Smoke from the Caldor Fire shrouds Fallen Leaf Lake near South Lake Tahoe, Calif., on Tuesday. The massive wildfire has scorched more than 190 square miles and destroyed hundreds of homes since Aug. 14. It is now less than 20 miles from Lake Tahoe. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears at a news conference in Oakland, Calif., on July 26. On Wednesday, he announced that the state's teachers and school staff will be required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
A burned residence rests in heavy smoke on Friday after being burned by the Dixie fire in Greenville, Calif. The fire is now the second-largest in recorded state history. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A health care worker in Rhode Island receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine last December. California is implementing a vaccine mandate for all paid and unpaid workers in the health care industry starting Sept. 30. David Goldman/AP hide caption
Flames consume a home on Highway 89 as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
A San Diego county sheriff's deputy stands in front of the Chabad of Poway synagogue, in Poway, Calif., on April 28, 2019. Denis Poroy/AP hide caption
Joshua Ray, a social worker with the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, inside one of the apartments of the building tribal leaders bought in Lakeport, Calif., through Homekey. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption
Visitors wear masks as they walk in a shopping district, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on July 1. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption
Rev. Wanda Johnson's son, Oscar Grant, was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer on January 1, 2009. The recordings of the internal investigation were not released until this year, when NPR member station KQED forced BART to comply with California's "The Right to Know Act," a 2019 police transparency law. Nicole Xu for NPR hide caption
A cache of 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks seized at a South Los Angeles home exploded and destroyed an armored Los Angeles Police Department tractor-trailer, damaging nearby homes and cars and causing injuries, authorities said. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP hide caption
Britney Spears arrives at a Hollywood movie premiere in 2019. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Smoke rises from the Willow Fire near Big Sur, Calif., on Sunday. California Interagency Willow Fire Incident/AP hide caption
When relaying why she chose the farm fields for her college graduation photo shoot, Jennifer Rocha explained it's because that's where her parents "sacrificed their backs, their sweat, their early mornings, late afternoons, working cold winters, hot summers just to give me and my sisters an education." Branden Rodriguez/Instagram @branden.shoots hide caption