San Mateo County supervisors say the county should connect with others in the bay area and not wait for state orders to close. As of Friday, the county needs only six available beds in intensive care units to go into life-saving mode, Supervisor David Canepa said. But the county remains …
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Click here if you have trouble viewing the gallery on your mobile device As firefighters make progress on the flames burning wide beaches of Northern California, evacuees are dropping back into their neighborhoods, looking forward to a hopeful – but uncertain – future. Evacuation orders were lifted Thursday for parts …
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Beach lovers who want to go to the water in San Mateo County this weekend need to find alternative plans. In a weekly newsletter to its residents, the city of Half Moon Bay, in conjunction with the city of Pacifica, said the province will publicly urge people not to travel …
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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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