BRIEFLY : OUTBREAK OF ILLNESS SPURS INVESTIGATION.Los Angeles County health officials are investigating 26 cases of Legionnaires' disease reported recently in West Los Angeles
Officials are trying to determine whether there is a pocket of the disease or whether the number of cases has increased because of new diagnostic testing, said Dr. James Haughton of the Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
Symptoms include high fever, headache, decreased appetite, cough and shortness of breath Shortness of Breath Definition Shortness of breath, or dyspnea, is a feeling of difficult or labored breathing that is out of proportion to the patient's level of physical activity. . Legionnaires' disease, which is not contagious, can be treated with antibiotics. The airborne bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease has been found in air-conditioning ducts, storage tanks and rivers. The bacterium grows in warm water and can be inhaled in mist, Haughton said. If the Los Angeles County cases are all from common exposure, the water source will be identified and decontaminated, Haughton said. Los Angeles County is working with the state, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. . Legionnaires' disease was named after an outbreak at a Pennsylvania American Legion convention in 1976 that killed 34 people. ?13- Associated Press Police say 911 call dialed incorrectly A 911 cellular phone call was misdialed from a remote mountain crash site where a family of four was found dead days later, authorities said. The attempted 911 call was the last of several calls from the phone, but it was dialed 1-911. The 1 before the emergency code made it invalid, said Cindy Beavers, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, which investigated the initial report that the Lechugas were missing. Six calls were attempted from the San Gabriel Mountains San Gabriel Mountains, S Calif., E and NE of Los Angeles, running c.50 mi (80 km) westward from Cajon Pass. San Antonio Peak (10,080 ft/3,072 m) is the highest of the range. Citrus fruits are raised on the southern foothills. where the Highland Park family's truck plunged 300 feet off Angeles Crest Highway The Angeles Crest Highway is a two-lane (one lane of travel in each direction) segment of California State Route 2 in the United States. The road is 66 miles in length, with its western terminus at the intersection at Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge and its eastern in Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los as they were driving home from a Thanksgiving celebration in Victorville. The calls were attempted sometime during the early evening of Nov. 29, according to phone records examined by police. The bodies of Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Lechuga, who is believed to have made the calls, her husband, Jose, and her sons, Jeremy, 4, and Joseph, 5, were found Tuesday. ?13- Associated Press Disabled smoker killed in house fire A 58-year-old bedridden stroke victim died Friday after her careless smoking sparked a fire in the bedroom of a Venice home, a Fire Department spokesman said. It was the fourth fire in Los Angeles since Dec. 2 that injured disabled or elderly women, two of whom died, 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. Capt. Steve Ruda. In Friday's blaze, the victim's mother was able to flee the burning home, where she was taking care of her daughter, but she was unable to help the disabled woman out of the residence, said Fire Department spokesman Bob Collis. The fire was confined to the bedroom in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue. |
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