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A Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) firefighting helicopter releases water over a hot spot while battling the Thompson Fire, in Oroville, Calif., Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Most evacuation orders lifted as crews continue battling Northern California wildfire

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In this Nov. 26, 2018, file photo, a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric lineman works to repair a power line in fire-ravaged Paradise, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

College student studying to be an electrical line worker dies after training pole fails

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

California murder-suicide kills couple and boy, 8

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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017 file photo, water flows through a break in the wall of the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif. One year after the closest thing to disaster at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal dam regulators say they are looking hard at how they overlooked the built-in weaknesses of old dams like California's Oroville Dam for decades, and expect dam managers around the country to study their old dams and organizations equally hard. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Oroville crisis drives harder look at aging US dams

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, work continues on the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif. The city of Oroville plans to sue state water officials for damages caused when thousands of its residents had to be evacuated last year after the Oroville Dam spillways failed. Oroville City Attorney Scott Huber says the city will file the lawsuit Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California city sues state over Oroville Dam crisis in 2017

By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press

File - In this Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, crews work to repair the damaged main spillway of the Oroville Dam in Oroville, Calif. National dam safety experts say long-term and systemic failures by officials in California and elsewhere caused last year's near-disaster at the nation's tallest dam. The report released Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, comes from experts appointed to investigate the causes of spillway collapses at California's Oroville Dam.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Safety probe warns California’s dam crisis a ‘wake-up call’

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, work continues on the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif. California water officials plan to update a Northern California community about their efforts to repair the nation's tallest dam after damage to its spillways forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate last February. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Californians blast state over repairs to tallest US dam

By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, water gushes from the Oroville Dam's main spillway in Oroville, Calif. An independent team of dam experts says bad design and construction a half-century ago contributed to a disastrous spillway collapse at the nation's tallest dam. Dam-safety experts investigating February's spillway failures at the Oroville Dam say California should have assessed the original flaws. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Poor design, construction blamed in damage to California dam

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

New California water chief to oversee dam, tunnels projects

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This Saturday, July 8, 2017, photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department shows a large fire whirl developing from erratic winds near Tepesquet Road in a wildfire east of Santa Maria, Calif., in Santa Barbara County, Calif. Wildfires barreled across the baking landscape of the western U.S. and Canada, destroying a smattering of homes, forcing thousands to flee and temporarily trapping children and counselors at a California campground. Southern California crews hope slightly cooler temperatures and diminishing winds will help in the battle Sunday. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP)

Latest: 37 structures burned in Northern California wildfire

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In this Friday, June 16, 2017, photo, hydraulic engineering professor Michael Johnson looks at the water flow on a replica of the Oroville Dam spillway at Utah State University's Water Research Laboratory, in Logan, Utah. California water officials are relying on key hydrology tests being performed on the replica of the spillway to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest dam in the U.S for a spillway that was torn apart in February. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Engineers use replica to pinpoint California dam repairs

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2017, file photo, construction crews clear rocks away from Oroville Dam's crippled spillway in Oroville, Calif. The sudden collapse of spillways at the nation's highest dam was unique because it came without warning, and the investigation into why that was is sure to change the way big dams are built and run around the world, an independent team searching for explanations into this winter's near-disaster at Oroville Dam says. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Experts: Lack of warning at California dam raises alarm

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Ex-governor’s ambitions paved way to dam crisis, records say

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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo water gushes from the Oroville Dam's main spillway in Oroville, Calif. A team of experts is warning of a &quot;very significant risk&quot; if the main spillway of the California dam is not operational again by the next rainy season. The warning is contained in a report obtained Wednesday, March 22 by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

California races nature, clock to make key dam repairs

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Lake Oroville releases and Feather River flows to increase

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Officials inspect Oroville Dam's crippled spillway Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. California water authorities stopped the flow of water down the spillway, Monday, allowing workers to begin clearing out massive debris that's blocking a hydroelectric plant from operating. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Massive debris pile emerges from water near troubled dam

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A trail runs along the Feather River as water gushes from the Oroville Dam's main spillway Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The Latest: Report says rain contributed to damage at dam

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Water gushes from the Oroville Dam's main spillway Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Crews working around the clock atop the crippled Oroville Dam have made progress repairing the damaged spillway, state officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The Latest: Water levels at Lake Oroville continue to drop

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Rose Leal and her family leave an emergency shelter at the Sutter High School gymnasium to take showers on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in Sutter, Calif. The thousands of people who were ordered to leave their homes after a damaged California spillway threatened to unleash a 30-foot wall of water may not be able to return until significant erosion is repaired, authorities said Monday. (Chris Kaufman/The Appeal-Democrat via AP)

The Latest: Officials: Dam water level continues to drop

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A helicopter kicks up dust as it lands at a staging area near the Oroville Dam on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. State officials have discussed using helicopters to drop loads of rock on the damaged emergency spillway of the dam. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Lake Oroville critical to California’s complex water system

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press