While they have existed for decades, enrollment in these programs has been estimated to grow from about 100,000 members in 2010 to 1.5 million members in 2020. Rather, they are cooperatives in which consumers pool their money to help each other through medical emergencies. The sharing ministries are not health insurance, though critics say they are often billed as such. Small religious communities were told they could cover their members while preserving their moral principles. Often developed by Christian organizations, the sharing ministries had the further advantage of being exempted from ACA’s mandates on contraception and abortion. Pacific Gas & Electric said unspecified "electrical activity" occurred close in time to the report of the fire on Tuesday.Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, health care “sharing ministries” sprang up as more affordable options to the policies offered by national insurance companies for the Obamacare marketplace. The Mosquito Fire's cause remained under investigation. Last year's ride was canceled because of smoke from another big fire south of Tahoe. Organizers of the Tour de Tahoe canceled the annual 72-mile (115-km) bicycle ride scheduled Sunday around Lake Tahoe because of the heavy smoke from the blaze - more than 50 miles (80 km) away. California health officials urged people in affected areas to stay indoors where possible. The fire has covered a large portion of the region with smoke. "You never dream that it'll find your little area of paradise," he said. He took his two dogs and a cat but said he left behind nine chickens because he didn't have a way to transport them. Jonathan Richards, a church pastor, told the San Francisco Chronicle he moved to Georgetown a year and a half ago aware that wildfires had charred mountain communities, but didn't want to think about it happening when he got the dreaded evacuation message this week. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.Ī firefighter rubs his face while battling the Mosquito Fire along Mosquito Ridge Road in Placer County, Calif., on Thursday.įirefighters said Saturday they have so far been unable to corral any part of the Mosquito Fire, which has prompted evacuations in communities including Foresthill and Georgetown. Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
The state set a record for power consumption Tuesday as air conditioners whirred amid the heat and authorities nearly instituted rolling blackouts when the electrical grid capacity was at its breaking point. Nearly 54 million people were under heat warnings and advisories across the region this week as temperature records were shattered in many areas.Ĭalifornia's state capital of Sacramento hit an all-time high Tuesday of 116 degrees (46.7 C), breaking a 97-year-old record. September already has produced one of the hottest and longest heat waves on record for California and some other Western states. "You just kind of have to accept the weather is the weather and live your life regardless of what is going on." "It's been a wild, wild week of weather," French said, while sending a disc whizzing through the unusually quiet park. A midday breeze made playing more comfortable after a week of stifling heat and humidity. In Orange County's Huntington Beach, it was hot, muggy and drizzling Saturday as Aaron French, 30, played disc golf with friends. Some mountain communities east of San Diego reported several inches of rain by early Saturday, while low-lying coastal areas saw less than an inch.
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But firefighters have made progress and said they expected full containment on Monday. The blaze has destroyed two dozen structures and threatened more than 10,000 homes and other structure. In Southern California, cooler temperatures and moisture brought respite to firefighters battling the massive Fairview Fire about 75 miles (121 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles after sweltering heat pushed temperatures past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) in many locations this week. "Is the worst of it over? Yes," Dumas said. But after Hurricane Kay made landfall in Mexico this week it quickly was downgraded to a tropical storm and weakened further until it largely disappeared, said John Dumas, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard, adding the scattered rain falling in the region is leftover moisture from a has-been storm. Thunderstorms were forecast for the Los Angeles region Saturday that could linger in mountainous areas on Sunday. Weather California and the West broil in record-setting heat wave
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