Magnitude 4.1 earthquake hits off Northern California coast, followed by several quakes
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck off the Northern California coast after midnight on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Several smaller quakes followed.
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Cal Fire’s updated fire-hazard maps will double the area of locally managed land that must comply with safety codes
The new maps are expected to expand the roughly 800,000 acres currently in local fire jurisdictions zoned as “very high” by an additional 247,000 acres. Some 1.16 million acres will be categor ...
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Firefighters battle RV park fire near Badger Lake in Cheney
CHENEY, Wash. – Firefighters are responding to a structure fire at an RV park near Badger Lake in Cheney. According to ...
Single-wide Cheney home a total loss after fire erupts
A single-wide home was engulfed in flames Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from Spokane County Fire District 3. Firefighters responded around 4:45 p.m. to a structure fire in the 33800 block of ...
Crews respond to fire at abandoned house in Seattle's Rainier Valley neighborhood
SEATTLE — Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire that broke out at a vacant house in Seattle's Rainier Valley neighborhood. Firefighters responded to the fire at the 2400 block of south Walker ...
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Candle causes house fire on Washington Street, Burlington Fire Department says
according to the Burlington Fire Department. On Saturday, officials said they were called to the 600 block of Washington Street just before 12:30 a.m., arriving in just under three minutes from ...
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Cal Fire's updated fire-hazard maps will double the area of locally managed land that must comply with safety codes
Wildfire smoke from the Palisades and Eaton fires blankets Los Angeles County. Four wildfires released towering plumes of smoke and soot, some of them seen from Kenneth Hahn State Recreational ...
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For most L.A. fire victims, insurance won’t pay enough to rebuild
Even if they went ahead with it, she said, there was no guarantee they could get insurance in such a high-fire-risk area. “We both were devastated — it felt like our house had burned again ...
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Maui fire recovery lights LA’s path
While she acknowledges the more than $5 billion financial wound of the Maui fire can’t match LA’s troubles, Cochran reports that the island loses an additional $40 million in taxes and other ...
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Donations topped $650 million, and the question looms: How to best use it for fire recovery?
Charitable contributions for Maui’s deadly 2023 fire totaled about $450 million, according to a database compiled by Honolulu Civil Beat. Fundraising for Hurricanes Milton and Helene ...
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Trump says he will fire Kennedy Center board members, appoint himself chairman
When asked about her decision to step down as president, Rutter told The Washington Post: “This is not related to the politics of who’s in the White House. The Kennedy Center is truly nonpartisan.
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One person killed, one hurt in Everett RV fire, crews describe hoarder-like conditions
EVERETT, Wash. — A man is dead and a woman is in the hospital after an RV caught fire in Everett on Friday morning. The crews fighting the blaze said they discovered hoarder-like conditions ...