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Catalina Island’s mule deer graze on Mt Ada in Avalon on Thursday, March 12, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Hahn urges Newsom to stop Catalina deer eradication

Hahn, who has opposed the planned eradication, sent a letter to Newsom asking him to intervene before the conservancy is authorized to begin killing the deer Tuesday under a permit issued by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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Riverside Fire Department firefighter Stephen Fisher sprays water on a wildfire burning in the Santa Ana River bottom near Anza Narrows Park in Riverside on Feb. 6, 2020. The Riverside City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, rejected a plan to relocate homeless living in the riverbed in an effort to prevent fires. (File photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

From spark to flame: Anatomy of a wildfire

Southern California has a lot of two things – vehicles and wildfires. We have often seen conflagrations attributed to a mere spark from a tailpipe. But how does that actually happen?