FBI addresses the cooperation of Georgia high school shooting suspect’s parents
A spokesperson for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation tells Fox News Digital that the parents of suspected Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray “have been cooperative up until this point.”
The comment came in response to a question regarding whether authorities are investigating Gray’s parents in the wake of Wednesday’s attack, which left four dead and nine others injured.
Fox News’ Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
Colt Gray, the 14-year-old accused of killing four people and injuring nine others during the shooting at Apalachee High School, will make his first court appearance Friday, according to media reports.
The appearance will happen at 8:30 a.m. local time, Fox5 Atlanta reports.
Gray, who is currently being held at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, will be appearing virtually in Barrow County Superior Court, a Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice spokesperson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Officials previously have said Gray will face murder charges.
Videos taken inside Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, following Wednesday’s mass shooting show a sense of calm amid the chaos.
Sophomore Alexsandra Romero, 15, was sheltering with classmates inside a classroom when she caught footage of law enforcement officers entering the room and directing them down a corridor to exit.
“Single file line down this aisle right here after this deputy,” an officer is heard saying. “Hurry up now, come on, let’s go. We got a whole school to get evacuated, people, come on now.”
Romero told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she thought what was happening was a drill.
“I can just remember my hands were shaking,” Romero said. “I felt bad because everybody was crying, everybody was trying to find their siblings.”
Another video captured by the teen on her way out of the school shows a body covered by a sheet with blood surrounding it and firearms on the floor.
Apalachee High School student Isaac Sanguma has said in an interview that Christina Irimie, the math teacher killed in the shooting Wednesday, was a “real nice” person who would “really make you feel welcome.”
Sanguma, speaking to CBS News, said on the morning of the shooting, Irimie, his fourth period teacher, “walked up to me and I had threw up yesterday, so she asked me if I was OK.”
“I didn’t know that was going to be my last time seeing her and talking to her,” he said.
Sanguma described Irimie as being “real nice” to students and as a teacher would often “tell random jokes.”
“You could get a question wrong on the board and she would not make you feel dumb, she would really make you feel welcome,” Sanguma said.
The student said he was going to use the bathroom around the time the shooting started unfolding.
“I think I heard a ‘boom, boom,’ but at first it didn’t come to my mind that it was a gunshot, my instinct was to run back to class,” he told CBS News. “It didn’t feel real.”
A video taken from inside Apalachee High School on Wednesday shows a gun lying on the floor.
The weapon could be seen as students were moving through a hallway to evacuate the school.
Four people were killed and nine others were injured in the shooting on Wednesday in Winder, Georgia.
Other footage that has emerged in the wake of the shooting shows police officers evacuating students from inside of a classroom, with one instructing them to walk in a single-file line.
A law enforcement expert weighed in following the tragic mass shooting at a small Georgia high school that left two students and two teachers dead and wounded nine others on Wednesday.
Matthew Fagiana, a retired police sergeant and law enforcement consultant, told Fox News Digital
that responding officials are zeroing in on the 14-year-old suspect’s past and motive at the start of the investigation.
“Things such as the timeline of the incident. A chronological history of the suspect leading up to the shooting, a deep look into the suspect’s past for things such as interactions with the victims, the existence of any indications of violent behavior, statements or social media posts that could help them develop a motive, and recent internet history,” he said.
“And that, of course, only scratches the surface of the investigation,” he added.
Fagiana noted that responding agencies, including the FBI’s Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, are combing the scene of Apalachee High School to construct an “accurate picture” of the suspect’s pathway through the school.
Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum tells Fox News Digital that “approximately 8” of her personnel responded Wednesday to the Apalachee High School shooting in Winder, Georgia.
The Sheriff’s Office previously posted a statement from the FBI’s Atlanta Division saying the suspected shooter has been on its radar as a possible threat since last year after receiving information about “online threats” that contained images of guns.
“The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father. The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them,” the statement read. “The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson County alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject.”
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
A video has captured the moment law enforcement evacuated students from Apalachee High School in the wake of Wednesday’s deadly shooting.
“Single file line down this aisle right here, after this deputy. Hurry up now, come on let’s go… we got a whole school to get evacuated people, come on now,” a voice is heard instructing the students.
The person filming the video then walks past an armed officer standing at the entrance of a classroom.
In the hallway of the building, students can be seen walking in a line.
