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Weather forecast indicates chance of dry lightening this weekend By Olivia Wynkoop KTVUs Rosemary Orozco has your Bay Area forecast for Friday, July 16, 2021. SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA - Thunderstorms with chances of dry lightning might make their way to the Bay Area on Sunday and Monday, according to the National Weather Service.   As mid-level moisture makes its way across the Central Coast and Bay Area, upper-level disturbance from British Columbia will cause a lobe of energy to hit the region...

The Bay Area may see thunderstorms, dry lightning this Sunday July 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A rare lightning storm crackles over Mitchells Cove in Santa Cruz, California around 3 a.m. Sunday morning August 16, 2020. Weather forecasts are currently showing potential thunderstorms and dry lightning in the Bay Area on Sunday. (Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)Shmuel Thaler/Associated Press Thunderstorms with chances of dry lightning might make their way to the Bay Area on Sunday ...

Since the CZU fires, Cal Fires San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties division, Cal Fire CZU, as well as other county groups have been working on various projects to protect against wildfires. Woodside and Portola Valley have both stepped up their fuel reduction efforts, said Denise Enea, former Woodside Fire Protection District fire marshal and president of Fire Safe San Mateo County, the organization dedicated to protecting property and the environment for county residents in the wildland/urban in...

 Instead of using a paper map to devise a plan and coordinate evacuations, fire agencies can now use a simple computerized interface.

Aiming to prevent a repeat of last years devastating CZU Lightning Complex wildfire that burned 86,000 acres, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention suspended burn permits in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties.

Editorial: Hot off the presses: The climate is changing, requiring bold action Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News © Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS Firefighters work to contain a blaze during the CZU August Lightning Complex fires on Aug. 21, 2020, in Ben Lomond, California. During the Trump administration, even as the federal Environmental Protection Agency claimed to care about, you know, protecting the environment, officials sat on an alarming scientific ...

I would like to respond to a highly controversial opinion piece published on Sep 27, 2020, “Find a new location, operator for Clover Flat Landfill” by activist Chris Malan, wherein she demands that the Napa County Board of Supervisors close the Clover Flat Landfill. Fortunately, Napa County Supervisors assess our countys challenges based on community needs, experts, based on truth and scientific facts. Activist Malans speculative piece begins with: "There is an on-going public discuss...

‘Firefighters Out There in the Snow’: Wildfires Rage Early in Parched West Firefighters in New Mexico, Arizona and California are battling springtime blazes that have been fueled by a severe drought and boosted by climate change. A fire sparked in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico on Monday continued to burn throughout the week, despite rain, light snow and the efforts of fire crews.Credit...USDA Forest Service, via Associated Press April 30, 2021 RUIDOSO, N.M. — New Mexico’s fi...

UpdatedWed, Apr 28, 2021 at 9:01 pm PT Reply A map indicates the boundaries of the 2020 LNU Lightning Complex fires and the Solano County location of each of the recovered victims. (Image courtesy Solano County Sheriffs Office and Cal Fire Lake-Sonoma-Napa Unit) SOLANO COUNTY, CA — Authorities have determined arson caused an August 2020 wildfire that merged with the Napa County Hennessey Fire into what later became the deadly LNU Lightning Complex fires. Further, two Solano County deaths caus...

Saved from devastating Santa Cruz fire, young salmon must now survive the ocean FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Mark Galloway of Kingfisher Flat Hatchery stands in a covered tank surrounded by trees charred by the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire as he works to wrangle thousands of young Central California Coast coho salmon, called smolts, before they are released into Big Creek near Davenport in Santa Cruz County.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Staff with Kingfisher Flat Ha...