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Fire destroys Nacimiento Station, injures 14 firefighters

Written on 8 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

The Dolan Fire that started near Big Sur jumped containment Tuesday morning, destroying a Los Padres National Forest ranger station and injuring 14 firefighters, one of whom is in critical condition. At about 8:30 a.m., with the blaze threatening the... (Continue reading)

SLO County’s positive coronavirus case numbers continue to fall

Written on 8 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

San Luis Obispo County reported an average of 21 daily new cases of coronavirus last week, down from an average of 35 a day a week earlier. In addition, the number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen to... (Continue reading)

Climber falls 30 feet from Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo

Written on 7 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A CHP helicopter airlifted a rock climber off Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo Monday morning after the person fell approximately 30 feet and suffered undisclosed trauma. Following the fall, which occurred before 9 a.m., SLO City and Cal Fire... (Continue reading)

Brush fire in San Luis Obispo burns 50 acres

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A vegetation fire broke out Sunday afternoon near Bridge Street in San Luis Obispo and spread into the South Hills Open Space. At about 4 p.m., a 911 caller reported the blaze. San Luis Obispo City and Cal Fire firefighters... (Continue reading)

Thousands without power in North San Luis Obispo County

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

By CCN STAFF On a day of record heat, thousands of San Luis County residents lost power in multiple outages that spanned from rural Atascadero to Heritage Ranch late Sunday afternoon. The largest outage is in Templeton, where approximately 2,570... (Continue reading)

Music icon Bobby Engel dead at 73

Written on 6 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

By CCN STAFF Robert John “Bobby” Engel, a nationally-recognized music booking agent and president of Variety Artists International, Inc, died on August 14 at his home in Creston after a brief illness. He was 73. Engel and his wife, Claudia... (Continue reading)

SLO County resident in their 50 dies of coronavirus

Written on 5 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

San Luis Obispo County health officials announced two new deaths from coronavirus on Friday, a resident in his 50s with no underlying health issues and a 90-year-old man with chronic health issues. Even so, the number of new cases and... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo man killed in plane crash

Written on 5 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A San Luis Obispo engineer and acrobatics enthusiast died in a plane crash in Virginia on Monday while piloting a small aircraft on a cross-country trip. Nicolas Hellewell, 35, was the lone occupant of a single-engine, four-seat Piper PA-20-135 that... (Continue reading)

SLO man accused of impersonating a police officer

Written on 5 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Police arrested a 63-year-old San Luis Obispo man on Friday for allegedly impersonating a police officer. Shortly after 11 a.m., a man called 911 to report a person in the vehicle behind him was pretending to be a police officer... (Continue reading)

Atascadero man convicted of raping teenage girls

Written on 4 Sep, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A jury found a 59-year-old Atascadero man guilty of 20 felony counts related to sexually abusing and drugging four teenage girls, ages 15 to 17. In Nov. 2017, officers arrested Jess Drue Brasuell III following an alleged sexual assault of... (Continue reading)