Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in Detroit despite several scandals, has died. He was 90.

Conyers, among the high-profile politicians toppled by sex harassment allegations in 2017, died at his home on Sunday, said Detroit police spokesman Cpl. Dan Donakowski. The death “looks like natural causes,” Donakowski added.

Known as the dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, which he helped found, Conyers became one of only six black House members when he won his first election by just 108 votes in 1964. The race was the beginning of more than 50 years of election dominance: Conyers regularly won elections with more than 80% of the vote, even after his wife went to prison for taking a bribe.

That voter loyalty helped Conyers freely speak his mind. He took aim at both Republicans and fellow Democrats: He said then-President George W. Bush “has been an absolute disaster for the African American community” in 2004, and in 1979 called then-President Carter “a hopeless, demented, honest, well-intentioned nerd who will never get past his first administration.”

Throughout his career, Conyers used his influence to push civil rights. After a 15-year fight, he won passage of legislation declaring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday, first celebrated in 1986. He regularly introduced a bill starting in 1989 to study the harm caused by slavery and the possibility of reparations for slaves’ descendants. That bill never got past a House subcommittee.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday that without Conyers there would be no King holiday.

His district office in Detroit employed civil rights legend Rosa Parks from 1965 until her retirement in 1988. In 2005, Conyers was among 11 people inducted to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame.

But after a nearly 53-year career, he became the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job in the torrent of sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation’s workplaces. A former staffer alleged she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances, and others said they’d witnessed Conyers inappropriately touching female staffers or requesting sexual favors.

He denied the allegations but eventually stepped down, citing health reasons. “My legacy can’t be compromised or diminished in any way by what we’re going through now,” Conyers told a Detroit radio station from a hospital where he’d been taken after complaining of lightheadedness in December 2017.

“This, too, shall pass. My legacy will continue through my children.”

Conyers was born and grew up in Detroit, where his father, John Conyers Sr., was a union organizer in the automotive industry and an international representative with the United Auto Workers union. He insisted that his son, a jazz aficionado from an early age, not become a musician.

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The younger Conyers heeded the advice, but jazz remained, he said, one of his “great pleasures.” He sponsored legislation to forgive the $1.6-million tax debt of band leader Woody Herman’s estate and once kept a stand-up bass in his Washington office.

Before heading to Washington, Conyers served in the National Guard and with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War supervising repairs of military aircraft. He earned his bachelor’s and law degrees from Wayne State University in the late 1950s.

His political aspirations were honed while he worked as a legislative assistant from 1958 to 1961 to U.S. Rep. John Dingell, a fellow Michigan Democrat who, when he retired in 2014 at age 88, was Congress’ longest-serving member. That mantle then was passed on to Conyers.

Dingell died in February.

Soon after Conyers was elected to Congress, his leadership at home — in the segregated streets of Detroit — would be tested. Parts of the city were burned during riots in July 1967 that were sparked by hostilities between black residents and Detroit’s mostly white police force, and by the cramped living conditions in black neighborhoods.

Conyers climbed onto a flatbed truck and appealed to black residents to return to their homes, but he was shouted down. His district office was gutted by fire the next day. But the plight of the nation’s inner cities would remain his cause.

“In Detroit you’ve got high unemployment, a poverty rate of at least 30%, schools not in great shape, high illiteracy, poor families not safe from crime, without health insurance, problems with housing,” he told the Associated Press in 2004. “You can’t fix one problem by itself — they’re all connected.”

He was fiercely opposed to Detroit’s finances being taken over by a state-appointed emergency manager as the city declared bankruptcy in 2013. Conyers, whose district included much of Detroit, sought a federal investigation and congressional hearings, arguing it was “difficult to identify a single instance” where such an arrangement, where local officials are stripped of most of their power, succeeds.

Conyers was the only House Judiciary Committee member to have sat in on two impeachment hearings: He supported a 1972 resolution recommending President Nixon’s impeachment for his conduct of the Vietnam War, but when the House clashed in 1998 over articles of impeachment against President Clinton, Conyers said: “Impeachment was designed to rid this nation of traitors and tyrants, not attempts to cover up an extramarital affair.”

Conyers also had scandals of his own.

In 2009, his wife, Monica Conyers, a Detroit city councilwoman largely elected on the strength of her husband’s last name, pleaded guilty to bribery. The case was related to a sludge hauling contract voted on by the City Council, and she spent nearly two years in prison.

