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Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (61 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
North of the oil field, the Baldwin Hills (mountain range) once contained a reservoir behind a dam built between 1947 and 1951. On the afternoon of December 14, 1963, the dam collapsed, sending a wall of water north through the neighborhoods, roughly along Cloverdale Avenue, killing 5 people, destroying 65 houses and damaging hundreds more. [20]
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19 families who lost children and loved ones in the Uvalde school shooting filed a lawsuit against Texas DPS and troopers who responded to the scene.
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After the Uvalde schools police chief failed to take charge, better-equipped departments did not step up to fill the leadership void according to the 77-page account of an investigation.
On December 14, 1963, a crack appeared in the Baldwin Hills Dam impounding the Baldwin Hills Reservoir. Within a few hours, water rushing through the crack eroded the earthen dam, gradually widening the crack until the dam failed catastrophically at 3:38 p.m.
Adrian Gonzales, 51, a former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officer, faces 29 counts of abandoning and endangering a child in connection with the mass shooting at Robb ...