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California wildire burns with ferocity never seen by ire crews
SAN BERNARDINO,
Calif. (AP) — A wildire
with a ferocity never seen
before by veteran California
ireighters raced up and
down canyons, instantly
enguling homes and forcing
thousands of people to lee,
some running for their lives
just ahead of the lames.
By Wednesday, a day
after it ignited in brush left
bone dry by years of drought,
the blaze had spread across
nearly 47 square miles and
was raging out of control. The
lames advanced despite the
efforts of 1,300 ireighters.
Authorities could not
immediately say how many
homes had been destroyed,
but they warned that the
number will be large.
“There will be a lot of
families that come home to
nothing,” San Bernardino
County Fire Chief Mark
Hartwig said after lying over
a ire scene he described as
“devastating.”
“It hit hard. It hit fast. It
hit with an intensity that we
hadn’t seen before,” he said.
No deaths were reported,
but cadaver dogs were
searching the ruins for
anyone who was overrun by
the lames.
The cause of the ire
wasn’t immediately known.
Five years of drought
have turned the state’s wild-
lands into a tinder box, with
eight ires currently burning
from Shasta County in the far
north to Camp Pendleton just
north of San Diego.
“In my 40 years of
ighting ire, I’ve never seen
ire behavior so extreme,”
Incident Commander Mike
Wakoski said a day after
the latest blaze broke out
Tuesday in Cajon Pass, a
critical highway and rail
corridor through mountain
ranges that separate Southern
California’s major popula-
tion centers from the Mojave
Desert and Las Vegas.
David Pardo/The Victor Valley Daily Press via AP
Flames from the Bluecut Fire approach an RV and a
vehicle in Devore, Calif, on Wednesday.
Residents like Vi Delgado
and her daughter April
Christy, who had been
through a major brushire
years before, said they had
never seen anything like it
either.
“No joke, we were
literally being chased by the
ire,” a tearful April Christy
said in a voice choked with
emotion as she and her
mother sat in their minivan in
an evacuation center parking
lot in Fontana. They did
not go inside because their
dogs, three Chihuahuas and
a mixed-breed mutt, were not
allowed.
“You’ve got lames on
the side of you. You’ve got
lames behind you,” Christy
Thursday Morning
Trump shakes up
staff, intent on
inishing race on
own terms
NEW YORK (AP) —
Frustrated with his troubled
candidacy, Donald Trump
is hinging his presidential
hopes on a risky bet: that
the iery populism and
freewheeling style that
won him the Republican
nomination give him a better
shot at the White House than
uniting his party and rallying
moderate voters.
Trump underscored that
conviction Wednesday
with a staff overhaul at his
campaign’s highest levels,
the second shake-up in
the past two months. The
Republican nominee tapped
Stephen Bannon — a
combative conservative
media executive with no
campaign experience — to
serve as CEO of his White
House bid.
Pollster Kellyanne
Conway, who has known
Trump for years and gained
his trust during her brief
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Federal Reserve oficials
believed last month that
near-term risks to the U.S.
economy had subsided and
that an interest rate increase
could soon be warranted.
But they did not indicate
when they would likely raise
rates.
The minutes of their July
26-27 meeting, released
Wednesday, show that
oficials were encouraged
by a rebound in job growth.
They also took note of a
stabilization of inancial
markets after a bout of
turbulence triggered by
Britain’s June 23 vote to
leave the European Union.
The Fed oficials believed
those developments had
lessened the risks for the
economy in the short run.
The minutes show that as a
result, the oficials thought a
rate increase “was or would
soon be warranted.”
But a key factor holding
the Fed oficials back was
the stubbornly slow rate of
inlation, which has been
running below the central
bank’s 2 percent target
for more than four years,
according to the minutes.
Some analysts said the
minutes showed that it’s
possible the Fed could raise
rates as early as September,
especially if job growth and
other economic data come in
on the strong side between
now and the Sept. 20-21
meeting. But many think
the Fed will lack enough
certainty to act, especially if
inlation remains far below
the Fed’s target.
