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Month: July 2021

Oregon’s Bootleg Fire threatening California’s power supply as heat wave engulfs the West

By Josh Haskell Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon continues to rage out of control, already burning more than 150,000 acres. It’s knocked out valuable transmission lines that California imports to stabilize the state’s power grid, causing Monday’s Flex Alert. In an attempt to

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A firefighter sprays water while trying to stop the Sugar Fire

Wildfires in California this year have scorched 3 times more land than in the same period of last year’s record season

By Alexandra Meeks, Hollie Silverman and Joe Sutton, CNN A severe drought coupled with the human-induced climate crisis has sparked a fire season that has already seen more than three times as much land burned in California this year than during the same time span last year, officials said. The state recorded its worst fire

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2 officers injured and homicide suspect dead in shooting near Baltimore mall, police say

By Mirna Alsharif, CNN A suspect who shot two Baltimore Police Department officers was wanted in connection with a June 19 homicide in the city, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said at a news conference Tuesday. Baltimore Police Department detectives assigned to the US Marshals’ Warrant Apprehension Task Force approached the suspect’s vehicle in the Security

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