The sweltering heat that roasted most of Southern California over the weekend will peak well past 100 degrees in some places by Tuesday, June 11, raising concerns about the risk of wildfires in the coming months. Hot and dry winds driven by a ridge of high pressure traveling north from Mexico caused temperatures Sunday to…
A fast-moving brush fire broke out Sunday afternoon near Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, spurring evacuation of the amusement park and an adjacent water park as clouds of smoke and ash covered a large swath of the area, officials said. The fire erupted at noon and was burning near Interstate…
Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park was evacuated Sunday afternoon as a brush fire burned nearby in Santa Clarita, sending smoke into the park, officials said. • Continue reading: Six Flags Magic Mountain evacuated because of Santa Clarita brush fire
A fire at a home in San Juan Capistrano sent two people to the hospital on Sunday, June 9. Flames and black smoke leapt from the second story window of a house on the 27000 block of Horseshoe Bend in photos posted to Twitter by the Orange County Fire Authority at about 1:11 p.m. Two…
A 50-acre brush fire in Santa Clarita led to an evacuation, then a shelter-in-place order, for visitors to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Sunday afternoon, causing confusion and frayed nerves for some park-goers. Both the Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor sections of the park were closed at 4 p.m., about five hours early, to keep…
SANTA ANA – A 53-year-old man was found fatally shot in the driveway of a home in Santa Ana early Sunday, police said. Officers sent to the scene at 3:45 a.m. found the man lying in the driveway in the 1000 Block of South Austin Street with a gunshot wound to the upper torso. He…
GARDEN GROVE – One person was killed in a fiery crash early Sunday after a big rig tried to avoid hitting a wrecked Honda sitting in the slow lane of the eastbound 22 Freeway in Garden Grove. The driver of the car, a 26-year-old man from Irvine, was arrested in on suspicion of DUI, said…
There is hubris and there is kindness and when the two collide, the destruction can be devastating. But never count out a woman who grew up with immigrant parents in a small town in Nebraska. Kristina Dodge didn’t just live the high life. She lived the highest life. Dodge and her banker husband, Larry, rented…
Are local renters getting antsy to leave town? According to a study by Apartment List, 38% of Los Angeles and Orange Counties searches involved locals looking at units out of the two-county region. Only seven of the 25 metro areas studied had a higher level of out-of-town searches. To be fair, searches do not mean…
The lifeguard tower being built Saturday on Bruce’s Beach in Manhattan Beach is not just another oceanfront lookout. The tower, erected as part of that beach’s World Oceans Day activities, could part of the solution to the scourge of plastic pollution, a large portion of which ends up in the ocean. That’s because the structure…
