Tag Archives: California

Firefighters battled several intense wind-driven wildfires early today that have swept across densely populated Southern California, destroying at least 500 structures and chasing 190,000 people from their homes over the past five days. CBC | World News

The California Horse Racing Board says approximately 25 racehorses were killed when a wildfire engulfed about eight barns at a training centre in northeast San Diego County. Horses that were in surrounding pastures remain unaccounted for. CBC | World News

Authorities close a major freeway as flames from the largest and most destructive Southern California wildfire jump lanes and churn toward coastal and mountain communities northwest of Los Angeles amid unpredictable winds. CBC | World News

Charles Manson, the cult leader who sent followers known as the Manson Family out to commit gruesome murders, shattering the peace-and-love ethos of the 1960s hippie era in California, has been hospitalized, the Los Angeles Times reported. CBC | World News

A Forrest Gump impersonator has been spotting running across several California neighborhoods in the last couple weeks. The unidentified man is gaining notoriety just in time for Halloween. The impersonator didn’t miss a detail in his replica outfit, fitted with a red Bubba Gump hat, yellow shirt, red shorts, white running shoes, and a massive fake beard. The only thing ...

A SECRETIVE US watchdog that monitors North Korean missile tests has revealed for the first time how Kim Jong-un could obliterate the US mainland. Daily Express :: News Feed

The vast majority of the 42 people killed in the wildfires that have ravaged Northern California were in their 70s and 80s. Several were couples who died together, including childhood sweethearts who had grown old together. CBC | World News

California fire authorities said Sunday they have turned a corner in battling several of the wildfires that have devastated wine country and other parts of the state over the past week. CBC | World News

Rising winds fanned the California wildfires again Saturday, forcing hundreds more people to flee from their homes in the state’s fabled wine country and testing the efforts of crews who have spent days trying to corral the flames behind firebreaks. At least 35 deaths have been reported. CBC | World News

Wildfires already well on their way to becoming the deadliest and most destructive in California history could gain momentum Thursday and erase even the modest gains firefighters have made. CBC | World News