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‘We got really lucky’ Why California escaped another destructive fire season in 2022 Tribune Content Agency Despite months of warnings fueled by extreme heat and drought-desiccated conditions, California’s deadly fire season ended with remarkably little area burned, with just 362,403 acres scorched in 2022, compared with more than 2.5 million acres the year before. Standing in a field of dry, brown grass in Napa this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom and several state officials gathered to mark what they described as “the end of peak wildfire season” in most of California, attributing the year’s relatively small acreage to massive investments in forest health and resilience projects and an expansion of the state’s firefighting fleet. But although the worst of the season may be behind us, experts noted that the remarkably reduced fire
activity is probably less a factor of strategy than good fortune. “We got really lucky this year,” said Park Williams, an associate professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. “By the end of June, things were looking like the dice were loaded very strongly toward big fires because things were very dry, and there was a chance of big heat waves in the summer, and indeed we actually did have a really big heat wave this summer in September. But that coincided with some really welltimed and well-placed rainstorms.” Indeed, two of the year’s biggest fires – the McKinney fire in Siskiyou County and the Fairview fire in Riverside County – were left smoldering after the arrival of rainstorms, including the unusual See Lucky, Page A8
COP27 OKs deal to create historic climate damage fund Tribune Content Agency The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which came close to collapse in the closing stretches, ended with a deal to create a fund to pay poorer countries for the harm caused by climate change. The agreement on loss and damage is a landmark moment in global climate politics – an acknowledgment that richer nations are responsible to the developing world for the harm caused by rising temperatures. But the fractious summit, which took place against the background of a global energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, exposed fault lines on how the
world should navigate the transition away from fossil fuels. And it did little to advance the ambitions of last year’s COP in Glasgow to rein in harmful greenhouse gas emissions, even though governments retained their commitment to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. “While progress on loss and damage was encouraging, it is disappointing that the decision mostly copy and pasted language from Glasgow about curbing emissions, rather than taking any significant new steps,” said Ani Dasgupta, chief executive officer at the World Resources Institute. “It is mind-boggling that countries did not See Fund, Page A8
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Donna Kimbel of Vacaville shows a customer some cookies from her Flutterfly Teas ’N Treats booth during
the annual Rancho Solano Holiday Boutique at the Clubhouse at Rancho Solano in Fairfield, Sunday.
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FAIRFIELD — For those who looked for a head start Sunday on Christmas shopping, they needed to look no further than the annual Rancho Solano Holiday Boutique. Cailin Seva of Fairfield brought her daughter, Stella, 3, out for a mommy-daughter shopping experience. “This is the first time we have been to something like this because she was born during the pandemic,” Seva said. “So this is her first Christmas outing. I wanted her to see the holiday stuff.”
A variety of different items are on display during the Rancho Solano Holiday Boutique at The Clubhouse at Rancho Solano in Fairfield, Sunday. Stella got a Christmas tree ornament during their shopping spree. Darlene Dwyer, along with her daugh-
ter Sarah Dwyer, have been longtime shoppers at the event, coming from Vallejo. But this year they came as vendors.
Darlene Dwyer loves to scrapbook and has been doing it for at least 15 years. This year, she brought her own creations for her new business, The Urban Bunny. She creates expressive, detailed scrapbooks people can use for lots of different things, like recipes, journaling or keeping memories of trips. “It started with just scrapbooking,” Dwyer said. “(I) took some classes to learn different techniques.” The pandemic seems to have been a See Success, Page A8
‘Heroic’ patrons of Colorado nightclub subdued gunman after he opened fire Tribune Content Agency COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Authorities said Sunday that a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado – killing five and injuring 25 – was subdued by “heroic” patrons who hit him with his own gun. The attacker’s motive isn’t yet clear, but it is being investigated as a hate crime. The gunman, who was identified by police as Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, opened fire at Club Q in Colorado Springs, just before midnight Saturday, police said. He was quickly taken into custody when police arrived a few minutes after receiving a Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty Images/TNS call, authorities said. “At least two heroic people” confronted the Law enforcement officers walk through the parking lot of Club gunman and stopped the shooting, said ColQ, an LGBTQ nightclub, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Sunday. orado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez, At least five people were killed and 25 wounded in a mass shooting at the club, police said. See Patrons, Page A8
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