BRIEFLY : GLENDALE BUSINESS RAVAGED BY BLAZE.GLENDALE - A pre-dawn fire gutted a Glendale medical-supply company and damaged two adjacent businesses on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, firefighters said. The blaze in the single-story building at 1224 S. Glendale Ave. was reported shortly after 2:40 a.m., said spokesman Don Wise. Firefighters arrived to find the building fully involved in flames In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. Along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, they pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal. . The fire spread to a florist's shop and beauty-supply business before it was extinguished about 3 a.m. Damage was estimated at $600,000. It was not clear how the fire started. - City News Service Quakes shake area near Mexico border PASADENA - Two earthquakes shook a sparsely populated area of Imperial County near the Mexican border on Sunday. A magnitude-3.6 temblor hit at 7:33 a.m., and was centered 15 miles southwest of Ocotillo, said 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. seismologist seis·mol·o·gy n. The geophysical science of earthquakes and the mechanical properties of the earth. seis Sue Hough n. 1. Same as Hock, a joint. v. t. 1. Same as Hock, to hamstring. [ imp. & p. p. os> r>; p. pr. & vb. n. os> n. 1. An adz; a hoe. v. t. 1. To cut with a hoe. . Hough described that shaker as a ``foreshock'' to a 4.2-magnitude quake that struck at 8:53 a.m. and was centered 16 miles southwest of Ocotillo. - City News Service Head-on collision A head-on collision is one where the front ends of two ships, trains, planes or vehicles hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision. Rail transport With rail, a head-on collision often implies a collision on a single line railway. leaves woman dead PALMDALE - A Northridge woman was killed Sunday when the car she was driving veered into oncoming traffic on a Palmdale street and collided head-on with a pickup truck, a sheriff's deputy said. The collision happened about 3 p.m. on Palmdale Boulevard near 50th Street East, said sheriff's Deputy David Miklos. The 50-year-old woman was driving a Datsun 240Z east on Palmdale Boulevard when she apparently veered off the roadway and overcorrected, sending the car into the westbound lanes, Miklos said. The woman died at the scene, while the pickup driver suffered minor injuries, he said.The woman's name was withheld pending notification of relatives. - City News Service CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan to put Volvo through its paces SACRAMENTO - The car of choice for soccer moms and yuppies is about to be put to the test by the California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. . For the past two years, the CHP has been quietly testing Volvos on its high-speed tracks at the CHP Academy in West Sacramento. Next month, it plans to start deploying the imports - each wearing the CHP insignia - for patrol duty and more testing on roads and highways List of articles related to roads and highways around the world. International/World
``We are going to put 100,000 miles on them. If they come apart real quick, we'll scratch them real quick. If they hold together, we'll drive them,'' said CHP Commissioner D.O. ``Spike'' Helmick. - Associated Press Recycling yard site of bees swarming LOS ANGELES - A swarm of thousands of bees was discovered at a recycling yard in the Hyde Park area on Sunday, a foreman at the facility 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 confirmed that firefighters sent to Active Recycling, 2000 W. Slauson Ave., discovered a large swarm of bees there over the weekend. - City News Service |
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