Monday, October 27, 2008
Oct. 27th - Oct. 31st
This week in World History we will begin to study the rise of Islam. Tomorrow is Tuesday and we will be following the shorter schedule. Parent conferences will take place tomorrow as well, during two different time periods - 1:30pm - 3:30pm and 5:00 to 7:00. I look forward to meeting with as many of you as possible. Today in World History we came to the end of our unit on Rome. Student groups presented posters depicting one of four legacies of Rome, discussing the lasting effects of the Romans on our modern world. Tomorrow we will begin our unit on the rise of Islam. There is no homework for tonight.
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Firefighters feared that embers riding southwesterly gusts of 70 mph could race miles ahead of a wildfire originating in Porter Ranch on Monday, starting spot fires and possibly leading into more populated areas of Ventura County.
The fire spread west from Los Angeles County into Ventura County on Monday and had reached Chatsworth’s western edge by late evening. Nineteen structures had burned, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Ed Osorio.
Flames from the 5,000-acre Sesnon fire in Porter Ranch first nudged their way into Ventura County during the afternoon along Highway 118 near Rocky Peak and in grasslands northeast of Simi Valley.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
On Monday evening, reverse 911 calls went out to residents of northeast Simi Valley about voluntary evacuations, according to Ventura County fire officials. South of the city, mandatory evacuations were in place along Lost Canyon Drive, as well as Box Canyon Road, Lake Manor Drive, Lilac Lane, Woolsey Canyon Road and Bell Canyon Road. Officials also issued a mandatory evacuation for Tapo Canyon Road in the Ventura County area north of the city, in case winds shifted to the west.
Firefighters took advantage of a lull in the wind late Monday afternoon to attack the fire, said Assistant Fire Chief Vaughan Miller of the Ventura County Fire Department.
“We take what the fire gives us. If it gives us an opportunity, we’ll try and engage it,” Miller said.
But the Santa Ana winds were expected to just as easily whip the blaze back into an inferno, as they did earlier in the day. Forecasters were calling for winds to start gusting to 70 mph again overnight.
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