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Fire experts are predicting another hot, dry year in California, increasing the risk of wildfires a year after an especially bad season in 2020. The surge in fires has led some to consider the methods in which they are fought. At the San Mateo County Parks Commission’s April 1 meeting, commissioners discussed the use of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Conservation Camp Program, which employs inmates to help fight active fires and do mitigation work. The program ...

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BOULDER CREEK, Calif. (KGO) -- A camp for people with disabilities in Boulder Creek is having to deal with another heartbreak just months after their beloved properties burned to the ground in the CZU August Lightning Complex Fires. Last week, they were burglarized and vandalized costing the owners time and money they dont have. "You know, the fire was a natural disaster. We couldnt blame anybody," Alex Krem, chairman at Camp Krem, said. "The robbery was very different. They just saw money in t...

County dries out, mops up after storm [Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif.] Jan. 29—APTOS — Even as sunshine peeked from behind the clouds Friday, communities across Santa Cruz County were left mopping up after the week’s high-intensity rainstorms had charged through the region. In the Aptos hills, a 41-year-old Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employee was recovering with minor injuries Friday morning after the vehicle he was riding in rolled down a Valencia School Road hillside, California Highway Pa...

Snow has closed the Grapevine area of the 5 Freeway in both directions Wednesday morning as a winter storm drenches the Central Coast and residents of fire-scarred areas brace for mudslides. It will continue snowing in the high-elevation pass into the afternoon, said Joe Sirard, a meteorologist for

California has a long history of lightning-caused fires, but 2020 is showing how a changing climate can affect the growth of such blazes. Jane Presswood, the owner of the liquor store, said she was closing down early Tuesday and expected to remain closed until Friday. She and her husband were heading to a hotel in Santa Cruz to ride out the storm, she said. Some of her neighbors however are staying put, including John Moxon, who was chatting with Pressman at the store while buying himself a l...

California winter storms: Powerful winter storms trigger evacuation orders and knock out power in parts of California CNN 1/27/2021 By Pedram Javaheri and Christina Maxouris, CNN © Noah Berger/AP Charles Bogray evacuates from his Boulder Creek home near the CZU Lightning Complex Fire burn zone in Santa Cruz County, on Tuesday, January 26. A series of powerful winter storms are barreling across the parched state of California, knocking out power to more than 400,000, threate...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. California appears to have pushed through the worst of its calamitous winter surge, with coronavirus case counts and hospitalization numbers now on the decline. However, while it’s clear that Californians have managed to bend the curve, we are far from in the clear. The pandemic has also brutally battered the state economy, with the unemployment rate spiking in December. Much of that job ...

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the theory that the Constitution prohibits a trial of a former official is “flat-out wrong by every frame of analysis.” He pointed out that the Constitution allows the Senate to not only remove an impeached official from office, but also bar him or her from holding future office. Though many GOP lawmakers have condemned Trump’s actions in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the party has coalesced around the idea that im...

Heavy rain headed to Southern California with mudslides possible in burn areas An empty stretch of Interstate 5 through Gorman on Wednesday as a series of winter storms rolls through California. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Jan. 27, 2021 Updated 5:47 PM PT A winter storm barreling toward Southern California threatens heavy rainfall that could trigger mudslides and debris flows in vulnerable areas. In anticipation of the rainfall, the National Weather Servi...