The district estimates that 30 people or more die from suicide at the bridge each year and that hundreds more are stopped from harming themselves through law enforcement and public intervention.

On its website, the district says “jumping into the (net) will result in significant bruises, sprains and possibly broken bones.”

If you or someone you know is struggling with feelings of depression or suicidal thoughts, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline offers free, round-the-clock support, information and resources for help. Reach the lifeline at 800-273-8255 or see the SuicidePreventionLifeline.org website.

In this obituary published Friday, Feinstein was remembered for her “tenacity,” particularly when it came to pressing for passage of the Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, and as “a force of nature who made an incredible impact on our country and her home state.”

Feinstein, a trailblazer for women and gay rights, pioneered a number of firsts: first woman mayor of San Francisco, first woman to chair the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the first woman to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee

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In Beijing, Eileen Gu is called the Snow Princess. Her fresh face and highlighted tresses grace billboards and glossy ads for Louis Vuitton and Tiffany. Her gold medal performance in the Winter Olympics women’s big air freestyle ski event crashed the Chinese social media site Weibo, when more than 300 million people swooned over the teenager’s historic achievement.

But her 85-year-old Chinese grandmother, waiting and watching from the home they share in San Francisco, doesn’t get all the fuss.

“I’m not used to all this nonsense of making a big deal about success,” Gu’s grandmother, Feng Guozhen, said in an exclusive interview this week with the Bay Area News Group.

Erin Jackson is 1st Black woman to win speedskating gold

Erin Jackson won the 500 meters Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, earning the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games and first individual medal since 2010.

The 29-year-old from balmy Ocala, Florida knew this moment was special, her chance to really make an impact on the generations that follow, the AP reported. She’ll forever be known as the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics — and a gold one, at that.

“Hopefully, this has an effect,” Jackson said after the win. “Hopefully, we’ll see more minorities, especially in the USA, getting out and trying these winter sports.”

Russian skater Kamila Valieva cleared to compete

Russia’s world record shattering figure skater Kamila Valieva was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to compete in the Olympic Games women’s competition this week.

See these stories and more in our Day 10 gallery of the games.

Fremont native Karen Chen leads our Monday gallery in a stone-studded dress crafted by her mother, Hsiu-Hui Tseng. Chen illuminated the mother-daughter teamwork that went into the outfit in an Instagram video posted to the Team USA account:

The work that inspired Chen’s butterfly marked dress is considered one of the most renowned pieces of Chinese orchestral music and was written in 1959. It tells the tragic legend of two young scholars, also called Butterfly Lovers. The original story is set in the Eastern Jin dynasty (265-420 CE). The tune that brings its emotional arc to life served as the soundtrack to Chen’s fourth-place free skate performance.

Chen’s finish Monday helped lift Team USA’s figure skating arm to a silver medal, its first in the global sports contest.

Below are more photos of children curling on the streets of Beijing, hockey teams fighting to score and defend, Southern California snowboarder Shaun White practicing ahead of his final Olympic outing, speed skiers and the race to sell and snatch souvenirs of Bing Dwen Dwen, the official panda mascot of the seasonal athletic games.

Beijing’s selection of Yilamujiang, who is reportedly of Uyghur heritage, stirred the conversational pot on social media. Associated Press reported human rights abuses against that Muslim population in the western region cast a shadow over the games.

Curling and women’s hockey matches were underway before the official ceremony, from which you can watch Team USA’s entrance here. Scroll down to see more photos from the stunning exhibition.

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SAN JOSE – Apparently no longer content to shelter-in-place, roughly 200 goats busted out of their enclosure and briefly ran loose through a San Jose neighborhood Tuesday evening.

Zach Roelands captured the chaos on camera.

“When I got back from the store, all the goats had broken through the fence and were (wreaking) havoc on our street,” Roelands said in a Twitter post that included a video of the goats being rounded up. “This is the craziest thing to happen all quarantine.”

The goats came from an enclosure on a hill in the Silver Creek neighborhood, said Roelands. They are brought in once a year for a few days to clear the hillside brush.

“We had a tractor try to cut all the weeds a few years ago and it hit a rock and set the whole hill on fire,” he said.

The goat jailbreak occurred around 5:30 p.m., Roelands said.

