BRIEFLY : CITY HOLDS QUAKE RESPONSE EXERCISE.On a day a 3.1 aftershock af·ter·shock n. 1. A quake of lesser magnitude, usually one of a series, following a large earthquake in the same area. 2. of the Northridge Earthquake The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6. hit the Valley, Los Angeles city officials practiced their emergency response Thursday by responding to a simulated 6.6 earthquake centered on the Hollywood fault. Two days before the fourth anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake, firefighters, police officers and other emergency workers activated the city's Emergency Operations Center The Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions at a strategic level in an emergency situation, and ensuring and dealt with simulated problems including cracks in the Hollywood Reservoir that forced a pretend evacuation of neighboring residents. ``I was really pleased to see the flow of information and the response,'' said Ellis Stanley, the city's chief of emergency preparedness. The real temblor, measuring 3.1 in magnitude, hit at 2:54 p.m., said Sue McHugh, spokeswoman for the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. . - Daily News Deputy wounded in off-duty shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. LA MIRADA - An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was shot in the head Thursday evening, and authorities were searching for the gunman. The male deputy was shot about 7:40 p.m. at a flower shop on East Imperial Highway, said sheriff's Sgt. Susan Cross. The deputy was apparently buying flowers when someone tried to rob the store, police said. The deputy was transferred to the University of California, Irvine Medical Center The University of California, Irvine Medical Center (or UCI Medical Center) is a major research hospital located in the City of Orange. It is Orange County's central public hospital and the teaching center for the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. , where he was in critical condition, authorities said. - Associated Press Boy hospitalized after hit by van A 2-year-old boy hit by a van Thursday in Pacoima was hospitalized in critical condition, according to Officer Bill Mulvhill of the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic division. The accident occurred just after noon in the 11000 block of Norris Avenue in front of a church, Mulvhill said. The child, who suffered about an 8-inch-long cut in his scalp was taken to nearby Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History in Mission Hills, Humphrey said. - Daily News Police: Man may have bilked others VAN NUYS - Police said Thursday there may be more victims of a West Covina man booked on suspicion of involvement in a trust deed A legal document that evidences an agreement of a borrower to transfer legal title to real property to an impartial third party, a trustee, for the benefit of a lender, as security for the borrower's debt. scheme that has cost at least one victim $180,000. Maurice C. Vaughn, 59, was booked for grand theft at Van Nuys Jail and is being held on $137,000 bail, said Detective Carrie Zipperman. Vaughn used the business names of First Financial Trust and Deed Services Inc., Conservative Financial Group Inc. and Momar Financial, Zipperman said. Anyone who has been victimized or has had contact with him in connection with any business transaction is asked to call Zipperman at the Valley Forgery Section, (818) 756-8323. - City News Service Applications due for magnet schools Applications for L.A. Unified magnet schools and the Permits with Transportation Program are due this Friday, officials said. In April, parents will be notified whether their children were accepted or placed on a waiting list. District officials expect to receive as many as 50,000 applications for about 13,500 openings in magnet centers and schools, such as the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies (also Sherman Oaks CES or SOCES) is a (magnet) public school in the San Fernando Valley, Southern California, United States. . For information, call (213) 625-4177 or (213) 625-6572. - Daily News City lawyer forced to pay legal costs An official of the City Attorney's Office has been sanctioned and ordered to pay attorney's fees for a fourth time by a federal judge for failing to comply with court orders in the lawsuit filed by the son of one of the bank robbers involved in the Feb. 28 North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. , an attorney said Thursday. Attorney Stephen Yagman said U.S. District Magistrate Judge Rosalyn Chapman imposed $1,012 in attorney's fees on Assistant City Attorney Don Vincent for violating a Nov. 19 court order that he pay $450. - Daily News |
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