Southern California back on fire watch as dangerous winds return

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Humans keep building where we shouldn’t build, experts say, heightening the danger in fire-prone landscapes subjected to dry Santa Ana winds.

Another bout of strong winds may be blowing into the mountainous areas of Southern California this weekend, raising some concerns about fire dangers in areas that are still burning from last week’s wind-whipped blazes. The strongest gusts, between 50 to 70 miles per hour, are expected Saturday in southern Santa Barbara County, the I-5 corridor,…

Irvine police have released the sketch of a suspect in an armed robbery that happened earlier this week in hopes it will help identify him. The sketch was based on the victim’s description, Irvine police said Friday, Oct. 18. The night of the robbery, Oct. 14, police were called to the area of Bosque and…

A large seizure of fentanyl by sheriff’s deputies this week yielded almost half the amount of the deadly opioid snagged by authorities in Orange County during all of 2018 – a sign the drug is quickly growing into a substantial threat to the public, officials said. Investigators confiscated about 18 pounds of fentanyl on Wednesday,…

A man who shot himself in the hand outside the Fountain Valley Regional Hospital prompted a brief lockdown of the facility Friday afternoon. It was around 2 p.m. when officers were called to the hospital, on Euclid Street and Warner Avenue, said Lt. Steve DeSantis. A couple had driven their friend, a 58-year-old man from…