October 26, 2020 Media Brief
Orange County
NBC News: Wildfire leaves two firefighters critically injured, 60,000 evacuate
Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy said the incident was under investigation. He said that powerful winds had kept aircraft from dropping retardant and water on the blaze, making ground crew firefighters like the two who were injured critical to extinguishing the flames.
Voice of OC: Silverado Canyon Fire spreads to 7,200 acres, forces mandatory evacuations
For anyone who is medically compromised or in need of assistance evacuating in, call the Irvine Emergency Operations Center 949-529-4774. The main Orange County Emergency Operations hotline can be reached at 714-628-7085.
Voice of OC: Blue Ridge and Silverado Canyon photos – Day one.
Tens of thousands of people are evacuated as hundreds of firefighters are battling a blaze northeast of Irvine that broke out early Monday morning. And a second blaze broke out Monday afternoon east of Yorba Linda called the Blue Ridge Fire.
OC Register: Is it safe to go outside? Fires, dust and winds torpedo air quality
On Sunday, the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a windblown dust advisory for portions of Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties that is set to last through Tuesday evening.
OC Register: Southern California’s extreme fire danger weather expected to ease Tuesday
Temperatures likely will rise through the week, and dry conditions will remain. But the strong gusts of Santa Ana winds that are a key component to what on Monday was considered the most dangerous fire conditions all year are expected to subside.
Voice of OC: Orange County’s Coronavirus progress stalls as economic pain continues
In order to advance to the Orange Tier, OC needs to reduce its case rate to less than 4 and get the health equity metric, which is the positivity rate in the county’s poorest neighborhoods, to less than 5.2 percent.
Voice of OC: Racist language in old housing deeds could go away for good in OC
In 1943, Alejandro Bernal, a Californian native, moved his family into a Fullerton neighborhood. Bernal’s neighbors tried to use the segregation housing covenants to get them removed from his home and so he took them to court.
Labor
Labor 411: Federal judge orders USPS to expedite all election mail and pay postal workers overtime
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan, N.Y., said the postal service must treat to the extent possible all election mail as first-class mail or priority mail express and ‘shall pre-approve all overtime that has been or will be requested’ between Oct. 26 and Nov. 6.
Publication Date: October 26, 2020
