California To Award Funds For Wildfire Prevention
The funds will be awarded as part of a one-time grant process after lawmakers included a $10 million appropriation in the new state budget.
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The funds will be awarded as part of a one-time grant process after lawmakers included a $10 million appropriation in the new state budget.
Los Angeles County Fire officials Monday were responding to an apartment fire in Lawndale.
The fire was reported along the 13000 block of Mindanao Way.
Police are investigating a possible arson that destroyed a baseball dugout at a high school in Whittier.
Prosecutors say Marcel Melanson was sentenced Monday to three years and four months in prison. He also must pay more than a half-million dollars in fines and restitution.
Thirty firefighters were dispatched at 6:20 a.m. Saturday to the L.A. Nam Seoul Grace Church.
A brush fire that erupted Friday along the perimeter of a Cherry Valley park has burned at least 100 acres and was 50 percent contained.
Crews battled a fire in a Pomona pallet yard, prompting police to close the 1200 block of Ninth Street.
A fire on a Metrolink passenger train Thursday caused delays in Orange County.
Authorities Thursday were investigating an explosion at a home in Ventura County.
An arson fire at a Van Nuys church was under investigation Wednesday after crews responded to the blaze early this morning, authorities said.
Los Angeles Police Department officers were being commended Tuesday for their heroic actions after saving a woman from a burning apartment complex.
Los Angeles city fire spokeswoman Katherine Main said six caged cats and three dogs succumbed to smoke inhalation and were beyond help.
SKY2's Stu Mundel reports the commercial fire broke out just after 5 p.m. Thursday in the 8100 block of Marbrisa Avenue.
The blaze erupted at a paper recycling facility in the 14000 block of Marquardt Avenue shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Crews Tuesday night battled a fire at an auto dismantling yard in Lincoln Heights.
Three firefighters were hurt on the job Saturday night in Colton while battling a residential blaze.
The blaze in northern San Diego County is about 90 percent surrounded Monday.
Marine Corps officials have lifted an evacuation order for some Camp Pendleton housing, although fires that have burned about 34 square miles of brush continue to rage.
Residents Friday were saddened by the damage caused by a 3-alarm blaze in San Gabriel.
"Grandmas aren't replaceable, houses are."
Officials say a neighbor's car accidentally slammed into a gas line outside a Calabasas home Friday afternoon causing a fire and explosion.
A federal jury Friday returned guilty verdicts on all counts against two men for starting the Colby Fire earlier this year.
A transformer may be to blame for a late night apartment fire in Santa Monica, officials said Friday.
The victim is likely a transient, officials said.
