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Mountain View firefighters have joined the fight against the Rim Fire, deploying Engine 7 and a strike team on Aug. 23, according to the department’s Facebook page. The crew has been working 24-hours shifts and was teamed with other local firefighters, including ones from Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. On Tuesday, the Mountain View crew and the Santa Clara County strike team were assigned to structure protection in Cold Springs on Highway 108, the department reported. Since before the Rim Fire began on Aug. 17, the SFPUC has been transferring water from the full Hetch Hetchy Reservoir to other reservoirs closer to San Francisco, and is now increasing that amount from 275 million gallons to 302 million gallons a day as a precaution. SFPUC officials say the water’s turbidity, or cloudiness, is well below state-mandated levels despite some ash falling onto the reservoir’s surface. SFPUC crews also repaired a
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“We believe that under the right circumstances that CABS can be used responsibly,� Goldman said, adding that his district and the MVLA district have a good track record when it comes to using CABs responsibly. The district has not initiated a CAB since he joined the district in 1998 and has immediate plans to use CABs in the near future, he said. That said, he concluded, he wouldn’t want the district to tie its hands by adopting a policy on limiting its use of CABs, especially when the Legislature appears poised to pass new rules soon. “We would not want to make a decision in advance that under no circumstance would CABs be a possibility,� Goldman said. Joe White, superintendent of business services for the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District, said the district agrees with the report’s findings that CABs are sometimes abused and ought to be more tightly regulated. However, in a written response, White and
hydroelectric turbine unit at the Kirkwood Powerhouse that was damaged by the fire last week, and are working to re-energize transmission lines. The lines need to be inspected further before power delivery can resume, SFPUC officials said this morning. The commission has spent about $600,000 on supplemental power supplies from outside sources since last week because of the fire-related disruption. All of the SFPUC’s 2.6 million water and electric customers continue to be fully supplied and can find updates about the fire at www.sfwater.org/ RimFire, according to the commission. Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday declared a state of emergency for San Francisco because of the threat to the city’s water and power infrastructure. The Rim Fire has burned 179,481 acres and was 20 percent contained as of Tuesday morning, Aug. 27, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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MVLA Superintendent Barry Groves said said they would not be pursuing a new policy “because it is not necessary.� The district plans to follow any state regulation that is passed, White explained. And given that AB 182 — which is currently before the Legislature — would impose the limits on CABs that the grand jury is advocating, he said there is no need to pass an official district policy. The report, which the grand jury passed and adopted on May 9, concluded that it is unfair to expect taxpayers to foot the bill for decisions made years prior and asked that county school districts formally respond to the report’s single finding — that CABs “will inevitably compound the burdens school districts face in operating effective schools.� In addition, the jury recommended that “each school district in Santa Clara County adopt a board policy and any necessary administrative regulations indicating its intent to comply with the moratorium called for by the state Treasurer and the state Superintendent of Public Instruction.� V
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