State officials issued a dire warning on Wednesday. "This may be one of the most challenging and impactful series of storms to touch down in California in the last five years," said Nancy Ward, director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. The jet stream stretches across...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency as a slow-moving landslide threatens the city of Rancho Palos Verdes. Evacuations have been ordered and electricity has been cut off to prevent fires. Jonathan Vigliotti reports....
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency Thursday in several counties in the wake of recent winter storms, which caused power outages, damaged structures, uprooted trees and barricaded roads across the state. The order said that starting from...
California declares state of emergency in exotic newcastle disease outbreak. (Washington).
LOS ANGELES, July 26 (Xinhua) -- California's Governor Jerry Brown declared Thursday a state of emergency in two counties in Southern California due to fast moving fires in the western U.S. state. Brown issued emergency proclamations for Riverside and Shasta counties due to the effects of ...
California (/ˌkælɪˈfɔːrnjəˌ -ni.ə/ ⓘ KAL-ih-FORN-yə, -FOR-nee-ə)[11] is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and the Mexican state of Baja...
Police also launched an investigation into the death of a man who was found under a tree in his garden in Yuba City, to the northeast of San Francisco. The storm was the second so-called Pineapple Express weather system, oratmospheric river storm, to hit the state in the past...
(Learn more in our guide to wildfire insurance.) If you have trouble finding a policy, you can turn to the California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort. FAIR Plan coverage is limited, paying only for damage due to fire, lightning, smoke and internal explosions. A “...
A drought state of emergency was declared in California in January 2014 ( http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18379) in response to historic water shortfalls, as well as an increasing number of wildfires. The total statewide economic cost of the 2013–20114 drought is estimated at $2.2 billion...
“A complex fire is two fires in the same geographic region that are being fought as one fire,” said Kelly. Each fire endangers over 1000 structures and the massive inferno has burned over 380,000 acres in total. CAL Fire officials have not yet determined the cause of either fire. ...