July 2010

Death revives idea of cutting fire crews

July 24, 2010

The choking death this week of 2-year-old Bentley Do in Mira Mesa while awaiting firefighters has spurred reconsideration of a number of ideas for redeploying scarce resources — including three-person fire crews instead of four. The suggestion has been floated many times over the years in San Diego — by the mayor, City Council and [...]

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Small brush near Dodger Stadium is contained

July 24, 2010

A small brush fire is burning north of Chinatown near Dodger Stadium, authorities said. Devin Gales of the Los Angeles Fire Department said emergency crews are on their way to the fire near the southbound 110 Freeway at Hill Street. According to an alert from fire officials, no structures or people are threatened. [Updated at [...]

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Fire causes heavy damage to Hesperia furniture store

July 23, 2010

HESPERIA • A fire broke out at a furniture store at Hesperia Road and Donert Street in Hesperia on Sunday afternoon causing heavy damage, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. A couch was reported on fire behind Armando’s Furniture at 5:32 p.m. Fire officials were able to quickly put the fire out in [...]

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Fire blows through Victorville home

July 23, 2010

VICTORVILLE • Firefighters battled an early morning blaze Friday at a home near Dos Palmas and El Evado roads that heavily damaged the structure, according to San Bernardino County Fire officials. Firefighters responded to the home on Dos Palmas Road in the community of Mountain View Acres a little after 3 a.m. When they arrived [...]

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6 dead in Highway 99 bus crash in Fresno

July 23, 2010

Six people are dead and three are hospitalized in serious condition after a pre-dawn crash early this morning involving a Greyhound bus and two vehicles on Highway 99 in Fresno. The driver of the Greyhound bus, which had just left the Fresno Greyhound terminal en route to Madera, died. A male and female bus passenger [...]

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Oak Park handyman arraigned in blast that hurt firefighters

July 23, 2010

The Oak Park man accused of blowing up his neighbor’s house and injuring four Sacramento firefighters is facing at least 17 years in prison if he is convicted on all the charges that prosecutors filed against him today. Robert William Durst (photo left) confirmed his name but said nothing else at his Sacramento Superior Court [...]

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Small fire out at downtown residential hotel

July 23, 2010

Firefighters helped evacuate two dozen people from a downtown San Diego residential hotel Thursday morning when a small fire broke out in a third-floor room. The fire was out, but smoldering, by the time firefighters arrived at the Dustin Arms Hotel on G Street at Fifth Avenue, said Maurice Luque of the San Diego Fire-Rescue [...]

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Fire rages in south Bakersfield warehouse

July 22, 2010

Dozens of firefighters descended on a vacant south Bakersfield warehouse that erupted in flames Wednesday morning, sending towering smoke columns into the air. Two ladder trucks blasted the roof of the building just south of Panama Lane on South H Street. Flames shot above the roof, while dark black smoke on the north side of [...]

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Firefighter injured, pet killed in latest McKinleyville fire

July 22, 2010

Tuesday marked the fourth residential structure fire in McKinleyville in just under two months. The Arcata Fire Department responded to a fire on the 1600 block of Ocean Drive in McKinleyville at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. The department said that heavy flames were coming from the sliding glass door of a utility room and out [...]

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Brownout may have had role in tot’s death

July 22, 2010

San Diego fire officials said Wednesday that their department’s cost-cutting “brownouts,” which idle equipment, may have contributed to the choking death of a toddler in Mira Mesa. Bentley Do, 2, died at about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday after choking on the first gum ball he ever tasted, his family said. Authorities said police officers arrived roughly [...]

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