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Thompson will host the online event from 7 to 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, Aug. 6.
He will be joined by special guest Rep. Kim Schrier (WA-08), member of the House Education and Labor Committee and pediatrician for a discussion about the congressional response to the coronavirus pandemic.
This is the 12th in a series of virtual town halls Thompson has hosted this spring and summer. All constituents of California’s Fifth Congressional District and members of the press are invited to join.
This event will be held over Zoom and interested participants must email Thompson’s office in order to join, as the platform has a capacity of 500 people.
Interested participants will be notified via email with instructions on how to join.
The event will also be streamed on Facebook Live via Thompson’s page, https://www.facebook.com/RepMikeThompson/ .
Thompson represents California’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes all or part of Contra Costa, Lake, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
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Cal Fire said Tuesday night that firefighters had held the Sites fire to 560 acres, with containment up to 90 percent.
The fire began on Sunday afternoon along Sites Lodoga Road and Campground Road, southeast of Stonyford.
Thanks to the progress made by fire crews made, evacuations and road closures were lifted on Monday night, as Lake County News has reported.
Fire crews on Tuesday continued work on containment lines and mop up, officials said.
Cal Fire said 240 personnel and 14 fire crews remained assigned to the incident as of Tuesday night.
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Firefighters and sheriff’s deputies responded to the crash at around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Clover Valley Road and Bambi Lane, according to radio reports.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said when deputies arrived on scene they located the helicopter, a small privately-owned Cavalon Rotorcraft, resting upright in a field.
Deputies found the pilot and passenger conscious and alert, officials said.
Northshore Fire personnel responded to the scene and provided treatment to the helicopter’s occupants, who were later flown by separate air ambulances to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and Vacaville, according to radio reports.
Sheriff Brian Martin told Lake County News that the initial reports indicated that one person had minor injuries and the other moderate injuries. As of early Tuesday afternoon, there had not been an update on the extent of their injuries.
Martin said his agency had notified both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board of the crash.
“We’re assisting with their investigation,” he said, adding, “They are providing direction to our investigators.
Martin said he didn’t yet have information about what caused the crash.
The sheriff’s office is securing the scene for further investigation by the FAA and NTSB.
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On Monday, the Lake County Public Health COVID-19 dashboard showed that the total caseload was at 208, up from 195, the last total given as of Friday.
Of the 208 cases reported Monday, 25 are active, 182 are recovered and one has died, based on dashboard statistics.
There are no current hospitalizations. A total of 17 individuals have been hospitalized to date.
Lake County’s positivity rate on Monday was 3.2 percent, down from the 3.4 percent reported on Friday.
The state’s 58 county Public Health departments reported on Monday night a total of more than 518,600 cases statewide and 9,485 deaths.
Local health departments also have reported 24,420 confirmed positive cases in health care workers and 128 deaths statewide.
The California Department of Public Health said the seven-day average number of new cases is 7,764 per day, down from last week’s seven-day average of 9,859.
Cases continue to climb around the region. Lake’s neighboring counties, all of which are on the state’s monitoring list, reported the following case counts on Monday: Colusa, 331 cases, four deaths; Glenn, 332 cases, one death; Mendocino, 331 cases, nine deaths; Napa, 963 cases, nine deaths; Sonoma, 3,113 cases, 39 deaths; and Yolo, 1,582 cases, 42 deaths.
Lake County Public Health said total tests in the county to date number 7,159.
The California Department of Public Health said Monday that to date 8,184,696 tests have been conducted in the state, an increase of 148,721 over the prior 24-hour reporting period.
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