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September 9, 2020 Vol. 16 No. 71
CA Fire Summary By Desert Star Staff Nearly 14,000 firefighters remain on the line battling 25 major wildfires across California. While firefighters are gaining ground on many of the lightening-caused fires in Northern California, firefighters are aggressively battling wildfires up and down the State. Yesterday, the Oak
Fire, which erupted yesterday in Mendocino County, proliferated, forcing evacuations. CAL FIRE has maintained increased staffing for potential significant wildfire activity due to critical fire weather. This year, wildfires have now burned over 2.2 million acres across all fire jurisdictions. This is a record for the number
of acres burned in California, and this year’s fire season has another four months to go. There have been eight fatalities and more than 3,300 structures destroyed. Most of California remains under Red Flag Warning today and into tomorrow. This includes most of Northern California, including portions of the Bay Area. There
is also a warning for the Eastern Sierras, the Mojave Desert, the Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles mountains, and the Inland Empire down into San Diego county. The conditions will bring strong, gusty winds and low humidity, increasing activity on current fires and causing new fire to grow rapidly. Wildfires spread at critical
speed when high winds are present. Dangerous conditions can potentially trap you and your family from escaping ahead of a wildfire. Would you know what to do if this happened to you? To learn ways to be prepared and protect your family, visit www. ReadyForWildfire.org.
Palm Springs Continues Beautifying Palm Canyon
By Desert Star Staff Main Street Palm Springs, the city of Palm Springs’ Downtown and Uptown Business Association, announced expanding its existing street bench beautification project. Main Street received funding for this project through a grant from the Palm Springs Public Arts Commission. This next phase of this project will commission local artists to paint selected public benches in the Uptown area of Palm Canyon Drive. The artists will be compensated for their work by Public Arts Commission funds, which come from local developers’ contributions and are restricted
to only public art projects. With this expansion, forty benches will be transformed into works of art on Palm Canyon Drive. The artists’ designs for the benches were selected to tie into the businesses near the bench location. A floral design will adorn the bench in front of My Little Flower Shop, a food-related design will be applied to the bench near Cheeky’s, and others are matched in the same manner. The artists that will participate in this continuation of the bench beautification project include Katie Campbell, Wallace Covard, Jessyca
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Art by Monica Garcia