Monday, June 20, 2016

Firefighters (click here) in the air and on the ground work to control a fire that broke out in Duarte. Daniel Medina, 14, helps load his family\'s car with important belongings as flames crested the ridgeline near his house. 

4:30 p.m.
Tawni Atencio was on the way to basketball practice with her mother when her stepfather called and told them they had to evacuate their home northeast of Los Angeles because of a wildfire.
The 17-year-old Atencio says her mom turned the car around Monday and drove straight to their home in Bradbury, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
They went back to get family photos, their two dogs, clothes, and their five cars and a boat.
Atencio says the flames were just a couple miles from their home and were making the house hot despite air-conditioning.
The teenager says the fire is crazy and scary but also that it was "kind of cool" watching helicopters drop retardant on the blaze.

Atencio says she's at a friend's house in Long Beach, California while her family finishes evacuations...

 The fact people are dead from heat exposure and not American residents doesn't change anything.

 June 20, 2016
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Phoenix (click here) " The Latest on the extreme heat baking the Southwest (all times local):
5:50 p.m.
Authorities say a man who died and another who is missing after going for a hike in Arizona were from Germany and were in the state for a conference at a resort.
The men were in a group of three who went hiking Sunday on a trail outside the Tucson resort. One of the men is recovering, while 57-year-old Stefan Guenster was found dead.
The third man, 33-year-old Marcus Turowski, was still missing Monday.
Authorities didn't release their hometowns.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department says it likely would end its search at sundown Monday and resume Tuesday.
Tucson hit a record high of 115 degrees Sunday as a heatwave took over parts of the Southwest....
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