Former Manhattan Beach fire chief Daryn Drum. Photo courtesy City of Manhattan Beach
Former Manhattan Beach Fire Department Chief Daryn Drum is appealing the city’s termination of his contract over his alleged use of insensitive language shortly after Black Lives Matters protests erupted nationally early last summer. The first appeal hearing, scheduled for December 3, was postponed when attorneys representing the city declined an Easy Reader request to observe the Zoom hearing.
“This is an important issue,” said Dan Shinoff, the attorney representing Drum. “This is about freedom of the press and the public’s right to know what is going on. We are talking about tax dollars here.”
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you can see what s happening. it s burning up the mountain. it s going to climb up the hill to look for oxygen. there s not a lot of roads in this area. there are road dirts. i ve been up in the mountain, in this area, and there are not a lot of roads. and back to the wind, and back to the smoke, it s not heading down. and what they use is fuel sticks. they wet them in the morning and they weigh them. then in the evening they weigh them again. every stick of brush and most of the bushes out here are very, very tender dry. or extremely dry, and of course humidity as i mentioned earlier, 10, nine, 8%. temperature 108 degrees. what is the good news? there s no wind. that s really good news. the temperature is a big deal, the humidity is a big deal. when you re not dealing with 20, 40-mile an hour winds that is helpful. visibility is going to be an issue. okay, bill we re going to get back to you in a moment. but we have beth kline with us on the phone. what s the situation i
with bart computers forcing train operators to run on manual. and that means instead of going 70 miles an hour, bart trains are only going 25 miles an hour. caltrain is also operating at reduced speed due to the heat. let s get the numbers, the forecast. let s go to roberta for that. so far we have had the hottest day of the year here in the bay area and certainly the hottest day of the month of august for the city of san francisco at 92 degrees. but we are currently 18 miles away from mt. diablo in pleasanton and in the distance we re able to detect the petaluma of smoke rising straight up because of the lack of any kind of air flow right now. in fact, the current conditions in mt. diablo after high today of 107 degrees, it is at 105. it s extremely dry with the relative humidity at 12%. and the winds are on the light side. other notable numbers around the bay area at this hour, we are currently in the triple digits anywhere from concord through pleasanton into san jose,
three digits and basically there s not a lot of wind at this time. we had talkedded to a woman just a few moments ago that lives on curry road, it s a one lane in each direction. a one road, what can you tell homeowners, people who live in that area about the fire, are any evacuations being called right now. are you advising people start packing their belongings, what advise would you give to them. anybody who lives in the area should be prepared to leave the area. if we do start evacuations, that s always a good thing. when you are in an area where there s a wildfire that s close to your area, you should be prepared to leave. we will have law enforcement in the area, we don t have any mandatory evacuations going on at this time, though. mr. mcgever how many fire fighters are battling the flames right now and do you have any estimates at all as to when you will have this contained? we don t have an estimate on control or containment, basically there are approximately
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