Three years earlier, the House ethics committee closed a three-year investigation of allegations that Conyers’ staff worked on political campaigns and was ordered to baby-sit for his two children and run his personal errands. He admitted to a “lack of clarity” with staffers and promised changes.

But he couldn’t survive the last scandal. An ethics committee launched a review after a former longtime staffer said Conyers’ office paid her more than $27,000 under a confidentiality agreement to settle a complaint in 2015. She alleged she was fired because she had rejected his sexual advances, and others said they had witnessed inappropriate behavior.

Conyers initially said he looked forward to vindicating himself and his family, but he announced his immediate retirement in December 2017 after fellow Democrats called for his resignation. The chorus included Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the House’s top Democrat.

Conyers became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when Democrats regained the House majority in 2006. He oversaw 2007 hearings into the White House’s role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors and 2009 hearings on how the NFL dealt with head injuries to players.

Conyers frequently swam against the prevailing political currents during his time in Congress. He backed, for example, anti-terrorism legislation that was far less sweeping than a plan pushed by then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

He was also an early supporter in 2007 of then-Sen. Barack Obama, who was expected by some in the Congressional Black Caucus to push public health insurance, sharp funding increases for urban development and other initiatives long blocked by Republicans.

“We want him to stand strong,” Conyers said in 2009.

Conyers enjoyed his greatest support back home in Detroit — except when he tried to venture into local politics. Conyers took on 16-year incumbent Mayor Coleman A. Young in 1989, launching his bid with the statement: “Look out, Big Daddy, I’m home.” But a poorly organized campaign helped him finish a mere third in the primary. He ran again for mayor when Young retired in 1993, and lost again.

Along with his wife, Conyers is survived by two sons, John III and Carl.

MEXICO CITY — 

Lewis Hamilton overcame Ferrari’s front-row start to win the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday, moving the Mercedes driver closer to a sixth career Formula One championship.

Only Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas’ third-place finish denied Hamilton the championship by the slimmest of margins. Hamilton needed only to beat Bottas by 14 points, but picked up 10 instead. That sends the championship to next week’s U.S. Grand Prix, where Hamilton has won five times since 2012.

“I don’t mind. I love racing,” Hamilton said after climbing out of his car. “This is a race I wanted to win for some time. It came together nicely.”

Mercedes gambled on an early tire change and Hamilton rode it all the way to the finish to get his 10th win of the season and first in Mexico City since 2016, the last time he was even on the podium in the high altitude of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

Hamilton clinched the 2017 and 2018 titles in Mexico City.

Ferraris’ Sebastian Vettel was second, with teammate Charles Leclerc, who started on pole, fourth.

Leclerc and Vettel had started 1-2. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen had been stripped of pole position for driving too fast under a yellow flag after Bottas’ crash in the late stages of qualifying Saturday.

That penalty also lifted Hamilton to start third with a chance to chase a win and the championship at a track where he had struggled badly the last two years.

Ferrari protected the lead from the start as Vettel moved to edge out Hamilton on the long opening straight. Hamilton then tangled with Verstappen on the second corner as they bumped tires and both cars went into the grass.

Hamilton was down to fifth after the opening lap, but quickly pushed his way back to fourth, setting up a long chase for the win.

Hamilton’s tire change on Lap 23 proved pivotal as he inched toward the front that left him needing to go 48 laps to the end. Vettel waited another 19 laps and Leclerc was on a two-stop strategy. That backfired when Leclerc’s second stop was botched on the tire change and his chances of hunting the leaders over the final laps was finished.”

“He was cruising,” Vettel said about Hamilton. ”(Our) strategy could have been sharper.”

Bottas earned his podium in car that had to be repaired overnight after the hard crash in qualifying. His pushing Vettel from behind helped ease pressure on Hamilton at the front.

Verstappen had a miserable start before rallying to finish sixth.

The two-time defending race champion got caught in traffic after his bump with Hamilton, and he was quickly down to eighth. He fought back to pass Bottas on the second lap, but suffered a tire puncture when he bumped Bottas’ front wing. The tire shredded off and Verstappen drove nearly an entire lap with a bare wheel as the field passed him by.

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A look at the significant numbers behind the Rams’ 24-10 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in London on Sunday.

220

Career-high receiving yards for Rams’ Cooper Kupp, eclipsing previous high of 162 vs. Minnesota last season. He has five 100-yard-plus games this season.

160

Career catches for Kupp, reaching the plateau in the fewest games by a Ram in the Super Bowl era (31). He had seven catches on 10 targets Sunday against the Bengals.

