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A SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2017

TODAY IN HISTORY
1066
Normans under William
the Conqueror defeated
the English at the Battle
of Hastings.
1890
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
34th president of the
United States, was born
in Denison, Texas.
1912
Former President Theo-
dore Roosevelt, cam-
paigning for the White
House as the Progressive
candidate, went ahead
with a speech in Milwau-
kee after being shot and
wounded in the chest by
New York saloonkeeper
John Schrank, declar-
ing, “It takes more than
one bullet to kill a bull
moose.”
Orders
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packed shelter at Napa
Valley College. “You
could hear the engines of
the cars starting. It was
insane. Everyone was
getting out.”
Well, not everyone.
A handful of savvy lo-
cals opted to stay in their
homes and take their
chances rather than leave
with the others, not know-
ing when they’d be al-
lowed to return and what
they’d find when they did.
“I’m staying for the time
being, until I feel that
there’s a significant threat
to my safety,” said Dan
Bush, a 56-year-old gen-
eral contractor, standing
outside his historic cot-
tage, built in 1862 by Sam
Brannan, founder of Cal-
istoga.
Bush sent his wife and

1926
“Winnie-the-Pooh” by
A.A. Milne was first
published by Methuen &
Co. of London.
family to stay with friends
in San Francisco while he
remained in their ornate
little house with his dog,
his truck backed into his
driveway and ready to roll
at a moment’s notice.
ROBERT TONG — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
Fire evacuees Juan Leon, left, with his son Abraham Leon Parada, watch a press briefing about the fires on his phone in
the parking lot at the Napa Valley College emergency evacuation center on Thursday. They evacuated from Calistoga.
back inside to assess my sit- ther, Richard Hayman, Highway Patrol officers in On Friday morning,
uation and when I walked a hairdresser in town, squad cars made sure no Napa fire Chief Barry Bier-

1964
Civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr.
was named winner of
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Soviet leader Nikita S.
Khrushchev was toppled
from power; he was
succeeded by Leo-
nid Brezhnev as First
Secretary and by Alexei
Kosygin as Premier.
“The problem is that
once you leave you can’t
come back,” he explained.
“You get no information
and you don’t know what’s
happening. I’m not in need
of assistance and I’m ca-
pable of exiting when the
time comes.”
He was in regular con-
tact with several other
men who weren’t going to
leave, either, unless they
absolutely had to.
back out, the fire was at the
bottom of my driveway. It
had advanced an eighth of a
mile in a matter of minutes.
I grabbed my backpack and
my cat, jumped in my car
and took off.”
‘Not heroes’
While he and the others
sheltered in place, a visi-
bly upset mayor of Calis-
toga, Chris Canning, was
driving up and down the
wasn’t buying it. one got into this instant man said that “great prog-
When the mayor stopped ghost town except for me- ress was being made” in
in front of his house, he dia people and emergency containing the deadli-
sauntered over and shouted vehicles. est wildfires in Califor-
in mock alarm through the And on forested Mount nia history. But despite
mayor’s rolled down win- St. Helena, high above Cal- their valiant efforts, fire
dow: “What are you still istoga, weary firefight- crews on Mount St. Hel-
doing here, Chris? I can’t ers dug fire breaks and lit ena were unable to prevent
believe you’re still here. You
backfires, trying to halt the flames from leaping over
need to leave. Get the hell advancing holocaust. Every Highway 29 and continu-
out of here!” now and then, you could ing its destructive ram-
Then he lowered his hear the chop-chop of heli- page. For the people hang-
voice and said, in all se- copters dropping fire retar- ing in there in Calistoga, it
riousness, that he was in dant, but they were invis- was a relief that the blaze

