Los Angeles tunnel collapse traps 31 workers
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Note that full containment doesn't mean the fire is completely out. In this case, it means that firefighters have managed to get a line completely around the wildfire's perimeter and it is now stopped from spreading. A fully contained wildfire may continue to burn within the containment perimeter but is not likely to spread.
Firefighters in Los Angeles County contained the 47-acre Bert Fire in Castaic without reported injuries or damage.
The suit, which blames LADWP for damages caused by the devastating fire, amends a complaint filed in March and contains new allegations of city mismanagement and various attempts by LADWP to cover up its part in stoking the fire that destroyed nearly 7,000 homes and businesses and killed 12 people.
A new wildfire was reported today at 7:43 p.m. in Los Angeles County, California. Woodland Fire has been burning on private land. At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) reported that a total of 31 workers were rescued in the late hours of July 9 after an industrial tunnel collapsed in the city of Wilmington. “Thirty-one persons, all believed to be tunnel workers, have been safely removed from the tunnel alive without visible injury,” the update read. “None are missing.”
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Crews on Wednesday afternoon were battling a brush fire in the Beverly Crest area, authorities confirmed. The blaze, dubbed the Spur Fire, was first reported at about 1:30 p.m. near N San Ysidro Drive, north of Beverly Hills and east of Franklin Canyon.
City leaders praised first responders and drew attention to fire mitigation measures after the Rancho fire, which broke out on Monday afternoon, was largely contained by Tuesday evening.
Firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department and Beverly Hills Fire Department Wednesday worked together to put out the flames from a small brush fire that broke out in the hillside residential community of Beverly Glen. The fire was reported at 1:30 p.m. on San Ysidro Drive as the slow-moving brush fire burned one-quarter acre.