are across this fire today. The humidity was very, very poor recovery last night,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, who also added that the wind is blowing a lot more strongly than it did during the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With stronger winds comes a greater risk of embers flying out and widening the perimeter of the fire, Stephen Vollmer, fire analyst with Cal Fire, reminded fire crews Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing, we're wrapping our arms around it. We're trying to take it down, but don't get complacent on it,\" he said. \"Stay focused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Highway 50 has reopened from the Nevada border to the South Lake Tahoe city limits to allow residents back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are really excited to get back into town,\" said Mayor of South Lake Tahoe Tamara Wallace. She was quick to point out that the repopulation effort does not include all of El Dorado County and that there are many other communities still under an evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's … a testament to the firefighters and their amazing work that we are able to get back into our homes and all our homes are safe,\" said Wallace, who for the moment plans to hold off for a few days until she returns to her own home in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's limited services,\" she explained, pointing to the fact that, as of Monday morning, only one grocery store in the entire city had reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wallace and Cal Fire recommend that residents who are allowed to return to their homes first stock up on groceries, gas and other essential supplies before making the trip back. This also goes for folks who don't live full-time in South Lake Tahoe but have a cabin or property in the area and want to check up on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a fire has burned through an area, many dangers remain: Damage to buildings can make them unstable; debris and downed trees can block roads; and downed utility lines pose serious electrical and other hazards. Fire officials also warn that the risk of flooding remains high for weeks and months after a wildfire, due to the amount of destroyed vegetation that once stabilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 a.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1434186869915357187\">Cal Fire AEU reported a continued decrease in fire behavior\u003c/a> \"thanks to a slight rise in humidity levels and decrease in temperatures.\" Ongoing inspections for damage continue, but Cal Fire said 75% of structures were assessed. The fire is still most active on the south side of Echo Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://fires.airfire.org/outlooks/LakeTahoeBasin\">smoke outlook for the Tahoe area\u003c/a> is expected to be between moderate to unhealthy throughout the day with some light winds predicted to provide some relief. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd945702.pdf\">temporary closure of all national forests in California\u003c/a> is still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 5:30 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fire crews manage the seemingly insurmountable feat of beating back the Caldor Fire from South Lake Tahoe, one question has been repeatedly aired by the public: When will people be allowed back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospects are \"looking good\" for repopulating South Lake Tahoe, said U.S. Forest Service Operations Sections Chief Jake Cagle, but it depends on the weather and the efforts of hundreds of people — so officially, there's no answer yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Cagle said, \"we're getting close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Clive Savacool said he and his fellow firefighters have been evacuated from their homes as well, \"so we can empathize with you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool thanked South Lake Tahoe citizens for pushing for more information, and said, \"I wanted to assure you we're going to get you home as soon as we can, as soon as the fire is safe. ... It's also our position to be your voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has burned 212,907 acres as of Friday evening, and is 29% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repopulating areas that have been evacuated was on the minds of most fire officials at Friday evening's community meeting, as they downgraded various areas from evacuation orders — which mandate evacuations — to warnings, which merely caution them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas downgraded Friday afternoon include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>South Sly Park: South of Starkes Grade Road, north of Sly Park Creek, east of Pleasant Valley Road up to and including the Diamond Garnet subdivision.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grizzly Flats West: East of Highway E16, west of Steely Ridge Road, south of the North Fork of the Cosumnes River and north of the Middle Fork of the Cosumnes River.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Happy Valley: All properties accessed from Happy Valley Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Other fronts of the fire showed signs of fire crews finding success, including Christmas Valley, with fire officials saying \"everything looks good\" there, and Sierra Springs and the Lower Pines area both being downgraded to evacuation warnings, from orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool had one more thought to reassure South Lake Tahoe citizens: We're making sure the bears aren't rummaging around your homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gotten a lot of calls and concerns about the bears in town,\" Savacool said Friday evening. He said law enforcement is \"patrolling 24/7 to make sure your homes are safe, to scare off the bears, so your homes are protected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Make sure to check for full and up-to-date evacuation orders and warnings \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">with Cal Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 2 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has so far been successfully steered from South Lake Tahoe thanks to a break in weather conditions, defensive fire prevention and a continuous push from fire crews, officials said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the fire has encroached on nearby areas, like Christmas Valley, and fire officials said the battle is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Friday afternoon community briefing, Anthony Scardina, deputy regional forester with the United States Forest Service, said a lot of the day's success came from defensive field treatments like forest thinning and prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were conditions where there were 150-foot flame lengths, and when they hit, those field treatments worked, bringing them down to 20-foot flame lengths,\" Scardina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we're still not out of the woods,\" he said. \"We're having some success, but there's still a lot of fire on the landscape. And weather conditions can change pretty quickly, as you've seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuation orders were downgraded to evacuation warnings as of 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The area south of Pleasant Valley between Bucks Bar Road and Newtown Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Bucks Bar Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The areas of Gopher Hole Road and Moon-Shadow\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The area just south of U.S. Highway 50, north of Starkes Grade Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Snows Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West of Fresh Pond\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The successful field treatments that aided fire efforts this week were the result of 10 years of fire prevention, Scardina said, and that's work that needs to be ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have forest conditions that are overstocked. They're too dense, and you combine that with a series of years of drought, and combine that with some of the warming temperatures we've seen,\" he said, \"with those three elements we have to continue working on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire expressed cautious optimism this morning, after another night of more favorable weather conditions allowed them to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">inch up containment on the Caldor Fire to 29%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll sum everything up with the incident with the words 'cautiously optimistic,'\" Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst said at the Friday morning briefing. \"The humidities came in again last night, and fortunately we've had no significant fire runs through the entire shift yesterday. So we've definitely turned that corner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst credited the consistent hard work of fire crews for saving thousands of homes and countless acres of forest. More than 4,400 firefighters are currently on the ground and in the air fighting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first erupting on Aug. 14, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433791946573504519\">the massive blaze\u003c/a> has destroyed 661 homes and devoured nearly 213,000 acres, while continuing to threaten some 32,000 other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While overall conditions are still dry, firefighters are taking advantage of the marginally improved humidity and reduced winds to secure key areas, like those along the Highway 50 corridor and near the Heavenly Mountain Resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433794960201957376?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are going into a new phase in the weather,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley. \"We're going back to the inversion. We got the smoke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley said that while this weather will result in lighter winds, regular terrain-driven winds throughout the day will continue to be a challenge because of their unpredictability and tendency to move in \"squirrely directions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are also working to improve containment lines near Meyers and South Lake Tahoe, where the blaze continues to be active. Northeast of the Pioneer Trail, hand crews and bulldozers are working to build lines that would usher the fire toward Cold Creek, where containment is more secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Highway 50, at Lower Echo Lake, firefighters worked through the night extinguishing hot spots and battling the fire directly to keep it from spreading to nearby cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11886903 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg']Christmas Valley, which sits just south of South Lake Tahoe, remains among the areas of greatest concern. The fire is still very active in the area, prompting firefighters last night to build control lines to coax it east toward Saxon Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out of the woods, but we have not seen any growth there as well,\" Ernst said. Crews, he added, will continue to focus heavily on that area today in an effort to contain the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big priority Friday is securing areas near homes so officials can begin lifting evacuation orders and allowing residents to return. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433815874796863491\">48,000 people\u003c/a> in the region still remain under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging the positive developments, officials urged residents not to get complacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing kind of lassoed. We just need to keep holding on to it with what we've got,\" said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. \"So know that there's still a lot of hot material out there, know that there's a lot of unburned islands in the middle of this thing that could still threaten our line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially true, he said, along much of Highway 50, an area that remains hot and windy, where embers can still blow up to half a mile into unburned islands of brush and start new spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paraphrasing from a World War II speech by Winston Churchill, U.S. Forest Service Supervisor Dean Gould said: \"This isn't the end. It's not the beginning of the end, but it's the end of the beginning. So please keep that in mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6:30 p.m. Thursday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorable weather conditions Thursday gave firefighters a slight advantage, as they worked to keep the Caldor Fire from moving into populated areas in the Tahoe basin and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has already destroyed 649 homes, and some 32,000 more structures are still under threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following three extremely gusty, dry red flag condition days that fueled the spread of the fire — which is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">27% contained\u003c/a> — calmer winds throughout much of the massive fire area helped an army of more than 4,400 firefighters gain some ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1433280641919971333\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those conditions are expected to continue through Saturday and possibly even Sunday, giving weary crews a crucial window to make steady containment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Weather’s gotten better. We got good news on the weather front. The light winds will continue for about two to three days,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley during the Thursday evening briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decrease in winds means a decrease in fire activity, particularly the spot fires that have been largely responsible for spreading this blaze, added Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. Although ignition rates will remain very high, he said embers were now being cast less than half a mile, down from over a mile just days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is great for the resources on the ground, so we can get in there and mop up all those hot spots,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of improved conditions, officials on Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433478019654426658\">downgraded mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a> to warnings in the area of Omo Ranch, on the southwestern heel of the fire — where there is a growing segment of continuous containment line — and lifted evacuation warnings altogether in several nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did get today is a little bit of good news. The colors are starting to change,\" said John Davis, a Cal Fire liaison officer, pointing to the updated recent evacuation map. “Everyone's getting in here, doing the work necessary to put everybody back as soon as safely possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters on Thursday were also able to maintain control over a stubborn section of fire along Butte Creek and Sturdevant Ridge, north of Grizzly Flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continued to be probably one of our major challenges for the first two weeks of the incident,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst. “By [containing it], we were able to save about 600 or 700 structures, over 10,000 additional acres in this area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading up Highway 50 into the Tahoe basin, fire activity continued at Lower Echo Lake, where firefighters yesterday were ferried by boat to protect and prepare structures. Crews on Thursday worked along the edges of the blaze to steer it away from cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite earlier concerns, the fire had not spread to the area of Upper Truckee Road, where crews worked to put in contingency line up to Fallen Leaf Lake, in case conditions change. \"Right now there's not imminent threat or anticipation that it's going to get in there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Jake Cagle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While crews made overall progress on the fire Thursday, the northeastern edge of the blaze continued to menace communities in the Tahoe basin as it moved toward the Nevada state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tongue of fire was still \"bumping up\" against the border of Heavenly Mountain Resort, Tahoe’s largest ski area, although the blaze was not spreading as fast as it has in recent days, Ernst said. He said crews there are continuing to shore up the northeast perimeter by putting in strong