Roelands said the goats were rounded up relatively quickly, but not before they munched on potted plants and other typically off-limits vegetation. They also left a conspicuous trail of droppings.

“Chaos,” Roelands wrote in a separate post that included pictures of the aftermath. “Pure chaos.”

The number of people who have perished in the fire, current as of Monday night, is almost certain to rise as rescue and recovery workers sift through the ruins and ashes where houses and families once stood. An untold number of people remain missing and it could be days or weeks before their loved ones have answers. More than 7,000 homes, businesses and other structures have burned to the ground or been damaged beyond repair, leaving people shell-shocked and wondering how they will pick up the pieces.

Before the Camp Fire broke out Thursday morning, the state’s single deadliest fire occurred in 1933 in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park Fire, where 29 people working on trails and roads were overcome by flames whipping through a nearby canyon.

As of Monday night, the fire was 30 percent contained. A pair of fires in Southern California also continued to destroy homes — many of then owned by celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Neil Young — and businesses, and force evacuations.

Smoke lingered over the Bay Area and unhealthy air quality — expected to last at least through Friday — forced the cancellation of several local events, from high school football games to half marathons.

Now, even as residents of Paradise — a quiet town of around 26,000 almost entirely razed by the inferno — begin contemplating the future, the fire continues to tear through communities to the north and south, fueled by strong winds and dry conditions.

Dozens of residents displaced by the fire huddled Monday at a Walmart parking lot, where people delivered donations of food, clothing and other supplies.

Aubrianna Hernandez, a junior at Chico High School, doesn’t know yet whether her family’s home in Paradise is still standing. But she decided to volunteer.

“I just kind of showed up,” Hernandez said. “I know there’s other people in worse conditions than me.”

Gwendolyn and Richard Gaskin moved from the East Coast in May and purchased a mobile home in Paradise just three days before the fire broke out.

“We don’t have nowhere to go at this point,” Gwendolyn said.

Preston Wrachford lost his home in Paradise and was also sifting through the donations in the lot.

“I was a mover and now I’m pretty sure I’m out of business,” Wrachford said.

Genesis Baker, his girlfriend, fears she is, too. Baker worked for her family’s landscaping business in Paradise.

“There’s nothing left to landscape,” she said. “My dad confirmed five of his contracts are gone. It was a small town to begin with. One of our customers paid us in casseroles.”

Not far away, Travis Crockett sat in his truck as his wife Robin waited with dozens of others to speak to insurance agents, who set up in a gravel parking lot in Chico.

The Crocketts lost their home on Winding Way in Paradise. “Our whole neighborhood is leveled,” Travis, 42, said. His brother-in-law, a U.S. Marshal, had early access to the decimated streets of the town and drove around snapping pictures of as many family members’ homes as possible. Most were gone.

For the next week, the Crocketts are staying at Motel 6 in Red Bluff, which Travis said is booked with other Paradise “refugees.”

As residents flee the area or hunker down, more than 5,000 fire crews from as far away as South Dakota are attempting to keep the fire from spreading into rugged terrain thick with vegetation to the north and tamping out fire west of Berry Creek to the south.

There’s a possibility the region could see some rainfall next week. While that would provide welcome relief to firefighters battling the blaze, it could also bring new challenges for people who rely on the Oroville Dam for drinking water.

“Contingencies are in place to ensure safety when it begins to rain. When the rain starts, we’ll be paying close attention to debris entering the lake and downstream rivers and will likely need to increase our water quality tests to ensure safety for recreation and water supply for urban/agricultural and environmental uses,” Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Water Resources, said in an email Monday.

While the official cause of the fire remains under investigation, state regulators are looking into PG&E, which reported malfunctions with electrical infrastructure near the source of the fire. On Monday, trading in PG&E was temporarily stopped as shares dropped significantly amid news the utility company may be responsible for the fire. Regulators are also looking into issues with Southern California Edison Company infrastructure, which also reported problems that may have contributed to a fire burning across Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

Aaron Johnson, PG&E’s vice president in charge of fire safety efforts, said the company was working to restore power when safe and was working with first responders to turn off gas lines when needed. Sixty-one of PG&E’s own employees lost their homes in the blaze, he said.

