IN THE LINE OF DUTY; POLICE, FIRE FAMILIES AID EACH OTHER AFTER DEATHS.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer Much like a military base in mourning when a soldier dies on the other side of the globe, Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, has its unfair share of sorrow when Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, loses a peace officer. So many police officers, deputies, firefighters and California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers live in Santa Clarita that tightly knit Adj. 1. tightly knit - closely and firmly integrated; "a tight-knit organization" tight-knit integrated - formed into a whole or introduced into another entity; "a more closely integrated economic and political system"- Dwight D. neighborhoods too often find themselves shaken by violence or catastrophe occurring miles away. ``People in law enforcement and in the fire services
Fire Services (Chinese:消防) is a Hong Kong football club. The majority of the players are working for the Fire Services Department in Hong Kong and playing for the club on look for areas to live that are away from their daily kind of work,'' said George Pederson, a retired sheriff's captain and former Santa Clarita mayor. ``They want to get away from it. They want what everyone else wants - safety, good education, a community with parks, playgrounds - and Santa Clarita has an outstanding reputation as a place that can have all that and still be in driving distance to East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. or Long Beach or Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. . ``And whenever we have a lot of peace officers and firefighters in an area who live in a violent world, you're going to find there a disproportionate amount of victims living in our community. That's why it happens - the odds are here.'' Ann Brunzell of Valencia is president 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 Family Support Group. A police widow herself - her husband, Robert, died of melanoma - Brunzell is on call 24 hours should a police officer succumb to a terminal disease or be killed in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
Quite often, the victim is from her hometown. ``My husband and I moved here 20 years ago because he wanted to get away from the city,'' Brunzell said in a recent interview. ``A lot of the time, police try to get as far away from the urban areas as possible. We don't have the crime and a lot of the other problems that L.A. has.'' Thus Santa Clarita and other outlying communities have become company towns for fire departments, police department and other public agencies. A 1994 study by the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. found that nearly 600 LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers lived in Santa Clarita. About two-thirds of the officers from the smaller Burbank and Glendale police departments live outside the cities they serve, mostly in Santa Clarita and the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , records show. ``When my brother and I were involved with the LAPD as reserves, the majority of the guys it seemed lived in Santa Clarita,'' said Michael Fleming Michael Valentine Fleming (1913 - 1 October 1940) was the son of Valentine Fleming and brother of Ian Fleming and Peter Fleming. He married Letitia Blanche Borthwick, daughter of Hon. Malcolm Algernon Borthwick and Blanche Buckland Gorrie, on 28 July 1934. , who with his brother David runs the Mountasia Family Fun Center in Santa Clarita. ``It was always the joke that Santa Clarita has to have the lowest crime rate ever because so many police officers live there.'' The brothers held a fund-raiser Friday night at Mountasia, donating proceeds from their roller rink to the family of Los Angeles Fire Capt. Joseph Charles Dupee of Valencia. Dupee died a hero March 8 after pulling his men out of a burning industrial building in Hyde Park Hyde Park, park, London, England Hyde Park, 615 acres (249 hectares) in Westminster borough, London, England. Once the manor of Hyde, a part of the old Westminster Abbey property, it became a deer park under Henry VIII. . ``When I heard about Capt. Dupee my heart ached, especially when I heard they had a 3-year-old and a newborn,'' Fleming said. Brunzell remembers many other heroes' names. There's Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Shayne York, who was off duty from his job at the Pitchess Detention Center when he was shot to death in a robbery attempt last summer in Buena Park. And there is Glendale police Officer Charles Lazzaretto of Valencia, who was killed last May during an investigation in Chatsworth. Long list of heroes Deputy John Thompson quickly comes to mind, shot to death in what investigators said was a domestic battle in his Newhall home. The list continues with county Firefighter James Howe of Newhall, who died in an arson blaze in February 1991 in Huntington Park. And there's Charles Dean Heim, a Canyon High School Canyon High School can refer to:
Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. at a Hollywood hotel on an autumn night in 1994. Glendale Firefighter Steve Parrish and his wife, Bonnie, didn't know Dupee. But when he died, the Santa Clarita couple received condolence calls. ``A lot of people called to say they were sad about the captain who passed away,'' Bonnie Parrish said. ``They sent condolences like he was a member of our family. It was, you know. We're all family.'' Families united Firefighters and police families are united by the profession. ``The firefighter wives have an unspoken network,'' Parrish explained. ``If you need a hand, you need help, someone's always there for you. After the earthquake everyone comes by to make sure you're OK. They know where you live, they know your husband is on (duty) and they check on you. ``When we're watching the news and you see something terrible happen to someone, it happens to you. I have a neighbor who's a Beverly Hills police officer, and I worry about him. I think it's that way for everyone who knows a policeman or a firefighter. You worry for them. You worry with their wives. You cry when they cry.'' The Parrishes were swept into a community of mourning when Lazzaretto died. The couples had gotten to know each other in a childbirth-preparation class months before he was killed. Help from neighbors ``There's a tremendous connection in this community,'' Parrish said. It's a good thing in a way that survivors live in a city that still has a small-town closeness. Once the funeral is over and the officer's colleagues go back to work, the neighbors are there, Brunzell said. ``When my husband passed away, my neighbors knew he was in law enforcement,'' she said. ``They were always there. They wanted to do anything they could for us - they took the trash out, helped with the kids. They liked knowing there's a policeman in the neighborhood. But then they took the good with the bad.'' CAPTION(S): 5 Photos PHOTO (1--Color--Ran in SAC Edition only) LAZZARETTO (2--Color--Ran in SAC Edition only) HEIM (3--Color--Ran in SAC Edition only) YORK (4) Annete Arentzoff, left, laces skates on the feet of her daughter Julie during a recent charity event at Mountasia in Santa Clarita. (5--Ran in SAC Edition ony) In-line skaters round the rink at a recent fund-raiser for L.A. City Firefighter Joseph Dupee's family. John McCoy / Daily News |
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