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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday said he was focusing every resource on battling dozens of raging wildfires and thanked residents for conserving electricity during the recent energy crisis spurred by the ongoing heat wave.
San Jose State University suspended all classes Wednesday, including those conducted online due to the coronavirus pandemic, as multiple wildfires burn in and around the Bay Area.
Police in San Francisco are investigating a fatal shooting early Wednesday morning in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood.
The City of Hayward's free COVID-19 testing site was forced to close Wednesday due to smoke from multiple wildfires burning in and around the Bay Area.
A wall of flames roared through the Spanish Flat Mobile Villa overnight, reducing homes to ashes and vehicles to piles of melted metal.
A wildfire continued to burn Wednesday in Monterey County's Carmel Valley, though the acreage burned has been reduced, according to authorities.
The Dolan Ridge Fire in Big Sur expanded to 2,500 acres overnight and is burning in all directions.
Violators of California's mask requirement will be subject to a hefty fine in South Lake Tahoe by the end of the week.
Out-of-control wildfires touched off by lightning have torched more than 200 square miles and closed a major freeway in one of the major wildfires groups raging out of control in the Bay Area and Northern California.
The River Fire in Monterey County, one of several in the region caused by last weekend's rare lightning storm and exacerbated by the ongoing heat wave, has more than doubled in size overnight.
A lightning-sparked wildfire grew to 1,500 acres early Wednesday as a wall of flames advanced into the Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, Sonoma County authorities said.
Hundreds of residents clogged the roadways heading out of Boulder Creek late Tuesday night and overnight, forced from their homes by an advancing wildfire, one five large blazes raging out of control in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties.
California staved off another round of rolling blackouts as a searing heat wave strained its electrical grid, but authorities warned of a continuing threat Wednesday.
A 24-year-old San Leandro man was the victim of a fatal stabbing Saturday in his hometown, police said Tuesday.
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