Text Box: Ace Football Spike Touchdown Lady Red Strength Volleyball Champions Redmen Teamwork By: Taylor Haven Text Box: This L.A. fire has trapped 5 people in a smoky canyon and is still blazing toward thousands of homes. This is the largest of 8 fires burning throughout California. So far this fire has scorched 114 square miles of brush and is still burning. The flames were so hot that the helicopter could not get the people out of that canyon, but they would try again after the flames passed. The police said that the people in that canyon were told to get out of the canyon 2 days ago. Now law enforcement says that lightning was ruled out as the cause, and it was most likely caused by either a flick of a cigarette or a spark from a lawn mower. By: Joey Lane Text Box: Natural Disasters Hit California Text Box: PUZZLE ME!

Hurricane Jimena’s maximum wind speed dropped from 155 mph to 145 mph, but it still remained a Category 4 storm, according to the U.S. National Weather Service's 8 a.m. PT update Tuesday.

The storm's center is forecast to come ashore on Thursday morning, but the weather service warned that "because it will be moving parallel to the coastline, any slight change in direction could have a huge impact in the location and timing of landfall on Tuesday”. In addition to damaging winds, the storm could bring as much as 15 inches of rain, forecasters said Tuesday.

The storm's top winds had decreased to about 90 mph (145 kph), the center said Wednesday. The storm had lost much of its punch from earlier, when it was a Category 4 hurricane, and by Wednesday morning its maximum sustained winds were about 100 mph with higher gusts, the center said Wednesday.

Hurricane Jimena killed an elderly man who drowned when floodwater surged into his home in Mexico's Baja California peninsula, the first casualty of the weakening storm, officials said on Thursday. Neighbors found the 74-year-old man's body on Thursday in his home in the small town of Mulege on the peninsula's east coast, close to where Jimena, now graded a tropical storm, passed as it churned into the Sea of Cortes on Thursday.

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