Evacuations orders issued for Vallejo wildfire
A wildfire in the city of Vallejo on Monday night has triggered evacuation orders.
Shortly after 9 p.m., the Vallejo Firefighters Assn. wrote on Twitter that there was a three- to five-acre fire in South Vallejo.
Alert Solano, an emergency notification system, posted at 9:30 p.m. on Twitter that residents on Del Sur Street south of Pueblo Way, as well as Swanzy Court and Clearpointe Drive were under mandatory evacuation orders.
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Leila Miller is a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Mexico City. She joined the newsroom in 2018, where she spent several years covering criminal justice, including the Luz del Mundo sex abuse case, and was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the Conception boat fire off the Channel Islands. She moved to Mexico in 2021 and was a 2023 Livingston finalist for an investigation on how a centuries-old forensic test has been sending mothers in Latin America to prison for killing their newborns. Born in Argentina but raised in Los Angeles, Miller is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
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