The quick-moving Silverado Fire, which is now getting help from Piedmont fire crews, forced 70,000 Irvine residents to evacuate and critically injured two firefighters.
Some frustrated utility customers declare they are going to "cut the cord" and go with a smaller independent energy provider, but the reality isn't so simple.
Less tax-and-spendy than expected, budget delivers more for working and poor families, but avoids most new taxes, and stops short of health care for all.