Month: November 2018

It’s been a cold weekend across the Carolinas and many people along the East Coast may already be planning their Thanksgiving menus for next week, but that doesn’t mean Hurricane season is over. The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season doesn’t end until Nov. 30, and there’s one more system out there that National Hurricane Center forecasters say could turn into a tropical depression or tropical storm in the coming days. Hurricane Center forecasters Monday morning called…

Relief and heartache await those starting to return home to a Southern California wildlife zone. Eager to know the status of his house, 69-year-old Roger Kelly defied evacuation orders Sunday and hiked back into Seminole Springs, his lakeside mobile home community in the Santa Monica Mountains north of Malibu. His got the thrill of finding his house intact. But some a half-block away were laid to waste, as were dozens more, and virtually everything on…

Wildfires affecting the Pepperdine campus have forced the university to relocate or reschedule several sporting events that were to be played as home games. The Malibu campus will be closed through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The women’s basketball game against UC Irvine on Friday will be rescheduled. The men’s water polo team was to host the Golden Coast Conference championships Friday through Sunday. The conference will announce updated plans. The women’s volleyball team was set…

The Latest on the California wildfires (all times local): 5:30 p.m. Southern California Edison has reported to state utilities regulators that there was an outage on one of its electrical circuits near where a large and destructive wildfire began as strong winds swept the region. SoCal Edison says the report to the Public Utilities Commission was submitted out of an abundance of caution although there’s been no indication from fire officials that its equipment may…

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday around tables that stretched along two blocks of downtown Raleigh to help raise money for the victims of Hurricane Florence. But the meal that fed 1,000 people wasn’t just about about helping in the aftermath of a deadly storm. The meal also came less than a week after a divisive midterm election, deadly California wildfires and reports of mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Thousand Oaks. This supper is a response…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Over 1,000 people packed into downtown Raleigh Sunday afternoon to partake in The Sunday Supper, a massive meal that is raising money for Hurricane Florence relief efforts in North Carolina. Smoke from grills filled the air on Fayetteville street as music rang out over a crowd. Joyce Khan is one of the organizers for The Sunday Supper. “It’s a perfect Southern Sunday Supper on Fayetteville Street today,” Khan said. The event…

The devastating Carr Fire in July may have been sparked by a flat tire, but that’s not how the wildfire got its name. And the Camp Fire now blazing through Butte County didn’t start in a campfire pit. So just how do wildfires get their names — sometimes prosaic, sometimes downright weird? Fires normally are named by the dispatch center that sends the initial responders to the blaze, though in some cases they’re named by the…

Authorities called in a mobile DNA lab and anthropologists to help identify the dead as the search went on for victims of the most destructive wildfire in California history. The overall death toll from the outbreak of fires at both ends of the state stood at 25 Sunday and appeared likely to rise. The worst of the blazes was in Northern California, where flames reduced the town of Paradise, population 27,000, to a smoking ruin…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press MALIBU, Calif. Just a day ago, Arik Fultz was feeding the horses on his 40-acre ranch near Malibu. Now, after wildfires roared through parts of Southern California, there’s nothing left of his ranch but charred remains. His family and his 52 horses survived. But two houses, two barns, three trailers and decades of accumulated possessions are gone. “It just doesn’t feel real that it’s all gone,”…