A string of five consecutive days of declines in new coronavirus cases was broken Friday when the Orange County Health Care Agency’s report showed an increase in new COVID-19 infections. According to […]
Corona declining streak broken
Containment of fires advances
UPDATE: The Silverado fire is now considered to be 70 percent contained. Nine structures were damaged and three destroyed. Updated at 7 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– As you can probably tell by looking in […]
A fifth day of COVID declines
New cases of coronavirus declined for the fifth consecutive day, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency in its Thursday report. Today’s tally of new COVID-19 infections is at 229, down […]
Fire evacuations are lifted
UPDATE: The Silverado Fire is considered 51 percent contained. Six structures were damaged and one destroyed. Two “minor” structures were also considered destroyed. Update as of 7 p.m. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Good progress […]
Cases drop for the fourth day
The number of new coronavirus cases dropped in Orange County for the fourth consecutive day, but other measures of the status of the COVID-19 are mixed. According to the county health care […]
Progress made fighting fires
UPDATE: All evacuation orders and warnings related to the Blue Ridge Fire have been lifted. Please go to: https://tinyurl.com/SBCOEVAC and https://tinyurl.com/OCEVAC for an online evacuation map. Update as of 5 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– […]
Orange County is red once again
Orange County’s key metrics on seeking to corral the coronavirus rose in the latest tally by the State of California, keeping the OC in the “red” (substantial) tier. According to statistics published […]
Silverado, Blue Ridge fires burn
This is a developing story. Check back for updates throughout the day. UPDATE: A total of 80,500 homes in Orange County are under mandatory evacuation orders because of the Silverado and Blue […]
For 2nd day, cases, deaths fall
New coronavirus cases and deaths showed declines for the second consecutive day on Monday in Orange County. According to the county health care agency, today’s tally of new COVID-19 infections dropped from […]
Winds push fires; thousands flee
This is a developing story. Check back with The Tribune for updates, as well as OCFA’s Twitter postings. UPDATE: High winds dying down. In the Blue Ridge Fire in Yorba Linda, 1,651 […]