12

Rams’ offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth became 12th starter to record victories against all 32 teams, the Bengals being his previous employer.

5

Sacks of Andy Dalton by the Rams, including 1 1/2 by both Dante Fowler and Obo Okoronkwo, and one by Aaron Donald. Dalton has lost 11 starts in a row.

9

Consecutive games without a 100-yard rushing performance by Rams’ Todd Gurley, his longest streak since 20 in 2015-17. He ran 10 times for 44 yards Sunday against the Bengals.

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CHICAGO — 

The diagnosis of a pulmonary embolism caused by blood clots was scary enough for Russell Okung to fathom in June. That the Chargers left tackle’s condition would also be career-threatening felt like a twisting of the knife.

“I’ve had plenty of football injuries — I hurt an ankle, a toe, I blew out my shoulder — but nothing life-threatening like this,” Okung, 32, said. “You’re on a table and a doctor is literally telling you you’re not going to play football again. I decided that I didn’t want that to happen.”

Okung spent the first six weeks of the season on the non-football illness list. When he returned to the practice field in mid-October, he said he “definitely looked death right in the face” during his medical ordeal.

In his first game back on Sunday, against the Chicago Bears on a brilliant autumn afternoon at Soldier Field, Okung stared three-time All-Pro edge rusher Khalil Mack right in the face, and it didn’t seem nearly as frightening.

“Yeah, if I were to compare Khalil Mack with a blood clot, I think I’d take Mack any day,” Okung said after the Chargers pulled out a 17-16 victory over the Bears. “Look man, the guy’s a beast. He and [linebacker Leonard] Floyd are really good at what they do. We had our hands full, but I think we did a good job with them.”

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Okung played every offensive snap of the first three quarters before departing early in the fourth quarter because of a calf injury that he described as “mild,” a tweak that isn’t expected to sideline him for next week’s game against Green Bay.

Floyd lined up across Okung on the Chargers’ first two possessions, but Mack moved to Okung’s side late in the first quarter and remained there for most of the game.

The Chargers had little success running the ball — netting 36 yards rushing on 12 carries after accumulating only 106 yards on 51 carries in three straight losses to Denver, Pittsburgh and Tennessee — and quarterback Philip Rivers had a so-so day, completing 19 of 29 passes for 201 yards, with one touchdown and one interception.

But the Bears, who allowed the fifth-fewest points (17.5 a game) and fourth-fewest yards per play (4.91) through Week 7, sacked Rivers only once for a loss of six yards with two minutes left, after Okung was replaced by Trent Scott. Chicago hurried Rivers five other times, once on the first-quarter pick. Mack, who had the sack, and Floyd had four tackles each.

“The snaps weren’t easy, “ Okung said. “I had [Mack and Floyd] breathing down my neck. Those guys can play some ball, you know? But up front, as a group, I thought we did a good job of protecting Philip for most of the game.”

The Chargers have been decimated by injuries on both sides of the ball, but Okung’s return should boost an offensive line that lost veteran center Mike Pouncey to a season-ending neck injury in Week 5 and guard Forrest Lamp to a season-ending leg injury in Week 7.

The Chargers’ run game has ground to a virtual halt in four straight games, and elite pass rushers such as Houston’s J.J. Watt and Pittsburgh’s T.J. Watt gave the Chargers fits.

“We’ve been fighting, we have starters down, we’ve been dealing with injuries, and what we’ve been able to prove as a line is we’re a resilient group,” Okung said. “But the expectation, the standard, is really high. We have to play better.”

Okung, a two-time Pro Bowl selection in his 10^th NFL season and third with the Chargers, first felt shortness of breath and chest pains during the team’s offseason program last spring.

On June 1, at the insistence of his family, including his wife, Samar, he went to an urgent care facility, where doctors discovered the embolism. Okung was placed on blood-thinning medication, which had to clear through his system before he returned to action.

Okung cringes to think what might have happened had he not gone to that urgent care facility. Blood clots can lead to a heart attack or a stroke and a pulmonary embolism can block the flow of blood to the lungs and cause death.

“Look man, I’m appreciative about my life,” Okung said. “I’m alive and well, I have activity in my limbs, saneness of mind, I can go out and do what I have to do. I have a grateful heart, you know? There was a time when I was laying on a bed and trying to figure out if I would ever play football again.

“I’m so happy to be out there. I’ve been working my butt off every single day to get back and help my team win. To get a win in my first game back is great.”

The fun bunch was back.

