Maya Trabulsi
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KPBS
In a region where wildfires have ravaged entire neighborhoods, one couple's proactive approach to home hardening is setting an example for others, with defensible space inspections provided by Cal Fire.
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This week the city council’s of El Cajon and San Marcos are considering sending letters in opposition to proposed state pot rules specifically concerning marijuana deliveries. -
Colin Stowell was sworn in Monday as chief of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. -
KPBS Midday EditionThirty-five years ago this week, a woman in Manhattan Beach, California reported a case of suspected child abuse at the McMartin Preschool setting off a frenzied swirl of allegations that became the longest and most expensive criminal case in U.S. history. A new book reveals the missteps and hysteria surrounding the trial. -
KPBS Midday EditionOperation Streamline, which fast-tracks the prosecution of immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally, has been in effect in San Diego for more than a month. -
Aided by slightly cooler temperatures, firefighters made steady progress Sunday in battling a wildfire that destroyed 16 structures as it raged through Southern California's Cleveland National Forest. -
The city of San Diego is testing drones to help first responders in emergencies under a new federal program. -
Firefighters worked Friday to keep a growing Southern California forest fire that is feeding on dry brush and trees from reaching foothill neighborhoods a day after flames roared to new ferocity and came within yards of homes. -
San Diego's convention center expansion plan is put in doubt, a new deportation risk for international college students, and the politics of California's wildfires. -
Temperatures in El Cajon in 30 of the last 40 days have reached 90 degrees or hotter, according to data from the National Weather Service, with nearly 10 of those days hitting triple digits. -
More than a thousand firefighters battled to keep a raging Southern California forest fire from reaching foothill neighborhoods Friday before the expected return of blustery winds that drove the flames to new ferocity a day earlier.
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