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IRVINE, Calif. — With improved weather conditions, nearly 1,100 firefighters were holding the upper hand Tuesday on a blaze that swept through portions of Orange County, officials said.

The wildfire turned the sky over Disneyland a hazy orange and rained ash on neighborhoods, but by Tuesday evening, most evacuations were lifted in Anaheim, Orange and Tustin, with just a few roads still off-limits.

The blaze, dubbed Canyon Fire 2, had burned more than 8,000 acres and was 40% contained as of Tuesday evening, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).

The cause of the blaze was under investigation, Capt. Larry Kurtz, of the Orange County Fire Authority, said during a news conference in Irvine.

The fire in Orange County, which started on Monday in the same area as the original Canyon Fire that ignited last year, was one of more than 30 wildfires crews were battling across California. The fire destroyed about 13 homes and damaged 21 more, Kurtz said.

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Overnight shelters at Katella High School in Anaheim and El Modena High School in Orange were available to those who had been evacuated. Shortly before 6 p.m. PT Tuesday, Anaheim evacuees were permitted to return home.

“Our priority is by this evening, we expect to have some sort of limited repopulation,” Steve Beach, a chief Cal Fire.

For Anaheim Hills residents such as Christine McPherson, who had been staying at the shelter in Orange, that was good news.

“The agencies have been really remarkable,” McPherson said. “But I want to go home.” 

As McPherson and others waited inside the high school gymnasium, reading books to pass the time, Beach said firefighters would be taking advantage of the progress crews made on the west side of the blaze. 

“For the most part, most of the fire on the west side of Highway 241, we have halted it in place. That doesn’t mean it’s out,” Beach said.

But it does mean firefighters can engage in putting out those flames because the perimeter of the blaze is not expanding.

Highway 241, a toll road through Orange County, was closed entirely until further notice because of the fire. One eastbound lane of Highway 91 was closed, but the rest of the highway was open. Other roads in the evacuated areas were also closed. 

Although the Santa Ana winds that whipped the fast-growing fire on Monday were no longer a factor, normal wind patterns still had the ability to spread the blaze on its east side where unburnt wildland brush could ignite, Beach said. 

“We are throwing a bunch of resources in there so that when the wind comes back to a normal onshore pattern, we are ready to receive that fire when it changes course and burns uphill,” Beach said.

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Stacks of bottled water and a series of tables with snacks and freshly served Mexican food were offered to displaced residents inside the gym of El Modena High School.

“We’re getting a variety of food here,” said Anaheim Hills resident Kate Kim. 

She was surprised at how well taken care of the evacuees were. 

When she and her husband arrived about noon Monday, there was pizza for lunch and rice and chicken for dinner. And the cots they slept on were surprisingly comfortable. 

Basima El Hasan, a Red Cross communications volunteer, said 19 people slept at the shelter Monday night, but people had been coming in and out most of the day. They were from the Anaheim Hills, Tustin and Orange areas, she said. 

“We’ll be here as long as they need us to be,” she said. 

Kim said they also had a free ATT charging center for all types of phones, which she appreciated because they were expecting a call from a friend in Brazil. 

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The married couple had been visiting with that friend in Brazil recently and returned on Sunday. That’s why they were a bit late on Monday morning for their routine walk around the neighborhood with Zoe, their Boston terrier. 

“We came out of the house around 10:30. It was really windy, and we smelled the really smoky air,” Kim said. 

They decided to end their walk sooner than normal because the air quality was not great. As they walked back home, they saw helicopters and a neighbor packing up a car. The neighbor told them about the fire, and they quickly started getting ready to leave. 

“Since we were too tired to unpack our stuff, we just put it into the car,” Kim said, adding that they took food and supplies for Zoe, too. 

The couple, originally from South Korea, eventually made their way to the El Modena High shelter. 

One of the classrooms had been converted to an animal shelter. The Red Cross activated the SoCal Animal Response Team to help care for pets, said team member Kate Simon. 

As of Tuesday afternoon, they were taking care of four dogs, including Zoe, and two cats, Simon said. Horses, goats and llamas were in the school’s parking lot on Monday night but were relocated to be cared for at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, Simon said. 

A veterinary technician was also on hand to help any animals feeling stressed out. 

“It’s really nice to have the vet tech here because cats are sensitive,” Simon said. 

McPherson’s cat, Charlie, was having a tough time. And so was she. 

She learned of the fire Monday after having breakfast at Marie Callendar’s with plans to buy Charlie some more cat food. When she came out of the restaurant, she saw the smoke. 

“I knew we were in trouble,” McPherson said. 

Red Cross officials said an Anaheim police officer brought her to the shelter on Monday. Charlie was also rescued and brought to the shelter. 

Both McPherson and Kim said they had not heard anything about their homes. But Kim said she and her husband aren’t stressing over it. 

“We decided not to worry about our house — whether it’s burnt or not — until we see our house,” Kim said, adding that worrying won’t do them any good. 

Contributing: The Associated Press. Follow Megan Diskin on Twitter: @megandiskin

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Las Vegas Gunman Shot Security Guard Before Firing Into Crowd, Police Say

October 11, 2017 by admin  
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Police officers block a stretch of street in front of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the night of the shooting in Las Vegas.

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Police officers block a stretch of street in front of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the night of the shooting in Las Vegas.

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More than a week after a gunman opened fire on a concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and leaving hundreds of others injured, authorities say those chaotic minutes are still coming into focus. At a news conference Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revised one of those key details: when, exactly, shooter Stephen Paddock injured Jesus Campos, the unarmed Mandalay Bay security guard who came to investigate his floor.

“What we have learned is Mr. Campos was encountered by the suspect prior to [Paddock's] shooting to the outside world,” Lombardo said. He told reporters Monday that Paddock shot Campos at 9:59 p.m. local time on Oct. 1, roughly six minutes before turning his gun on the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival.

“Immediately upon being injured, [Campos] notified security of his situation,” Lombardo said. He added that Campos also prevented a maintenance worker from being shot. But Lombardo also acknowledged that police “weren’t aware of [Campos] being shot until they met him in the hallway after exiting the elevator” onto Paddock’s floor.

As the Los Angeles Times reports, officials had previously suggested that Paddock stopped firing upon the arrival of Campos, who was investigating an alarm about another open door on the shooter’s floor.

The revision to the timeline raises new questions about the timing of the police response — and about why Paddock stopped shooting around 10:15 p.m., if it was not Campos’ intervention that caused him to do so. According to police accounts, there was more than an hour between the moment the gunfire ended and the moment officers breached and entered Paddock’s room, at about 11:20 p.m.

By the time officers entered the room, police say Paddock had already killed himself.

Lombardo acknowledged that “we do not know why at this point” that gunfire ended — but he cast the revision as one of a number of “minute changes” common to an evolving investigation.

“As I have conveyed to you from the very beginning,” Lombardo told reporters, “in your zest for information and my zest to ensure the public safety and the calming of their minds — some things are going to change.”

Still, Lombardo was clear that another prevailing question remains: Why did Paddock decide to carry out the attack in the first place?

“As I’ve said from Day 1, we want to figure out the ‘why’ to this, and we’d like to know the motive,” Lombardo said. “That is our most important goal to prevent any further action associated with any other individual who is contemplating this or what exactly went on in the suspect’s mind to enable him to pull off such a complicated event.”

And that “why” continues to elude them.

“This individual purposely hid his actions leading up to this event,” Lombardo said, “and it is difficult for us to find the answers to those actions.”

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