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Suspect arrested on suspicion of starting Clover Fire in Alta Sierra area

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CA: CLOVER FIRE EVACUEES GRATEFUL FOR FIREFIGHTERS

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    ALTA SIERRA, California (KOVR) — A man was arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with the Clover Fire in the Alta Sierra area of Nevada County on Friday.

Nevada County Consolidated Fire said it responded to the fire in the area of Clover Valley Road and Fay Drive for a well-involved structure fire that spread to grass around 1:30 p.m.

Fire crews immediately found a home fully involved when they arrived, with flames extending to vegetation on both sides of Clover Valley Road. Arriving crews were able to protect a neighboring structure.

Cal Fire NEU also responded to the fire, helping hold the fire to 13 acres. Crews reported a fast rate of spread, and structures were threatened.

The California Highway Patrol’s Grass Valley unit posted photos that showed multiple vehicles burned in the fire. Other photos shared by Nevada County Consolidated showed other vehicles and a boat burned.

Cal Fire confirmed it arrested 34-year-old Dylan Steven Augerot in connection with the fire. He was booked into jail for arson of forest land and is held on a $100,000 bail.

Jail records show that Augerot was arrested near the intersection of Alta Sierra Drive and Highway 49, which was about four miles from the start of the fire.

The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office issued an evacuation order for zone NCO-E048. Zone NCO-E050 was in an evacuation warning, but the order and warning have since been lifted.

A temporary evacuation point was established at Magnolia Intermediate School on Kingston Lane in Grass Valley. Students who were evacuated from Alta Sierra Elementary were taken to Magnolia, the sheriff’s office said.

A superintendent of the Pleasant Ridge School District said there were about 20 students taken via a bus to Magnolia. The fire broke out after school.

A temporary evacuation shelter was established for animals at the Nevada County Horseman on Bubbling Wells Road.

Rainbow Road at Carrie Drive and Clover Valley Road at Brewer Road were closed to traffic through the evening but have since reopened.

More than 1,400 Pacific Gas and Electric customers in the Alta Sierra area were without power.

Mike Sypnicki lives in the area and said he’s known Augerot since he was a kid. Sypnicki added that there had been concerns about Augerot’s behavior in the community.

“Here we are today, and everybody around here, we talk all the time that Dylan was going to light this place on fire,” he said.

Sypnicki said law enforcement officials had been called out to Augerot’s home numerous times in the past.

“He’s had some mental health episodes where law enforcement has been out a number of times,” he said. “There’s been numerous complaints with the county about septic and all the dangers, the fire dangers.”

Neighbors told CBS News Sacramento that Augerot lived in the home that burned down. The neighboring home that was saved was Sypnicki’s.

“They’re so humble, and you just want to go walk up and say thank you to them, but you know they got a job to do,” he said.

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How the Boston Red Sox finally broke the ‘Curse of the Bambino’ to end an 86-year championship drought

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(CNN) — Editor’s note: Watch CNN Original Series “Decades in Sports” on the CNN app. Across six episodes, the series explores the defining moments, athletes and cultural shifts that shaped sports over the past six decades, from the television revolution and Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, right up to the impact of social media on today’s biggest stars.For generations, the Boston Red Sox had become accustomed to heartbreak.After winning the World Series in 1918, the famed franchise endured one of the most unprecedented droughts in American sports history.Game 7 losses in 1946, 1967, 1975 and 1986 made it feel as though the Sox might never get over the hump again and lift an elusive sixth Commissioner’s Trophy.By 2004, that barren spell had stretched to a staggering 86 years, reinforcing the idea that Boston was somehow cursed - a notion that had become part of baseball folklore.And when the Sox fell behind 3-0 to the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series (ALCS), it looked as though history was about to repeat itself.But for a franchise that had spent decades in distress, enough was finally enough.Curse of the BambinoThe roots of Boston’s misery stretched all the way back to 1919, when the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth – then a star pitcher and slugger who would become arguably the greatest player in baseball history – to the Yankees.The Yankees then went on to become baseball’s most dominant franchise - winning 27 World Series titles - while the Red Sox would not taste success for the rest of the 20th century.This gave birth to the “Curse of the Bambino,” the notion that Boston’s decision to part ways with Ruth “is the reason why the Red Sox go not only so long without winning a World Series, but losing them in such catastrophic, fateful, cursive ways,” says Devin Gordon, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.After Bill Buckner’s infamous error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series – with the Sox leading the New York Mets 3-2 in the series and 5-3 in the 10th inning with two outs – it felt as though this cursed team from New England was just destined to always fall short.As CNN Contributor Bob Costas says in the series, “The story of the Red Sox is heartache… so close, yet so far,” and even 2003, Boston’s gut-wrenching loss to the Yankees in Game 7 of the ALCS showed the “Curse of the Bambino” had followed the Sox into the new millennium.So when the two franchises met in the ALCS a year later, it seemed almost inevitable that the Red Sox would come up short again, because as Joe Posnanski – author of Why We Love Baseball – highlights, “hopelessness was probably at a high.”And for good reason, as New York won the first three games to take a commanding 3-0 lead, and as NBC Sports broadcaster Kenny Albert recalls, “in Game 3 it’s not even close, the Yankees score 19 runs (and) they had just demolished the Red Sox.”“I’m a columnist for the Boston Globe, and I destroy these guys in print,” says former Globe columnist Jackie MacMullan. “Their nickname was ‘the idiots,’ and I was like, ‘yeah, they’re idiots alright.’”Game 4 looked certain to be the one where the Sox’ dreams would be crushed by the Yankees once again, as they entered the ninth inning 4-3 down and just three outs away from elimination.One play changed everythingBut then Boston sent Dave Roberts to first base as a pinch runner, and waiting for him on the mound was Mariano Rivera, arguably the greatest closer in baseball history.Everyone in Yankee Stadium – including Rivera himself - knew Roberts was going to steal, and as Gordon highlights, “it’s very, very hard to steal a base of a pitcher whose one pitch is a 95 mph fastball… which is exactly what happened.”Roberts somehow slid safely into second, and in retrospect, it represented the first crack in the Yankees’ seemingly impenetrable grip on the series.As Posnanski highlights, “It’s not like Dave Roberts’ steal changed anything that was obvious, but looking back on it, you realised it changed everything.”Bill Mueller then drove Roberts home with a game-tying single, before David Ortiz delivered the decisive blow with a walk-off home run in the 12th inning.The Red Sox then won Game 5 in extra innings, went into Yankee Stadium and won Game 6, then returned home for Game 7 and completed the greatest comeback in MLB postseason history, and “it’s pandemonium in Boston like you’ve never seen,” says Gordon.The Red Sox had come back from the depths of despair, then swept aside the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series to end their 86-year championship drought.And as Posnanski highlights in the series, “it was so perfect because Red Sox fans had built all of this scar tissue around their hearts, and the greatest gift of all that Red Sox team gave them is that once they got to the World Series, they just won, and there was never any pressure that they wouldn’t.”After all those years, the curse had finally been broken, and a franchise once defined by failure suddenly became one of baseball’s great modern success stories.Boston lifted the Commissioner’s Trophy again in 2007, 2013 and 2018, with the Sox’s four World Series titles being the most of any MLB franchise this century.It was one of the greatest turnarounds in American sports history, and it all started with one game - and stolen base - in 2004.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. 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