On Episode 204 of Unsolved with Steve Gregory, we sit down with United States Forest Service Captain Russel Tuttle. Steve and Captain Tuttle discuss the 2014 Colby Fire that burned across the Angeles National Forest.
particular protest group. and they want to irpt rupt other people s work and ability to do their jobs to get their point cross. we ll let you know as they unfold throughout the afternoon. and part of the highway is closed after a huge mud slide in southern california. and leaving 2 or 3 meet of mud. the devastating colby fire loosened rocks and debrie and making the area vulnerable for more slides. and a woman was kicked off of the job without pay after she got pregnant and now taking that case to the u.s. supreme court. peggy young drove for ups and her doctor told her not to do
turning now to the situation in this country where heavy rains pounding parts of california today. some areas getting up to 8 inches. the rain mostly welcome in a state suffering one of the worst droughts in its history, but so much rain falling so fast also brings a big concern, and we re talking about mud slides. we are live from glendora with the very latest on the situation there. dominick? reporter: hey there, uma, we are expected to be belted in the next 20 minutes by the next set of storms coming through here and i ve got to say the weather is completely schizophrenic in terms of how the rain falls. you get the really heavy deluges sometimes followed by bright sunshine. behind me, though, the biggest concern of all that we ve got today, on the hillside, mark, take us up to the top of the hill. what you can see is the landscape affected by the colby fire back in january. it s been since denuded of its vegetation and we ve had the rain come in 3 or 6 inches of rain sonar this we
the 210 freeway, it was caused by this big rig hydro planing. when they haven t had rain for a long time, the oil builds up on the roads and it makes it incredibly slick. you ve got a recipe for disaster. another concern is some of the areas around the foot hills as you mentioned, chris. they suffered from some really bad fires. the colby fire back in january. a lot of the area, all of the vegetation was burned away, so now there s a concern about mud slides. about a thousand people so far have already been given evacuation orders. they re concerned about the water from those hillsides which are now barren coming down and taking the land and potentially property and homes with it. so they re trying to get people out of harm s way. the reservoirs that serve the