Category Archives: Accidents/Fires
Vet Pleads for Help for Her Son: Auxiliary Questions Spending Money to Help
Post 283 American Legion Auxiliary heard and impassioned plea from a Navy veteran at the Post at its May meeting. Michelle Heaton is active in Post 283, serving as the sergeant-at-arms and is the secretary for the Post’s Women Legionnaires...
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Aerial Firefighting Practice: Not the Real Thing
The County of Los Angeles Fire Department (LACoFD) will be performing aerial firefighting training with partner agencies at the 69 Bravo Helispot located in the Santa Monica Mountains above Topanga Canyon from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 3....
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Palisades Need to Repair Their Own Streets, Apparently
By HANK WRIGHT A small confession: lost it a bit at Sunday’s [April 26] infrastructure meeting. Officials are working on a plan, they said — to fix the roads. Anyone who’s lived rural or semi-rural, I said, knows the rule:...
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LETTER: Health Concerns with “Pop-up” Food Stands
(Editor’s note: The following letter was approved on April 23 by the Pacific Palisades Community Council and sent to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Environmental Health, Mobile Food Program. CTN ran an April 14 story click here. This...
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Radio Choices and Classes to Prepare for the Next Emergency
By HANK WRIGHT A monthly Emergency Radio 1010 session was held at the Palisades Recovery Center on April 21, hosted by Michael Sheehy and Hank Wright — both members of the City of Los Angeles Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS). The...
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Steyer’s Climate Tax Statement Infuriates Locals
Tom Steyer is the leading Democrat in the polls for California governor, since Eric Swalwell dropped out. On April 17, Steyer wrote on X “The people of Altadena and Pacific Palisades paid a climate tax last year. They lost their...
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Worker Rescued from a Trench on Via de las Olas
A worker was rescued from a collapsed trench at 1:48 p.m. in the 15400 block of Via de las Olas (at Beirut) in Pacific Palisades on Thursday, April 16. A 28-year-old male, in grave condition, was given lifesaving measures by...
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Get Prepared for the Next Big One
There are three opportunities in April to help prepare your family and yourself for the next big emergency, whether it be a fire, earthquake or other disaster. Studies have shown that 90% of all disaster survivors are rescued by other...
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Layer by Layer, Palisades Fire Secrecy Unwinds
Initial depositions relating to the Lachman Fire were released, February26. Lead Attorney Rober Behle of Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis, LLP said, “These depositions are game changers. For more than a year, the public has been kept in the dark...
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No Surprise Palisades Has 2 of Most Dangerous Intersections
The Los Angeles Times has analyzed and identified the most dangerous intersections in the in the more than 7,500 miles of streets in Los Angeles. The Times analysis included high traffic volume and frequent crashes dating back to 2010. The...
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