“We didn’t have to drive downtown for anything,” she said. “There was every ethnicity. It was just beautiful.”

In her memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou described the Fillmore in its pre-urban renewal days.

“The street contained two day and night restaurants, two billiards halls, four Chinese restaurants, two gambling dens, as well as taverns, shoe shine shops, beauty parlors, barber shops, and at least four churches.” These two blocks, Angelou wrote, were in the eight to ten square block range been duplicated many times.

“San Francisco was the first time I saw myself as something,” she wrote.

The glorious memories of suburban renewal in Fillmore are part of what made the eventual loss all the more devastating.

“Seeing all these people blossom and thrive,” Scott said. “And then losing all of that.”

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took aim at San Francisco, calling the city a “dumpster fire” while expressing fears about what would happen if companies there relocated to Florida.

“There is cause for concern,” DeSantis said during an event Monday. “Texas would have all these companies moved from California over the years. So you’d have companies move from San Francisco to Austin, and they’d bring hundreds of employees with them. And those employees would vote the exact same way they voted that turned San Francisco into the dumpster fire that it is.”

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DeSantis expressed fears that California voters could begin moving to Florida, saying they fail to make the connection between “leftist” policies and the problems they left behind.

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“It’s like the leftism, they will not draw the connection between their leftist ideology and the destruction that’s all around them,” DeSantis said. “It’s a problem because I do think there’s a class of voters who would come to Florida, and they would continue to vote the same way.”

The Republican governor’s comments come as many high-profile companies and entrepreneurs in the technology industry have either expressed interest in, or already have, moved from California to Texas and Florida.

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Among the most high-profile movers was Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who moved from California to Texas last year and has publicly floated the idea of ​​moving Tesla’s headquarters with him. While a Tesla move to Texas hasn’t happened yet, the company has invested in a large facility close to Austin and appears poised to make Texas a priority.

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The comments also come at the same time as Musk officially made a deal to purchase Twitter, another high-profile company currently with headquarters in California.

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PLUMAS COUNTY (CBS SF) – A wildfire that broke out in Plumas County on Tuesday exploded overnight, growing to 1,200 acres and burning not far from the same area devastated by the campfire in 2018.

Cal Fire’s Butte County’s office, known as the Dixie Fire, said the vegetation in Lassen National Forest in Plumas County’s is still burning on Wednesday morning, consuming the vegetation.

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The fire started just after 5 p.m. Tuesday evening and grew to 10-15 acres in a matter of hours, despite Cal Fire requesting air support. Access for ground crew was challenging in the remote area, allowing the fire to grow exponentially to its current size of approximately 1,200 acres overnight. It is currently at zero containment.

The Dixie Fire burns about 10 miles northeast of Paradise, the small town largely devastated by a wildfire in 2018 that killed 85 people. Fortunately, according to the fire department, the new fire is burning in a northerly direction, away from inhabited areas.

Paradise officials carefully monitored the fire and said there was no evacuation order or warning for the city yet. Emergency lines built during the North Complex fire last year will be used to keep the fire out of populated areas, firefighters said.

But the Butte County Sheriff issued precautionary evacuation warnings for the Pulga and Concow areas on Wednesday morning.

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) is issuing an EVACUATION WARNING for the Pulga and East Concow areas as wildfire is burning in the area.
For more information, see the public card on the BCSO website, https://t.co/OM08mbGqHO, or call 833-512-5378. pic.twitter.com/Ym95HS05Cb

– Butte County Sheriff (@ButteSheriff) July 14, 2021

Air support provided by NorCal Air Operations has been able to release fire retardant drops more frequently due to its proximity to Chico Air Force Base, officials said.

Fire fighters are making good progress on the #DixieFire despite the fire conditions as Chico Air Attack Base is five minutes away. This benefits air tankers as they have a quick charge and return to fire (10 minute turnaround time). pic.twitter.com/RGmPwTcT9A

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– NorCal Air Operations (@NorcalAirOps) July 14, 2021

Meanwhile, a fire in the sierra south of Yosemite National Park stayed just under 39 square kilometers, but containment rose to 21%.

The River Fire stretches across two counties during the park’s main tourist season.

KPIX learned Wednesday that multiple fires are burning in Yosemite National Park, but officials say these are very small and will not affect visitor areas or parking services.

In northeast California, crews reported progress on the state’s largest fire to date this year. The Beckwourth Complex, a combined pair of light-ignited flames, was 71% contained after blackening nearly 149 square miles (386 square kilometers) near the Nevada state line.

Damage is still being counted in the small rural town of Doyle, California, where flames entered the weekend and destroyed 33 homes, including Beverly Houdyshell’s. The 79-year-old said Tuesday she was too old and poor to rebuild and wasn’t sure what her future holds.

“What chance do I have of building another house, of having another home?” Said Houdyshell. “No chance at all.”

“I can’t just buy another house, such a boom. I had insurance. I haven’t heard from them yet. I called her but I didn’t hear anything, “she added.

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The Bay Area took a rare hiatus on Monday when an expected spate of lightning strikes never materialized and more foreign aid came to quell three gigantic forest fires in the area.

However, the extent of the damage from these flames comes into focus as they engulf homes and forests at a ferocious pace with little containment.

“We’re essentially living in a megafire era,” said Jake Hess, chief of the Santa Clara Cal fire department, on Monday, describing wildfires that got out of hand and become more complicated and destructive every year. He warned that early and large evacuations will occur more frequently if the emergency services make an effort to keep up.