bulldozer lines and removing hazardous trees, in a thus-far successful effort to protect nearby housing developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some increased fire activity in the area on Thursday, with crews working the edge of the blaze and trying to push it toward the power line grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resort, which is now being used as a staging area by firefighters, also brought out its big guns — snowmaking devices that were being used to hose down buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke continues to envelop South Lake Tahoe, which remains under a mandatory evacuation order and is all but deserted at a time when it would normally be swarming with tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After casinos and stores closed on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe on Wednesday morning, evacuees lined up outside the MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa in Stateline, waiting for a bus to take them to Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle also said crews had made good progress on the fire's northeastern flank in a bid to prevent it from crossing into Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower end of that same spur of the fire, roughly 3 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, also continued to threaten communities in Meyers and Christmas Valley. Firefighters there, aided by air tankers, hustled Thursday to keep the flames as high up on the eastern ridge as possible, and away from dense concentrations of homes. But Christmas Valley was looking good by day's end Thursday, Cagle said, noting that crews there were being \"extremely aggressive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433450121698574337\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews were also still struggling to gain control over the blaze near the Kirkwood ski resort area, to the south of the basin. Aircraft bombarded the area with water and retardant throughout day, as hand crews and bulldozers put in line to keep the blaze from coming down the ridge into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first sparking on Aug. 14, the blaze has charred nearly 211,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: Improved weather is expected to continue today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lost the winds aloft. It's a good day today to not have gusty winds up on the ridges,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley at a Thursday morning briefing. \"What we are going to have today are terrain-driven winds,\" which occur as the sun heats the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those winds, he warned, tend to be \"quite variable in direction,\" and given the ongoing dry conditions can still easily spark spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the west side of the blaze, firefighters are working to secure the Highway 50 corridor and keep the fire from burning cabins near Wrights Lake on the edge of Desolation Wilderness, in hopes the granite fields there will block its advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a lot of resources heading up there to make sure we prevent any fire spread from heading back to the west,\" said Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a positive development, crews overnight were able to use air support to drop water near the Kirkwood ski resort, holding back the blaze, which is hung up on a ridge just outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials on Thursday planned to fly in pumps to bring more water into the area to reinforce containment lines and protect homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EldoradoNF/status/1433481005730435074\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-california-emergency-declaration/\">President Biden issued an emergency declaration for the Caldor Fire\u003c/a> — following a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom — directing federal assistance to support state, local and tribal officials in battling the blaze. The order also authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts and provide assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire has charred more than 210,000 acres, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers on Wednesday also announced a major change in command structure, with the fire now divided into a western and eastern zone, each managed by separate teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 8 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a third consecutive red flag warning day amid dry, blustery conditions, thousands of firefighters labored Wednesday to block the ravenous Caldor Fire from reaching two major ski resort areas near Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews doubled down on efforts to corral a large finger of the blaze that was rapidly spreading northeast toward Heavenly Mountain Resort and the Nevada state line, where it posed an immediate threat to South Lake Tahoe and neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Heavy, heavy resource commitment. We've got folks from all over the country here pushed into this entire area,\" Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief, said on Wednesday. \"This is some very tough country. Very steep, very rugged. And it’s just not safe to try to put people right on the fire edge right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the fire was expected to spread further northeast, crossing into Nevada, and that crews with heavy equipment were doing prep work around the clock on sections of Highways 206, 207 and 88 to try to create “a catcher’s mitt as close to this as we possibly can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to have a lot of equipment, a lot of people working on this periphery out here,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze also skirted across the north side of Christmas Valley, with crews scrambling to keep flames east of Pioneer Trail and away from homes. Monday said there has so far been no reported damage to homes in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RaquelMDillon/status/1433152762645291012\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South of the Tahoe basin, crews hardened their defense of the Kirkwood ski area along Highway 88, where strong, erratic winds continued to fuel the blaze, spreading spot fires dangerously close to that community. As of Wednesday evening, the fire had not entered Kirkwood proper, Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the northwest side of the blaze, the fire on Wednesday continued moving aggressively up Wrights Lake Road off Highway 50 toward Desolation Wilderness. Aided by heavy air tankers dumping retardant, ground crews there moved quickly to connect control lines to the nearby granite fields in an effort to steer the blaze away from cabins and prevent it from spreading west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're actively engaged way up high here into the wilderness, trying to make sure that we do not get any more fire spread to the west,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind-fueled spot fires continue to be the biggest hurdle to control efforts, said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been a problem since the very first day of this incident, and that's what's causing this fire to grow exponentially,\" he said. \"So we're battling what we can battle and waiting for those winds to subside so that we can get in there and actively engage those fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, crews also toiled to stop an offshoot of fire along the Highway 50 corridor east of Pollock Pines, as bulldozers tried to build a contingency line on the north side of the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our biggest fears is that fire jumping across the highway,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the many challenges firefighters continued to face, much progress had been made in various sections of the massive fire area, including most of the southern flank, where the perimeter remained strong, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were also generally looking under control in much of the southwestern section of the blaze, near where it first ignited more than two weeks ago, he added, although crews were still working to connect containment lines there, after a fierce spot fire erupted Tuesday on a ridge above Sly Park Road — setting a bulldozer on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a lot of work to do in there,\" Monday said. \"This has been a real troublesome spot for us over the last 14 to 15 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters, he said, were \"trying to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff as much as we can,\" hoping to \"call this line contained\" in the next few days and then begin repopulating much of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11887278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A black bear cub hangs over a tree branch near a burned structure in Phillips on Tues., Aug. 31, 2021. The Caldor Fire spread through the area on Monday evening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As containment lines grew, officials on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433210214409408513\">downgraded an evacuation order to a warning\u003c/a> in the area near North Camino and Pollock Pines north of Highway 50 and west of Sly Park Road, allowing residents there to return to their homes for the first time in about two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some 53,000 residents in El Dorado County alone were still under evacuation orders Wednesday. Officials have not given a timeline for when those areas can be repopulated, noting the many steps necessary before lifting evacuation orders, including removing firefighting equipment, cutting down damaged trees, and getting critical infrastructure running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an expected positive turn in the weather in the coming days may help hasten those repopulation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally some good news on the weather side here on this fire,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, emphasizing that the region's red flag warning would finally be ending late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dry conditions will continue into tomorrow, with high ignition rates, he said the strong, erratic winds that have so effectively fueled the fire in recent days are likely to subside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And getting into Friday, the winds get even lighter,\" he said. \"So the issues and conditions that weather was causing, especially for the last couple of days, are going to be mitigated by much lighter winds across the fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning since Aug. 14, the Caldor Fire has charred nearly 208,000 acres and is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">23% contained\u003c/a>. The blaze has destroyed almost 600 residences and continues to threaten more than 32,000 homes and other structures. Amazingly, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another long night of working to protect structures in the southern Tahoe basin from the sprawling Caldor Fire, firefighters face a challenging day again Wednesday as gusty winds and extremely dry conditions persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews dodged a bit of a bullet Tuesday as southwesterly winds didn't blow as hard as forecast, instead pushing the fire northeast — further into the Carson Range toward Nevada — instead of north toward South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lucked out yesterday with some of the winds that didn't come up quite as hard as we expected,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Wednesday morning briefing. \"We're fortunate the fire did not make as strong a push into Tahoe as it did the previous day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst said a thick layer of smoke that came in around midnight \"put a damper on things and slowed a lot of growth,\" giving crews opportunities to make some progress, despite very low humidity and warm temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got some great dozer line to protect structures here,\" Ernst said of efforts to keep the dangerous easternmost tongue of the fire from spreading into nearby communities, including South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is now burning just a few miles southwest of the Heavenly Mountain Resort, which on Tuesday began activating snowmaking equipment in an effort to slow the fire should it reach the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KrisAnkarlo/status/1432856342213976067?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews Wednesday will also continue on protecting the Kirkwood area south of the Tahoe basin along Highway 88.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our major concerns was the Kirkwood bowl area where the Kirkwood ski area is. The fire is currently hung up right on the ridge outside Kirkwood, so that's something we'll be looking at today as one of our priorities,\" Ernst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the active fire area further west of Kirkwood along Highway 88, Ernst said fire crews are continuing to work on buttoning it up and keeping it from spreading further south across the highway — but he said the area \"won't show containment for a while.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight, the fire also moved quickly up Wrights Lake Road, above Highway 50, spreading north toward a group of nearby cabins and Desolation Wilderness beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continues to be probably one of the biggest challenges of this last shift,\" said Ernst, adding that crews were putting in contingency lines and doing structure defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a positive note, Ernst said things were \"looking real good\" in most of the southern and southwestern sections of the fire, where firefighters had made steady containment gains, including the area along Sly Park Road, south of Pollock Pines. Crews, though, were still fighting hard to clean up and secure one small area near Grizzly Flats, close to where the fire began more than two weeks — and where a bulldozer went up in flames yesterday. \"We expect to probably see another 36 to 48 hours before we show full containment here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The entire fire is still in a red flag warning,\" warned Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley Wednesday morning. \"The wind regime you saw yesterday will continue today. The speeds may be a little bit less than [Tuesday] ... but we'll still have swirling gusty winds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The red flag warning is set to expire at 11 p.m. Wednesday — but fire behavior analyst Stephen Vollmer warned that extreme fire behavior is likely to continue for at least another week, and indicated that officials fully expect the fire to cross the California-Nevada state line. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">Mandatory evacuation orders have already been issued\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Dorado County alone, more than 53,000 residents are currently under \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433093655095496709\">mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a>, with no timeline yet in place for repopulating those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've talked about fire-weakened timber falling across roads, across escape routes. ... We've talked about long-distance spotting and high probability of ignition with extremely dry fuels,\" Vollmer said Wednesday morning. \"All those things are still in play today. And they're still going to be in play for the next week or so until we get a severe change in the weather.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/eldoradonf/status/1433088467664211980?s=21\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sprawling army of firefighters worked furiously Tuesday to protect communities in and around the South Lake Tahoe area, as fierce alpine gusts continued fanning the flames of the fast-growing Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 4,000 personnel kept fighting the ferocious blaze from all directions in an all-out scramble not so much to extinguish the flames, but merely to keep them from destroying houses and other structures.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jim Dudley, incident meteorologist\"]'We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.'