Attempting to squelch profiteering and price gouging as the deadliest wildfire in recorded California history continues to unfold, Chico officials approved emergency legislation this morning.

Swiftly responding to reports of escalating prices during the crisis, an ordinance strictly barring price gouging on all housing, and any goods or services was unanimously passed by the Chico City Council, meeting in emergency session.

 Blue Dot teams with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to give you a taste of their new podcast series, On a Mission. Created by science journalist Leslie Mullen, the podcast chronicles the InSight lander mission to Mars, which lifted off from Vandenburg AFB in Southern California (the first planetary mission launched from California!) in May. The lander is going to probe the interior of Mars to try and learn more about how the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus Earth and Mars) evolved their differentiated interiors of cores, mantles and crusts. Sensitive seismometers aboard the lander will sense Marsquakes to learn how seismic waves travel through the interior.

Top federal and state officials arrived to tour the damage caused by what’s become the deadliest wildfire in recorded California history.

Governor Jerry Brown was joined by US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, along with leadership from CalFire and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Chico today, vowing to extinguish an inferno that sent 52,000 running for their lives and to rebuild Paradise, a tidy historic community laid waste by the Camp Fire.

Dr. Michael Greger is the author of the international best seller How Not to Die. Local author Lani Muelrath advocates combining mindfulness with a vegan diet. Commentator Richard Parker asks “What’s for Dinner?”

The Camp Fire that is burning in the Paradise area in Butte County has now covered 109,000 acres and is 25 percent contained. Volunteers at the North Valley Animal Disaster Group have been assisting Cal Fire by performing rescue operations for animals.

At the North Valley Animal Disaster Group in Chico, local volunteers like Kate Leyden work around the clock to save as many animals as they can during disasters like the current Camp Fire burning in Butte County.  

On Sunday air quality conditions remained poor throughout Butte County. 

Unhealthy to very unhealthy air quality is forecast in the foothills, according to an air quality advisory from the Butte County Air Quality Management District Air Pollution Control Officer.