BRIEFLY : BUILDING FIRE CAUSES $1 MILLION DAMAGE.SHERMAN OAKS - Fire ripped through the top floor of a three-story building Thursday, causing an estimated $1 million in damage and sending a fire captain to the hospital with heat exhaustion heat exhaustion, condition caused by overexposure to sunlight or another heat source and resulting in dehydration and salt depletion, also known as heat prostration. The symptoms are severe headaches, weakness, dizziness, blurred vision, and sometimes unconsciousness. , officials said. The blaze broke out about 3:20 a.m. in the 4300 block of Fulton Avenue and was deemed a major-emergency fire, drawing 95 firefighters from 19 companies, 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 Bob Collis. It took 90 minutes to quell the flames, which caused a partial collapse of the roof above the third-floor office suites, Collis said. The two lower floors, one which appeared to be vacant and one used for parking, were not affected, he said. A fire captain suffered heat exhaustion and was taken to Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks Hopital (SOH) is an 153 bed acute care facility in Sherman Oaks, California, USA and is home of world renowned the Grossman Burn Center. SOH is owned and operated by Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. , where he was treated and released. Fire officials estimated the damage to the building at $750,000, with an additional $250,000 loss to its contents, he said. The cause remained under investigation. - Daily News Autopsy results released in death NORTH HOLLYWOOD - An autopsy found no alcohol in the system of a man who authorities believed died after being force-fed alcohol at an unlicensed alcoholism treatment clinic. Enrique Bravo died of chronic liver disease Chronic liver disease is a liver disease of slow process and persisting over a long period of time, resulting in a progressive destruction of the liver. It includes amongst others:
Bravo was found dead in May outside Grupo Liberacion y Fortaleza in North Hollywood. Officials alleged he was tied up and fed alcohol as aversion therapy aversion therapy n. A type of behavior therapy designed to modify antisocial habits or addictions by creating a strong association with a disagreeable or painful stimulus. . In June, prosecutors charged four men with involuntary manslaughter The act of unlawfully killing another human being unintentionally. Most unintentional killings are not murder but involuntary manslaughter. The absence of the element of intent is the key distinguishing factor between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. and false imprisonment in connection with Bravo's death. Prosecutors allege that Bravo died during the treatment and that the four men carried him out of the clinic and left him sitting in a chair on the sidewalk. But Deputy Medical Examiner Thomas H. Gill listed ``alcoholic liver disease alcoholic liver disease Hepatology A general term for any of a number of clinical conditions caused by chronic excess of alcohol consumption, including alcoholic cirrhosis and alcoholic fatty liver. See Alcoholic hepatitis, Cirrhosis. and other undetermined inflicted factors'' as the reasons Bravo died. - Associated Press Freeway shut down to catch suspects Two suspects who held up a Camarillo bank Thursday and sped off in a getaway car were arrested when law enforcement officials blocked off southbound traffic on the Ventura Freeway and stopped the car, authorities said. The two young men walked into the Camarillo branch of City National Bank at 502 N. Las Posas Road shortly after 1 p.m. and demanded money, said Ventura County FBI Supervisor David Nesbitt. One displayed an automatic weapon, but no one was reported injured, he said. The suspects took the money and left. Nesbitt said a person who observed them getting into a compact Honda with two other males inside took down the vehicle's license plate number as it sped away. When police broadcast the number, a retired officer saw the car make its way onto the southbound Ventura Freeway. Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. units followed the car, while California Highway Patrol officers blocked southbound lanes. All four suspects, who were not identified, were arrested. Lanes were reopened by 3 p.m. - Daily News 3rd suspect arrested in parking lot death VALENCIA - Los Angeles homicide detectives Thursday announced the arrest of a third suspect in a fatal shooting earlier this year in the parking lot of Magic Mountain. Los Angeles resident Jamika Cansan was arrested Thursday by members of the North Regional Surveillance and Apprehension Team, said Deputy Ed Bailey. Sheriff's detectives said Cansan, 21, was implicated im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. in the April 9 shooting that resulted in the death of 15-year-old Danny Vega. Officials said Cansan is believed to have provided the weapon. Cansan is being held without bail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. , authorities said. - Daily News |
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