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• Exploding 21,000-acre Tamarack Fire closes part of the Pacific Crest Trail as threats of dry lightning loom National Forest officials in eastern California announced Sunday that they were closing a 26-mile stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail as a lightning-sparked wildfire rapidly exploded nearby and critically dangerous wildfire weather threatened to make the situation worse. The Tamarack Fire, which began on July 4 in Alpine County, grew from 500 acres Friday night to 21,000 as of Sunday morning, with zero containment. Officials with the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest say the rapid growth was fueled by strong winds on…
• This small Northern California town was ravaged by a wildfire for the second time in less than a year By Aya Elamroussi and Brisa Colon | CNN A small town in Northern California has been ravaged by a wildfire for the second time in less than a year. Residents of Doyle, a town of about 700 residents north of Reno, are evacuating from their homes again as extreme drought and heat waves leave the area primed for wildfires. California’s largest wildfire on record this year, the Beckwourth Complex Fire, whipped through Doyle on Saturday, destroying 33 homes according to…
• The I-680 toll lane is done. So why is nobody driving in it? Roadshow Q: Do you know why the carpool lane on Interstate 680 from Sunol through Fremont is closed to toll traffic? And more importantly when it will open? There is no work going on and the lane is nearly empty.  …  Signs say “HOV only.” … Will this lane require three people to avoid paying a toll like they’ve done on 880 and 237 and will do on 101? Greg Straughn, Andy Maurer and more A: Construction of the northbound I-680…
• Oregon wildfire forms 'fire clouds' that pose danger below Smoke and heat from a massive wildfire in southeastern Oregon are creating giant “fire clouds” over the blaze — dangerous columns of smoke and ash that can reach up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) in the sky and are visible from more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) away. Authorities have put these clouds at the top of the list of the extreme fire behavior they are seeing on the Bootleg Fire, the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. The inferno…
• PG&E says its equipment may be linked to Northern California Dixie Fire SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, the nation’s largest utility reported to California regulators. PG&E said in a report Sunday to the California Public Utilities Commission that a repair man responding to a circuit outage on July 13 spotted blown fuses in a conductor atop a pole, a tree leaning into the conductor and fire at the base of the tree.…
• California blaze erupts near site of deadliest US wildfire A blaze that erupted near the flashpoint of the deadliest wildfire in recent U.S. history was heading away from homes on Thursday but survivors of the 2018 blaze worried that history could repeat itself. The Dixie Fire had burned a couple of square miles of brush and timber near the Feather River Canyon area of Butte County and moved into national forest land in neighboring Plumas County. There was zero containment and officials said people in the tiny, remote communities…
• Gary Anderson rules out Michael van Gerwen in bold World Matchplay prediction Gary Anderson fancies a new World Matchplay winner this year (Picture: Getty Images)Gary Anderson expects there to be a new name on the World Matchplay trophy this year, describing Jose de Sousa as ‘something else’ on the practice board. The Flying Scotsman booked his spot in round two, where he will meet Nathan Aspinall, with a comfortable 10-5 win over Stephen Bunting, despite playing nowhere near his brilliant best. Just three seeds have fallen in the first round – James…
• Long-serving Inland Empire Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis dies REDLANDS — Former Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis, who became a hero in his community for steering hundreds of millions of federal dollars to projects in his inland Southern California district, but was criticized as an exemplar of pork-barrel spending abuses, has died. He was 86. His death was announced in a statement by California Republican Rep. Ken Calvert, who said on his website that Lewis “made an enormous impact on his district, the state of California and our nation.” Calvert…
• Cigarette butt blamed for devastating 1,000-acre fire by nature reserve Crews attempted to calm the flames overnight (Picture: AFP)Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in Spain’s Costa Brava region as a forest fire rages on. The blaze has devastated more than 1,000 acres on the edge of Cap de Creus natural park since Friday. It’s believed to have been started because someone threw a smouldering cigarette from their car. Firefighters used water-carrying planes today as they battled to control the wildfire. Sergi Palacios, of the Catalan regional…
• Former FBI agent: After members of white supremacist gang indicted, more charges likely The local men facing charges in connection to a violent white supremacist gang likely won’t be the last charged, a retired FBI agent told News4Jax. Three local men in federal court in Jacksonville on Thursday are among 16 Florida men named in a federal indictment, part of a violent gang that goes by “Unforgiven.” One of the men is from Jacksonville, one is from Orange Park and another is from Satsuma. MORE | 4 Northeast Florida men in ‘white supremacist gang’…