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INTERACTIVE MAPS: HILL & WOOLSEY FIRE | CAMP FIRECALABASAS, Calif. (KGTV) ¡ª The Woolsey Fire ripped through a Calabasas neighborhood late Friday night, causing panic to neighbors who tried to stay behind to protect their home."You got these firebombs falling down, and the wind is blowing them all this way," Allen Nelson described of palm fronds catching fire, raining down on homes causing them to go up in smoke.Neighbors told 10News the fire wasn't a steady line that inched closer, instead fueled by strong Santa Ana winds that brought embers skipping over roofs and lighting patches feet ahead of the fire line.RELATED: How to help California wildfire victimsThey said it felt like the fire leaped toward their neighborhood."A huge wall of flames, I had evacuated in a panic with my kids and my cats," Tina Leeney said."When it came that time, we didn't even have a minute and it was like oh my gosh and I got my parents out and I was like you have to leave," Nelson said.He stayed behind, determined to protect his parents' home, perched on his roof, garden hose at the ready.RELATED: Hollywood's Western Town at Paramount Ranch destroyed in Woolsey Fire"I at some point got off my roof, climbed up that Juniper tree that you can see so I could get my hose up on because the flames on her roof were this high," Nelson said, referencing about two feet between his hands.He called out to a firefighter nearby and pleaded for him to spray the corner of her house to extinguish the flame."He's totally my hero," Leeney said when she came back to check on the neighborhood and climbed onto his roof she heard what he'd done and started crying and thanking him.RELATED: Tips for navigating a wildfire evacuationHe was modest taking her appreciation, and while he was glad to help save his neighbors' homes on either side of his parents' home, he is devastated looking across the street."It's just heartbreaking," Nelson said with a sigh. 2016

In the 2020 general election, President-elect Joe Biden beat out a number of formidable candidates to earn the highest office in the land, including President Donald Trump, Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen and Santa Claus.Yes, even ol' Kris Kringle received at least one vote for president in 2020, according to the Vermont Secretary of State's website.Every state has its own rules for conducting write-in candidates. In fact, according to Ballotpedia, most states will only accept votes for certain pre-approved write-in candidates.Ballotpedia reports that only eight states ¡ª Alabama, Delaware, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, and Wyoming ¡ª will count the write-in votes for any write-in candidate. And of those states, it appears only Vermont publishes the name of every write-in candidate on its election results webpage.Write-in candidates received 1,942 votes for president in Vermont in the 2020 presidential election. That's compared to the 242,820 that Biden received in carrying the state. It's also more than the 1,269 that independent candidate Kanye West received, despite being listed on the ballot.Among write-in candidates, Sen. Bernie Sanders received the most with 619. That's not exactly a surprise ¡ª the left-wing, progressive senator calls the state home and is currently in the midst of his third term as one of the state's senators.Other top vote-getters included moderate Republicans like Sen. Mitt Romney (57 votes) and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (30 votes). Candidates who sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, like Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (78 votes), Andrew Yang (42 votes) and Pete Buttigieg (24 votes) were also among the top vote-getters among write-ins.Notably, 37 Vermonters thought Vice President Mike Pence should get a promotion to the Oval Office.Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, also received a handful of votes. When totaling up various iterations of his name (Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Fauci, Tony Fauci, etc.), he received 13 write-in votes.Then, there were the celebrities. TV hosts Oprah Winfrey (6 votes) and Mike Rowe (5 votes) racked up multiple write-ins. Jennifer Lopez received a vote, as did LeBron James and Dwayne Johnson. There was even a write-in for a ticket of Tyra Banks and "John Teffer" ¡ª though that voter may have misspelled the name of Jon Taffer, the host of reality TV series "Bar Rescue."Write-in votes also dipped into the fantastical and absurd. In addition to "Santa Claus," "Walter White," "Michael Scott" and "Tord Sandwich" all received a vote.Finally, it wouldn't be Vermont without at least one vote for "Cheddar."See the full list of people who received a write-in vote by clicking here. 2725

In post-Brexit Britain, trips to the European Union will get a little more expensive for millions of Brits in search of a continental break.The European Commission confirmed on Friday that UK travelers will be required fill out an online form and cough up €7 (.90) for visa-free travel, which will be valid for three years.Natasha Bertaud, a spokeswoman for the commission's President Jean-Claude Juncker, likened the "simple form" to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) scheme used by the United States -- which requires travelers to pay to apply for permission to enter the country.She also pointed out that the EU's version, called ETIAS, will be "way cheaper."But this all comes with a major caveat. If the UK crashes out of the EU with no agreement in place, Brits will be required to get a visa to travel to the EU, a commission spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday.ETIAS, which is expected to come into force in 2021, will apply to countries outside the EU whose citizens can currently travel in Europe visa free. There are currently 61 such countries, including the United States, Israel and Singapore.It will cover the so-called Schengen group of 26 European countries that share largely open land borders.The electronic visa waiver system was conceived to "identify any security or irregular migratory risks posed by visa-exempt visitors traveling to the Schengen area while at the same time facilitate crossing frontiers for the vast majority of travelers who do not pose such risks,"?according to the commission. 1554

