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Several gatherings and memorials have been held to mark this somber anniversary. For some people today marks the first time they are returning to the area since the devastation. Alex savidge spent time in paradise over the past two weeks to get a sense of how th community is doing. I kn there was one tribute stood out. Reporter this was certainly a difficult day to say the least for everyone in this community. A somber feel here in the town of paradise as people pause to reflect and remember the lives that were lost one year ago and the devastation that was caused. Diary and she told me to keep her secret. So much further than art. Reporter the sculpture sits at the Building Resiliency Center here in central paradise. I want to bring you back out to the live picture. One of the many groups that is here on hand is providing this comfort dog his name is micah. You can see we have a young lady here who is petting micah right now. This is a community that has been through so much in the past year. Certainly all of those emotions come back to the surface here one year after the campfire. This is the scene here at the Paradise Alliance church. A free meal for fire survivors and people in this community who went through so much one year ago. We have so much more coverage for you on the anniversary of the camp fire from paradise coming up in less than a half hour at 4 30 pm. We are going to talk with one of the first firefighters who was involved in the desperate effort to try to contain the camp fire and he will talk to us about the lessons that were learned from that disaster. Also there are hundreds of homes in the process of being rebuilt right now in the town of paradise and one of those homes belongs to the mayor. She will walk us through the progress being made at her home. That is coming up at 4 30 pm. Will that tribute is really inspiring and so personal. Reporter it truly is. It is taking the devastation, it is literally taking the debris left behind by the thousands of homes that were incinerated by the camp fire and literally bringing those homes back to life in some sense. The artist had a remarkable idea. I just think it is such a special way to pay tribute to the people who lost their lives and to the people who lost their homes in the fire. Looking forward to talking with you more coming up at 4 30 pm. We are going to go back to alex for indepth coverage of the year since the campfire. As he mentioned he spoke with the mayor of paradise about the obstacles overcome so far. We will also hear from people returning home and Business Owners trying to get back on their feet. That is coming up at 4 30 pm. Now we go to San Francisco where police have released new dado data showing that use of force incidences are down for the second year in a row. Christien kafton live in the city or look at the numbers and what police say is behind this declin Reporter Police are telling me that use of force is down nearly 50 over the last 3 1 2 years. Officers are being trained to deescalate adulation situations before they turned violent. By the nature of their jobs officers encounter high stress situations and people in distress. The San Francisco Police Department Quarterly Report said use of force is down 24 over the same period last year with 500 reported uses of force out of nearly 200,000 calls for service. Since july 2016 the Department Said there has been a 47 decrease in the use of force. The Department Following a mandate to safeguard human life and dignity. It highlights our use of force policy which highlight the sanctity of life, de escalation, communications and concepts that we have gathered in talking to other agencies and best practices. The Department Credit a focus on decreasing use of force in training on how to deescalate high stress situations with in in some cases officers can diffuse the situation just by changing their language and instead of demand using questions. The question of drop the knife, drop the knife can turn into why do you have the knife . And start the dialogue and conversation with the person they are encountering to find out why they have a knife. Reporter the head of Police Accountability said numbers are encouraging. It is a great beginning of a conversation to have information like this. Some of the things we are interested in seeing is accurate reflection of where that information is coming from. Reporter henderson said morning to be done to sift through those numbers to see how the department is through is arriving at those results. Particularly for an Agency Responsible for reporting on their self. How can we make it more transparent and more accurate. How can we make it influential in making sure that the trend to diminish use of force continues. The city requires the department to file Quarterly Reports about use of force and in the latest report the San Francisco Police Department highlighted the fact that there has not been a fatal officer involved shooting in San Francisco since june 2018. Christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. We have that full report on the use of force statistics by the San Francisco Police Department on our homepage. Just had to www. Ktvu. Com. Airbnb will pay for funeral expenses that were shot and killed at a halloween party. The San Francisco chronicle said they will cover counseling built or their family. This decision said it comes after a victims lawyer blasted the company in the response to the shooting. They responded in public with platitudes and thoughts and prayers. The october 31 shooting that fo. Police have yet to make any arrest. The parents of raymond hillview near filed a wrongful death lawsuit. They claimed the homeowners, host and airbnb as well as the city and police remain complicit in operating what are essentially unregulated nightclubs referring to the Illegal