[/pullquote]\"We can’t control it. We don’t have any tools out there to stop the fire,\" Erich Schwab, a Cal Fire operations section chief, told reporters during a Tuesday evening briefing, noting the exceptionally windy, dry conditions — expected to continue through Wednesday — that have stymied control efforts. \"So we resort to herding the fire away from structures and away from people, so that’s what we’re actively doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strategy has so far proved successful in protecting most buildings in the densely populated Tahoe basin and in many of the communities along the Highway 50 corridor heading up to Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire had already reached into Meyers Tuesday, the flames had yet to extend into neighboring South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said crews were also still actively fighting the blaze in pockets of \"unburned islands\" along Highway 50 near Twin Bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are literally fire engines from here all the way down into Tahoe,\" he said. \"I did see some damage to structures. The fire burned through there extremely fast, extremely hot. And we did the best that we could. And we’re still in there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1432902756117909507\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since sparking more than two weeks ago, the blaze has charred nearly 200,000 acres and destroyed nearly 500 homes, along with some 100 other structures, while continuing to threaten more than 33,000 more, officials said. It is now 18% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab also said crews had kept the head of the fire — which jumped Highway 89 Monday night — from reaching the Heavenly Mountain Resort area, and were now putting in bulldozer lines and waiting for fire activity to \"settle down\" before beginning their attack. That growth prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">mandatory evacuation order\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line in Nevada — adding to the many thousands of people who have been forced to flee their homes in areas throughout the region, including the nearly 22,000 South Lake residents ordered to leave on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432862340060381189\">new evacuation order\u003c/a> was also issued late Tuesday for a small section of Alpine County along Highway 88, near Kirkwood, where the fire gained ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[We'll] go back in and get it when the fire behaves and calms down on us,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which on Monday jumped Highway 88, had not yet reached Kirkwood, he said, but a structure defense operation with 20 engines had been established there in preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire on Tuesday also jumped the control line on Wrights Lake Road, Schwab added, and was making a run east toward Wrights Lake and Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undesirable trio of strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures continues to make the probability of ignition incredibly high, explained Cal Fire’s Stephen Vollmer, a fire behavior analyst. Those conditions enable active crown runs, where the fire jumps from treetop to treetop, sometimes casting embers more than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that's what's propagating the spread of the fire right now,\" he said. \"Those embers are landing in the very old, very dense fuels that are out there in the fire environment ... in an area that has not seen fire history all the way back before 1940.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A red flag warning will remain in place for the region through Wednesday night, amid ongoing windy gusts and low humidity, incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think today is the worst of the weather days,\" he said. \"Tomorrow’s going to be another bad weather day — I’ll be honest with you — but it’ll be the last one of those.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dudley said winds were expected to weaken considerably by Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s gonna make for a much better situation here on the fire footprint,\" he said. \"So keep that in mind. We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most of the southern and southwestern edges of the fire are now contained, officials said there is no timeline to repopulate most of those areas still under mandatory evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody is making every effort to get you back in your homes,\" said Sgt. Eric Palmberg with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. \"When these people determine it is safe to get back into our homes, we will put that information out and we will get you back in there as soon as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An army of firefighters faced an increasingly challenging fight against the Caldor Fire overnight, as the blaze's eastern flank continued to burn downslope from near Echo Summit into the Tahoe basin, with the fire establishing itself on both sides of Highway 89 south of Meyers — the third major roadway it has now jumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushed by strong winds, flames on the eastern side of Highway 89 have now begun burning into the mountains on the other side of the valley, south of South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1432715647763550217?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw spotting distances of a half mile to a mile yesterday. The spots went all the way to the other side of the 89 and are working their way back up,\" said Tim Ernst, Cal Fire section chief, in a morning briefing Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews in the Christmas Valley area, near Meyers, worked overnight to protect homes on the west side of 89, as the fire backed down the slope behind them. Amazingly, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrandonRittiman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1432811274845376513%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fww2.kqed.org%2Fnews%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D11886590action%3Deditclassic-editor\">there did not appear to be any significant structure loss in the neighborhoods that the flames had reached into\u003c/a>, according to ABC10 reporter Brandon Rittiman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to show you how close the Caldor Fire came to getting some of these structures. You can see the blackened forest just right up into the backyards,\" Rittiman said in a Twitter video posted on Tuesday afternoon, which he filmed near the intersection of Highway 89 and Santa Claus Drive. \"I don't see any structures lost down here, which is just incredible given the way-big flame lengths that we were seeing last night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"This took a lot of work from fire crews.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrandonRittiman/status/1432811274845376513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in similarly positive news, a Cal Fire firefighter told KQED's Beth LaBerge that all structures at the Sierra at Tahoe ski resort — where the blaze had run through on Sunday night — were saved except for one vehicle maintenance building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1432807453343633409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are likely to face even more challenging conditions and very dangerous rates of fire spread Tuesday, as winds are expected to pick up significantly and a red flag warning remains in effect until 11 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have even more flow coming across the fire to cause more turbulent winds, [with] gusts to 45 mph, maybe 50 mph depending on where you are,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stronger winds will be more pronounced at higher elevations, he said, with the general wind direction pushing the fire toward South Lake Tahoe to the northeast and further into the mountains to the east. But crews will likely have to contend with more chaotic winds on the valley floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't emphasize [enough] the wind issues we're going to have up top,\" Dudley said. \"That wind is going to channel through the canyons and drainages up there. The overall direction is going to want to take it off to the northeast and east, but when you're down on the terrain it's going to be all over the place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Ike, Cal Fire incident commander\"]'This fire is going to stand up and rip. Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.'[/pullquote]Those winds mean the Caldor Fire will likely continue to grow at dangerous rates of spread — with crown fires torching large trees and throwing embers for long distances, especially in drainages that align with the southwesterly wind direction, said Stephen Vollmer, Cal Fire fire behavior analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day when those trees torch out we've got that long distance spotting. Today is not going to be any different,\" Vollmer said Tuesday morning. \"We're going to see rates of spread go up to about 200 feet per minute, and the spotting distances go over a mile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely dry conditions also mean extremely high rates of ignition for spot fires created by those embers. \"Ignition is about 90%,\" Vollmer said. \"But it probably should be about 150%.\" Vollmer said long-distance spotting would likely continue for the next two days due to forecast winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This fire is going to stand up and rip,\" said Cal Fire incident commander Jeff Ike on Tuesday morning, emphasizing the danger for fire crews and advising them to stay out of the fire's direct path. \"Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke prevented air firefighting operations periodically last week. But since then, nearly two dozen helicopters and three air tankers dumped thousands of gallons of water and retardant on the fire, fire spokesperson Dominic Polito said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of South Lake Tahoe, usually bustling with summer tourists, was eerily empty Tuesday morning, the air thick with smoke from the approaching blaze. On Monday, thousands of residents jammed Highway 50 heading toward Nevada — one of the only exit routes — after being ordered by authorities to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ARCGoldCountry/status/1432760035143081984\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said only a handful defied the order. But nearly everyone worried Tuesday about what the fire would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just kind of sucks waiting. I mean, I know it’s close down that way,” said Russ Crupi, gesturing south from his home in the Heavenly Valley Estates mobile home park, which he and his wife manage. He had arranged sprinklers and tractors around the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about what’ll be here when people come back. People want to come back to their houses and that’s what I’m going to try to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TahoeWarmRoom/status/1432768289629884416\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Mora, 37, a construction worker from South Lake Tahoe, waited until yesterday's evacuation order to leave town, jumping in his car with just a bag of clothes. He moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, where many of South Lake's Latino residents come from. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">Latino community here, which has grown markedly in recent years\u003c/a>, now accounts for more than 30% of the city's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mora, who on Tuesday was sheltering at the Carson City Community Center, said if the area is hit hard by the fire, he'll likely have to relocate in search of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it burns, it's going to be hard, a lot of years to recover, and it's not going to be the same,\" he said. \"It's going to take years to be where we're at right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday morning, the Caldor Fire had burned over 191,607 acres, destroyed at least 669 structures, and was 16% contained. Just five injuries have so far been reported since the start of the blaze more than two weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1432686814553378822\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews continued battling the Caldor Fire's advancing eastern perimeter along the Highway 50 corridor near Echo Summit on Monday afternoon, after officials put the entirety of South Lake Tahoe under a mandatory evacuation order late Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a rough long day for the troops up there today. But they have been decently successful,” said Cody Bogan, a Cal Fire operations section chief, during an evening briefing. “Luckily the fuel’s kind of run out and it kind of slowed the fire progression down, up on that north piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SRodd_CPR/status/1432512413576749059\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was casting embers up to half a mile earlier Monday, according to fire officials, causing spot fires to ignite downslope into the Tahoe basin. The blaze, which has now charred more than 186,500 acres and is only 15% contained, continues to pose a serious threat to the basin amid a red flag warning due to higher winds and exceptionally dry conditions. That \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1432410570955706376?s=20\">warning has been extended until 11 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearer air in the area allowed some aircraft to provide much-needed support from above on Monday, Bogan said, with firefighters on the ground continuing to chase spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, along the fire's southeastern flank, crews were unable to keep the blaze from jumping Highway 88 for the first time, into Amador County. The fire jumped the highway approximately two miles west of Kirkwood, and was pushing eastward toward the resort area. Kirkwood was placed under mandatory evacuation orders on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Highway 88 corridor got hit pretty hard today,” Bogan said, noting that bulldozers were digging line to try to cut it off and “get it tamed back” onto the north side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Monday's positive developments: Firefighters have been successful in protecting the town of Strawberry, which just days earlier was under imminent threat, Bogan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything through Strawberry’s looking a lot better now. They’re continuing to mop up around structures and trying to secure things,” he said of the community that lies along Highway 50 on the western side of the pass, east of Twin Bridges. “As of right now, there’s been no structure loss in the Strawberry area that we are aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bogan also called it “a very successful day” in the southwestern sections of the fire, near where it first ignited two weeks ago, with crews making steady containment gains. That progress prompted officials late Monday to downgrade evacuation orders to warnings in several nearby areas close to Omo Ranch Road, near the Amador/El Dorado County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions, he added, were also “looking real good” heading northeast toward the Pollock Pines area, with “no real issues at all to report,” although evacuation orders there remained in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 3 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 22,000 South Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to evacuate late Monday morning as the Caldor Fire continued its rapid advance eastward, crossing Echo Summit and threatening to extend further into the Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's something that's always in the back of your mind that you hope never happens,\" said South Lake Mayor Pro Tem Devin Middlebrook, who evacuated late Sunday night. \"But here we are today, with this threat to our community. And it's something that we, as a city and as a community, have been preparing for, and hopefully that preparation pays off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sullyfoto/status/1432427762271145987\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Monday afternoon, vehicles packed to the brim with bikes, camping gear and other personal belongings — some even towing boats — were backed up for miles in the thick, brown air along eastbound Highway 50 heading toward Nevada, the main evacuation route, as residents anxiously waited to escape the smoke-choked basin. One man broke out his violin and played a mournful melody as he ambled along the vast line of motionless cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JoshEdelson/status/1432431380588228608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a systematic evacuation, one neighborhood at a time,\" South Lake Tahoe police Lt. Travis Cabral said on social media. \"I am asking you as our community to please remain calm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation order is defined as an immediate threat to life. