SCOTTS VALLEY – The CZU Lightning Complex Fire Burning in the mountains of Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties swam Thursday to 48,000 acres, leading authorities to completely evacuate the communities of Felton, Zayante and Scotts Valley. “It’s a historic event,” said Ian Larkin, boss of CalFire’s San Mateo-Santa Cruz …
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BOULDER CREEK – The volunteer firefighters who made up the Boulder Creek Fire Protection District wanted to face the challenge of their lives Wednesday: fight an unusual wildfire. By nightfall, the so-called CZU August Lightning Complex Fire had burned an estimated 25,000 acres in the mountains of Santa Cruz and …
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Smoke from a series of wildfires that still wanted to get out of control turned the Bay Area into the equivalent of a giant smoky dome, canceling college classes on Wednesday, making people sick and warning airmen not to go outside to go. It also made the Bay Area air …
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It was quite a heavenly spectacle of the early morning when a rare thunder went through the bay area. Take a look at the glowing photos and videos that the public made and posted on Twitter. The warning of the red flag of the weather service, in effect until 11 …
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Record temperatures during the day turned into a rotating power outage for hundreds of thousands across the Bay Area Friday night. The outages were expected to last at least 11 hours, and about an hour per affected neighborhood, according to a tweet from PG&E. The electrical emergency condition 3 of …
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