Carmel Pine Cone, September 25, 2015
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INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 HEALTHY THE MAGAZINE Lifestyles VolumeThe 101 No. 39 Carmel On the Internet: www.carmelpinecone.com Pine Cone September 25-October 1, 2015 TRUSTED BY LOCALS AND LOVED BY VISITORS SINCE 1915 THE MISSION’S Tassajara fire: Started by a suicide By MARY SCHLEY going.” BIGGEST DAY The fact someone committed suicide by catching AUTHORITIES AREN’T releasing the name — or himself on fire is “kind of hard to comprehend,” she said, even the gender — of the person whose suicide led to the adding that nothing suggests the person meant to ignite a nearly 1,100-acre wildfire that destroyed a dozen homes wildfire in the process. “There’s no evidence pointing to and damaged a 13th before it was brought under control that at all.” late this week, but investigators confirmed the victim Trenner said the Monterey County Sheriff’s homicide intentionally burned to death. detectives who were also sent to the scene Saturday The blaze began around 3 p.m. Sept. 19 in the area of determined the victim died of suicide, not murder. Carmel Valley and Tassajara roads, and was quickly whipped into a firestorm by hot, dry winds and parched See FIRE page 7A vegetation. When she went to begin her work piecing together how and where the fire started, Cal Fire investigator Catey Trenner discovered the person’s burned body in a grass clearing. “I found the individual in a clearing area, next to a vehicle. The vehicle was not burned,” Trenner said. The body was in an area where the grass had been trimmed, but the fire quickly spread to longer grass, then into trees and shrubs, across the creek bed and up the steep hillside, raging out of control. “We had extreme weather conditions, and it got Rescuing pets no small feat By CHRIS COUNTS RETURNING HOME from the SPCA with a new dog last Saturday afternoon to join their numerous other pets, Cachagua resident Stacey Jacobs and her family suddenly noticed some- PHOTO/KERRY BELSER thing ominous on the horizon. Collectively, their hearts sank. HUNDREDS FLOCKED to the Mission Wednesday to witness history, as “We had just made it past mid-valley Pope Francis, visiting Washington, D.C. during his first trip to the United when I saw what can only be described States, canonized Junipero Serra, the founder of almost half of the mis- as a mushroom cloud,” Jacobs told The sions in California. While the crowd watched the ceremony via a live feed to a Jumbotron set up in the courtyard, and news crews from all over Pine Cone. “I said, ‘My God, that’s in the world looked on, a group of American Indians held their own quiet Cachagua.’” ceremony nearby, remembering their ancestors and the pain and death Jacobs and her husband, Matt — who they experienced during the construction of the Mission in the 1770s. were traveling with their three children Serra’s new sainthood is expected to substantially increase the number — realized immediately that the smoke of visitors to the Mission, where he is buried. Meanwhile, the statue of they saw rising in the east was coming Junipero Serra that keeps watch over the north entrance to Carmel was from a wildfire. While the new SPCA PHOTOS/ORVILLE MYERS (ABOVE), FACEBOOK (TOP) vandalized Wednesday morning with eggs and black paint. See page dog, a great Pyrenees, was Ominous smoke rose into the air in a mushroom cloud (top) Saturday afternoon after a 11A fire started in Tassajara. The flames spread quickly through dry vegetation in the hot, windy See PETS page 9A weather, reaching greats heights and driving people, pets and livestock from their homes. Paddleboarders visit iconic, but off-limits, Big Sur beach By CHRIS COUNTS beach below the mean high tide line. Above that, access can be restricted by the owner of the SCOTT EASTWOOD and five friends defied the odds beach, or by state or local law. At Julie Pfeiffer Burns, Fuzie in mid-August when they used stand-up paddleboards to said, “the beach above the high tide line is closed by a local access the elusive but much-photographed beach at Julia ordinance.” Pfeiffer Burns State Park. Photos from the trek — including Fuzie called the beach and its dramatic surroundings one memorable image of a paddleboarder taking a dunk “one of the popular viewsheds in the world.” But trying to under the park’s famous waterfall — went viral after they reach the beach by land is dangerous, as a young woman were posted online. discovered last month. Despite prominent warning signs, But the images have also captured the attention of a local Medina Faraz, 20, fell to her death Aug. 28 while trying to state parks official, who said the beach Eastwood and his climb down the cliffs above the beach. Others have made friends visited is closed, and they should not have been the same mistake and paid the same price, and that’s why there. the beach is off-limits. According to Mat Fuzie, supervisor for state parks in the Meanwhile, rough surf conditions usually make paddle- A recent paddleboarding trip revealed many rare perspectives of the Big Monterey district, except for military bases, every beach in boarding along the Big Sur coast too dangerous to even Sur coast, including this striking view of the waterfall and beach at Julie the state is open to the public — even if you have to reach Pfeiffer Burns State Park — normally only visible from a trail above. it by boat — but that rule only applies to the portion of a See VOYAGE page 15A Have the complete Carmel Pine Cone delivered every Thursday evening to your iPad, laptop, PC or phone. 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