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/14L8o2P-uvwSK_gyLCnhFRTon7nzLUNo2t98HjP30uAY/edit\">Evacuation shelters\u003c/a> are located at Truckee Veterans Hall and the Douglas County Community and Senior Center in Gardnerville, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432405511014522886\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The orders come as the eastern edge of the Caldor Fire continues its rapid advance. On Sunday night, the blaze extended 8 1/2 miles up to the border of the Tahoe basin, incinerating cabins and other structures in the forest along Highway 50 between Twin Bridges and Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday morning, the blaze had grown to more than 177,000 acres — a run of more than 20,000 acres over just one day — leaping over hard-fought containment lines cut with bulldozers, as crews battled the flames on multiple sides. The fire remained only 14% contained, down from 19% containment earlier this weekend, after rapid growth on the northeast and southern edges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By midday Monday, the fire had breached several points along the ridge and begun its descent into the basin, reaching spots around Lower Echo Lake and parts of Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's fire in the basin,\" Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter reported solemnly at a Monday afternoon briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Caldor is a real tough one for us,\" he said, noting the steep challenges firefighters face controlling the northeastern edge's side of the massive blaze, which continues to churn through rugged, difficult-to-reach terrain. \"It's been burning in heavy timber, just very, very difficult conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter said last week's inversion layer in the atmosphere, which helped keep a lid on the fire, disappeared yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the air clears, it's like taking the lid off of your pot of boiling water — all of a sudden there's that plume of heat and steam that comes out. Same thing happens on a fire,\" he said. \"Also sucks in oxygen from all directions, puts fire and spot fires in all directions. That's what happened yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are still assessing last night’s damage in the El Dorado County communities the fire swept through, including the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, where snowmaking equipment had been activated in the hopes of gaining some protection from the blaze. More than 600 structures have already been destroyed, and at least 20,000 more were threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JoshEdelson/status/1432296909645832192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather conditions were expected to worsen throughout the day, with strong wind gusts and low humidity raising concerns of erratic fire behavior and prompting the National Weather Service to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/sto/\">red flag warning\u003c/a> extending through Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter underscored the unprecedented ferocity of California fires this season , which is still just in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't had fires burn from one side of the Sierras to the other. [But] we did with the Dixie, now we have with the Caldor. Two times in our history, and they're both happening this month,\" he said, urging residents to be prepared and evacuate as early as possible. \"We need to be really cognizant that there is fire activity happening in California that we have never seen before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1432306480854667265\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEvacuation orders and warnings hit South Lake Tahoe and additional areas in the Tahoe basin on Sunday night after a challenging weekend for crews battling the massive Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in El Dorado County were extended to include the community of Meyers and communities south of Meyers along Highway 89 to the Alpine County line. An evacuation warning is now in effect for the remainder of El Dorado County in the Tahoe basin, including all of South Lake Tahoe and communities along the southern shores of the lake north to the Placer County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional evacuation orders in Alpine County included the Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Caples Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe's main medical facility, Barton Memorial Hospital, proactively evacuated 36 patients needing skilled nursing and 16 in acute care beds Sunday, sending them to regional facilities far from the fire, public information officer Mindi Befu said. The rest of the hospital was evacuating following Monday's expanded orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BartonHealth/status/1432201690569076738?s=19\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials sounded resigned in a community meeting Sunday evening, as new evacuation orders were issued across El Dorado and Alpine counties in the wake of \"extreme rates\" of fire spread, said Eric Schwab, Cal Fire's operation section chief.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist\"]'Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> include Meyers, just 7 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, which itself was issued an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A couple days ago I really felt we were turning the corner with it,\" Schwab told the community. But without adequate staffing and with changing weather conditions, firefighters found themselves playing defense over the weekend, fire officials said — not so much stopping the spread, as working to save structures from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said that in the last two weeks, the Caldor Fire's perimeter had advanced less than a half mile, but on Sunday the perimeter \"moved about 2 1/2 miles on us with no sign it's slowing down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those conditions, Schwab said, fire crews moved to their No. 1 priority: evacuating people and preserving life. Much of their defense of structures was around Highway 50 and the Kirkwood Mountain Resort, with 25 strike teams of engines, 25 bulldozers and 25 hand crews set to defend nearby structures Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the wind blows like this, our primary modes are one — hold onto what we have,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A favorable turn in weather Saturday afternoon allowed firefighters to make progress and increase containment of the fire to 19%, up from 12% the day before, said Capt. Stephen Horner, a Cal Fire spokesperson for the Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sunday's effort was far more of a struggle, with crews having to carry hoses by hand through rough terrain. Triple-digit weather also lies ahead through Tuesday, leaving little optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s been a rough day and there’s no bones about it,\" said Jeff Marsolais, forest supervisor for Eldorado National Forest. A few days ago, he thought crews could halt the Caldor Fire's eastern progress, but “today it let loose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/R5_Fire_News/status/1432142906119364608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eleven days ago we had 240 people, and that was it to try to work and contain this fire,\" said Keith Wade, a Cal Fire captain and public information officer. \"Now we're upwards of 3,500 personnel. … That means more help. And that means more containment lines getting down on the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7 p.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Cal Fire has ordered evacuations across portions of El Dorado County, including near Echo Summit. Cal Fire also asked other communities near Echo Summit — like Christmas Valley near Highway 89 — to prepare for that possibility. Check Cal Fire's incident page for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">a full list of evacuation orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive blaze has raged across a vast expanse of steep, mountainous terrain southwest of Lake Tahoe and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/21/map-caldor-fire-structure-damage/\">destroyed more than 470 structures\u003c/a> since igniting on Aug. 14, even as the fire continued to advance northeast toward the much more populated Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some low humidity on Saturday afternoon increased fire activity, according to Cal Fire, with erratic winds casting embers up to half a mile from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire,\" said Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/1202995556829423\">a Saturday evening community meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday night and Monday, wind will increase, Dudley said, prompting officials to call a red flag warning for the northern Sierra and the southern Cascades, which takes effect 11 a.m. Monday through Tuesday evening. Those conditions may mean more \"rapid spread of fire,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1431739221140668419\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said they'll expect to see increased fire activity Sunday and Monday morning, since an inversion layer of air is expected to bottle up smoky air in the area and release it those mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visibility improved enough near Saturday evening to allow Cal Fire to bring in more air support, said Cal Fire Section Chief Cody Bogan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1430676198099591169\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Updated 8 p.m. Friday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs of Friday morning, much of the southwestern and western flanks of the sprawling Caldor Fire, along with its southern perimeter, had been largely contained, with no major growth reported, fire officials said. Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Erich Schwab echoed that sentiment about the southwestern portion of the blaze in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/143879924593222/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZVbYUAtW09muDQHgYMvpoOyg-iiNyt8bTlt0XzI13BuilkJLhDjyrQKPKO04xSFaV9sVB2nIG0ag7n0AsAhJdWIZBQFHGjeqPyTJ_4jZYn68ZoyESqivZv3xdf_JqBckwAkIz7rnQRLgZPxjwiGgIjZV8UilVZdXIEd9md-x3R9Bw&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">evening briefing\u003c/a>, saying fire officials were \"finally comfortable and confident that that's not going to move any further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said technical burning operations on the northwestern edge of the fire — the portion closest to Placerville — resulted in some minor spot fires, which were difficult to fight in extremely limited visibility due to smoke. \"We hope to get it boxed in,\" Schwab said, as a daylong smoke inversion had lifted and allowed an air attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most active and dangerous portions of the Caldor Fire remain the eastern and northeastern sections currently burning toward the Lake Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most problematic flank of the blaze — the northeastern section, which has jumped Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry — \"got very active [Thursday] and jumped over our proposed control line and ran about 800 acres ... burning up to the 7,500 elevation line,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fuels are extremely critical up there,\" he added. \"Fuels that normally wouldn't be available to burn actively are burning with extreme conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That portion of the fire has also \"completely torched\" much of the area along Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry, hurling fallen trees and other debris onto the roadway, said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst earlier on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This road is extremely treacherous right now,\" Ernst added, while noting that firefighters have so far been able to protect all the structures in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1431383703238819843?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Schwab sounded a note of optimism Friday evening regarding the blaze's eastern section south of Highway 50, calling it a \"success story for today.\" Crews were able to establish multiple bulldozer containment lines east of where the fire is burning — that is, between the fire and the Tahoe basin — and Schwab was hopeful that planned overnight backfire operations would succeed in halting the blaze's eastern progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answering a question about the likelihood of the blaze reaching the Tahoe basin, Schwab said, \"We're doing everything that we can to ensure that it doesn't. ... That's why [the eastern branch of the fire south of Highway 50] is such a critical priority for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for winds that could significantly drive the fire, Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said Friday evening that relatively light winds are forecast for the weekend, but that the situation could change Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll probably be hearing terms like 'possibly a red flag might be coming out this weekend for strong winds for Monday,'\" said Cal Fire incident met\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Monica Lam contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since the Caldor Fire first erupted on Aug. 14, the blaze has devoured nearly than 217,000 acres and destroyed at least 776 homes, forcing mass evacuations. As of Tuesday morning, it was 49% contained.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631121809,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":253,"wordCount":10058},"headData":{"title":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots | KQED","description":"Since the Caldor Fire first erupted on Aug. 14, the blaze has devoured nearly than 217,000 acres and destroyed at least 776 homes, forcing mass evacuations. As of Tuesday morning, it was 49% contained.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots","datePublished":"2021-09-07T18:01:15.000Z","dateModified":"2021-09-08T17:23:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11886590 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11886590","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/07/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin/","disqusTitle":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots","path":"/news/11886590/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Find \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">the latest on evacuation orders and warnings\u003c/a>, including a map from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">current shelter information for evacuees\u003c/a>. Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire AEU on Twitter\u003c/a> for up-to-date information. This post, originally published on Aug. 27, was continually updated through Sept. 7. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 11 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite rising temperatures and low humidity, fire crews made steady progress in an ongoing quest to subdue the massive Caldor Fire, with almost 50% of the voracious blaze contained as of Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which means we don't expect any movement of the fire outside those containment lines,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst, proudly pointing to the solid black containment lines ringing most of the southern and southwestern sections of the perimeter, nearly up the Highway 50 corridor to Kyburz. \"As a matter of fact, yesterday we didn't have any significant runs of the fire that pushed any of those containment lines, nor did we have any significant spots. So that's a great accomplishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png 1392w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-800x468.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-1020x596.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-160x94.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of Cal Fire Incident Commander Tim Ernst during Tuesday morning's Caldor Fire update, as he points to hard-fought black containment lines along the blaze's southern and southwestern flank. