Column: If California wants to know how to cope with the apocalypse, ask Butte County
Butte County has been hit with disaster after disaster. But there’s a resigned resilience among residents even as they face the North Complex fire.
Butte County has been hit with disaster after disaster. But there’s a resigned resilience among residents even as they face the North Complex fire.
Air quality officials said the high pollution readings were a result of intense heat combined with stagnant weather conditions.
The August Complex is burning in a remote area in and around Tehama County. It’s the largest fire by size but far less destructive than the 2018 Camp fire.
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After gaining notoriety for orange skies, the San Francisco Bay Area confronted more poor air from fires on Thursday. But skies were gray, not orange.
Roughly 500 tests will be available each day at a mobile coronavirus testing kiosk opening Thursday at Union Station in Los Angeles.
Smoke advisories have been extended for most of L.A. County and parts of other counties. An evacuation area has been set up at Santa Anita racetrack.
From San Francisco to Yosemite, social media was filled with images of ominous red and orange skies as smoke from a variety of fires blocked the sun.
Photos of SoFi Stadium show the indoor-outdoor stadium in Inglewood that is the new home of the Rams and Chargers.
Fourteen firefighters defending a ranger station in Los Padres National Forest had to deploy a shelter. Three of them were hospitalized.