Party at the rental home where the shooting happened. Airbnb said they are providing a reward for information leading to an arrest. Warriors superstar steph curry may miss the remainder of the season with that fractured hand. According to a Bleacher Report quoting a team source, the fracture is worse than originally thought. And it is unlikely that he plays again this season. The struggling warriors are just 26 this season and may want to exercise some caution with their franchise player. The cdc says they have strong evidence of what is behind the rash of vaping related deaths across the country. Also coming up next the impeachment inquiry continues with more transcripts released on capitol hill today. What was revealed after the break. Blow a kiss, into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss, into the sun all we need is somebody to lean on House Democrats today released more transcripts from the impeachment inquiry from fiona hill. She told investigators she repeatedly rejected the former ambassador to ukraine losing her job earlier in the year. National Security Council advisor Lieutenant Colonel alexander bittman testified that the ukrainians were told they needed to investigate the bidens if the president of ukraine wanted a meeting with President Trump. Both of them said there were no basis to claim that ukraine not russia meddled in the 2016 u. S. President ial election as President Trump had suggested. They shouldnt be having public hearings. This is a hoax. This is just like the russian witchhunt. What they will describe is pretty consistent and consistently shocking and that is that you had a regular foreignpolicy channel led by the career diplomat and you had an irregular channel. Public hearings on the impeachment inquiry are scheduled to begin wednesday with testimony from top diplomat bill taylor and state Department Official george kent. There was dramatic testimony today in the trial of former advisor to President Trump roger stone. Former Trump Campaign consultant, steve famine said that stone boasted about connections to wikileaks founder. Wikileaks later released hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton during the 2006 campaign. 2016 campaign. Stone is being charged with contacting the wikileaks founder. The cdc announced a breakthrough in finding the cause and more than 2000 vaping related illnesses and 40 deaths. Federal Health Officials say they found vitamin e acetate in lung fluids of 29 people who got sick while vaping. The cdc official refers to that is a very strong culprit of concern. President trump said the administration expects to take action on vaping soon. We have to take care of our kids most importantly. We will have an age limit of 21 or so. But we will be coming out with something next week very important on vaping. Vitamin e acetate is used as a thickener in vaping fluid particularly in blackmarket cartridges. The cdc says well vitamin e is safe to follow in capsules or use on the skin, inhaling the droplets can be harmful. Millions of dollars and over a year later the white house the lighthouse was open today. A bright jewel on the marin county coast. Clouds and fog moving across the city of San Francisco once again as it makes its way back across the bay. I will have a look at Current Conditions and what you can expect for your bay area weekend coming up. At at t we believe in access. The opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet. Weve created access from at t california households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits. May qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Visit att. Com accessnow, to learn more. A beloved bay area landmark is back open. Be Point Reyes Lighthouse is ready for visitors. The restoration took 6 million. The lighthouse was commissioned in 1870 and over the course of 149 years old, extreme wind and moisture took their toll. They were plated replaced roofing and created an accessible pathway. Lighthouse tours resumed at 2 30 pm this afternoon. It would be a nice day to head out if you wanted to i imagine the fog might interfere a bit with what you are able to see. I would suggest a jacket. Cool and cloudy. Giving you a beautiful view above the cloud as they just kind of brush on by. You cant see San Francisco but it is down below in the clouds will continue to move inland. I expect we will be fairly widespread once we get into the saturday morning hours, similar to today. Temperatures right now in San Francisco with clouds in place. A cool 64 degrees. Santa rosa checking in at 67. 60 degrees in oakland. Temperatures struggle for the first part of the day as the clouds really took a while to clear. Santa rosa nine degrees warmer than yesterday. You are definitely feeling the warmth. Up by four degrees over oakland. Concord down by two in livermore by two. Not a lot of change happening in the weekend. Heres a look at your Storm Tracker 2. You can see how the clouds pulled back and they are going to begin to return into the evening hours. In the north bay we have a little club cover there. Its like partly cloudy skies. Along the coastline and quitting point reyes we are looking pretty good. Daly city and south San Francisco is covered. Half moon bay one more shift. Still enjoying the sunshine. Getting into saturday and sunday High Pressure will remain in control and that storm track will remain well to the north. We will wake up with the clouds and for the afternoon ac sunshine expected once again. Sinking are associated with High Pressure that pushes that fog down to the ground so we are likely to wake up with patchy, dense fog once again as well. Here is a look at future cast. For tomorrow morning along the coast and inside the bay into the early afternoon it does peel away but we will be partly cloudy at the coast for the entire day and partly cloudy to mostly clear for the rest of us. Temperatures not a lot of change. 