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Bomb scare on train closes Metrolink station in Burbank
The Burbank Metrolink station and a train on which there was thought to be a bomb have been cleared by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s bomb squad, Burbank police announced on Twitter just before 2 p.m. All of the roughly 20 passengers were...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Social Media
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Loud explosion in North Hollywood still a mystery, police say
So what was it? The loud explosion that jolted North Hollywood on Tuesday night remained a mystery the next morning, authorities said. An officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's North Hollywood station said police searched the area for a half...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Los Angeles Times, Kate Mather, Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Police Department
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Burb's Eye View: Gobble up boutique goods before Thanksgiving
A week before the multinational conglomerates begin their invented holiday of Black Friday, Magnolia Park's boutiques host a much more personal shopping affair that keeps a large portion of money in Burbank. And for the first time in a long time, they'...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Holidays, Black Friday (shopping)
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Burbank tobacco wholesaler goes up in smoke, fire knocked down
It took firefighters in Burbank more than three hours Friday morning to knock down a three-alarm fire that destroyed a wholesale cigarette and tobacco business. The fire at Wholesale Giant Inc., at 4410 W. Victory Blvd., was reported at 3:30 a.m., with...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Fires
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Man burned in Santa Clarita explosion at marijuana grow house
A man suffered severe burns after an explosion this week in a Santa Clarita apartment that authorities said was being used as a marijuana grow house and laboratory for the extraction of tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly known as THC and the active ingredient...
Tags: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Emergency Incidents, Los Angeles Times, Ari Bloomekatz
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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, Transportation Security Administration, Emergency Incidents, Email
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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: Emergency Incidents
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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: Emergency Incidents, Metal and Mineral, Homes, Building Material
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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: Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Emergency Incidents, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Court Preliminary
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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: Justice System, FBI, Emergency Incidents, Antonio Villaraigosa, Crime, Law and Justice
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What brought down TWA Flight 800? Group wants investigation reopened
Federal officials are weighing a request to reopen the investigation of the 1996 explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800 that went down off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 people aboard. A group of former investigators, interviewed in a...
Tags: Epix (tv network), FBI, John F. Kennedy, Television, Emergency Incidents
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Underground explosion cuts power for thousands
Fountain Valley police and Southern California Edison responded Monday to an underground explosion that caused the loss of power to thousands of customers. The explosion, or what Sgt. Kurt Ulrich called a "significant boom," occurred around 8 p.m. at...Tags: Southern California Edison Company, Emergency Incidents
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