Just a quick note to share a California fire story which has not yet been told, about some amazing heroes who saved my grandma and hundreds of other elderly and disabled people in Poway, California, today.
Mr. Gary, former chief of the Livermore-Pleasanton fire department in California, says fire departments never have been required to develop precise data.
But when I heard the news of this one I immediately thought back to almost exactly a year ago, when Scott Evans De Kraai entered a salon in Seal Beach, California and opened fire.
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In Northern California, a fire that has blackened 11 square miles of wilderness in Tehama County was a threat to a pair of commercial properties near the community of Butte Meadows, according to Cal Fire.
In Northern California, a fire in a remote area of brush and timber north of the town of Butte Meadows grew to more than 3 square miles, with 10 percent containment, state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said.
According to a senior law enforcement source, two people were wounded when officers in Torrance, California, opened fire on a blue pickup truck after it pulled up in front of a house where they were guarding a fellow officer Dorner had allegedly named as a target.
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Glendale Community College canceled its Friday night classes due to the brush fire near California Highways 134 and 2, the school said on its Twitter account.
According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Buckweed Fire burned 38, 526 acres.
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The number of people hurt in the fires increased Friday to 85, including at least 61 firefighters, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
In California, a pair of fires north of San Francisco in Lake County burned 7, 000 acres and were 30% contained Tuesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Instead, they believed it was started by a small, "undetermined roadside ignition of grass and debris" on the edge of U.S. 101 near Thousand Oaks, said Tom Piranio, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Whatever the cause the result was me chasing drug smugglers on the Mexican border, fighting wild fire in northern California, and, along with a host of other unusual jobs, working as a helicopter medic in the wee hours of the morning in Kansas City.
Much of Southern California was under red flag warnings for fire danger due to heat, wind and low humidity levels.
In August, a Fisker Karma vehicle caught fire in a parking lot in California, thanks to a defective cooling fan.
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Critics of the bill say thousands of California businesspeople will have to shutter their stores and fire employees if the bill becomes law.
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Which is why the Qualcomm engineer found himself one Friday in September rattling down a steep fire road in the Trinity Wilderness of northern California on his mountain bike.
Apple does not have a retail store in Brazil, but a local press report in Nov. 2012 set the cult of Mac on fire when it reported that the Cupertino, California tech giant was going to set up a physical presence in sunny Rio de Janeiro at some point in 2013.
State fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said neither fire was threatening structures, but the blazes across of California could be an ominous sign.
The limo was carrying nine women passengers and a male driver when it caught fire late Saturday night on the San Mateo bridge, California Highway Patrol officer Art Montiel told The Associated Press.
Elsewhere in the West, fire crews worked to beat several other fires, including one in California and another in southwest Colorado.
Wildfires are projected to be more likely than normal in parts of Southern California, Hawaii and Appalachia in coming months, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Yet, in November of 1991, a team of fire investigators had inspected fifty houses in the hills of Oakland, California, which had been ravaged by brush fires.
In 1969, the year before the first Earth Day, two environmental disasters grabbed the country's attention: a massive oil spill coated the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, grew so polluted that it actually caught fire.
Smith serves as the fire chief for the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians, an American Indian Nation located in southern California.
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