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Why You Should Not Park Next to a Fire Hydrant

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ByAdmin December 20, 2016December 20, 2016

Firefighters were forced to smash the windows of a car illegally parked next to a fire hydrant in Nebraska. Chuck Henry reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.

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LA-RICS Radio System Construction Update
ByAdmin February 1, 2018

Drill rigs and concrete trucks crawl up mountaintops at the break of dawn, forming silhouettes along LA basin and northern desert hillsides. Delivery trucks loaded with tower steel and heavy earth moving machinery mark the start of 2018 in grandiose fashion for the Land Mobile Radio (LMR) construction throughout LA County. “Construction activities over the last month have picked-up…

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California Wildfires Show the Value of Old Tech
ByAdmin November 10, 2017

When cell coverage goes down, it’s all ham radios and sirens to the rescue. Wildfires that killed nine people in a remote Northern California county last month also crippled landlines, cell phones, and internet service, the local sheriff said Thursday, saying the disaster shows old-fashioned sirens and ham radios have a place in emergencies. Failures…

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Cal Fire’s )V-10 Broncos are the Eyes Over California Wildfires
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More than fifty years after its debut in the jungles of Vietnam, the North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco remains very much alive in the skies—though in missions its original designers could hardly have imagined. Conceived in the 1960s as a rugged counter-insurgency aircraft and forward air controller, the twin-boom turboprop earned fame in Southeast Asia,…

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BMW Wins LAPD Electric Car Contract, Beating Tesla
ByAdmin June 8, 2016

German automaker BMW has beaten California-based Tesla Motors Inc. by winning a contract to supply the Los Angeles Police Department with 100 electric cars. BMW is leasing 100 of its i3 all-electric plug-in vehicles, which the LAPD plans to use for community outreach and other police business — but not patrols or car chases. That will bring to almost…

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LACoFD USAR Team Completes International Evaluation
ByAdmin May 23, 2012

The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue Team (CALIFORNIA TASK FORCE 2), known internationally as USA-2, achieved its re-classification as an “International Heavy-USAR Team” after a rigorous evaluation by a team of multinational United Nations (UN) representatives this past weekend. In order to ensure the team meets the minimal emergency response standards…

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More than 100 Firefighters Battle Sylmar Strip Mall Blaze
ByAdmin December 11, 2018

Firefighters Monday extinguished a greater-alarm blaze that damaged part of an L-shaped strip mall in Sylmar, and no one was hurt. The fire was reported December 10th at 3:47 a.m. at 12777 San Fernando Road and extinguished in about two hours and 50 minutes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters were forced out…

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