Author: John Antczak
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California ski resort workers tunnel their way into the office after getting 10 feet of snow
A powerful blizzard has dumped more than 10 feet of snow on at least one California ski resort, where the marketing team had to dig a tunnel to get to their office door
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9 Los Angeles firefighters injured after burning truck’s fuel tank explodes
Authorities say a burning truck’s fuel tank exploded while Los Angeles firefighters were trying to battle the blaze
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Storms dump heavy snowfall in northern Arizona after leaving California a muddy mess
Heavy snow has shut down parts of major interstates in northern Arizona while low-lying clouds delayed more than 100 flights farther south in Phoenix
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California faces another day of grid-straining extreme heat
LOS ANGELES • Operators of California’s electricity grid acknowledged Wednesday that a miscommunication led to a small number of power shutoffs during a period of great strain, even as the state faced another day of extreme heat that could prompt much larger rolling blackouts. The miscommunication occurred Tuesday afternoon between a Northern California utility and…
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NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept
LOS ANGELES • NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop…
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California wildfires threaten famous giant sequoia trees
THREE RIVERS, Calif. • Firefighters wrapped the base of the world’s largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they tried to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning Thursday in California’s rugged Sierra Nevada. The colossal General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest, some of the other sequoias, the…
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Los Angeles to require vaccine for all students 12 and up
LOS ANGELES • The Los Angeles board of education voted Thursday to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district. The move makes Los Angeles by far the largest of a very small number of districts with a vaccine requirement. Nearby Culver…
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California winds shifting as wildfire battles go on
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. • California weather was heating up and winds were shifting Thursday as more than 14,000 firefighters battled wildfires up and down the state, including a major blaze they hoped to keep out of the Lake Tahoe resort region. Onshore winds from the west and southwest were changing direction to offshore, blowing…
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Devastating wildfires advancing through Northern California
GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. • Wind-driven wildfires raged Wednesday through drought-stricken forests in the mountains of Northern California after incinerating hundreds of homes and forcing thousands of people to flee to safety. A reversal of wind direction was expected to test some previously quiet fire containment lines, but also push flames back in other areas, authorities…
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Fueled by winds, largest wildfire moves near California city
GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. • Firefighters faced dangerously windy weather Tuesday as they struggled to keep the nation’s largest wildfire from advancing toward a Northern California city while a portrait of devastation emerged in a small mountain community hit by another inferno. Winds spawned by the arrival of a new weather system Monday afternoon pushed the…