A beloved football coach, who was among four victims killed in a high school shooting in Barrow County, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, was remembered as a “leader of men” who passed on the “old-school ways” of the game to the children he coached.
Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old husband and father of two young daughters, taught math at Apalachee High School, where he was also the football team’s defensive coordinator.
Mike Hancock, the school’s head football coach, told the Athens Banner-Herald that Aspinwall was “a great dad” who loved his wife and their two daughters and was also respected in the game of football.
“He worked his tail off,” Hancock said. “He coached old-school ways, but he loved those kids. It’s heartbreaking really for our kids, but for his wife and his two daughters…”
Aspinwall was killed when the alleged 14-year-old shooter opened fire inside the school. Math teacher Christina Irimie and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, were also killed. Authorities said nine others were wounded in the shooting.
The mother of a student at Apalachee High School told The New York Times that she received a text from her daughter Wednesday that read “Mom, I heard gunshots. I’m scared. Please come get me.”
However, Anetra Pattman, who teaches social sciences at an alternative school in Barrow County, had to remain calm and stay with her own class, the newspaper adds.
“At that moment, the primary thing was continuing this communication with my daughter, but now I’m also responsible for keeping my other children safe,” Pattman said.
The teacher told the newspaper that her school went into a lockdown before she was reunited with her 14-year-old daughter Macey later that afternoon.
The student shooter accused of opening fire at Apalachee High School has been booked into the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, according to WSB-TV.
Colt Gray, 14, is accused of killing four people and injuring nine others during the attack.
The Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center is located about an hour north of Apalachee High School in Winder.
Gray, who is a student at Apalachee High School, will be charged with murder and prosecuted as an adult, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith says.
Fox News’ Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
A towing company in Georgia
is offering free services to students and faculty at Apalachee High School following the shooting there Wednesday.
The owner of All County Towing and Recovery told Fox5 Atlanta that they don’t want those affected by the shooting to have to return to the school so soon, so they are offering free tows of vehicles left in the school’s parking lots.
At least five vehicles have been towed away from the property overnight, the owner added, noting that he used to go to the school and that shooting victim Richard Aspinwall was his football coach.
Former FBI agent Rob D’Amico told “Fox & Friends First” on Thursday that the FBI and local law enforcement will “have to go back” and review the way it handled past interactions with Colt Gray, the suspected gunman who opened fire Wednesday at Apalachee High School.
The comment comes after the FBI confirmed that Gray has been on its radar as a possible threat since last year. In a joint statement, the FBI’s Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said the agency’s National Threat Operations Center received an anonymous tip about threats posted online regarding a possible school shooting in May 2023.
“There’s only so much you can do when you get those warnings,” D’Amico said. “The local officers went out and interviewed the father, interviewed the son – he denied making those online threats. The father said that the son did not have unfettered access to the weapons. They did what they could and then they left because there was no probable cause to take other action.
“And that actually happens a lot around the country all the time and they don’t result in school shootings later on, but this one actually did and they will have to go back and make sure everything was done properly,” D’Amico added.
Fox News’ Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
The FBI has confirmed
that the alleged shooter who killed two students and two teachers and wounded nine others at a Georgia high school Wednesday has been on its radar as a possible threat since last year.
In a joint statement, the FBI’s Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said the agency’s National Threat Operations Center received an anonymous tip about threats posted online regarding a possible school shooting in May 2023.
The agencies said that the threats contained images of guns.
Within 24 hours of receiving the anonymous tip, investigators determined the threats originated in Georgia and the matter was referred to the sheriff’s office.
“The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father,” the FBI said. “The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them.”
On Wednesday, authorities identified Colt Gray, now 14, as the shooter who killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School. Gray surrendered to authorities and was taken into custody following the rampage.
Authorities have identified
the four victims who were killed in the shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday morning when a student opened fire inside the school.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director (GBI) Chris Hosey said two 14-year-old students and two teachers were killed during the shooting.
Hosey identified two students killed at Apalachee High School as Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Hosey said math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irmie were also killed during the shooting.
One of the faculty victims, Aspinwall, was also a football coach at the school.
“Coach Aspinwell was one of the most kindhearted teachers I have ever met. He always made it known that if I needed help with anything he was there,” a student wrote in a tribute on Instagram.
Top 5 moments from Trump’s FOX News town hall in key battleground state
Restaurant owner sends message after facing boycott threats for hosting Trump
A Las Vegas restaurant owner has faced boycott calls since hosting former President Trump for a press conference on his “No Taxes on Tips” policy, but he isn’t about to cave to the pressure.