48 to start your day in San Francisco. 38 in santa rosa. As we get into the afternoon, midsixties for sausalito. Midsixties in oakland, mid to upper 70s for the inner east bay. For the south bay san jose at 72. 76 in saratoga. For the afternoon along the peninsula 70 in redwood city. 64 expected in San Francisco. If you are going to tahoe that number just cant be right. It is 84 degrees, that cant be right. Cool overnight in the 20s. Mostly sunny and partly cloudy skies for the afternoon. 64 for tomorrow and 63 on sunday. Heres a look at your extended forecast. Temperatures are going to remain nice. Low 60s around the coast and 70s around the bay. All the way through wednesday. Fare skies and drive. No rain in the forecast. That is something we need to change. Long overdue. Thanks rosemary. We are marking one year since the deadly and destructive campfire tour through paradise and the surrounding communities. Coming up we will show you how people are working to rebuild this area. It takes a village to raise to build a bridge. To throw a baseball. To throw yourself into the unknown. To lose fear, to create hope. We believe that it takes a village of over 200thousand dedicated, passionate, driven medical and nonmedical professionals l health for all. We are kaiser permanente. Thrive. Its an honor to tell you that [ applause ] thank you. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. I love you only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. It was important to me to reopen in paradise because paradise is my home. Part of my goal for this is to be an example to the community that hey, we can do it. A year after the campfire wipes out the town of paradise, businesses are opening up and homes are being built and people are moving back. Welcome back to the four. Coverage of the oneyear anniversary of the campfire. 85 people died and paradise was burned to a ghost town. The community has made significant progress in the last year. On the left side of your screen is video of a neighborhood six months after the devastating fire. You can see there was still a lot of vertebrae in many places as if flames had ripped through that area. On the right is video of what the area looks like today. A lot has been cleared and most of that debris is now gone. People are living in mobile homes awaiting their new homes to be built on some of those lots. Alex savidge is in paradise where the community is holding a free dinner to mark this anniversary. Reporter this is for survivors of the campfire to come together and see their neighbors. We are seeing lots of hugs and lots of tears. This is Paradise Alliance church behind us. Free meals being offered up for everyone in the community as they mark the oneyear anniversary. This was obviously a difficult day for everyone. It was a challenge of days for everyone in the community. It was extremely tuff for firefighters in butte county who were among the first to respond to the camp fire. When you talk with them they will tell you this fire was different. It was like no other wildfire that they had ever seen before. It broke out on the day when there were high winds, vegetation and fuel was extremely dry. They havent had rain in long period of time. It started in a remote area, rugged terrain in the middle of nowhere. In no time at all this fire had turned into a raging inferno that overwhelmed the town of paradise and left firefighters simply scrambling to save lives. These fires were becoming hundreds of acres very quickly. Once they got a receptive fuel bed, they spread exponentially. We are getting new spot fires that are creating their own fire and their own weather. Again, it checked every box of a perfect storm that overwhelmed us. Did overwhelm us. You dont want to play monday morning quarterback but i dont know what could have been done unless there was a fire engine sitting where the fire started at that exact moment to suppress the fire. Reporter why was it so challenging to get everyone out of the town of paradise . There are four main thoroughfares that come from the valley. And all of them when the town got told to evacuate, all of them were impacted. You are talking not only people in paradise but up above and in trying to get out the amount of people, human nature, i comfortable driving through that stuff. But you or the public sees fire or smoke and the human hesitation or human nature might be to stop. If you stop everyone behind you will stop. Im not blaming those people because it was a harrowing situation. But you have to take that into consideration also. It worked well from the standpoint that we got close to 30,000 people off their, 30 50,000 people evacuated. It could have been a disaster of monumental proportions if it happened sunday morning at 3 am. Thankfully if we could find some Silver Lining it happened at 6 30 pm on a thursday. Parents are getting their kids ready to go to school and go to work so everyone is up. People were somewhat cognizant seeing smoke in the air or sang with her neighbors are doing, able to turn the radio on or turn their tv on or get Text Messages at some capacity. My biggest fear was if it happened early in the a. M. On a weekend when traditionally people sleep in and everyone is not getting up ready to start their day, i think it could have been horrible. Absolutely horrible, the loss of life. Reporter do you feel like there is a chance that another fire of this magnitude that causes this loss of life could still happen . Absolutely. 