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REDDING, Calif. AP 鈥?A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for 15,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced questions about how quickly they warned residents about the largest and deadliest blaze burning in the state.Ed Bledsoe told CBS News he did not receive any warning to evacuate his home in the city of Redding before the flames came through last week and ki
stanley cup lled his wife, Melody, and his great-grandchildren, 5-year-old James Roberts and 4-year-old Emily Roberts. If Id have any kind of warning, Id have never, ever left my family in that house, Bledsoe said.Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told the network theres an investigation into whether the Bledsoe home received a warning call or a knock on the door. The sheriff cited evidence that door-to-door notifications were made in the area. Bosenko did not return a message from The Associated Press on Monday.The dispute came as authorities on Sunday ordered evacuations around twin fires in Mendocino and Lake counties, including from the 4,700-resident town of Lakeport, a popular destination for bass anglers and boaters on the shores of Clear Lake, about 1
stanley cup 20 miles 195 kilometers north of San Francisco. The blazes have destroyed six homes and threaten 10,000 others. So far, the flames have blackened 87 square miles 225 square kilometers , with minimal containment.Those fires were among 17 burning across the state, where fire crews were stretche
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AP Photo/Steven Senne, filesMonday, Dec. 11, 2017 photo, visitors to the Boston Tea Party Museum throw replicas of historic tea containers into Boston Harbor from aboard a replica of the vessel Beaver, in Boston.AP12:54 JST,ensp;December 17, 2023BOSTON AP 鈥?Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America
stanley ca independence.The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of the throwin
gourde stanley g of tea leaves into the city harbor and community meetings that preceded the defiant act on Dec. 16, 1773 鈥?though this time, the symbolic protest was aided by spotlights and microphones. City officials were expecting thousands of visitors for the celebration.Crowds who gathered to watch the reenactment quickly joined in, shouting Huzzah! along with the
kubki stanley costumed actors as boxes of tea were dumped in the harbor. Later, they resoundingly booed an actor who read King George III order closing the bay, and they cheered as narrators detailed the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.Tea for the reenactment was supplied by the East India Co., the same British company that was at the center of the raucous dispute.During the historic event, protesting taxation without representation, members of the Sons of Liberty and others boarded East India Co. ships and dumped their valuable haul 鈥?some 92,000 pounds 41,700 k
