Laguna Fire News Today

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The recent 12th annual “Polar Bear Toy Drive/Christmas Party/Pot Luck/Volleyball Tournament, or, "a toy drive with a volleyball problem," took place over the holidays and enjoyed a big turnout.

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A field of rust-brown California buckwheat greets Laguna Mountain visitors. The Catalina Eddy, a meteorological condition responsible for days-long episodes of dreary, overcast weather over San Diego, is most likely to occur in May and June. This weather pattern, which intensifies our late-spring “June gloom,” happens when moist marine air, drawn inland from the area around Santa Catalina Island, condenses in the form of low clouds along the Southern California coastline. The summer-like ep...

Print Bill Clayton, a wildland firefighting expert who saved countless lives and entire towns during a career that spanned 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 77 of natural causes at his home in Carlsbad. “He was a legend in the fire service,” said lifelong friend and recently retired Cal Fire Battalion Chief Ray Chaney. “You’d be driving up to this giant atomic bomb-looking column of smoke, be a little nervous or have that sense of apprehension, and then you’d hear Bill’s voice on ...