1987
A 58-hour drama began
in Midland, Texas, as
18-month-old Jessica
McClure slid 22 feet
down a narrow aban-
doned well at a private
day care center; she
was rescued on Oct. 16.
Birthdays
Fashion designer Ralph
Lauren is 78. Actor
Greg Evigan is 64. Actor
Steve Coogan is 52.
Singer Usher is 39.
One was 26-year-old
Marshall Hayman, a bike
shop mechanic who was
born and raised in Calis-
toga. He was at his par-
ents’ home in town after
his rented house several
miles north on Highway
128 had been one of the
first to incinerate when
the Tubbs Fire ignited
Sunday night.
“I had four minutes to
get out of the house,” he
recalled. “After my land-
lord called, I walked up my
driveway and saw a big glow
on the top of the hill. I went
empty streets, trying to
convince the stragglers to
come to their senses.
“One thing you have to
make clear in any news
stories — these people are
not heroes,” he declared
after getting out of his
SUV. “From this point for-
ward we will not commit
any resources to life and
safety for anyone who has
chosen to stay behind.”
With that, he got back
behind the wheel and
drove off, warning, “The
fire is coming.”
Marshall Hayman’s fa-
touch with friends on the ible in the rising clouds of was burning north and
side of town closest to the gray and black smoke. east, away from them. So,
fire and that he and his In Santa Rosa alone, the for the time being, they
family were ready to bail Tubbs Fire had burned an weren’t going anywhere.
at the first sign of a wind estimated 5 percent of the “Those of us who stayed
change that would turn housing stock of the city, have really deep roots
the flames toward them. officials said, leaving only here,” said Calistoga native
“Don’t worry about us, the smoldering husks of Alex Sysock as he loaded
bud, we’re good,” he said. cars and trucks and here some belongings into the
“When this is all over, I
and there the brick and back of his compact sta-
hope we can laugh about stone chimneys of fire- tion wagon, just in case.
it,” the mayor replied, driv-
places in living rooms now “Some of us may be stu-
ing off. reduced to ash. The death pider than others, and
toll was expected to rise as some of us may have big-
Town spared for now emergency workers sifted ger balls than others, but
On the perimeter of Cal- through the rubble for I’m not going to give up
istoga, Oakland police on charred shards of human until the fire’s in my back-
motorcycles and California bones. yard.”