In Southern California, the Woolsey Fire has burned more than 90,000 acres and was far from contained Monday evening. The blaze has claimed the lives of at least two people and destroyed more than 350 homes and businesses. Firefighters had a better handle on the Hill Fire, which ignited around the same time on Thursday afternoon not far from the Woolsey Fire. The Hill Fire was 80 percent contained Monday, having already scorched 4,531 acres and destroyed two structures.

On Monday, President Trump tweeted that he approved California’s request for a major disaster declaration, which will free up federal funding, and the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee said his party would ask for up to $720 million for wildfire relief.

“Withholding funds is not the solution, and we will fight for it,” Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont told reporters on a conference call, referring to a tweet from President Donald Trump blaming poor forest management for the firestorms and threatening to withhold federal help.

Closer to home, the San Francisco 49ers welcomed the Paradise High School football team to Levi’s Stadium for Monday night’s game against the New York Giants. Many of the high school players lost homes and the team was forced to forfeit their playoff game because of the fire. The 49ers will be matching fan donations to the North Valley Community Foundation, which is supporting fire victims.

In the meantime, officials in Butte County are trying to locate residents still missing. The sheriff’s office requested calls be made to a missing persons hotline even if they had already reported the person missing to the department. Detectives will advise callers on the status of their case and provide any additional details or, if necessary, offer instructions on how to submit a saliva sample for DNA analysis.

Some of the remains recovered are being sent to morgues in Sacramento County, where Butte County officials are working with the California Department of Justice’s DNA lab and teams of coroners’ investigators and anthropologists to identify the decedents. He had no estimate for how long that would take.

“We are very early in our efforts,” Honea said. “There is still a great deal of work to do.”

Butte County missing persons call center phone numbers:

• (530) 538-6570
• (530) 538-7544
• (530) 538-7671

Erin Baldassari and Matthias Gafni contributed reporting. 

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BUTTE COUNTY — With the tragic death toll rising to 42 people, the Camp Fire roaring through Butte County officially has surpassed a grim marker, becoming the single most deadly and destructive fire in California’s history.

The devastating number of people who have perished is almost certain to rise as rescue and recovery workers sift through the ruins and ashes of houses. An untold number of people remain missing, and it could be days or weeks before their loved ones have answers. More than 7,000 homes, businesses and other structures have burned to the ground or been damaged beyond repair, leaving people shell-shocked and wondering how they will pick up the pieces.

Three victims have been publicly identified by fire officials so far. They are Ernest Foss, 65, of Paradise, Jesus Fernandez, 48, of Concow, and Carl Wiley, 77, of Magalia.

Before the Camp Fire broke out Thursday morning, the state’s single deadliest fire occurred in 1933 in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park Fire, where 29 people working on trails and roads were overcome by flames whipping through a nearby canyon.

As of Monday night, the fire had scorched some 117,000 acres and was just 30 percent contained. A pair of fires in Southern California also continued to destroy homes — many of them owned by celebrities such as Miley Cyrus and Neil Young — and businesses and forced evacuations.

Smoke lingered over the Bay Area, and unhealthy air quality — expected to last at least through Friday — forced the cancellation of several local events, from high school football games to half marathons.

Now, even as residents of Paradise — a quiet town of around 26,000 almost entirely razed by the inferno — begin contemplating the future, the fire continues to tear through communities to the north and south, fueled by strong winds and dry conditions.

Dozens of residents displaced by the fire huddled Monday at a Walmart parking lot, where people delivered donations of food, clothing and other supplies.

Aubrianna Hernandez, a junior at Chico High School, doesn’t know yet whether her family’s home in Paradise is still standing. But she decided to volunteer.

“I just kind of showed up,” Hernandez said. “I know there’s other people in worse conditions than me.”

Gwendolyn and Richard Gaskin moved from the East Coast in May and purchased a mobile home in Paradise just three days before the fire broke out.

“We don’t have nowhere to go at this point,” Gwendolyn said.

Preston Wrachford lost his home in Paradise and also was sifting through the donations in the lot.

“I was a mover and now I’m pretty sure I’m out of business,” Wrachford said.

Genesis Baker, his girlfriend, fears she is, too. Baker worked for her family’s landscaping business in Paradise.

“There’s nothing left to landscape,” she said. “My dad confirmed five of his contracts are gone. It was a small town to begin with. One of our customers paid us in casseroles.”

