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Dear Reader, My first radio station was KMUN in Astoria, Oregon, a fishing town shrouded in fog and perched on a ledge where the Columbia River pours into the sea. It's a community station, where everyone on air is a volunteer. The schedule ranged through blues, punk, folk, classical, bluegrass and jazz, with home-brewed talk shows and a nightly children's story time that parents throughout northwest Oregon and southwest Washington relied on to get their kids into bed. At a station like that, the voices on the air are personal; they're everyone's friends and neighbors talking between cuts of music about whatever's happening. When the Kincade Fire broke out in Sonoma County, local radio stations turned themselves into grassroots community radio, dumping their standard programming and becoming the friends and neighbors people could rely on to talk about what was happening and how to get through it. In the midst of disaster, it isn't going to be cell phones or the internet that can move critical information across the landscape to help people survive and care for one another. It's going to be radio. Danielle Venton's story this week brings you some of these moments from the front lines of radio during the fire. | | Kat Snow Senior Editor, Science |
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| When Your Power's Out, Internet's Off and There's No Cell Service, Radio Still Works | |
During the Kincade Fire, when other communication methods failed, radio once again proved its worth. | |
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Researchers Probe the Toxic Soup From Wildfire | As climate change primes California to burn, the long-term health risks of wildland firefighting are still a mystery. | |
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Regulators Launch New Probe of Blackouts Imposed by PG&E and Other Major Utilities | The California Public Utilities Commission also warns PG&E it could be fined for missteps made in conducting October power shutoffs. | |
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PG&E Executives Won't Get Bonuses Under Federal Bill by Kamala Harris | Sen. Harris' bill would bar executive bonuses at bankrupt, publicly traded utility companies like PG&E, which has come under fire for proposing to pay $11 million in bonuses amid bankruptcy and catastrophic wildfires. | |
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As SpaceX Launches Dozens of Satellites at a Time, Some Fear an Orbital Traffic Jam | SpaceX and a rival company are rushing ahead with plans for constellations of thousands of satellites, but regulators might not be ready. | |
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| LISTEN: Many CA Classrooms Have Insufficient Ventilation According to New UC Davis Study |
| Almost 85% of California K-12 schools with heating, ventilation and air conditioning units installed in the past three years do not provide sufficient ventilation, according to a new study from UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. | |
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| Vapers Turn to Home Brew as Flavored Nicotine Bans Mount |
| As more states, cities and even the federal government consider banning flavored nicotine, thousands of do-it-yourself vapers are flocking to social media groups and websites to learn how to make e-liquids at home. | |
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| Elevated Park Will Connect Crissy Field With Presidio |
| In San Francisco, Tunnel Tops Park, scheduled to open in 2021, will offer free public access to a 360-degree view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands and San Francisco skyline. | |
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