Air “The fires

Star report
Stephen Curry
LOVES wife’s feet
Ayesha Curry knew
right away that she
was going to get in
trouble for this dis-
closure. But, oh well.
While co-hosting the
syndicated daytime
talk show “The Real”
on Friday, the Food
Network star, found
herself in the situation
of revealing a sexy se-
cret about her husband,
Golden State Warriors
star Stephen Curry.
It turns out he’s got a
thing about her feet.
“My husband really
loves my feet,” Ayesha
admitted. “So, when
he says to send nudes,
he gets a picture of my
bare feet!”
Ayesha laughed, “He is
going to kill me.”
—Martha Ross, Bay Area
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“Outside of the active
fire areas, air quality will
be variable and unpredict-
able,” the air district ad-
vised. “Air quality may im-
prove at times or get worse,
very quickly.”
The National Weather
Service issued another “red
flag warning” for North
Bay hills that began at 5
p.m. Friday and lasts until
11 p.m. Saturday. A similar
warning for North Bay val-
leys lasts from 11 p.m. Fri-
day until 5 p.m. Saturday.
North to northeast winds
are forecast to increase
once again late Friday and
become locally strong and
gusty Friday night and Sat-
urday, according to the
weather service. North to
northeast winds of 20 to
30 mph with gusts of 40 to
50 mph with isolated gusts
to 60 mph are possible on
highest ridges and peaks.
The strongest winds are
expected to be at eleva-
tions above 1,500 feet in
the North Bay mountains
and East Bay hills on Friday
night and Saturday morn-
ing. Winds are forecast to
decrease by late Saturday,
the weather service reports.
The hills of Marin around
Mount Tamalpais were
among the areas listed by
the weather service as hav-
ing the “highest threat,”
along with the Napa County
hills around Mount St. Hel-
ena and the hills of eastern
Concerts
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He said parents may look
to libraries, for example, as
a “safe indoor alternative to
staying at home.”
Marin County schools
Superintendent Mary Jane
Burke said county schools
are tentatively planning to
be open on Monday. A final
decision will be made Sun-
day afternoon, she said.
At the Civic Center
emergency shelter, mean-
while, donations of enter-
tainment help are pour-
ing in, said Libby Garrison,
spokeswoman for the Marin
County Department of Cul-
tural Services.
Smoke from wildfires fills the morning air in a view of San Francisco through the Golden
Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands on Friday.
Sonoma County.
“Any fires that develop
will likely spread rapidly,”
the weather service warned.
Humidity is expected to
be 25 to 35 percent at night
and 10 to 20 percent during
the day. A reading of 100
percent humidity means
that the air is totally satu-
rated with water vapor and
cannot hold any more.
At the Marin Civic Center,
the county counted 330 fire
evacuees who stayed over-
night Thursday and “sev-
eral hundred” are expected
to stay Friday night, said
Laine Hendricks, a county
spokeswoman. An infor-
mal poll showed most of the
evacuees have come from
“Today we had the Marin
Symphony offering a viola
duet, and the Bay Area Dis-
covery Museum giving the
kids arts and crafts classes,”
she said. “We’re having
Zumba (dance exercise)
classes twice a day and the
San Rafael Library is offer-
ing bilingual storytimes —
including a magician that
they brought in.”
Staffers at the Civic Cen-
ter have set up a “children’s
room” where the arts and
crafts and storytime ses-
sions are offered, Garrison
said.
For older children and
teens, a virtual reality video
games station was set up
Friday, she said.
“We also have two book-
mobiles parked at the Civic
MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santa Rosa and more than
half of the people staying at
the Civic Center are children.
About 50 county employ-
ees and volunteers were
providing food as well as
medical services to those
at the Marin Center.
Meanwhile, Golden Gate
Transit announced Friday
it is providing free rides in
and out of Sonoma County
to assist those affected by
the fires.
“We’re part of the fab-
ric of this community,”
said Mona Babauta, deputy
general manager of Golden
Gate Transit. “The fires
have been devastating to
our customers. Their pain
is our pain. Many of our
Center,” she said. “People
can go outside and go into
the vans to check out books
or listen to books on tape.”
Garrison said one of the
Bread & Roses volunteers
is San Anselmo teen singer
Caroline Sky, a former com-
petitor on “The Voice” TV
show who performed earlier
this year at the Civic Cen-
ter and in the Marin IJ’s
“Lobby Lounge” series.
“We’re just thrilled to
have her back,” Garrison
said. “She’s amazing.”
In addition to Sky, other
Bread & Roses volunteer
performers this weekend
range from singer-guitar-
ist Kurt Huget, to Arthur
Javier, Bri Tree, Circus of
Smiles, Miss Kitty, the Lid-
dypudlians and the Light-
employees also live in the
North Bay and have been
personally impacted by the
fires and smoke. We want
to do all we can to support
our community and keep
people moving, so they can
more easily get where they
need to go, especially in this
difficult time.”
The free trips are only for
within Sonoma County.
Golden Gate Transit’s So-
noma Country trips origi-
nate and terminate at 3225
Industrial Way in Santa
Rosa, at the intersection of
Piner Road and Industrial
Way.
The Sonoma-Marin Area
Rail Transit system is pro-
viding free train service
“We’re having
Zumba (dance
exercise)
classes twice a
day and the San
Rafael Library
is offering
bilingual
storytimes —
including a
magician that
they brought in.”
— Libby Garrison,
spokeswoman for the Marin
County Department of Cultural
Services
workers Union.
“We bring live music to a.m. to 6 p.m.
have been
devastating to
our customers.
... Many of our
employees also
live in the North
Bay and have
been personally
impacted by
the fires and
smoke. We want
to do all we can
to support our
community and
keep people
moving.”
— Mona Babauta, deputy
general manager of Golden
Gate Transit.
from downtown Santa Rosa
to downtown San Rafael
through Sunday.
Rep. Jared Huffman, D-
San Rafael, announced Fri-
day that U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
has suspended all non-
criminal immigration en-
forcement operations at
wildfire evacuation sites or
shelters.
“That means shelters
and food banks and other
assistance centers are open
to everyone, including un-
documented individuals
and DACA recipients, with-
out fear of deportations or
other immigration reper-
cussions,” Huffman said in
a statement.
a number of (fire-impacted)
facilities in Sonoma and
Napa, including the Veter-
ans Home in Yountville and
Sonoma Juvenile in Ken-
wood,” said Marian Hubler,
Bread & Roses communi-
cations manager. “We are
thinking of all our friends
in the North Bay — and
we’re glad we can do some-
thing to help.”
According to Willis,
Marin County Free Library
system has the following
hours on Saturday:
Civic Center, 10 a.m. to
6 p.m.; Fairfax, noon to 5
p.m.; Inverness, 3 to 6 p.m.;
Marin City, noon to 5 p.m.;
Point Reyes, 10 a.m. to 2
p.m.; South Novato, noon
to 5 p.m.; Stinson Beach, 10