Safety Elisha Guidry gripped the ball tightly in delight after defensive lineman Odua Isibor forced a fumble on the game’s fourth play.

Safety Stephan Blaylock turned his sideline into a joyous mass of bouncing bodies with an early third-down stop.

Cornerback Darnay Holmes leaped into the air in the fourth quarter, bumping bodies with quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson to commemorate a fourth-down stand.

There was plenty to celebrate Saturday night at the Rose Bowl after UCLA’s once-beleaguered defense delivered a second consecutive strong performance, even if this was one instance in which the numbers appeared to indicate otherwise.

UCLA’s defense dominated during a 42-32 victory over No. 24 Arizona State despite giving up four touchdowns and 383 yards of offense. The necessary disclaimer: Three of those touchdowns came after the Bruins had built a commanding 42-10 lead and the bulk of those yards were of the meaningless variety.

All that really matters is that this defense bears no resemblance to the one that was among the worst in the country through the season’s first 1 1/2 months.

“Coach says at this point in the season, you either get better or worse,” defensive lineman Osa Odighizuwa said, referring to Chip Kelly. “I feel like we’re on the rise so we just have to keep it going.”

Odighizuwa logged the Bruins’ only sack one game after they had recorded a season-high seven sacks against Stanford, but they were equally disruptive against the Sun Devils.

Arizona State running back Eno Benjamin, one of the top rushers in the Pac-12 Conference, managed just 46 yards and 3.5 yards per carry. Quarterback Jayden Daniels never found a rhythm until his team trailed by 32 points. The Sun Devils were stuffed on both of their fourth-down attempts.

“They step up to the challenge,” UCLA running back Joshua Kelley said of a defense that had long been the Bruins’ lesser half. “They make sure to cause turnovers, get three-and-outs.”

Isibor’s forced fumble in the first quarter led to the first of Kelley’s career-high four rushing touchdowns and served notice that the defensive effort UCLA had unveiled against Stanford, when it held the Cardinal to 198 yards, was not a one-week wonder.

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The Bruins’ offense didn’t do its defense any favors, turning the ball over three times on fumbles. One of the fumbles came at UCLA’s four-yard line and another at its 36. Arizona State scored touchdowns off all three turnovers.

“We put the defense in some difficult situations,” Kelly said. “I thought they responded to those. Really, what we talk about is when you face challenges and adversity, how do you approach them? Is it, ‘Oh God, here we go again.’ Or is it, ‘All right, let’s go.’ I think that’s the way our defense is starting to play. It’s starting to round into form.”

Odighizuwa pinned the defensive improvement on a more aggressive approach in which the Bruins were “just a little bit more vertical” in attacking the offense. But he acknowledged some necessary improvement before UCLA (3-5 overall, 3-2 Pac-12) can have more fun next weekend against Colorado (3-5, 1-4) at the Rose Bowl.

“We started fast,” Odighizuwa said, “we just got to close out a little stronger.”

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Demetric Felton Jr.’s two catches gave him 36 for the season, matching George Farmer’s school record for catches in a season by a running back. Farmer set the record in 1969. … Receiver Kyle Philips has caught a touchdown pass in three consecutive games, becoming the first Bruin to do so since Jordan Lasley compiled a four-game streak in 2017. … UCLA scored a touchdown on its opening drive for the fifth time in eight games this season.

HEALDSBURG, Calif. — 

The Kincade fire had Sonoma County wine country under seige Sunday, burning buildings in the famed Alexander Valley and destroying the Soda Rock winery.

“We’ve seen the news. We are devastated,” Soda Rock posted on Facebook. “We don’t have much information, but we will update you as soon as we know anything. Our staff is safe—right now what is most important is the safety of the first responders battling the fire. Thank you everyone for your concern.”

The stone-walled winery is considered a major historic site in the Alexander Valley and a popular tourist destination.

“Soda Rock is the original site of the Alexander Valley general store and post office, and was once the central hub of activity for the valley. Historic records provide evidence of the first bonded winery on this property in 1880,” the winery said on its website.

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The site said the current owners were in the process of a painstaking restoration of the historic parts of the property.

The fire hopscotched the area, burning some homes and structures and sparing others.
Fire officials said Sunday morning that the fire jumped Highway 128 and moved into the Alexander Valley region around 4 a.m.

There is worry that it could jump Highway 101 between Healdsburg and Windsor.

Fire officials have deployed resources in an attempt to prevent that, but if the fire does cross the freeway it would enter a narrow buffer zone of flat agricultural land mostly used to grow grapes before reaching a dense mountainous region of old-growth redwood that Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick said was difficult terrain to reach but sparsely populated.