Even on a day of relative calm, the winds could change at any moment, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday, linking the massive fires to climate change. The new conditions – short springs, dry summers and intense weather – “start fires like we have not seen in modern history,” said the governor.

Heavy thunderstorms skipped the Bay Area on Sunday evening, saving residents the lightning strikes that started hundreds of forest fires last week and sparked the current crisis. Instead, the storms threw water and a bit of lightning across the Central Valley and into the Sierra Nevada. The Tahoe region experienced a thunderstorm around 4:30 a.m. and winds of 75 km / h.

“Most of the Bay Area dodged a bullet,” said Roger Gass, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Ten new fires started in other parts of the state, but the attack was nowhere near as bad as expected. And as the weather cools down a bit, the California fire battle currently being fought with more than 14,000 firefighters and 2,400 engines is getting much-needed support from nature.

Newsom added that the state has placed 2,211 evacuees in hotel rooms and 17 emergency shelters across the state. And he said California has issued safety protocols to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in these shelters, including requiring a health screening upon entry. Masks and social distancing are also mandatory.

But for the Bay Area fire department, it was the lack of lightning and even a little rain that made the biggest impression. That was good news for the thousands of overworked firefighters fighting flames in the north, east, and south of the Bay Area, and didn’t give them new big fires to deal with – just the existing ones that were bad enough although the crews made some progress overnight.

We canceled the red flag warning.

Be weather aware as there are still weak cells over the North Bay. However, most of the moisture has moved north of our area and instability has decreased so we can be sure that the warning will expire ahead of schedule. # CAwx pic.twitter.com/bG8PKPr6Sn

– NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) August 24, 2020

“We have had a lot of success and Mother Nature has obviously helped us a lot with humidity, increased humidity and less wind,” said Billy See, deputy chief of California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, at a briefing on the CZU Lightning Complex fires in the California on Monday Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. “We will continue to make progress as long as conditions continue to improve.”

This fire grew only marginally to 78,684 acres and containment increased to 13%. Two hundred and seventy-six buildings have now been destroyed in both counties and another 25,000 have been threatened again. More than 77,000 people have been evacuated from the fire zone.

So far, the fire has resulted in one death – 73-year-old Tad Jones, who died in a remote area at the end of Last Chance Road. He apparently tried to escape and was found near his vehicle, said a spokesman for the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office. Four people in the county are missing.

In the North Bay, which stretches into Solano County, the LNU Lightning Complex – the second most common fire in the state’s history – hit 350,030 acres on Monday with a 22% containment. Cal Fire reported Monday that another person was found dead in the Solano County fire, but further details were not available. Cal Fire had previously confirmed four previous deaths.

Chris Waters, director of the Cal Fire division, said conditions had improved overall in several areas of the fire – particularly in the Meyers Fire north of Jenner. Containment had improved to 95 percent with 2,360 acres burned. Sonoma County has reported no deaths or missing persons.

“We’ve got this under control pretty well and we’re starting to think about repopulating the area,” said Waters. He also said the crews were working to reopen Highway 1 in that area.

Also within the LNU complex, the massive Hennessey fire in the eastern zone is now on 293,602 acres at 26% containment, Cal Fire said.

However, none of these advances could minimize the heartache left by the raging flames.

It was utter devastation on Monday near Spanish Flat, an area next to the picturesque Berryessa Lake. The entire landscape was charred and the winding roads lined the roads with molten road signs.

25-year-old firefighter Brandon North said his parents’ mobile home burned down in a fire that ripped through the area last week. It was a cruel irony for him to be a firefighter, having to evacuate his own neighborhood and then watch his parents’ house go up in flames.

“I’ve been to major fires outside of the county before,” he said. “But it’s just a little different when it’s your front yard.”

In Vacaville on Monday, Ken Albers slowly shuffled through his burning showroom and passed three of his 16 classic Chevrolets, the paint melted and charred and, like the rest of his house, destroyed.

The retired 72-year-old surveyor had lived on the 5-hectare property for 30 years with his 72-year-old wife Marci. They were both lifelong collectors. Marci lost her 500 Ginny dolls, stamp collection, antiques, and Ken lost his 500-piece toy train set and 200 plastic car models. And all the classic Chevys melted and roasted – eight were Corvettes.

“It’s pretty devastating,” said Ken. “There is nothing left of the house but the chimney.”

The SCU Lightning Complex from fires in Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara and several other counties grew to 347,196 acres with only 10% containment. Twelve buildings were destroyed and twelve others damaged, Cal Fire reported. It is the third largest fire in the state’s history based on the area burned.

Despite Monday’s dawn with no local lightning strikes, Bay Area fire and weather officials warned that dry lightning could strike throughout the day and that the area was still occupied by firefighters due to the unexpectedly large spread of the flames.

While fire smoke clogged the air almost everywhere, air quality remained unhealthy in parts of the East Bay on Monday, although it improved somewhat across the Bay Area as a whole.

The worst air quality in the area was in Livermore, Pleasanton, Concord and Vallejo, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Each of these cities reported unhealthy levels of particulate matter from devastating smoke.

These readings were at least the worst improvement over Sunday when Livermore and Pleasanton experienced dangerous levels of pollution. San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Jose all reported moderate air quality.

The San Francisco Chronicle employees Dustin Gardiner, Ryan Kost, and Dominic Fracassa contributed to this report.

Kevin Fagan, Trisha Thadani, Matthias Gafni, and Rachel Swan are contributors to the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: kfagan@sfchronicle.com, tthadani@sfchronicle.com, matthias.gafni@sfchronicle.com, rswan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KevinChron, @TrishaThadani, @mgafni, @rachelswan

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