In Houston, Texas, everything is bigger, including the city¡¯s problem with PPE litter.Many of the masks, gloves, and bottles of hand sanitizer being used to protect people during the pandemic aren¡¯t being disposed of properly and some are worried it¡¯s becoming a health hazard.Now, city leaders are taking matters into their own hands while trying to take PPE litter off the street¡°I know that they say everything is bigger in Texas but we definitely don¡¯t want to be known for a big litter problem,¡± said Martha Castex-Tatum, Houston¡¯s Vice Mayor Pro-Tem, who is helping launch the city¡¯s new anti-PPE littering campaign.¡°It¡¯s not only unsightly but it¡¯s also a health issue,¡± she said. ¡°If the PPE is contaminated, we don¡¯t want other people touching it.¡±Castex-Tatum says stopping litter before it starts could save money in the long run.¡°It¡¯s always expensive to pick up litter,¡± she said. ¡°For instance, this PPE litter ends up in our drains. The city of Houston, we spend million a year cleaning out our drains.¡±Down the drains and into waterways, where the health impacts could be significant.¡°Unlike sewage systems, storm water is untreated and it flows directly into our lakes and our rivers and our oceans. There¡¯s no intermediate treatment,¡± said Rachel Meidl, LP.D., CHMM, a fellow in energy and environment at Rice Univeristy. She says trash attracts trash and that PPE litter is a problem, not only in Houston but around the world.¡°As it concerns the pandemic, it¡¯s how do we manage it,¡± Meidl asked.For some Houstonians, the answer to that question is simple.¡°It takes five seconds of your time to find a trash can,¡± one local man said about properly disposing PPE. ¡°Just do it.¡±Just do it: another famous slogan from another famous campaign, something Castex-Tatum hopes Houston can replicate.¡°It¡¯s important for people to know the message the message that we are trying to send with the anti-litter campaign,¡± she said.That message is clear: don¡¯t let Houston go to waste.¡°I hope this inspires other cities across the country to also kick off anti-litter campaign,¡± Castex-Tatum said. 2113

It¡¯s a sight to behold. Three of the most influential men in the Confederacy--Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson-- are carved into granite that is 400 feet above the ground. It¡¯s called Stone Mountain, and it¡¯s the largest monument to the Confederacy in Georgia and in the world.¡°Under state law, this park is established as a confederate memorial,¡± said John Bankhead of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association.To community activist Shar Bates, she said this park has different meanings for different people. Ask Atlantans over 50. ¡°They¡¯ll say they were told as kids not to go to the mountain. Talk to people in their 60s or 70s, they¡¯ll say it was a place where the klan was ignited, and if you talk to people under 40, some people love to run up there, but for most of us, it¡¯s a reminder of white supremacy,¡± said Bates. ¡°It¡¯s a reminder that white supremacy is still going strong in 2020."As smaller monuments of Confederate leaders are torn down across the country, many wonder: should Stone Mountain be next?¡°The mountain does have a dark history; we don¡¯t deny that,¡± said Bankhead. ¡°We wish we could turn back the clock and change it, but we can¡¯t, so we have to face it as it is."That dark history fostered in the 1900s by the Venable family. They owned the mountain and signed off on the carving. They were known members of the Ku Klux Klan and granted the group an easement to gather on the mountain for years.¡°The Venables would allow the Klan to have rallies here,¡± said Bankhead. From initiations to burning crosses on the top of the mountain, this site was closely tied to the group until the state bought the park in 1958.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. even mentioned the mountain in his iconic ¡°I Have a Dream¡± address saying, ¡°Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain Georgia.¡±¡°That¡¯s how deeply rooted the racism spurring from the mountain is,¡± said Bates.The carving was started in the early 1900s, but the first man who carved, Gutzon Borglum, eventually left the project to carve Mount Rushmore.The second carver, Augustus Lukeman, began on the project in 1925 and removed what Borglum had created. The funds for the project ran out in 1928 with the Great Depression. The carving remained untouched for decades.The state bought the park in 1958 and revived the carving project in the height of the Civil Rights movement. The carving was finished in 1972.The sight of the figures hang heavily over Bates¡¯ head. She said she hasn¡¯t been to the mountain in years. ¡°My spirit was unsettled the first time I set foot there,¡± she said.Tens of thousands of people have signed a Change.org petition to remove the figures from the mountain. Bates is working with local leaders through a task force to see that change realized.¡°To see people who fought to continue enslaving my people turned into a hero, it makes me feel like I shouldn¡¯t be here. It makes me feel like this government wants us to go back in history,¡± she said.Bankhead said this conversation of changing the memorial is an ongoing discussion. He said the Stone Mountain Memorial Association agrees the memorial is problematic and not inclusive. He said the association is now figuring out how to make the narrative of this mountain more inclusive.¡°It¡¯s not like a statue,¡± he said. ¡°You can¡¯t move it, so it would present a unique problem to remove it, environmentally and financially, so the park is trying to do a better job of telling a better story that¡¯s all-inclusive,¡± he said. They have not released plans of what that would look like yet, but Bankhead said it is in the works.¡°The best thing for them to do would be to remove the Confederate generals and replace them with civil rights leaders,¡± said Bates. ¡°We are in the birthplace of civil rights."The monument and the park are protected by state law, so for any changes to be made, the state would have to sign off. Bates and Bankhead said they are committed to re-writing the story of this mountain to have a more inclusive future.¡°We¡¯re not saying this will be easy,¡± said Bates. ¡°Georgia owes its residents the removal of this unless they¡¯re saying we live in a racist state. If we don¡¯t live in a racist state, then prove it.¡± 4193