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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Hundreds of already successful COVID-19 tests were not reported in Santa Cruz County until Thursday, health officials there said, due to continuing technical problems with the state’s online database. Two-thirds of the 848 publicly reported cases in the county have come in the past two weeks, Dr. Gail Newell, the …
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