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MENDOCINO NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. – Mendocino National Forest officials reported Friday evening that fire crews are on the scene of a wildland fire on the forest’s Grindstone Ranger District.
The report from forest spokeswoman Punky Moore said fire crews are actively engaged on the Open fire, located approximately 25 miles west of Willows.
The Open fire is burning in grass, oak and mixed timber on Open Ridge. Moore said it was reported at 2 p.m. Friday.
The fire is estimated at 60 acres with zero-percent contained, according to the Moore’s early Friday evening report.
Moore said there are 100 federal and state resources assigned to the incident, including three engines, three water tenders, four crews, two helicopters and two single engine airtankers or SEATs.
There are no structures immediately threatened, Moore said.
Moore said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A South County firefighter injured Monday in the fire that destroyed the Middletown Hardester’s Market has been released from the hospital.
Cal Fire firefighter Justin Costa was released from the UC Davis Medical Center burn center in Sacramento on Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire reported.
Officials said Costa currently is resting at home.
On Monday afternoon Costa was on the first engine reported to have arrived at the scene of the fire in downtown Middletown.
He went into the building and was burned, and another firefighter and California Highway Patrol Officer Efrain Cortez pulled him to safety once he emerged.
Costa, a paid call firefighter who works for both Cal Fire and South Lake County Fire Protection District, was reported to have suffered second- and third-degree burns in the fire.
The Hardester’s building was a total loss.
A Cal Fire Serious Accident Review Team is currently investigating the fire, the cause of which remains under investigation, Cal Fire said.
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Cal Fire firefighter Justin Costa was released from the UC Davis Medical Center burn center in Sacramento on Wednesday afternoon, Cal Fire reported.
Officials said Costa currently is resting at home.
On Monday afternoon Costa was on the first engine reported to have arrived at the scene of the fire in downtown Middletown.
He went into the building and was burned, and another firefighter and California Highway Patrol Officer Efrain Cortez pulled him to safety once he emerged.
Costa, a paid call firefighter who works for both Cal Fire and South Lake County Fire Protection District, was reported to have suffered second- and third-degree burns in the fire.
The Hardester’s building was a total loss.
A Cal Fire Serious Accident Review Team is currently investigating the fire, the cause of which remains under investigation, Cal Fire said.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Resilience project has arrived in Lakeport and is being celebrated with a Friday event.
The project now has exhibits at several locations in Lakeport: Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.; the Lake County Arts Council’s Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main St.; and the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St.
The city of Lakeport held a reception for the exhibition before the May 15 city council meeting.
Resilience is a project of the Middletown Art Center, or MAC, with support from a grant from the California Arts Council, as well as assistance from Adventist Health, Lake County Arts Council and other local partners, agencies and businesses.
The project arose as a response to the wildland fire devastation the county experienced.
Executive Director Lisa Kaplan told the Lakeport City Council that 28 MAC members lost their homes in the Valley fire. She was one of them.
“Losing your house is a big deal. Losing your artwork is devastating,” said Kaplan, who knows the full extent of that personal tragedy, having lost 40 years of her own work, documentation and sketches. “That’s pretty intense.”
In the fire’s aftermath, as she set about getting back to everyday life, she said she was noticing nature coming back, and seeing what remained. There was new green growth set against red earth.
“This is how I survived all of this time of recovery is by finding beauty in the change that was happening around us, and seeing it as an opportunity to reframe tragedy,” she said.
She said nature can be a mirror for the community’s recovery. “When we look at the resilience of nature we can find the resilience inside of us.”
The environment didn’t just change in response to the fire; the economy and the county at large also were altered, she said.
“All of my work has been about the fire,” Kaplan said. “I don’t even mean for it to be. It just works out that way.”
Kaplan said MAC is “an incredible little flower that keeps on growing.”
The Resilience project has provided low-cost classes in a variety of mediums – painting, photography, written word and printmaking – since June 2017. MAC said more than 220 people – from age 12 to 85 – have participated in the classes as part of reframing their experience of the wildland fires.
