Multiple fires are raging throughout California, forcing evacuations and leaving a destructive path.

The Camp fire in Northern California’s Butte County has killed at least 86, and three are still missing. It’s the deadliest fire in state history.

in Northern California’s Butte County has killed at least 86, and three are still missing. It’s the deadliest fire in state history. The Woolsey fire obliterated more than 1,600 homes and businesses in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. At least three died in the blaze.

These are the victims of the California wildfires

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How to talk to kids about the fires</s>The Woolsey Fire's toll on homes and buildings ticked up Saturday morning as 836 structures were classified as destroyed, with crews still tallying damage.

The number represented an overnight increase of more than 100 structures as teams continue to investigate the aftermath of the wildfire's rampage through Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Fire officials said 70 percent of the burn assessment is now complete.

Another 242 structures were damaged by the Woolsey Fire, which broke out in Ventura County, southeast of Simi Valley, on the afternoon of Nov. 8. The blaze, which was 82 percent contained as of Saturday morning, has chewed through some 98,362 acres, or more than 153 square miles, according to Cal Fire, the state fire agency. Three civilians have died in the fire.

As the damage count rises, it is getting closer to that wrought by last year's Thomas Fire, which destroyed 1,063 structures in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. A large portion of those were homes in the city of Ventura. The Thomas Fire ranks as the California's 9th most destructive wildfire on record in terms of structures destroyed, according to Cal Fire.

The Woolsey Fire's latest tally would place it at No. 13 on that list, ahead of last year's Atlas Fire in Napa and Solano counties, where 783 structures were destroyed.

The fire fed on dry brush, fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds, as it burned in and around cities from Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks to the coast, impacting Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, Calabasas and Malibu. Its path included steep canyons and remote, rugged terrain that made access difficult.

With the containment line mostly in place Saturday and the active fire having subsided, efforts are now focused on keeping the blaze tamped down.

"Firefighters are still working hot spots in the hillsides," said Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Branden Silverman Saturday morning. "It's going to be some time before we can say every bit of hot embers are put out."

Winds had died down Saturday and humidity levels had increased, which helped firefighters gain the upper hand, Silverman said. But if winds kick up, embers could still jump containment lines, he said. Many of the hot spots are in rugged terrain near the coast around Malibu and in Ventura County, he said.

At the temporary fire camp and command post set up at the Camarillo Airport, some crews could be seen filling out demobilization paperwork before heading home Saturday morning. Some 2,842 personnel were still assigned to the incident Saturday.

In Northern California, the Camp Fire's devastation continued to rise, with 71 civilian fatalities confirmed and more than 1,000 people unaccounted for, fire officials said. The fire has destroyed large portions of the community of Paradise, in Butte County northeast of Sacramento, and burned 148,000 acres since starting Nov. 8. The Camp Fire has destroyed more than 10,300 homes and other structures, according to the latest official tally.

The Hill Fire, which also erupted in Ventura County on the afternoon of Nov. 8 — less than half an hour before the Woolsey Fire sparked — was fully contained this week at 4,531 acres. It destroyed four structures and damaged two.</s>More residents of Los Angeles and Ventura counties were returning to their homes in the Woolsey Fire burn area on Saturday, days after the blaze of 98,362 acres forced them to evacuate.Utility crews worked to remove damaged equipment and bring in replacements, including numerous power poles.Although walls of flame and towering columns of smoke were gone, firefighters continue to expand containment lines around the scorched area. Cal Fire said the 153-square-mile burn area was 82 percent surrounded.The count of destroyed structures reached 836. Another 242 structures were damaged.Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives were investigating three deaths connected to the fire. Two adults were found in a burned-out car last week, and the remains of a person were found Wednesday in the rubble of a home that had burned to the ground.At the Paramount Ranch, structures that served as barns, hotels, saloons and barbershops for decades of movies and TV shows are gone. Workers will salvage what they can and then work to rebuild.On Friday, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Superintendent David Szymanski announced a plan to rebuild and reopen the site within the next two years."The site is almost a total loss," Szymanski said. "It's easy to be somber. But there's some things that I'm hoping will allow us to be a little bit less somber. We'd like to get Paramount Ranch rebuilt in the next 24 months."As the ranch's manmade structures are rebuilt, the stark surrounding hills will most likely take care of themselves."All this natural vegetation will regenerate itself," said Sara Horner, board president of the Santa Monica Mountains Fund. "A year from now, it will be green, from after the rains, and then in a few years, it'll look pretty much as it did. Nature is amazingly powerful in her ability to heal."</s>More residents of Los Angeles and Ventura counties were returning to their homes in the Woolsey Fire burn area on Saturday, days after the blaze of 98,362 acres forced them to evacuate.An evening update from firefighters indicated the count of structures destroyed has climbed to 1,008 - up from a morning estimate of 836.Another 271 structures were damaged.Additional evacuations are also being lifted, including the Malibu Colony Cove neighborhood, from the ocean north to the Malibu city limit on the north, to Puerco Canyon Road on the east and Paradise Cove Road on the west. The area of Latigo Canyon and Corral Canyon roads was remaining closed north of Pacific Coast Highway.Utility crews worked to remove damaged equipment and bring in replacements, including numerous power poles.Although walls of flame and towering columns of smoke were gone, firefighters continue to expand containment lines around the scorched area. Cal Fire said the 153-square-mile burn area was 84 percent surrounded.Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives were investigating three deaths connected to the fire. Two adults were found in a burned-out car last week, and the remains of a person were found Wednesday in the rubble of a home that had burned to the ground.At the Paramount Ranch, structures that served as barns, hotels, saloons and barbershops for decades of movies and TV shows are gone. Workers will salvage what they can and then work to rebuild.On Friday, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Superintendent David Szymanski announced a plan to rebuild and reopen the site within the next two years."The site is almost a total loss," Szymanski said. "It's easy to be somber. But there's some things that I'm hoping will allow us to be a little bit less somber. We'd like to get Paramount Ranch rebuilt in the next 24 months."As the ranch's manmade structures are rebuilt, the stark surrounding hills will most likely take care of themselves."All this natural vegetation will regenerate itself," said Sara Horner, board president of the Santa Monica Mountains Fund. "A year from now, it will be green, from after the rains, and then in a few years, it'll look pretty much as it did. Nature is amazingly powerful in her ability to heal."</s>One Is 'not' The Loneliest Number</s>[PDF] Download Data Structures and Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Pr) Ebook | READ ONLINE 

