Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
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The city of San Diego is offering free empty sandbags at the Pacific Beach Recreation Center for La Jolla and District 1 residents preparing for El Niño flooding, with a 10-bag limit per household and sand purchased separately.
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San Diego County health officials are urging residents to discard all Sierra Nevada Graziers raw milk cheese after two county children under 5 were sickened in a 13-case, multi-state E. coli outbreak that has hospitalized eight people.
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Merle Wakefield, a 69-year-old sexually violent predator, removed his GPS monitor and vanished from a Rancho Bernardo warehouse Friday, Sept. 25, and remains at large across San Diego County.
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San Diego's coastal resilience project for La Jolla Shores has not begun preliminary engineering due to budget constraints, even as forecasters put the probability of a very strong El Niño above 90 percent and researchers warn of severe erosion risks to local landmarks.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency on Sept. 21 ahead of a potentially record El Niño, activating Caltrans staging, National Guard readiness and fast-tracked Coastal Commission permitting that directly affect La Jolla's bluff-lined coast.
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Overheating transformers caused two overlapping power outages across Bird Rock, La Jolla Heights, Hermosa and parts of Windansea on Wednesday, Sept. 9, leaving 852 SDG&E customers without electricity and forcing Bird Rock food businesses to close midday.
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The 110th La Jolla Cove Swim, set for Sept. 13 with 1,107 registered swimmers, was canceled after a site inspection found beach erosion and high tides left no safe entry or exit point.
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Three men went on trial Monday, Sept. 7, in Ensenada, Mexico, charged with the 2024 murders of San Diego-area surfers Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson and Jack Carter Rhoad during a Baja California camping trip.
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An extreme heat warning is in effect for La Jolla's coast through 8 p.m. Wednesday, with temperatures running 10 to 15 degrees above average, record-breaking highs, and compounding surf and flood hazards for beachgoers.
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A multi-agency fentanyl operation on Thursday, Sept. 3, led to 13 arrests and 17 federal charges in San Diego County, with the Sheriff's Office emphasizing the operation was unrelated to immigration enforcement under SB 54.
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The National Weather Service has issued Coastal Flood and High Surf Advisories for San Diego County's coastline from Saturday through Tuesday as Hurricane Marie drives 6-to-10-foot breaking waves, 6-to-7-foot high tides and a 71% chance of rain toward La Jolla over Labor Day weekend.
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Tropical Storm Marie, which formed off Baja California on Tuesday, is forecast to send dangerous surf and rip currents to La Jolla's south-facing beaches over Labor Day weekend, compounded by evening high tides reaching up to 7 feet.