California
Some 250,000 people have had to flee their home.
At least 250,000 people have been forced to flee their home.
One blaze is just 12 miles from Thousand Oaks, where a mass shooting took place earlier this week.
Blazes fanned by strong winds have been ravaging communities in Ventura County, southern California. The fires started 5km from the coast and are expected to burn all the way to the ocean.
Susan Schmidt-Orfanos, the mother of one of the 12 victims of the mass shooting in California on Wednesday, said in an emotional plea that thoughts and prayers for her son are not enough, and demanded gun control. Schmidt-Orfanio’s son, Telemachus Orfonos, had survived the mass shooting in Las Vegas only a year earlier.
Thirteen people have died, including a gunman and a sheriff’s sergeant, after a mass shooting at a California bar popular with college students.
Hundreds were at a southern California bar when a gunman opened fire. At least 12 people were killed, including a deputy sheriff. Police say shots were still being fired when they arrived at the scene. They confirmed that the suspect was shot dead at the scene.
Scientists from the Ocean Exploration Trust were excited when their unmanned robotic submersible spotted a rare Dumbo octopus off the Californian shore. Because they live on the ocean floors at depths of 9000 - 13000 feet, the unusual cephalopods are rarely seen. They’re named “Dumbo” after the large ear-like fins on either side of their head.
This pig’s love of Doritos led him back to his house in California.
California is experiencing it’s largest wildfires in the history of the state. Seven people have lost their lives so far as the army and firefighters try to contain it.