In minutes from the
meeting, the Fed noted
that the job market had
rebounded from a brief
slump. Still, it said it planned
to monitor global economic
threats and inancial
developments to ensure
that they don’t slow the
economy.
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WASHINGTON (AP)
— Many commuter and
freight railroads have made
little progress installing
safety technology designed
to prevent deadly collisions
and derailments despite a
mandate from Congress,
according to a government
report released Wednesday.
The technology, called
positive train control or
PTC, uses digital radio
communications, GPS and
signals alongside tracks to
monitor train positions. It
can automatically stop or
slow trains to prevent them
from disobeying signals,
derailing due to excessive
speed, colliding with another
train or entering track that is
off-limits.
Congress passed a law
in 2008 giving railroads
seven years to put the
technology in place, and
last year extended that
deadline for three more
years after railroads said
they were unable to meet
the irst deadline. The law
extending the deadline to
Dec. 31, 2018, also allows
the railroad administration to
grant additional extensions
for two more years to
railroads that have installed
PTC but are still testing the
systems.
So far, PTC is in
operation on nine percent of
freight route miles and 22
percent of passenger train
miles, the report said.
Freight railroads have
equipped 34 percent of their
locomotives, installed 73
percent of their radio towers
and completed 11 percent
of their track segments.
Passenger railroads have
equipped 29 percent of their
locomotives, installed 46
percent of their radio towers,
and completed 12 percent of
their track segments.
But progress varies
considerably by railroad.
For example, BNSF has
equipped 4,309 of its 5,000
locomotives, but Union
Paciic has equipped only 13
of its 5,656 locomotives.
tenure working for the
businessman, will serve as
campaign manager.
The moves are aimed
in part at marginalizing
campaign chairman Paul
Manafort, a longtime
Republican operative who
pushed Trump to moderate
his tone and improve
relations with skeptical
Republican oficials. In
breaking with that approach,
Trump appears set on
inishing the race on his own
terms— win or lose.
Manafort’s past work for
a pro-Russian Ukrainian
political party has also
become a potential liability
for Trump. The Associated
Press reported Wednesday
that Manafort helped the
party secretly route at least
$2.2 million in payments
to a pair of prominent
Washington lobbying irms.
Rarely do presidential
campaigns undergo
this level of tumult at
this stage of the general
election. Wednesday’s
announcements come less
than three months before
Trump’s Election Day
faceoff with Democrat
Hillary Clinton, and roughly
six weeks before early
voting begins.
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More than 34,000 homes
and some 82,000 people were
under evacuation warnings
as ireighters concentrated
their efforts on saving homes
in the mountain communities
of Lytle Creek, Wrightwood
and Phelan. They implored
residents not to think twice
if told to leave, but it appears
many were staying.
“From reports that we
were hearing, possibly up to
half didn’t leave,” said Lyn
Sieliet, a U.S. Forest Service
spokeswoman.
Although there was
no oficial count on how
many homes were lost,
Eric Sherwin of the San
Bernardino County Fire
Department said Tuesday that
he had seen at least a dozen
buildings go up in lames,
some of them homes. Among
them was the Summit Inn, a
historic Route 66 diner near
Interstate 15.
The blaze began 60 miles
east of Los Angeles.
said, describing a harrowing
race down a mountain road.
She was led by a sheriff’s
patrol car in front while a
California Highway Patrol
vehicle trailed behind and a
truck illed with ireighters
battled lames alongside her.
She and her mother, onsite
caretakers at the Angels and
Paws animal rescue shelter
in Devore Heights, said it
was only moments after they
smelled smoke that lames
exploded all around them.
They grabbed their pets and
tried to rescue nine other
shelter dogs and three cats,
but a sheriff’s deputy told
them there was no time.
“You won’t make it. Save
yourself. Take your truck
and leave,” Delgado said the
deputy shouted at her, adding
that he and others would try
to rescue the animals. She
learned later that authorities
did save the animals, but
oficials could not tell her if
her home survived.
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