Emergency fire crews and equipment from around the state will remain on standby in the Ridgecrest area for the near future, “in case something happens,” Kern County Fire Department Battalion Chief Dionisio Mitchell said Sunday. Water from a broken line runs down a crack on the ground in the aftermath of an earthquake along Highway…
Lori Churchill, her friend Michelle Hewitt and neighbor James Combs were sitting under a tarp in a courtyard at the Trousdale Estates, a mobile home park in Ridgecrest, when Gov. Gavin Newsom arrived Saturday afternoon with other state and local officials as part of a tour of earthquake damage…
The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Southern California on Friday night tipped buildings off their foundations and left residents on edge but did not cause any fatalities or major injuries, officials said. California’s second major earthquake in less than two days struck near Ridgecrest, a…
TRONA – California’s biggest earthquake in two decades has made one of the most precarious communities in the state even more so. Even before the July 4 6.4 earthquake and Friday’s 7.1 quake, the former company town of Trona was a ghost town, with vacant homes outnumbering occupied ones on many streets. With a population…
João Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South American nation, died Saturday, his son said. He was 88. João Marcelo said his father had been battling…
As a junior lifeguard instructor, Ben Carlson was known for pushing his students — especially during challenging run-swim races that started from the Balboa Pier. Chris Carlson, father of Ben Carlson, cheers on competitors during a race in his son’s memory on Ben Carlson Day in Newport Beach on Saturday, July 6, 2019. Carlson was…
Julie Pryor said she never could have predicted what happened to her during Thursday’s and Friday’s quakes. As neighbors darted into the street on Thursday, two came outside in their underwear. Unbeknownst to them, their doors closed and were locked. “They had to crawl through the dog door to get…
CALTECH – Foreshock! Who knew? For some Southern Californians, earthquakes have been all about, well, the earthquake – the main event, the big one (little b and little o). But Caltech scientists in the days since the July 4th 6.4 earthquake in Kern County and the 7.1 magnitude just a day later on a nearby…
Patrick Schwarz was watching “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” in Los Angeles when his theater seat started shaking Friday night. Having grown up in Northern California, he knew right away what was happening. “The shaking was pretty intense, and it just kept going and going. It seemed like…
Fear kept the Lugo family out of their beds and on their porch all night Friday after a 7.1 magnitude quake – the second shaker in two days – hit Ridgecrest. “My family wants me to go to Bishop, but I don’t know if it’s safe,” said Lizbet Lugo, 26, referring to the community where…
