A checklist for evacuations (Los Angeles Times)If you have to evacuate your house, put life before property -- your foremost concern is to get your family out, and after that, your pets, emergency officials say.
Kingston refuses to duck fowl situation (Eagle-Tribune Online)KINGSTON - Town officials hope a new regulation will take care of a fowl problem. Selectmen adopted a ban on feeding aquatic birds after a few Half Moon Pond residents repeatedly complained that the small pond was overrun with ducks contaminating the water and their land.
Southern california Fires rage on (The Morning Journal)RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. -- A 1981 Lorain Southview High School graduate has found her home surrounded -- literally -- by a raging California wildfire in recent days.
County Sheriff's Report (Park Record)A lightning strike in the Uinta Mountains killed a 60-year-old Davis County man camping in the woods east of Kamas at about 6 p.
Embers of hope glow for one family (Contra Costa Times)SANTA ANA -- Mike Ay made an emphatic declaration Sunday evening as the red glow of fire appeared just over the top of a nearby hillside. "I don't want to be on television," he said.
When Southern California burns, Long Beach gets the smoke (Los Angeles Times)Because of topographical quirks, Santa Ana winds funnel particulates to the beachfront community, even if fires are nowhere near. Long Beach is more than 40 miles from the nearest wildfire raging in Southern California. But its air pollution levels surged in recent days beyond the "unhealthy" level set by air-quality regulators.
Elusive Rock Burglar has vanished (East Valley Tribune)The Rock Burglar, a thief who broke into hundreds of luxury houses in and around Scottsdale and evaded local and federal authorities for more than a decade, has vanished.
Smoking Rubble, Police Barricades and a Lot of Anxious Residents (Washington Post)RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif., Oct. 24 -- Strange things happened on Cloudesly Drive. Houses simply disappeared. At one address, there is a swimming pool, transformed into a black lagoon. There is a metal lump, still warm to the touch, that appears to have been the dishwasher. What else? A pile of charred...
What do you take with you during an evacuation? (Reading Eagle)Many of the more than half-million people who have fled wildfires in California this week were forced to abandon their homes so quickly that they had to leave essential supplies and many possessions behind.
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