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Healdsburg and Windsor, north of Santa Rosa along the 101, were evacuated Saturday, and on Sunday morning fire officials urged holdouts to leave immediately, saying the winds were pushing the fire rapidly. Officials said 79 structures had been destroyed and 31,000 were threatened.

The National Weather Service recorded one gust Sunday morning at 93 mph just outside Healdsburg.

Essick said anyone remaining in Healdsburg or Windsor was in “significant danger.”

PETALUMA, Calif. — 

Heather Deghi oversees a care facility for disabled people in Windsor. When the Kincade fire broke out, she anticipated possible evacuations, similar to what she went through during the Tubbs fire just two years ago.

When she got the word to leave, one of her first priorities was to keep those in her care calm. Her clients live with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other mental illnesses.

Major major disruptions can be especially negative for those whose health relies on routine.

“I tried to take away from the severity and reality of it as much as I can,” she said. “Change and trauma is not easily tolerable.”

Deghi and her 10-year-old daughter, Ava, said they could see the glow of the Kincade fire over the hills.

Their neighborhood had been pitch-black for hours following power outages, but their home didn’t lose electricity until shortly before they had to evacuate at 4 a.m. Sunday.

When the sheriff shouted for people to evacuate over a loudspeaker, Deghi and her family left the area with three clients whose families were not able to retrieve them. They’ve landed at the Petaluma Veterans Hall, alongside several other families and pets.

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The Deghis hope that their neighborhood won’t be consumed by flames, but they understand the possibility of destruction. “The winds are so unpredictable.”

Evacuating the frail and disabled during blackouts has become an issue since PG&E started the blackouts aimed at reducing wildfire risk.

Several youths who live at a treatment center were also hunkered down at the Petaluma Veterans Hall following evacuation orders.

Ximiya Jenkins, 18, said staff had told them to pack a go-bag in anticipation of evacuations. Jenkins said that although she felt calm during the process, stress was running high.

If the group leaves the evacuation center, Jenkins said they’ll first need to ensure that that their spots remain secured for a return.

Sunday morning, the giant banquet hall inside the center was packed with cots, and in an adjacent room, a home-style breakfast of pancakes, eggs and sausage links was served.

Some watched the local news in a nearby space, as others filed in and out of the hallways, unsure of their next move.

“I’m trying to figure out what’s going on,” one woman was overheard saying into a phone.

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ORINDA, Calif. — 

East Bay firefighters were battling new brush fires Sunday afternoon near the Highway 24-Interstate 680 interchange in the cities of Lafayette and Martinez.

The Lafayette fire in Contra Costa County, named the Pleasant fire, appeared to be burning on both sides of Highway 24 and was prompting some evacuations between Interstate 680 and Acalanes High School to the northwest and the private Meher Schools to the southwest. The seven-acre fire has already burned three structures, destroying a Lafayette Tennis Club building and damaging an outhouse and home. Forward progress of the fire was later stopped, and the blaze was 40% contained.

The second fire was in the southern part of Martinez, the county seat of Contra Costa County. Contra Costa County Fire Protection District firefighters were responding to a fast-moving two-acre fire at Forest Way and Alhambra Avenue, close to Martinez Animal Hospital. The Martinez fire evacuation area is “for areas between Alhambra Avenue and Morello Avenue and between Vine Hill Way and Sunnybrae Drive in Martinez.”

A Los Angeles Times reporter driving past the fires saw a hill on the west side of Highway 24 in flames, close to the freeway, and billowing a massive plume of smoke. The wind in Moraga, Orinda and Lafayette — cities just northeast of Oakland and Berkeley, on the other side of the East Bay hills — was howling.

An Orinda firefighter knocked on doors in the city’s Glorietta neighborhood about 2:30 p.m. telling residents to prepare to evacuate because of the fire in Lafayette. “Houses can be replaced,” he said. “People can’t.” He urged people to pass on the information to others in town.

A large redwood tree in that same Orinda neighborhood crashed into a neighbor’s yard because of the whipping winds. No one was hurt.

Downed branches littered city streets and Highway 24. Swirling funnels of leaves showered the streets. Popular walking trails in these towns were closed because of fire danger.

In Orinda, which has been without power since about 10 p.m. Saturday, city officials arranged for food trucks to come. People lined up in front of them in the early afternoon.

