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Former California state worker gets life sentence for torturing, murdering his 5-week-old child
A man who according to prosecutors “beat the living daylights” out of his 5-week-old daughter until she later died in the hospital has been sentenced to life in prison. Kevin van Streefkerk, 38, of Cameron Park, pleaded guilty Friday in El Dorado Superior Court for the June 2023 torture and murder of his daughter.
Placerville businesses adapt as triple-digit heat wave roasts Northern California
PLACERVILLE — Businesses in Northern California's Sierra Foothills continue to battle through the heatwave to keep customers and themselves cool.It's typically cooler up in the foothills, but the degree decrease doesn't make a huge difference when temperatures are in in triple digits."We're lucky enough that when we purchased the building, we tore down everything that wasn't originally built in 1855 and built up everything basically from the bottom," Dean Hiatt, the executive chef at Poor Red's Bar-B-Q, said.Hiatt is very familiar with the hot summers in the foothills and said he knew he needed to create a comfortable environment for...
Big rig overturns on Rattlesnake Bar Road
It was "all hands on deck" as first responders worked to free a driver from the wreckage of his big rig after it rolled down an embankment on Rattlesnake Bar Road on July 10. The El Dorado County Fire Protection District, Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit, Georgetown Fire Department and California Highway Patrol worked together for about 40 minutes to extricate the man after responding to the 8:30 a.m. accident. Once freed, the driver was taken to a waiting Calstar helicopter, which flew him to a Sacramento trauma center, according to an EDCFPC social media post.
Driver rescued after big rig falls down embankment in El Dorado County
EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. — A person was freed from a big rig wreck in El Dorado County Wednesday morning. According to the El Dorado County Fire Protection District, the big rig rolled down an embankment on Rattlesnake Bar Road around 8:30 a.m. It took multiple fire agencies and...
California's El Dorado County designated Fire Risk Reduction Community
EL DORADO COUNTY — El Dorado County is now among seven California counties that have been designated a Fire Risk Reduction Community by the Board of Forestry."It's a list of local agencies that are in the state responsibility area or a very high fire severity zone in a local responsibility area that meet best practices for fire planning," said Jeff Hoag, battalion chief of the Wildfire Resilience Program for Cal Fire's Amador-El Dorado Unit.He said some of those practices include complying with state fire regulations. Also, he added that the county has adopted regulations that exceed minimum state requirements for...
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