JUST IN: LA County
#Woolseyfire
evacuations to remain in place through the evening, this includes those in Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills and Westlake Village. LASheriff orders 500 deputies to go on 12-hour shifts so they can protect evacuated neighborhoods.
TIDE TURNS, FOR NOW: Evacuation orders lifted for swaths of fire area, but many still told to stay away with high winds in forecast. Read about where residents can return and which ones should hold off (plus update on work to reopen 101 Fwy
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JUST IN: Moorpark College has made decision to close its campus today at 5 p.m. due to poor air quality.
#TickFire
Oxnard College, Ventura College, and Ventura College East Campus remain unaffected.
#WoolseyFire
: Sheriff deputies from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo and police officers from Pismo Beach and Paso Robles are staging at Oak Park High School to help with the fire tonight
Commuters:
@CaltransDist7
will shut down the right lane of northbound and southbound 101 Freeway from Wendy Drive to Camarillo Springs Road between 7 pm and 6 am beginning tomorrow night (Dec. 17) to repair damage caused by the Hill fire. Expect delays until the work is complete.
Westlake Village and Agoura Hills residents will be able to sleep in their own beds tonight.
@LASDHQ
just announced the evacuation orders will be lifted at 9 pm. The 101 freeway will also be reopened.
LACFD Chief puts no. of structures lost from the fire at 175, but says that will figure will surely grow. No structures lost today in burn area
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Please follow
@Ian_reports
for updates from the 4:30 PM press conference when unified command will update the community on the fires and update the status of current mandatory evacuation orders
EXCLUSIVE: High school employee run down by student's Mercedes Benz shares her story with
@TOAcornNews
. “The community support has been amazing, and I just want to say, ‘Thank you, it helped, every single thing.’”
Ventura County public health officials said today that a sample taken from a traveler who had been aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship in February tested positive in their lab March 5. The ship had journeyed from San Francisco to Mexico and back
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Here's a good way to help those who have been negatively effected by the
#ThomasFire
. We will be collecting toys
@Walgreens
in Newbury Park tomorrow, Dec 8th from 11am-6pm. Some local families have been devastated, we can make positive and meaningful impact through this drive.
Mandatory evacuations are still in effect but CHP Lieutenant Kevin Kurker says officers are working to reopen the 101 freeway, which he expects will happen sometime tonight
Good Samaritans tried unsuccessfully to pull a woman involved in a crash on the 101 Freeway at Lindero Canyon Road from the vehicle before it went up in flames
Grace Brethren Elem. in
#SimiValley
held their annual 9/11 memorial ceremony this morning. Reynolds Ritchie, a WWII Army Vet, was the guest speaker. Reynolds served from 1943-45 under the 3rd Army Div. of Gen. Patton
#NeverForget911