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 NAPA, Calif.  AP  鈥?Will Abrams and his family packed their pickup truck with laptops, clothes, sleeping bags and a tent and quickly left their rental home in California   wine country after seeing flames on a hill about a quarter-mile away Monday morning. It was their third hurried fire evacuation in as many years.In 2017, Abrams woke up to find their Santa Rosa home on fire, clearing burning branches out of the driveway so he could get his wife, 12-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter to safety. Their home was destroyed. Then last year, the family evacuated as another wildfire bore down on Sonoma County. They were terrified to cross into the San Francisco Bay Area amid smaller grassland fires sparked by power lines falling in the  stanley cup  stanley cup midst of strong, hot winds.This time we hurried up and packed up th stanley cup e car, and we were in gridlock traffic on  Highway  12 while the flames were approaching from behind, Abrams said Tuesday. He and his wife tried to entertain the kids by making conversation so they wouldn ;t panic. It was just obviously traumatic on a personal level, but also just that so little has changed since the fires of 2017 in terms of preparedness and prevention.They have been told this home is still standing. But with the Glass Fire still completely uncontained, the family is staying in Berkeley until they are allowed to return.I ;m trying to prepare my kids and let them know that climate change is part of life and they 82 Ucpr After arrest, Republicans struggle with mail bombs fallout
 WASHINGTON 鈥?Buckling under conservative pressure, the Republican-led House Rules Committee pulled a legislative sleight of hand and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required women between the ages of 18 and 25 to sign up for a military draft.The committee   chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said in a statement Tuesday the action was  stanley cup taken to prevent what he called a reckless policy from moving forward without closer study of its impact.I have the utmost respect and deepest appreciation for the young women who bravely volunteer to serve our country, but I am adamantly opposed to coercing America   daughters to sign up for the Selective Service at 18 years of age, Sessions said.The Rules Committee wields substantial in stanley cup fluence over legislation before it moves to the House floor. The full House planned to start work on the bill on Tuesday. A Senate bill does include a version of the provision, so the congressional debate over whether women should register isn ;t over.Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, criticized the committee move, casting it as an attempt by Republicans to avoid subjecting their members to a vote on equali salomon ty for women, and they ought to.Conservatives have warned that requiring women to sign up for a military draft is a dangerous blurring of gender lines.Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, s