About 4,000 people remained under evacuation orders in the region, a spokesman for the team responding to the Bobcat Fire said, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office issued a slate of new evacuation warnings Monday.
About 4,000 people remained under evacuation orders in the region, Smith said, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's OfficeIn a letter Friday, the chairman of Mount Wilson's board of trustees, Sam Hale, said firefighters had declared the facility safe after an"extremely stressful week.
Hale said staff members hadn't returned to the observatory, so it wasn't clear what structures were damaged. Thethat hot spots were still burning around part of a containment line but that the observatory was safe. The Bobcat Fire is one of 27 major fires burning around the state during what Gov. Gavin Newsom described Monday as a historic wildfire season. Nearly 8,000 fires have burned 3.6 million acres — a massive increase over the same time last year, when 157,000 acres had burned in just over 5,000 fires.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Saw ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ as a Master ClassCongratulations to yahya on his Emmy win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series. Revisit his recent interview with W, here.
Read more »
Celeste Ng's new novel 'Little Fires Everywhere' sets suburbia aglowShaker Heights, Ohio, is a comfortable, peaceful, progressive suburb of Cleveland, a carefully planned community incorporated in 1912 that exists in a gentle state of idyll, sustained by adherence to the “rules, many rules, about what you could and could not do.”
Read more »
California fire map, update as Bobcat blaze 'continues to advance in all directions'The Bobcat Fire in Los Angeles County has burned more than 103,000 acres of the state, as of Sunday.
Read more »
Mt. Wilson Observatory again under threat from Bobcat fire: More crews move in to defendDays after officials announced that firefighters had beaten back advancing flames and the 116-year-old Mt. Wilson Observatory was safe, firefighters are again battling flare-ups at the top of the mountain.
Read more »
L.A.-Area Bobcat Fire Again “Making A Hard Push” For Mt. Wilson Observatory, TV, Radio And Cell Towers; New Evacuation Orders IssuedAfter days of backfires and dozer lines had held the Bobcat Fire away from the Mt. Wilson Observatory and communications infrastructure there, The U.S. Forest Service reports that the fire “i…
Read more »