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even as communities in the South Lake Tahoe basin and other recently evacuated areas returned home this weekend, Ernst noted the blaze was far from quenched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crews were still contending with \"troublesome\" areas in its northern and eastern reaches, including near Wrights Lake, northwest of Highway 50, where a tenacious offshoot of the blaze had entered Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1434942634544361473"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And while crews in the basin made incremental progress beefing up containment efforts near Heavenly Mountain Resort, staving off any major structural damage in the vicinity, the eastern flank of the blaze continued to push against the Highway 88 corridor, posing a lingering threat to the Kirkwood Mountain Resort community. Ernst, though, said crews had just done firing operations near homes in that area — referring to the tactic of intentionally burning brush and other fuels as a preventive measure — and were now\u003cbr>\n\"seeing much better results there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which first sparked on Aug. 14 near Grizzly Flats, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1435245060136652804\">has destroyed at least 776 homes\u003c/a> and devoured more than 216,000 acres. Full containment of the blaze is expected by Sept. 27, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Explore a map of current Caldor Fire activity:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003csmall>\u003ca style=\"color: #0000ff;text-align: left\" href=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=true&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clear here to view larger map (or if not loading on mobile)\u003c/a>\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" title=\"Current Wildfire Perimeters\" src=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&previewImage=false&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Containment on the Caldor Fire improved over Labor Day weekend to 44% as fire officials let people return to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repopulation of South Lake Tahoe began on Sunday afternoon after the evacuation order for the city of more than 20,000 people was downgraded to an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes everything within the city limits, the area north of State Highway 50 between the Nevada state line and the Lake Tahoe airport, and all properties on both sides of Highway 89 from Emerald Bay north through Tahoma, among a few other spots in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887662\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887662 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the southern shore of Lake Tahoe. Tahoma, Fallen Leaf A, South Lake Tahoe, and Lower and Upper Kingsbury are in yellow.\" width=\"1288\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg 1288w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While South Lake Tahoe has been downgraded to an evacuation warning, many other parts of El Dorado County remain under an evacuation order. On Sept. 5, Cal Fire AED published this map to show which areas remain under an evacuation order (violet) and which are now under an evacuation warning (yellow). \u003ccite>(Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, fire crews made progress in containing the flames along the northwest and northeast sections of the perimeter, including the section closest to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"A lot of great work has gone on there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Monday morning community briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning of Labor Day, fire officials also signaled that conditions on Monday are a lot drier, which could make the work of containing what is left of the Caldor Fire much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot emphasize how dry things are across this fire today. The humidity was very, very poor recovery last night,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, who also added that the wind is blowing a lot more strongly than it did during the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With stronger winds comes a greater risk of embers flying out and widening the perimeter of the fire, Stephen Vollmer, fire analyst with Cal Fire, reminded fire crews Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing, we're wrapping our arms around it. We're trying to take it down, but don't get complacent on it,\" he said. \"Stay focused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Highway 50 has reopened from the Nevada border to the South Lake Tahoe city limits to allow residents back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are really excited to get back into town,\" said Mayor of South Lake Tahoe Tamara Wallace. She was quick to point out that the repopulation effort does not include all of El Dorado County and that there are many other communities still under an evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's … a testament to the firefighters and their amazing work that we are able to get back into our homes and all our homes are safe,\" said Wallace, who for the moment plans to hold off for a few days until she returns to her own home in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's limited services,\" she explained, pointing to the fact that, as of Monday morning, only one grocery store in the entire city had reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wallace and Cal Fire recommend that residents who are allowed to return to their homes first stock up on groceries, gas and other essential supplies before making the trip back. This also goes for folks who don't live full-time in South Lake Tahoe but have a cabin or property in the area and want to check up on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a fire has burned through an area, many dangers remain: Damage to buildings can make them unstable; debris and downed trees can block roads; and downed utility lines pose serious electrical and other hazards. Fire officials also warn that the risk of flooding remains high for weeks and months after a wildfire, due to the amount of destroyed vegetation that once stabilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 a.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1434186869915357187\">Cal Fire AEU reported a continued decrease in fire behavior\u003c/a> \"thanks to a slight rise in humidity levels and decrease in temperatures.\" Ongoing inspections for damage continue, but Cal Fire said 75% of structures were assessed. The fire is still most active on the south side of Echo Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://fires.airfire.org/outlooks/LakeTahoeBasin\">smoke outlook for the Tahoe area\u003c/a> is expected to be between moderate to unhealthy throughout the day with some light winds predicted to provide some relief. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd945702.pdf\">temporary closure of all national forests in California\u003c/a> is still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 5:30 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fire crews manage the seemingly insurmountable feat of beating back the Caldor Fire from South Lake Tahoe, one question has been repeatedly aired by the public: When will people be allowed back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospects are \"looking good\" for repopulating South Lake Tahoe, said U.S. Forest Service Operations Sections Chief Jake Cagle, but it depends on the weather and the efforts of hundreds of people — so officially, there's no answer yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Cagle said, \"we're getting close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Clive Savacool said he and his fellow firefighters have been evacuated from their homes as well, \"so we can empathize with you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool thanked South Lake Tahoe citizens for pushing for more information, and said, \"I wanted to assure you we're going to get you home as soon as we can, as soon as the fire is safe. ... It's also our position to be your voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has burned 212,907 acres as of Friday evening, and is 29% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repopulating areas that have been evacuated was on the minds of most fire officials at Friday evening's community meeting, as they downgraded various areas from evacuation orders — which mandate evacuations — to warnings, which merely caution them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas downgraded Friday afternoon include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>South Sly Park: South of Starkes Grade Road, north of Sly Park Creek, east of Pleasant Valley Road up to and including the Diamond Garnet subdivision.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grizzly Flats West: East of Highway E16, west of Steely Ridge Road, south of the North Fork of the Cosumnes River and north of the Middle Fork of the Cosumnes River.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Happy Valley: All properties accessed from Happy Valley Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Other fronts of the fire showed signs of fire crews finding success, including Christmas Valley, with fire officials saying \"everything looks good\" there, and Sierra Springs and the Lower Pines area both being downgraded to evacuation warnings, from orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool had one more thought to reassure South Lake Tahoe citizens: We're making sure the bears aren't rummaging around your homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gotten a lot of calls and concerns about the bears in town,\" Savacool said Friday evening. He said law enforcement is \"patrolling 24/7 to make sure your homes are safe, to scare off the bears, so your homes are protected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Make sure to check for full and up-to-date evacuation orders and warnings \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">with Cal Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 2 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has so far been successfully steered from South Lake Tahoe thanks to a break in weather conditions, defensive fire prevention and a continuous push from fire crews, officials said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the fire has encroached on nearby areas, like Christmas Valley, and fire officials said the battle is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Friday afternoon community briefing, Anthony Scardina, deputy regional forester with the United States Forest Service, said a lot of the day's success came from defensive field treatments like forest thinning and prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were conditions where there were 150-foot flame lengths, and when they hit, those field treatments worked, bringing them down to 20-foot flame lengths,\" Scardina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we're still not out of the woods,\" he said. \"We're having some success, but there's still a lot of fire on the landscape. And weather conditions can change pretty quickly, as you've seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuation orders were downgraded to evacuation warnings as of 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The area south of Pleasant Valley between Bucks Bar Road and Newtown Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Bucks Bar Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The areas of Gopher Hole Road and Moon-Shadow\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The area just south of U.S. Highway 50, north of Starkes Grade Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Snows Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West of Fresh Pond\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The successful field treatments that aided fire efforts this week were the result of 10 years of fire prevention, Scardina said, and that's work that needs to be ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have forest conditions that are overstocked. They're too dense, and you combine that with a series of years of drought, and combine that with some of the warming temperatures we've seen,\" he said, \"with those three elements we have to continue working on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire expressed cautious optimism this morning, after another night of more favorable weather conditions allowed them to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">inch up containment on the Caldor Fire to 29%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll sum everything up with the incident with the words 'cautiously optimistic,'\" Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst said at the Friday morning briefing. \"The humidities came in again last night, and fortunately we've had no significant fire runs through the entire shift yesterday. So we've definitely turned that corner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst credited the consistent hard work of fire crews for saving thousands of homes and countless acres of forest. More than 4,400 firefighters are currently on the ground and in the air fighting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first erupting on Aug. 14, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433791946573504519\">the massive blaze\u003c/a> has destroyed 661 homes and devoured nearly 213,000 acres, while continuing to threaten some 32,000 other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While overall conditions are still dry, firefighters are taking advantage of the marginally improved humidity and reduced winds to secure key areas, like those along the Highway 50 corridor and near the Heavenly Mountain Resort.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433794960201957376"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"We are going into a new phase in the weather,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley. \"We're going back to the inversion. We got the smoke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley said that while this weather will result in lighter winds, regular terrain-driven winds throughout the day will continue to be a challenge because of their unpredictability and tendency to move in \"squirrely directions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are also working to improve containment lines near Meyers and South Lake Tahoe, where the blaze continues to be active. Northeast of the Pioneer Trail, hand crews and bulldozers are working to build lines that would usher the fire toward Cold Creek, where containment is more secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Highway 50, at Lower Echo Lake, firefighters worked through the night extinguishing hot spots and battling the fire directly to keep it from spreading to nearby cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886903","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Christmas Valley, which sits just south of South Lake Tahoe, remains among the areas of greatest concern. The fire is still very active in the area, prompting firefighters last night to build control lines to coax it east toward Saxon Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out of the woods, but we have not seen any growth there as well,\" Ernst said. Crews, he added, will continue to focus heavily on that area today in an effort to contain the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big priority Friday is securing areas near homes so officials can begin lifting evacuation orders and allowing residents to return. