Authorities in Mariposa County have issued evacuation orders for several roads and a stay-at-home order for a hospital after a wildfire broke out early Thursday evening.

French fire in Mariposa County

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The Mariposa County Sheriff first posted about the so-called French Fire on social media at around 6:30 p.m. Residents of the following streets were asked to evacuate starting at 8:15 p.m.

• Hospital Rd. – From Silver Creek to the end (up the mountain)
• Grosjean Rd.
• 11th St.
• Avoca Vale
• Old Highway North from 140 to Wild Peach, including Wild Peach on both sides of the roadway
• Slaughterhouse Street.
• : Williams Street.
• 9. Branch in Campbell Rd.
• Pine Street.
• Dexter View

Officials are in the areas sending door-to-door notices. People at John C. Fremont Hospital, located at 5189 Hospital Road in the town of Mariposa, have been ordered to shelter in place due to the fire. An evacuation map showing affected areas is available online.

“If you live in the area and do not feel safe, please leave and do not wait to be told to evacuate,” the recent post said.

As of 8:45 p.m., Cal Fire's Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unit confirmed the French Fire was 400 acres and 0% contained. There is no word yet on the response from Cal Fire and local fire departments.

In addition, Highway 140 is closed between Smith Rd. and West Whitlock. There are numerous other road closures.

Authorities have set up a temporary evacuation point at the New Life Christian Church at 5089 Cole Road in Mariposa.

Residents are advised to stay away from the fire area. Several road closures in the fire area and surrounding areas.

Evacuation warnings have been issued for the following streets:

• Hospital Rd. – From Silver Creek to the end (up the mountain)
• Grosjean Rd.
• 11th St.
• Avoca Vale
• Old Highway North from Highway 140 to Wild Peach, including Wild Peach on both sides of the roadway
• Slaughterhouse Street.
• : Williams Street.
• 9. Branch in Campbell Rd.
• Pine Street.
• Dexter View

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Want to live in Saint Francis Wood in someone’s 600-square-foot in-law studio for a relatively reasonable rent that comes with a major catch? Well, someone over there is seeking an unheard-of deal on child care, essentially offering to pay $250 a week ($1000 a month), plus free rent, to be an overnight live-in nanny, six nights a week. This parent/landlord is giving preference to teachers, so if any of you teachers out there would like to get off work dealing with kids all day to go home and deal with someone else’s kids all night, and only have one night off a week, have I got a deal for you!

The ad is currently on Craigslist and apparently this deluded parent thinks this is such a terrific deal, s/he didn’t bother to include any pictures of the apartment, only a map showing its location. The text says it’s “one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in San Francisco,” but that’s a bit of a stretch for being Muni-adjacent in what’s basically West Portal, on the edge of Saint Francis Wood. But sure, if you want to move to suburbia without leaving the city, and basically take care of someone’s kids — almost for free — so that they can have a life, Monday to Saturday from 9:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., this is a fine opportunity.

The deal is structured like so: Your salary for the childcare is technically $2800 a month, and you’re being asked to “help care” for an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, babysitting at night, putting them to bed, and getting them off to school in the a.m. (Though they’ll be asleep, presumably, for most of those hours, this basically works out to $10-$11 per hour.) Your rent will be taken out of that pay, however, at $1800 per month, so you really only net $1000, pre-tax, and so this is just a little spending cash on top of your full-time job. But you won’t have any time to spend it except maybe on Saturday afternoons, and on your one night off a week, Sunday. No going out for you!

It seems like a high price to pay for anyone but the most devoted homebody and caregiver who just needs a place to rest their head. And for $1800 a month, while you may not find a studio where you’d be living by yourself, you could probably find a decent share someplace where you weren’t forced into servitude six nights a week, but I guess “free” rent is worth it to somebody.

And just to repeat: There are no pictures so this place might be a dump.

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Under the law, the state would require all facilities whose water exceeds the 5 ppb limit to reduce lead to as close to zero as possible.

