Author: Marcio Sanchez
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California cleans up from mudslides, as fire gains strength
OAK GLEN, Calif. • Rescuers searched Wednesday for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes in Southern California mountain communities, while firefighters held back a week-old blaze that gained renewed strength and forced more evacuations along foothills in the northern part of the state. With thunderstorms forecast and more mudslides…
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California endures more wildfires, 1 sparked by a hot car
JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. • A stolen car sparked a wildfire in a bone-dry field Thursday as two of Southern California’s quintessential themes — car chases and gusty Santa Ana winds — collided with potentially devastating consequences. The hot car ignited dry grass in a field in the city of Jurupa Valley east of Los Angeles…
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Wildfires outside L.A. threaten homes, spare Reagan library
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. • A wind-whipped outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles on Wednesday threatened thousands of homes and horse ranches, forced the smoky evacuation of elderly patients in wheelchairs and narrowly bypassed the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, protected in part by a buffer zone chewed by goats. With California tinder dry and fires burning…