Pile of logs along Grizzly Peak. UC Berkeley cut down the trees as part of a plan to ensure Claremont Avenue could be used as an evacuation route during a fire. Photo: Doug Prose
John Radke is a UC Berkeley associate professor who specializes in fire modeling. As part of his coursework, he likes to lead students into the winding thickets of Claremont Canyon in the Oakland hills, where the underbrush can reach chest-high, to show them the likely site of one of the next major East Bay fires.
“I was up there one day in the fall and you could hear the leaves cracking they were so dry,” Radke said. “Going in, my students said they were doing great – this is wonderful, we’re out in nature. Then after describing how the fire would burn, I asked them, ‘How do you guys feel?’ They said, ‘We can’t wait to get out of here. Because it’s a fire trap.’”
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By Louise Hill LDR
Cowes Medical Centre
A GP surgery on the Isle of Wight has been slammed by a councillor for ‘inadequate levels of service’.
But the health body responsible for the Cowes Medical Centre (CMC) says appointments there have been increasing.
Bringing the issue to the attention of the Isle of Wight Council’s policy and scrutiny committee for health and social care, chair, Cllr John Nicholson, said he was sad to raise it but he had been told about alarming concerns patients have in obtaining ‘satisfactory levels of service’ from the centre on Newport Road.