A mom from Humboldt County accused of leaving her toddler son alone in a hot car for hours ending in his death has pleaded no contest to felony child endangerment and been sentenced to prison. 23 year old Alexandrea Raven Scott of Trinidad got ten years behind bars as part of a plea agreement after she also admitted a special sentencing allegation of abusing the boy. She should be eligible for community supervision three years after going to prison. She was arrested last month after the toddler, already dead, was brought to a hospital and police found he died after being left in a car with the windows rolled up for at least ten hours while she was partying inside the home for almost 12 hours.
The fire outside Yosemite National Park is worse with the dry, hot weather. Firefighters working the Ferguson fire have it 25 percent contained after a week and a half of burning nearly 53 square miles of timber and brush. They say it’s rugged terrain and there’s not a lot of access to roads, so aircraft have been dumping water on the flames. Warnings of possible heat exhaustion and heat stroke for those working the fire as it was in the triple digits and not really cooling off at night. There was an excessive-heat warning for almost all of Southern California and heat advisories on the Central Coast and through the Central Valley into Oregon. One firefighter was killed in the fire and his funeral was streamed live yesterday.
