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Esri Jack and Laura Dangermond, tech billionaires known as the parents of the digital mapping industry, have made the single largest private donation to The Nature Conservancy to date. They’ve given $ 165 million so the Conservancy can purchase an iconic, pristine stretch of undeveloped coastline in California. This is the spot where California bends inland. […]
There’s no question that California’s recent wildfires are ultimately a human tragedy, destroying homes and upturning lives. Please donate if you can. However, they’ve also represented a loss for technology history. The Press Democrat has learned that fire in Santa Rosa’s Fountaingrove region destroyed key archives of HP’s namesake founders, William Hewlett and David Packard, […]
ST. HELENA, Calif.—When the winemaker Jean Hoefliger arrived at his small Napa Valley winery at 3:30 a.m. on October 9, the morning the Northern California fires broke out, he had a multimillion-dollar business decision to make. Two fires on opposite sides of the valley tore down the hillsides toward nearly $ 14 million worth of […]
Getty Images A series of fires that have ravaged Northern California since Sunday has now been called the deadliest wildfire disaster in state history. The death toll reached 29 on Thursday. Seven fires ignited near Highway 128 in the Napa Valley late Sunday, and grew as gusty winds spread the flames over fields and freeways. […]
AP Photo/Ben Margot Since late Sunday, a series of wildfires has torched more than 115,000 acres in Northern California. The situation is being called one of the worst firestorms in state history. On Tuesday, a clearer picture of the devastation began to come together. The blaze began on Sunday evening and strengthened as strong, dry winds pulled many separate fires across large swaths […]
Vanessa Comfort On Monday morning, Vanessa Comfort arrived with her husband and two children at Disneyland, a six-hour drive south of their home in Castro Valley, California. They walked to the pier, and immediately realized something was weird. The park looked far from the “Happiest Place on Earth.” Few rides were moving, and above them, the sky glowed a […]
Rich Pedroncelli/AP More than a dozen wildfires are raging across Northern California, collectively burning through over 100,000 acres and destroying 1,500 homes, businesses, and other structures. The situation is already one of the worst firestorms in California history. The fires not only threaten the state’s famous wine grapes in Napa and Sonoma — but also its marijuana crops. California produces over half of […]
Parts of the idyllic suburb of Santa Rosa, California, were engulfed in flames on Monday as a series of wildfires ravaged pieces of Northern California’s wine country. More than a dozen fires whipped by powerful winds blew through Napa and Sonoma valleys, known for their vineyards and wineries. The blaze torched at least 1,500 homes, businesses, and […]
California Highway Patrol/Golden Gate Division via Reuters A series of fires in Northern California’s wine country is shaping up to be one of the worst firestorms in state history. An estimated 20,000 people have fled the Sonoma and Napa valleys, as well as surrounding counties, as the fire races across fields and freeways. More than […]
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