Petaluma rejects extending fireworks sales Just hours after a wind-driven grassfire destroyed several outbuildings and triggered evacuations of several rural neighborhoods near Petaluma, a request to add another day of fireworks sales next month died before the City Council.
June 18, 2013 - The Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Phil Koperberg in Sydney Morning Herald In his attempt to suppress this fire with buckets of water, he may have become entangled in a barbed wire fence and tragically lost his life as the grassfire overtook him,Mr Koperberg told reporters. "That is not a bushfire-as-such related...