Daycare standards are higher than those in elementary, middle, and high schools, where not every faucet needs to be tested, faucets replaced, or parents notified unless lead levels exceed 15 ppb.

Rep. Chris Holden, the author of AB 2370, introduced legislation this year that would require schools to meet the same standards as day care centers.

“By aligning lead testing standards in childcare and schools, we can protect children from the toxic effects of lead,” Holden said in a statement.

Day care centers had a two-year window to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination. But so far, months after the deadline, only about half of the 14,500 tests required have been reported, according to EWG’s analysis. It’s unclear how many daycares haven’t yet tested their water for lead, or if their results haven’t been reported by labs.

Little said she expects the number of facilities with harmful lead exposure to increase as more testing results become available.

“It seems like this is just the tip of the iceberg,” she said, pointing out that licensed family child care homes in California, which have more day care centers, aren’t even required to test their water for lead.

Little advises parents sending their children to family children’s homes to encourage their providers to install newer faucets and lead-removing filters.

Parents sending their children to a center can search the EWG’s database for lead level results (PDF) and urge them to test their water if results from that facility are missing.

If the facility is found to have an unsafe level of lead in water, Little recommends parents check with providers for details on what they have done to lower that level.

Kumiko Inui, principal at San Francisco’s ABC preschool, whose lead levels scored the fourth-highest in the study, said the result was due to an outdoor sink that hadn’t been used in years and has since been turned off. However, she said other facilities at the bilingual Japanese-English preschool were below 5 ppb and that the school uses a filter in its kitchen sink and provides bottled water for students.

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While it’s easy to forget at times, San Francisco is still tacitly enforcing some water restrictions from California’s previous drought, the longest and most severe in history.

Residents are still not allowed to use drinking water to wash driveways or sidewalks unless there is a public health reason. Wells have to circulate water. Restaurants are technically not allowed to serve drinking water unless a customer asks first.

Given a recent drought in California that caused Governor Gavin Newsom to sign an executive order calling for a voluntary 15% reduction in water use, it is worth asking whether the city of San Francisco will introduce new mandatory water restrictions will introduce.

“Do we have to be stricter than now? This is something we don’t expect right now,” said Steve Ritchie, assistant general manager of water for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFUC). “But if the fall and winter are completely dry, we will have to think about new restrictions in January next year. We have had two of the driest years on record, and moving into a third is not promising. Fortunately, we are doing better than most agencies in terms of water storage. “

North of the city, Marin County restricts outdoor irrigation, while in South Bay, the city of Santa Clara is developing an aggressive water protection plan. Other regions of the state also impose their own restrictions.

Ritchie said restrictions will be inconsistent across the Bay Area because each county has a different water system. He believes the city, Peninsula and East Bay are likely to be in the same boat this year: no new restrictions for now, but may need to be re-evaluated early in 2022.

In San Francisco in particular, the city gets most of its water from the Hetch Hetchy Water Project (in Yosemite National Park), which is operated by the SFPUC. The system produces so much water that SFPUC is selling it to other cities in the Bay Area.

“We have more storage than most people because we can store our water in our wet years,” he said. “A good example on the other end of the spectrum is Marin, where they use a rain-based system with limited storage. So if you can go two years without rain, you really hurt.”

Santa Clara’s problems stem from the count’s reliance on water from the currently barren State Water Project, as well as the count’s closure of its largest source of drinking water due to a seismic retrofit project.

Earlier this week, the SFPUC reported that it was on track to meet Newsom’s goal of voluntarily reducing water use by 15%. The SFPUC called for a voluntary 10% reduction in water use back in April, and consumption has fallen by 7% since then.

It certainly helps that the San Franciscans use an average of 42 gallons of water per day, which is one of the lowest rates in the state.

“The bottom line is that San Francisco’s customers have been very responsible about their water use and we expect them to keep doing it and save a little more,” said Ritchie. “We all benefit from the extra water savings when everyone is responsible, so we hope they keep going and we know they will.”

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SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – In a unanimous vote Tuesday evening, San Jose City Council approved the first gun control measure of its kind.

