Winter and spring are typically the wet seasons for California, but this year has been anything but - especially in the southern half of the state. Late last month, Southern California officials asked businesses and residents in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties to reduce outdoor watering to one day a week.
And the upcoming months aren’t getting any better.įorecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are expecting “prolonged, persistent drought in the West where below-average precipitation is most likely,” the agency wrote in its spring outlook in March. Last summer, California endured its most severe drought in its 126-year record. Sanchez/APĬalifornia and the Western US are experiencing devastating drought conditions that have led to water restrictions in parts of the state. The fire began on Wednesday afternoon and rapidly expanded to about 200 acres. Max temps will be above normal today through Saturday, with Saturday being the warmest day of the next seven,” the National Weather Service in Los Angeles said. “Today will mark the start of a warming trend that will last into Saturday. Temperatures will be 10 to 15 degrees above average across California and the Southwest from Friday through the weekend and into early next week. The area is also forecast to get hotter the next few days. On Wednesday, firefighters responded to flames at multiple houses in the Aliso Woods Canyon area, photos from CNN affiliate KABC showed.įirefighting crews resorted to using water from a pond at the El Niguel Country Club in Laguna Niguel to help fight the flames as thick brown and gray smoke blanketed the area.Ĭrews were conducting damage assessments overnight and monitoring for hotspots or flying embers that could spark more damaging flames, Fennessy said. “The situation was incredibly tense but we kept our cool, gathered our most valuable belongings … and made an early evacuation to avoid any potential bottle necking if the worst case scenario were to play out,” Aguilera added. The West's megadrought will persist and may get worse in coming months. Mark Henle/The Republic/USA Today Network
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Lake Powell was at 26% of capacity, 168 feet below its full elevation of 3,700 feet above sea level at the time. Lake Powell's Wahweap Bay and Marina as seen on Feb. While the cause of the fire is unknown and under investigation, “circuit activity” was occurring “close in time” to when the brush fire was reported, Southern California Edison (SCE) said in an initial incident report released Wednesday evening. Officials still looking for cause of blaze “I walked down to the shopping center below and the smoke grew maybe two to three times what it was before,” she said. Less than two hours later, the smoke clouds had ballooned even larger, McCoy said. Jennifer McCoy, a resident of nearby Laguna Beach, told CNN she first noticed smoke coming from Laguna Niguel around 4:15 p.m.
About 900 homes are under evacuation orders, Orange County Sheriff Department Capt. One firefighter was injured and hospitalized, McGovern said. The fire then spread into the city of Laguna Niguel and ripped through mansions along hillside streets in one of California’s richest neighborhoods.įlames swallowed entire homes and burned through to their interiors in one neighborhood, while firefighters hosed down nearby houses on the same street hoping to save them, footage from CNN affiliate KCBS/KCAL showed. in the Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park and quickly grew to about 200 acres, Orange County Fire Authority Assistant Chief of Field Operations TJ McGovern said.
The Coastal Fire began Wednesday afternoon at about 2:45 p.m. It is unclear whether the fire and the shooting are related.A rapidly moving brush fire destroyed at least 20 homes and forced the evacuation of nearly a thousand homes in Orange County, California, on Wednesday in a foreboding sign of the new normal for the region. 36th Street but were alerted of a separate crime scene six miles away, where the unidentified 17-year-old was found shot to death on the 1300 block of East 35th Street.Ī suspect has since been arrested in connection with that shooting. On May 22, police responded to a shooting on E. There was no one inside the home at the time.Īccording to neighbors nearby, the home was near a crime scene from just the week before. The fire was heavy at the front of the home, but was quickly put out once crews arrived, District Chief Kevin Carley said. after a house fire call located at 1329 East 35th Street. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) - The Houston Fire Department responded to a fire at a home near where a 17-year-old was found shot to death a week before.Ĭrews arrived at the scene around 11:30 p.m. According to neighbors, the home was near a crime scene just the week before where an unidentified male was found shot to death.
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