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• Surgeon fired after ogling sedated patients’ ‘genitals of the day,’ taking money from medical company
• LAPD issues city-wide tactical alert due to USC disturbance
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• Mosquito fire surpasses 63,000 acres to become largest blaze in California this year
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• The states to watch on the 2024 electoral map

Catastrophic brush fires are occurring at an increasing rate not only in California but across the country. Hillside communities within Los Angeles are under continuous threat of a devastating wildfire. As this risk increases, it is important you protect yourself and your family by planning, preparing and staying aware. Through May 6, more than 1,500 wildfires have burned 6,700 acres in California, according to CalFire statistics.

Hawaii officials testify in House hearing on Maui wildfire - The Associated Press

Hawaii officials testify in House hearing on Maui wildfire.

Posted: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Surgeon fired after ogling sedated patients’ ‘genitals of the day,’ taking money from medical company

San Diego Gas & Electric and Sheriff’s Department helicopters dropped water from above, and the Coast Guard sent a cutter to douse with water from underneath. On the ground, fire crews pulled hoses down the 1,954-foot-long pier. Images shared on social media showed a large black plume of smoke rising above the end of the iconic pier, creating a spectacle for anyone in the area.

LAPD issues city-wide tactical alert due to USC disturbance

There are plans in the works to replace the bridge and the lifeguard headquarters underneath the pier, but that $40 million project is several years off. Last year, the city wrapped up a $5.6 million project to install new lines on the pier for potable water, wastewater, electrical and communications. The one there now is the sixth version, built in 1986 to replace one destroyed by storms. The response included 144 firefighters, 30 lifeguards and 32 police officers. A construction company on-site to dredge the harbor also sent a boat to help. Kwong also took more than $700,000 from a company that makes joint replacements and never reported that conflict of interest to the county, investigators found.

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Because of the pandemic, mail-in voting was used widely and that contributed heavily to increased turnout. In 2020, 66% of registered voters cast ballots, the highest since 1900. Combined with the increasing Latino and Asian American population and a remigration to the South of young Black voters, particularly in Georgia, that has meant a reshaping of the electoral map. It's also because of the continued shift with college-educated white voters toward Democrats.

Her kids, ages 2 and 7, were transported to the hospital in critical condition when they were pulled from the burning house last week. The 7-year-old was on life support, an email sent by his school principal at Holmes Elementary said. In Southern California, the French Fire, burning northeast of Bakersfield in Kern County, also exploded over the weekend, charring more than acres. The fire spurred evacuation orders for the entire town of Wofford Heights Sunday night. The second-largest active blaze in the state, the Monument Fire, has burned 150,011 acres in the Trinity National Forest and was 20 percent contained Monday, Cal Fire reported.

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Plan to protect Tuolumne County communities from wildfires will be focus of Saturday open house - Union Democrat

Plan to protect Tuolumne County communities from wildfires will be focus of Saturday open house.

Posted: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

"The university is a private campus and the group had been violating some of their orders. It was a trespass at that point and we assisted with the arrests," Los Angeles Police Captain Kelly Muniz said during a briefing. Get Boiling Point, our newsletter about climate change, the environment and building a more sustainable California. Beavers create unburned islands where plants and animals can shelter from megafires, research has confirmed. A movement is afoot to reintroduce the rodents to the state’s waterways. Aggressive and impactful reporting on climate change, the environment, health and science. High-severity wildfire is occurring at striking rates in Sierra Nevada forests.

A lot of infrastructure and risk management systems are built around assumptions about how these events will play out, so if that changes, those systems become stressed, he said. The study adds to a body of literature documenting how the fingerprints of climate change can be detected in events such as heat waves, droughts and wildfires. The Coastal Fire burned nearly 200 acres after it started early Wednesday afternoon in Aliso Woods Canyon.

The voting delegations would be those voted into the House after this year's congressional elections. The country came thisclose in 1876, and 2000 was within 5 electoral votes... As the map stands, if Trump and Biden win the states leaning in their direction, Trump would need to win 35 electoral votes from the toss ups to get to 270, and Biden would need 44. To this point, the Biden campaign has spent almost nothing in ads on the state and the polling has, to this point, shown Trump well ahead. This year's election is also going to be different from 2020 in a very big way.

The states to watch on the 2024 electoral map

Smoke traveled across the continent, triggering air quality alerts across much of the East Coast. That fire had grown to 1,427 acres and was 13% contained Monday morning, officials said. The blaze generated a massive fire whirl over the weekend that sent smoke and flames aloft. On of the state’s highest priority fires, the multi-county Dixie fire burning in Northern California, has long since claimed the title of the second largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history.

CT, 34 arrests have been made by law enforcement on the UT Austin campus, according to an X post from the Texas Department of Public Safety. The board said it is "urgently working" with Shafik to resolve the unrest on campus and "rebuild the bonds of our community." In an evening update, the Texas Department of Public Safety said that 34 arrests had been made by law enforcement on the campus as of 9 p.m.

Students taking part in after-school activities at Laguna Beach High School were also evacuated, according to the school district. Water-dropping aircraft were part of the fight to keep flames from spreading. Alex Wigglesworth is an environment reporter who covers wildfire and forestry for the Los Angeles Times. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Evacuations are ordered as the Caldor fire marches toward Lake Tahoe.