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Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #778: TUESDAY March 16, 2021: BURNING CALIFORNIA TO SAVE IT Sacramento Bee award winning staff photographers Renée C. Byer and Paul Kitagaki Jr. together with Outdoors reporter Nicole Blanchard and Dale Kasler who covers climate change.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #778: TUESDAY March 16, 2021: BURNING CALIFORNIA TO SAVE IT by Sacramento Bee award winning staff photographers Renee C. Byer and Paul Kitagaki together with Outdoors reporter Nicole Blanchard and Dale Kasler who covers climate change: On a crisp, breezy February morning near Lake Tahoe, a crew of five firefighters descended on a snow-covered, heavily-forested park straddling the California-Nevada border. They came to start fires, not put them out. California and the West are just months removed from one of the worst wildfire seasons in modern history. Climate change is ramping up the hazards, and a dry winter suggests another tough year is coming. Desperate for a solution, states are finding that lighting a fire can be a good way of preventing one. ‘It’s the closest thing to a consensus in the fire community,’ said Timothy Ingalsbee, director of Firefighters United. ‘We need more of it.’ A growing army of experts argues that ‘prescribed fire’ planned, deliberate burns, can reduce the volume of combustible vegetation from parched landscapes and ease a crisis gripping the western third of the country. Welcome to: BURNING CALIFORNIA TO SAVE IT

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

POY78! Congrats to Sergei Bobylev from TASS News Agency for winning first place in Pictures of the Year International, Sports Action.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS: December 25, 2020, Chelyabinsk, Russia: Ice dancers YEKATERINA MIRONOVA (front) and YEVGENY USTENKO perform during the free dance programme at the 2021 Russian Figure Skating Championships at Traktor Ice Arena. (Credit Image: © Sergei Bobylev/TASS via ZUMA Press)

ZUMA Press won First Place in The Pictures of the Year International 2021, SPORTS ACTION.
Sergei Bobylev, TASS News Agency via ZUMA Press Wire Service, for his emotional out of this world skater image.
“Sergei owned the recent Russian Championships like NO other! This image is by far my favorite, yet his whole take was out of this world! Bravo SERGEI! Very proud to have ZUMA Press rep TASS and especially to rep your outstanding work.” – Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Brittany Murray/Orange County Register via ZUMA Press makes cover of The Wall Street Journal, March 13-14, 2021.

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March 12, 2021, Carson, California, USA: KITSIA P. GUARDADO teared up with emotion as she received her COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. LUCAS RESTREPO. Guardado was able to start her own trucking business with extended time away from her children because she had a nanny willing to support her efforts. Her nanny and friend of 22 years passed away after contracting the virus so the tears were for her and the other family and friends who have battled tragedy this past year. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters along with Northeast Community Clinic and support from local politicians were able to set up the clinic at Shippers Transport Express. 

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week#777:TUESDAY March 9, 2021: ‘TARGETED’ from ZUMA Press award winning Tampa Bay Times photographer Douglas R. Clifford and investigative reporters Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #777: TUESDAY March 9, 2021: ‘TARGETED’ from ZUMA Press award winning Tampa Bay Times photographer Douglas R. Clifford and investigative reporters Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi: Florida’s Pasco County sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found. First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, then sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime. They swarm homes in the middle of the night, waking families and embarrassing people in front of their neighbors. In just five years, Nocco’s signature program has ensnared almost 1,000 people, with at least 1 in 10 were younger than 18. Some of the young people were labeled targets despite having only one or two arrests. One former deputy described the directive ‘Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.’ Welcome to: ‘TARGETED’

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press