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Berkeley PD Concerned By Fireworks, Bonfires On Grizzly Peak Boulevard
From Berkeley PD: Berkeley, California (Tuesday, September 15, 2020) – Over the past few days, there have been concerns about persons igniting fireworks and bonfires along the turnouts of Grizzly Peak Boulevard between Centennial Drive and Claremont Avenue—increasing the danger of fire to our community. To prevent, deter and stop these reckless behaviors, the University of California…
Read MoreI-680 Gets Messy Monday
Flash subscribers got early word of a camper-trailer crash on I-680 today, an unfortunate motorist losing control of his tow and colliding with the center divide near El Pintado. The camper, unfortunately, broke up and spilled across the freeway – causing backups in both directions. Motorists also reported a woman driver allegedly brandishing a pistol…
Read MoreMore Businesses To Open After Health Order Update
Contra Costa County today aligned its COVID-19 social distancing health order with California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy, so the county no longer has different reopening rules for businesses and activities beyond what the state requires or allows. The change, effective at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, simplifies the plan for reducing the spread of COVID-19…
Read MoreSecond Fire In Three Days At Walnut Creek Home Believed To Have Been Set
Firefighters returned to a home in the 200 block of Tamarisk Drive in Walnut Creek Sunday – days after an earlier fire at the residence gutted the garage and damaged the upper floor. Last night’s blaze was reported at approximately 9:30 p.m. and was believed to have started after someone threw or set a combustible…
Read MoreDenying The Deniers
Editor: Those of us who make the West Coast our home have come to believe that the very earth is on fire. Millions of acres of burning forestland has thrown up a choking cloud that has now reached Europe. Visible from space, it resembles the plume given off by a world-darkening super volcano. The body…
Read MoreTwo-Alarm Blaze Damages Walnut Creek Home Friday
Firefighters were met by smoke and flame upon arrival at a home in the 200 block of Tamarisk Drive in Walnut Creek early Friday, declaring a second-alarm when their initial check determined the garage area of the home was fully engulfed in flame. The fire was discovered burning at the two-story residence at 3:12 a.m.,…
Read MorePacheco Man Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter In Connection With Death Of Lafayette Resident
A suspect allegedly involved in an apparent vehicular homicide that claimed the life of a Lafayette woman near Buchanan Field Airport early Saturday was formally charged Thursday with gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence. The Contra Costa County D.A.’s Office brought charges against 26-year-old Anthony Johnathan Buscemi of Pacheco in connection with the…
Read MoreMoraga-Orinda Fire Restricts All Open Flame Burning For Remainder Of Fire Season
Due to Red Flag Warnings and Extreme Fire Danger, ALL forms of open flames within the Fire District will be restricted for the remainder of fire season. There is an increased threat of wildfire when open burning and recreational fires are allowed during times of high fire danger. Improperly extinguished recreational fires and open burning…
Read MoreMartian Colonization Experiment Underway In The Bay Area
Those scientists, you know, those nutty folks in white lab coats and spinning propellor beanies who have been warning us for some time about our bad habits and how they would come back to haunt us, are preparing us for our retreat to Mars by substituting that planet’s atmosphere for ours. So far we humanoids…
Read MoreWhee! 3.4 Magnitude Shaker Rolls Through The 24/680 Sunday
A temblor registering 3.4 Magnitude rumbled through the 24/680 at 11:43 a.m. Sunday, prompting a few anxious glances but no apparent damage. It appears to have been epicentered two miles east southeast of San Leandro.
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