BRIEFLY TODDLER INJURED IN POLICE PURSUIT.ARLETA - A 2-year-old boy was injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. Saturday in Arleta when he was thrown from a car after the driver tried to evade e·vade v. e·vad·ed, e·vad·ing, e·vades v.tr. 1. To escape or avoid by cleverness or deceit: evade arrest. 2. a. police following a hit-and-run crash, a police sergeant said. The incident took place about 7:35 p.m. when police were flagged down after the crash, said Sgt. Kim Kempton of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's Foothill station. The officers spotted the vehicle and began pursuit, she said. The driver turned a corner and the vehicle hit a car waiting at a red light at the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. of Terra Bella Street and Sharp Avenue. The passenger door opened and the child fell out and ended up beneath the idling car, Kempton said. The child was rushed to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles in serious but stable condition, said Bob Collis of the 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. . The female driver, whose name and age were not released, is apparently a friend of the boy's mother. She was arrested on suspicion of driving without a license and will face additional charges, Kempton said. - City News Service Boy nearly drowns in backyard pool A 12-year-old Tarzana boy was rescued from a backyard pool Saturday but was in critical condition after nearly drowning drowning /drown·ing/ (droun´ing) suffocation and death resulting from filling of the lungs with water or other substance. drowning, n asphyxiation because of submersion in a liquid. , officials said. Bob Collis, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, said the boy's father found him underwater Underwater 1. The condition a call option is in when its strike price is higher than the market price of the underlying stock. 2. The condition a put option is in when its strike price is lower than the market price of the underlying stock. and got him out by the time paramedics arrived at the Tarzana Street home. The boy was taken by helicopter to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where he was breathing but in critical condition, Collis said. - Daily News Sprinklers limit Van Nuys blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. VAN NUYS - Sprinklers are credited with containing a fire to one room on the third floor of a six-story office building in Van Nuys on Saturday, a fire spokesman said. Firefighters were called to the California National Bank building at 14545 Victory Blvd. about 9:20 p.m., said Bob Collis of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The fire was contained to one room on the third floor, but firefighters encountered heavy smoke on the third floor and water cascading through various parts of the building, he said. Eleven companies of firefighters contained the small amount of remaining fire shortly before 10 p.m., Collis said. There were no injuries reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation. - City News Service |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion