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REUTERS/Gene Blevins A series of wildfires continued raging throughout Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in Southern California on Tuesday night. The three largest blazes — the Thomas Fire, Creek Fire, and Rye Fire — were burning in areas around Ventura, Sylmar, and Santa Clarita, scorching thousands of acres and showing no signs of stopping by […]
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, […]
Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle joins forces with OZY to pique the curiosity of globally minded readers. This year has been a terrible year for wildfires across the globe. And there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight. Over the last several weeks, more than a dozen massive blazes have swept through Northern California, […]
Published time: 22 Oct, 2017 03:51 Edited time: 22 Oct, 2017 04:01 Thousands of people descended on downtown Lisbon on Saturday to vent their anger at the government’s lackluster response to devastating forest blazes ahead of a no-confidence vote. Raging in Portugal since June, the fires have claimed 108 lives so far. Several thousand people […]
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 […]
Napa and Sonoma Begin to Tally the Devastation of Wildfires Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does […]
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP California wildfires have hit the state’s marijuana industry, burning dozens of farms and leaving many more engulfed in smoke. The price of marijuana could spike as much as 20% in the aftermath of the fires. The full extent of the damage will be unclear until growers send crop samples for testing. Marijuana […]
Published time: 15 Oct, 2017 23:08 Two people have died in the latest wildfires to hit Galicia, Spain. The blazes have sparked panic, with people rushing to evacuate their homes. Two bodies were found inside a burned-out vehicle in Nigrán in Pontevedra on Sunday, El Pais reports. A university in Vigo has been evacuated, and […]
Published time: 15 Oct, 2017 04:31 Edited time: 15 Oct, 2017 05:03 The death toll in Northern California wildfires has risen to 40 people, making them the deadliest in the state’s history. Hundreds more people remain missing as thousands of firefighters continue to battle the blazes across the state. On Saturday, Sonoma County coroner’s office […]
An earthquake has hit Northern California, where wildfires continue to affect the region, bringing the death toll to at least 34. An estimated 5,700 structures have also succumbed to the fast-moving flames. On Friday afternoon, a 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck California’s Mendocino County, north of Napa County, according to the US Geological Survey. Read more […]
