Author: Chris Weber
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California cleans up from mudslides, as fire gains strength
OAK GLEN, Calif. • Rescuers searched Wednesday for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes in Southern California mountain communities, while firefighters held back a week-old blaze that gained renewed strength and forced more evacuations along foothills in the northern part of the state. With thunderstorms forecast and more mudslides…
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Firefighters make gains against deadly California fire
KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. • California firefighters made gains against the state’s deadliest and largest wildfire of the year just as an entire eastern Washington town was being evacuated Thursday because of a blaze that was burning homes. About 1:30 p.m. the Adams County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook that about 10 homes in Lind had…
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Man kills 3 daughters, 1 other, himself at Calif. church
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls Monday at a church in Sacramento, Calif., authorities said. Deputies responding to reports of gunfire around 5 p.m. found five people dead, including the shooter, at the church in the Arden-Arcade neighborhood,…
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Fires charring U.S. West range set up ranchers for hardship
LAME DEER, Mont. • Wildfires tearing through eastern Montana and elsewhere in the U.S. West are devouring vast areas of rangeland that cattle ranchers depend upon, setting the stage for a potential shortage of livestock forage as the hot, dry summer grinds on. On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, firefighters and local authorities scrambled to…
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Wind a risk as California fires keep tens of thousands away
LOS ANGELES • Crews tried to beat back two out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes even as another round of dangerous fire weather raises the risk for flames erupting across the state. Fierce winds that drove twin fires through brushy hills near…
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California utility sets another blackout amid fire fears
SAN FRANCISCO • The state’s largest utility said it will go ahead with widespread blackouts affecting nearly half a million people starting Wednesday as dangerous fire weather returns to California. Pacific Gas & Electric said it would begin precautionary power shutoffs in the afternoon affecting nearly 180,000 homes and businesses in portions of 17 counties,…