Jill Sobule, ‘I Kissed A Girl’ singer, dies in house fire at 66
Jill Sobule, the singer behind the 1995 hit “I Kissed A Girl,” has died. She was 66. She passed away following a fire at her Minneapolis home on Thursday, her ...
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Rodeo legend Roy Cooper, the ‘Super Looper,’ dies in fire at 69
Roy Cooper, nicknamed the “Super Looper” during his legendary rodeo career, died this week at the age of 69. Cooper, considered the greatest roper of all time, died in a ...
Investigators finish fire test in Pacific Palisades as search for cause of January’s blaze continues
Federal investigators on Wednesday concluded a controlled fire in Pacific Palisades that officials hope will help them determine what caused the January blaze that killed a dozen people and destroyed ...
500 firearms are recovered from Palisades fire zone. LAPD wants to reunite them with their owners
Cleanup crews on the site of the Palisades fire have found roughly 500 firearms in the debris of homes that burned earlier this year and the Los Angeles Police Department ...
Southern California Edison likely to incur ‘material losses’ related to Eaton fire, executive says
The chief executive of Southern California Edison’s parent company said on Tuesday that the company was likely to suffer “material losses” related to the deadly Eaton fire, which ignited on ...
Haunting tintype photos memorialize what was lost in Altadena
In the wake of the Eaton fire, there are ghosts in Altadena. Not literal ghosts — though that could depend on who you ask — but an army of figurative ...
Inside the FDNY’s high-tech robot firefighting team and its mechanical dogs that go where people can’t
It’s not your grandfather’s FDNY. New York’s Bravest are increasingly leading the world in the use of mechanized firefighters to snuff out blazes in the Big Apple — and they’re ...
Memphis church pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days suffers devastating fire: ‘Inside is a total loss’
A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage. “The inside is a ...
LAFD’s DEI bureau drew the right’s ire. It’s now on the chopping block
In one of his final acts as mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti stood alongside Kristen Crowley, whom he had appointed as the city’s first female fire chief, and announced ...
After the Eaton fire, Altadena dirt was sent to Tujunga. Then came the backlash
Residents in the rugged enclave of Tujunga became suspicious in January after dirt-filled trucks began inundating their neighborhood streets, dumping their loads on nearby county-owned property. Their inquiries revealed that ...