34 of communities or residences in the United States are classified in the wildland urban area. Communities have to go through and look at how the roadways are built and set back from buildings. It absolutely could happen again. We dont want it to but the potential is there. Reporter what are the biggest takeaways on the campfire . We had the resources. We went into rescue instead of what we traditionally like to do. We want to protect property. I think that was the biggest challenge for us. Not that we didnt want to save lives, but while we are saving lives and doing good, we are losing property. So that is probably the biggest challenge is trying to get communities and people aware and being able to leave when asked to leave. Reporter the captain with cal fire told me there were a lot of lessons they learned from that day. He also said that this was a fire that really they had plans in place to evacuate the town of paradise but this was something they could and plan for because the fire moved they a fire move before. Within no time you had spot fires here in the town of paradise. They issued those evacuation orders. By that point you are trying to evacuate a town of 27,000 people at the drop of a hat. And that was going to present some challenges in and of itself. A year cents a fire. And again a town of 27,000 people and at this point there are only a few thousand people that live in this town. If you drive through the streets it is relatively quiet. The exception of the event that is taking place behind us here as people are gathering at the church. Rob roth talked with some of the people who have returned here to they are choosing to rebuild here in an area where wildfires will always be a threat. Reporter amid the fire spread landscape of paradise, the seemingly empty rows of empty lots where homes once stood. A sign belonging to a store no longer there. Life is returning from the ashes. Here on forest lane victoria sinclair and her family are living in the rebuilt home. It is 100 the most relaxing place to be. I enjoy every single moment that i hear. Reporter the sinclairs were the first homeowners to move back. This area here is like my shrine to the home. Reporter the little the family was able to salvage from the fire is on display. My family gave me this teapot when we first got married. Reporter on november 8, 2018 the camp fire came on so fast people had little time to evacuate. Things were blowing up and catching on fire and lines and trees were coming down. You were in this apocalyptic environment and it was unreal. Reporter sinclair said she drove through flames using windshield fluid to put out embers on her car. She her daughter, and husband are happy to be back in paradise even if it means running the risk of another wildfire. I saw the promise of something new that would come from that. For me it was the feeling of being home. Reporter on the day of the fire 26,000 people lived in paradise. Since then just 3000 have moved back. Folks here say recovery will be slow. We lost 80 of the congregation in our church. Reporter of the 18,000 homes destroyed, just 11 houses are finished with 450 more in the pipeline. The towns Building Department expects those numbers to keep growing. The clemens are living in an rv on their property but expect their home will be ready by christmas. Our mailman clapp came back. I couldnt get rid of my melted harley. Reporter they understand why many wont return. Fear of a reoccurrence, or problem with insurance but the clemens cant picture living anywhere else. It is a new paradise. It wont be as busy. But i think the community is really strong. Reporter this woman wears her love of paradise on her arm. You cant out run mother nature. Why not just adhere. Why not adhere where you know the people. Reporter many wont return to paradise but for those who do come back we have each others backs and we will be a community that comes back stronger than ever. Reporter rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. Reporter we are back out here at the Paradise Alliance church. You re the on that people in this community have for the cal firefighters and First Responders who worked tirelessly one year ago today to try to save lives and to try to save property. This is a sign that was put together and it sent a strong message to those First Responders about the work that they did on that day. We appreciate you showing your sign, thank you so much. Obviously there is a long way to go. 95 of the homes in paradise were wiped out by the fire. Every person i stop and have a conversation with here at this Community Meal, this gathering tonight they lost their home. Many people have moved elsewhere. They moved to chico for the time being. A lot of people are hoping to rebuild. Some are in the process of rebuilding their home and trying to come back to this community. But it will be a painfully slow process to bring this town back to what it was. We talked a short time ago with a business owner, nikki jones. She lives here in paradise. She lived here for quite sometimes. She lost two homes, to businesses and a commercial building in central paradise. But she didnt take the insurance money from those losses and skip town, instead right away after the fire she got to work opening new businesses. She wanted to give people who were still here in paradise a place to shop and a place to gather as this town slowly rebuilds. It was important to me to reopen in paradise because paradise is my home. Part of my goal for this is to be an example to the community. That hey, we can do it and we can rebuild and have a nice place. But probably what drove me more than anything, i want it to be a Gathering Place where people can come and and laugh and talk and be normal. And we have been open six week and that is exactly what i have seen. Reporter jones has already reopened bobbys boutique, a clothing and Jewelry Store right along the highway boulevard in the heart of town. She opened a new bar and restaurant called nicks and that has become a place where a lot of people who are here in town have been gathering to meet up with friends and neighbors and build that sense of community backup once again. Here in paradise this past year has been all about