Firefighter, two civilians hurt during escape from flames in Kincade fire
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.
Tick fire is 25% contained on Saturday morning
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…
The terrifying experience of escaping wildfire with the power shut off: ‘It was pitch black’
Utility power outages are complicating evacuation efforts as wildfires rage in Northern and Southern California.
Column: L.A.’s homeless numbers can numb us. Stories help us see people, not stats
Los Angeles homeless number 36,000. Include the county and we’re hovering close to 60,000. They need our compassion and our help.
News Analysis: California utilities — not lawmakers — are calling the shots on power outages to prevent wildfires
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.
A race against time to slow Sonoma fire before monster winds return
Sonoma wildfire stokes fears of more widespread power outages
Newsletter: Essential California Week in Review: Fires erupt across California
A look at California stories from the last week, including the fires burning across the state.
Orange County DA given OK to proceed with high-profile rape case in Newport Beach
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced Friday that his office has been given the green light to move forward with the prosecution of a Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend accused of drugging and raping seven women, despite Spitzer’s concerns over how former DA Tony Rackauckas initially handled the case. The case involving Grant…
Wildfire terms 101: A ‘complex’ topic made simple
Branches, divisions, groups and complexes. To many people, those firefighting buzzwords may as well be in a foreign language. To the chiefs in charge of putting out wildfires, they are important incident-management tools. “It’s a way for us not to get overtaxed and manage rapidly growing incidents,” said Eric Sherwin, a spokesman for the San…
Here’s how much alcohol we consume 100 years after Prohibition
A century ago this month the U.S. passed the Volstead Act, which prohibited the sale, production, and use of alcohol in the U.S. Prohibition was repealed 14 years later. In recent years, collectively the U.S. consumes about 8 trillion gallons of alcohol a year. Efforts to ban alcohol in the U.S. began in the 1820s…