Last week MAC opened its latest exhibit, “Resilience: Art In Dialogue with Nature,” at its Middletown headquarters, 21456 Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29. The exhibit is open Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This Friday, the Lake County Arts Council’s First Friday Fling will include an opening reception for the Resilience project at the Main Street Gallery. The event takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Featured artwork comes from the project’s Soul Painting and Drawing the Inside Out classes, exhibited in half of the main gallery.
Another Resilience exhibit will be featured from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 9, at the Fore Family Vineyards tasting room in Kelseyville, 3920 Main St.
MAC said additional upcoming exhibits are planned at Clearlake City Hall and Adventist Health Clear Lake’s Mountain View Café.
Visit http://middletownartcenter.com/ for more information.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A call about a possible burglary led to a San Francisco man’s arrest for weapons and drugs.
Sirryan Dawayne Dumetz, 23, was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon, according to a report from Sgt. Dominic Ramirez of the Clearlake Police Department.
At 4:45 p.m. Thursday officers from the Clearlake Police Department were dispatched to a residence in the 13000 block of Lakeshore Drive for a report of a possible burglary in progress, Ramirez said.
A witness saw a male subject jumping the fence into the fenced property and notified police. Ramirez said it was reported there were three other subjects associated with the male who jumped the fence.
Ramirez said officers arrived on scene, locating a vehicle parked in front of the residence and saw the top of the wooden fence sustained damage, indicating someone had jumped the fence.
When officers approached the residence, a female was located outside along with three males inside the home, Ramirez said.
Ramirez said Dumetz was located in the living room with an unidentified male who ultimately jumped through a rear window of the residence with another unidentified male and fled the scene.
Surrounding Dumetz was approximately 12 pounds of processed marijuana packaged in numerous bags, which Ramirez said was indicative of sales.
There was also a black duffle bag in Dumetz’s immediate possession with more packaged marijuana, an AK 47-style assault rifle with a high capacity magazine, which contained live ammunition, Ramirez said.
Ramirez said Dumetz ultimately was arrested for marijuana for sales, possession of an assault weapon and possession of a high capacity magazine. He was booked into the Lake County Jail, with bail set at $15,000.
At the conclusion of the investigation it was determined a burglary had not occurred, Ramirez said.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – More Kmart and Sears stores are closing across the United States, but the latest list of sites to close does not include stores in Lake County.
Lake County is home to a Kmart store in Lakeport and two Sears Hometown Stores, one each in Clearlake and Lakeport.
Sears Holdings Co. Inc. reported on Thursday that in its ongoing effort to streamline operations and focus on its best stores, it had identified 100 unprofitable stores, 72 of which are set to close in the near future.
“We continue to evaluate our network of stores, which are a critical component in our transformation, and will make further adjustments as needed and as warranted,” the company reported.
On Thursday the company informed associates at 15 Kmart stores and 48 Sears stores about the store closures, to begin in early September. Eligible associates impacted by the store closures will receive severance and will have the opportunity to apply for open positions at area Kmart or Sears stores.
Of the stores set to close, only two are in California – a Kmart in Ridgecrest and a Sears in the city of Industry.
The announcement about the latest round of store closures came on the same day as the company reported its first quarter results for 2018, in which it had a $424 million loss.
The company generated total revenues of approximately $2.9 billion during the first quarter of 2018, compared with revenues of $4.2 billion in the prior year quarter, with store closures contributing to nearly two-thirds of the decline.
Sears Holdings said its first quarter results also showed a comparable store sales decline of 11.9 percent, which was comprised of a 9.5 percent decline at Kmart and a 13.4 percent decline at Sears, while both Kmart and Sears saw sales growth in areas such as apparel, jewelry and footwear during that period.
The full list of closures is published below.
