Update July 26, 10:41 a.m.: The Madre fire covered 80,786 Acres. It is fully contained according to Cal Fire. Update July 18, 12:48 p.m.: The Madre fire covered 80,779 Acres. It is currently 97% contained according to Cal Fire. Update July 8, 5:42 p.m.: The Madre Fire is covering 80,610 acres. It is currently 62% […]
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Industrial engineering professor’s research points to solutions for limiting wildfire damage
Industrial engineering professor, Puneet Agarwal, has been researching the economic effects of prescribed burns for the last five years.
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Forestry senior wants to save SLO County’s oak trees
About fifty million trees are estimated to have been killed by Sudden Oak Death on the West Coast alone. That number is rising every day.
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Update: Sheriff’s Office identifies one dead in fatal car accident just north of Cal Poly
The driver killed in the accident has been identified as 18-year-old Zachary Andrew Harris of South Lake Tahoe.
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Future of Cal Poly’s hillsides
Only a small portion of the Poly Fire overlapped with the Fremont mudslide zone.
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Where there’s smoke…
A fire that at one point spanned more than 750 acres in size is currently burning east of Santa Margarita, according to CalFire’s Public Information Officer Tina Rose. The fire began last Monday around 11:30 a.m., Rose said, and quickly spread from 300 acres to more than 750 acres by the mid-afternoon. CalFire and the […]
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750-acre fire burning in Santa Margarita
Update — 4:37 p.m.: More than 300 fire-fighting personnel are on the scene of the fire in Santa Margarita, and more time and personnel will be needed, CalFire Public Information Officer Tina Rose said. “This is going to be a few days for us to fully extinguish this fire,” Rose said. So far though, no […]
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Local fire remains uncontained
Ashes filled the air in San Luis Obispo this week as the current largest fire in California continued to burn about 29,480 acres by Wednesday night.