August 2009

2 Firefighters Killed As Station Fire Grows

August 30, 2009

L.A. County Coroner’s officials have confirmed that two firefighters were killed when their vehicle overturned in the Angeles National Forest, south of Acton, where fire crews anxiously worked to contain the monstrous Station fire. The 35,000-acre fire threatened over 10,000 homes, 500 commercial properties and 2,000 other structures and rained ash on cars as far [...]

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Fire Burns in Oak Glen

August 30, 2009

The Oak Glen Fire is under the jurisdiction of CalFire. It started on Sunday August 30, 2009 at 1:45 pm in the hills south of Potato Canyon Rd and Oak Glen Road about 4 to 5 miles north of Beaumont and Banning. Mandatory Evacuation are in effect for the Community of Oak Glen. An Evacuation [...]

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The Station Fire burns at will

August 30, 2009

The Station Fire tripled to 20,150 acres Saturday, and full containment is not expected until Sept. 8. “Today what happened is what I call the perfect storm of fuels, weather, and topography coming together,” U.S. Forest Service Captain Mike Dietrich said Saturday. “Essentially the fire burned at will; it went where it wanted to when [...]

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SoCal Fire Crews hope for lower temperatues

August 30, 2009

Weary firefighters were hoping for slightly cooler weather and more resources today as they battled a fire in the Angeles National Forest that had burned more than 20,000 acres and threatens 10,000 homes. The fire marched north overnight through remote mountain ridges toward Acton. The U.S. Forest Service was sending firefighters into those areas, which [...]

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LAFD announces new Fire Chief, union praises choice

August 28, 2009

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today nominated Battalion Chief Millage Peaks to be the city’s new fire chief, replacing the retiring Douglas L. Barry, the department’s first African American top commander. If confirmed by the City Council, Peaks, who also is African American, will take over a department that has been struggling in recent years [...]

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Aerial assaults continue on SoCal Fires

August 28, 2009

With daylight, the fire department launched a new aerial assault on both the Palos Verdes and La Cañada fires, hoping water-dropping choppers could knock down what’s left of the fire. But officials worried about another day of arid conditions, including triple-digit temperatures forecast in some areas.] Firefighters made modest progress overnight on two brush fires [...]

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Los Angeles Mayor expected to announce new LAFD Chief

August 28, 2009

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s office has scheduled a news conference this morning to announce a new fire chief, sources say. The new chief will replace Douglas L. Barry, who is retiring at the end of the month. Several candidates from inside the agency sought to head the 3,586-member department. They included Battalion Chief Millage [...]

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Rescue Me Ends In 2011 on 10th Anniversary of 9/11

August 28, 2009

All good things must come to an end. That’s something that applies to all aspects of life, and especially to that of television. The series Rescue Me started in 2004 as a tribute, of sorts, to the men and women of the New York Fire Department who’d responded to the September 11 attacks on the [...]

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Morris Fire grows to nearly 2000 acres

August 27, 2009

Two wildfires northeast of Los Angeles fouled the air breathed by millions of Southern Californians on Wednesday, but the flames were burning away from suburbs on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and no homes had been lost. Stoked by the arrival of high temperatures and extremely dry air after weeks of unusually mild [...]

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Vallejo Firefighters’ union, city reach deal, end dispute

August 27, 2009

Vallejo city and fire union officials have agreed to a controversial plan to tear up the employees’ contract and start negotiating a new one. The move leaves only one of the city’s four employee unions — the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) — without some type of contract agreement. Officials also have called for [...]

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