Kmart
910 North China Lake Blvd., Ridgecrest, CA
9881 W 58th Ave., Arvada, CO
5400 E. Busch Blvd., Tampa, FL
4303 Nawiliwili Road, Lihue, HI
2535 Hubbell Ave., Des Moines, IA
5909 E. State St., Rockford, IL
4070 Ryan St., Lake Charles, LA
215 North Central Ave., Duluth, MN
2434 Barbour Ave., Passaic/Clifton, NJ
2100 Carlisle Ave., Albuquerque, NM
1000 Montauk Highway, West Babylon,NY
25301 Rockaway Blvd., Rosedale, NY
12350 N E Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR
1072 Mountain Laurel Plaza, Latrobe, PA
5000 San Dario, Laredo, TX
Sears
10001 N Metro Parkway, West Phoenix, AZ
100 S Puente Hills Mall, City of Industry, CA
7902 Citrus Park Town Center, Tampa, FL
320 Towne Center Circle, Sanford, FL
2201 Henderson Mill Road N.E., Atlanta, GA
1300 Southlake Mall, Morrow, GA
2100 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth, GA
320 W Kimberly Road, Davenport, IA
#2 Hawthorn Center, Vernon Hills, IL
#2 Fox Valley Center, Aurora, IL
6136 W Grand Ave., Gurnee, IL
104 West White Oaks Mall, Springfield, IL
2415 Sagamore Parkway, S Lafayette, IN
40 Muncie Mall, Muncie, IN
6020 E 82Nd St., Indianapolis, IN
1781 Sw Wanamaker Road, Topeka, KS
Alexandria Mall, Alexandria, LA
Highways 114 and 128, Peabody, MA
Eastfield Mall, Springfield, MA
3191 S Linden Road, Flint, MI
18900 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, MI
14100 Lakeside Circle, Sterling Heights, MI
1212 S Airport Road W, Traverse City, MI
Shingle Creek Crossing, Brooklyn Center, MN
Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, MN
250 S County Center Way, St. Louis, MO
#1 Chesterfield Mall, Chesterfield, MO
1000 Turtle Creek Drive, Hattiesburg, MS
1515 Grand Ave., Billings, MT
2800 S Columbia Road, Grand Forks, ND
300 Quaker Bridge Mall, Lawrenceville, NJ
2341 Route 66, Ocean, NJ
2501 Mt Holly Road, Burlington, NJ
10000 Coors Bypass N.W., Albuquerque, NM
3649 Erie Blvd. E, De Witt/Syracuse, NY
2400 Elida Road, Lima, OH
17271 Southpark Center, Strongsville, OH
300 S Hills Village, Pittsburgh/South Hills, PA
1000 Robinson Center Drive, Pittsburgh, PA
205 W Blackstock Road, Spartanburg, SC
3101 N Main St., Anderson, SC
3400 Empire Mall, Sioux Falls, SD
2931 Knoxville Center Drive, Knoxville, TN
2401 S Stemmons Freeway, Lewisville, TX
1800 Green Oaks Road, Fort Worth, TX
11200 Lakeline Mall Drive, Cedar Park, TX
Golden Triangle Mall, Denton, TX
4502 S Steele St., Tacoma, WA
Lake County is home to a Kmart store in Lakeport and two Sears Hometown Stores, one each in Clearlake and Lakeport.
Sears Holdings Co. Inc. reported on Thursday that in its ongoing effort to streamline operations and focus on its best stores, it had identified 100 unprofitable stores, 72 of which are set to close in the near future.
“We continue to evaluate our network of stores, which are a critical component in our transformation, and will make further adjustments as needed and as warranted,” the company reported.
On Thursday the company informed associates at 15 Kmart stores and 48 Sears stores about the store closures, to begin in early September. Eligible associates impacted by the store closures will receive severance and will have the opportunity to apply for open positions at area Kmart or Sears stores.
Of the stores set to close, only two are in California – a Kmart in Ridgecrest and a Sears in the city of Industry.
The announcement about the latest round of store closures came on the same day as the company reported its first quarter results for 2018, in which it had a $424 million loss.
The company generated total revenues of approximately $2.9 billion during the first quarter of 2018, compared with revenues of $4.2 billion in the prior year quarter, with store closures contributing to nearly two-thirds of the decline.
Sears Holdings said its first quarter results also showed a comparable store sales decline of 11.9 percent, which was comprised of a 9.5 percent decline at Kmart and a 13.4 percent decline at Sears, while both Kmart and Sears saw sales growth in areas such as apparel, jewelry and footwear during that period.
The full list of closures is published below.