 

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PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Cal Fire captain says Northern California town wiped out by fire; thousands of structures destroyed.

Copyright © 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.</s>Two mysterious stone rings found deep inside a French cave were probably built by Neanderthals about 176,500 years ago, proving that the ancient cousins of humans were capable of more complex behavior than previously thought, scientists say.

The structures were made from hundreds of pillar-shaped mineral deposits, called stalagmites, which were chopped to a similar length and laid out in two oval patterns up to 16 inches high. They were discovered by chance in 1990, after remaining untouched for tens of thousands of years because a rockslide had closed the mouth of the cave at Bruniquel in southwest France.

While previous research had suggested the structures pre-dated the arrival of modern humans in Europe around 45,000 years ago, the notion that Neanderthals could have made them didn't fit long-held assumptions that these early humans were incapable of the kind of complex behavior necessary to work underground.

Using sophisticated dating techniques, a team led by archaeologist Jacques Jaubert of the University of Bordeaux, France, found that the stalagmites must have been broken off the ground around 176,500 years ago "making these edifices among the oldest known well-dated constructions made by humans."

"Their presence at 368 yards from the entrance of the cave indicates that humans from this period had already mastered the underground environment, which can be considered a major step in human modernity," the researchers concluded in a study published online Wednesday by the journal Nature.

Jaubert ruled out that the carefully constructed rings, which show traces of fire, could have come about by chance or been assembled by animals such as the bears and wolves whose bones were found near the entrance of the cave.

"The origin of the structures is undeniably human. It really cannot be otherwise," he told The Associated Press.

The Neanderthals who built them must have had a "project" to go so deep into a cave where there was no natural light, said Jaubert. They probably explored underground as a group and cooperated to build the rings, using fire to illuminate the cave, he said. "These are exceptional tours, certainly for extraordinary reasons we do not yet know."

Paola Villa, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who wasn't involved in the study, said the site "provides strong evidence of the great antiquity of those elaborate structures and is an important contribution to a new understanding of the greater level of social complexities of Neanderthal societies."

The authors said the purpose of the oval structures — measuring 172 square feet and 25 square feet — is still a matter of speculation, though they may have served some symbolic or ritual purpose.

"A plausible explanation is that this was a common meeting place for some type of ritual social behavior," Villa suggested.

Wil Roebroeks, a Neanderthal expert at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, noted that the structures in Bruniquel may represent only the tip of the iceberg of Neanderthal culture, but most relics would have been made of organic material and decayed long ago.

"Bruniquel cave (shows) that circular structures were a part of Neanderthals' material culture," said Roebroeks, who called the rings "an intriguing find, which underlines that a lot of Neanderthal material culture, including their 'architecture,' simply did not survive in the open."

Roebroeks, who also wasn't involved in the study, said the fact that similar rings haven't been found anywhere else makes it hard to test any theory about how they came to be.

"One could even envisage that groups of Neanderthal teenagers explored this underground environment deep in the cave, as teenagers tend to do, building fires, breaking off stalagmites and gradually turning them into the structures that 175,000 years later made it into (the journal) Nature," he said.</s>Paradise Mayor Jody Jones, said Sunday authorities have estimated that it will take at least two years for her city to begin to bounce back from the devastating Camp fire — one year to clear debris from the thousands of structures that burned and another to rebuild.

She and her husband are now living in their motor home. So they can have a base of operations as the city comes back, they made an offer on a home in Chico on Tuesday, she said, and it is now in escrow.

“We’ve hugged and tried to support each other,” Jones said as she left a vigil for the victims of the blaze. “We’re all in this together.”</s>LINCOLN, Neb. — Custom-designed outdoor climbing structures are among plans for improvements at the Children’s Museum in downtown Lincoln.

A science centre also was included in the plans shared with the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission earlier this week. The museum sits in the shadow of the Capitol, near Centennial Mall, so officials for the museum and its architectural firm sought the commission’s blessing.

“There’s a number of ways we can accomplish what the museum would like to do, as well as be a very sensitive neighbour to Centennial Mall,” DLR Group architect John Badami said.

The commission unanimously voted its endorsement of the plans, the Lincoln Journal Star reported .

The climbing structures could rise 35 feet (10.7 metres) into the air and would light up at night. They’d be made of bent plywood or rotationally moulded plastic climbing pads suspended on cables from steel pipes and would be located in a former parking area east of the museum.

The designer, Luckey Climbers, says it offers adventures while challenging kids to solve problems and think spatially.

Museum executive director Tara Knuth and DLR’s Badami architect told the commission the climbing structures would comprise a unique draw for the Children’s Museum. In addition, there would be outdoor space in the play area for camps, fundraisers and other activities in and around the climbing structures, Badami said.

Depending on fundraising, the science centre for kids ages 8 to 12 would be built in a former storage area in a lower museum level.

Museum officials intend to begin a fundraising campaign for the project by midsummer.
The number of structures destroyed in the Woolsey Fire rises to 1,452.