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| Yosemite National Park: Rockfall creates 2.5 M earthquake Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:13 PM PDT The tumbling boulders unleashed so much fury before daybreak Saturday that the fall registered as a magnitude-2.5 earthquake. The debris fell into Tenaya Canyon and buried the southern portion of the Mirror Lake loop trail. Park geologist Greg Stock said the avalanche at 5:26 a.m. from Ahwiyah Point was the largest in 10 years, surpassing the October event that forced the park to permanently close part of Curry Village.
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| LBFD: Deckhand Chokes to Death during joke Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:56 PM PDT Charter Boat - A deckhand on a charter boat full of school children choked to death on a bait fish he had put in his mouth as a joke. Captain Dan Salas of the boat Gale Force said Tuesday his employee Jeff Twaddle died during a fishing trip for the students last week along breakwater in Long Beach. Salas called it a "tragic freak accident." Fire Battalion Chief Battalion Chief Frank Hayes says the 54-year-old longtime fisherman was "trying to be lighthearted and make the students laugh when he put the fish in his mouth." The fish lodged in his throat, Twaddle quickly lost consciousness and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The Los Angeles Unified School District sent a note to parents and was providing grief counselors for traumatized students. Source: Fox News - Link  | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Blogsphere: Controlled training burn causes controversy Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:32 PM PDT ------------------------- Calif. City Burns Down 1883 Farmhouses By Margaret Foster | Online Only | Mar. 31, 2009
 The Frank Petit House, built in 1883 and owned by Oxnard, Calif., were destroyed in a controlled fire in February 2009. Credit: Stephen Schafer Every once in a while, firefighters actually create fires. The Oxnard, California, Fire Department has destroyed two 19th-century houses to make way for a 75-acre sports park. City officials' efforts to find someone to move the structures proved unsuccessful. Last month they authorized firefighters to clear a three-acre site in a controlled burn. "This [destruction] was particularly disturbing because there seemed to be some significant historical value to these houses, but the city of Oxnard didn't make enough attempts to save them," says Gary Blum, chair of the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board and a descendant of the Petit family, which built the two houses. The city could have facilitated moving the farmhouses by offering compensation to potential owners, Blum says. "Why not just use that money to relocate?" It also could have issued press releases about its search for a new owner or posted signs on the buildings about their impending demolition. Built in 1883, the houses stayed in the Petit family until 1981, when they were sold to Ventura County. The county, in turn, sold them to the city of Oxnard in 2000, and the city council approved the new sports park for the site in 2005. Despite the recent demolition, Oxnard has a history of preserving historic places. In the city center stands a collection of 15 historic houses that were relocated and saved, including a Victorian owned by the Petit family. The city oversaw the six-year project, known as Heritage Square, completed in 1991. Blum paid to move the Justin Petit Ranch House to the park in 1986; it is now home to offices and the Petit Playhouse. "Unfortunately, preservation doesn't stop with one project," Blum says. "You need to keep going." Source article: www.preservationnation.org - Link  | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coast Guard: OAKLAND SAR - 12 people rescued Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:17 AM PDT Coast Guard - SF Bay area SAR ALAMEDA, Calif. - Twelve people were rescued from the water near Oakland Airport late after their canoes had been swamped by heavy swells. The Coast Guard received a report of two overdue 45-foot canoes with six people on each boat during a canoe trip from the San Leandro Marina to the Oakland Airport. The Coast Guard received confirmation of twelve people in distress. The Coast Guard launched a rescue boat from Station San Francisco and launched an MH-65 rescue helicopter from Air Station San Francisco and also issued an urgent marine information broadcast. The person reporting also responded with his 17-foot skiff. When the Coast Guard helicopter crew arrived on scene, they found twelve people clingling to pilings. All tweleve people in the water were wearing lifejackets. The rescue swimmer from the helicopter was sent into the water to start rescue efforts. The man driving the 17-foot skiff was also on scene and he teamed with the rescue swimmer in pulling 11 people out of the water and transporting them to nearby land in the vicinity of the Oakland Airport. The helicopter rescue crew hoisted one person from the water and transported him to the airport where he was treated for hypothermia by Oakland Fire Department personnel. The twelve canoers are from the Out-riggers Canoe Club based out of the San Leandro Marina. The Coast Guard reminds boaters to file a float plan so that any deviance can be quickly reported and responded to, as demonstrated in this case. Wearing lifejackets also significantly contributed to the successful rescue of all twelve people.  |
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