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8A Daily News – Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Unusual late fall fire still burning M4.2 quake occurs BIG SUR (AP) — An unusual late fall wildfire fueled by drought conditions destroyed 15 homes and forced about 100 people to flee the forested mountains of the scenic Big Sur region overlooking the Pacific. The slow-moving fire in Los Padres National Forest near state Highway 1 had consumed about 550 acres and was only 5 percent contained, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Lynn Olson said. Additional firefighters were brought in, bringing the total force to nearly 500. Big Sur — miles of rugged coast, cliffs and wilderness — is a popular tourist destination about 150 miles south of San Francisco with high-end resorts and beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean. The fire was burning a little more than a mile from off Calif. north coast FERNDALE (AP) — A magnitude-4.2 undersea earthquake has jiggled communities along California's far north coast. The Humboldt County sheriff's office says there are no reports of damage or injury from the predawn Tuesday quake. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 5:28 a.m. temblor was centered in the ocean 16 miles west-northwest of Ferndale and 21 miles west-southwest of Eureka. Residents posting to the USGS community Internet intensity map reported the shaking as light to weak. Judge: Paint companies to pay Calif. cities $1.1B AP photo A Cal Fire helicopter flies over Pfeiffer Ridge on Monday in Big Sur. Ventana Inn and Spa, a fall but the drought of the when the blaze started, told favorite spot among last several years has given the Monterey Herald he celebrities where former the state essentially year- had gone to entrance to his Facebook president and round danger. street, local restaurants and Napster co-founder Sean The Big Sur fire began the fire command station Parker got married in June. Sunday, fueled by dry veg- but had no luck learning In the summer of 2008, a etation and fanned by anything about his home. lightning-sparked wildfire winds. ''I don't know where forced the evacuation of Among the homes else to go,'' he said. Big Sur and blackened 250 destroyed was that of Big The Red Cross set up an square miles before it was Sur Fire Chief Martha overnight shelter for discontained. That blaze Karstens. She tearfully told placed people, said Los burned more than a dozen reporters Monday night Padres National Forest homes. that the loss of her home of spokesman Andrew MadCalifornia's fire season 23 years had not yet sunk sen. traditionally peaks by mid- in. A wildfire so late in the ''I'm just trying to func- year is unusual in Northern tion as a chief,'' she said. California, where the fire Other residents anxious- season is generally at its ly tried to get information peak over the summer, said about their homes. 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JUST MOVE IT Part of a national campaign to promote physical activity for American Indians and Alaskan Natives FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 SAN JOSE (AP) — Paint companies have been ordered to pay $1.1 billion to 10 California cities and counties so that lead can be safely removed from millions of older homes. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg found that Conagra Grocery Products Co., NL Industries Inc. and the Sherwin-Williams Co. marketed paint they knew was harmful to children. Atlantic Richfield Co. and DuPont Co. were found not liable. The industry has faced similar lawsuits across the country but has won most of them. Kleinberg's verdict came after a five-week trial without a jury. The companies have 15 days to object to the tentative ruling, which the judge can alter. ''There is a clear and present danger that needs to be addressed,'' Kleinberg wrote in his 110-page decision. ''The defendants sold lead paint with actual and constructive knowledge that it was harmful.'' Lead-based paints were barred from the U.S. market in 1978, but millions of homes painted before then still pose a health risk. The industry argued that it never deliberately sold a harmful product and that the old paint is no longer a significant public health risk. The companies argued that children diagnosed with lead poisoning could have gotten sick from sources other than paint. ''The existence of other sources of lead exposure has no bearing on whether lead paint constitutes a public nuisance,'' Kleinberg wrote in today's opinion. ''It does not change the fact that lead paint is the primary source of lead poisoning for children in the jurisdictions who live in pre-1978 housing.'' Bonnie Campbell, a spokeswoman for the companies, said the paint manufacturers will urge the judge to overturn his decision. Failing that, she said the companies will seek a mistrial. If the judge upholds his verdict, Campbell said the companies will appeal. Campbell said the verdict unfairly penalizes companies for marketing lead-based paint in good faith before the health risks were known. She said the current owners of pre-1978 painted homes should be responsible for removing the lead. ''The decision rewards scofflaw landlords who are responsible for the risk to children from poorly maintained lead paint, and it conflicts with and threatens to upend California's lead poisoning prevention programs, which work,'' Campbell said. ''This decision is more likely to hurt children than help them, and it will likely disrupt the sale, rental, and market value of all homes and apartments built before 1978.'' ConAgra Foods also issued a separate statement in response to the verdict. 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