Last ones in Paradise: Camp Fire survivors live on in apocalyptic fire zone

Not far away, Travis Crockett sat in his truck as his wife, Robin, waited with dozens of others to speak to insurance agents, who set up in a gravel parking lot in Chico.

The Crocketts lost their home on Winding Way in Paradise.

“Our whole neighborhood is leveled,” Travis, 42, said. His brother-in-law, a U.S. Marshal, had early access to the decimated streets of the town and drove around snapping pictures of as many family members’ homes as possible. Most were gone.

For the next week, the Crocketts are staying at Motel 6 in Red Bluff, which Travis said is booked with other Paradise “refugees.”

California Highway Patrol Valley Division Chief Brent Newman, assisting officials in the area, said officers have seen an increase in the number of people looking to return to their neighborhoods but urged residents to be patient.

“It is not a safe environment whatsoever,” Newman said at a press conference Monday night. “We ask the public to please be patient with us.”

As residents flee the area or hunker down, more than 5,000 fire crews from as far away as South Dakota are attempting to keep the fire from spreading into rugged terrain thick with vegetation to the north and tamping out fire west of Berry Creek to the south.

There’s a possibility the region could see some rainfall next week. While that would provide some relief to firefighters battling the blaze, it also could bring new challenges for people who rely on the Oroville Dam for drinking water.

“Contingencies are in place to ensure safety when it begins to rain. When the rain starts, we’ll be paying close attention to debris entering the lake and downstream rivers and will likely need to increase our water quality tests to ensure safety for recreation and water supply for urban/agricultural and environmental uses,” Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Water Resources, said in an email Monday.

While the official cause of the fire remains under investigation, state regulators are looking into PG&E, which reported malfunctions with electrical infrastructure near the source of the fire. On Monday, trading in PG&E was temporarily stopped as shares dropped significantly amid news the utility company might be responsible for the fire. Regulators also are looking into issues with Southern California Edison Company infrastructure, which also reported problems that might have contributed to a fire burning across Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

Aaron Johnson, PG&E’s vice president in charge of fire-safety efforts, said the company was working to restore power when safe and was working with first responders to turn off gas lines when needed. Sixty-one of PG&E’s own employees lost their homes in the blaze, he said.

In Southern California, the Woolsey Fire has burned more than 90,000 acres and was far from contained Monday evening. The blaze has claimed the lives of at least two people and destroyed more than 350 homes and businesses. Firefighters had a better handle on the Hill Fire, which ignited around the same time Thursday afternoon not far from the Woolsey Fire. The Hill Fire was 80 percent contained Monday, having already scorched 4,531 acres and destroyed two structures.

On Monday, President Trump tweeted that he approved California’s request for a major disaster declaration, which will free up federal funding, and the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee said his party would ask for up to $720 million for wildfire relief.

“Withholding funds is not the solution, and we will fight for it,” Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont told reporters on a conference call, referring to a tweet from President Donald Trump blaming poor forest management for the firestorms and threatening to withhold federal help.

Closer to home, the San Francisco 49ers welcomed the Paradise High School football team to Levi’s Stadium for Monday night’s game against the New York Giants. Many of the high school players lost homes, and the team was forced to forfeit their playoff game because of the fire. The 49ers will be matching fan donations to the North Valley Community Foundation, which is supporting fire victims.

In the meantime, officials in Butte County are trying to locate missing residents. The sheriff’s office requested calls be made to a missing persons hotline even if they already had reported the person missing to the department. Detectives will advise callers on the status of their case and provide any additional details or, if necessary, offer instructions on how to submit a saliva sample for DNA analysis.

Some of the remains recovered are being sent to morgues in Sacramento County, where Butte County officials are working with the California Department of Justice’s DNA lab and teams of coroners’ investigators and anthropologists to identify the decedents. He had no estimate for how long that would take.

On Monday, Butte County Sheriff-Coroner Kory Honea‏ said he had requested 150 search-and-rescue personnel to help, two portable morgues and cadaver dogs.

“We are very early in our efforts,” Honea said. “There is still a great deal of work to do.”

Butte County missing persons call center phone numbers:

• (530) 538-6570
• (530) 538-7544
• (530) 538-7671

Erin Baldassari and Matthias Gafni contributed reporting.