cleanup in many ways. It is remarkable and you drive through the streets of paradise how much cleanup has been done. With the exception of maybe a handful of properties almost every lot has been cleared of debris. And you also see a lot of home that are in the process of being rebuilt and a handful of homes, 11 home at last check have actually been rebuilt and people have moved back into them which is something remarkable within just a span of a year. Tom vacar has a look now at the next phase of rebuilding paradise. Reporter paradise, a city that once held the population of 27,000 is slowly rising. It is standing tall and growing with about 10 of the population that it had a year ago. If they come up your they will see reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. Reporter almost all the ash and debris is cleaned up and almost all of the lots, commercial and residential are ready for building. The town manager says with a Large Population of debris crews moving out an army of arborists are now moving in. The burned trees is our next emergency and something we need to work on. Reporter co before large scale reconstruction can happen in paradise there is a matter of all those dead and dying trees. While it is true that many have been removed there are still between 200,000 and 400,000 standing dead and dying trees that must be removed because they present an enormous danger. All of this work is leading up to the number 1 goal established right after the fire. Getting people back in their homes was the number 1 priority. Reporter revealed Paradise Foundation is one of the organizations dedicated to the longterm recovery paradise and butte county residence businesses and workforce. I hope that we set a model for the western united dates and how we interact with nature and live in high risk unities like this. Rebuilding it is much more challenging than just running a town. Reporter the fire wiped out 95 of the housing leaving 13,000 open lots. 60 of the businesses burned. At the moment the primary goal of the chamber of commerce is to support the 200 open businesses including two grocery stores, three drugstores and two auto parts stores. None of this can happen fast. We have enough remaining infrastructure to know what direction to go and now we are starting to see some of the infrastructure. Reporter a safe and reliable water system is under restoration. New building codes will guarantee a fire resistant community. But a hospital lost in the fire is some time off. We are going to rebuild that beautiful vision and rebuild it safer. And with good thought to evacuation routes. We understand that some people will not move back and do not want to rebuild or whatever reason. Reporter the town expects that those that dont return will be replaced by people moving from high cluster areas to the lowercost, wideopen and Natural Beauty of butte county. I think there is a bright future. There may be baby steps and big leaps and it will take a while but paradise is already showing a lot of the beauty that made it what it was and it still is. And will be. Reporter a city of hope, a wonderland of opportunity and a place one day perhaps more businesses and people can call a true paradise. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Reporter the anniversary of the deadly and destructive camp fire here in the town of paradise has been marked with a number of tributes for the 85 people who were killed in the fire earlier the butte county sheriff held a moment of silence. Please take a minute and join us in a moment of silence and remembering the 85 lives lost on 11 eight 2018 during the camp fire which destroyed over 18,000 homes and communities. We will halt all nonemergency traffic for the following minute. If you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture now might not be the best time to ask yourself are my bones strong . Life is full of make or break moments. 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After the campfire last november, a Brewing Company stepped up in a big way company. They build before long 1500 breweries across the country are using the Sierra Nevada recipe and making their own resilient batches. We just got updated numbers and so far 8. 4 Million Dollars have been raised with 100 of that money going to the butte strong fund. It is a Grant Program focused on the longterm restoration of butte county. We want to go back live to alex in paradise. That ipa and craft breweries across the country are creating their own. It really shows that the recovery effort stretched far beyond the bay area with people really across the country wanting to do something to help. Reporter i think people saw the devastation here in paradise. They heard those harrowing stories, those absolutely heart topping stories of people desperately trying to escape this town and escape this inferno. There is no way that that resonate with any person anywhere. That is why i think you just saw people stepping up in a big way to try to help this community. And the town of paradise and the surrounding area needs all the help they can possibly get. But we should point out again that as we talk about the thousands of homes that were lost there are a lot of homes that are on their way to being rebuilt as we speak. One of them belong to the mayor of paradise, jodi jones. You want to walk in the garage . Reporter thank you. How long have you lived in this place before . 