Monterey County Crews Increase Containment On River, Carmel, Dolan Fires
Fire officials in Monterey County finally had good news to report Tuesday morning as containment on the River, Carmel and Dolan Fires continued to increase.
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Fire officials in Monterey County finally had good news to report Tuesday morning as containment on the River, Carmel and Dolan Fires continued to increase.
One of the South Bay's largest school systems has been scrambling to close a wide gap in attendance and equipment issues that have been major obstacles to effective online learning.
University of California's Lick Observatory has survived more than 100 years atop Mt. Hamilton but raging wildfires had the astronomy research facility under siege.
While a small army of firefighters braced for a shift in wind direction earlier Tuesday, crews continued to make progress battling the massive CZU Lightning Complex fires, limiting the growth of the destructive blazes stretching across two counties.
The SCU Lightning Complex fires burning in several East Bay and Central Valley counties is now the second-largest fire in state history at 363,772 acres burned, moving ahead of the LNU Lightning Complex fires burning in the North Bay, according to Cal Fire.
Former San Jose City Attorney Rick Doyle died on Sunday at the age of 65, two weeks after celebrating his retirement and ending two decades of service defending the city.
San Jose Police asked for the public's help Tuesday in finding a 73-year-old man who went missing the evening before and is considered at-risk because of a medical condition.
When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed.
The SCU Lightning Complex started on Aug. 16 with multiple fires within the complex. These fires have since merged into two major fires and are broken into three zones: Canyon, Calaveras and Deer.
The CZU August Lightning Complex fires began August 16 in southern San Mateo County and northern Santa Cruz County. Currently, most of the San Mateo County evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted.
The recent heat wave and wildfire smoke have made for especially tough times for farm workers who were already struggling with COVID-19.
Easing weather conditions have helped firefighters battling the massive SCU Lightning Complex fires, to make progress against the third-largest wildfire outbreak in state history and allow some evacuated residents to return home.
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has sowed chaos and isolation in Santa Clara County's immigrant communities, making it harder to collect census data, a county official said Monday.
A 70-year-old man found dead near the coastal community of Davenport likely was killed while trying to escape the advancing CZU Complex fire, while six others were rescued after they became trapped by flames while trying to return to their evacuated homes, officials said Monday during an update on the battle with the massive wildfire.
Police in San Jose are investigating a shooting that left a man dead Monday morning, according to authorities.
