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FAIRFIELD — Police and fire as well as associated emergency response agencies are preparing to launch an online tool for residents that is designed to help them quickly know whether they need to flee in the event of an emergency. The new evacuation is called Zonehaven. It is scheduled to launch March 1 and is part of a social media campaign called #KnowYourZone. Zonehaven is a system designed to allow communities and first responders to more effectively plan, communicate and execute evacua-

tions, the Solano County Office of Emergency Services reports. The Zonehaven tool will be used countywide, to include the county and all cities. Zonehaven Aware is a web-based platform for members of the community to find their evacuation zone and to view emergency information. The tool allows residents to look up their address using the search bar. Effective advance planning is a key component to a successful emergency response, the county reports. One of the shortcomings identified after the LNU Lightning

Complex Fire was the ability of local officials to effectively notify people of the need to leave their homes. The launch of Zonehaven is designed to help address that identified need. The LNU Lightning Complex Fire started early Aug. 17, 2020, in Napa County and ultimately surrounded Lake Berryessa. The Hennessey Fire, the largest fire of the LNU complex that ultimately scorched portions of six counties, is the fire that burned into Solano County late Aug. 18 and early Aug. 19, 2020. Six people died as a result See Tool, Page A7

State gave electric vehicles to an isolated farmworker community Why did the cars vanish overnight? Tribune Content Agency In a small San Joaquin Valley neighborhood surrounded by miles of nut and citrus groves, six electric vehicle charging stations sit abandoned. Their parking spots are empty, their screens shattered. Over five short months and with nearly $2 million, the state powered a fleet of Teslas and Chevy Bolts that lent residents of this isolated community a transportation lifeline. Then one day at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the

cars vanished. “Overnight, our means of transportation disappeared,” said Rosario Rodríguez, a resident of Cantua Creek. “We felt a lot of emotions all at once, because it left us defenseless. If we get sick or have a medical appointment, then what? What are we going to do?” Nearly three years later, the electric cars are in Los Angeles and Rodríguez is back to relying on favors from friends to make the 30-minute commute to her nearest supermarket and hourlong drive to doctor’s

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Reyes Barboza Jr. charges a BMW electric car, part of the Green Raiteros electric vehicle ride share program. appointments. The vehicle chargers, once seen as an innovative solution to a woefully inadequate transportation

system, are monuments to a bungled state program and the indignity endured See Cars, Page A7

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In this photo from Jan. 18, 2004, Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, left, speaks as former U.S. President Jimmy Car ter s t and s nearby in downtown Plains, Georgia. tury, the people here love to tell visitors they have a pair of famous exports: peanuts and a peanut farmer-turned-president. The local airport is named in his honor, and his boyhood farm and his colorful brother’s gas station have been See Carter, Page A7

Tribune Content Agency Ukraine’s main allies are starting to come to terms with what will be required to support the government in Kyiv through what they now expect will be a long war. That realization was fundamental to almost every discussion at the annual Munich Security Conference where senior officials from the trans-Atlantic defense community grappled with how to meet the vastly increased demand for ammunition and weapons that such a war implies. They also wrestled with how to enforce economic sanctions against Moscow, how to persuade the global south to embrace Ukraine’s cause, and what role China will decide to play in the war. Russian officials were absent from the Munich event for the first time in decades in a sign of how

much has changed since last year’s event, held just days before President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion. Back then, Volodymyr Zelenskyy had harangued his country’s allies for their “appeasement” of Russia. “Now all this is being corrected,” the Ukrainian president said by video link at the start of the conference on Friday. Among the more than 45 heads of state and government attending, some expressed astonishment at how the year had confounded expectations since the last meeting, just days before the invasion. Ukraine was not overrun in a week and the NATO alliance did not split over whether to send weapons to Kyiv, or sanction Moscow. Nor did Putin escalate to non-conventional warfare after his supposed red lines See Ukraine, Page A7

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