Duties of a principal security officer with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power: Direct officers who patrol and safeguard buildings and their occupants. Supervise investigations of accidents, thefts and disturbances. Possess good judgment. The city’s job description doesn’t mention the opportunity to clock serious overtime, but it’s there. Principal security officer Ricardo Frias…
A dozen small earthquakes, each more than 3 in magnitude, rattled the Ridgecrest area overnight Sunday into Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. They were among the 3,000 or aftershocks that have shaken a region few outsiders were aware of until a 7.1 quake hit on Friday and swayed much of Southern California. Earthquake experts,…
SANTA ANA — A girl suffered a lower body wound Sunday in a car-to-car shooting on Main Street in Santa Ana, authorities said. It happened about 8:25 p.m. in the 2400 block of South Main Street, Santa Ana police Commander M. Moreno said. Paramedics took the victim to a hospital, where her vital signs were…
Newport Beach Police fired upon, but missed, a knife-wielding suspect who surrendered hours after he allegedly assaulted officers with a caustic chemical, sending two of them to a hospital on Sunday, July 7, officials said. Officers responding at about 2:48 p.m. to multiple reports of a domestic dispute at an apartment near the 800 block…
Will you need help if a major earthquake hits the greater Los Angeles area? If so, get ready to wait. Destruction to roads and freeways, utilities and communication networks – in addition to the sheer number of people who would need assistance – could mean an acute lag in response times, said L.A. County Fire…
Two motorcycles collided head-on in the Santiago Canyon area of Orange County, leaving four people dead on Sunday, July 7, officials said. The crash happened on Santiago Canyon Road, about a quarter of a mile south of Hicks Haul Road in the hills south of Irvine Lake and northeast of Lake Forest at about 4:30…
On Saturday afternoon, a family of five was seeking shelter from the scorching Trona, Calif., sun under one of the lone patches of shade that could be found in the town. They had slept in their cars by the churchyard Friday night and weren’t planning on returning to their house until a couple of…
Emergency fire crews and equipment from around the state will remain on standby in the Ridgecrest area for the near future, “in case something happens,” Kern County Fire Department Battalion Chief Dionisio Mitchell said Sunday. Water from a broken line runs down a crack on the ground in the aftermath of an earthquake along Highway…
Lori Churchill, her friend Michelle Hewitt and neighbor James Combs were sitting under a tarp in a courtyard at the Trousdale Estates, a mobile home park in Ridgecrest, when Gov. Gavin Newsom arrived Saturday afternoon with other state and local officials as part of a tour of earthquake damage…
The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Southern California on Friday night tipped buildings off their foundations and left residents on edge but did not cause any fatalities or major injuries, officials said. California’s second major earthquake in less than two days struck near Ridgecrest, a…
