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Volcano House, also known as the Cinder Cone House, [1] Vulcania [2] and Volcania, [3] near Newberry Springs in San Bernardino County, Southern California, United States, is a mid-century modern house designed by architect Harold James Bissner Jr. and built in 1968–1969 on top of a 150 ft (46 m)-high extinct volcanic cinder cone.
Cerro de la Calavera (also known as Mount Calavera) is an 513 ft (156 m) [1] ancient plug dome volcano that last erupted 22 million years ago during the subduction of the Farallon Plate. [3] [better source needed] It is located within the city of Carlsbad, California in the United States. Cerro de la Calavera is only one of three volcanic plugs ...
Environmental health is also a concern for fire officials considering the use of salt water for battling blazes. When salt water is dumped in large quantities on a fire, that salt has to go ...
From 1887 to 1911, Black Butte Summit was the name of a station on the Southern Pacific (SP) Siskiyou Line near Summit Lake, about a mile south of Black Butte. [9] In 1924–1926, the Natron Cutoff was built by SP as an alternative to the steep Siskiyou route and a small rail yard, wye, and train orders office were built at the present site of Black Butte on the rerouted line. [9]
When fire hydrants ran dry, the L.A. Department of Water and Power struggled to get water where needed. The utility's operations chief explains the decisions as the fire spread.
View of Mount Baldy and the San Gabriel Mountains looming over the Los Angeles Basin. Mount Baldy or Mount Baldy Village, formerly Camp Baynham and Camp Baldy, is an unincorporated community in the San Gabriel Mountains located in San Bernardino County and Los Angeles County in Southern California, with the county line running through the community.
And it could contaminate water supplies to much of the state (California’s largest reservoirs are close to the Shasta and Lassen volcanoes). Mt. Shasta, California's largest volcano, had many ...
As part of the California Water Wars, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power purchased large tracts of land in the 1930s within Mono Basin and Owens Valley in order to control water rights. [ 8 ] : 296 Excavation of an 11.5-mile (18.5 km) water tunnel under the southern part of the Mono Craters dome complex started in 1934 and was ...