The first would require that every gun owner have liability insurance for their firearms. The insurance could not legally cover intentional damage caused by a gun owner.

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The second requires gun owners to pay an annual fee to reimburse taxpayers for public costs of responding to gun-related injuries and deaths, including police and medical services.

San Jose is the first city in the country to adopt such measures. The new laws are part of a gun control plan proposed by Mayor Sam Liccardo earlier this month after the mass shooting of a disgruntled Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee at a light rail station in San Jose.

“It is also the case that the Second Amendment, while securing the right to own a weapon, does not require that we as taxpayers subsidize the possession of these weapons,” Liccardo said during the virtual meeting.

According to Liccardo, gun liability insurance is comparable to car insurance in that it encourages responsible ownership, storage and use of guns. He said the fees would be modest – possibly between $ 25 and $ 30.

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“We know crooks won’t buy insurance. Of course not, ”said Liccardo. “So when a police officer answers a domestic violence call and asks the question every officer asks, ‘Are there guns in the house?’ at this point the officer can determine whether this person has followed the law to take out insurance. “

Gun lawyers said the measures will punish law-abiding gun owners and will challenge the city’s decision in court. They doubt that they have much influence on gun violence and are likely to come into conflict with the second amendment.

“We believe it is clearly unconstitutional for the government at any level to charge some kind of fee before someone can exercise an enumerated constitutional right,” said Sam Paredes of Gun Owners of California.

Two weeks ago, the city council passed law requiring retailers to videotape all gun purchases, making it the largest city in California with such a rule.

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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – San Francisco has expanded both its travel advice and stay at home ordering service.

The city said Thursday it doesn’t appear that the Bay Area will have 15% of the available intensive capacity by Jan. 7. At this point, your home stay order should likely expire as long as the COVID numbers improve.

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Mayor of London Breed and Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax also expanded the travel advice that requires a 10-day quarantine for all people coming to San Francisco from outside the Bay Area, with a few exceptions for important travelers.

No expected date has been set for the cancellation of the orders.

“The renewal of both health mandates will continue until the Bay Area is no longer subject to the state’s regional residency ordinances. Once the state repeals its regional home stay ordinance, San Francisco will reassess key health indicators to see if they support easing current restrictions on businesses and activities and resuming the measured reopening process that adheres to the state framework oriented. “

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Another reason a new expiration date has not been set is because the country has not yet recognized the consequences of people who ignored stay-at-home orders over the Christmas and New Year holidays.

“We have proactively ensured that order remains at home and quarantine on travel is in place to protect the Franciscans and in the hope that by acting quickly we can flatten the curve and reopen it more quickly,” said Breed. “It seems to be working, but we need more time to realize that we are going in the right direction and that the December holidays are not throwing us back. There are glimmers of hope and now is not the time to let up. ”

The following activities must be temporarily closed until further notice:

• Personal services: hair and nail salons, hairdressers, tattoos, piercings, beauticians and massages must cease operations, including indoor and outdoor operations.
• Outdoor dining: Restaurants can only deliver or take away.
• Open-air museums, aquariums and zoos
• Indoor gyms
• Drive-in meetings. Driving in theaters and other performances offered in a drive-in context must be discontinued.
• Outdoor family entertainment centers
• Open-air bus and boat operators

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The following activities must still be performed at a reduced capacity:

• Sale. All retail stores such as shopping malls, hardware stores, convenience stores, equipment rentals, and specialty stores must reduce capacity to 20% (and implement a metering system. Stand-alone grocery stores can operate at 35% capacity.
• Retail with little contact. Service-oriented retail such as dog groomers, electronics repair services, and shoe repair services can only operate in a roadside context.

