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U.S. NEWS Thursday 31 augusT 2017

Man arrested in California blaze that’s destroyed 10 homes

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Au- ing in hot, dry weather,
thorities on Wednesday ar- according to the Califor-
rested a man suspected of nia Department of Forestry
starting an illegal campfire and Fire Protection.
believed to have ignited a Cal Fire investigators ar-
growing Northern Califor- rested John Ballenger, 29,
nia blaze that destroyed 10 of Oroville, on suspicion of
homes, damaged five oth- starting an illegal campfire.
ers and threatened hun- He was taken to jail, and
dreds more. records don’t show wheth-
The wildfire that ignited er he has an attorney who
Tuesday near the town of could speak on his behalf.
Oroville is among a series The wildfire is about 20
of wildfires burning across miles (32 kilometers) east
the U.S. West, including in of Oroville Dam. Tens of
and around California’s thousands of residents
Yosemite National Park downstream fled when the
that closed a popular road dam’s spillways crumbled
into the park, shuttered the earlier this year and led to
iconic Wawona Hotel and fears of catastrophic flood-
evacuated nearby towns. ing.
Parts of the region were Months later, a wildfire
struggling with triple-digit about 15 miles (24 kilome-
temperatures, which made ters) south of the dam de- This Aug. 28, 2017, photo provided by Inciweb shows the Milli Fire near Sisters, Ore. The two dozen
the fight difficult against stroyed 41 homes in July. blazes around the state Wednesday are affecting air quality and have forced the evacuations of
the blaze near the commu- In the new fire, residents more than 4,500 people.
nity threatened earlier this along a 15-mile stretch of (Tom Story/Inciweb via AP)
year by damaged sections road in the rural area were 4,500 evacuations. The partially contained after land, several hundred miles
of the nation’s tallest dam. ordered evacuated. area burning in the state is lightning ignited it in mid- away, and has obscured
The fire 70 miles north of Meanwhile, some two roughly equivalent to half July. the iconic view of Mount
Sacramento was not at all dozen fires are burning the state of Rhode Island, Smoke from all the blazes Hood and triggered air
contained and was grow- in Oregon, leading more and the largest fire is only has converged on Port- quality warnings.q

Police eye link between ranting videos and murder suspect

BROCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — a woman pointed a gun In a number of video Colino’s cousin, Todd Co- recently.
Police are looking into a at someone in a restaurant scenes, she is in a car in dif- lino, of Tempe, Arizona, Her brother, Jason Colino,
link between bizarre, rant- parking lot. ferent parking lots, point- tells the Rochester Demo- lives in the Rochester area,
ing YouTube videos and In a YouTube video, a ing out women and saying crat and Chronicle he had Todd Colino said.
Facebook postings and a woman who identifies her- they’re mimicking her hair found angry graffiti from He said family members
woman charged with killing self as Holly M. Colino ac- or eyebrows. her in Phoenix and be- had tried to get Holly to
a random victim in western cuses strangers of stealing In one video, she yells inco- lieved her mental illness seek help for her apparent
New York. her identity by imitating her herently about someone was worsening. psychiatric issues but she
Thirty-one-year-old Holly hair, eyebrows and lips. damaging her vehicle and He told the newspaper in a refused.
Colino has been charged “It’s like accomplicing mur- stealing bank statements, telephone interview Tues- Todd’s sister, who lives in
with shooting 33-year-old der, using someone else to “onlookers calling the po- day that the graffiti, which California, told the news-
Megan Dix in the head Fri- go murder somebody,” she lice,” ‘’dead bodies,” be- accused “women who imi- paper Holly had lived with
day as Dix sat in her pickup says at one point. ing alone and living out- tate” Holly Colino of being her and her father for a
truck on a lunch break in In another video, she ac- side. “sex offenders,” led him to while but was asked to
Brockport. cuses a former employee A Facebook page for Holly fear she was going to hurt leave when her personality
Colino was taken into cus- of the state College at M. Colino is filled with long somebody or be hurt. grew dark and angry.
tody Monday in nearby Brockport of being “so en- stream-of-consciousness Police say Colino was from Todd Colino said Holly has
Henrietta after police re- vious and jealous of me she rants and links to several of the Rochester area but lived in her car and else-
sponded to a report that wanted my contacts.” the YouTube videos. had been living in Arizona where in recent years.q