BRIEFLY ONE HOSPITALIZED AFTER PACOIMA FIRE.PACOIMA - A firefighter suffered 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. while fighting a fire in an apartment building in Pacoima, officials said. The firefighter was listed in good condition at 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 after the 6 p.m. blaze in the 9800 block of N. Laurel Canyon Laurel Canyon can refer to several things:
It took 45 firefighters about 45 minutes to extinguish the blaze that engulfed the first and second floors and the attic of the building. One female adult was treated at the scene for emotional distress emotional distress n. an increasingly popular basis for a claim of damages in lawsuits for injury due to the negligence or intentional acts of another. Originally damages for emotional distress were only awardable in conjunction with damages for actual physical harm. and released. The cause of the blaze was under investigation. No damage estimates were immediately available. - Daily News Single-car crash victims identified SHERMAN OAKS - Two men killed when their car slammed into a utility pole A utility pole, telegraph pole, telephone pole, power pole, or telegraph post is a post or pole upon which telecommunication network equipment is situated. were identified Saturday as driver Juan Carlos Madriz, 23, and his 18-year-old passenger, Luis Guillen Jr. An 19-year-old woman also in the 1986 Toyota Corolla was treated for moderate injuries suffered in the crash at noon Friday on Valley Vista Boulevard, west of Stansbury Avenue, officials said. Investigators suspect the crash may have been alcohol-related. - City News Service FBI agent, lover to be arraigned Arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted is set for Monday in Los Angeles for a San Marino woman accused of being a double agent and her former FBI handler, who authorities say was also her longtime lover. Katrina Leung - who allegedly was an agent for China at the same time she was an informant for the FBI - faces two counts of copying national defense documents and three counts of unauthorized possession of national defense documents. Leung is not charged with espionage. The 49-year-old business consultant and Republican fund-raiser, who prosecutors believe took documents from the briefcase of FBI handler James J. Smith James J. Smith, aka "JJ" is a retired FBI Supervisory Special agent. He served the FBI from October 1970 to November 2000 and specialized in Chinese counterintelligence. He was based in the FBI's Los Angeles field office. He lives in Westlake Village, California. , has been held without bail since her arrest April 9. She faces up to 50 years in prison if she is convicted of all the charges against her. - City News Service |
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