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The following activities can continue with changes:

• Hotels may only accept reservations from key workers traveling for work purposes or to support critical infrastructure, including accommodation for isolation and quarantine purposes. If a person from another state who is not traveling for essential purposes makes a reservation, it must be at least the number of days required for quarantine. The people specified in the reservation must be quarantined in the hotel or accommodation for the entire required time. Reservations made by non-essential CA residents may not be accepted or recognized.
• Small gatherings. Small outdoor gatherings must be limited to members of a household with a maximum of 12 people or a maximum of 2 people from 2 households. Face covering should always be left in place, except when eating or drinking. Indoor gatherings between different households are not permitted.
• Outdoor gyms. Outdoor fitness or fitness center activities, as well as outdoor fitness group classes (such as boot camps, dance, yoga, tai chi, etc.) are limited to groups of 12 people, including staff, and must maintain strict spacing requirements for face covering. Running groups are prohibited.

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• Youth sports. Youth sports activities associated with a childcare program, an after-school time program, or any other organized and supervised youth sports program may only be continued outdoors without competitions or spectators and with strict social distancing and face protection requirements.
• Indoor activities open to the public. Any facility that allows members of the public to access indoor areas, including shopping malls, grocery stores, corner stores, financial services, hardware stores, pharmacies, etc., must put in place a metering system to monitor capacity thresholds and ensure that capacity does not exceed the limits. In fact, a company needs to assign a specific person on the staff to monitor the number of people in the facility and to ensure that the 20% capacity threshold (or the 35% capacity for standalone grocery stores) is met at all times. In addition, special hours should be set up for the elderly and other people with chronic illnesses or a weakened immune system.
• Adult recreation. Non / low contact adult activities such as golf, tennis, pickle ball and bocce can continue outdoors subject to restrictions (golf is limited to two people and members of different households are not allowed to share a cart; tennis and pickle ball are for singles without sharing limited) equipment).

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A health ordinance that provides for a mandatory 10-day quarantine for anyone traveling to or returning to San Francisco from outside the Bay Area has been extended beyond the January 4th end date.

Dr. Grant Colfax, Mayor of San Francisco’s Race and Health Mayor of London, announced the extension of the quarantine that will apply to returning residents, those moving to San Francisco, those who work in San Francisco, and visitors if so is not expressly excluded from the regulation.

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The travel quarantine order introduced on December 17 also strongly advises against non-essential travel of any kind and distance, including from one place to another within the Bay Area.

San Francisco already extended its local Order Stay Safer at Home regulation on December 3rd, which was reflected in California’s regional stay-at-home regulation on December 17th, when the availability of intensive care beds in the Bay Area was under 15% fell. While the state might not cancel the Bay Area stay-at-home order until Jan. 8, the city doesn’t expect the state’s ICU capacity to cancel the order to be reached by that date.

The city is extending both mandatory quarantine and stay-at-home orders until the Bay Area region is no longer subject to the state’s regional stay-at-home order.

“We have proactively ensured that order remains at home and quarantine for travel is in place to protect the Franciscans, and in the hope that by acting quickly we can flatten the curve and reopen it more quickly,” said Mayor Breed in a press release. “It seems to be working, but we need more time to realize that we are going in the right direction and that the December break is not throwing us back. There are glimmers of hope and now is not the time to let up. “

San Francisco’s mandatory quarantine allows exemptions for health professionals, first responders, official government business, critical infrastructure work, and other activities, including travel to get medical care or travel required by a court order. Travelers arriving at San Francisco International Airport on connecting flights and not staying overnight are also exempt.

Individuals in need of quarantine must stay at home without physical interaction with anyone outside their household, except in emergency situations or in healthcare. You are not allowed to go to work, school, or anywhere outside of your home for 10 days.

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As of Wednesday, ICU capacity in the Bay Area was around 7.5% and cases continued to rise regionally, suggesting that critical care demand is unlikely to decline in the coming weeks, the city said in a press release With.

Also, with the first case of a new, contagious strain of COVID originating in the UK discovered in San Diego County and Colorado, reducing travel expenses as much as possible and quarantined after traveling outside of the Bay Area is crucial important to stop the virus from spreading.

