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Bay Point neighborhood painted pink by retardant as fire crews save homes from Point Fire
In the East Bay, many families were forced out by the Point Fire are back home Saturday. That fire burned about 470 acres Friday night with containment now at 70%.Retardant drops may have helped save these houses, but it also made a mess. At the Driftwood subdivision in Bay Point, just off Caskey Street, almost everything was bright pink. Blame it on all the fire retardant dropped.SAFE…BUT BRIGHT PINK: our story today is about the cleanup effort now underway after thousands of of gallons of fire retardant saved dozens of homes from the Point Fire in Bay Point ….but turned...
Magnitude 3.3 earthquake strikes Northern California near Fairfield
(FOX40.COM) — A magnitude 3.3 earthquake struck Northern California on Sunday in Solano County, according to the United States Geological Survey. The agency reported the earthquake around 2 p.m., saying it was about 8.6 miles southeast of Suisun, 9.1 miles southeast of Fairfield, and 37.4 miles southwest of Sacramento. Nearly 200 people reported feeling the […]
Beach Boys draw big crowd for final Friday of 2024 California State Fair
SACRAMENTO — The 2024 California State Fair is nearing its end, and this year's run has had even more triple-digit heat days than last year.On the last Friday of the fair this year, big crowds turned out to see one of the fair's concert headliners: the Beach Boys. The good vibrations made this Friday one of the fair's busiest days."They sold out very quickly with our concert series," fair spokesperson Darla Givens said.So far, the West Coast sunshine has brought triple-digit heat days to the fair this year.Many people said it would be nice if the state fair moved to...
Newsom set an ambitious goal to launch 500,000 Californians into new careers. Many are firefighters
Flames curled around a white 1997 Buick as the airbags exploded, sounding like gunshots. The tires popped next, sending metal pieces flying. Four men battled the blaze, shooting water through a firehose while Captain Michael Chapman looked on. By the end of the day, he said, this training academy of the Los Angeles County Fire Department will torch 10 cars. Not only is the training free for these firefighters-in-training —...
Announcer jinx works perfect for team
Generally speaking, an announcer jinx is something an announcer in question feels bad about, like mentioning that a basketball player has made his last several free-throw attempts or that a kicker hasn’t missed from this distance all season — right before a miss. Sometimes, though, an announcer jinx works out perfectly. That scenario happened for Read more... The post Duane Kuiper flawlessly executes announcer jinx at critical time appeared first on Awful Announcing.
Reminder: Crescent City DMV Has New Hours
The Department of Motor Vehicles Crescent City Office has implemented modified public hours, effective immediately. The DMV office located at 1475 Parkway Drive remains open to the public Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On week days when the office is closed to the public, DMV team members process transactions started online that require additional processing or with customers’ transactions started using the DMV’s Virtual Office. The DMV no longer processes simple transactions that may be easily completed online. DMV office hours are 8am-5pm. Wednesdays, the office opens at 9am. To sign up for paperless vehicle registration and driver’s license renewal notices, customers must create a secure online account at dmv.ca.gov and then opt in.
Crews battle brush fires in Gilroy, East Bay
Firefighters across the Bay Area were trying to get the upper hand on multiple fires across the region on Saturday. In Gilroy, close to 7 acres burned and threatened the homes of many on Saturday. As the fire moved quickly through the tinder brush neighbors said they were concerned. At...
Bay Area athletes perform strong on first day of Paris 2024 Olympics
Several Bay Area athletes played a key role helping Team USA securing its first medal wins on Saturday. University of California, Berkeley's Hunter Armstrong swam a fast leg in helping the men's swimming team secure it's first the gold medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay. This was the first gold medal of the Paris Games for the U.S.
What Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order to clear homeless encampments means for the people who live in them
Homeless advocates say California’s crackdown on encampments would simply move people to other areas in a state where the cost of living is high and the number of shelter beds limited.
$18 million NOAA grant to aid Pacific Coast Ocean Restoration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the awards that are recommended for funding under the Transformational Habitat Restoration & Coastal Resilience grant program. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) California has been recommended to receive $18 million over three years to launch the Pacific Coast Ocean Restoration Initiative (PCOR),...
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