16-year-old boy shot dead, 6 others injured after gunfire erupts at large LA house party
The shooting took place in Tarzana, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley near Woodland Hills. A boy, 16, died at the scene and ...
‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsen. For a century, the lure of ...
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LA is on edge as new fires ignite — with one already rampaging across more than 10,300 acres
Its forward progress was stopped within the first few hours, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. An evacuation warning for the area — which contained a $30 million property owned by Rupert ...
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Fast-moving Hughes Fire erupts in Los Angeles County as California officials order evacuations
A red flag warning remains in effect until 10 a.m. Friday," Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Anthony Marrone said. "It remains a difficult fire to contain, although we are getting the ...
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LA’s Rush to Rebuild After Fires Risks Deepening City’s Housing Crisis
Advocates and experts say the fires should serve as a wake-up call for a broader rethink, contributor Patrick Sisson reports. Today on CityLab: What LA’s Fires Mean for the City’s Housing Shortage ...
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Here's the latest on LA County's Hughes Fire as 'dangerous' winds continue
At 1:55 a.m. on Thursday, the Los Angeles City Fire Department announced that it had stopped all forward progress of the fire at about 40 acres and lifted the evacuation warning. Evacuation orders ...
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No, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass didn't oust fire chief | Fact check
A Jan. 10 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes a screenshot of a Daily Mail headline and claims Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fired a city official amid the wildfires devastating the ...
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Los Angeles-area fire crews pre-positioned ahead of Particularly Dangerous Situation taking effect, Bass says
Los Angeles Fire Department ... entire city of Los Angeles," she said. A red flag parking restriction has also been issued in specific designated places to allow for rapid response in hillside ...
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2 people arrested with fire truck while impersonating firefighters at LA wildfires: Police
A Los Angeles Police Department unit was patrolling through the evacuation zones on Saturday, when they discovered a fire truck that "did not appear to be legitimate," according to the sheriff's ...
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Los Angeles Fire Chief's Actions Draw Praise, Criticism
Some laud Los Angeles ... City, the union representing the department's rank and file. "Everyone was very shocked, but very happy and excited. They support her 110%." "This is the only fire ...
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Fire officials defend pre-deployment of firefighters before catastrophic LA County fires
The fire started inside the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles City Fire Department. But L.A. County Fire says they still dispatched crews to that fire at 10:39 a.m., and it's first fire truck ...
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A key ‘weakness’ in L.A.’s wildfire strategy went unaddressed for years, Post probe shows
Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s fire chief, Kristin M. Crowley, identified “one significant area of weakness” in her department’s ability to ...