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By December 31, 2011, the total fires of the arson spree reached 39 and the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) held a press conference the next day where the force indicated its resolve to deal with the attacks. [1] [11] The number of fires eventually reached 55 on January 2, the day suspect Harry Burkhart was arrested. [12]
An arson investigator walks along Via La Costa, a street near the Skull Rock Trailhead, as police officers investigate the Palisades Fire, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles ...
The Dorothy Mae Apartment-Hotel fire was a September 4, 1982, arson that killed 25 people in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. [1] An additional 30 people were injured. [2] In 1985, Humberto Diaz de la Torre was convicted of starting the fire and sentenced to 625 years in prison.
A Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator takes pictures of an MTA Bus that was set on fire in the Echo Park. (Ryan Sun/For The Times)
Image credits: jamieleecurtis “They tell me Victory Trailhead is now a crime scene and Kenneth Fire is an arson investigation with 1 person in custody,” the reporter said in another tweet.
The budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), one of several departments fighting the fires, was reduced by $17.6 million, or two percent, for the fiscal year 2024–2025. On December 4, 2024, LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said that the reduction has "adversely affected the Department's ability to maintain core operations" and ...
One week since multiple fires erupted in Los Angeles, city officials are still working to pinpoint what ignited the blazes. An expert tells Scripps News a full investigation could take months.
The Ponet Square Hotel and Apartments fire was a 1970 multiple-fatality building fire in Los Angeles, California, United States. The fire broke out before dawn on Sunday, September 13, 1970, and swept through the four-story, 86-unit building, which had been constructed around 1910. [1] The cause of the fire was arson. [2]