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The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California 's history, [11] and the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018 in terms of insured losses. [12] [13] [7] Named after Camp Creek Road, near its place of origin, the fire began on the morning on Thursday, November 8, 2018, in Northern California 's Butte ...
Burning Man is a week-long large-scale desert event focused on "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance" held annually in the western United States. The event's name comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs on the penultimate night, the Saturday evening before Labor Day.
Sacramento is home to several music festivals throughout the year. Since 2012, Sacramento hosts the four-day Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park where acclaimed bands such as Evanescence, Kiss, and Muse perform for up to 160,000 visitors. Other notable music festivals include the country-based GoldenSky Festival and the soul and R&B-based Sol ...
The North Complex Fire was a massive wildfire complex that burned in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California in the counties of Plumas and Butte. [2] 21 fires were started by lightning on August 17, 2020; by September 5, all the individual fires had been put out with the exception of the Claremont and Bear Fires, which merged on that ...
Community firefighters partnered with UC Davis in 1972 to establish the UC Davis Regional Burn Center after an airplane crash at a Sacramento ice cream parlor killed 22 people and severely burned dozens. In 2005 the Firefighters Burn Institute donated $1 million to help build a new, larger center that will consolidate services in a single location.
The first Sacramento theatrical stage, located in the Eagle Theatre (Sacramento, California), was founded in October 1849. Sacramento City did not have a formal government during early and mid-1849, and gambling institutions in the region sought to keep only the loose alcalde government. However, many city residents were swayed in favor of the ...
An August 19, 2020 satellite image of the wildfires burning in Northern California, covering a significant portion of California and nearby states. The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year of wildfires in California. By the end of the year, 9,917 fires [1] had burned ...