SoCal Fires Disaster Relief The Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and American Red Cross are accepting donations that will help “provide tools, equipment and immediate disaster relief resources for responders and the thousands displaced or affected” by this week’s wildfires in Los Angeles and Riverside counties, according to the foundation’s website. Go to the foundation’s…
Wildfires raging in Los Angeles and Riverside counties, including the Saddleridge fire in Sylmar and the Sandalwood fire in Calimesa, prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday to issue an emergency proclamation for those two counties. The Saddleridge, Eagle, Reche, Wolf and Sandalwood fires have forced thousands of residential evacuations and caused the destruction of several…
Vance Wooten survived the Sandalwood fire, but the home he shared with his mother, who lived in the Villa Calimesa Mobile Home Park for 30 years, did not. As he fled the park, he managed to rescue one elderly neighbor. He believes he saw another woman perish. Wooten, 34, was sleeping Thursday about 2 p.m….
A man accused of shooting an Anaheim co-worker to death nearly 19 years ago has been arrested and brought back to Orange County after police say he was discovered living under an assumed name in Texas. Leopoldo Vargas Serano, now 47, spent nearly two decades as a fugitive, charged with murder in connection to the…
Firefighters recoil from smoke and heat from a fully engulfed house on Jolette Way in Granda Hills North early Friday morning. The fast wind-driven Saddleridge Fire spread rapidly from Sylmar to Porter Ranch late Thursday and early Friday morning October 11, 2019 destroying at least three homes. (Photo by David Crane, /Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)…
The trash hauler who ignited the deadly Sandalwood fire by dumping burning garbage on a windy Calimesa roadside was following recommended safety standards, experts say. It is not unusual for trash to spontaneously catch fire and the practice nationally is for trucks to dump the hot load and call the fire department, according to the…
A wind-driven brush fire in Calimesa destroyed 73 mobile homes and a park clubhouse, damaged 16 other homes and burned at least 500 acres on Thursday, authorities said. The so-called Sandalwood fire began after a trash truck carrying burning garbage dumped its load near Sandalwood Drive and Seventh Street, close to the 10 Freeway off-ramp…
Massive Saddleridge fire threatening hundreds of homes: Here are the details
Portions of four major freeways into Los Angeles as well as Metrolink service from the northern part of L.A. County are shut down.
Firefighters continued to get a handle on the fast-moving Reche fire and announced Friday morning, Oct. 11, that forward spread had stopped. As of about 7:30 a.m. Friday morning, the blaze was 40 percent contained, officials said. Firefighters are on scene to strengthen containment lines. MORE: This map shows where the Reche fire is burning…