Kmart
910 North China Lake Blvd., Ridgecrest, CA
9881 W 58th Ave., Arvada, CO
5400 E. Busch Blvd., Tampa, FL
4303 Nawiliwili Road, Lihue, HI
2535 Hubbell Ave., Des Moines, IA
5909 E. State St., Rockford, IL
4070 Ryan St., Lake Charles, LA
215 North Central Ave., Duluth, MN
2434 Barbour Ave., Passaic/Clifton, NJ
2100 Carlisle Ave., Albuquerque, NM
1000 Montauk Highway, West Babylon,NY
25301 Rockaway Blvd., Rosedale, NY
12350 N E Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR
1072 Mountain Laurel Plaza, Latrobe, PA
5000 San Dario, Laredo, TX
Sears
10001 N Metro Parkway, West Phoenix, AZ
100 S Puente Hills Mall, City of Industry, CA
7902 Citrus Park Town Center, Tampa, FL
320 Towne Center Circle, Sanford, FL
2201 Henderson Mill Road N.E., Atlanta, GA
1300 Southlake Mall, Morrow, GA
2100 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth, GA
320 W Kimberly Road, Davenport, IA
#2 Hawthorn Center, Vernon Hills, IL
#2 Fox Valley Center, Aurora, IL
6136 W Grand Ave., Gurnee, IL
104 West White Oaks Mall, Springfield, IL
2415 Sagamore Parkway, S Lafayette, IN
40 Muncie Mall, Muncie, IN
6020 E 82Nd St., Indianapolis, IN
1781 Sw Wanamaker Road, Topeka, KS
Alexandria Mall, Alexandria, LA
Highways 114 and 128, Peabody, MA
Eastfield Mall, Springfield, MA
3191 S Linden Road, Flint, MI
18900 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, MI
14100 Lakeside Circle, Sterling Heights, MI
1212 S Airport Road W, Traverse City, MI
Shingle Creek Crossing, Brooklyn Center, MN
Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, MN
250 S County Center Way, St. Louis, MO
#1 Chesterfield Mall, Chesterfield, MO
1000 Turtle Creek Drive, Hattiesburg, MS
1515 Grand Ave., Billings, MT
2800 S Columbia Road, Grand Forks, ND
300 Quaker Bridge Mall, Lawrenceville, NJ
2341 Route 66, Ocean, NJ
2501 Mt Holly Road, Burlington, NJ
10000 Coors Bypass N.W., Albuquerque, NM
3649 Erie Blvd. E, De Witt/Syracuse, NY
2400 Elida Road, Lima, OH
17271 Southpark Center, Strongsville, OH
300 S Hills Village, Pittsburgh/South Hills, PA
1000 Robinson Center Drive, Pittsburgh, PA
205 W Blackstock Road, Spartanburg, SC
3101 N Main St., Anderson, SC
3400 Empire Mall, Sioux Falls, SD
2931 Knoxville Center Drive, Knoxville, TN
2401 S Stemmons Freeway, Lewisville, TX
1800 Green Oaks Road, Fort Worth, TX
11200 Lakeline Mall Drive, Cedar Park, TX
Golden Triangle Mall, Denton, TX
4502 S Steele St., Tacoma, WA
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake Police Department said a Los Angeles man was arrested this week after an officer found him with methamphetamine and a burglary tool.
Rafael Garcia, 43, was arrested in the case, according to Sgt. Tim Hobbs.
Hobbs said that at 3 p.m. Tuesday Officer Steve Hobb, while on patrol in the Clearlake Park area, conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for having false registration tabs.
Once the vehicle pulled over, Hobb observed the driver, identified as Garcia, throw a white-colored object out the driver’s window. Sgt. Hobbs said the object landed on the ground on the passenger side of the vehicle.
The report said Officer Hobb picked up the item and saw it was a plastic baggie containing approximately 1 ounce of methamphetamine.
During a search incident to arrest and inventory search of the vehicle, an item commonly used as a burglary tool was located in the vehicle, according to Sgt. Hobbs’ report on the incident.
Garcia was arrested and booked into the Lake County Jail for possession of a controlled substance for sales, transportation of a controlled substance for sales, having false registration tabs, possession of burglary tools and driving with a suspended driver’s license, Hobbs said.
Anyone with information regarding the unlawful possession or sales of controlled substances can contact the Clearlake Police Department at 707-994-8251. Callers may remain anonymous.