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State work continues in LNU fire debris removal program FAIRFIELD — The state reports that five Solano County properties in the LNU Lightning Complex Fire area – and were enrolled in the public debris removal program – have been cleared for reconstruction. Those five properties will have to get county permits, the fees for which have been reduced by 30% for building and infrastructure permits. Six properties have been signed off on by officials with the Consolidated Debris Removal Program...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Solano County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday, March 9, 2021, to send a letter to Fairfield indicating they believe the proposed 288-unit Georgetown Village affordable housing project is not in the best interest of Travis Air Force Base and therefore not in the best interest of the county or the city. (Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic) Georgetown Village: County to send letter to Fairfield urging city to protect Travis FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors vo...

Egypt was added for this year’s competition. “We’re grateful for Camp Swift to host this (event) and for the county to support it,” said Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape. “(It’s) becoming quite an international event.” In the past, the Best Warrior Competition has included a road march, an obstacle course, the use of combat arms, a land navigation exercise, activities to demonstrate proficiency in various warrior tasks, writing an essay and appearing before a board that reviews pers...

International Best Warrior military competition set for Bastrops Camp Swift Cameron Drummond, Austin American-Statesman © SARAH ACOSTA/AMERICAN-STATESMAN Texas Army National Guardsmen Michael Key competed in the 2014 Best Warrior Competition at Camp Swift in Bastrop. The 2021 edition of the Best Warrior Competition will take place at Camp Swift this week. An international military competition featuring armed forces members from Chile, the Czech Republic, Egypt and Texas will ...

Supervisors consider changes with county Senior Coalition FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Board of Supervisors will consider recommendations Tuesday that would include no longer funding the Senior Coalition of Solano County. “The report recommendations allow the Senior Coalition to continue with its current contract funding of $30,221 for a coordinator until June 30, 2021,” the staff report to the board states. “The remaining $26,579 budgeted for (fiscal year) 2020-21 would remain unspent...

As the 10-year anniversary of the Bastrop County Complex Fire approaches this fall, the county’s long term recovery team has announced its plans to memorialize the fire and the lingering effects of it, both positive and negative. Sheila Lowe, the executive director of the Bastrop County Long Term Recovery Team, told the Bastrop County Commissioners Court on Monday that programming will include community events, a golf tournament and a special magazine highlighting the stories of heroes and ...

The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West By Alan Buis, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory Smoke from wildfires shrouded the San Francisco Bay Area and blocked sunlight on September 9, 2020. Credit: Aaron Maizlish/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, not the least of which were a series of devastating fires around the globe that bear the fingerprints of climate change. From Australia and South America’s Amazon and Pantanal regions, to Siberia an...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Solano Parks and Recreation Manager Chris Drake stands above damage done to Lake Solano County Park last year by the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic) Lake Solano sustains $1.5M in damage, could have been worse PLEASANTS VALLEY — At 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18, Solano County park ranger Jamie Fussell thought Lake Solano was going to be spared from the latest wildfire burning in the area. Her boss, Parks and Recreation Manag...

© Josiah Pugh National Guard troops respond in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Laura was Earth’s most expensive tropical cyclone of 2020, with $18.2 billion in damage. Earth was besieged by a record 50 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2020, the most such disasters ever recorded after adjusting for inflation, said insurance broker Aon (formerly called Aon Benfield) in its annual report issued January 25. The previous record was 46 billion-dollar weather disast...

Redwoods are made to survive fire, but they dont live alone in the forest While Californias redwood trees didnt completely escape the effects of 2020s huge wildfires, damage to the surrounding environment is a more pressing concern. Listen - 05:15 Redwood trees are just one part of Californias coastal forestlands.  James Martin/CNET When four of the five largest wildfires in Californias history were ab...