Santa Catalina

Desalination plants are operating in parts of California, including the nation’s largest facility, in Carlsbad, and a small-scale plant on Santa Catalina Island.

It was the view of the canyon, downtown skyscrapers, and Santa Catalina Island, somehow all in one frame.

The smoke plumes even reached Santa Catalina Island, the popular tourist destination, where pollution reached hazardous concentrations at times, according to satellite imagery and air quality data.

The pilot of a small plane that crashed on Santa Catalina Island, killing five, was warned not to take off in treacherous conditions after dark.

Typically quiet Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, erupted in tumult last fall over a bold proposal to kill all the deer on the island using sharpshooters in helicopters.