“The steps we have taken together have served us well, but the fact remains that San Francisco is in the middle of its worst climb yet,” said Dr. Colfax in a prepared statement. “We need to keep taking preventive measures that we know will slow the spread of the virus and save lives. Please continue to avoid gatherings, wear face covering, and keep your distance. We’ve squashed the curve before and can do it again. “

San Francisco’s Stay Safer at Home order means the following activities must be temporarily closed until further notice:
• Personal services. Facilities providing personal care services, including hair and nail salons, hairdressers, tattoos, piercings, beauticians and massages, will have to cease operations, including both indoor and outdoor operations.
• Eating outdoors. Restaurants and other establishments that offer catering services may only be operated for delivery or take-away. Eating and drinking on the premises, including in common areas, is prohibited.
• Open-air museums, aquariums and zoos. Outdoor installations or exhibits associated with museums, aquariums, or zoos may not allow visitors to enter. Outdoor botanical gardens and historical sites can remain open.
• Indoor gyms. The limited 1: 1 personal training in gyms and fitness centers that was permitted under the previous health ordinance must be discontinued, but can take place outdoors (see below).
• Drive-in meetings. Driving in theaters and other performances offered in a drive-in context must be discontinued.
• Outdoor family entertainment centers. Outdoor family entertainment centers such as skate parks, roller and ice rinks, batting cages, go-kart racing, and miniature golf must be closed.
• Open-air bus and boat operators. Open-air bus operators offering sightseeing and other tours, as well as open-air boat excursions, including recreational and fishing expeditions, must cease operations.

The following activities must still be performed at a reduced capacity:
• Retail trade. All retail stores such as malls, hardware stores, convenience stores, equipment rentals, and specialty stores must reduce capacity to 20% (and implement a metering system (see below). Standalone grocery stores can operate at 35% capacity.
• Low-contact retail. Service-oriented retail such as dog groomers, electronics repair services, and shoe repair services can only operate in a roadside context.

The following activities can continue with the changes indicated:
• Hotels and accommodation. Hotels may only accept reservations from key workers traveling for work purposes or to support critical infrastructure, including accommodation for isolation and quarantine purposes. If a person from another state who is not traveling for essential purposes makes a reservation, they must do so for at least the number of days required for the quarantine. The people specified in the reservation must be quarantined in the hotel or accommodation for the entire required time. Reservations made by non-essential CA residents may not be accepted or recognized.
• Small gatherings. Small outdoor gatherings must be limited to members of a household with a maximum of 12 people or a maximum of 2 people from 2 households. Face covering should always be left in place, except when eating or drinking. Indoor gatherings between different households are not permitted.
• Outdoor gyms. Outdoor fitness or fitness center activities, as well as outdoor fitness group classes (such as boot camps, dance, yoga, tai chi, etc.) are limited to groups of 12 people, including staff, and must adhere to strict spacing requirements for face covering. Running groups are prohibited.
• Youth sports. Youth sports activities associated with a childcare program, an after-school time program, or any other organized and supervised youth sports program may only be continued outdoors without competitions or spectators and with strict social distancing and face protection requirements.
• Indoor activities open to the public. Any facility that allows members of the public to access indoor areas, including shopping malls, grocery stores, corner stores, financial services, hardware stores, pharmacies, etc., must put in place a metering system to monitor capacity thresholds and ensure that capacity does not exceed the limits. In fact, a company needs to assign a specific person on the staff to monitor the number of people in the facility and to ensure that the 20% capacity threshold (or the 35% capacity for standalone grocery stores) is met at all times. In addition, special hours should be set up for the elderly and other people with chronic illnesses or a weakened immune system.
• Adult recreation. Non / low-contact adult activities such as golf, tennis, pickle ball and bocce can continue outdoors subject to restrictions (golf is limited to two people and members of different households are not allowed to share a cart; tennis and pickle ball are for singles without sharing limited equipment). Also, the government’s limited-stay home ordinance remains in effect, which requires non-essential businesses to close to the public between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., and restrict gatherings during that period.

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The state limited-stay-at-home ordinance does not affect takeaway and delivery by restaurants, key workers, or public transportation.

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