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Crews battling three major California fires could get some relief from record heat and help from the weather as a cooldown preceded minor containment for the blazes. Hot, flame-fanning winds from the desert are dissipating, and the cooler temps may help firefighters give the blaze their best. Firefighters cut and extinguish a fire in a tree as the Bridge Fire burns in the Big Pines hills near Wrightwood, Calif., on Thursday. He also said mutual aid from Washington, Utah, and North Dakota, including firefighters, were sent to Southern California. The weather outlook should give firefighters the weekend and beyond to battle the three fires without unforgiving temperatures.

Persons: Crews, Craig Covey, ” Covey, Etienne Laurent, Anthony Marrone, Kristian Litz, Litz, Jeremy Pierce, Pierce, Justin Wayne Halstenberg, San Bernardino, Fabian Herrera, Gavin Newsom Organizations: California Department of Forestry, Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County Sheriff's Department . Authorities, AFP, Getty, Angeles County Fire, The California Department of Forestry, Fire Protection, Firefighters, National Guard, National Weather Service Locations: California, Trabuco, Los Angeles, Rancho Santa, Orange, Riverside County, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, Nowhere, Big Pines, Wrightwood, Calif, Angeles, Mount Baldy, Big, San Bernardino County, Highland, San, Washington , Utah, North Dakota, Southern California, San Diego, Los Angeles County

☆ Los Angeles wildfires slow, still threaten suburbs
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: 1 min

Wildfires that have burned dozens of mountain homes near Los Angeles slowed on Thursday with cooler temperatures but authorities warned the blazes still threatened suburbs. Driven by triple-digit heat, gusting winds and tinder-dry vegetation, the three fires burned at speeds firefighters have never witnessed, scorching over 110,000 acres — an area twice the size of Seattle. The Bridge Fire, California’s largest current wildfire, swept through communities in the San Gabriel Mountains less than 40 miles (65 km) northeast of central Los Angeles, where people priced out of the city have built homes. The 51,000-acre blaze destroyed over 40 houses and cabins in Mount Baldy and Wrightwood as well as damaging lifts at the Mountain High ski area, authorities said. Fire growth eased as the high for Los Angeles fell to 81F, a cooling trend expected to last through the weekend.

Persons: Wrightwood Organizations: Los Locations: Los Angeles, Seattle, San Gabriel, Mount Baldy

☆ Firefighters hope cooler weather will aid their battle against 3 major Southern California fires
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A firefighter puts out a hot spot in a home near Lake Elsinore, Calif. on Sept. 11, 2024. The three blazes are:A house in flames as the Airport Fire burns in Lake Elsinore, Calif., on Sept. 10, 2024. Apu Gomes / Getty ImagesThe Airport Fire in Orange County, which has burned more than 35 square miles. Several homes burned in El Cariso Village. The Line Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest, which was 18% contained Wednesday and had charred 57 square miles.

Persons: Zoe Meyers, Erin Arias, “, ” Arias, “ We’re, Daniel Swain, ”, Apu Gomes, Steve Concialdi Organizations: — Firefighters, Getty, UCLA, San Bernardino National Forest, Authorities Locations: Calif, Los, . California, Southern California, Lake Elsinore, AFP, Wrightwood, Los Angeles, Orange County, Orange, El Cariso, Highland

☆ California wildfires: Bridge Fire explodes in size, man arrested in connection with Line Fire
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The blaze expanded from Los Angeles County into San Bernardino County, and as of Tuesday evening was 0% contained. “Tragically, homes have been lost,” San Bernardino County’s government said on Facebook late Tuesday, as the county proclaimed an emergency due to the blaze. Video by the San Bernardino County Fire Department showed firefighters and deputies performing rescue evacuations in Wrightwood on Tuesday evening as flames consumed brush and trees. Justin Wayne Halstenberg, 34, from Norco, allegedly started the fire in the area of Baseline Road and Alpin Street in the city of Highland on Sept. 5, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office said. The Line fire burns through in San Bernardino National Forest, Calif., on Sept. 10, 2024.

Persons: San Bernardino County’s, Justin Wayne Halstenberg, Gavin Newsom, Gina Ferazzi, Paul Holaday, we’re, Brian Fennessey, David Swanson, Newsom's, Davis Organizations: Angeles National Forest, California Department of Forestry, Fire, Facebook, San, San Bernardino County Fire Department, Mount, National Weather Service, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino County Sheriff's, Central Detention, Home, National Guard, Los Angeles Times, Getty Images, Orange County Fire Authority, Trabuco Flyers, RC, Getty, U.S . Forest Service of Humboldt, Sierra Locations: Southern California, Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino, Wrightwood, San Antonio, East Fork, California, Los Angeles, Norco, Highland, Big, Running, Lake, Forrest Falls, San, Calif, Orange County, Orange, El Cariso, Lake Elsinore, AFP, Nevada, U.S, Davis, Reno

☆ Wildfires burn out of control in Southern California and more evacuations ordered
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In recent years wildfires have regularly burned in and around Wrightwood, a picturesque mountain town 60 miles east of Los Angeles known for its 1930s cabins. In neighboring Orange County, firefighters used bulldozers, helicopters and planes to control a rapidly spreading blaze called the Airport Fire that started Monday and spread to about 3 square miles in only a few hours. Concialdi said the fire was burning away from homes in Orange County, but there are 36 recreational cabins in the area. Residents along the southern edge of Big Bear Lake were told to leave the area Tuesday night, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The blaze had charred more than 51 square miles of grass and brush and blanketed the area with a thick cloud of dark smoke.

