FREMONT — Michelle Rivera awoke at about 6 a.m. Monday to the sounds of Fremont city workers preparing to begin a lengthy cleanup of Isherwood Park, where she and dozens of others have lived in tent encampments.

She managed to grab toiletries, clothes and food and water bowls for her dog Nebula, a black Pitbull mix. The city tossed the rest of her belongings — a tent, bed, cooking supplies and other items — in a dumpster, she said.

“My whole life is now in two boxes,” Rivera, 30, said later Monday. “I lost a lot of stuff that I couldn’t take with me.”

Monday marked the first day of a multi-phased cleanup of the park, located along Isherwood Way, near the East Bay Regional Park District’s Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area. The city has asked for all campers to leave by Nov. 14th, whe

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