They slept on the grass in Freedom Park because they were too scared to go inside the Red Cross shelter in Ridgecrest’s Civic Center. “We were afraid the shelter would fall,” said Antonio Ortiz, 35, who spent the night in the park in Ridgecrest with his extended family including his mother-in-law suffering from dementia. Any…
Javaid Waseem, 45, his workers and volunteers had made real progress Friday night cleaning up the mess that a 6.4 earthquake had made at his convenience store in Ridgecrest. The unbroken wine bottles were back in place, the motor oil had been wiped away, and the shelves were lined up once again…
After two major earthquakes in as many days, the communities of Ridgecrest in Kern County and Trona in San Bernardino County are coping with the aftermath. During a Saturday morning, July 6, news conference, public officials addressed the need for support. Right now, following emergency declarations and recovery efforts underway in San Bernardino and Kern…
Matt and Denise Warren sat on the curb in front of their home on West Dolphin Avenue as they petted Hallie, a 4-year old lab. They feared going inside their home because of so many aftershocks. On Wednesday, the couple took their camper to a friend’s property to stay the night in the desert after…
It was the news no one in Southern California wanted to hear. After experiencing two major earthquakes in little more than a day — one 6.4 magnitude and the other 7.1 — seismologists said more significant quakes were likely and there was even a chance of another huge temblor. Friday’s quake was…
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County in the wake of a powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake on Friday night, as urban search and rescue crews from around Southern California headed to Ridgecrest and surrounding areas to help assess the damages. Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue Team…
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Southern California on Friday night, the second major temblor in less than two days and one that rocked buildings across Southern California, adding more jitters to an already nervous region. The quake was centered near Ridgecrest, the location of the July Fourth…
The odds that Southern California will experience another earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater in the next week are now nearly 11%, according to preliminary estimates from seismologists. And the chances that a quake will surpass the 7.1 temblor that struck near Ridgecrest on Friday night are roughly…
Love them or hate them, more miles of toll lanes are probably coming to Riverside County. A road-building agency is poised to launch a $1.4 million engineering study to examine what it would take to extend Corona’s 91 Freeway toll lanes east to downtown Riverside, and to add toll lanes on the 60 and 215…
The dismissal of UCLA’s longtime spirit squad director earlier this year is tied to an incident in which a high-profile donor — a disgraced ex-state senator — paid for the tickets and sat with six dance team members at a racy Las Vegas show the university condemned as inappropriate. Mollie Vehling, the Bruin Traditions director…
