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4 P.M.: PEOPLE TRAPPED AT MAMMOTH POOL As many as 1,000 people near Mammoth Pool Reservoir have been cut off by the Creek Fire and are unable to evacuate the area. They are reportedly being advised to shelter in place, in the reservoir if necessary. The situation was confirmed by Sierra National Forest spokesman Dan Tune.

Marchers protesting for racial justice confronted police and toppled newspaper boxes and set some of them on fire Saturday night in the Adams Morgan section of Northwest Washington, before converging near the White House and prompting a tense standoff with police. The protesters, shouting familiar chants of “No Justice! No Peace!” asked diners to raise their fists in the air before police on bicycles arrived. The protesters shouted at the officers before toppling the boxes and lighting two of them on fire at about 9 p.m. The group of about 175 people continued marching through northwest D.C., going into several...

Mostly peaceful, except for fires, assault on camera of MSM lady...Riiiiight.

Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A California man attempting to defend his home from a wildfire said he turned to an unusual source of help when his water was shut off: several cases of Bud Lite beer. Chad Little said he decided to stay behind when his family evacuated their Vacaville home last week as the LNU Lightning Complex Fires approached their neighborhood. Little said he had hoses set up around the house to provide a consistent source of water to keep the flames away from the house, but he started worrying when the water to the area was shut off....

Cal Fire crews are building more confidence in getting the upper hand on the CZU fire, but despite their best efforts, evacuation orders are likely to remain in place for several days. “Over the course of the next 72-120 hours that’s anywhere from four to five days out. We will look hopefully of bringing some sort of normalcy back to the area. Obviously it’s all dependent on the weather conditions," said Incident Commander Billy See at the 6 a.m. fire briefing on Wednesday. Advertisement Crews are staging along Felton Empire Grade Road, in Felton, to begin a burnout operation Tuesday...

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. But an Associated Press reporter and photographer hiked the renowned Redwood Trail at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Monday and confirmed most of the ancient redwoods had withstood the blaze. Among the survivors is one dubbed Mother of the Forest. SNIP “But the forest is not gone,” McLendon said. “It will regrow. Every old growth redwood I’ve ever...

Two Marin County, California, firefighters were rescued Friday after becoming trapped while battling the Woodward Fire in northern California, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. The California wildfires have burned more than 1 million acres, CNN reports.

I signed up for updates from CalFire for the fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This is the mountain range that runs down the San Francisco Peninsula and over to Santa Cruz and Watsonville. For those of you who don't know the area, this is IMMENSE, from Pescadero on the north to Santa Cruz on the south, from the coast on the west to Skyline Drive and Highway 17 on the east. This is some of the prettiest country in the entire United States being eaten by fire. There is ZERO containment as of this morning. Unfortunately, fire fighting efforts...

In a devastating loss for one of California’s most venerable parks, the historic park headquarters, the nature center, campgrounds and other structures at Big Basin Redwoods State Park were destroyed in the raging wildfires currently burning through the Santa Cruz Mountains. The status of the ancient redwoods in the park, some of which tower more than 300 feet tall and date back nearly 2,000 years, was unclear Thursday afternoon. Redwood trees’ bark is heavily fire-resistant, but in intense fire storms the trees can be damaged, and some of the large trees near park headquarters were scorched by the flames, according...

A massive fire at a plastics facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, that can be seen for miles is likely to continue burning for days and could knock out electricity in the area for some time, firefighters said Wednesday morning while urging people to stay indoors because of the "toxic plume" rising from the scene. At about midnight, an overhanging power line fell onto plastic sheeting in a storage facility at the Poly-America manufacturing plant in the 2000 block of West Marshall Drive, said Bill Murphy, Assistant Chief with the Grand Prairie Fire Department. The materials ignited and spread throughout the...

Live coverage of a wildfire with lots of potential consequences

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-Tahoe-natcolorfire-96-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined ALERT! Record Breaking fires across Northern California. Never before have there been this many at once ! ... live satellite view here.. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms... ALERT! MASS EVACUATIONS UNDERWAY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Listen to and watch fire cams live along police scanners now... dozens of large fires.. record breaking.. never this many at once before in US history... https://twitter.com/NightRiderTunes/s...

A fire rips through the upstate New York home of celebrity cook Rachael Ray. Jeff St. John =================================================================================== A home belonging to celebrity cook Rachael Ray was reportedly on fire in upstate New York on Sunday night. Fire crews were battling flames at the home in Lake Luzerne, as the Warren County Sheriff’s Office told ABC10 the residence belonged to the television personality. Images showed the flames shooting through the roof of the home.

The Cato Institute just released a new report showing that 62 percent of Americans are inclined to self-censor what they say politically “because others might find them offensive.” Even moderate leftists report they feel increased fear of offending the offendable, while only the most “staunch liberals,” as Cato described them, feel free to speak their minds. The “very conservative” have been pushed deepest in the closet: they are most likely to refrain from saying what they think politically, at nearly twice the rate of the “very liberal.” Buried deeper in the report, however, is a stunning data point that might...

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokeswoman told Fox News the accident occurred while the planes were fighting the Bishop Fire near Caliente, Nev., around 1 p.m. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will lead the investigation, and the NTSB will determine the probable cause of the crash. Each plane had only the pilot aboard, authorities said. The 500-acre wildfire started Wednesday in an area about 17 miles southwest of Caliente and 150 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

TUCSON, Ariz. — A local pastor says his church has had four fires since March, and he wants to know who’s responsible and why. KGUN9 checked in with the church and pastor to find out about the latest incident and what the church is planning to do next. We first met Pastor Gene Chewning at the Living Word Church at 3602 South 12th Avenue in March of this year, the church is known as a multi-denominational church in the neighborhood.--------------snip-------------Here’s a breakdown of the dates, the first fire was on March 3rd , the second set on April 17th the...

More than 400 sailors are working to put out the massive fire that continues to rage aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego and Navy officials are unclear how long the blaze might continue to burn. The fire has brought down the amphibious assault ship's forward mast and caused other damage to the ship's superstructure that rises above its flight deck. "There is a tremendous amount of heat underneath and that's where it's -- it's flashing up -- also forward, closer to the bow again there's a heat source and we're trying to get to that as well," Rear...

A fire has broken out at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes. More than 60 firefighters are currently at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, according to local media. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Images from the scene show a substantial fire and smoke billowing from inside the gothic building.

uly 15th came and went with little new official information regarding the ongoing fire fighting operations aboard USS Bonhomme Richard. Then, it was announced at around 11 pm local time this evening, that the Navy cleared the ship and the pier of all personnel due to a rapid shift in the vessel's stability. The tweet from Naval Surface Warfare stated the following: Out of an abundance of caution the pier and ship were cleared of personnel due to an initial shift in the ship’s list. Personnel are now pier side. We will continue to monitor as the ship settles. Bonhomme...

At least seven ships were on fire at the Iranian port of Bushehr Wednesday. The news of the ship fires was first reported by Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, and later reported by Reuters. Initial reports indicated three ships were on fire at the Iranian port, but updated reporting indicated the fire had spread to at least seven ships. The ship fires in Iran follow a pattern of unexplained explosions and fires at Iranian military and industrial facilities in recent weeks. “Several ships are on fire in the port of Bushar, southern #Iran,” tweeted Walla News foreign affairs editor Guy Elster,...