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Bob Hope Airport in flap on bag swabs
The Transportation Security Administration has halted a “long-standing” arrangement with Bob Hope Airport police when investigating unattended bags, raising safety and security concerns among officials at the airfield. In an April 19 email to...
Tags: Bob Hope, Email, Transportation Security Administration, Explosions
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Sparks cause explosion, flames near Burbank City Yard
Burbank firefighters put out small vegetation fires near the Burbank City Yard facility Wednesday afternoon, after an explosion shut down streets near Lake Street and Olive Avenue, officials said. Burning leaves on the roof of a collision center on...Tags: Explosions
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Deadline nears for residents to replace wood roofs
With the 20-year period for replacing all-wood-shingle roofs with less fire-prone material nearing its Aug. 14, 2012, deadline, 128 homes have yet to make the transition.
The drumbeat to shore up the last of the holdouts is expected to get louder as...Tags: Homes, Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Explosions
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Airport's bid process called 'chaotic'
Bob Hope Airport officials missed by millions when they estimated the costs of a proposed four-story transportation hub because of unrealistic expectations, last-minute design changes and unaddressed inflation concerns, according to contractors who sought...Tags: Condos and Houses, Emergency Planning, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Vehicles, Passenger Cars
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Officials propose temporary station closure to cut costs
A proposal to close firefighting operations out of a West Burbank station for nine months will allow the fire department to meet its 5% spending cut, but Chief Ray Krakowski warned that emergency response times will be affected citywide.
Under the plan,...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Emergency Planning, Government Debt, Employees, Fires
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Teams prepare for disaster
BURBANK — From extinguishing a small fire to rescuing someone trapped under a refrigerator, six teams on Saturday demonstrated their best disaster-preparedness skills in an inaugural Community Emergency Response Team challenge. Teams assessed and...Tags: Emergency Planning, Disasters, Employees, Agoura Hills, Fires
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Man pleads not guilty in Warner Bros. crash
A New York man on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to crashing through a gate at Warner Bros. Studios on Friday afternoon with materials that could be used to make an explosive device. Michael Rodriguez-Cintron, whose last name varies slightly in records from...Tags: New York, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles
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Development's traffic impact questioned
City officials are looking into whether developers of a massive NBC Universal project are underestimating how the added traffic will affect surrounding streets in West Burbank.
The influx could be significant. The nearly 400-acre site for the NBC...Tags: Public Transportation, Emergency Planning, Public Officials, NBCUniversal, Universal City
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The environment deserves our care
I completely disagree with Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich's "no" vote on banning single-use plastic bags in the county and his reasons for doing so ("Not the proper time for a bag ban," Nov. 24). He claims it puts an unfair burden on...Tags: Disasters, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Cleanup, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Disasters and Accidents
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Small Wonders: Oil on troubled waters
I've been feeling like one of those oil-covered sea gulls on a beach in Louisiana. Every morning I get up and take a look at the newspaper. I glance at the headline, usually in dismay, then automatically flip to the bottom of the page to see who died....Tags: Disasters, Environmental Pollution, Heart Attack, Obesity, Defense
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Training for attacks on U.S.
LOS ANGELES — Local, state and federal law enforcement agents swarmed a Burbank home Monday in a training exercise aimed at finding a potential radiological device. The drill started with the mock detonation of an improvised explosive device in...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Antonio Villaraigosa, Justice System, Defense
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Crystals can help predict volcano eruptions, scientists say
Scientists dissecting the remains of the disastrous 1980 explosion of Mt. St. Helens in Washington state say that crystal formations trapped in volcanic rocks hold important clues about when a magma-loaded mountain is about to blow — a discovery...
Tags: Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Eruption (2010), Landforms, University of Washington, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanoes
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