Fire authorities mitigate burn risks in Moraga, Orinda following SoCal firestorms
The Moraga-Orinda Fire District is performing prescribed burns to reduce wildfire hazards, which officials said are similar ...
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Controlled burn in Lafayette by Moraga-Orinda Fire District aims to reduce wildfire hazard
The Moraga-Orinda Fire Protection District conducted the prescribed burn along the Moraga-Lafayette border. The burn was conducted near North Lucille Lane and Peacock Boulevard in Lafayette in the ...
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Firefighters conduct controlled burn on Moraga-Lafayette border
The Moraga-Orinda Fire District is conducting a prescribed fire project Thursday on the Moraga-Lafayette border. The burn will be near North Lucille Lane and Peacock Boulevard. If air quality ...
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Moraga fire crews take advantage of unusually dry month
Firefighters with the Moraga-Orinda Fire District are taking advantage of an unusually dry January to burn piles of trimmings cut down last spring from oak trees that dot the hillside behind St ...
Former Pittsburg mayor becomes first Black woman on Contra Costa Board of Supervisors
Shanelle Scales-Preston took the oath of office Tuesday as Contra Costa County's new District 5 supervisor, becoming the first African American woman elected to the county's Board of Supervisors.
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New leadership and historic milestones for Contra Costa Board of Supervisors
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors convened its annual reorganization meeting Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, at the County ...
The Bay Area’s Pacific Palisades: This is one of the cities most at risk of urban firestorm
In 2019, when state lawmakers were grappling with the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., California’s largest electrical utility, they needed an estimate of how much a worst-case-scenario ...