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433815874796863491\">48,000 people\u003c/a> in the region still remain under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging the positive developments, officials urged residents not to get complacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing kind of lassoed. We just need to keep holding on to it with what we've got,\" said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. \"So know that there's still a lot of hot material out there, know that there's a lot of unburned islands in the middle of this thing that could still threaten our line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially true, he said, along much of Highway 50, an area that remains hot and windy, where embers can still blow up to half a mile into unburned islands of brush and start new spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paraphrasing from a World War II speech by Winston Churchill, U.S. Forest Service Supervisor Dean Gould said: \"This isn't the end. It's not the beginning of the end, but it's the end of the beginning. So please keep that in mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6:30 p.m. Thursday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorable weather conditions Thursday gave firefighters a slight advantage, as they worked to keep the Caldor Fire from moving into populated areas in the Tahoe basin and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has already destroyed 649 homes, and some 32,000 more structures are still under threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following three extremely gusty, dry red flag condition days that fueled the spread of the fire — which is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">27% contained\u003c/a> — calmer winds throughout much of the massive fire area helped an army of more than 4,400 firefighters gain some ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433280641919971333"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Those conditions are expected to continue through Saturday and possibly even Sunday, giving weary crews a crucial window to make steady containment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Weather’s gotten better. We got good news on the weather front. The light winds will continue for about two to three days,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley during the Thursday evening briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decrease in winds means a decrease in fire activity, particularly the spot fires that have been largely responsible for spreading this blaze, added Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. Although ignition rates will remain very high, he said embers were now being cast less than half a mile, down from over a mile just days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is great for the resources on the ground, so we can get in there and mop up all those hot spots,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of improved conditions, officials on Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433478019654426658\">downgraded mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a> to warnings in the area of Omo Ranch, on the southwestern heel of the fire — where there is a growing segment of continuous containment line — and lifted evacuation warnings altogether in several nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did get today is a little bit of good news. The colors are starting to change,\" said John Davis, a Cal Fire liaison officer, pointing to the updated recent evacuation map. “Everyone's getting in here, doing the work necessary to put everybody back as soon as safely possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters on Thursday were also able to maintain control over a stubborn section of fire along Butte Creek and Sturdevant Ridge, north of Grizzly Flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continued to be probably one of our major challenges for the first two weeks of the incident,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst. “By [containing it], we were able to save about 600 or 700 structures, over 10,000 additional acres in this area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading up Highway 50 into the Tahoe basin, fire activity continued at Lower Echo Lake, where firefighters yesterday were ferried by boat to protect and prepare structures. Crews on Thursday worked along the edges of the blaze to steer it away from cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite earlier concerns, the fire had not spread to the area of Upper Truckee Road, where crews worked to put in contingency line up to Fallen Leaf Lake, in case conditions change. \"Right now there's not imminent threat or anticipation that it's going to get in there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Jake Cagle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While crews made overall progress on the fire Thursday, the northeastern edge of the blaze continued to menace communities in the Tahoe basin as it moved toward the Nevada state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tongue of fire was still \"bumping up\" against the border of Heavenly Mountain Resort, Tahoe’s largest ski area, although the blaze was not spreading as fast as it has in recent days, Ernst said. He said crews there are continuing to shore up the northeast perimeter by putting in strong bulldozer lines and removing hazardous trees, in a thus-far successful effort to protect nearby housing developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some increased fire activity in the area on Thursday, with crews working the edge of the blaze and trying to push it toward the power line grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resort, which is now being used as a staging area by firefighters, also brought out its big guns — snowmaking devices that were being used to hose down buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke continues to envelop South Lake Tahoe, which remains under a mandatory evacuation order and is all but deserted at a time when it would normally be swarming with tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After casinos and stores closed on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe on Wednesday morning, evacuees lined up outside the MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa in Stateline, waiting for a bus to take them to Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle also said crews had made good progress on the fire's northeastern flank in a bid to prevent it from crossing into Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower end of that same spur of the fire, roughly 3 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, also continued to threaten communities in Meyers and Christmas Valley. Firefighters there, aided by air tankers, hustled Thursday to keep the flames as high up on the eastern ridge as possible, and away from dense concentrations of homes. But Christmas Valley was looking good by day's end Thursday, Cagle said, noting that crews there were being \"extremely aggressive.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433450121698574337"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Crews were also still struggling to gain control over the blaze near the Kirkwood ski resort area, to the south of the basin. Aircraft bombarded the area with water and retardant throughout day, as hand crews and bulldozers put in line to keep the blaze from coming down the ridge into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first sparking on Aug. 14, the blaze has charred nearly 211,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: Improved weather is expected to continue today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lost the winds aloft. It's a good day today to not have gusty winds up on the ridges,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley at a Thursday morning briefing. \"What we are going to have today are terrain-driven winds,\" which occur as the sun heats the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those winds, he warned, tend to be \"quite variable in direction,\" and given the ongoing dry conditions can still easily spark spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the west side of the blaze, firefighters are working to secure the Highway 50 corridor and keep the fire from burning cabins near Wrights Lake on the edge of Desolation Wilderness, in hopes the granite fields there will block its advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a lot of resources heading up there to make sure we prevent any fire spread from heading back to the west,\" said Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a positive development, crews overnight were able to use air support to drop water near the Kirkwood ski resort, holding back the blaze, which is hung up on a ridge just outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials on Thursday planned to fly in pumps to bring more water into the area to reinforce containment lines and protect homes.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433481005730435074"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-california-emergency-declaration/\">President Biden issued an emergency declaration for the Caldor Fire\u003c/a> — following a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom — directing federal assistance to support state, local and tribal officials in battling the blaze. The order also authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts and provide assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire has charred more than 210,000 acres, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers on Wednesday also announced a major change in command structure, with the fire now divided into a western and eastern zone, each managed by separate teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 8 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a third consecutive red flag warning day amid dry, blustery conditions, thousands of firefighters labored Wednesday to block the ravenous Caldor Fire from reaching two major ski resort areas near Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews doubled down on efforts to corral a large finger of the blaze that was rapidly spreading northeast toward Heavenly Mountain Resort and the Nevada state line, where it posed an immediate threat to South Lake Tahoe and neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Heavy, heavy resource commitment. We've got folks from all over the country here pushed into this entire area,\" Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief, said on Wednesday. \"This is some very tough country. Very steep, very rugged. And it’s just not safe to try to put people right on the fire edge right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the fire was expected to spread further northeast, crossing into Nevada, and that crews with heavy equipment were doing prep work around the clock on sections of Highways 206, 207 and 88 to try to create “a catcher’s mitt as close to this as we possibly can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to have a lot of equipment, a lot of people working on this periphery out here,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze also skirted across the north side of Christmas Valley, with crews scrambling to keep flames east of Pioneer Trail and away from homes. Monday said there has so far been no reported damage to homes in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433152762645291012"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>South of the Tahoe basin, crews hardened their defense of the Kirkwood ski area along Highway 88, where strong, erratic winds continued to fuel the blaze, spreading spot fires dangerously close to that community. As of Wednesday evening, the fire had not entered Kirkwood proper, Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the northwest side of the blaze, the fire on Wednesday continued moving aggressively up Wrights Lake Road off Highway 50 toward Desolation Wilderness. Aided by heavy air tankers dumping retardant, ground crews there moved quickly to connect control lines to the nearby granite fields in an effort to steer the blaze away from cabins and prevent it from spreading west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're actively engaged way up high here into the wilderness, trying to make sure that we do not get any more fire spread to the west,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind-fueled spot fires continue to be the biggest hurdle to control efforts, said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been a problem since the very first day of this incident, and that's what's causing this fire to grow exponentially,\" he said. \"So we're battling what we can battle and waiting for those winds to subside so that we can get in there and actively engage those fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, crews also toiled to stop an offshoot of fire along the Highway 50 corridor east of Pollock Pines, as bulldozers tried to build a contingency line on the north side of the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our biggest fears is that fire jumping across the highway,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the many challenges firefighters continued to face, much progress had been made in various sections of the massive fire area, including most of the southern flank, where the perimeter remained strong, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were also generally looking under control in much of the southwestern section of the blaze, near where it first ignited more than two weeks ago, he added, although crews were still working to connect containment lines there, after a fierce spot fire erupted Tuesday on a ridge above Sly Park Road — setting a bulldozer on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a lot of work to do in there,\" Monday said. \"This has been a real troublesome spot for us over the last 14 to 15 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters, he said, were \"trying to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff as much as we can,\" hoping to \"call this line contained\" in the next few days and then begin repopulating much of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11887278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A black bear cub hangs over a tree branch near a burned structure in Phillips on Tues., Aug. 31, 2021. The Caldor Fire spread through the area on Monday evening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As containment lines grew, officials on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433210214409408513\">downgraded an evacuation order to a warning\u003c/a> in the area near North Camino and Pollock Pines north of Highway 50 and west of Sly Park Road, allowing residents there to return to their homes for the first time in about two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some 53,000 residents in El Dorado County alone were still under evacuation orders Wednesday. Officials have not given a timeline for when those areas can be repopulated, noting the many steps necessary before lifting evacuation orders, including removing firefighting equipment, cutting down damaged trees, and getting critical infrastructure running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an expected positive turn in the weather in the coming days may help hasten those repopulation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally some good news on the weather side here on this fire,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, emphasizing that the region's red flag warning would finally be ending late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dry conditions will continue into tomorrow, with high ignition rates, he said the strong, erratic winds that have so effectively fueled the fire in recent days are likely to subside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And getting into Friday, the winds get even lighter,\" he said. \"So the issues and conditions that weather was causing, especially for the last couple of days, are going to be mitigated by much lighter winds across the fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning since Aug. 14, the Caldor Fire has charred nearly 208,000 acres and is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">23% contained\u003c/a>. The blaze has destroyed almost 600 residences and continues to threaten more than 32,000 homes and other structures. Amazingly, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another long night of working to protect structures in the southern Tahoe basin from the sprawling Caldor Fire, firefighters face a challenging day again Wednesday as gusty winds and extremely dry conditions persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews dodged a bit of a bullet Tuesday as southwesterly winds didn't blow as hard as forecast, instead pushing the fire northeast — further into the Carson Range toward Nevada — instead of north toward South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lucked out yesterday with some of the winds that didn't come up quite as hard as we expected,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Wednesday morning briefing. \"We're fortunate the fire did not make as strong a push into Tahoe as it did the previous day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst said a thick layer of smoke that came in around midnight \"put a damper on things and slowed a lot of growth,\" giving crews opportunities to make some progress, despite very low humidity and warm temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got some great dozer line to protect structures here,\" Ernst said of efforts to keep the dangerous easternmost tongue of the fire from spreading into nearby communities, including South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is now burning just a few miles southwest of the Heavenly Mountain Resort, which on Tuesday began activating snowmaking equipment in an effort to slow the fire should it reach the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432856342213976067"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Fire crews Wednesday will also continue on protecting the Kirkwood area south of the Tahoe basin along Highway 88.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our major concerns was the Kirkwood bowl area where the Kirkwood ski area is. The fire is currently hung up right on the ridge outside Kirkwood, so that's something we'll be looking at today as one of our priorities,\" Ernst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the active fire area further west of Kirkwood along Highway 88, Ernst said fire crews are continuing to work on buttoning it up and keeping it from spreading further south across the highway — but he said the area \"won't show containment for a while.