“I was so grateful to have President Donald Trump in my restaurant. [But] I’ve been having a lot of phone calls, a lot of TikToks that people make, talking bad about me and my restaurant, but, at the same time, I’ve been having a lot of good response, too,” Javier Barajas told “Fox & Friends First” on Thursday.
Barajas owns Mexican-Italian restaurant II Toro e La Capra, where the former president pitched his “No Taxes on Tips” policy with a televised message last month.
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He spoke positively of Trump and his idea at the time, a local outlet reported, and doubled down on the support on Thursday, telling co-host Carley Shimkus he supports the GOP candidate’s immigration policies and believes Trump will do more to support the working class.
“We’re supporting President Donald Trump because we know that he’s gonna do a lot better for people that work hard in our country,” he said of the Hispanic community.
“He knows that the United States needs people to come to work, not to [be] delinquents. We don’t like what President Biden did – open the border to millions and millions of people without checking their criminal records.
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“In 2008, President Obama promised a lot of things for working people, but they [his administration] never did anything,” he added.
Barajas also trusts Trump more on the economy and disclosed that keeping his doors open has been challenging since President Biden took office.
“Everything is very expensive,” he said.
“President Donald Trump – he’s a businessman. I know he’s going to do a lot better for us.”
Barajas’ family also runs the Lindo Michoacan restaurants that serve Mexican cuisine in the area. President Biden visited one of the locations in July just prior to announcing he would be dropping out of the 2024 race, according to KLAS-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Las Vegas.
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CNN political director calls Kamala Harris’ polling numbers ‘trouble’
New CNN polling Wednesday showed Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to win over non-college-educated White men in six battleground states, which one analyst said could spell “trouble.”
“Harris has the advantage in Michigan and Wisconsin, Trump has the advantage in Arizona, and then there‘s the proof of just how close the race is 60 plus days out,” CNN host Kate Bolduan said. “They’re essentially tied in the key battlegrounds, Nevada, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.”
Digging into the numbers, CNN political director David Chalian discussed what the polls indicate along the lines of race and education.
“If you look at the White voters without college degrees, this is a Trump base constituency, obviously. You see his huge numbers with this group, you see that this is a trouble sign for Harris,” Chalian said. “She also in places like Georgia is not doing well with White college-educated voters. She probably wants to make up some ground with White college-educated voters across these battlegrounds as well.”
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By contrast, the CNN political director also noted how Black voters overwhelmingly support Harris.
“Well, if you take a look here among Black voters where we over-sampled you know and able to look at the Black voting population in three of the states, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, take a look here. Eighty-six percent of Black voters in Michigan are with Harris, 11% with Trump,” Chalian said. “Eighty-five percent in Georgia, 84% of Black voters support with Pennsylvania.
“I just want to note that in Pennsylvania, in 2020, Joe Biden, according to exit polls, his number among Black voters was 92%, so there‘s still room here for Harris to grow and consolidate the Black vote, which is going to be necessary if she is going to win in places like Georgia and Pennsylvania, which are clearly in play here and toss-up races.”
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Chalian also commented on the stark gender gap in polls.
“Among female likely voters in these states, you see, this is a 17-percentage point lead and Wisconsin among female voters for Harris, a 16% percentage point lead in Michigan, you see it gets more narrowed down here in Arizona,” he said.
But the “flipside,” Chalian said, is with male voters who support Trump.
“You‘ve seen Donald Trump‘s advantage, very significant with male voters. Eighteen points in Nevada, 15-point advantage in Pennsylvania,” he said. “That‘s the gap when we talk about the gender gap. Harris’ advantage with women in addition to Trump‘s advantage with men and who wins that battle, who extends that advantage could have a lot to say in these battleground states.”
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“An important gut check for both campaigns and on multiple levels in multiple states is what’s coming out here,” the news host concluded.
Nikki Haley gets new job title after tapping out of White House run
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has found a new job in the private sector.
Haley, who previously served as ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump, is headed to global communications firm Edelman.
“Politics has become a critical consideration for clients in brand marketing, employee engagement and reputation management,” CEO Richard Edelman wrote in an announcement of the company’s new hire.
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“In her time as Governor, Haley had great success in attracting foreign companies to South Carolina and as Ambassador to the UN, helped lead important work on global issues,” he continued.
