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Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe All signs point to a dangerous wildfire season here in Southern California, so prevention efforts such as clearing brush are well underway. At the Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, that work is being handled, at least in part, by hundreds of goats. “They eat all the brush and vegetation and plants around the entire perimeter of the library,” said Melissa Giller, a spokeswoman for the Reagan Library. Th...

Print this article More than 350 goats were tasked with munching on 13 acres of brush on the campus of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Southern California. The goats, which arrived Monday, are expected to spend two weeks cleaning up the brush near the library to help prevent fire hazards. The goats are part of a partnership the library has with the Ventura County Fire Department, library spokeswoman Melissa Giller told the  Washington Examiner. Before the goats came about s...

Former “Top Chef” Fatima Ali says she has a year to live. The 29-year-old underwent surgery to remove a tumor in January. However, Ali wrote Tuesday in an essay for Bon Appetit that the “cancer cells my doctors believed had vanished are back with a vengeance in my left hip and femur bone.” Ali says her oncologist told her she... California Dec 12, 2019 As firefighters in Northern California’s wine country race to contain the devastating Kincade Fire that has ripped th...

A Christmas Miracle: Power Restored To Thousands After Precautionary Shutoffs Due To Santa Ana Winds Syndicated Local – CBS Los Angeles SANTA CLARITA (CBSLA) – The Santa Ana winds have died down Thursday night, just in time for Christmas — giving many SoCal residents the gift of restored power. © Provided by CBS Los Angeles A family in the Canyon Country area of Santa Clarita, Calif., runs a generator due to the power shutoffs caused by Santa Ana winds. Dec. 23, 2020. (C...

170K SoCal Edison Customers Could See Power Shutoffs Due To Powerful Santa Ana Winds Syndicated Local – CBS Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – More than 170,000 Southern California Edison customers could see power shutoffs through Christmas Eve due to strong Santa Ana winds which have created ripe wildfire conditions across the Southland. A red flag warning is in effect from 8 a.m. Wednesday through noon Thursday for most of Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange counties, as well a...

Evacuation of nearly 8,000 people when it started on south mountain, northwest of los angeles. about 1200 firefighters are actively working this blaze. >> there is still cause for caution and concern. we are not out of the woods yet. we still have at least 24 hours of critical fire weather ahead of us. >> reporter: southeast of here in simi valley, the easy fire was hurled by hurricane -- fueled by hurricane force winds on wednesday and threatened the reagan library. that fire is 95% contained a...

Advantage. >> we saw erratic, explosive fire behavior last night. thats died down. we dont see the winds. we dont see the explosive fire behavior. >> it started high on the ridge. that provided us time to get into the communities and start our evacuations. >> some who were at the fire on tuesday moved here where the ground and air assaults have been substantial. >> the easy fire was winding down. we reallocated equipment from that over to this fire so we had a robust response last night. what th...

Driving giant flames across a six-lane freeway in simi valley, california, setting fire to grass on the other side. a new inferno with a new name, the easy fire. some flames reaching 30 feet into the air. firefighters attacking the easy fire from the ground and in the air. a cnn news van got a little too close, drenched in fire retarda retardant. the easy fire has threatened 65 homes. its inching close to the ronald reagan library in simi valley. a herd of hungry goats helped save this library. ...

Hurricane-force winds driving giant flames across a six-lane freeway in simi valley, california. setting fire to grass on the other side. a new inferno with a new name, the easy fire. some flames reaching 30 feet into the sky. a cnn news van got a little too close, drenched in fire retardant. at last report, the easy fire has burned 1,600 akers and threatened 700 structures. the flames are inching close to the reagan library in simi valley. a herd of hungry goats saved the library. they come in ...

The first-ever extreme red flag warning remains in place over southern california. two new fires have erupted late yesterday hours after the fast-moving easy fire broke out threatening the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, at least ten brush fires burning now across the state. there could be a break in the dangerous santa ana winds seriously help the overwhelmed firefighters but urgent warnings for people poo heed evacuation orders is still in place. >> the fire moved so fast an...