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• Greater alarm fire burns Dollar Tree store in North Hollywood NORTH HOLLYWOOD — A greater alarm fire burned at a Dollar Tree store in North Hollywood for 46 minutes Thursday night before being extinguished by 83 firefighters. The cause of the fire is under active investigation, according to Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters were called to the store at 6000 Lankersheim Boulevard, near Oxnard Street, at 8:58 p.m., Humphrey said. A cellphone video shared by a witness with Fox11 showed one of the store’s aisles catching…
• Greater-alarm fire hits Woodland Hills commercial building A greater-alarm fire burned a commercial building in Woodland Hills early Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Fire Department sent 74 firefighters to 6421 Independence Ave., south of Victory Boulevard and west of De Soto Avenue. The blaze was extinguished in 69 minutes, said LAFD spokesman Nicholas Prange. Los Angeles firefighters battle a greater-alarm fire early Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Independence Avenue, south of Victory Boulevard and west of De Soto Avenue in Woodland Hills. (Photo by Rick McClure/Contributing Photographer)…
• ‘Unrelenting’ fire seasons putting new mental strain on crews that fight flames Firefighter Chuck Stark summed up life in the 2020s for crews at the Contra Costa Fire Protection District and throughout the state: “If I could describe it in one word: Unrelenting,” he said. “There used to be an ebb and a flow to this. Not anymore.” The 26 stations Stark, the assistant chief of operations, oversees took an annual average of 76,000 total calls ranging from vehicle accidents to fires to hazardous materials situations to EMS calls from 2017-2020. A…
• Strong wind gusts expected to fan wildfires in New Mexico By CEDAR ATTANASIO and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Weather conditions described as potentially historic were on tap for New Mexico on Saturday and for the next several days as over 1,400 firefighters and a fleet of airplanes and helicopters worked feverishly to bolster lines around the largest fire burning in the U.S. Many families already have been left homeless and thousands of residents have evacuated due to flames that have charred large swaths of the Sangre…
• Spring sports head into homestretch with 44 state titles up for grabs West and Cyprus play a high school softball game at West High in Salt Lake City on Monday, April 25, 2022. The 2021-22 high school sports season is in its final stretch.Scott G Winterton, Deseret News The chaos that is high school spring sports is already well underway and will reach its crescendo quickly as the 2021-22 season feverishly comes to a close within a few weeks. But not before the UHSAA doles out a lot of hardware — 44 championship…
• California summer: Why drought makes us scared, edgy, angry It’s understandable that Santa Rosa artist Bill Gittins gets anxious about forecasts that say there will be little rain in the next six months. A third year of severe drought means a long hot summer and a high risk of devastating wildfires. Gittins and his wife survived what they describe as the “surreal” terror of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, fleeing before the wind-fueled conflagration incinerated his house and artwork, destroyed thousands more homes and killed 22 people, including a neighbor. With the…
• Morgan Hill: Crews battle fire involving vehicles, structure MORGAN HILL – Crews on Friday night battled a vehicle and structure fire in Morgan Hill, authorities said. The fire was reported just before 7:30 p.m. near Garden Way and Wright Avenue, according to the California Department of Forestry Santa Clara Unit. In a social media post, Cal Fire said the fire involved multiple vehicles and extended to an apartment building. Crews ultimately contained the fire and saved the structure. “There is only minor fire and smoke damage to the…
• $30 million awarded to fund wildfire-monitoring planes proven in major disasters Planes capable of predicting the behavior of wildfires and beaming information directly to crews on the ground in real time have proven invaluable in major disasters across California. Now, they will become a permanent part of firefighters’ arsenals, after attracting millions of dollars in state funding, officials announced Tuesday, May 10. Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce plans to allocate $30 million to the Fire Integrated Real time Intelligence System (FIRIS)  when he unveils California’s revised budget on Friday, May 17,…
• New Mexico wildfire grows; California fire destroys mansions The largest wildfire in the U.S. was spreading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico, prompting officials to issue another set of warnings for more people to evacuate. Meanwhile, a wildfire that erupted Wednesday afternoon in coastal Southern California raced through coastal bluffs of multimillion-dollar mansions, burning at least 20 homes, fire officials said. The flames were fanned by gusty ocean winds but they were dying down Wednesday night. No injuries were reported but several streets were ordered evacuated.…
• Alcoholic who terrorised his soap star ex died in fire weeks after release from jail Tony-Lane Roberts’ marriage to Cindy Marshall-Day broke down after years of alcoholism (Picture: MEN/Rex)The ex-husband of a former TV soap actress who was jailed after terrorising her in their country estate died in a hotel fire just weeks following his release, an inquest has heard. Tony Lane-Roberts’s marriage to Cindy Marshall-Day, who starred in the final two seasons of Crossroads after its revival in 2001, broke down after he failed to put an end to years of drinking problems. In…