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A dramatic video shows a crew rescuing a man who was clinging to a tree in a rain-swollen river. KTLA reported that Los Angeles Fire Department responders arrived within minutes of the call about a man who was spotted hanging onto a tree in the river. “When firefighters got on scene they did in fact have…
Beginning this month, the Santa Monica Fire Department will operate out of their new Fire Station 1 at 1337 7th Street serving the Downtown community. The new essential services facility has been under construction since June 2018 and replaces SMFD’s first and oldest station. Fire Station 1 serves the downtown core and is Santa Monica’s most active station with 8,948 calls for service…
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….
Los Angeles fire officials are dramatically changing how rescuers respond to mass shootings after a gunman with a high-powered rifle mortally wounded a federal security officer in a shooting rampage last month at LAX. The new goal is to have Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics and firefighters, protected by armed law enforcement teams, rapidly enter…
United States Navy F/A-18’s will be flying into Long Beach Airport and will be conducting a fly-over for the Long Beach Grand Prix this weekend. This may be a good opportunity for Civilian and MilAir monitoring in the area. The tentative schedule that has been provided to the Long Beach Airport is: Thursday, April 18,…
Things were a lot different when LAPD opened its Foothill Division headquarters in Pacoima in 1961. The northeast San Fernando Valley was in the midst of a transformation from citrus and olive groves to a bedroom community. The new neighborhoods were home to 217,000 people, about 40 percent of them belonging to the generation known…
