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U.S. NEWS Monday 13 august 2018
Crews make progress

battling Southern

California wildfire

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) the week. The Holy Fire —
— Aided by slightly cooler named for Holy Jim Can-
temperatures, firefighters yon, where it began last
made steady progress Sun- Monday — is one of nearly
day in battling a wildfire 20 blazes burning across
that destroyed 16 structures California as the state sees
as it raged through South- earlier, longer and more
ern California’s Cleveland destructive wildfire sea- Rick Kincaid reacts as his wife Melodie Kincaid, left, finds his
National Forest. sons because of drought, childhood toy as they sift through the charred remains of
The Holy Fire was 41 per- warmer weather attributed their home burned in the Carr Fire, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, in
cent contained Sunday to climate change and Redding, Calif. Associated Press
afternoon after burning home construction deeper
across 35.5 square miles into forests. erately starting the fire ap- lie. A court commissioner
(92 kilometers) of dry tim- With firefighters beginning peared in court on Friday, ordered his bail to remain
ber and brush, said Lynne to get a better handle on but his arraignment was at $1 million.
Tolmachoff of the Califor- the blaze, they began to postponed. Elsewhere, the largest fire
nia Department of Forestry lift evacuation orders over Forrest Clark, 51, made ever recorded in Cali-
and Fire Protection. the weekend for areas pre- several outbursts, claiming fornia — the Mendocino
“The weather out here viously in its path, said Tol- his life was being threat- Complex — burning north
in California seems to be machoff, who did not have ened and saying the arson of Sacramento destroyed
cooling down today and exact numbers. More than charge against him was a more than 100 homes. q
over the next couple days, 20,000 people were report-
and that should hopefully edly told to evacuate at
help firefighters get even one point.
more containment,” Tol- Aircraft have made flight
machoff said. “They should after flight, dumping water
make better progress over and bright pink retardant
the next couple of days.” on the blaze to protect
They’ll need to, with tem- Lake Elsinore and other
peratures, expected to foothill communities near
again reach 100 degrees the flames.
or more by the end of The man accused of delib-

Strongest-ever

earthquake hits

Alaska’s North

Slope region

KAVIK RIVER CAMP, Alaska stantial amount. “This is a
(AP) — Alaska’s North Slope very significant event that
was hit Sunday by the most will take us some time to
powerful earthquake ever understand,” he told the
recorded in the region, the Daily News.
state’s seismologist said. The previous most powerful
At 6:58 a.m. Sunday, the quake in the North Slope
magnitude 6,.4 earth- was in 1995 at magnitude
quake struck an area 42 5.2, West told the newspa-
miles (67 kilometers) east per.
of Kavik River Camp and The jump from a 5.2 to Sun-
343 miles (551 kilometers) day’s 6.4 is significant be-
northeast of Fairbanks, the cause earthquakes rapidly
state’s second-biggest grow in strength as magni-
city. The agency says the tude rises, he said.
earthquake had a depth “That’s why at 6.4 this
of about 6 miles (9.9 kilo- changes how we think
meters.) about the region,” West
State seismologist Mike said. “It’s a little early to say
West told the Anchorage how, but it’s safe to say this
Daily News that the quake earthquake will cause a re-
was the biggest recorded evaluation of the seismic
in the North Slope by a sub- potential of that area.”q