Video from KNTV-TV showed that the fire started where a power line fell, leaving wires on the ground. A KNTV-TV reporter quoted a person attending the Lafayette Tennis Club Junior Open tournament in the area of Camino Court in eastern Lafayette saying that the wind shifted, a power line went down and, moments later, an explosion occurred, sparking a fire.

A Lafayette police officer told the San Francisco Chronicle that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. had not turned off power to that part of town.

The Pleasant fire evacuation area was initially on both sides of Highway 24 — east of Pleasant Hill Road, stretching east all the way to Interstate 680 north of Highway 24 and El Curtola Boulevard south of the freeway. Officials later lifted the evacuation area south of Highway 24.

At an Orinda charging station that was offering residents coffee, water and outlets to charge their devices, Ryan Yeager, 39, who works in finance, was charging medical equipment for his daughter, Violet, who uses a wheelchair. He said she suffers from an disorder that requires a breathing device and a tube for nutrition.

He had ordered a $2,600 battery that was supposed to provide a few days of power, but it had not yet arrived. “I don’t mind this as long as we are not having to evacuate,” he said. Later in the afternoon, the town smelled strongly of smoke as the fire in Lafayette, which borders Orinda, burned.

It marked the one of several significant fires in the East Bay on Sunday as the region was hit by heavy winds.

Firefighters were gaining the upper hand on a fast-moving fire that erupted near the Carquinez Bridge, which connects Contra Costa County to Vallejo in Northern California, and quickly spread into Crockett south of the Carquinez Strait, which connects California’s two largest rivers to San Francisco Bay.

Earlier Sunday in eastern Contra Costa County, fire officials got the upper hand on three fires in rural neighborhoods that prompted evacuations — two in Oakley along the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and one in a small, rural neighborhood of Clayton in the mountainous area east of Mt. Diablo.

“Miraculously, over the string of fires” over a six-hour period early Sunday, “only one structure was damaged,” said Steve Hill, spokesman for the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. That structure was a gas station on Bethel Island in the delta. All evacuations have been lifted for those three eastern Contra Costa County fires.

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Wind gusts recorded Sunday at remote automated weather stations in the North Bay area are similar to gusts measured at those same stations on Oct. 9, 2017, according to Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services.

A series of fires fueled by Diablo winds caused billions of dollars of damage in October 2017, surpassing the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, which had been the costliest single fire on record up to that time.

“Forecasters did a pretty good job of predicting the magnitude of the winds,” said Null, a meteorologist for four decades in the San Francisco Bay Area, referring to the current windstorm in Northern California.

Forecasters weren’t exaggerating when they predicted historic winds. The National Weather Service clocked a gust of 96 mph Sunday in the mountains northeast of Healdsburg.

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Here is a list of museum shows opening in L.A. for Oct. 27-Nov. 3:

Openings

Floating Timeline: Quique Rivera Multimedia exhibition explores the creations of the stop-motion animation artist. Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach. Starts Sun.; ends March 8. Closed Mon.-Tue. $7, $10; under 12, free. (562) 437-1689. molaa.org

Museum Auto One-day event features classic cars, a photography exhibition, multimedia art installations and more. Friendship Auditorium, 3201 Riverside Drive, L.A. Sun., 7 a.m.-5 p.m. $20. eventbrite.com

With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 Survey includes painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, textiles, etc. by 45 artists. Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. Opens Sun.; ends May 11. Closed Tue. $8-$15 (includes same-day admission to the Geffen Contemporary; jurors and under 12, free; Thursdays after 5 p.m., free. (213) 626-6222. moca.org

Peasants in Pastel: Millet and the Pastel Revival A selection of pastels by Jean-Francois Millet and his followers depict rural life in the 19th century. The Getty Center, N. Sepulveda Blvd. & Getty Center Drive, L.A. Starts Tue.; ends May 10. Closed Mon. Free. (310) 440-7300. getty.edu

Japan 47 Artisans Japanese craft traditions as reimagined by contemporary designers. Japan House Los Angeles, Hollywood & Highland, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Starts Wed.; ends Jan. 5. Free. (800) 516-0565. japanhouse.jp

Things to do

Loitering is delightful Works by 10 local artists explore the concept of slowing down. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. Starts Thu.; ends Jan. 12. Closed Sun.-Wed. Free. lamag.org

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Julie Mehretu Mid-career survey of the Ethiopian-born artist features abstract paintings and works on paper. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. Starts next Sun.; ends May 17. Closed Wed. $10-$25; 17 and under, free. (323) 857-6010. lacma.org