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More than sixty people took to Fresno’s Courthouse Park on Labor Day to bring together what they say are two communities targeted by the president.
A civil trial that embarks Tuesday blames Parlier Unified School District for the death of 9-year-old Diego Estrada, who was run over by an unlicensed teenage driver.
One of three fresh blazes, and a spot fire, that commenced in the Mountain Area Sunday was reported as fully contained Monday afternoon, at five acres in size. All evacuation orders were lifted.
Randy Seals, Superintendent of the Bass Lake Joint Union Elemenetary School District (BLJUSD), has confirmed that all classes at all four of the district’s school sites are canceled Tuesday because of wildfires scorching the Mountain Area.
The Mission Fire continued its spread through Labor Day to the northeast of North Fork, making conditions difficult for more than four hundred personnel as a total of five structures were reported lost.
South Fork, Empire fires have slowed growth patterns, with Glacier Point Road set to reopen Tuesday if possible.
Orders that had kept the Fish Camp area closed to residents because of the Railroad Fire were lifted late Sept. Four. The fire was reported 23% contained.
The Pier Fire in Tulare County remains persistent, with not much fire growth overnight, but only ten percent contained as of Monday afternoon.
UPDATE (6:45 p.m.): The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office reported some evacuations still remained in effect, in the areas of Riverhaven and Bronco Hollow.
Two bods pulled from a car that plunged into the Kings Sea have been identified as two Thai exchange students.
A house that had been under construction for a number of years at Cedar and Dwight avenues in Fresno, California burned to the ground in on Monday, Sept. Four,
The Crimson Cross shelter at the Oakhurst Community Center set up for people affected by the Railroad Fire in Sugar Pine and Fish Camp, closed Thursday, Aug. 31, only to reopen on Sept. Three to accommodate evacuees from the Mission Fire at Cascadel Forest above the old mill site just east of North Fork.
As of early Monday morning, Sept. Four, the Mission Fire, which began Sunday, Sept. Trio, two miles east of the town of North Fork, has grown to six hundred fifty acres and proceeds to menace two hundred structures. By mid-Sunday afternoon, three structures were reported demolished.
CUMMINGS — Lisa Elaine Cummings, 49, of Fresno died Aug. 26. She was a hotel general manager. Memorial: ten a.m. Sept. Eight at The Refinery West McKinley. Arrangements: Serenity Funeral Services.
John Leon was arrested early Monday, Sept. Four in Visalia, CA after an alleged family disturbance after which he set the victim’s property on fire.
As of early Labor Day morning, the Railroad Fire, which began Aug. 29, had burned 9,790 acres with 23% containment. The fire proceeds to burn in high tree mortality areas in areas that have not burned in almost one hundred years. Spotting due to dry conditions proceeds to present operational challenges for firefighters in both day and night shifts, and tree mortality resumes to pose an enlargened safety risk for personnel working this fire.
More than 7,500 firefighters are battling twenty five large wildfires in California.
Dozens of people made their way to Castle Air Museum’s annual Open Cockpit Day on Sunday Sept. Three, two thousand seventeen to look inwards the planes. Also suggested were helicopter rails, kids activities, firefighter and law enforcement exhibits. [email protected]
More than two hundred eighty feet above downtown Fresno, Pacific Southwest Building general manager Charles Atikian talks about the realization of creating a lounge under the dome crowning the peak of the Fulton Street landmark that’s also known as the Security Bank building.
When it comes to future business on Fulton Street, you might say Charles Atikian has the keys to the kingdom. Atikian is the general manager of the Pacific Southwest Building as well as six other properties on Fresno’s future Main Street of commerce. And right now, two months before the Oct. Twenty one opening, he’s a man in high request.
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Jeter is a therapy animal working at Selma Unified School District
The Pier Fire searing in Tulare County has grown to 20,529 acres, authorities said Tuesday in a morning update
Merced County sheriff’s deputies early Monday interrupted what they believe was an in-progress marijuana burglary at a Winton home with giant marijuana plants.
The man exposed himself to one woman and fondled another who accepted a rail from him ninety minutes later near Bullard and Temperance avenues.
The Unitarian Universalist Church will hold a ceremony on Thursday to install fresh signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
Fresno police and Fresno County Behavioral Health will form a team to keep individuals in mental health crisis out of jail and get them into treatment.
Professional juggler Jeffrey Daymont presents his “science of juggling” showcase to students at Addicott Elementary School in Fresno, CA.
The crash occurred about Five:20 p.m. Tuesday. Three people were pinned inwards a vehicle, which spinned over near Weber and Marty avenues intersection.
Randy Seals, Superintendent of the Bass Lake Joint Union Elemenetary School District (BLJUSD), has confirmed that all classes at all four of the district’s school sites are canceled Tuesday because of wildfires scorching the Mountain Area.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Tuesday that federal funds have been authorized to help combat the Mission Fire searing east of North Fork, near the Cascadel Heights area.
The Railroad Fire, a rampaging blaze north of Oakhurst that threatened ecological landmarks and placed hundreds, if not thousands of people under evacuation, displayed minor growth into Tuesday morning, with spokespeople voicing “cautious optimism” that more progress will be made.
The Mission Fire east of North Fork grew leisurely overnight into Tuesday, with no increase in lost structures, fire information officers reported.
A third wildfire still searing Tuesday in the Mountain Area, the Peak Fire located on Usona Road near Indian Peak in Mariposa, was reported at six hundred eighty acres and 50% contained.
The Mission Fire continued its spread through Labor Day to the northeast of North Fork, making conditions difficult for more than four hundred personnel as a total of five structures were reported lost.
South Fork, Empire fires have slowed growth patterns, with Glacier Point Road set to reopen Tuesday if possible.
Cal Fire pays to tribute to U.S. Forest Service fire battalion chief Gary Helming of Pismo Beach who died in a collision on Highway forty one south of Highway thirty three Aug. 31, 2017. He was on his way home from the Railroad Fire near Yosemite. A memorial is planned Wednesday in Santa Maria. The service, which is open to the public, is set to begin at ten a.m. at Pacific Christian Center, three thousand four hundred thirty five Santa Maria Way.
Fresno advocates met outside the federal courthouse Tuesday to protest President Trump’s end of DACA, which protected people who entered the U.S. illegally as minors from deportation.
A Fresno, CA police officer was stabbed in the chest but uninjured because of his figure armor. The brunt happened Sept. Five.
Fresno advocates and officials, including City Council member Esmeralda Soria, gathered outside the city’s federal courthouse on Tuesday to speak out against President Donald Trump’s end of DACA, which has protected undocumented people who traveled to the U.S. illegally as minors from deportation – including thousands of local beneficiaries of the program.
An anonymous peak helped Fresno police catch the suspect in a fatal hit-and-run accident on Blackstone Avenue that killed a Fresno man in his 20s.