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Four more fires including two vehicles and two homes, all in #Concord. The 4th in a 30 minute span, firefighters arrived to find a fully involved building spreading to trees and grass. Fire was under control in about 15 minutes. No injuries to occupants or firefighters. #BelAirIC pic.twitter.com/tSaTzIvi6b … [Read more...] about ‘It’s burning down the city’: Fires linked to fireworks erupt across SF, Bay Area

Sprouts Farmers Market • Shopping policy: Social distancing is promoted throughout stores with floor markers set 6 feet apart at checkout lines. If stores become too crowded, store managers have local mandates for specific limits on the number of shoppers in a store at a time. A guard appointed by the company is available based on store traffic. … [Read more...] about Shopping policies in effect at the Bay Area’s biggest grocery stores

The incident, which was captured on surveillance video and widely shared on social media, occurred June 12 at a yogurt shop on Cottle Road. Police said she became upset that at what she perceived was inadequate social distancing from a woman behind her with a stroller. Video shows the suspect — a middle-aged woman in a surgical mask and sunglasses — pull off her mask, walk over to the stroller and cough on the 1-year-old child’s face. … [Read more...] about Woman who allegedly coughed on baby no longer works for South Bay school district

While some will get relief as restaurants across the Bay Area reopen, many workers will still face significant economic hardships in the months to come as they catch up on rent and other bills that piled up when their paychecks stopped. Though some grants are available on a local and state level, there isn’t enough funding for all of the Bay Area’s estimated 580,500 undocumented immigrants. Community advocates fear this will push them further into poverty in a region known for its immense wealth and exorbitant housing costs. … [Read more...] about Bay Area’s undocumented restaurant workers may need most help, get the least

Claim: “Masks don’t do anything.” The CDC and World Health Organization caused some confusion in the early days of the outbreak by recommending that the general public not wear masks. The goal was to prevent hoarding and make sure that critically low supplies of medical face coverings went to frontline workers. But people interpreted this the wrong way. … [Read more...] about Is wearing a mask bad for you? We asked the experts