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A small plane has crashed into BART tracks in Hayward, CA killing the pilot. At 11:57 a.m., fire officials received a report that a small plane ent down near 150 Sandoval Way, said fire Capt. Don Nichelson of the Hayward Fire Dept. The crash caused a small fire. No other injuries have been reported, said Nichelson BART halted served on the Fremont Line, said BART officials, suggesting passengers take the ACT Transit bus line 99 between the South Hayward and Fremont Stations. Hayward is 18 miles...
Update, 6 PM 6/18; progress has been made on the fire which is now 45% contained and has consumed some 7500 acres. The weather is expected to be hot tomorrow perhaps as much as 90°F even in the coastal zone. This will not help firefighters. 10 p.m. 6/17A water treatment plant at El Capitan State Beach burned down overnight as the Sherpa fire has grown to more than 6,000 acres, threatening crops, homes and an oil refinery. 600 firemen cannot slow it down, much, as the sundowner winds hit every ni...
Five people are dead after an illegal alien allegedly set fire to a vacant building in the Westlake District of Los Angeles. Johnny Josue Sanchez, 21, allegedly started the blaze after a dispute with other transients at the site, a large vacant commercial building at 2411 W. Eighth Street near MacArthur Park. He has been arrested for drug possession, domestic abuse, and breaking and entering. Now he faces 5 counts of murder. Those killed include Jerry Dean Clemons, 59, and Mary Ann Davis, 44. Au...
A five year old was playing in his front yard along with an older brother in a rural area not far from Aspen. Suddenly their mother heard screaming and ran outside to find a mountain lion had jumped him. The mother pulled the cat off the boy. The boy's father called 911 and drove him to a hospital. This in a week when America has been transfixed by an alligator attack on a 2 year old boy at Orlando's Disneyworld Resort. The Mountain lion, often called a cougar or Puma, is fairly common west of...
We are nearing the Summer Solstice, and it was hotter than a pistol in Southern California today. It was 106 in Woodland Hills and Monday will be yet hotter. Similar temperatures were recorded in Beverly Hills and Woodland Hills, Glendale and Burbank, in San Bernardino and Riverside. In downtown Santa Monica, it was 90 degrees Farenheit. The beaches offered little relief from the heat Fies burned, in Santa Barbara of course, but there were also dangerous fires in Silver Lake and San Diego...