One man was dead after a shooting at a home in Irvine early Saturday morning, and a second person reported being assaulted, police said. Officers responded at 5:45 a.m. to a report of an injured man in the residential neighborhood, Irvine police said. When they arrived, the man said he was the victim of an…
A man was killed after he was ejected from his pickup truck when it went off an embankment on the northbound 55 Freeway in Costa Mesa on Saturday morning, authorities said. The white Ford pickup truck went over the side on the right shoulder embankment just north of the Baker Street offramp at 11 a.m.,…
A bat found at Mission San Juan Capistrano this week tested positive for rabies, Orange County health officials said Saturday, making it the fifth rabid bat found in the county since September. The bat was found on the grounds of the mission on Ortega Highway at around 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, according to…
Perhaps no word is more misunderstood and misused in discussions of wildfires – even by firefighters themselves – than the word “containment.” Simply put, the containment percentage is the amount of the fire area that is surrounded by a line that officials believe the flames will not jump. “To say a fire is 100 percent…
The Kincade fire grew overnight to 25,000 acres, and evacuation zones expanded as firefighters struggled to get more control over the Sonoma County blaze before winds pick up.
The Tick fire has grown to 4,615 acres and is 25% contained, fire officials said Saturday morning, Oct. 26. All but one lane of the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway is now open. Three southbound lanes, including the carpool lane, reopened at 10:30 p.m. Friday. #TickFire off Tick Canyon Rd and Summit Knoll Rd, Canyon Country…
Utility power outages are complicating evacuation efforts as wildfires rage in Northern and Southern California.
Los Angeles homeless number 36,000. Include the county and we’re hovering close to 60,000. They need our compassion and our help.
Millions of Californians can do little more than watch as the lights go off, then on and maybe back off again during the blustery autumn of 2019.
Sonoma wildfire stokes fears of more widespread power outages
