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–Highway 1 on the Big Sur Coast will be closed between Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County and Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn in Monterey County (44.6 miles) beginning Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 5 p.m. This closure on Highway 1 is expected to remain in effect until Thursday, Jan. 28. Assessments will take place, during daylight hours and when safe to do so, prior to reopening of the highway. A major rainstorm is expected to advance on the Monterey Bay area late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning...

Bay Area residents brace for possible landslides: We are kind of maxed out FacebookTwitterEmail A chimney stands at a hillside home destroyed by the CZU Lightning Complex fire in Brookdale, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Scientists and residents worry that charred hillsides will produce mudslides when winter rains hit.Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle Santa Cruz mountain residents are bracing for the first major storm of the season - preparing to either flee or face blocked roads, downed...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Summary: New US Covid cases...

Firefighters return to Michigan after helping with historic western wildfire season Kathleen Lavey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Paul Dunn and Ben Osterland, two Michigan Department of Natural Resources firefighters, drove an off-road fire truck from Michigan to California to help with the Lake Fire outside of Los Angeles. (Michigan Department of Natural Resources/Courtesy Photo) Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Support vehicles parked along Pine Can...

Showcasing the DNR: Firefighters return to Michigan after assisting with historic western wildfire season Kathleen Lavey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Dec. 10, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Support vehicles parked along Pine Canyon Road, north of Los Angeles, California, while the Lake Fire is visible in the background. (Judy Nathan/U.S. Forest Service Photo) Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Paul Dunn and Ben Osterland, two Michigan Department of Natural Resources firefighters, drove an o...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Early on a September morning, with the smell of smoke in the air as a wildfire raged five miles away, a team set out on a search and rescue attempt in Big Sur. A few weeks before, they had spent hours clearing chaparral to hike in to the site. Today, they had to set rope gear and rappel 50 feet to a cliffside cave. One of the rescuers, Gavin Emmons, hung 100 feet above the ground, then squirmed his way through a 3-foot-wide hole...

Firefighters from an unidentified crew working along the Lake Fire in Los Angeles County, California in August. (InciWeb photo) By Kathleen Lavey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Paul Dunn has been fighting wildfires in Michigan for 15 years, the last two of them as a full-time firefighter for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Late this summer, he got his first chance to go west, driving a DNR Type 6 off-road engine with colleague Ben Osterland, arriving at the Lake Fire n...