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out,” explained Monday.

Along the southern edge of the fi re there are still a lot of stumps burning relatively close to the containment line, sending fi refi ghters further into the interior to make sure there is no threat to the containment line, according to Monday.

On the Highway 50 corridor there are a lot of hazardous trees from Kyburz to Strawberry.

“This area saw a lot of high-intensity severe fi re e ects,“ said Monday. This causes more trees that have to be mitigated before the area can be opened, including Highway 50 and Echo Summit.

Firefi ghters are still patrolling on foot in the high country near Desolation Wilderness where they are monitoring isolated pockets of timber.

“If things pick up we have teams up there and we will use our heavy helicopters to take care of that,” he said.

The Strawberry area took a lot of damage. Firefi ghters meet daily to ascertain the condition of that area, according to Kevin Pack, law enforcement liaison.

“Safety is the key to everything we are doing,” he said.

Mormon Emigrant Trail will remain closed for the foreseeable future due to extensive damage.

Cal Fire Incident Commander Anale Burlew said Incident Management Team 12 will be transitioning in to manage both west and east zones of the fi re.

“The complexity of this incident is a lot better than it was before,” she said. “That’s a good thing for this community. That’s a good sign for this fi re.”

Incident Management Team 12 is already embedded in operations to allow a seamless transition.

A reduction of service calls in Christmas Valley means the fi re is calming down in that area, said U.S. Forest Service Section Chief Kyle Jacobson. He reminded the public that resources will continue to patrol containment lines and answer service calls.

Upper Apache through the Power Line and the High Meadows area continues to hold.

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keeping looters from looting and of course (grateful for) the fi refi ghters,” Blackwell said.

Holiday Market on Mt. Aukum Road in Pleasant Valley had to evacuate twice — the fi rst time for a couple of days, the next time for a week. Evacuations there came Aug. 27, the day the store gets their shipment of product.

Holiday Market Manager Jennifer Boyd didn’t want to waste the food, so she put it to good use and donated it all to Caldor Fire evacuees.

“We donated all of our perishables,” Boyd said. “Red Cross came by and grabbed things. We donated to nearby shelters. We had seven pallets of milk and eight pallets of produce. Green Valley Church helped us deliver the food and the Upper Room as well.”

Holiday Market is a hub for the community. Those from Grizzly Flat who lost their homes often go into the market to tell their story and how they are trying to get back to normal, everyday life, Boyd said.

“We are more than a store,” Boyd said. “We’re so happy to be back. We are sharing tears and happiness with the customers.”

For the past 14 years Mama Earth Farm has been the largest fresh produce home delivery service in the county. The farm on Grizzly Flat Road typically would be at the height of its season right now but the Caldor Fire burned most crops.

“If you mapped out how much was burned, about 95% burned,” Owner Ben Woods said. “The other 5% is really the heart of the farm; (what) we really need for business.”

The 5% he referred to is the farmstead, barn, a fi eld shed that holds fi eld supplies and a cabin. Most of the irrigation was intact and the water tank did not melt.

Woods said the greenhouse was damaged and smoke damage was seen in buildings. Well plumbing also needs replacing.

“We are just lucky to have the major elements of our farm still,” Woods said.

The crops are a di erent story.

“We lost pretty much all of our crops,” Woods said. “They were either damaged, killed or the product is covered in ash and tastes like smoke. Also, 100% of native land burned, trees, brush, grass, all of it.”

The farm lost four weeks of income due to the disaster. But loyal customer Megan Taber started a gofundme fundraiser to help Mama Earth Farm fi x and replace or repair a lot of its infrastructure and resources to get back into business.

“I’m super grateful,” Woods said. “One of our best customers said, ‘Can I start a gofundme?’ and within days, it had been shared quite a bit. I pretty much need that money to recover. The money is going to allow us to do that.”

Mama Earth turned dark days around and found a way to o er food in another way. The farm became a distribution point for donations for Caldor Fire victims from the Placerville Food Co-op and Tahoe Food Hub, giving out hundreds of bags of edible goods.

True Value Hardware owners Dave and Dee Dee Campbell, who run the 43-year-old business, evacuated and closed the store for 17 days before returning to Pollock Pines.

Fall is a busy time for hardware stores and with Labor Day being their second busiest weekend of the year, Dave said the store will be fi ne fi nancially.

“We’ve been more concerned about our employees,” Dave said. “Some (work here) for kicks and grins, some for sustenance. We’re looking forward to getting people back to work and being ourselves again.”

Thirteen work at the store.

“We’re glad to have doors open. We’re getting a lot of positive feedback,” Dave said. “There’s lots of cause for concern for people’s homes and businesses and lives, friends and family, so it’s a little bit of a conversation piece for people who come in. People who didn’t evac in the fi rst place, they’re just glad to be out and about.”

Pollock Pines’ Knotty Pines Lanes, the only bowling alley in El Dorado County, was ready to serve the community as an evacuation site when its sta had to evacuate.

“The fi rst day it happened, we were an evacuation center,” Knotty Pines manager Ashley Deaver said. “We prepared to be here to make food for people, get it set up for people evacuating out of Pollock. It’s been a lot of chaos.”

The Caldor Fire kept creeping north and with fl ames burning wildly out of control, Pollock Pines north of Highway 50, where the bowling alley is located, was evacuated. A couple hours before the orders came, Knotty sta had hit the road.

While Caldor’s destruction didn’t make it to that part of Pollock Pines, when sta returned it was clear the smoke overstayed its welcome. Knotty Pines Lanes reopened Sept. 3.

“It was smoky. You could see residue on trash cans and (bowling) lanes,” Deaver said. “We were cleaning all day, airing the place out — it’s been busy here.”

Knotty Pines sta also took a hit to their food supply.

“We defi nitely lost a lot of food product,” Deaver said.

While the community wasn’t fully bustling again as evacuation orders lifted Knotty Pines didn’t see many bowlers come through.

“We lost money and food, but it’s more about the community,” added Deaver.

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oldest and shortest written constitution of any national government in the world. • There are 4,543 words in the original, unamended Constitution, including the signatures. • The Constitution was penned by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania general assembly clerk, for $30 ($830 today). • The oldest person to sign the Constitution was Benjamin Franklin at 81. The youngest was Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey, 26. • When the Constitution was signed the U.S. population was 4 million. Philadelphia was the nation’s largest city, with 40,000 inhabitants. • Over 11,000 amendments have been introduced in Congress, but only 33 have gone to the states to be ratified, and 27 have actually become amendments to the Constitution.

Facts are sourced from the National Constitution Center and constitutionfacts.com.

The first 10 amendments are known as the Bill of Rights:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

“This area is really secure so we’re feeling really good about the work that’s happened (there),” he said.

“Down into Scout Peak all the way into Sails Canyon continues to hold,” he said. “Resources are mopping up, increasing the depth of that mop-up.”

Firefi ghters say they are seeing progress in the Strawberry Creek area with hopes of gaining containment there within the next few days, according to Jacobson.

“That last 10-30% are the most challenging,” said California Interagency Incident Management Team 4 Commander Rocky Opliger. “You got a great team coming in … nothing is going to change, this fi re is being managed 24 hours (a day).”

Nearly 3,000 personnel remain assigned to the Caldor Fire.

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