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The Norco City Council voted 3-1 Wednesday to approve a $2.9million annual contract with Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department for fire and medical emergency services, a move that begins the process to dissolve the Norco Fire Department. Councilman Harvey Sullivan cast the dissenting vote and Councilwoman Kathy Azevedo was absent.
The Ventura County Air Unit is adding a new bird to the flock. County officials approved the $14.5 million acquisition of a Bell 412EPX helicopter to be used for search-and-rescue missions by the aviation unit as well as for general law enforcement operations. The decision was passed unanimously during a Board of Supervisors meeting last week. The new helicopter will…
Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates. Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him…
From LAPD Air Support Come visit us next Sunday Oct. 26th at this great event. Rain or shine 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Free family event. WWRE is an annual open house, exhibition and family event hosted by the California National Guard, Joint Forces Training Base (JFTB) and the Los Alamitos Area Chamber of Commerce….
As wildfires sweep across the state of California, Russian Federation officials have offered their aid in the form of amphibious, firefighting airplanes called Be-200s, which could be mobilized in 72 hours, according to a Santa Maria airport official. If an agreement is finalized, Russia’s Beriev Be-200s would be utilized in the firefights and would be…
A late-December copper wire theft at a major City of Los Angeles communications site exposed a vulnerability in municipal infrastructure, temporarily knocking a citywide radio system offline and forcing officials to curtail parking and traffic enforcement operations for safety reasons. The incident occurred at a prominent radio communications tower located in Elysian Park, just north…
