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Luckily, our Los Angeles pals at the LAist have done the heavy lifting and cobbled together the active fires in a handy post. Endorsement: The Times endorses Hoffman, Anderson, Henderson and Han for LACCD. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. The decision is usually made by the dispatcher who takes the call. We don’t have time to second-guess ourselves. The Saddleridge Fire is 13 miles northeast of the November 2018 Woolsey Fire, which burned 96,949 acres and destroyed 1,643 buildings. 45 firefighters extinguished the fire in 17 minutes with no injuries reported. So far there are no reports of injuries. It has since at times forced shutdowns of portions of the 210, 5, 405, 14 and 118 freeways. One building was exposed, the fire department said. A resident in the fire area suffered cardiac arrest and died at a hospital, and two firefighters suffered minor injuries. House burned almost to the studs by #HillsideFire in North San Bernardino. Some outbuildings had been destroyed and one residential structure may have burned. If nearly all Americans would wear face masks when they leave their homes, they could save over 100,000 lives by the end of February, a study says. I think we might. Meterologists warned that conditions yesterday and today could make for a dangerous wildfire recipe, and it looks like they didn’t miss the mark. Here are some stunning images from the Hillside fire. The goats were hired from a local company – 805 Goats – to clear around 13 acres of land, reports the BBC. Farther north, the Briceburg fire in Mariposa County was at 5,500 acres as of Sunday morning with 60% containment. In 2018, Democrat T.J. Cox won the seat by fewer than 1,000 votes over Republican David Valadao. A mechanic. This story was updated as of 8:15 a.m. Friday. A Porter Ranch resident who identified himself as Harout, 56, stayed behind in his Hampton Court home Thursday night when the fire in the canyons nearby exploded. Sponsored By. #46FIRE [UPDATE] 9:50 a.m. - The mandatory evacuation are has been reduced. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Firefighters early Tuesday afternoon were battling a brush fire possibly linked to a transformer explosion in the Mission Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley. Although residential evacuations were not announced, fire officials warned those living in Sherman Oaks and Encino to "gather essentials" and monitor local news and social media. The fire broke out after 9 p.m. Thursday northeast of the interchange of interstates 5 and 210. The governor’s office said it has obtained a federal grant to help offset the costs of fighting the Saddleridge fire and others in the state. The 125,000 sq ft Reagan library – “the repository of presidential records for President Reagan’s administration” that holds over 60m pages of documents, over 1.6m photographs, a half million feet of motion picture film and tens of thousands of audio and video tapes according to its website – has been preemptively protected by goats. Saddleridge Fire Update: L.A. At its peak, the fire was consuming 800 acres an hour. Sonali Kohli is on leave from the L.A. Times until June 2021, completing the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. In other words, whether or not you agree with the Gipper’s politics, losing a piece of history compounds the loss of property. Blackened pieces of wood litter the driveway. On Yosemite’s western edge, the 6-day-old Briceburg Fire was holding steady around 5,000 acres, with 40 percent containment, CalFire said on Friday. Several neighbors said they too fled after seeing a wall of flames, but couldn’t identify the source. “We are prepared for any flareups as they occur,” Los Angeles Fire Capt. Additional evacuation centers have opened for people impacted by the #SaddleridgeFire. The fire at one point threatened 6,500 homes and the 125,000 square foot Reagan presidential library, before firefighters were able to defend a line. Structure Fire; INC#0120; 03:09AM; 21201 W Lassen St; https://bit.ly/37tzycC; Chatsworth; FIRE NOW OUT: Firefighters encountered a two story town house over garage with a well involved garage fire. As of 1pm the fire was contained at about 50%. By 5 p.m. Saturday, fire officials had lifted all evacuation orders after clearing out about 23,000 homes the previous two days. Hillside fire sparked overnight about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, while the Ronald Reagan library has so far survived a close call with the Easy fire, Mario Koran in Oakland (now) and Before joining the newspaper in 2018, she was a reporting fellow at PBS’s “Frontline.” Originally from Los Angeles, Miller is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism. In a toss-up Central Valley district, Republicans and Democrats wage a vicious campaign. The San Fernando Valley pictured in this illustrative image, has been hit by a fire which has spread to more than 1,600 acres on October 10 2019. Details: https://t.co/4CXgfFeY8K pic.twitter.com/SHDrAlD0ni. On Saturday, that fire was at 2,667 acres and 25 percent containment. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! Post was not sent - check your email addresses! County officials have made it easier for elementary schools to reopen for their youngest students under waivers, dropping a requirement to show union support. As winds gusted up to 50 mph, the flames crossed both freeways, and for much of Friday stretches of I-5, I-210, I-405 and highways 14 and 118 were closed. In a 9 p.m. update, Los Angeles Fire Department officials reported the fire was 80% contained after their "dozers cut very effective fire line that stopped the flames in their tracks.". #CAwx #CAfire #SoCal #TickFire pic.twitter.com/UBqJh4rjWW. Los Angeles Time has a good explainer on this point this afternoon: In the firefighting world, containment means a certain level of control — specifically, how much of the fire’s edge, or perimeter, firefighters believe they can stop from expanding. Mandatory evacuation orders were lifted on Thursday for the those forced out of their homes by the Easy fire – what had been a fast-moving blaze in Simi Valley, a bedroom community north of Los Angeles. Though the utility shut off power for thousands of customers beginning Wednesday specifically to lower the risk of destructive fires, the area where the fire started was not included in the shutdown. Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Backlog in reporting of test results swells coronavirus case count in L.A. County. A geologic landmark like a valley, river or canyon will work. But it doesn’t necessarily mean the fire has been extinguished. A spokesperson for San Bernardino county fire said 500 homes are in mandatory evacuation zones. That family’s house is now almost completely charred. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. It is all here. … ", The National Weather Service reported that. These are the victims of the Zogg fire. Here’s a piece from the library’s webpage about what it actually contains. Oh, the irony. It’s unclear if the exposed building belongs to the hospital. About 500 firefighters were at the scene Thursday. Information on accessing all of these records, including how to file a Freedom of Information Act request, can be found under the “I am a Researcher” tab above. “We respond to about 170 fires a week throughout the state. Sylmar residents told KNBC and KABC that they saw a fire burning at the base of a transmission tower near Saddle Ridge Road, an area investigators are examining as a possible ignition point. https://t.co/DXJbplQHtj. They are facing off again. High winds, low humidity and dry conditions have accelerated a fire in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, shutting down two freeways and sparking evacuations. Made in two weeks. So far, the Reagan library has stood unscathed, but flames have so far crept up to its doorstep.

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