Edelman is hoping Haley’s long career in politics will allow her to offer perspective and guidance regarding the intersection of politics and business.
Haley dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential race earlier this year after a series of state primaries broke in favor of Trump and rendered her path to the White House nearly impossible.
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She has since endorsed Trump after he received the Republican nominee in July.
Haley told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier last month on “Special Report” Republicans and Trump should focus on policy and messaging instead of crowd sizes at rallies, Vice President Kamala Harris’ race, or attacks on her intellect.
“You can’t win on those things. The American people are smart. Treat them like they’re smart,” she said. “It’s not about her. It’s about the American people. Talk to them and let them know you need their vote.”
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“In a time of growing complexities in business, policy, and politics — brands need to anticipate what’s coming next,” Haley said of her new position at Edelman in the company announcement. “Whether managing a crisis or celebrating a success, industry leaders must be ready to communicate clearly and share their vision forward. I’m excited to join the team at Edelman to help their clients navigate the challenges ahead.”
She is expected to begin working next month.
Teen accused of shooting 49ers rookie in crime-ridden city sends message to player
The 17-year-old suspect accused of shooting San Francisco 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall in an alleged robbery attempt was “very sorry,” his attorney said Wednesday after an arraignment.
Deputy Public Defender Bob Dunlap, the teen’s attorney, made the remarks to reporters after the hearing.
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“He’s genuinely very sorry that this did happen, as is his family, and I can say on their behalf, as well as on my own behalf, our thoughts go out to the Pearsall family and Mr. Pearsall himself. So there is genuine, genuine remorse in that regard,” Dunlap said. “He is a young boy.”
The teen, from Tracy, California, was charged with attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic weapon and attempted second-degree robbery. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins added several gun-related charges on Wednesday.
It has yet to be determined whether the teen will be charged as an adult. Jenkins’ office said they needed more time to investigate and will petition the court to transfer the case to an adult court if possible. California law prevents prosecutors from charging a minor as an adult without judicial approval.
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A probation officer recommended the teen stay in custody and be transferred to his home county of San Joaquin, where he has another matter pending. However, Superior Court Judge Roger C. Chan said the teen will stay in San Francisco custody.
Pearsall was shot and wounded in the incident in what officials said was an attempt to take a Rolex watch from him. The wide receiver was shot through the chest and the bullet exited his back, missing vital organs.
He was out of the hospital less than 24 hours after the shooting.
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The 49ers placed Pearsall on the non-football illness list to give him more time to recover. He will miss the first four weeks of the season.
NFL team exec faces day of reckoning after explosive undercover video goes viral
The Washington Commanders fired a team executive after an undercover video was released showing him making disparaging remarks about the team, fans, players and the league.
A team spokesman confirmed Rael Enteen’s dismissal on Thursday to Fox News Digital.
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Enteen appeared to be on a date with a woman from James O’Keefe’s media company and was secretly filmed. The Commanders said on Wednesday that the “language used in the video runs counter to our values at the Commanders organization.”
Enteen touched on several different subjects about the Commanders and across the NFL.
“Over 50% of our roster is either White, religious, and God says, ‘F— the gays.’ Another big chunk is very low-income African American that comes from a community (that) is inherently very homophobic,” he said in the video.
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Enteen goes on to describe some players as “dumb as all hell” and describes some fans as “high school-educated alcoholics” and “mouth breathers.”
The executive also said Dallas Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones “really runs the NFL” and thought that the billionaire “hates gay people and Black people.” He also called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a “$50 million puppet.”
Enteen said his job as VP of content was to “sell hope to fans” even when there is none.
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Enteen’s social media pages said he previously worked for the New York Jets and the XFL and that he had been with the Commanders since 2020.
Music festival becomes disease ‘hotspot’ as hospital is overwhelmed with patients
Several people have contracted Valley fever following an outdoor music festival near Bakersfield, California, according to a statement from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) is a lung infection caused by breathing in a soil-borne fungus found in California and some parts of the southwestern U.S.
So far, five patients who attended the outdoor music festival, Lightning in a Bottle, have been diagnosed with the infection. Three of those have been hospitalized, the CDPH reported.
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More than 20,000 people attended the festival, held from May 22 to May 27 at Buena Vista Lake.
There is the potential for additional cases to emerge among festival-goers, health officials said.
For those who attended the festival or visited Kern County and are experiencing symptoms, the CDPH recommends they see a doctor and ask about testing for the infection.
