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Firefighters battle the Timm Fire, a four-alarm vegetation blaze, along Buena Vista Lane in Vacaville, Thursday.
Vacaville wildfire affects more than 500 residents Todd R. Hansen
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VACAVILLE — More than 500 residents were believed to be in the evacuation zone of a north Vacaville wildfire that started after 2 p.m. Thursday on the 2400 block of Buena Vista Lane. The cause of the fire was unknown. Sheriff’s deputies were deployed to the area to knock on doors and tell residents to get out. The fire area was north of Cantelow Road to south of Peaceful Glen Road; west of Timm Road and east of Dove Creek Trail, the Solano County Office of Emergency Services reported. Don Ryan, OES manager, said officials have had direct contact with at least 377 individuals. The 2020 census puts about 518 residents in the area, which Ryan described as mostly flat, rolling terrain, but not particularly hilly. In addition to the house-tohouse contact, alerts were sent out on phones and other devices through Alert Solano. He said, in an interview at 2:45 p.m., that there are no reports
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WINTERS — A wildfire prompted a swift response Wednesday from ground and air units as it threatened a rural residential area and forced evacuations. Residents of Wintu Way and Campos Lane north of Vacaville were ordered to leave their homes as the fire, dubbed the Wintu Fire, approached. The fire got its start shortly after 3 p.m. in the area of the 8600 block of Winters Road, west of Interstate 505, and soon saw of structures on fire. Buena Vista Lane remained closed as of 3:45 p.m. and the evacuation of residents there remained in effect, Ryan’s office reported. His office reported at 4 p.m. the fire had burned 0.06 square
deputies arriving at the scene and going from home to home to get people to leave the area. The state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection responded as firefighters at the scene upgraded the fire to a third alarm to draw resources from across Solano County. The evacuation order was downgraded at around 6 p.m. to an evacuation warning, with the warning canceled by 7:45 p.m. as firefighters gained better control of the fire. Officials report the fire scorched about 0.172 square miles (110 acres).
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miles (39 acres), forward progress had been stopped and the fire was 35% contained. Containment, as attributed to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, was listed at 65% about
FAIRFIELD — Supervisor Monica Brown asked what the county is going to do to protect the board and Solano County employees in the wake of Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a century-old New York law that restricted concealed weapon rights. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the 6-3 majority, stated the Second and 14th amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home. BROWN “You have no idea how upset I am,” Brown said after the special budget hearing. That comment followed her asking the County Counsel’s Office what steps are going to be taken to protect the Board of Supervisors and county
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‘A murder-suicide pact’ Former DOJ officials say they refused Trump’s requests to intervene in election
Solano experiences ‘little bump’ in Covid numbers Todd R. Hansen
Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump nearly replaced the head of the Department of Justice with a supporter of his fraud theories when the acting attorney general refused to comply with his demands to falsely claim there was evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, the House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection detailed in its hearing Thursday. The committee also revealed that multiple Republican members of Congress asked for
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the rights of gun owners to carry a loaded weapon in public, ruling that the Second Amendment right to “bear arms” overrides laws in New York and California that restrict who may legally take guns when they leave home. The court’s conservative majority said in a 6-3 ruling that the Constitution puts these decisions in the hands of gun owners, not with local officials, county sheriffs or others who fear that too many guns on the street are a threat to public safety. Writing for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said the Constitution’s Second Amendment “protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.” New York, like California, limits who may obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon, but Thomas said such a restriction is unconstitutional because “it prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary
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FAIRFIELD — There were 10 more Solano County residents who were in area hospitals with positive coronavirus tests Thursday than there were Monday. The Public Health Division reported that of the Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS
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Jeffrey Rosen, former acting attorney general, waits to testify before the U.S. House Select Committee’s fifth hearing on its Jan. 6 investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Thursday. presidential pardons from Trump in the days after Jan. 6, 2021, including Reps. Matt
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