15 years. This out here is the front porch. And it will be up to that level. This will be an area for my grandkids. A play room storage area. It will not have any Flammable Materials within five feet of it. Im going to put sidewalks around it. Reporter how much progress do you think has been made in the past year . Will huge. I dont know if you were here right after the fire. It looks like a war zone. Everything was black and gray and there was debris and burned cars everywhere. All of that is gone. For the most part. And the rebuilding process has started. We have had almost 200 businesses reopened. And the town is coming to life. Reporter what did you do to speed up the process to get things moving like that . We hired a firm who could come in and ramp up depending on how many permit were being requested. And they have done an awesome job. In order to get federal disaster money you have to do a longterm Recovery Plan. No one else in a federal disaster declared federal disaster has ever done one in the first year. We did hours and seven months. Reporter what are the new requirement to rebuild here in paradise to try to prevent homes from burning in the future. All the new houses will be built to the wildlife urban interface standards which is the state of california for areas that are high severity of fire. The council did adopt some ordinances that go above and beyond the standards. Those are a five foot setback from your house or anything flammable. That means you can connect a wood fence to your house. It is a wick. Wildland urban interface standards make a huge difference. We didnt have a lot that was built after 2008 when the standards came into being in the state of california because we only issued 20 or 30 building pittsburgh permits per year. After 2008 50 51 survived. Structures built prior to that, 9 survived. It makes a huge difference. Reporter you are reholding paradise in a smarter way. Absolutely. We want our people to come back to be safe. Reporter you have been able to step back a little bit from the tragedy in the past year. What are the biggest lessons you have learned . The biggest lesson is if you live in a fire severity zone and you are a leader in that community you need to have an evacuation plan. You need to have an Emergency Preparedness plan. Our people knew what to do when they were told to evacuate and we saved a lot of lives because of that. Should the evacuation orders have been issued earlier for the town of paradise . I think we needed a different system. We relied on technology. Our whole way of notifying people relied on electronics that burned. Very early. It was about 9 30 am when we lost cell towers. So then you couldnt communicate with anyone and that was our only way of issuing those evacuation notices. We have a project in our long term Recovery Plan to do a redundant notification system that will probably include some kind of sirens around town. So it is not all reliant on digital technology. There has to be multiple ways that you can get information to people. Reporter mayor jodi jones told me that she is hoping her home will be completely rebuilt by next april. She is hoping at the same time that hundreds of her neighbors will also be moving back into their newly readable tomes as well. Coming up after the break we are going to talk with the folks from world central kitchen. 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We are here in paradise at the Alliance Church where this community is marking one year since the camp fire tore through town and left 85 people dead and destroyed thousands of homes. On this anniversary we have a Community Meal that is being served to survivors of the fire and First Responders and it is being served by the world central kitchen. I am joined by tim. Tell me why it is so important for you to be here on this anniversary to serve a hot meal to people in paradise. We are a nonprofit organization. We go around the world and do this all over after disasters. Last year he responded to the camp fire the day it happened. That night we were making chile and salad for First Responders and people that were we were here for a couple months. We served about 200,000 meals. Fresh, hot meals and salads. We generally dont get the chance to come back for anniversaries or afterwards to see what progress has been made and things like that. Having the opportunity to do this for this event and seeing the Community Come together has been amazing. Reporter what is it like to serve that warm meal to someone who has been through unimaginable challenges over the past year and to see the look on their face . It is instant gratification. It immediately takes as it is every day for them, we have been gone for a year further disasters. I feel like for us our core team and volunteers, all of our volunteers are local. I think it immediately grabs a hold of us. It is heartwarming. Reporter tim with world central kitchens. We appreciate you talking with us and the work you are doing. They are serving up free meals to everyone here in the town of paradise as this Community Marks one year since the camp fire. We will have more coverage on this anniversary and some of the tributes in town coming up on ktvu news at 5 pm. So, as you can see, saving can be quite simple. 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Reporter the Police Department says over the last three and half years they have seen a nearly 50 decrease in the Department Said they are training their officers to de escalate situations before they turned violent. By the nature of their job officers encounter high stress situation and people in distress. The San Francisco Police Department shows the use of force is down 24 over the same period just last year with 500 reported uses of force out of nearly 200,000 calls for service. Since july 2016 the Department Said there has been a 47 percent decrease in use of force. The Department Following a mandate to safeguard human life and dignity. It highlights our use of force policy which highlights the sanctity of life, de escalation, communications and concepts we have gathered talking to other agencies. Reporter they credit decreasing use of force and ongoing training on how to de escalate with crisis intervention training. In some cases officers can diffuse the situation by changing their language and use