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The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) received $13.5 million from the California State budget to prevent wildfires, including $10 million to specifically remove dead and dying trees.
The $10 million appropriation, proposed by Senators Nancy Skinner (D-9, Berkeley) and Bob Wieckowski (D-10, Fremont), aims to address a new tree mortality phenomenon occurring in several parklands. First noticed in the East Bay in October 2020, EBRPD has more than 1,500 acres of dead or dying trees affected by drought and climate change conditions that need immediate attention, according to EBRPD Fire Chief Aileen Theile.
Miller Knox Regional Shoreline in Richmond, Anthony Chabot and Reinhardt Redwood Regional Parks in Oakland, and Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley/Orinda are locations most significantly impacted, according to EBRPD.
After intensive searching, the Pleasanton Police Department (PPD) and its allied agencies decided to scale back the search for missing runner, Philip Kreycik (37). We re entering a different stage of the search effort right now, said PPD Investigations Lt. Erik Silacci. We re not ending it. We re just going to scale back and try to get a little more focused. It s day four, so the search and rescue folks out there are getting pretty worn out. They re mostly volunteers, so we need to reassess . for tomorrow.
In the past four days, more than a dozen agencies and approximately a hundred volunteers searched for Kreycik, who was last seen on Saturday, July 10, around 10:45 a.m. near Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.
Victim ID d as 40-year-old man from Pleasant Hill
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Emergency rescue personnel on Monday recovered the body of a man who died after struggling and becoming submerged underwater while swimming in Lake Del Valle in Livermore one day earlier.
The Alameda County Coroner s Bureau on Tuesday identified the drowned man as Joseph Prince Freeman, 40, of Pleasant Hill. Police said the victim also had residential ties to Vallejo. Our thoughts are with the family. This is obviously a tragic situation, Capt. Alan Love, of the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) Police Department, told the Weekly.
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After days of extensive effort, authorities have no significant clues in Berkeley man s disappearance
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Law enforcement agencies and hundreds of local volunteers gather at Foothill High School on Tuesday to search for a missing jogger in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. (Photo courtesy of PPD)
As a fourth day of searching for a man missing in the Pleasanton hills since Saturday drew to a close, law enforcement officials announced their decision on Tuesday afternoon to scale back the effort.
Philip Kreycik. (Photo courtesy of PPD)
The search for Philip Kreycik, 37, of Berkeley has gripped the Tri-Valley and brought out hundreds of locals, eager to offer their time and tackle 9,090 acres of tough terrain and hazards like poison oak and rattlesnakes in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park to find the avid runner.