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LA Times (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Residents and park officials mourn the loss after more than 95% of the 14,100 acres burned in the Freeway Complex fire, leaving little but a blackened landscape behind. For more than 20 years, Chino Hills State Park has stood as an island of wilderness circled by freeways and untrammeled development. Swaying grasslands and remote canyons offered solitude to hikers and bikers. Rare plants and...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The charred areas include Chino Hills State Park to the north and Cleveland National Forest to the southeast | h/t to Gary Robbins at OC Register's Sciencedude Blog for photo lead This is what 30,000 acres of land scorched by fire looks like, as seen by NASA's Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite. The Freeway Complex Fire (also called referred to as the Triangle...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... equipment operators placed lines of portable concrete barriers below the denuded hillsides of Chino Hills State Park to redirect potential storm flows away from Yorba Linda homes. Ninety percent of the wilderness park burned.Without the fire-related risks, rain might be appreciated in parched Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles had recorded only .27 inch of precipitation since the...
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Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... equipment operators placed lines of portable concrete barriers below the denuded hillsides of Chino Hills State Park to redirect potential storm flows away from Yorba Linda homes. Ninety percent of the wilderness park burned.Without the fire-related risks, rain might be appreciated in parched Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles had recorded only .27 inch of precipitation since the...
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... TDs but was only 4-of-6 for 37 yards passing in a 53-31 romp over Elsinore.Next game: Nov. 28 at Chino Hills (CIF-SS Central Division second round) -- Mission Viejo (Mission Viejo, Calif.)College: CaliforniaThe challenge that was expected from traditional power Loyola never came as the Diablos got 313 yards and two TDs through the air from their Elite 11 QB in an easy 37-7 win in the CIF...