“While the event occurred two months ago and mild cases of Valley fever might have already resolved, other patients with more long-term or severe disease may still be symptomatic or undiagnosed,” the CDPH stated.
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Tom Langdon Hill, director of training for the CCHS Foundation in Tucson, Arizona, which offers free training regarding the medical needs of the homeless, said it is “desperately difficult” to predict when and where someone may be exposed to Valley Fever.
“However, the outbreak tied to the outdoor music festival, Lightning in a Bottle, happened in an area already known as a Valley Fever hotspot, with 34 deaths tallied in 2022 alone,” Hill told Fox News Digital.
“While exposure to dust may be the cause of that outbreak, a just-released study points to wildfires as another possible source for the spread of Valley Fever.”
Symptoms and transmission
The majority of people who are exposed to the fungus do not get sick, but about 40% will develop respiratory symptoms, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Symptoms typically include cough, fatigue, fever, trouble breathing and chest pain. They usually begin within one to three weeks of infection.
From 2018 to 2022, California recorded between 7,000 and 9,000 cases of Valley fever each year.
Approximately 5% to 10% of people with Valley fever will develop complications, which can include serious lung problems, the CDC stated.
For around 1% of people, disseminated disease can occur, which is when the infection spreads to other parts of the body, such as the skin, joints, bones or brain.
The infection does not spread from person to person or between people and animals, the CDC said.
Valley fever has been increasing in prevalence in California, the health department noted.
Cases tripled between 2014 and 2018. From 2018 to 2022, the state recorded between 7,000 and 9,000 cases per year.
It is most common in the San Joaquin Valley and in the Central Coast areas.
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Certain areas with high dust exposure present a greater risk. Those include places where construction, archaeology, farming or military training occur, per the CDC.
Homeless populations are also at a higher risk, according to Hill.
“The homeless spend much more of their time exposed to dust and the smoke from wildfires,” Hill told Fox News Digital.
“It is no surprise that those on the streets have both higher rates of Valley fever and a startlingly higher rate of deadly complications from the disease.”
Is a nationwide spread possible?
Dr. George Thompson, a professor at UC Davis Health and co-director of the Center for Valley fever in Sacramento, told Fox News Digital in 2023 about a ramp-up in cases over the past several years.
“We have seen a gradual increase in cases over the last five years, and a greater number of patients are coming into our clinic for diagnosis and treatment,” he said at the time.
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In 2019, a study by Morgan Gorris — which was published in GeoHealth, a journal focused on environmental and health sciences research — suggested that climate change could trigger an expansion of Valley fever into northwestern states, including Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.
“At first, I was skeptical,” said Dr. Thompson of California. “But I’ve recently heard about new cases emerging in Nebraska and even Missouri, so I think it’s in the realm of possibility.”
Valley fever cases are expected to arrive in northern Utah and eastern Colorado by 2035, according to the study. Gorris, the study’s author, also predicts that the disease will become endemic in Nebraska, southeastern Montana, southern Idaho and South Dakota by 2065, and that it could arrive in northern Montana and North Dakota by 2095.
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Other research has linked the rising Valley fever cases to an increase in dust storms. Another recent GeoHealth study by Daniel Q. Tong, a scientist and professor at George Mason University in Virginia, found that dust storms in the Southwest have risen by 240% between the 1990s and 2000s, followed by an 800% spike in Valley fever cases between 2001 and 2011.
Treatment and prevention
A blood test sent to a lab can confirm a current or prior infection of Valley fever, and a chest X-ray or CT scan can detect cases of pneumonia, according to the CDC.
Antifungal medications such as Fluconazole and Itraconazole are typically used to treat Valley fever.
While there is not yet a vaccine for Valley fever, three vaccines are currently in development, including one that has been successfully tested with dogs.
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, recently announced $4.5 million in funding to support research toward diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for the disease.
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The CDC notes that certain groups are more vulnerable.
These include people 60 years of age and older; those who have weakened immune systems as a result of certain diseases or medical conditions; pregnant women; people with diabetes; and people who are Black or Filipino.
For those in high-risk groups, doctors recommend avoiding construction sites or areas where soil is often stirred up into the air.
People can also wear an N95 respirator, a type of high-quality mask, to minimize exposure in dusty areas.
Early diagnosis and treatment is important, doctors advise.
Fox News Digital reached out to the CDPH and the organizers of the music festival for comment.