News

  • Hands Only CPR Session Offered at the Library
    The LA County Department of Public Health is coming once a month, through December, to provide a Hands-Only CPR training. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating. Immediate CPR
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  • Lahaina Had Brush Fires Warnings: So Has Pacific Palisades
    The nation watched in horror at the devastation of Lahaina and the loss of life, now estimated at 106, because of the fire that ravaged the small town of 13,216 on the west coast of Maui. At least 11,000 people were forced to evacuate. The Pacific
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  • October 2019 Getty Brush Fire: Palisades Residents Tried to Evacuate
    (Editor’s note: During the Getty Brush Fire, much of Pacific Palisades was under mandatory evacuation. The fire was first reported on October 28 and was contained on November 5. Thousands of people were forced to flee, 10 homes were destroyed and 15
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  • Lessons from the Wind-driven Oakland Fire
    (Editor’s note: In this 2014 story, Station 69 Captains worried about a wind-driving brush fire.) With Southern California experiencing its worst dry spell on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific
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  • The 1978 Blaze Destroyed 25 Homes and St. Matthew’s Church
    On the afternoon of October 23, 1978, a blaze started near the intersection of Sepulveda and Mulholland. Whipped by winds that gusted up to 60 miles an hour, it spread west, through Kenter, Mandeville, Sullivan, Rustic, Temescal and Santa Ynez
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  • Corner of Temescal and PCH Beautified by the Rotary, But Irrigation Stopped
    The naked pink ladies were starting to dance in the Rotary Landscaping at the Corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Temescal Canyon Road. But the ground was hard as cement and most of the plants, in the corner by the pump station, looked distressed.
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  • Our Street Is Being Repaved, AGAIN
    A long-time Marquez Knolls resident wrote Circling the News, “It’s so strange. We have had our streets re-paved, tarred, you name it and they’ve done it [again and again]. The resident said that streets on Lachman, Buenaventura, Las Flores and
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  • Mia Ruhman Will Sing National Anthem at Village Green’s 50th Celebration
    Palisadian Mia Ruhman, will sing the National Anthem on Sunday, August 28 at the Village Green. The triangular small park at the center of the village  is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Ruhman will step to the mike after the flag raising at 10:30
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  • Gofundme Organized for El Medio Bluffs Mail Carrier
      “We witnessed an accident at Pacific Coast Highway and Entrada tonight [August 8]. It appears that a motorcyclist was trapped under an SUV,” a resident wrote, and added, “it looked bad.” It was bad. Palisades U.S. Postal Mail Carrier Bryan
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  • Programs and Events of Interest: Mentoring, Painting and Happy Hour
    Mentoring and Befriending In March, CTN printed an emotional story about the bonding between Palisades High School students and local residents, 60+ (click here.) Sages and Seekers pairs a high school teen with a senior citizen. They listen and
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