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight, the fire also moved quickly up Wrights Lake Road, above Highway 50, spreading north toward a group of nearby cabins and Desolation Wilderness beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continues to be probably one of the biggest challenges of this last shift,\" said Ernst, adding that crews were putting in contingency lines and doing structure defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a positive note, Ernst said things were \"looking real good\" in most of the southern and southwestern sections of the fire, where firefighters had made steady containment gains, including the area along Sly Park Road, south of Pollock Pines. Crews, though, were still fighting hard to clean up and secure one small area near Grizzly Flats, close to where the fire began more than two weeks — and where a bulldozer went up in flames yesterday. \"We expect to probably see another 36 to 48 hours before we show full containment here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The entire fire is still in a red flag warning,\" warned Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley Wednesday morning. \"The wind regime you saw yesterday will continue today. The speeds may be a little bit less than [Tuesday] ... but we'll still have swirling gusty winds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The red flag warning is set to expire at 11 p.m. Wednesday — but fire behavior analyst Stephen Vollmer warned that extreme fire behavior is likely to continue for at least another week, and indicated that officials fully expect the fire to cross the California-Nevada state line. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">Mandatory evacuation orders have already been issued\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Dorado County alone, more than 53,000 residents are currently under \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433093655095496709\">mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a>, with no timeline yet in place for repopulating those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've talked about fire-weakened timber falling across roads, across escape routes. ... We've talked about long-distance spotting and high probability of ignition with extremely dry fuels,\" Vollmer said Wednesday morning. \"All those things are still in play today. And they're still going to be in play for the next week or so until we get a severe change in the weather.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433088467664211980"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sprawling army of firefighters worked furiously Tuesday to protect communities in and around the South Lake Tahoe area, as fierce alpine gusts continued fanning the flames of the fast-growing Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 4,000 personnel kept fighting the ferocious blaze from all directions in an all-out scramble not so much to extinguish the flames, but merely to keep them from destroying houses and other structures.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jim Dudley, incident meteorologist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We can’t control it. We don’t have any tools out there to stop the fire,\" Erich Schwab, a Cal Fire operations section chief, told reporters during a Tuesday evening briefing, noting the exceptionally windy, dry conditions — expected to continue through Wednesday — that have stymied control efforts. \"So we resort to herding the fire away from structures and away from people, so that’s what we’re actively doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strategy has so far proved successful in protecting most buildings in the densely populated Tahoe basin and in many of the communities along the Highway 50 corridor heading up to Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire had already reached into Meyers Tuesday, the flames had yet to extend into neighboring South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said crews were also still actively fighting the blaze in pockets of \"unburned islands\" along Highway 50 near Twin Bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are literally fire engines from here all the way down into Tahoe,\" he said. \"I did see some damage to structures. The fire burned through there extremely fast, extremely hot. And we did the best that we could. And we’re still in there.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432902756117909507"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Since sparking more than two weeks ago, the blaze has charred nearly 200,000 acres and destroyed nearly 500 homes, along with some 100 other structures, while continuing to threaten more than 33,000 more, officials said. It is now 18% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab also said crews had kept the head of the fire — which jumped Highway 89 Monday night — from reaching the Heavenly Mountain Resort area, and were now putting in bulldozer lines and waiting for fire activity to \"settle down\" before beginning their attack. That growth prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">mandatory evacuation order\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line in Nevada — adding to the many thousands of people who have been forced to flee their homes in areas throughout the region, including the nearly 22,000 South Lake residents ordered to leave on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432862340060381189\">new evacuation order\u003c/a> was also issued late Tuesday for a small section of Alpine County along Highway 88, near Kirkwood, where the fire gained ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[We'll] go back in and get it when the fire behaves and calms down on us,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which on Monday jumped Highway 88, had not yet reached Kirkwood, he said, but a structure defense operation with 20 engines had been established there in preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire on Tuesday also jumped the control line on Wrights Lake Road, Schwab added, and was making a run east toward Wrights Lake and Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undesirable trio of strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures continues to make the probability of ignition incredibly high, explained Cal Fire’s Stephen Vollmer, a fire behavior analyst. Those conditions enable active crown runs, where the fire jumps from treetop to treetop, sometimes casting embers more than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that's what's propagating the spread of the fire right now,\" he said. \"Those embers are landing in the very old, very dense fuels that are out there in the fire environment ... in an area that has not seen fire history all the way back before 1940.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A red flag warning will remain in place for the region through Wednesday night, amid ongoing windy gusts and low humidity, incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think today is the worst of the weather days,\" he said. \"Tomorrow’s going to be another bad weather day — I’ll be honest with you — but it’ll be the last one of those.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dudley said winds were expected to weaken considerably by Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s gonna make for a much better situation here on the fire footprint,\" he said. \"So keep that in mind. We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most of the southern and southwestern edges of the fire are now contained, officials said there is no timeline to repopulate most of those areas still under mandatory evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody is making every effort to get you back in your homes,\" said Sgt. Eric Palmberg with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. \"When these people determine it is safe to get back into our homes, we will put that information out and we will get you back in there as soon as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An army of firefighters faced an increasingly challenging fight against the Caldor Fire overnight, as the blaze's eastern flank continued to burn downslope from near Echo Summit into the Tahoe basin, with the fire establishing itself on both sides of Highway 89 south of Meyers — the third major roadway it has now jumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushed by strong winds, flames on the eastern side of Highway 89 have now begun burning into the mountains on the other side of the valley, south of South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432715647763550217"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"We saw spotting distances of a half mile to a mile yesterday. The spots went all the way to the other side of the 89 and are working their way back up,\" said Tim Ernst, Cal Fire section chief, in a morning briefing Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews in the Christmas Valley area, near Meyers, worked overnight to protect homes on the west side of 89, as the fire backed down the slope behind them. Amazingly, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrandonRittiman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1432811274845376513%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fww2.kqed.org%2Fnews%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D11886590action%3Deditclassic-editor\">there did not appear to be any significant structure loss in the neighborhoods that the flames had reached into\u003c/a>, according to ABC10 reporter Brandon Rittiman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to show you how close the Caldor Fire came to getting some of these structures. You can see the blackened forest just right up into the backyards,\" Rittiman said in a Twitter video posted on Tuesday afternoon, which he filmed near the intersection of Highway 89 and Santa Claus Drive. \"I don't see any structures lost down here, which is just incredible given the way-big flame lengths that we were seeing last night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"This took a lot of work from fire crews.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432811274845376513"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And in similarly positive news, a Cal Fire firefighter told KQED's Beth LaBerge that all structures at the Sierra at Tahoe ski resort — where the blaze had run through on Sunday night — were saved except for one vehicle maintenance building.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432807453343633409"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are likely to face even more challenging conditions and very dangerous rates of fire spread Tuesday, as winds are expected to pick up significantly and a red flag warning remains in effect until 11 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have even more flow coming across the fire to cause more turbulent winds, [with] gusts to 45 mph, maybe 50 mph depending on where you are,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stronger winds will be more pronounced at higher elevations, he said, with the general wind direction pushing the fire toward South Lake Tahoe to the northeast and further into the mountains to the east. But crews will likely have to contend with more chaotic winds on the valley floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't emphasize [enough] the wind issues we're going to have up top,\" Dudley said. \"That wind is going to channel through the canyons and drainages up there. The overall direction is going to want to take it off to the northeast and east, but when you're down on the terrain it's going to be all over the place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This fire is going to stand up and rip. Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jeff Ike, Cal Fire incident commander","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those winds mean the Caldor Fire will likely continue to grow at dangerous rates of spread — with crown fires torching large trees and throwing embers for long distances, especially in drainages that align with the southwesterly wind direction, said Stephen Vollmer, Cal Fire fire behavior analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day when those trees torch out we've got that long distance spotting. Today is not going to be any different,\" Vollmer said Tuesday morning. \"We're going to see rates of spread go up to about 200 feet per minute, and the spotting distances go over a mile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely dry conditions also mean extremely high rates of ignition for spot fires created by those embers. \"Ignition is about 90%,\" Vollmer said. \"But it probably should be about 150%.\" Vollmer said long-distance spotting would likely continue for the next two days due to forecast winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This fire is going to stand up and rip,\" said Cal Fire incident commander Jeff Ike on Tuesday morning, emphasizing the danger for fire crews and advising them to stay out of the fire's direct path. \"Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke prevented air firefighting operations periodically last week. But since then, nearly two dozen helicopters and three air tankers dumped thousands of gallons of water and retardant on the fire, fire spokesperson Dominic Polito said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of South Lake Tahoe, usually bustling with summer tourists, was eerily empty Tuesday morning, the air thick with smoke from the approaching blaze. On Monday, thousands of residents jammed Highway 50 heading toward Nevada — one of the only exit routes — after being ordered by authorities to leave.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432760035143081984"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>City officials said only a handful defied the order. But nearly everyone worried Tuesday about what the fire would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just kind of sucks waiting. I mean, I know it’s close down that way,” said Russ Crupi, gesturing south from his home in the Heavenly Valley Estates mobile home park, which he and his wife manage. He had arranged sprinklers and tractors around the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about what’ll be here when people come back. People want to come back to their houses and that’s what I’m going to try to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432768289629884416"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Mora, 37, a construction worker from South Lake Tahoe, waited until yesterday's evacuation order to leave town, jumping in his car with just a bag of clothes. He moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, where many of South Lake's Latino residents come from. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">Latino community here, which has grown markedly in recent years\u003c/a>, now accounts for more than 30% of the city's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mora, who on Tuesday was sheltering at the Carson City Community Center, said if the area is hit hard by the fire, he'll likely have to relocate in search of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it burns, it's going to be hard, a lot of years to recover, and it's not going to be the same,\" he said. \"It's going to take years to be where we're at right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday morning, the Caldor Fire had burned over 191,607 acres, destroyed at least 669 structures, and was 16% contained. Just five injuries have so far been reported since the start of the blaze more than two weeks ago.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432686814553378822"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews continued battling the Caldor Fire's advancing eastern perimeter along the Highway 50 corridor near Echo Summit on Monday afternoon, after officials put the entirety of South Lake Tahoe under a mandatory evacuation order late Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a rough long day for the troops up there today. But they have been decently successful,” said Cody Bogan, a Cal Fire operations section chief, during an evening briefing. “Luckily the fuel’s kind of run out and it kind of slowed the fire progression down, up on that north piece.