BRIEFLY : BABY GIRL HOSPITALIZED AFTER SMALL HOME FIRE.NORTH HOLLYWOOD - A month-old girl was taken by helicopter to a hospital as a precaution after a small fire Thursday in her family's North Hollywood home. Firefighters went to the 11500 block of Cantlay Street about 12:25 p.m. and found smoke throughout the house, and a small blaze in the bathroom, said Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. spokesman Brian Humphrey. The fire was started when a lighted candle ignited a nearby bottle of perfume, he said. Humphrey said the baby was on a bed when the fire broke out and was carried to safety by her mother. ``Firefighters noticed the bedspread where the girl was napping was covered with soot,'' he said, adding paramedics examined the baby and saw soot around her nostrils. Because of the possibility she may have suffered a respiratory injury from the soot and smoke, the girl was airlifted to Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . SOURCE: -City News Service 2 men fined $3,255 in waste-hauling case A judge ordered a hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. hauler and one of his drivers Thursday to pay $3,255 in fines for violating a state hazardous material transportation law, officials said. Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Harold Crowder ordered Thomas Martin, president of Newhall-based Martin Environmental Services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, , to pay $1,755 after he pleaded no contest to a charge stemming from an incident last year involving one of his company's trucks. A Los Angeles police officer stopped the Martin Environmental vehicle on San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Mission Road in Mission Hills after noticing it had an expired hazardous waste certification. The officer discovered that the truck was hauling a cargo of hazardous waste - cadmium and nickel - which was leaking from its container and onto the roadway, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Deputy City Attorney Rubin Harsoyo. Esteban Somoza Donis, the driver of the truck, also pleaded no contest to a single count of transporting hazardous material in a leaky container and was ordered to pay $1,500. SOURCE: -City News Service Glendale man guilty in fuel tax scheme A federal jury convicted a Glendale man Wednesday of 56 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud and tax evasion The process whereby a person, through commission of Fraud, unlawfully pays less tax than the law mandates. Tax evasion is a criminal offense under federal and state statutes. A person who is convicted is subject to a prison sentence, a fine, or both. for his role in a scam to avoid paying $1.5 million in diesel fuel excise taxes excise taxes, governmental levies on specific goods produced and consumed inside a country. They differ from tariffs, which usually apply only to foreign-made goods, and from sales taxes, which typically apply to all commodities other than those specifically exempted. . Akop Hakopian, 38, faces a ``lengthy'' term in a federal prison, a prosecutor said in court. Hakopian, who owns a gasoline truck company, conspired with nine other men - fuel distributors, gasoline station owners and other fuel haulers - to split profits they garnered from not paying taxes on diesel they sold. Outside court, he maintained his innocence and vowed to appeal. SOURCE: -City News Service |
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