Persons: Big Bear, Robert Luna, Janice Quick, texted, Quick, “ I’ve, I’ve, ”, Steve Concialdi, Concialdi, Sherri Fankhauser, Fankhauser, ” Fankhauser, “ It’s, Davis, Joe Lombardo, Charles Moore Organizations: Chamber of Commerce, Orange County Fire, San Bernardino National Forest, Residents, San, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Nevada Gov, Sunday, National Weather Service, Truckee Meadows Fire Locations: , California, Los Angeles, Big, Wrightwood, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Northern California, Clearlake City, San Francisco, Idaho , Oregon, Nevada, Reno, Davis, Washoe, Washoe County, Truckee Meadows

☆ NASA mission achieves most distant demo of laser communications across space
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo was designed to be the US space agency’s most distant experiment of high-bandwidth laser communications, testing the sending and receiving of data to and from Earth using an invisible near-infrared laser. NASA/JPL-CaltechIt’s not the first time laser communications have been tested in space. The first test of two-way laser communication occurred in December 2021 when NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration launched and went into orbit about 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) from Earth. And the Artemis II spacecraft will use laser communications to return high-definition video of a crewed journey around the moon.

Persons: Psyche, DSOC, Hale, ”, Trudy Kortes, Meera Srinivasan, Artemis, DSOC won’t, Jason Mitchell Organizations: CNN, NASA, Optical Communications, California Institute of Technology’s, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Caltech, Space Technology, Psyche’s, Hale, DSOC, NASA’s, Advanced Communications, Navigation Technologies, NASA’s Space Communications Locations: Pasadena , California, DSOC, Wrightwood , California

☆ Earth received a message sent from a deep space laser — it took just 50 seconds to travel 10 million miles
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The technological feat, using NASA's Psyche probe, broke new ground for deep space communications. AdvertisementNASA has achieved a world-first after sending a laser-beamed message to Earth from nearly 10 million miles away within 50 seconds. While the space agency has long been able to communicate with spacecraft using radio waves, it had never before been able to send information using lasers from that far into space. The feat, achieved using NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment on board the Psyche spacecraft, could someday allow humans to stream video calls on Mars. The spacecraft then beamed back information using its laser.

Persons: —, Lacey Young, Peter Rubin, Abi Biswas, Biswas, Trudy Kortes, Psyche Organizations: NASA, Service, Optical Communications, Jet Propulsion, Hale, JPL, Caltech, Arizona State Univ, Systems, ASU, Technology, Space Technology Locations: Wrightwood , California, San Diego County , California, Arizona, Palomar

CNN —Millions of American homeowners could see insurance rates surge in the coming years in part due to worsening climate disasters, new data shows. It’s another alarming sign for the future of America’s homeowners’ insurance market. “We’re still kind of at the forefront of the insurance industry pricing in climate risk into the real estate market,” Porter told CNN. Premiums are at risk of surging to a lesser extent in cities across the country, First Street data shows. “I know where the places are where people are dropping their insurance — it’s Florida, Louisiana, California and Colorado,” Bach told CNN.

Persons: ”, David Jones, Jeremy Porter, “, ” Porter, Hurricane Ian, Matias J, Jones, ” Jones, Amy Bach, Bach, ” Bach, Kyle Grillot, Reuters Jones, Porter, ‘ I’m, it’s Organizations: CNN, Foundation, UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, Hurricane, Miami Herald, Tribune, Service, Los, National Flood Insurance, FEMA, United, Residents, Reuters Locations: California , Florida, Louisiana, California, Matlacha , Florida, Florida, Texas, Vermont, Montpelier . Kentucky, West Virginia, Miami, Jacksonville, New Orleans, East Coast, Atlantic City , New Jersey, Virginia Beach, Norfolk , Virginia, Wilmington , North Carolina, Charleston , South Carolina, Savannah , Georgia, New York City, Phoenix, Chicago , Pittsburgh, Louisville, Cincinnati, West Coast, Riverside , California, Los Angeles, Gulf Coast, Plaquemines Parish , Louisiana, Collier County , Florida, Colorado, Wrightwood , California

☆ This Norwegian couple’s playful, gender-defying portraits were discovered by chance after their deaths
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Jacquelyn Palumbo | Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

At the turn of the 20th century, the studio run by Norwegian photographers Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg had a secret second purpose. Preus Museum--Norwegian Museum of PhotographyIn the photos, Berg and Høeg dress up in womenswear and menswear, using props and painted backdrops to set their irreverent scenes. Preus Museum--Norwegian Museum of PhotographyOne of Berg & Høeg's most recognized images is often misidentified as a self-portrait of the pair. Preus Museum--Norwegian Museum of Photography“I see them as businesswomen,” Aasbo explained. Altogether, there are now around 700 known negatives of Berg & Høeg’s work, some 80 of which chronicled their “private” lives.

Persons: Bolette Berg, Marie Høeg, visite, Høeg, Berg, Leif Preus, Kristin Aasbo, Preus, ”, ” Aasbo, “, Høeg’s, It’s, —, “ Marie, Høeg's, Ingeborg, Karl, it’s, Thorvald, August, Aasbo Organizations: Preus, Museum, Photography, Museum of, Berg Locations: Norwegian, Horten, Norway, womenswear, Madrid, Berg, Langesund, Finland, Nannestad, ”, —, Oslo, Lunner, Europe, Chicago

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