By Brenda Gazzar | [email protected] | Daily News PUBLISHED: November 9, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: November 10, 2018 at 7:28 am UPDATE: As the wind-fueled Woolsey fire stormed into the San Fernando Valley early Saturday, fire crews braced for a challenging day on multiple fire fronts in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump lashed out amid the devastating firestorm, threatening to withhold federal payments to California, branding its forest management “so poor.” There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2018 ***** Los Angeles County coroner’s office officials late Friday night reported that two bodies had been discovered in the fire’s footprint in the Malibu area. But it wasn’t immediately clear if the deaths were connected to the blaze. Firefighters were bolstered by forecasts that winds would ease today, but worried that the same predictors said warm Santa Anas would be return Sunday, with no letup seen until Tuesday. The fire had burned through 35,000 acres by this morning, engulfing scores of homes and other structures as weary fire crews scrambled to contain the damage and authorities urged tens of thousands of residents to flee the encroaching threat. The blaze, which broke out near the former Rocketdyne site south of Simi… [Read full story]
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