We’re in the middle of the area’s first heat wave of the summer, and officials are urging you to be careful. The Lake County Sheriff’s office says you should keep that in mind with a heat advisory in effect until tomorrow evening. Tonight’s uncomfortable lows could drop only into the 70’s. The suggestions include staying hydrated, and staying in a cool place if you can. There are cooling shelters in Lake County at Lake County Library and Lake County Behavioral Health Peer Support Centers.
The high temperatures can be deadly for kids left in cars even for a few minutes. Safety experts say you should have a strategy to make sure that doesn’t happen because many hot car deaths are from parents of caregivers who simply forgot there were children in the back. Even something as simple as a sticky note on the wheel or a reminder alert on your phone could prevent tragedy.
We aren’t the only ones sweltering. The heatwave stretches across the west and southwest. Phoenix and Las Vegas will all get double-digit temperatures. The high today so far in Death Valley was 112. It doesn’t usually hit that until late June.
PG&E says it needs more time to finalize plans to decommission its dams along the Eel River The draft plan was due at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this month, with a final plan due next January. Now, PG&E says it needs seven more months with a final plan out next June. The group Friends of the Eel River is worried. They’d like the FERC to rule sooner rather than later and are concerned the utility might try to move away from its position that dam removal will not be delayed by a potential river diversion. Last month a group of those who want the dam gone floated downriver expressing their hope that the Eel and the fish in it will soon have a free path.
A mistrial in the case of a man accused of setting a fire north of Ukiah in 2021. Devin Johnson was charged with starting the fire that destroyed about 30 homes and forced evacuations of dozens of people. Now, according to the Daily Journal, a jury in Marin County couldn’t reach a verdict in the case. Prosecutors plan to try again, with a new date set for July 24th. The trial was moved to Marin County after repeated delays over concerns about Johnson’s mental health at the time in September 2021. Among the evidence at the trial was surveillance footage showing an adult man starting the fire on Hopkins Street near the Moore Bridge in Calpella. It wasn’t enough to sway the jurors who told the judge it was deadlocked after five days of deliberations