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432512413576749059"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The fire was casting embers up to half a mile earlier Monday, according to fire officials, causing spot fires to ignite downslope into the Tahoe basin. The blaze, which has now charred more than 186,500 acres and is only 15% contained, continues to pose a serious threat to the basin amid a red flag warning due to higher winds and exceptionally dry conditions. That \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1432410570955706376?s=20\">warning has been extended until 11 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearer air in the area allowed some aircraft to provide much-needed support from above on Monday, Bogan said, with firefighters on the ground continuing to chase spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, along the fire's southeastern flank, crews were unable to keep the blaze from jumping Highway 88 for the first time, into Amador County. The fire jumped the highway approximately two miles west of Kirkwood, and was pushing eastward toward the resort area. Kirkwood was placed under mandatory evacuation orders on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Highway 88 corridor got hit pretty hard today,” Bogan said, noting that bulldozers were digging line to try to cut it off and “get it tamed back” onto the north side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Monday's positive developments: Firefighters have been successful in protecting the town of Strawberry, which just days earlier was under imminent threat, Bogan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything through Strawberry’s looking a lot better now. They’re continuing to mop up around structures and trying to secure things,” he said of the community that lies along Highway 50 on the western side of the pass, east of Twin Bridges. “As of right now, there’s been no structure loss in the Strawberry area that we are aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bogan also called it “a very successful day” in the southwestern sections of the fire, near where it first ignited two weeks ago, with crews making steady containment gains. That progress prompted officials late Monday to downgrade evacuation orders to warnings in several nearby areas close to Omo Ranch Road, near the Amador/El Dorado County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions, he added, were also “looking real good” heading northeast toward the Pollock Pines area, with “no real issues at all to report,” although evacuation orders there remained in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 3 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 22,000 South Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to evacuate late Monday morning as the Caldor Fire continued its rapid advance eastward, crossing Echo Summit and threatening to extend further into the Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's something that's always in the back of your mind that you hope never happens,\" said South Lake Mayor Pro Tem Devin Middlebrook, who evacuated late Sunday night. \"But here we are today, with this threat to our community. And it's something that we, as a city and as a community, have been preparing for, and hopefully that preparation pays off.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432427762271145987"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>By early Monday afternoon, vehicles packed to the brim with bikes, camping gear and other personal belongings — some even towing boats — were backed up for miles in the thick, brown air along eastbound Highway 50 heading toward Nevada, the main evacuation route, as residents anxiously waited to escape the smoke-choked basin. One man broke out his violin and played a mournful melody as he ambled along the vast line of motionless cars.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432431380588228608"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"This is a systematic evacuation, one neighborhood at a time,\" South Lake Tahoe police Lt. Travis Cabral said on social media. \"I am asking you as our community to please remain calm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation order is defined as an immediate threat to life. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/14L8o2P-uvwSK_gyLCnhFRTon7nzLUNo2t98HjP30uAY/edit\">Evacuation shelters\u003c/a> are located at Truckee Veterans Hall and the Douglas County Community and Senior Center in Gardnerville, Nevada.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432405511014522886"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The orders come as the eastern edge of the Caldor Fire continues its rapid advance. On Sunday night, the blaze extended 8 1/2 miles up to the border of the Tahoe basin, incinerating cabins and other structures in the forest along Highway 50 between Twin Bridges and Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday morning, the blaze had grown to more than 177,000 acres — a run of more than 20,000 acres over just one day — leaping over hard-fought containment lines cut with bulldozers, as crews battled the flames on multiple sides. The fire remained only 14% contained, down from 19% containment earlier this weekend, after rapid growth on the northeast and southern edges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By midday Monday, the fire had breached several points along the ridge and begun its descent into the basin, reaching spots around Lower Echo Lake and parts of Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's fire in the basin,\" Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter reported solemnly at a Monday afternoon briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Caldor is a real tough one for us,\" he said, noting the steep challenges firefighters face controlling the northeastern edge's side of the massive blaze, which continues to churn through rugged, difficult-to-reach terrain. \"It's been burning in heavy timber, just very, very difficult conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter said last week's inversion layer in the atmosphere, which helped keep a lid on the fire, disappeared yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the air clears, it's like taking the lid off of your pot of boiling water — all of a sudden there's that plume of heat and steam that comes out. Same thing happens on a fire,\" he said. \"Also sucks in oxygen from all directions, puts fire and spot fires in all directions. That's what happened yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are still assessing last night’s damage in the El Dorado County communities the fire swept through, including the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, where snowmaking equipment had been activated in the hopes of gaining some protection from the blaze. More than 600 structures have already been destroyed, and at least 20,000 more were threatened.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432296909645832192"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Weather conditions were expected to worsen throughout the day, with strong wind gusts and low humidity raising concerns of erratic fire behavior and prompting the National Weather Service to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/sto/\">red flag warning\u003c/a> extending through Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter underscored the unprecedented ferocity of California fires this season , which is still just in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't had fires burn from one side of the Sierras to the other. [But] we did with the Dixie, now we have with the Caldor. Two times in our history, and they're both happening this month,\" he said, urging residents to be prepared and evacuate as early as possible. \"We need to be really cognizant that there is fire activity happening in California that we have never seen before.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432306480854667265"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEvacuation orders and warnings hit South Lake Tahoe and additional areas in the Tahoe basin on Sunday night after a challenging weekend for crews battling the massive Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in El Dorado County were extended to include the community of Meyers and communities south of Meyers along Highway 89 to the Alpine County line. An evacuation warning is now in effect for the remainder of El Dorado County in the Tahoe basin, including all of South Lake Tahoe and communities along the southern shores of the lake north to the Placer County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional evacuation orders in Alpine County included the Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Caples Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe's main medical facility, Barton Memorial Hospital, proactively evacuated 36 patients needing skilled nursing and 16 in acute care beds Sunday, sending them to regional facilities far from the fire, public information officer Mindi Befu said. The rest of the hospital was evacuating following Monday's expanded orders.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432201690569076738"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Fire officials sounded resigned in a community meeting Sunday evening, as new evacuation orders were issued across El Dorado and Alpine counties in the wake of \"extreme rates\" of fire spread, said Eric Schwab, Cal Fire's operation section chief.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> include Meyers, just 7 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, which itself was issued an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A couple days ago I really felt we were turning the corner with it,\" Schwab told the community. But without adequate staffing and with changing weather conditions, firefighters found themselves playing defense over the weekend, fire officials said — not so much stopping the spread, as working to save structures from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said that in the last two weeks, the Caldor Fire's perimeter had advanced less than a half mile, but on Sunday the perimeter \"moved about 2 1/2 miles on us with no sign it's slowing down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those conditions, Schwab said, fire crews moved to their No. 1 priority: evacuating people and preserving life. Much of their defense of structures was around Highway 50 and the Kirkwood Mountain Resort, with 25 strike teams of engines, 25 bulldozers and 25 hand crews set to defend nearby structures Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the wind blows like this, our primary modes are one — hold onto what we have,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A favorable turn in weather Saturday afternoon allowed firefighters to make progress and increase containment of the fire to 19%, up from 12% the day before, said Capt. Stephen Horner, a Cal Fire spokesperson for the Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sunday's effort was far more of a struggle, with crews having to carry hoses by hand through rough terrain. Triple-digit weather also lies ahead through Tuesday, leaving little optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s been a rough day and there’s no bones about it,\" said Jeff Marsolais, forest supervisor for Eldorado National Forest. A few days ago, he thought crews could halt the Caldor Fire's eastern progress, but “today it let loose.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432142906119364608"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"Eleven days ago we had 240 people, and that was it to try to work and contain this fire,\" said Keith Wade, a Cal Fire captain and public information officer. \"Now we're upwards of 3,500 personnel. … That means more help. And that means more containment lines getting down on the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7 p.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Cal Fire has ordered evacuations across portions of El Dorado County, including near Echo Summit. Cal Fire also asked other communities near Echo Summit — like Christmas Valley near Highway 89 — to prepare for that possibility. Check Cal Fire's incident page for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">a full list of evacuation orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive blaze has raged across a vast expanse of steep, mountainous terrain southwest of Lake Tahoe and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/21/map-caldor-fire-structure-damage/\">destroyed more than 470 structures\u003c/a> since igniting on Aug. 14, even as the fire continued to advance northeast toward the much more populated Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some low humidity on Saturday afternoon increased fire activity, according to Cal Fire, with erratic winds casting embers up to half a mile from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire,\" said Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/1202995556829423\">a Saturday evening community meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday night and Monday, wind will increase, Dudley said, prompting officials to call a red flag warning for the northern Sierra and the southern Cascades, which takes effect 11 a.m. Monday through Tuesday evening. Those conditions may mean more \"rapid spread of fire,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1431739221140668419\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said they'll expect to see increased fire activity Sunday and Monday morning, since an inversion layer of air is expected to bottle up smoky air in the area and release it those mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visibility improved enough near Saturday evening to allow Cal Fire to bring in more air support, said Cal Fire Section Chief Cody Bogan.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1430676198099591169"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Updated 8 p.m. Friday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs of Friday morning, much of the southwestern and western flanks of the sprawling Caldor Fire, along with its southern perimeter, had been largely contained, with no major growth reported, fire officials said. Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Erich Schwab echoed that sentiment about the southwestern portion of the blaze in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/143879924593222/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZVbYUAtW09muDQHgYMvpoOyg-iiNyt8bTlt0XzI13BuilkJLhDjyrQKPKO04xSFaV9sVB2nIG0ag7n0AsAhJdWIZBQFHGjeqPyTJ_4jZYn68ZoyESqivZv3xdf_JqBckwAkIz7rnQRLgZPxjwiGgIjZV8UilVZdXIEd9md-x3R9Bw&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">evening briefing\u003c/a>, saying fire officials were \"finally comfortable and confident that that's not going to move any further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said technical burning operations on the northwestern edge of the fire — the portion closest to Placerville — resulted in some minor spot fires, which were difficult to fight in extremely limited visibility due to smoke. \"We hope to get it boxed in,\" Schwab said, as a daylong smoke inversion had lifted and allowed an air attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most active and dangerous portions of the Caldor Fire remain the eastern and northeastern sections currently burning toward the Lake Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most problematic flank of the blaze — the northeastern section, which has jumped Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry — \"got very active [Thursday] and jumped over our proposed control line and ran about 800 acres ... burning up to the 7,500 elevation line,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fuels are extremely critical up there,\" he added. \"Fuels that normally wouldn't be available to burn actively are burning with extreme conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That portion of the fire has also \"completely torched\" much of the area along Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry, hurling fallen trees and other debris onto the roadway, said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst earlier on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This road is extremely treacherous right now,\" Ernst added, while noting that firefighters have so far been able to protect all the structures in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1431383703238819843"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Schwab sounded a note of optimism Friday evening regarding the blaze's eastern section south of Highway 50, calling it a \"success story for today.\" Crews were able to establish multiple bulldozer containment lines east of where the fire is burning — that is, between the fire and the Tahoe basin — and Schwab was hopeful that planned overnight backfire operations would succeed in halting the blaze's eastern progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answering a question about the likelihood of the blaze reaching the Tahoe basin, Schwab said, \"We're doing everything that we can to ensure that it doesn't. ... That's why [the eastern branch of the fire south of Highway 50] is such a critical priority for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for winds that could significantly drive the fire, Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said Friday evening that relatively light winds are forecast for the weekend, but that the situation could change Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll probably be hearing terms like 'possibly a red flag might be coming out this weekend for strong winds for Monday,'\" said Cal Fire incident met\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Monica Lam contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11886590/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin","authors":["1263","182","11526","11626","11690","11746","11708"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_29668","news_21894","news_6383","news_29842","news_18538","news_20341","news_27626","news_787"],"featImg":"news_11887701","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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