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For the second week in a row, a plume of unstable air from a dying tropical storm in the Pacific was streaming toward the San Francisco Bay Area Saturday, carrying with it a potent combination of gusty winds and dry lightning.
Up and down the west side of Highway 101, Saturday was another day for residents to follow the expanding evacuation zones as shifting winds pushed the Walbridge Fire toward Healdsburg and Geyserville.
Gov. Gavin Newsom toured miles of charred hills and burned out homes Saturday, getting a first-hand look at the devastation left behind by wildfires that have burned nearly 700,000 acres in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Firefighters and aircraft from 10 states continued to arrive in the San Francisco Bay Area Saturday as a new weather plume bringing with it a chance for gusty winds and another round of dry lightning was bearing down on the region.
Fanned by gusty, hot breezes, the SCU Lightning Complex fires continued burning across several counties, growing to 339,968 acres by nightfall as crews enter their seventh day battling the massive wildfires.
As Hank Hanson stood amid the ruins of his home something caught his. Somehow his tomato plants had survived the firestorm that destroy nearly everything in its path.
President Trump issued on Saturday a major disaster declaration to provide federal assistance and Gov. Newsom said in a statement that the declaration will help people in counties affected by the fires.
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New evacuation orders were issued for parts of Healdsburg on Saturday as the Walbridge fire, part of the massive LNU Lightning Complex, grew to more than 314,207 acres.
Police in San Mateo on Friday seized approximately 40 pounds of methamphetamine during a traffic stop.
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The massive CZU August Lightning Complex Fire continued to rage in the Santa Cruz Mountains Saturday, with more than 60,000 acres burned and nearly 100 structures destroyed.
Two firefighters were plucked from the western Marin wildlands, pulled to safety by a Sonoma County Sheriff's Department helicopter crew, after they became trapped Friday night by the advancing flames of the Woodward Fire.
Mispronunciations have been rampant in the days since the California senator became the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman named to a major party's ticket.
As the destruction spreads across the Bay Area some crews in the fire zone are encountering a new danger -- residents refusing to leave.
